orton's carrying injuries, which is why they've dumped cena nexus early so they can get superman back in the title picture from the rumble onwards.

i'm a bit surprised that they've put jomo up there at this point, they're already testing the water with miz, usually they put them against a mainstay.

My brother's best mate won the Chair Shot Reality competition.

Kaval been released.

Nice time in the year to get the sack.

No doubt because "Creative's got nothing for you"

Like the great Jim Cornette says "Well then fire the f*****g writers, not the talent!!!"

Have a look on that popular video sharing website for WCW Spring Break Nitro 1998, and find the segment with the Outsiders. Absolutely priceless, as Nash would confirm years later in a shoot interview they were both hammered, makes for funny/entertaining TV though.

FFS, why hire guys for a wrestling company who know nothing about wrestling eh?! Oh wait, that's right, WWE is not a wrestling company, it's an entertainment business isn't it. When will they ever realise that they're wrestling, nothing else. Every other venture they try fails miserably (films, bodybuilding, American football etc). Just be proud of been a successful wrestling promoter rather then trying to take over the world Vince ffs.

Yeah that's the one, fantastic interview with JC as always. Talks so much sense.

Same here mate, love them but hate them sometimes too. It's the little things lately that are getting annoying, e.g:

- Trying to avoid using the terms 'wrestler' or 'wrestling' on their programme (e.g. always using 'Superstar' instead) because they want to be seen as more then wrestling
- Never referring to referees by name - what's all that about?!
- Not using the word 'belt', it's 'championship' or 'title' apparantly. Any reason?!

Grrrr.

Makes sense to me mate. One of the problems these days though is that there's no scope for creativity - everything in WWE from the promos to the matches are scripted word-for-word or move-for-move. Whilst this may seem great to a Hollywood writer, what it means (and a lot of wrestlers knock the scripted nature in shoots) is you basically end up with a bunch of guys who all look and sound the same. Nobody stands out now really in WWE, the guys getting the pushes are often big muscular guys who are jacked up. Like you said they need to go back to basics, but also try some new and innovative things.

- Build a strong women's division e.g. get Gail Kim back on TV, + maybe even bring in ODB and Awesome Kong
- Make tag-team wrestling important again
- Re-build the importance of all the belts (sorry, 'championships' ) e.g. by not switching champions every f*****g week.
- Maybe even start a fresh cruiserweight division and take it seriously.

Just been watching the documentary part of the Y2J DVD. He talks about how vital WCW's incredible Cruiserweight division was to their company in the mid-late 90's - many fans tuned in because you knew you could be entertained by the best high-flying athletes in the world, doing moves and combinations that were off the chart. WWE could re-create this by taking a chance on some ROH guys and some young Mexican & Japanese wrestlers. Won't happen, but would be good if they did.

Hate to say it but I think the next five years or so are going to be very grim indeed for the company. Buy-rates are dropping all the time, business across the board is way down (never thought I'd see the day when they'd fail to sell out a TV taping in the UK for example), + the PG Era must be drawing away a lot of people. It's all very well the kids been into WWE, but they don't have the wages in their pockets that the 18-35 year old guys had to spend on Austin t-shirts, event tickets, PPV's etc.

IMO they're gonna have to tough out some very lean years indeed, till the Mattel/PG deal ends, then slowly re-build a company that has a versatile roster of great men, women, cruiserweights, tag-teams etc, with an edgy product to appeal to all ages, but mostly to the 18-35 year olds like UFC does right now.

On the plus side, don't forget there's always live wrestling going on around the UK, just a case of seeking it out with companies like All-Star.

Apparantly Kaval asked for his release, as the WWE didn't fit his style.

Anyone catch the Regal-Daniel Bryan match on monday, was great stuff. AJ Styles - Doug Williams at the latest TNA tapings is supposedly a great one too.

Shame though - if WWE had a varied approach to wrestling they could offer so much more entertainment IMO, i.e. they're so tunnel-visioned, such as watching CM Punk 5 years ago and the vets deciding that (due to his unique style) he "didn't know how to work". There's so much more to wrestling then just their way.

Great news about Regal v Bryan, will have to check that out if possible. Love both guys' work.

Yeah, if you don't work to the WWE style you don't know how to work. Regardless of what you've done in the past, you don't know how to work.

The thing with the writers and everything is just stupid. TBH, if they'd had this attitude of everything scripted, everyone looks like the same then guys like Mick Foley and Shawn Michaels wouldn't have gotten their push and the whole "release because we've nothing for you" would have meant that Austin 3:16 would never have happened as Austin would have been released once Ted DiBiase left for WCW

Cena hurt at a house show.
Mason Ryan is possibly going to be the new Batista.
Awesome Kong possibly to WWE

Kong won't make it in WWE, they don't want girls who can work, they want girls who look good in bikinis, which Kong doesn't!

Cena apparently has a 'Hip Pointer' according to Jim Ross twitter page and shouldn't miss too much time. Although I could do without his inane promos every Monday night.

New Batista? You mean he's going to get called up, do nothing, be on the verge of release, start working out with Triple H and be a Main Eventer until he realises he cba with the workload no more?

Feel like a suck-up agreeing with everything you say all the time mate ( ) but you're right with all that.

Like you say Kong doesn't fit the WWE Mould, she can out-work every female on the roster (except Gail Kim - I'd say they're equally brilliant), but Kong's achievements have all been away from WWE. Therefore in Vince's world she's never done anything in the business!

Exactly mate, instead of trying to create the new Batista, how about they try developing the new Shawn Michaels, or someone like that who had ability and charisma, not a limited jacked-up cookie-cutter-look guy who didn't get into the business till his 30's. This isn't actually a dig at Batista because his did fantastic with what he had, but IMO he's not someone to inspire new wrestlers, guys like Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels are - people who could do pretty much everything.

The worst thing now in wrestling is there's really nowhere for people to learn their craft (compared to many years ago). So instead of having a guy debut in WWE who's had 10 years experience already (like Daniel Bryan) we're seeing more guys who are green but have 'the look'.