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There's a lot of speculation that the Wellness Policy is going to go back to what it was before they altered the rules.

They did. Orton explained that Vince was unhappy at Edge getting himself kicked out of ringside on purpose and thus, not taking out Lashley on ECW last week. So Vince revoked Edge's MitB spot and put it up for grabs in a battle royal.

If you go back and listen to Edge's promo on Eric Bischoff before he speared him during his return to Raw on the 2004 draft lottery show, he FUCKING HUGE (well, for Edge's standards anyways) and his voice sounds completely so different, it's scary. His voice got deeper like Big Show's. When Edge was doing those blogs on WWE.Com, he claimed the weird voice was a side-effect of the neck surgery, but that sounded full of shit to me.

If I were booking, I wouldn't have rehashed the PPV main event for next week. I would have done Cena vs. Batista and HBK vs. UT on Raw and Cena vs. UT and HBK vs. Batista on Smackdown.

During that whole mess with Edge, Matt Hardy, & Lita, Hardy had a statement on his website from Edge's wife where she said, "Adam tried taking steroids when he came back from his injury, but he's such a chickenshit, they didn't make him any bigger."

One Night Stand is being treated as a regular WWE PPV now.

They're determined to put a dent into UFC's PPV market.

It is now being speculated that the two former ECW PPVs will either now be regarded as "WWE One Night Stand" & "WWE December to Dismember" or be renamed entirely.

Raw rating for 3/12 was a 4.1.

I've thought about this and I came up with an idea that I think would work. Those who say nay to the brand extension ending cite the fact that the main eventers would be all over every show and they are absolutely right. 5 hours of Triple H, Batista, Lashley, John Cena, etc. would get tired quick. I propose ending the brand split but keeping the main eventers and certain mid-carders specific to each show. You can let everyone mid-card down scatter around but keep the main eventers to one show. Hype it up as the general managers of the show signing their top guys to "exclusivity contracts" like how Stephanie got Brock Lesnar to defend the WWE Title exclusively on Smackdown in 2002. I like the idea, personally. It would let the mid-carders and low-carders get tons more experience in front of a camera and it would keep the top guys from oversaturating television. I'd also put an end to exclusive titles except for the world titles. The U.S. Title could be merged into the I-C Title and the Smackdown tag titles could be merged into the Raw tag titles since the Raw ones have the lineage behind them. You could also play around with the higher mid-carders and give someone a rub by dubbing them exclusive to one show to make them seem like a big deal as needed. Umaga would have been great for that scenario. Have him run rampant through Raw, Smackdown, and ECW and then Coach makes the big exclusive deal to keep Umaga on Raw only. It's just an example of how I'd work it. WWE has proven they aren't capable to execute the brand extension the way it could have been, so I think it's necessary to disable some components of it.

Where is Kurt Angle in the death pool?

Batista and Triple H are roughly the same age. They were both born in 1969 and are 6 months apart.

How did Orton turn heel after his face WHC Title run? I can't remember at all. Going after Taker, I guess? In the build-up to WM21, he hit Stacy Keibler (who he had been flirtatious with on Raw for a few weeks) with an RKO and then sealed the heel deal by going to Smackdown and doing a heel beatdown with Bob Orton on Taker after Bob pleaded with Taker to not destroy Randy.

Brief history lesson: In late-'05, Melina & Batista were involved in an angle on Smackdown where Melina straddled Batista and made out with him, attempting to get him to cancel a tag title match with him & Rey Mysterio vs. MNM. Batista stated in interviews immediately after that he was very uncomfortable with the angle. He also said if he could go back in time, he wouldn't do it again. However, everyone backstage thought he was full of shit and suspected him (who was married) & Melina (who is dating Johnny Nitro) were having an affair. They would know better than us. Nothing was proven, yet WWE was still hesitant. Melina & Nitro were moved to Raw right when Batista was scheduled to return from his injury in summer '06. Batista then lost even more points backstage when he dumped his wife (who at one point had cancer and with whom he had four kids with) and started dating DivaSearch '06 loser and ECW interviewer Rebecca DiPietro. Batista is a couple with Rebecca now and is in the process of divorcing his wife.

Melina was moved to Raw to keep her away from Batista due to their reported affair. Anyways, Batista isn't the most popular person backstage either.

Well, I think we can all agree that Chris Jericho's attempt at a career outside of wrestling failed miserably. The Rock is really one in a million.

"We have been hearing backstage that WWE management has nearly had it with Women's Champion Melina. She already had atomic heat with everyone backstage not named Mick Foley, and her extreme carelessness in recent matches with Mickie James has angered management to the point where she was issued an ultimatum: if her match at WrestleMania 23 with Ashley is not up to their expectations, she can expect to be doing some job searching after the event is over." -- PWIElite

Wow, talk about sabotaging Melina to fail. That's like telling sometone to take a shit you made after eating Taco Bell and make it smell like a rose garden.

Nora Greenwald (known better as WCW's Miss Madness Mona and WWE's Molly Holly) was backstage visiting at WWE's Raw live event in Guatemala City, Guatemala on Saturday. She has been living in Guatemala for the past few months learning Spanish. Ever since leaving WWE in March 2005, she has spent most of her time participating in mission trips for her local Church. WWE.Com has an interview with her up on the site. She insists that she was only backstage visiting old friends, saying, "Right now I have no plans to return to wrestling, but I think we've learned by now that you never say never in this business."

Meltzer is also reporting Rob Van Dam vs. Elijah Burke for the show.

Candid pictures of the Melina vs. Mickie match surfaced and Mickie showed no signs whatsoever of a nose/face injury.

Backlund said the Hall of Fame was a joke and he didn't care. Basically the same thing Orndorff said after he was inducted, except Orndorff decided to take the $5,000 payoff and then shit on it.

How do you know that? WWE is dying to get Ross off TV.

I must admit, he was right. He was looking terribly out of shape the last few months before he retired. His legs were like huge slabs of cottage cheese. I know JBL is no saint, but I'm sure it had to be frustrating for the guy, since he was originally booked to win the World Title from Rey at that PPV. He would have been the only guy since the brand extension to have held both titles. Think he'll attempt a comeback? Since ECW is a joke now, I don't think it's completely out of the realm of possibility to put Tazz back on Smackdown and move Joey Styles back to Raw while Todd Grisham & Brad Armstrong take over ECW.

Kendrick didn't "walk out" of WWE. He politely asked for his release in January 2004 and was granted it. The company left the door wide open for him to return at any point, and he did in August 2005.