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Man Kennedy has the worst luck in the world. As for Jericho coming back, I'm not sure the company wants Chris, a guy who hasn't wrestled in over two years immediately wrestling the top talent, if just for for fear of even more injuries thanks to rust.

Cena's the golden goose. They'll play it extremely safe with him I suspect.

Cena Injury Update Cena out with pec tear, must surrender WWE Championship Written: October 2, 2007 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – WWE Champion John Cena has suffered a complete tear of his right pectoral tendon and is heading into surgery, according to noted orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews. Because of the seriousness of the injury, WWE officials will not allow Cena to compete this Sunday at No Mercy, and he will have no choice but to surrender the title. Dr. Andrews said Cena could miss between six and eight months of action. Cena was injured during his match Monday night on Raw with Mr. Kennedy. Before visiting Dr. Andrews, Cena had said, “No matter how serious, the injury, one way or another I’ll be ready to compete on Sunday.” But despite Cena’s vow, WWE officials will not allow him to compete at No Mercy. Therefore, he must surrender the WWE Championship. WWE officials vow that there will be a WWE Championship Match this Sunday at No Mercy and that there will be a new WWE Champion. Stay with WWE.com for further updates on Cena’s condition and on No Mercy as they become available.

From WWE Mobile: John Cena suffered a complete right pectoral tendon tear. Surgery is required. He'll be out 6-8 months. Officials vow there'll be a title match at No Mercy.

One would think that the company would have a contingency plan for when their top babyface (that has wrestled non-stop since he came on Raw two years ago), who they have fed so many heels to and put so many effort in establishing, gets injured. Something tells me they don't.

8-man elimination for the U.S. title from July 2004 on Smackdown. Final men are RVD, Booker T, and John Cena. Cena is down with Van Dam heading towards the corner for the 5-Star, Booker plants both hands on Rob's shoulders, but RVD just elbows him, and knocks him down momentarily. Its all going by so fast, the no notices the ref counting what Booker did as a tag. RVD nails the frog splash, and does his usual sell on the ribs/stomach. However Booker crawls in as the legal man, pins Cena, then hits the scissor kick on Van Dam who's still recovering and pins him, all in less than 10 seconds after the splash. Did an effective job of giving a heel a win without cheating (the last clean loss for Cena for almost 3 years), but still making him seem cheap opportunist, who merely took advantage of the face's lack of focus. One of those finishes where the instant replay illuminates everything that people might have missed (the initial tag, the ref telling RVD he's not legal after the frog splash).

Eh, I have a Wii, but I'll have Fire Pro R to hold me for a long time anyway.

Where would he go? TNA doesn't want him. ROH, outside of a S.S.S and maybe a live promo doesn't have a need for him. Who would back him anyways if he wanted to start up again? A shame WSX isn't around. I'm serious, over the top MTV wrestling promotion and Heyman? Would have watched every episode.

That'll be a hell of a storyline when Harry Smith debuts. Plus you've got a built in storyline for when Nattie arrives.

Those PS3 owners really lucked out in that didn't they?

Resentment stemming from his loyalty to Bischoff?

They matched Triple H in height, though. and was during a time in which the main booker worked to have a storyline and character for everybody on the show.

Provided they're still not pissed about he hepatitis thing, wouldn't surprise me to see Cowboy Bob show up to set up a tag some point soon.

At this point, I really don't think they need it anymore. Tag wrestling as a whole hasn't meant much on Raw since 2002. Ditto Smackdown post- Londrick as they and MNM are the only teams who were helped by the tag titles.

Eh, burial or no, its not as if they care about the tag division regardless.

After the film bombed at Cannes and Sony Pictures bought it, Kelly added some visual effects shots and heavily re-edited the movie. It should have a release this November.

Ugh, what is with promoters/bosses in wrestling wanting the weirdest shit, thinking it'll draw money? Thank god Fritz never had any daughters.

i think that was the dark match of last week show Rock wants to promote on a show that has real buzz and is picking up steam. And that's why he'll be on Hannah Montana.

Taker and McCool? Rumors have been going around regarding the two of them for some time now. No real proof has ever been brought forth about anything going on, but people are going to talk.

From PWPopup.com Dark Matches *They aired the WWE corporate promotional video. *Johnny Jeter pinned Kenny Dykstra with a spinning heel kick off the top rope. Crowd got into the match as it went on. *The Daltons defeated Dave Taylor & Paul Burchall after Jesse pinned Burchall following a rocket launcher. *WWE Video Feature on Christmas in Iraq. *JBL and Michael Cole are introduced. Smackdown: *Video feature on Rey Mysterio's return to Smackdown. *Smackdown opens with WWE World champion The Great Khali and Singh in the ring. Teddy Long tells them that the new number one contender will be determined in a tournament tonight. The tournament will be Finlay vs. Kane and Batista vs. Rey Mysterio with the two winners facing each other. *Finlay defeated Kane in a tournament bout. Kane throws Finlay's shillelagh down the entrance way to keep it from the ring. Kane hits the chokeslam but Hornswoggle comes out to distract him. Finlay grabs another shillelagh, hits Kane with it while the referee is distracted, then gets the pin. *They air a MVP-Matt Hardy video feature, spotlighting the basketball challenge. Matt Hardy and MVP defeated Deuce and Domino to capture the WWE Tag Team champions. MVP and Hardy jawjack before the match. Matt goes right after Deuce and Domino. The crowd chants for MVP. Hardy and MVP argue between tags like Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin used to. Crowd chants for MVP again. MVP goes to the outside to hit on Cherry, missing a tag from Hardy, who has been taking a beating for most of the match. Hardy finally tags MVP by slapping him in the face. Matt hits the twist of fate on Deuce, then MVP throws Hardy to the outside, then scores the pin. MVP has both belts as he walks to the back *Backstage, Vince McMahon tells Batista that he used to spend a lot of time in Washington, DX, so Batista could be his son. Batista says that since he was broke and Vince has a ton of money that if Batista is indeed hi son, he would beat him for not helping he and hos mother when they were dirt poor. Vince then says he doesn't see any family resemblance. *Eugene is in the ring shooting t-shirts out of an air gun when Mark Henry comes out. Henry takes him out with the bear hug and takes the ring mic. He says that he's not scared of the Undertaker coming back at Unforgiven. An Undertaker video begins to play. They show the roads leading to a desert then they show the floor of the desert with Undertaker's hand comes up from the under the ground. Really well produced. *Rey Mysterio defeated Batista by DQ in a Tournament Match. Batista gets the bigger pop during entrances. They have a pre-match hug. Good match. The finish sees Finlay come to ringside with a chair. Finlay hits the ring but Batista gets the chair. The referee goes to grab it and Batista shoves him down. DQ. *Video recap of the Vince McMahon-HHH confrontation on Raw. *Video promoting season debut of Survivor featuring Ashley Massaro. *Vince McMahon and Jonathan Coachman make their way to the ring. Coach brings out a bunch of hot women, claiming McMahon has been with them. The first is named Cheryl with the idea Vince was with her in 1983. They then bring out three women Vince allegedly had at the same time one New Year's. They then bring out a Nun named Sister Mary Katherine. Vince says he wants one more night with all five. He says his family is coming to confront him on Raw this Monday. *Chuck Palumbo takes the Masterlock Challenge. Masters went for it but pulled Palumbo back instead and tried beating him up. Palumbo got the upper hand. Masters rolled out and went to the back. *They air a graphic video invitation for the Teddy Long/Kristal Marshall wedding in two weeks. *The Daltons do a video feature on "Going back to school." *Backstage, Jamie Noble is telling Shannon Moore that next week, he'll get his Cruiserweight championship match against Hornswoggle and after he wins, no one will ever laugh at him again. He tells Moore to get lost and walks away, but someone had stuck a "I Love Leprechauns" sign on Noble's back. *Raw promo *Rey Mysterio pinned Finlay with the 619 and a springboard into rollup to earn a title shot against WWE World champion The Great Khali. Mysterio is favoring his back from the match earlier tonight. Finley works over Rey's leg, but Mysterio uses his quickness to come back. Khali comes out. Rey is barely in the camera shot as they go face to face. Khali shoves Rey down.

And thus the "Flair to ROH" movement begins.

Flair gone from WWE? Ric Flair quit WWE this week over frustration with his push and a lack of any encouraging communication from the front office. There are now discussions to try to talk him into cooling off and agreeing to not quit. His situation doesn't appear to be at all related to the suspensions, although he's now more valuable with some names being gone for a month. If things don't work out, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Flair could be offered a sweet and tempting deal to be part of TNA's two hour launch. TNA is interested and aware of the situation. -PWTorch.com

From gerweck.net Dark: - Jessie and Festus d. ? (Los Locos or Ramone and Raul?). ECW: - I was told that The Boogeyman d. Striker via DQ, thanks to Big Daddy V. - The Miz d. Balls Mahoney. - Elijah Burke and Kevin Thorn d. Tommy Dramer and Stevie Richards. - CM Punk d. John Morrison to capture the ECW Title. Smackdown: - Smackdown taping starts with MVP coming out to a living room setup in the ring for "In the VIP Lounge," and he introduces Matt Hardy as his guest. - Matt Hardy defeated Deuce. Hardy doesn't know it was with the assistance from MVP outside the ring. - Kenny Dykstra beat Chuck Palumbo via forfeit. This will be edited out of the show as Palumbo's bike didn't start. - Batista & Kane b. Khali & Finlay - Chuck Palumbo defeated Kenny Dykstra. - Cruiserweight title match: Hornswoggle wins against Jamie Noble as a result of a countout. Noble was trying to catch Hornswoggle in a trap with lucky charms, and ended up caught in the trap himself. That's why he was counted out. - Rey Mysterio defeated Chavo Guerrero in an "I Quit" match. Khali came out and put Mysterio in the vise grip. Just as Rey is about down, Batista runs out and attacks Khali and then goes to check on Mysterio. Teddy Long comes out and announces a change for the main event at Unforgiven. It will be a triple threat match, Khali vs. Mysterio vs. Batista. Notes: * Most heat: Chavo Guerrero. * Loudest pop: Matt Hardy and Batista * Fans went CRAZY for CM Punk vs. John Morrison * Fans slept through the Palumbo vs. Dykstra match.

Altruistic? Come on, man. You can do better than this. When have the iraqis fucked with us? Never. We supported their shit, in fact. There wasn't one fucking good intention in the entire bunch. There are a handful of countries infinitely worse than Iraq. Why did we go into Iraq in the first place? I don't know. Oil? I doubt it. I don't see us bathing in black gold. A pretty good theory I've heard is just the fact that a superpower like America just has to slap around a little country every once in a while. Perhaps it was just to stimulate economic growth; America's economy (sans recent events) is pretty much en fuego right now, anyways. Plain and simple, there weren't any good intentions. We didn't want to instill democracy and all that bullshit, nor remove Saddam from power, nor rid them of nuclear weapons. It was clear that we were gonna do whatever the fuck we wanted to do. Is Iraq better off without Saddam? I dunno. They don't have an autocratic authoritarian as a leader, but the entire region is getting assraped by the specter of civil war and political, social, and military instability, not to mention insurgency. If the neo-cons that pretty much lined up most of the CPA is any indication of their will, what the White House wanted was a free market, secular, government to serve as a model in the middle east, evidently believing that they could somehow achieve that in less than two years. Of course hiring a great deal of inexperienced staff who were chosen merely due to their political affiliations and placing Paul Bremer, a stubborn micromanager whose fuck-ups linger to this day as the viceroy, will probably hurt one's chances.

They were good opening match level act to get the crowd going. They got the 'Godfather pop', and that was it. It's no big loss to see them gone. So? Some talent they're putting out there get no pop. I'd rather hear a Godfather pop than none at all. Unless they beat Cade and Murdoch bloody, unprovoked, they should have been kept. Who's going to replace them, for the time being? Slap a catchphrase on a new face team and you'll get the same response within a couple of weeks. Robbie, Rory, Yeah Yeah?