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credit:www.wrestlezone.com - 1wrestling.com is reporting that WWE developmental talent Teddy Hart is receiving major heat in OVW after only being there a week. Hart's problems started when he took a phone call in the middle of a production meeting during his first day in OVW. Trainers asked him to end the call, and reports say Hart said it was important and kept on talking. Hart also has been using injury excuses to get out of training sessions and doesn't help his fellow workers in cleaning up the building and doing other things that are expected of the talent. On the other hand, Harry Smith and Nattie Neidhart are receiving praise since debuting in OVW.

The latest issue of WWE Magazine features Triple H on the cover. Inside the magazine is an interview with him to hype his forthcoming return to the ring. Here is what Triple H had to say regarding young stars in the locker room who are waiting to be made into main event stars like him. At the end of his response, he seems to be talking about Carlito when he talks about wrestlers who don't capitalize on working with someone like Ric Flair: Question: Explain a workplace-related issue that causes you trouble: Triple H: I see a million guys who think, "I'm the best of the new guys." Well, that's not saying much. Do you want to be the best of the new guys, or do you want to be the best guy here? They sit back and they're just waiting for somebody to make them a star. Nobody makes you a star, you make yourself a star. When the fans are going crazy for you whether positively or negatively then you have something to promote. No one made Triple H. I did. The problem is lack of patience. Early on in my career, I was very impatient and wanted more to be more than I was ready to be. But as time went on, I was glad I didn't get it so early, because I wasn't ready. Now guys come in the door and half of them don't have a clue. I see guys on TV, against the likes of Ric Flair, and they simply can't capitalize on that. If you can't capitalize on working with one of the biggest stars ever in the history of this business, you're not doing something right. You need to evaluate what you're doing and stop blaming everyone else. 411mania.com Triple H made himself.......that made me laugh really hard. I'm sure programming him with every good person they had and having him dominate them had nothing to do with. Giving him Stephanie and jamming him down everyones throats till they accepted him..at the beginning of that push no one liked it or bought it.......Yea Triple H made Triple H right...keep tellin yourself that.

I enjoyed how on another board people were actually talking about how you could present gay characters in a good light.......they forgot what kinda people generally watch wrestling and that a good portion of this country still isn't very accepting of homosexuality and will yell "faggot" even if they were presented as faces.

Source: Wrestling Observer There are talks with Stephanie McMahon and RAW writer Brian Gerwitz about changing Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas into a gay tag team gimmick in which they will be kissing during backstage interviews and doing gay antics just like Billy and Chuck.

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One of my friends has Direct TV so I called him and he has it so I think I'll just have him DVR it and go over there sometime and see it each week.

Not that easy...my net and phone are through there also.

The only Spanish station I have with my digital cable is Telemundo......the others are all in the premium tiers that when I turn to them they say...."If you want this station order now" and it has the number. Time Warner in Kansas City..........I guess they don't like the Spanish population. Hell I'm not Spanish nor do I speak Spanish but I'd still check out AAA.

You know I'd check this out but Galavision is on a premium tier on my digital cable and I'd probably have to get 15 other Spanish stations for 20 bucks that I'd never watch.

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LOL.........as Charlie Haas goes and kicks the guys ass. That whole thing made me laugh pretty hard.

I could only imagine what would happen of they tried to force out Steph.......Her and Vince are about the most stubborn people.

Yea Phoenix Starr was the guy getting owned by V, Zokre was the other guy...... I like how Kafu is a pretty good sized looking guy when working on the indies.......he didn't look big at all in that match.

Here's stuff from the F4W....some of it's been posted before but I'm just going to post it all, it's easier that way... The Jackass deal is off before it ever began. The original plan was to debut the guys several weeks ago in preparation for a major match at SummerSlam. The debut date kept being pushed back, and the latest was scheduled for Great American Bash. At one point it nearly fell through as Steve-O, when backstage a month or so back shooting a commercial for SummerSlam, went around and was asking all sort of guys to choke him out as part of one of his upcoming videos. Vince was irate and nearly axed the entire deal, but Shane McMahon, who was the guy pushing hardest for the deal in the first place, talked him out of it and cooler heads prevailed. The angle was in some ways also pushed on them by USA Network and Bonnie Hammer, who has felt that ratings are slipping because there aren't enough celebrities on the show, plus Steve-O is starring in a new show that debuts in October called DR. STEVE-O. The working idea was to use Steve-O, Johnny Knoxville and a number of other characters in a handicap match at SummerSlam, all facing Umaga. One of the SummerSlam posters included a shot of Umaga on the beach with all the Jackass guys buried up to their heads in the sand. I believe in the match Umaga was going to destroy all of them in spectacular fashion (which it would have to be given their reputation), but then something would happen at the finish and the babyfaces (yes, the Jackass crew were supposed to be the babyfaces) were going to go over. So anyway, once the Benoit thing occurred, Knoxville got cold feet. He had agreed to a couple of dates and the PPV, but then started cutting out more and more dates, and then finally this weekend he announced that he didn't want to be involved. The other guys were still available, but WWE decided without Knoxville they didn't want to go through with it. According to one source, the plan was for them to cost Umaga his match with Hardy at the PPV, but once it fell through Umaga retained and now they'll set up the rematch for SummerSlam WWE signed Ted DiBiase Jr. Coincidentally, it came a week after Ted Sr. did the column debating Dave Meltzer and putting over the WWE as being nothing like the WWE of ten or twenty years ago. DiBiase Sr. is currently an agent backstage. The interesting part of the story is that people told DiBiase Jr. not to go to WWE developmental, but rather to go train with Harley Race instead. He'd done a few NOAH tours recently and will now be heading to Florida Championship Wrestling. Smackdown did a 2.6 the past two weeks, which is good. ECW, however, did a low 1.3 rating this past Tuesday night, and Raw the last three weeks has done a low 3.4. The first week was blamed on Larry King and the Home Run Derby (I never bought the Larry King excuse, because King was below average for the night, so it wasn't like a ton of WWE viewers switched over to watch it unless you go by the assumption that without the WWE viewers Larry King would have done a 0.0 or something), the second week was the one where Vince blew his stack and blamed Brian Gewirtz for the first time ever, and this past week's show came immediately after the Great American Bash. T here is now a pattern emerging and I stand even more firmly behind my Larry King statement. It's interesting that ECW and Raw are down and Smackdown has stayed steady. The TNA TV ratings are OK, though the Victory Road PPV appears to have tanked, probably doing in the range of what they did years back when they were doing weekly PPVs (meaning 10,000-15,000 range). Variety actually had an article about the ratings decline over the past few weeks. Now, granted, I think a pattern is emerging, but at the time of the article's publication it had only been two weeks and I'm stunned Variety found those two weeks to be so newsworthy. It noted that ratings for Raw were down 10 percent, with men 18-34 down 28% and men 18-49 down 19%. WWE, of course, said there was nothing to this, and that the number might be down because WWE had scrapped the "popular" Vince McMahon is Dead storyline. Long-time creative team member Court Bauer is through with the company after a big blow-up with Michaels Hayes on Wednesday. The two worked together on the Smackdown brand along with Dusty Rhodes, but then Dusty left for ECW and Hayes and Bauer had constant arguments. As noted last week, Hayes has been Vince's whipping boy the last month or so, so Hayes may also have been taking his frustrations out on Bauer. Regardless of what happened, pretty much everyone said it was inevitable and had been building up likely since around WrestleMania. Of late he's had some discussions with UFC, but was telling people he didn't look forward to the possibility of having to move to Las Vegas, so likely nothing will come of it. He also told people that he was planning on going back to working in TV/film, which he did prior to coming to WWE and after his run as head of Major League Wrestling. MLW was your classic pro-wrestling money pit, with tons and tons of money being spent flying people in from all over the world, and it went under in spectacular fashion. It did have minor TV on the Sunshine Network and did give exposure to a few new faces, and I believe Bauer was also the guy that came up with the Stampede Bulldogs gimmick for Harry Smith and TJ Wilson. I don't know this for sure, but I suspect he may also have been responsible for a number of wacky WWE segments, including SUPER PORKY AND THE HAM, so his input will be missed. John Cena vs. Sean Spears for the WWE Title headlines the OVW Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom show this Friday July 27th. They expect to draw a record crowd of 5,000 due to Cena's appearance. Jerry Lawler vs. Casey James is also on the show. James is managed by Starmaker Kenny Bolin and his new midget sidekick MINI B~! The storyline is that Bolin wanted a full-sized clone and sent his DNA to Japan or wherever, but he didn't send enough and thus his clone came back in miniature. This is why I love pro-wrestling. WWE's quarterly conference call will take place on August 2nd at 11:00 AM EST. Gonna have to listen to that one. It'll be fascinating because there are already board members talking publicly about how perhaps there should be changes in the Wellness policy including lowering the allowable T/E ratios. It's also interesting because if you read a lot of WWE articles recently, it's pretty clear the reporters are being told that they cannot ask about Chris Benoit (and I've had WWE wrestlers tell me that same thing), and it's going to be hard as a public company to tell stockholders that they're not allowed to ask about a certain thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if they took one call, perhaps from a plant, and then ended calls altogether. Ticketmaster gave WWE a Platinum Ticket Award for selling more than 500,000 tickets to live events in North America in 2006. In total, they sold over 640,000 and joined 35 others in getting an award. So far, they're the second most requested ticket for 2007. Condemned is out on Blu-Ray and DVD on September 18th. The movie was a total bomb in theatres, doing $7,503,611 worldwide as of this week. WORLDWIDE. Meanwhile, Spider Man 3 is at $335,310,056 -- domestically. Condemned got mixed reviews, with some critics hating it and many people saying it was the best of all the WWE films. Cryme Tyme are the new Southern Tag Team Champions, beating the James Boys at the OVW show in Owensboro, KY this past weekend. Speaking of OVW, Teddy Hart, Nattie Neidhart and Harry Smith are all working here and have debuted new matching gear. The idea of a Hart Foundation 2007 had been discussed for a long time and it looks like this is the beginning of preparation for that. Of course, plans can change, particularly if Teddy screws up. No confirmation on whether TJ Wilson would end up part of the group. Diva Search casting call takes place August 16th and the contest will start on TV pretty much immediately afterwards. Fan voting again. The biggest change is that they finally figured out what a waste of money these prizes were and how much trouble it caused in the locker room, so this year the winner only gets $100,000 instead of $250,000. credit:F4W Newsletter

No way, that kid has a cocaine problem. Maybe he'll just hook up with Lohan and then they'll both get into wrestling.... I've heard from one source that a 7ft. 3in., 500lb. wrestler to go by the name The Mighty Biggs will be debuting for the WWE RAW brand this Fall. The source says the character will have a rapper sidekick with him, Mike White, who is an up and coming rapper and future reality TV star. Apparently White even wrote the Biggs theme song, has already been paid by WWE for it and will perform it on RAW sometime this Fall. No word on who will be behind the Biggs gimmick, but the source says that it is an indy wrestler from the New England area who has had success in the past. Another Bit Of News Posted A Few Threads Above; As noted earlier, a 7ft. 3in., 500lb. wrestler by the name Mighty Biggs will be debuting for the WWE RAW brand this Fall. The character will have a rapper sidekick with him, Mike White, who is an up and coming rapper and future reality TV star based out of Albany, NY. White even the Biggs theme song and has already been paid by WWE for it. Credit - WrestleZone That should be taken with an obvious grain of salt considering the source but I thought it was pretty funny personally and everyone would get at least a laugh out of reading it.

Yea don't........a guy on another board did. He was explaining regardless of what you say they'll be like "you don't know that" "you can't confirm that" like he said he was explaining one of the guys died from being morbidly obese and the producer/screener was like "obesity is a side effect of getting off steroids" They don't want to hear from you and will NOT listen to you if it has anything to do with them being wrong.

World Wrestling Entertainment has signed Ted DiBiase Jr. to a developmental deal and will be sending him to Florida Championship Wrestling in Tampa, Florida. DiBiase Jr., who just completed a tour with Pro Wrestling NOAH in Japan, was trained by Harley Race's school and is the son of "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase and the grandson of "Iron" Mike DiBiase and Helen Hild. Source - Pwinsider.com

Hello Glen Beck.

Ones in the title program the other is not.......Punk is honestly the only face they can book for the title right now seeing as anyone else on the show that is toward the upper spots is a heel.

In fairness Morrison was never suppose to have this reign........and they apparently don't want to give the belt to Punk either so it leads to them being stuck.

I didn't say he was persay "hated" Steph may hate him just that he isn't as highly thought of as some of the other guys are. I don't think CM Punk is ever going to be a big mainevent type star in the WWE......he has some factors working of some people who don't like him which doesn't help.

What four guys would that be? Proof? Source? I know they like Burke and Cor Von more...looks like Morrison has moved ahead of him also.....I should have put Punk's 4th not that 4 guys were ahead of him. It was on several sites credited to the observer awhile back that Burke and Cor Von were much higher thought of than Punk. I guess that explains why Burke jobs to Punk in EVERY match they have and why Cor Von hasn't been on TV since he jobbed to Punk about a month ago. When a show is full of heels you can only push one at a time.....but Punk is the one jobbing in the high profile matches.....

What four guys would that be? Proof? Source? I know they like Burke and Cor Von more...looks like Morrison has moved ahead of him also.....I should have put Punk's 4th not that 4 guys were ahead of him. It was on several sites credited to the observer awhile back that Burke and Cor Von were much higher thought of than Punk.

WWE management especially Steph isn't very fond of Punk.......there's about 4 guys on that roster they think higher of than him....

Stevie is whatever they need him to be depending on who he's jobbing to that week.