WWE Hires New "Talent" or "Host"

[Vyce 0]

That's What Love Can Do

Boy Krazy

I don't know what this says about me, but I kind of dug that song when it came out.

 

Of course, I was like 13 at the time.

[Guest TheArchiteck]

Hmmm...she's not bad looking.

Pretty cute.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Hmm. Rue. Gotta hand it to Trish Stratus for keeping her last name. Je marche sur la rue.

[Guest Lilly]

I think you guys are a little overreacting here. She's going to be an interviewer and do some hosting and maybe sing the national anthem. She'll just be a talking head

 

It's not like she's booking the shows or head of talent management

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

She's indicative of the WWE hiring process and quite frankly I think this issue is underblown on this board due to the horrendous complacency the WWE fans have had to undergo in order to like the shows.

 

"Know nothing so we can teach you everything"

 

Unfortunately, the WWE knows dick-all and the only good announcer is Tazz (A WRESTER). She'll be another Coach/Leary, where the only good thing said about her is "well, at least she is comfortable infront of a camera". The Cat is gone from Velocity and allofasudden a new person shows up -to team with Josh Mathews- for Afterburn.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Unfortunately, the WWE knows dick-all and the only good announcer is Tazz (A WRESTLER). She'll be another Coach/Leary, where the only good thing said about her is "well, at least she is comfortable infront of a camera". The Cat is gone from Velocity and allofasudden a new person shows up -to team with Josh Mathews- for Afterburn.

Is Miller out of the WWE completely? Or is he moving into a wrestling role? Either way, he was shit on commentary.

 

I sort of liked Chris Leary.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Metlz said that on velocity that they said "the cat was going on to bigger and better things" and that supposedly a higher-up actually WATCHED an eps. of velocity recently and decided that the cat sucked. Nothing official, though.

 

Leary is on techtv now.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Metlz said that on velocity that they said "the cat was going on to bigger and better things" and that supposedly a higher-up actually WATCHED an eps. of velocity recently and decided that the cat sucked. Nothing official, though.

I heard the "bigger and better things" and was wondering if that meant maybe he was going to start "wrestling" on Smackdown.

 

It's funny/sad that after all this time, a higher-up finally figured out that Miller is terrible.

 

(many months later)

Suit 1: "What the fuck? This guy is awful! Who hired him? How long has he been on here?"

 

Suit 2: "You did. He's been here for at least eight, nine months..>"

[Guest Coffey]

Hmmm...she's not bad looking.

Pretty cute.

I think she is a vile gorgon...

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I'm gonna bump this since Rue is going to be announcing on Velocity from now on..

 

*I bring thee to LIFE!*

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

I think with the way WWE keeps hiring a bunch of non-wrestling fans some of us should pretend to be a non fans so we can get hired to the WWE. An then after we get jobs with them WWE we can slowly get into good spots on the writing team.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Rue is fucking hot. That's all that matters about her. Oh yeah, and she can sing too.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Rue a new addition to SmackDown! brand

by Phil Speer

 

EL PASO – Aug. 26, 2003 – There’s a new co-host on After Burn. Joining Josh Mathews on the syndicated SmackDown!-brand program is New Jersey native Rue.

 

“I feel very honored and blessed because it’s an incredible opportunity and an incredible company,” Rue said. “There’s so much done here in a day that (other) people spend months and weeks to work on.”

 

She would know. Before coming to WWE, the 5-foot-9 brunette worked extensively in other entertainment industries.

 

In fact, when she was just 13 years old, she won the teen female vocalist competition on “Star Search,” competing under her full name, Ruthann DeBona.

 

She attended Barnstable Academy, a performing arts school in Glen Rock, N.J., and subsequently signed a recording contract with Polygram Records. She joined a group, Boy Krazy, and the pop quartet released a self-titled album in the early 1990s. The group’s single, “That’s What Love Can Do,” was the No. 1 song in the U.S., displacing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” on the charts. A world tour followed.

 

Four years later, Rue left the group (which disbanded) to pursue a solo career. Since then, she’s been writing pop material with a more rhythm & blues/urban feel, and she’s currently recording an album.

 

She sang the national anthem this week for the fans in El Paso, Texas, just before SmackDown! got underway.

 

Rue also has extensive experience in acting and modeling. She’s appeared in episodes of “The Sopranos,” “Spin City” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” among others. She had a small role in the feature film “Love the Hard Way,” with Adrien Brody. She’s also been in commercials for Nike (with New York Yankee Derek Jeter) and Michelob, among many others. She’s modeled in print advertisements for W Magazine, Elizabeth Arden and Anne Klein.

Now she’s arrived in WWE

 

“I had an opportunity to audition with the company quite a long time ago,” she said. “I had an interview and an audition and an opportunity to see what this world is all about. I’m excited and anxious to be part of this team.”

 

Her first on-camera WWE appearance was last week on After Burn.

 

“We had a good show together,” said her co-host, Mathews. “She’s great. She’s going to do a great job here. I’m glad that she’s on the blue team – SmackDown! – and that we get to work together.”

isn't that the truth.......

[King Cucaracha 0]

I'm gonna bump this since Rue is going to be announcing on Velocity from now on..

 

*I bring thee to LIFE!*

Woah, wait...announcing as in Fink and Garcia, or taking Tazz or Matthews' spot. Cause if she takes Tazz's spot, that's another WWE show down the crapper.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

She's taking Tazz'z spot on Velocity.

 

...There goes the best announce team in the WWE.

[2GOLD 0]

If she sucks then she'll be moved to RAW to replace Al Snow on HEAT.

See? It all works out in the.....wait

 

And I don't remember this song and something tells me I'm glad.

 

I'll give her a chance but this lack of wrestling knowledge is now getting scary.

[Toxxic 0]

She's taking Tazz'z spot on Velocity.

 

...There goes the best announce team in the WWE.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

Fuck you WWE! Fuck you now! I put up with shit from you, I watch your half-assed PPVs (well not No Mercy cos I was busy spending time with girls in PVC), I watch you bury Jericho and over-push two green Canadians whilst involving them in a racial angle they sholdn't even be in, I put up with your Royal Family taking up hour after hour on my TV while Shane goes 50/50 with the Unstoppable Monster Bah Gawd Kane after he demolished RVD (RVD-haters - he deserves better than Shane gets, SURELY we can all agree on that?), Steph screams like a loon and breaks down on camera and takes 20 FUCKING MINUTES to do an interview, I watch (well, try to ignore) Vince booking himself into match after match and "deflowering" surgically-altered bint after surgically-altered bint, I allow my ears to go numb as Linda bores me to fucking tears, I watch bits of a show featuring Bischoff "raping" Linda and then i watch for week after week as Bischoff is humiliated and made to look like the McMahons' bitch for no other purpose that to suit your non-forgiving, non-forgetting egos, I watched as you brought Hogan back AGAIN when the only place he should be is in retirement, in Japan or helping TNA get a tv deal and didn't scream TOO loudly as he provided crap match after crap match as Mr. FUCKING AMERICA, I watch SCSA drink beer and act irrationally week after week whilst being cheered on by JR and numbskulls who think it's cool to get drunk and beat up women, I watched you bring back the APA, watched you chronically misuse Ultimo Dragon and have Spanky get demolished simply because he's a Cruiserweight when he's a better worker with more charisma that 98% of the Raw roster... and NOW, on top of this stinking, fuming pile of excrement that is starting to corrode my soul from it's mere presence, you're taking away the ONE UNADULTERATED PLEASURE that I still have from your programming - Tazz being allowed to break kayfabe, take the piss out of and interact hilariously with Josh Matthews and actually make Velocity the best current WWE TV product.

 

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS!?

[The Czech Republic 0]

Have they confirmed that Rue (no last name, this IS WWE) is taking Velocity? Maybe they'll surprise us.

[Slayer 0]

An a side note, I don't remember that Boy Crazy song/group at all...

 

What year was that?

 

And how old is she again?

[AndrewTS 0]

Have they confirmed that Rue (no last name, this IS WWE) is taking Velocity? Maybe they'll surprise us.

Well, it is "Debona." And all boning or references to boning are the sole domain of Mr. and Mrs. Stephanie McMahon.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

Velocity on Saturday was Tazz'z last show. Rue shows up on the smackdown heat...

 

*Stephen Quadros enters Jim Ross' office*

 

JR: So Stephen, you have announced for many martial arts promotions from around the world - King of the Cage, K-1, Pride. You are very respected in your field by peers and fighters alike as well as well as an editor for a popular fighting magazine. You are regarded as one of the best PBP announcers in the world... one of the best? Um... Err... Uh... Thanks for coming by, we'll call you if we have anything open... um... yeah... later.

 

*Rue walks in*

 

JR: Well, you were in a girl group and know nothing about everything... you're hired, do me proud.

Edited October 21, 2003 by RavishingRickRudo