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WON News + Notes (December 11 Issue)

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Everyone is now pretty much against buying Pride. Even Shane, who is a MMA fan now has a negative feeling to the idea. The WWE though does recognise the value of the Pride tape library and would be interested in some of the fighters. Basically they want the heavyweights who have 'the look' and also those they feel are marketable characters, such as Bob Sapp, Tank Abbott (!) and Butterbean. They don't believe that the lightweight fighters will draw and although they'd use them they'd never give them a chance to be anything other than what they'd allow pro wrestlers of that size to be.

 

Which says to me that they really must not watch that much MMA after all...

 

Exactly... Matt Hughes is 5-9 and probably walks around at 185 or so (and cuts weight to 170) and he's drawn more money in the last year than HHH has in his whole damn career.

 

Really?

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The thing is, what self respecting ECW fan (is there such a thing?) would boo RVD and cheer on Lashley? I can maybe see it with CM Punk, but not Lashley. If anything adding a harder heelish edge to RVD would make fans like him even more.

 

Here is what I'd do with ECW for the next 6-7 months: RVD feuds with Lashley and wins the title from him at WM. They probably don't wanna do it, but I don't know what other option there is for WM. Then they can do the RVD/Punk feud right before Van Dam's contract is up. RVD can job the title to Punk at ONS 3 and that would be his last match in the company before signing with TNA.

 

I think the WWE has made it pretty clear that if you aren't going to sign a new contract, they are going to either send you home for four months or bury you into the ground. So if RVD isn't going to sign a new deal, all you will see is him getting pinned by everyone on the ECW roster or you won't see him at all.

 

I don't get why these guys allow themselves to be buried like that on camera. You should job your last match, but don't let yourself get damn near killed off.

 

These are guys who can get doctors to give them endless amounts of pain pills, they can't say "Hey Doc, this, that and here all hurts really bad, can you get me a release from work?" Sit home for a month or two until your contract runs out. Vince could be sued if he fires them for refusing to work when they have a doctors note claiming they're injured.

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I guess they do it to get paid and fulfill the contract cause otherwise I don't get it. There must be a clause or something in their deals that requires them to work the final few months. Plus I guess they figure they'll be buried on TV anyway, might as well get in the ring and help out your buddies.

 

Honestly, I've never understood it either since they get labeled "rejects" for doing it.

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Shouldn't there be some notion of getting the most bang for your buck? WWE pays people to get jobbed out at the end of their contract, but it's stupid in the case of RVD to do it. As long as there is no danger of him taking the ECW belt to TNA and pissing on it in the middle of the ring (which he might do if possible, haha), there's really no reason other than stubborness not to do that scenario. It even includes Van Dam jobbing to someone on the way out.

 

If I'm RVD I conveniently get hurt next month at the Rumble, say Test fucked up a spot, and sit at home for the next 6 months until I can sign with TNA.

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I assume there's a clause stating that, should you hold a championship at any time during the length of the contract, you agree to do the job on the way out; after Montreal it'd be stupid not to have put it in.

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