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Sgt. Slaughter Says He Was Supposed To Be Jack Swagger’s Manager (Video)

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Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) of the Baltimore Sun and Layfield Report (@layfieldreport) spoke with WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter. Highlights:

– Originally being cast in the new GI Joe films in the position that Bruce Willis eventually took and why it didn’t work out

– Before Jack Swagger took on a villainous character, Sarge reveals that he was going to be Swagger’s manager as a hero and explains the scenario

– Calling out to Alberto Del Rio and saying he can help on WWE TV. Sarge reveals he always has his gear packed and would be ready for an on camera role

– His position as a WWE Ambassador

CM Punk Out Until The Summer, The Rock’s WWE Future In Question, Ryback Tweets

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– CM Punk will be taking some much-needed time off and might not be back on television until this summer. Punk has been burnt out and working through several nagging injuries in recent months.

– Following The Rock’s injury at WrestleMania 29, there is concern in WWE that he might have wrestled his last match.

– After all of his previous tweets were deleted, Ryback tweeted the following on Wednesday:

https://twitter.com/Ryback22/status/324549991605628928

(Partial Source: PWinsider.com)

Photo – Brock Lesnar & Wife Rena “Sable” Lesnar At The Gym

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Brock Lesnar and his wife Rena (former WWE Diva Sable) recently posed for a photo with a fan while at the gym:

Original Plans for Brock Lesnar’s Feuds With The Rock & Triple H

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On Monday’s RAW, WWE set the stage for Triple H and Brock Lesnar to wrestle each other for a third time at next month’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view.

Originally, WWE’s plans called for Brock Lesnar to attack The Rock the night after WrestleMania 29 to and build to a match at SummerSlam (not WrestleMania 30, as previously reported). Lesnar and Triple H’s rubber match would have taken place later this year.

The Rock’s injury at WrestleMania led WWE to change gears and go right into the third chapter of the Lesnar vs. Triple H feud.

(Source: PWInsider.com)

Early WM29 Buyrate Not Looking Good, Tyson Kidd Update, Booker T’s Heel Turn

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– While the official buyrate is still months away from being released, early estimates for the WrestleMania 29 pay-per-view are coming in and they do not look good. Even though WWE stated publicly that they were confident that WM29 show would sell similarly to last year’s record-breaking show, the company substantially lowered their internal projections in days leading up to WrestleMania. According to one source, the WrestleMania 29 buyrate is “downright shocking.”

– Tyson Kidd tweeted the following on Tuesday regarding his road to recovery:

– As we reported a few weeks ago, there had been plans for Booker T to turn heel. Those plans have reportedly been dropped and there is now talk of Teddy Long becoming the new heel General Manager of SmackDown.

(Partial Source: f4wonline.com)

Undertaker Had Knee Surgery Before WrestleMania, Flair Attends Masters Party

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– The Undertaker reportedly underwent minor knee surgery a few weeks prior to his WrestleMania 29 match against CM Punk. The operation was described as a “simple cleanup,” according to prowrestling.net. Undertaker has undergone shoulder, hip and knee surgeries in recent years, but was said to be in good shape following WrestleMania.

– Prior to attending Monday’s RAW, WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair attended Hootie & The Blowfish’s “Monday After The Masters” party. Flair tweeted this picture of himself with his agents from the Legacy Talent agency:

All Of Ryback’s Tweets Deleted, WWE Launches “Community” Website, WWE Inbox

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– Following Ryback’s controversial tweet on Tuesday about John Cena’s ex-wife, every single one of Ryback’s tweets at @Ryback22 have been deleted. His account now reads, “@Ryback22 hasn’t tweeted yet.”

– WWE has launched a new “WWE Community” website, featuring articles, photos and videos of the partners they proudly support, including the Make-A-Wish organization, the National Guard, the Special Olympics and the Susan G. Komen breast cancer awareness organization. Visit: Community.WWE.com

– Here’s the latest installment of the WWE Inbox Youtube series:

“Raw Managing Supervisor Vickie Guerrero and WWE Superstars reveal their most embarrassing moments in the ring.”

The Rock Previews Fast & Furious 6, News On His ‘Fast 7’ Filming Conflict

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The Rock tweeted the following on Tuesday night about his upcoming movie, “Fast & Furious 6” as well as a sneak peek of his character in the movie, Hobbs:

Plans are already underway for a seventh installment for the Fast and Furious franchise, which is tentatively scheduled for a July 11, 2014 release. Several movie news websites are reporting that The Rock’s filming schedule for Hercules could conflict with the production of Fast & Furious 7.

During a recent interview with Collider.com, The Rock said it would be impossible for him to work on Fast & Furious 7 this summer:

“It’s not possible for me because I’m shooting Hercules this summer starting in 6 weeks in Budapest, so, possible for them I’m not too sure. I haven’t heard anything about that and I’m pretty sure I would have gotten a phone call pretty early in the morning if that was the real plan. Not quite too sure though.”

Triple H To Answer Lesnar On RAW, What Happened After SmackDown & More

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– After last night’s WWE SmackDown tapings from Knoxville concluded, The Shield came out and beat down Randy Orton and Sheamus. Triple H, wearing a cast on his arm, ran out to make the save. Triple H, Sheamus and Orton all hit their finishers on the heels to end the show.

– WWE will return to Knoxville, Tennessee for SmackDown on November 19th. The pre-sale is going on now and the password is Knoxville.

– Tonight’s episode of WWE Main Event will feature a Battle Royal to determine the #1 contender to Wade Barrett’s Intercontinental championship.

– WWE.com has confirmed that Triple H will be at Monday’s RAW to Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar’s challenge for a steel cage match at Extreme Rules.

Rob Van Dam Talks About Being A Free Agent

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Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) of the Baltimore Sun caught up with Rob Van Dam at this week’s Cauliflower Alley Club event in Las Vegas. Van Dam, who is a free agent after recently ending his run with TNA, addressed what’s next for him:

“Anything is possible right now. That may just sound like an escape route to answer a question. I have plans,” Van Dam said, “but I’m always – through experience – a skeptic by nature. And, until my name is on the dotted line somewhere, it’s not for sure. And, right now, my name is not on a dotted line somewhere. I’m working on some things and until that happens, the status remains – as you said – RVD, a free agent.”

Van Dam, 42, said his days as a full-time wrestler on the road are probably over. That said, he’d still entertain the possibility of working for WWE or TNA on a part-time basis.

“I can’t imagine going back to the same schedule I did before. I can’t imagine. I would have to lose just about everything else out of the equation in my life. And then at that point, we do what we gotta do. But, that’s not in my best interest or on my radar to go back to that. No, no no no, no.”

RVD also spoke about attending the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony to support his friend Booker T, the origins of his “thumb pointing” pose and more.

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WWE RAW Ratings: Down Nearly Half A Million Viewers From Last Week

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Monday’s live 3-hour episode of WWE RAW drew a 3.08 rating with 4,149,000 viewers.

Here’s the hourly viewership data:

  • Hour 1: 4,185,000
  • Hour 2: 4,236,000
  • Hour 3: 4,026,000

This week’s RAW was way down from last week’s post-WrestleMania 29 show, which did a 3.45 and nearly half a million more viewers.

Ryback Says He’s The Villain Against Cena, Mentions Cena’s Ex-Wife

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Ever since Ryback attacked John Cena on last week’s post-WrestleMania edition of WWE RAW, there’s been a lot of speculation as to whether he’s now a heel or simply gunning for the WWE Champion. Ryback’s promo from RAW and his failure to aid John Cena when he was getting beat down by The Shield indicated that Ryback does in fact have a dark side.

With the following tweet he made after RAW, it appears Ryback is in fact embracing the role of villain against WWE hero John Cena:

https://twitter.com/Ryback22/status/324037314441523201

Ryback also tweeted this on Tuesday afternoon, referencing Cena’s ex-wife Elizabeth:

https://twitter.com/Ryback22/status/324229250481799169

Kofi Kingston Says He Would Make A Good Heel

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New WWE United States Champion Kofi Kingston was recently interviewed by the UK’s Evening Times to promote this week’s overseas live events tour. Here are highlights of what he said about:

Returning Overseas With WWE:

“This is one of the tours we look forward to the most as the environment and culture are both very different to the USA. We often hear some pretty unique football chants at the Scottish shows.”

Part-Time Wrestlers In Top WrestleMania Matches:

“The Rock and Brock Lesnar have really paved the way for guys like me. Maybe somewhere down the line we can be the ones coming back for the big appearances and there is certainly a desire for young talent to come through to high profile matches. I’m sure you’ll see that in the coming years.”

Turning Heel:

“Everybody on Twitter seems to want me to turn bad… I would try my hand at anything and I think I could do it well.”

Shawn Daivari Competes In Men’s Physique Contest, Qualifies For National Event

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Shawn Daivari is now trying his hand at Men’s Physique contests.

The former WWE star participated in the NPC Gopher State Classic held in Minnesota over WrestleMania weekend and finished in fourth place among thirty competitors. By finishing in the top five, he is now eligible to compete at a NPC Nationals Championship held by the National Physique Committee—the largest amateur bodybuilding organization in the United States.

Meanwhile, Daivari is still accepting wrestling bookings via ShawnDaivari.com.

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Triple H Undergoes MRI, CM Punk, John Cena & More Appearing At Upcoming Comic Con Events

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– As noted earlier, Ric Flair was backstage at Monday’s WWE RAW from Greenville, He was just there visiting and there were no plans for him to appear on television.

– John Cena, Daniel Bryan and Ricky Steamboat will be appearing at the Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con in Philadelphia, PA, which takes place over the weekend of May 30th.

– CM Punk will be doing appearing at the Wizard World NYC Experience on June 28th for a signing, photo session and Q&A panel.

– Triple H underwent an MRI on his wrist this week because there is some concern that he might have suffered a scaphoid fracture. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons describes the injury as typically being “caused by a fall on an outstretched hand, with the weight landing on the palm.”

Video – WWE Composer Jim Johnston Performs Fandango’s Theme

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In his studio, the man behind Fandango’s “ChaChaLaLa” entrance theme, WWE composer Jim Johnston, makes an impromptu performance.

Bruno Sammartino Talks About His Future With WWE, WM29 Weekend & More

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2013 WWE Hall of Famer Bruno Sammartino appeared on The NB Show with Nick Buzzelli & Bryan Chechak this week and spoke about WrestleMania 29 weekend, his future with WWE and more. Here are some highlights of what he said about:

If WrestleMania Weekend Was What He Expected:

“No. It was even more busy. In 3 or 4 days I don’t think I had more than a couple hours of sleep. They had me going from morning to night. So many different interviews for radio, television, & magazine. They just had so many lined up, I had no idea that I was going to be that busy and not have time to mingle a little bit with some of the friends I saw there. It was just go go go, I mean it was extremely busy.”

If He Misses Being In Front of Large Crowds:

“I’ll be honest with you. Yes WrestleMania was big, they had 70,000/80,000 I was told, but it met a heck of a lot more to me to be back in Madison Square Garden. To be back in the Garden one more time after all these years, after making so many appearances for so many years that was, for me, more thrilling. It was emotional to be back there because I have so many memories of Madison Square Garden. Keep in mind, I headlined Madison Square Garden more than anyone in the history of the garden. That place is special to me. It really gave me tremendous publicity worldwide because of Madison Square Garden. That’s the most famous arena in the world.”

His Future with WWE:

“Here is what I agreed with them on. They are going to do a video game on me, they are going to do some DVDs of my best matches and all that kind of stuff. I think they are going to do some merchandise like new dolls and stuff like that. I don’t know what else. T-shirts, they are going to do all these kind of things. So I’m sure, even though I have no commitments, they will come to me about appearances here and there. But again, I wouldn’t sign any agreement to any of that because the way I worked it out with them is that I’d be willing in some areas, but all they can do is ask me and then I will have the right to say yes or no. I don’t want to be in a situation where they could call me and be like ‘hey you are going to appear on Monday Night Raw in Tennessee next Monday’ or ‘you’re going to be in Boston.’ I wouldn’t go for any of that. If they called me for one of these things, I’d have to see if I was up to it at the time and let them know.”

Mick Foley At SmackDown Next Week, Stratus On Off The Record, Sammartino Note

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– Trish Stratus recently appeared on TSN’s Off The Record and discussed her time as a WWE diva and how her career has evolved. You can view the appearance at TSN.ca.

– Bruno Sammartino will be appearing at the Legends of the Ring convention in June from Monroe, NJ. Also appearing are Sting, Edge and Beth Phoenix. For more information, visit Legendsofthering.com.

– Mick Foley will be appearing at next week’s SmackDown tapings, since he’ll be in the UK for a comedy tour. He tweeted on Tuesday morning:

https://twitter.com/realmickfoley/status/324125911546990593

 

Backstage Fallout Video & Social Media Score For Monday’s RAW

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– The Trendrr.tv social media score for Monday’s WWE RAW was down 50% from last week’s post-WrestleMania edition. RAW had a social media score of 259,488, down from 518,000 the week before. RAW was #1 on cable for the evening for the 4th consecutive week, but it was still the second-lowest social media activity for RAW this year.

– Here is the latest installment of WWE Backstage Fallout, featuring interviews from Monday’s RAW:

In the Raw edition of “Backstage Fallout,” Paul Heyman tries to figure out what is going on with CM Punk. Plus, The Prime Time Players run into I.R.S. on Tax Day.

Tonight’s WWE TV Tapings, WWE Crews Headed Overseas (Including New Age Outlaws)

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– Tonight’s WWE SmackDown and Main Event tapings take place from Knoxville, TN. Main Event will feature a Battle Royal for a shot at Wade Barrett’s Intercontinental championship. Smackdown will feature World champion Mark Henry & Big Show vs. Sheamus & Randy Orton.

As always, we’ll have live spoilers of tonight’s SmackDown tapings here at SEScoops.com.

– The New Age Outlaws have been added to the Smackdown brand’s live events on the upcoming European tour. The RAW crew left for overseas late Monday night, while the SmackDown crew departs after tonight’s tapings.

– “The Marine 3: Homefront” reached the number 11 spot on Home Media Magazine’s Top 20 rentals chart.

– WWE officials are anticipating big crowd reactions for Fandango and Wade Barrett at next week’s WWE TV tapings from London.

(Partial Source: PWInsider.com)

Cody Rhodes Talks About When His Time Will Come, Working With Orton In Legacy

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Cody Rhodes recently appeared on Busted Open with Dave Lagreca and Doug Mortman, which you can hear on Sirius 92 and XM 208. Below are some highlights from his interview:

When his time will come:

“When Dolph is a world champ. This year after Money in the Bank, and Dolph is the guy who won MITB, there was this real drop off of all this momentum and moving forward and I don’t blame anyone but myself; not that something bad happened or anything like that. I hate when people say stuff like ‘the push’, it’s just a matter of sometimes, I’m never going to be patient and fans of mine I hope they know I’m not sitting there waiting, but as a company there are several superstars that whether you want them now, it’s a slow thing. It’s a slow building process and I think it’ll be all the more satisfying. I grew up a fan of Shawn Michaels. I watched the whole time. He makes it to the WM match and he doesn’t win the title. Then the next title match he goes an hour and he doesn’t win the title in the hour but they’re going to go sudden death and then he finally got the title and I was just fully satisfied as him being the greatest WM performer of all time. That’s the goal. That’s the guy I’d like to pattern myself as. I hate the fact the people said ‘you’re the future’ and we’re not there yet, but we’ll get there.”

His time working with Randy Orton in Legacy:

“We forget that Randy was 21 when he debuted on television. He had a chance to grow up with the audience. Randy was an extreme influence, still is, and we’re both now able to do our own things and initially he took me and Ted Dibiase under his wing and it wasn’t like ‘Randy is a friend of ours, he’s going to be easy on us,’ I think Randy was harder on us than even Triple H was in that whole grooming process; Legacy versus DX, then him versus Triple H and them going into Wrestlemania 25; so I will always owe him a good chunk of my career.”

Maria Kanellis Addresses WWE Return Rumors, Drama With Other WWE Divas

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Former WWE Diva recently spoke to Slam.Canoe.Ca about recent reports that she was in talks with WWE about appearing at WrestleMania – and rumors that there are people in WWE who don’t want to work with her. Here are some highlights of what he said about:

Recent Talks With WWE Before WrestleMania:

“I did get contacted by WWE at the end of January, beginning of February, something like that, and for about a month, I was in talks with WWE,” Kanellis said. “We talked about contracts, I had no problem with anything that was in the contract; but about a month after, they called back and said they weren’t moving forward with the storyline.”

Reports of WWE Divas Not Wanting to Work With Her:

“I’m friends most of the girls, I talk with a lot of them at least once a week if not a couple times a week, so I don’t know where that comes from,” she said. “I’m completely happy with WWE and I believe they’re completely happy with me as well, so if that opportunity ever were to arise again and I wasn’t locked up on something else, I would love to go back.”

“I can’t imagine them being that immature to say something like that. This is a business world and I treat wrestling as a business as well as my passion. I just can’t imagine anybody doing that and being that silly. As far as I know it was just a storyline thing.

Past Issues With People In WWE:

I get along with pretty much everyone; I don’t have those issues. I had disagreements with people in the past, but I really worked hard to get rid of those disagreements. I really want to live my life with positivity. I don’t want any kind of animosity out there about me. When I first got out of WWE, I was fiery and all that kind of stuff, but now, looking back, WWE was a great experience for me and I’m so glad I got to do everything I did there.”

Bret Hart Talks WrestleMania 29, His Favorite WWE Superstars & More

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WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart recently spoke with WrestleNewz.com and answered several fan questions. Here are some highlights:

His Experience at WrestleMania 29:

“I really enjoyed it. The most fun for me was seeing a lot of the legends and the old names and faces that I’ve known for so many years — Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and those kinds of guys. I was really quite impressed with seeing the great Bruno Sammartino and hearing his induction speech. To hear his struggle through his childhood with the Nazis — I never knew a lot of that stuff about Bruno. So I was quite touched by him. I got to run into him two or three times over that week, and he was really impressive to me.”

The WrestleMania 29 Pay-Per-view:

“I thought parts of it were really good. But parts of it I thought were, for me, very predictable. I kind of predicted things in my head and certain matches went exactly as I thought they would. But the one match I thought was outstanding was the Punk-Undertaker match. That was truly exceptional. They really had a great match — they couldn’t have done a better job with taking two different guys from two different eras and fusing them together to create the match that they got.”

His Favorite Current WWE Superstars:

“Right now I’m very impressed with Punk. And I’m very impressed with the one guy in The Shield — what’s his name O’Connell, O’Donnell? — Ambrose, that’s it. He’s really good. He’s got it down. He’s such a first-rate thinker on his feet when it comes to his timing, his expressions, his quickness, his deviousness. I love his deviousness! I saw him this past weekend and told him I thought he was great.”

Thoughts on a meme showing him giving The Rock’s Rock Bottom to John Cena on the go-home RAW a 4/10:

wrestling“I haven’t seen it, but it might be closer to the truth than people think. I don’t know if my look was on purpose. Sometimes I make funny expressions on my own that make me laugh. When there are people snapping pictures from every angle, it’s hard to know how you’ll look.

But personally, I thought when he did the big move on (Cena), he kind of flubbed it up. He didn’t do it very well. It was like a four out of 10! They seemed to trip with their toes. They didn’t really get positioned right at all. They kind of tripped over each other. It’s hard to say who tripped over who, but I thought somebody flubbed it. Maybe Rock flubbed it. Yeah, I would say four out of 10. Four may be generous!”

What it will take for WWE’s tag team division to be revived:

“I think what it needs is for Vince McMahon to give it half a chance. The reason there’s no tag team wrestling is that Vince McMahon just woke up one day and realized he doesn’t like tag team wrestling. So they’re just slowly but surely eliminating it. I always loved it. It’s been part of wrestling since the beginning. It’s got a different kind of psychology. Different kind of teams can tell different kinds of stories. I think there’s a lot to be said for great tag team wrestling. I just think that Vince McMahon, or someone in the corporate side of the company, has made this decision to slowly phase it out.”

Cesaro Reacts To US Title Loss, R-Truth To Get IC Title Shot & More

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– Antonio Cesaro spoke with WWE.com after losing the United States Championship on RAW. Cesaro said he is the answer to WWE’s problems and should be thanked for bringing honor back to the title.

– WWE Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett spoke with Matt Striker during a RAW commercial break in an interview that aired on the WWE mobile app. Barrett said the loss to R-Truth on RAW was the wake-up he needed and said he plans to give Truth a title shot.

– Also on the WWE app, Damien Sandow bet Cody Rhodes he could turn any WWE superstar into a sophisticated member of society by the end of the summer. Cody picked The Great Khali to be Sandow’s project, which apparently set up their tag team match on RAW.

CM Punk Talks About The Fandango Revolution, MMA

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CM Punk was interviewed by Ariel Helwani on Monday for the MMA Hour at MMAFighting.com. Here’s what Punk said about the Fandango Revolution:

“I don’t think it’s a big joke, I want to see if the momentum can sustain itself. A lot of that has to do with the predominantly European crowd last week. I think it’s very akin to how they start soccer chants and I love it, I think it’s great, Fandango’s awesome. If we can get South Carolina singing his music tonight then we’re definitely onto something.”

Punk also talked about the WWE Divas & UFC’s women’s division, attending Saturday night’s UFC TUF finale in Vegas and more.

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