Well, as many guessed there's a new "Nexus" being formed on Smackdown tonight. Or rather they've already done it on Tuesday.

Ah the joy of tape.

speaking of which [url=http://bambuser.com/v/1323044Val Venus tells us what he thinks of the Hardys[/url

Agree with what you're saying mate (a Mexican guy needs to be flexible to work with American guys, true), but do you agree that WWE are too tunnel-visioned with their attitude that if you have a unique style that is different to theirs (but still American, e.g. CM Punk in the beginning) that you "don't know how to work"?!



IMO wrestling should be a variety show - great heavyweight matches, great tag-team matches, great women's matches, great high-flying cruiserweight matches, etc etc. WWE shoot themselves in the foot with their beliefs.

Now THAT is a shoot!



Thanks mate, great listen.

I'm not sure I agree with his assessment that the Hardy's only got into WWE because of Hayes and haven't paid any dues. Both Hardys were no-name jobbers for WWE for a couple of years before getting full time contracts.

the pace is far too fast. and a lot of guys just get left behind. I do feel WWE have lost what wrestling is, and this is because they feel they're not wrestling. Which is what some of the better indie stars don't understand, if you want pure wrestling matches every week on TV, you need to find another company. RoH does this, but it's on a much smaller scale. The long and short of it is, workers need to make a choice. Do they want to be a superstar or do they want to be able to wrestle matches they way they want? Because, mostly, the two do not go together in WWE.

Yeah good point, + tbf he's inaccurate / unfair with other stuff, e.g. saying Jeff Hardy's only popular with 2 year olds?

Both Hardy's in WWE had fans of all ages, esp Jeff around 2007-2009, you'd see 18-35 year old men with his merch, women, kids etc.

Guess there's two sides to it really - Val prob did pay more dues (in traditional terms) in the early days. However, the harsh truth for him is that the Hardys mean more in the history of the WWE, and both were bigger draws in all fairness.

Just had an email from Ticketmast re the TNA tour, AJ's off it due to injury.



Really hope Tara doesn't suffer an injury before then too.

Pretty much agree with all that mate, although I definitely don't think that a guy not been in WWE means they're not a great worker. Some of the greatest Japanese and Mexican wrestlers of all-time have never been in WWE AFAIK (e.g. Nagata, Kobashi, Psychosis etc).

Going to sort out tickets shortly for All-Star Wrestling. If you've not seen them before I really recommend going to a show if they run one locally, easily the best UK company going. Daniel Bryan spent a lot of time over here and worked a lot of their shows, really good at what they do.

Kudos to Big Zeke for managing to powerslam the Big Show, looked to do it with ease as well.

Pyschosis was in WWE for a short while. Remember the Mexicools? If not they're on page 74 of WWE's "Racist Stereotype Gimmicks for Dummies" book.

Oh right, remember the Mexicools (God I know what you mean, e.g. the lawnmowers and stuff?!

), didn't realise he was part of it though.

Not surprised given how jacked up the guy is. Still, two 4 man factions make sense than one large one as guys tend to get lost in the shuffle in those large factions. 4 belts (world/wwe, IC/US, tag) make 4 man factions the way to go if you're wanting to go for a domination style run.

I loved that gimmick, mainly cos it was so racist it was funny.

'We are not Mexican...we are....MeixiCooooool'

Just stupid, really. Juvi and Psicosis were gone pretty soon after, but Super Crazy stayed for years.

Well Juvi had a number of back stage altercations, most likely trying to get out of his contract once he realised what kind of gimmick he was being saddled with.

Psicosis got the boot after he went out scrumping for cars.

One thing that made me laugh about that, was Juvi actually ended up travelling with Bob Orton Sr. A strange partnerhsip, to say the least.

that'll be cos he was ostracised after he was juicing whilst randy was feuding with the undertaker and it was revealed he had a Hepatitis, or something, i believe Mr Callaway wasn't best pleased when he found out.

Needles to say, i don't thin Bob stayed around much longer after that.

Wasn't it the Hell in a Cell between Taker & Orton? Bob bled all over Taker and didn't tell anyone he was Hep C. I believe Taker had to be physically restrained when he found out. Stupid really.

[url=http://www.ugo.com/sports/glory-days-are-overUGO.com's "Why Matt Hardy should just stop already[/url

To be fair, they make some very valid points

The guy who made the runin last night in the Punk-Cena match last night was Mason Ryan [Barri Griffiths, AKA Goliath from the newer Gladiators series who's commonly referred to as the Welsh Batista.

Wonder why WWE are so obsessed with creating names (usually lame ones) for people?

They do it all the time e.g. Monty Brown was a perfectly good name, so they change it to the stupid Marcus Cor Von, Bryan Danielson to Daniel Bryan - any point?

IMO Goliath (which I'm sure they could have used seeing as how Gladiators doesn't exist now) would have been a good name.

so they can trademark them for merchandising purposes, also if said sports entertainer gets future endeavoured he then can't trade or make money off WWE's 'identity' or character.

Imagine an American trying to saying "Goliath" in a bad Welsh accent.

THAT is why he won't be called Goliath.

Surely it would have been more marketable (esp in this PG Era) then a Mason Ryan t-shirt though?!

Royal Rumble will be a 40 man event this year.

Kinda thinking it's being booked that way because the lower card is a bit weak this year so they needed to do something to fill out the PPV running time

Sounds good to me, cool as hell the Rumble!



Speaking of which, search ' Paul London Royal Rumble' on one of those popular video sharing websites, talk about a sweet elimination.

Chris Jericho referred to Mason Ryan as 'Batistwo' which I think is an apt name.

Is this fella going to be in the Nexus? From what I hear from FCW his work is the s and is nowhere near being ready.

Also a 40 man rumble will be fun. The rumbles of the last 5 years or so have been so dull and predictable. Remember when you genuinley didn't know who was going to win? Every year you know it's going to be a certain person or at least one of say 2 or 3 people/.