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Brian Blair Discusses Origin Of Iron Sheik Heat, Brutus Beefcake Accident, More

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Former WWE star B. Brian Blair recently sat down with Steve and the Scum on WGD Weekly for a very candid interview. Blair discussed all stops in his great career during his time on WGD Weekly, including his childhood dreams of becoming a pro wrestler, his football days at Louisville, going to Florida and training with Hiro Matsuda, meeting and working early on in his career with Hulk Hogan, his friendship with and working in the ring against Bruiser Brody, feuding with Jesse Ventura and more. You can check out the entire interview above, here are some highlights:

The origins of the heat between himself and the Iron Sheik:
“It really started in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Sheik and I used to always take each other down, we could both wrestle, you know, and hook. In Hershey, he was messing around, and for some reason, he shot on me and took me down. He tried to ankle pick me and hurt my ankle, so I double wrist locked him and turned him around and he started screaming. Everybody saw that, you know, Volkoff, everybody saw him screaming like crazy, and I’m not letting go. I said, ‘I’m not going to let go until you tap,’ so he tapped and I think that was a blow to his ego and he never liked me after that.”

The incident where Iron Sheik slapped him (which you can watch above):
“All of a sudden out of now where, the Sheik slapped the pee out of me. I don’t know why he did that, maybe he was trying to create his own angle. All these fans had paid to see this deal. I wanted to be like I always am, the consummate professional, so what am I supposed to do, beat up the Sheik right there? I’m thinking to myself, ‘It’s a roast for him, this is really not a good situation.’ So, he kept going, then I went my way! He went his way, but believe me the heat kept escalating from there, you guys have heard it all, but I honestly think it all stems back from Hershey, Pennsylvania, and when he had to tap out.”

A first hand account of the horrific boating accident involving Brutus Beefcake:
“I was there, I remember it like it was yesterday. Beefcake knew exactly how to do what he was doing, he was even giving people instructions. Once you hook the parasail to your back, you’ve got to run on the beach as fast as you can, and then lift your knees up, then the sail picks you up. He made one mistake, all it takes is one mistake. For some reason, Beefcake turns to the left. She lifts her knees up and it was like a battering ram. That knee hit him right in the mouth, and he was down. I ran into the water, and I grabbed him. I pulled him up on to the shore. He was still conscious. I tapped him on his back and said, ‘are you ok?’ I was saying, ‘open your mouth, open your mouth.’ Then I realized, his whole face from the top of his nose down was fractured, and his front teeth were on top of his bottom teeth. He could not talk, he couldn’t open them. He is really lucky to be alive.”

The Killer Bees being promised the WWF Tag Titles several times but never actually getting them:
“Why it never came to fruition is beyond me. We were promised three times that we would be the champions. It was a big deal for us and every time it was like, wait, wait, the money is in the chase, let the heels have the belts. Not getting those is what made me leave, and Jimmy stayed. It’s sad that we didn’t get the belts, it really is. We deserved them, I’m not just saying that, I know we deserved them.”

WWE Superstars Results 5/1/14

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WWE Superstars Results from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO
Matches taped 4/28/14 for airing on 5/1/14

* Sin Cara defeated Damien Sandow. Yes, even jobbers are beating Sandow.

* Tamina Snuka defeated Natalya to prepare for her title match this Sunday.

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The “OH MY GOD!” Review: ECW TV 6/11/96, “Fight the Power”

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Heels Inc
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The “OH MY GOD!” Review: ECW TV 1996-06-11 (matches taped from “Fight the Power” 1996-06-01 from ECW Arena in Philadelphia, PA

I’m skipping the review of the June 8th show from Bodyslam Arena in Reading, PA for now so as to not spoil the results on tonights TV. The June 8th show will be reviewed next.

– Our show opens with Joey Styles standing behind a table. Seated from left to right on the TV are Bill Alfonso, Taz, Paul Varelans and Tod Gordon (Joey is in the middle). Team Taz our standing behind their guys with the ECW referees on the side of Varelans. Styles tells us that the contract has been signed and on June 22nd at Hardcore Heaven the two men will fight. Varelans says he was at the arena to have some fun and now he’s ready to rock and roll. Taz says he’ll fight Varelans because Sabu won’t fight him. Taz gets up and shakes Paul’s hand and says he looks forward to fighting. Varelans says may the best man win and Taz says “oh I will”.

Opening video

Joey welcomes us to the show and reviews the press conference and we see some clips of some of the guys Taz has choked out. Brian Pillman returns to wrestling tonight. Joey sends us to the ring for our first match.

F.B.I. vs. Dudley Boys (w/ Dances With, Sign Guy & Chubby Dudley) ref John “Pee Wee” Moore
This is a rematch from Massacre on Queens Blvd. back in April. JT Smith tries to sing their theme song but he doesn’t actually know the words. Highway to Hell hits and the crowd breaks out into a large “Buh Buh” chant. The Dudleys come to the ring with chairs in hand. Buh Buh gets the mic after the ring introductions and we get a “What’s your name” chant. Buh Buh sings some Sinatra. Smith grabs the mic and talks trash. D-Von grabs the mic and calls Buh Buh an idiot. D-Von tells the F.B.I. they should have remembered the three rules. Buh Buh attacks from behind and they dump Smith to the floor. Buh Buh hits a slingshot gord buster on Little Guido and presses him over head and throws him onto Smith on the floor. Back in the ring D-Von starts with Guido. Shoulder block by D-Von and both teams make a tag. Smith dropkicks Buh Buh in the knees taking him down. Half crab by Smith and we go to commercial. We come back and D-Von slams Smith and climbs the rope but slips off and falls to the mat. Guido hits the ring and attacks D-Von. Buh Buh attacks Guido and D-Von hits Smith low. Buh Buh hits Smith with a chair in the back. D-Von grabs a chair and chases the ref and hits him with the chair getting the Dudley Boys DQed. 3.52 of the match was shown. Guido slams D-Von. D-Von gets up and uses the chair on the F.B.I. The Dudleys are in the ring Buh Buh is on a crutch hurt from the drop kick to his knees. D-Von hugs him and then hits him with the chair. The rest of the Dudleys get in the ring and D-Von takes them out. Highway to Hell hits again and it’s the return of Big Dick Dudley as he comes through the crowd!! D-Von is already in the locker room and we aren’t sure if he saw Big Dick or not.

Mikey Whipwreck vs. Rob Van Dam ref Jim Molineaux
Mikey is limping to the ring and we cut to Joey who lets us know that Mikey has had fluid drained from his knee a few times in the past week. We get out bell and the match is underway. They lock up and Van Dam forces Mikey to the corner and hits a few forearms. Brian Pillman comes down the aisle in a wheel chair demanding that match be stopped and the fans get on their knees and bow down to him. Mikey looks on in angree and Pillman tells him to come and face him and express his anger. Mikey drops to the floor and slaps Pillman. Pillman hits Mikey with his crutch and Van Dam comes outside the ring and joins in with a chair. Van Dam puts Mikey in the ring and hangs his head on the apron under the bottome rope. Van Dam places a chair over Mikey’s face and slingshots over the rope and lands a leg drop drop. Back in the ring he throws the chair at Mikey and absolutely DESTROYS Mikey by kicking it into his face. Van Dam hits a standing moonsault and gets the win at 3.15.

We see a replay of basically the whole match just in fast forward and go back to ringside as Joey is getting ready to interview Pillman with Van Dam hanging out in the background. Pillman trash talks the fans and WCW. He is here tonight to celebrate what Van Dam has done to Sabu. Pillman threatens to leave if the fans don’t stop booing so they boo more and Van Dam and him leave.

Back to Joey backstage and he talks about the suicidal style of Sabu. Surprising to him though it wasn’t Sabu’s style that put him out. Part 3 of this feud is coming up at Hardcore Heaven. Paul E Dangerously basically rehashes his promo from a few weeks ago about Van Dam getting inside information from Taz and Alfonso. He hypes the match coming up at Hardcore Heaven.

Hype central for Hardcore Heaven weekend. Friday night June 21st Sabu vs. “The Franchise” Shane Douglas and 3 man tag team action. At Hardcore Heaven it’s Sabu vs. Van Dam, Tommy Dreamer takes on “Primetime” Brian Lee in a weapons match, and Taz vs. Paul Varelans.

Back to Joey who tells us that 2 Cold Scorpio could not make it to his match with TV Champion Shane Douglas because he was hospitalized with a 106 fever.

Douglas comes to the ring for what was supposed to be his match and he drags the title that he doesn’t want behind him. Douglas throws the belt into the ring and kicks it into a corner. Douglas grabs the mic and says Scorpio took the low road and went to the doctors. Douglas calls out El Puerto Ricano for a title match.

TV Champion “The Franchise” Shane Douglas vs. El Puerto Ricano ref Jim Molineaux
Obviously an easy match for Douglas here. The bell rings Douglas hits a vertical suplex followed by the belly to belly for the win in .27.

Douglas gets on the mic and throws the belt down saying he doesn’t want it. We cut to him belly to bellying Don E. Allen and pinning him. Again he pushes the belt away.

TV Champion “The Franchise” Shane Douglas vs. Devon Storm ref Jim Molineaux
Douglas kicks storm low and hits the belly to belly for the win in .09.

Douglas kicks the belt out of the refs hand as the previous three men he defeated are all laid out in a corner. Douglas is on the mic begging for someone to give him a work out. Mikey Whipwreck comes down the aisle.

TV Champion “The Franchise” Shane Douglas vs. Mikey Whipwreck ref Jim Molineaux
Joined in progress Douglas ducks a clothesline and clips Milkey’s knee to take control of the match. Douglas legs in the Texas cloverleaf and Mikey gives up. Only .23 shown. Douglas keeps the hold on.

A bunch of wrestlers are carrying all the defeated guys to the back including Pitbull 2. Shane gets on the mic and asks “Are you a pitbull or a pussy?” “Try to take this piece of shit belt off of me.” Francine tries to get Pitbull 2 to go to the back. And Shane taunts her and calls her the ugliest bitch in ECW. Francine gets in the ring and slaps Douglas HARD. Shane flings her halfway across the ring with a devastating looking belly to belly. Pitbull 2 gets in the ring charges Shane and he gets smacked across the face with the TV title.

TV Champion “The Franchise” Shane Douglas vs. Pitbull 2 (w/ Francine) ref Jim Molineaux
Pitbull 2 gets right up and Shane goes to run. Irish whip and Shane gets pressed high up in the air and slammed down for 2. Pitbull 2 hits a powerslam for 2. Irish whip and he goes for another press slam but Shane slips out and hits a head scissor. We cut to Shane being hung on the guardrail. Pitbull two jumps off the apron but Shane moves and he lands directly on his groin on the guardrail. We cut again to Shane locking in the cloverleaf in the ring. Pitbull is able to roll back over and breakout. We cut again to Shane attempting a superbelly to belly but Pitbull fights back and hits a super bomb to win the title. 2.37 of the match was shown and it was announced as being 14.20. Pitbull holds up the belt and Shane reaches for it from the ground.

We go to Joey in the back and Shane shows up yelling that the belt belongs to him and he wants it back!

“Misirlou” promo has the Dudley minus D-Von welcoming back Big Dick. Saturn showing off his wound from the Extreme Lottery. Divine Brown getting paid by Stevie. Sandman and Missy Hyatt love violence. Bill Alfonso is in a hot tub. Tommy Dreamer with Beulah and Kimona Wanalay hypes the weapons match. Brian Lee is going to carve out Dreamer’s soul. Raven poses but says nothing.

My thoughts on the show,
Another must see show this week. From top to bottom everything was enjoyable. The tag match was kinda a mess with some blown spots but the story that was there was good. D-Von continues to be a loose canon that even Big Dick may not be able to control. Mikey gets killed by Van Dam and Pillman makes his return. The last segment with Shane Douglas was brilliant. Douglas has proven again and again why he is truly ECWs number one guy no matter what belt he has. Thumbs obviously way up on this one!

NXT Results 5/1/14

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Jim Somers
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WWE: NXT Results for May 1st, 2014:

* Tyson Kidd defeated Bo Dallas.

* Sasha Banks with Charlotte defeated Bayley in a match for the NXT Women’s Title tournament.

* Adam Rose defeated Danny Burch. Camacho appeared during Rose’s post-match party.

* Natalya defeated Layla in a match for the NXT Women’s Title tournament.

* Mojo Rawley defeated Oliver Grey. Aiden English came out after the match and cut a promo on Mojo.

* Adrian Neville defeated Brodus Clay in a No Disqualification match for the NXT Title.

WWE First Quarter Earnings Call – Tough Enough, Vince Talks, Network, More

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Jim Somers
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WWE held the call for their first quarter 2014 financial results this morning with SVP Financial Planning & Investor Relations Michael Weitz, Chief Strategy & Financial Officer George Barrios and Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon. Below are highlights:

* Michael Weitz welcomes us to the call and gives a brief introduction.

* Vince McMahon is up next. Vince touts with Network subscriptions and pay-per-view buys, WrestleMania did over 1 million buys. He says the Network has been well-received by fans and industry experts. They are still confident they will reach 1 million subscribers by the end of the year. He talks about new Xbox One and other new providers adding the Network. They will be announcing the new TV deal in “several weeks” and are currently in negotiations in India. He talks about Germany turning out to be a better market than it has in the past. He touts Slam City, Scooby-Doo and Oculus, as well as partnerships with Pepsi, General Mills and other brands. Vince seemed to say a lot less than usual.

* George Barrios is up next to go over financials. The first quarter was highlighted by the launch of the WWE Network. Barrios touts the Network features and says it’s like Netflix, just better. They expect a gradual ramp-up over time when it comes to new subscribers. They still expect to hit 1 million by the year’s end, then 2 and 3 million as it grows.

* Barrios mentions Tough Enough will be coming to the Network. No word if it will be a new season or older seasons but he mentioned it when talking about creating new content.

* They have new Network features like bookmarks and playlists that will be rolled out in the future.

* The Network brought in $4.4 million in subscription revenue at the end of the quarter but there was over a $1 million loss in pay-per-view revenue.

* TV revenue was up thanks mostly to Total Divas. WWE Studios revenue was up mostly thanks to The Call. Scooby-Doo and Oculus are delivering strong performances that are in line with expectations.

* Live event revenue was up from the previous year’s quarter due in part to a rise in ticket prices and new VIP packages.

* The Network launch resulted in an $8.6 million loss.

* They continue to be involved in TV negotiations and were not taking questions on the matter today.

* They expect a $7-$10 million loss for the second quarter of this year.

* They are confident that longterm Network growth will turn everything around.

* The Q&A is up next.

* They’re not sure which providers will or will not carry their pay-per-views in the future.

* A shareholder asked how much money they plan on spending on non-wrestling programming such as Legends House. Barrios wouldn’t go into specifics on costs of non in-ring shows but he touted the success of Legends House on the Network so far.

* They were asked how many original shows they will plan on having by the end of the year. Barrios just named Tough Enough, a new season of WWE Countdown and The Monday Night War.

* They were asked if they would consider selling equity in the WWE Network to a partner, possibly letting someone like Viacom buy a stake. Barrios says they are business people and would be open to anything if it made sense but said they place a very high value on the Network.

* A shareholder asked about subscriber renewals for the Network and Barrios said they’re not saying anything public about it.

* Weitz thanks everyone for coming and that’s it for the call.

More News On KENTA Possibly Coming To The WWE

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Brian Grey
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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

As noted, top Japanese star KENTA is leaving Pro Wrestling NOAH and speculation is that he’s headed to WWE after working an informal tryout earlier this year.

KENTA spoke to media in Japan and said that he’s beginning a new challenge in his life at 33 years old. His NOAH contract expired on April 30th but he will work two show on a per-show deal – May 3rd for NOAH and then his farewell show on May 17th.

It’s still not confirmed that KENTA is joining WWE but most believe that to be the case. There’s speculation that he could join New Japan Pro Wrestling as well.

WWE issued this response to F4Wonline.com when asked about KENTA coming in:

“Unfortunately, we do not have any further information to share at this time. We will keep you posted if/when we have any news on him.”

Will Tito Ortiz Face Jail Time?, Wanderlei On Sonnen Brawl, Silva Update

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MMA Dan
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– Wanderlei Silva is coming out with fighting words for Chael Sonnen in his latest video blog. Silva and Sonnen are set to meet in July at UFC 175. The two were coaches on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3, which currently airs on Fight Pass.

Silva called out Sonnen for being “a racist” and wanting to humiliate his country and native Brazilians. “The Axe Murderer” and Sonnen even came to blows during filming of the series.

“This is not a joke,” he said. “This is not comedy. This guy is making jokes about domestic violence, about guys beating up girls. He calls women (expletive). He says we are all filthy people in our country. He implied we’re a bunch of monkeys. That makes me angry. He wants to humiliate us, just like all the people who have been humiliated for so long in this country. Enough of that. I felt like it was my mission to defend our country. I’m defending our country.”

– Former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz will avoid a stay in jail following his January DUI. Ortiz agreed to a plea of a fine and probation for his early 2014 accident that left his 2012 Porsche Panamera damaged.

Ortiz, who initially entered a plea of not guilty, changed his plea to no-contest and was sentenced to 36 months probation and ordered to enroll in an alcohol education program, according to a report by TMZ.

As for his fighting future, Ortiz is set to meet Alexander Shlemenko at Bellator 120 later this month. Shlemenko is the current middleweight champion in Bellator, but the bout will be contested at 205 pounds.

– The return process for former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva continued. “The Spider” suffered a gruesome broken leg last December in a loss to Chris Weidman for the belt.

Since having surgery to repair the injury, Silva has kept fans in-touch with his recovery process. He’s posted videos of rehab activities, all of which lead to believe he is on the fast track to a return.

In the latest update, Silva is lifting weights while standing without help on his surgically repaired leg. No exact date has been set for his Octagon return, but the Brazilian has mentioned early 2015.

Wrestling News 4/30/14: Bobby Heenan Health Update, Goldberg At Mania, More

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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Wrestling legend Bobby “The Brain” Heenan suffered a broken shoulder after falling while getting out of bed on April 24th in Las Vegas. The Heenan family has been in Vegas visiting relatives for a wedding. Heenan actually missed the wedding as he and his wife spent the day in the hospital.

Not too long ago, Heenan suffered a broken back when he fell. The many cancer treatments he has received have left his bones brittle. Heenan has reportedly been in remarkably good spirits as of late, even with all of his health issues.

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– It’s said that Bill Goldberg definitely has interest in doing a match at WrestleMania 31 if the right deal can be made. He’s kept himself in shape, training almost daily, and will be 48 by next year’s WrestleMania.

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– We noted before that WWE officials wanted main roster and developmental talents to come up with names for their finishing moves. This is so WWE can trademark the names because they can’t own traditional wrestling move names.

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– WWE officials recently issued a directive to NXT staff regarding the treatment of some of Gerald Brisco’s wrestling recruits. There had been a feeling that Brisco would sign guys with good looks, personality and skills, but when they got to Orlando at the Performance Center, certain people (possibly trainers) working for developmental would try and run them off because they didn’t like shooters around.

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