November 2007 News Archive (Page 5)

In her latest attempt at publicity, Joanie Laurer has filed to legally change her name to Chyna.

And she hopes Vince McMahon has a problem with it (Chyna is copyrighted by WWE). After all, the former wrestler issues the following statement:

"Do I want to go back to get abused by you and get punched in the head every day and have people not stand up for me besides the fans? No. Would I like to go back for one day representing myself and all these people to kick your ass and your ass only?

Cause you are the boss, right Vince? Then I would love to do it. You know my number. You know where I live, obviously. And you know my name. Bring it, Vince!"

- The Major Brothers won a Tag Team Battle Royal involving The Daltons, Jimmy Wang Yang & Shannon Moore, Deuce & Domino and Dave Taylor & Drew McIntyre to earn a shot at the WWE Tag Team Titles later in the night.

- Victoria defeated Michelle McCool.

- Finlay defeated Rey Mysterio.

- ECW Champion CM Punk defeated Jamie Noble.

- MVP & Matt Hardy defeated The Major Brothers to retain the WWE Tag Team Titles.

- The Undertaker defeated The Great Khali in a No Holds Barred Match.

Here is the updated card for TNA Genesis this Sunday:

TNA World Heavyweight Championship Match
- Kurt Angle (c) & Kevin Nash vs. Sting & mystery partner

TNA X Division Championship Match
- Jay "Black Machismo" Lethal (c) vs. Sonjay Dutt

TNA World Tag Team Championship Match
- AJ Styles & Tomko (c's) vs. The Steiner Brothers

"Fight for the Right" Tournament Final - Ladder Match
- Christian Cage vs. Kaz

- Samoa Joe vs. Robert Roode

- Team 3D vs. The Motor City Machineguns

Shop of Horrors Match
- Abyss vs. Black Reign

TNA Women's Championship Match
- Gail Kim (c) vs. Roxxi Laveaux vs. ODB vs. Angel Williams

Ten years after he last stepped inside a WWE ring, Bret Hart has sat down and spoken with WWE.com. Here are some things Hart had to say regarding the Montreal screw job incident:

Wishing that the incident never happened: "I wish things had never changed and that I was still [in WWE],” he said. “I look back on that incident as a bad decision by Vince McMahon and WWE. I think we all can look back and know that there was a better way to do things...

It's a shame that things happened the way they did, but in the end, I think people have always respected me for being someone who always stood behind his beliefs, and stood up for himself."

Not forgiving people that played a part in the 'Montreal Screwjob': "There were a lot of elements that worked during that period; a lot of political jealousies and rivalries... I don’t forgive anybody involved in that – from Gerald Brisco to Michaels to Triple H to Vince. But at the same time, I realize that life’s too short to carry around hard feelings on an everyday basis."

On McMahon having no other choice but to do what he did: "I take issue with anyone who ever suggests that there was no other choice. But, Vince was under a fair bit of pressure financially back then. I can feel for him a little. I think [McMahon] has told me himself – and I believe him – that he wishes things had been done differently and has regrets about it. It should’ve never happened, but it did happen... and I have moved on."

Fans believing in him more than Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior: "The fans really believed in me, more so than the Hogans and the Warriors. I think I was the most basic wrestler; I wasn’t the big guy, the most flamboyant and certainly not the most charismatic; but I was the most real. My wrestling was real, my personality was real and my interaction with the fans was real."

Read the full interview here.

CNN aired  a documentary this week called "Death Grip: Inside Pro Wrestling."

The WWE employees they interviewed for the series were Vince and Linda McMahon, CM Punk, and John Cena, at his home with a sling on his arm. When asked if he had ever used steroids, Cena simply said: "I can't say that I have never taken them (steroids) and you can never prove that I have."

Isn't that pretty much an admission of guilt on Cena's part? He's challenging people to prove his use and straightforwardly admits he can't deny it.

That's disheartening.

WWE.com has announced that the Survivor Series main event between Randy Orton and Shawn Michaels will have two stipulations added to it.

1. HBK will not be allowed to use Sweet Chin Music, or he will be disqualified.
2. If Randy Orton is intentionally disqualified, he will lose the WWE Championship.

Match #1: Kane vs. Mark Henry
Kane takes the early lead with uppercuts, but Henry comes back with some hard fists Kane gets the advantage and goes for the boot to get stopped by a slam. Henry continues to dominate Kane and works him into the corner of the ring and repeatedly slams him into the turnbuckle. Kane battles out, but Henry Comes back and whips him into the other corner to press all his weight on Kane. Kane returns the favor with an Uppercut.

Henry get the best of it and whips Kane right into the turnbuckle Kane comes back and goes for the signature Top of the rope clothesline and gets Henry into the corner to repeatedly clothesline and gets Henry into a chokeslam position but Henry kicks Kane to get out of it. Henry exits the ring to get a steel chair. He returns to the ring and whacks Kane with it. Ref DQ’s Henry.
Winner by DQ: Kane

Match #2: Jamie Nobel vs. Nunzio
Nobel gets a slam in only to get a 2 count noble starts to dominate Nunzio into the ropes into a backbreaker and goes for headlock and starts pounding on his head and goes back into a head lock. Nunzio gets back into the game and it leads right into the corner to do a seated senton I guess. Nunzio gets a little momentum but noble gets back and picks Nunzio up on his shoulders to drop his gut into his knee and gets the three count.
Winner: Jamie Nobel

Miz says he told Kelly Kelly that he would make her life miserable and admits that he put her in that match against Beth Phoenix and that tonight she had to face Layla El.

Match #3: Kelly Kelly vs. Layla
Layla takes an early advantage when Kelly was distracted. Layla is completely dominating Kelly and slams her down hard onto the mat for the quick victory.
Winner: Layla

Match #4: Elijah Burke vs. Shannon Moore
They begin to duke it out and Elijah gets the upper hand but Moore comes back quickly and does a high flying move and goes for the pin but only get the two count. He starts working on Elijah in the turnbuckle and Whips him into the other Turnbuckle but Burke gets back into the game and starts to come back and gets Moore into the Turnbuckle to do his signature elbow drop and gets Moore into the Elijah express and he goes for the pin to get the 1-2-3.
Winner: Elijah Burke

Match #5: ECW Championship C.M. Punk vs. John Morrison
Test of strength begins and Punk whips Morrison off of him but Morrison counters. Morrison whips punk but punk kicks Morrison which leads to the top rope with cm punk going for the hurricanrana but Morrison counter and goes for the pin to only get the disappointing 2. Morrison starts to aim at Punks head and gets him into a double handed neck lock and starts kicking Punk in the back of the neck. Punk gets out by pressing Morrison in the turnbuckle and Morrison runs right at punk only to get hit by a kick and punk gets a big move on Morrison only to get a 2. Punk does a series of kicks and whips on Morrison to lead up to the turnbuckle to attempt the shining wizard trick but Morrison counters and punk hits some kicks and goes for the pin and gets a two count.

Miz enters the arena. Punk goes for a backslide pin only to get Morrison into the GTS position and Morrison turns it into a backslide pin but gets a 2 count. Morrison takes advantage but is distracted by the Miz who throws something at Morrison’s head for a quick roll up pin for Punk to get the 1-2-3.
Winner: CM Punk

The Great Khali vs. Hornswoggle has been added to the card for WWE Survivor Series on Sunday, November 18.

Here is how the card looks at the moment:

WWE Championship Match
- Randy Orton (c) vs. Shawn Michaels

World Heavyweight Championship - Hell in a Cell Match
- Batista (c) vs. The Undertaker

Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
- Triple H, WWE Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy, WWE Tag Team Champion Matt Hardy, Rey Mysterio & Kane vs. Umaga, Mr. Kennedy, WWE U.S./Tag Team Champion MVP, Finlay & Big Daddy V

- The Great Khali vs. Hornswoggle

Due to Kristal Marshall's release from WWE a few weeks ago, it looks like the planned Vickie Guerrero storyline has been dropped.

Original plans for the angle called for Vickie and Kristal to find out that Theodore Long had a heart condition and to conspire to work together to get him to take Viagra to trigger a heart attack so that Vickie could be the lone General Manager on SmackDown.

Instead, Vickie will simply be a babyface General Manager that stands up to men.

Is Chris Jericho coming back to a WWE ring?

The superstar didn't answer that question in a recent interview with Maxim, but he did respond to the following topics...

A Lion's Tale:
I decided to write about my journey to realize my goal of wrestling in WWE. It's more of a follow-your-dreams, coming-of-age, stranger-in-a-strange-land story with wrestling in the background. You know, The Catcher in the Rye with a half-naked guy swinging a steel chair. It's 100 percent Chris Jericho. If you like it, I'll take the credit. If you don't, I'll blame it on someone else.

…whether young wanna-be wrestlers could follow his path into the business:
A friend of mine recently told me, "The thing about this book is that in an age when all you have to do is write a blog or put yourself up on YouTube to get fame, this is one of the last old-school journeys." When I first started, I had to write letters to people, to send out tapes and pictures, to try to photocopy pictures where I looked cool. Now people just Photoshop everything and send it via e-mail.

The book is really a pay-your-dues type of story, about this kid who probably should've given up a few times, but was too stubborn or stupid to do that. As a result, he ended up achieving his goal. There's not a lot more books like this to be written, because I don't think there are a lot of stories like that to be told. Uh, I pretty much forgot what your question was [laughs].

…"enthusiastic" fans:
Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo. A woman fan wrote me letters every time I went to a certain arena in Mexico: "I will be your wife someday. You know you love me." A bunch of letters later, she wrote, "If you don't write me back within the next week and tell me that you love me, I will kill myself."

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