December 2007 News Archive (Page 5)

Teddy Long comes to the ring and announces MVP vs. Rey Mysterio at Armageddon, says that Vickie isn't there and that since he is Assistant GM he will be calling the shots until her return. Edge comes out, trying to speak to Vickie through the camera. Teddy announces Edge vs. Kane in the Main Event tonight.

- Tag Match: The Miz/John Morrison def Jesse and Festus.

- Batista def Elijah Burke. After the match, the lights were cut off while a promo was cut backstage, we could see them still working with Burke in the ring. He eventually was helped to the back, but it took approximately five minutes before he was able to leave.

- Jamie Noble def. Chuck Palumbo. Michelle tried to help Palumbo but cost him the match. Afterwards, Chuck gets a mic and questions if she is really his "friend", tells her that tonight she needs to find another ride home and leaves.

- MVP's VIP lounge was next. Guest was Michael PS Hayes. They are promoting a new video "World Class Championship Wrestling," mostly about the Freebird/Von Erich feuds. Talk about the problems that wrestling went through in the 80's with drugs. MVP becomes "disrespectful" of the older generation of wrestlers resulting in Hayes punching him. MVP beats him up until Mysterio hits the ring and fights with MVP until officials separate the two.

- Finlay def. Deuce. Nice promo before match with Hornswoggle pretending to drive Deuce/Domino's car. Entertaining match. Khali comes into the ring and beats down Finlay before leaving.

- Main Event: Kane def Edge by DQ. Excellent match. Kane throws steps into ring. Edge hits Kane with chair shots then places kane on the steps for a con"chair"too. Batista charges the ring to save Kane, lights go out, Takers music hits, light on, he has his hands around Edge's neck ready to chokeslam him. Batista spears Undertaker, Edge runs from ring with Batista looking on. This may have been the end of the taping. Undertaker sets up and proceeds to beat Batista down and leaves the ring area.

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• Former Extreme Expose member Brooke has publicly came out and said she has big plans to do a Playboy shoot and will be working in TNA Wrestling soon. Late last summer, the idea was to have her Kelly Kelly, and Layla in Playboy right before WrestleMania 24. With Brooke being released these plans have obviously been scrapped.

• Torrie Wilson is being held out of action for the next few weeks to receive physical therapy on her back that has been bothering her.

Remember that whole Ric Flair retirement angle from two weeks ago? Notice how it wasn't mentioned at all this week on WWE RAW?

Reportedly, something happened over the past week that has resulted in the angle being put on hiatus. WWE was expecting Flair's return on 11/26 to produce a strong rating, but the show drew a typical 3.5.

Meanwhile, WWE has been hyping some of "biggest names of all time" to appear on next week's 15th Anniversary RAW special... but there's ben no mention of the Nature Boy. It's likely that Flair and his retirement angle will be moved over to SmackDown in the next few weeks.

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ECW airs on Thursday night this week. Here are the taping results:

- Show starts with announcement that CM Punk is having a Champions choice match. He gets to choose either Big Daddy V or Mark Henry.

- Miz and Morrison def Major Brothers.

- Mixed Tag: Balls Mahoney/Kelly Kelly def Kenny/Victoria

- Shelton Benjamin def Jimmy Wang Yang

- Kevin Thorn def Local Jobber

- CM Punk def Mark Henry by DQ when Big Daddy V gets involved. Kane comes out with chair; he, Big Daddy and Henry have chairs in the ring. Nothing really happens, Kane ducks a chair shot from Big Daddy V and V hits the corner of the ring, the chair slips out of his hand and flies into the crowd.- As Henry and V are leaving, Estrada comes out and announces a Tag Match at Armageddon with Punk/Kane vs. Henry/V.

Karen Angle recently spoke with The Miami Herald about her involvement with TNA Wrestling.

''[TNA] was talking about different storylines, things to do with Kurt,'' she said. "I came up with a couple of ideas using my daughter which then turned into something with our family. It was supposed to be a temporary thing. Obviously, it took off, and it went well.''

So far, it's gone incredibly well. Who knew she'd be a natural in front of the camera?

''I surprised myself, and I think I surprised everybody here,'' Karen said. "Now, it's turned into I'm under contract with [TNA], and it's an amazing, amazing opportunity.''

Karen debuted in July in an angle where she duped Samoa Joe.

''Kurt's so proud of me. He's very proud of me,'' she said. "And he's pushing me, and he wants me to do more and more. He's so supportive, but I definitely shocked the #%@& out of him. I don't think he thought I would be able to do what I'm doing.''

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In an article by Mike Mooneyham for The Post and Courier, Mr. Kennedy says the following about drugs in WWE:

"Change is always good in any business. This company has changed a lot since I got here. Things are a lot different in the locker room. The atmosphere is a lot different. It's much different than it was 20 years ago."

Kennedy also doesn't condone drug use, but thinks it's acceptable in moderation:

"I know a lot of people don't want to hear this and it's not the most popular answer with everybody, but a lot of the guys who have passed away come from that era when this business was a rock-star atmosphere. These guys lived like rock stars and they partied like rock stars. They did all the drugs. I'm not condoning drug use - anything in moderation is OK - but these guys went to the absolute extremes.

It's no wonder when you mix steroids with recreational drugs and alcohol ... the combination of those three is a deadly cocktail. They're experiencing heart problems and all kinds of other stuff. A lot of those guys are flat broke because of it."

Carilto remains unhappy and WWE official would be glad to see him go... but they prefer if he stayed with the company for a few more weeks.

On the heels of Booker T leaving WWE a few weeks ago - and then appearing in TNA, of course - WWE doesn't another huge name to make the jump to TNA Wrestling right now.

This, of course, begs the question: Is Carlito really a huge name?

TNA Impact Tapings for December 6:

- LAX defeated Black Reign & Rellik.

- Kurt Angle comes out and cuts a promo about wanting an answer from Christian Cage and Robert Roode later tonight on if they want to join The Angle Alliance.

- ODB defeated TNA Women's Champion Gail Kim in a Non-Title Match. After the match, Awesome Kong hit the ring and Kong and Kim had a pull apart.

- Kurt Angle comes back out again and wants his answer. Christian Cage and Robert Roode then come out. Roode shakes hands with Angle. Cage cuts a long promo and only agrees to join if he can be the captain of The Angle Alliance. Cage and Angle then shake hands.

- Christopher Daniels defeated Senshi with Elix Skipper as the special guest referee. Daniels won the briefcase that Senshi got the night before at Turning Point.

- Team 3D & Johnny Devine defeated The Motor City Machineguns & Jay "Black Machismo" Lethal in a Six Man Ladder Match. The X Division Title was up for grabs supposedly. Lethal got the belt at one point, but 3D attacked him and put the belt on Devine.

- Samoa Joe, Kevin Nash, Booker T, Kaz & Eric Young defeated TNA World Champion Kurt Angle, TNA Tag Team Champions AJ Styles & Tomko, Christian Cage & Robert Roode. Angle turned on Cage after the match.

In a backstage segment on Raw last night, it was announced that Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, Eric Bischoff, Mick Foley and Trish Stratus would be appearing on next week's three-hour show.

Moreover, the entire McMahon family will be doing a family portrait with Hornswoggle on next week's show. We guess that's exciting news.