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    Minor news items that don't deserve a thread

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    Id of thought Christian, Jeff Hardy and Mark Henry would of been on that list, also Booker T.

     

    You spanner.

     

    Lawler must be laughing. He hasn't given a shit since about 2004 but is still making a good six figure salary for a day or two's work. Good on the bloke.

    Wrestling Books

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    I remember reading last year that good old Bob Holly was going to release a book. When is the fucking thing coming out then?

     

    Is it still on or what?

    Minor news items that don't deserve a thread

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    From a recent Daivari interview.

     

    On going back to WWE or TNA and why perception is so important on the indy scene.... Oh yeah I think so. I'd be surprised if this last TV run was my last one. But when I go back I can't be misused. I have to be booked correctly because I can't jeopardise my career on the independents. If you looked at my calendar April through mid June i haven't had more than 3 days off in a row and when you think about it my last prominent TV run was in 2008 with WWE, if you don't count TNA, whereas I know guys that have been on TV more recently, won more belts than I have that can't buy a booking now. That's something I'm really aware of. Tyler Reks is an example. Next year he'll have been there one more year than I had. I was there 4 years, he'll have been there 5 and when they let him go, nobody's gonna give him a substantial booking of a plane ticket, a hotel room, food expenses and promote him, they'd rather get a Hacksaw Jim Duggan or Chris Masters. If you hang on for too long when your wheels are spinning, you might make a bit more money in WWE, but when you leave you won't get another booking in this business. When you become shit on TV, that's what you're perceived as. Drew McIntyre is getting dangerously close to that point. If he hangs on another year and doesn't do anything worth a fuck, I'm gonna see a hard time for a promoter to call him and offer him a $1000 dollar booking, $400 plane ticket, $100 hotel room, advertising. You're talking almost a $2000 investment hoping that say 200 people at $10 are gonna come out to see Drew and thats not including the cost of the building, paying the other talent. When you render yourself invaluable, its hard. Whereas if he'd seen the writing on the wall after the stuff with Vince McMahon on TV, and quit then, he could go places and people would remember him as the Scottish guy on SmackDown that did all the good shit, Vince's chosen one or whatever.

     

    We all know why Tyler Reks really retired now, don't we? Because he knew he would get fuck all bookings. Poor bloke. :(

    Minor news items that don't deserve a thread

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    Did you know JTG was still employeed? Well it appears he does not want to be any longer. Last night he went on a Twitter Rant.

     

    He wrote "The camels back just BROKE ! I had enought of this. As a pro athlete,Im tired of me and my lockerroom brothers being taken advantage of . Fans have no idea what we go through.#itsanillusion. Yeah I said it. Nobody wants to speak up, everybodys afraid of losing their job or getting taken off TV."

     

    It was all about Wrestlemania bonuses apparently. Due to WWE announcing the big PPV buys it got, that led the roster to expect more than they actually got.

     

    I thought the talent got a $5,000 bonus or something every year for WM? Why would this year be any different? Unless they got less than that.

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