News Roundup!
• Do you like Snitsky and nightmares? Well there you go 🙂
• Great news! Daniel Bryan does not need more surgery! He’ll be undergoing intense physical rehab instead. This means he’ll (hopefully) be back in a couple months. A Rumble return perhaps?
• Jake Roberts is still in intensive care with bilateral pneumonia. He’ll recover from that but more worrying is the ‘brain abnormality’ discovered during testing. He’ll have to recover first before further testing.
• Zack Ryder was jobbed out for bitching on twitter, which’ll lead to more bitching on twitter, and more jobbing out.
• CM Punk was pissed that a picture from his wedding to AJ got passed around, the picture I posted below 😀 He said “tweet that pic and I block you. Simple.” I hope he chewed out his friend for uploading it to the internet.
• Speaking of Punk, his attorneys sent a 22-page letter WWE over royalties for using his likeness, specifically over WWE2K15. WWE’d say they don’t owe him because he breached his contract, walking out after the Rumble, with 6 months left on his contract.
• WWE have signed a new deal with Brock Lesnar so they can use him as often as they want, on a pro-rate basis.
• (Openly gay) American footballer Michael Sam was invited to RAW but he declined. So they’re getting Jerry Springer instead, in what’ll surely be a horrendous Bellas segment. Springer appeared back in February 2010.
• Most WWE Network subscriptions are up this past week. I expect a massive drop-off – 128,000 cancelled their subs in the last 3 months. I’d say they’re looking at 500,000 US subscribers. Countering that, the Network is coming to UK/Ireland October 1st. Buy/renew then – you’ll get Series, Rumble and Mania 🙂
• New OSW Review (ECW on Sci-Fi) out Thursday!
Here’s that CM Punk photo: