MVP Released
 

http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/mvpreleased

Wow, I really wasn't expecting that.

I'M GOIN'

Actually, this is a bit disappointing. I thought he was finally becoming tolerable again. His match with Chris Benoit at....Wrestlemania 23, was it?...that was awesome.

good

wtf?

hahahahahahaahhahahahahahahaha

Wow. I am surprised. I wonder if this is a case where he asked to get out of his contract or what.

MVP via Twitter

No need for alarm. I did not get fired . I asked for & received my release. I felt it was time to go international & freshen things up.

Vontel Ignacious Portman, aka V.I.P.

Booo. Takes the sting out of my hahahaahahahahaha abit. :(

Can we merge this with the Pink Slip Pool thread by any chance?

Fair enough. Get some work in Japan and Europe and in a few years when WWE comes knocking again, have a fresh stab. I look forward to it.

No.

I think MVP leaving deserves it's own thread.

The guy came in with a bit of promise. I didn't exactly see a serious world title run with him like some people did, but he was always solid and could have become one of the rotation main eventers. They just fucked him up with his booking.

Great news.

I haven't really been paying attention to Smackdown, so maybe this isn't as shocking as I seem to think it is. But wow, didn't see it coming.

That feud with Matt Hardy is probably one of my all-time favorite feuds, which is weird to think about.

Good riddance, he ballin'd his way out.

Ok. Going to go update the scores then.

I do too, but it was worth a shot.

Hes 37 yrs old btw, thats him finished in WWE now, cant see him coming back.

To all the people who are 'happy' about this, what for? It's not like MVP was monopolizing TV time or holding down talent. He was just there...sometimes...putting on decent matches. I'm not exactly heartbroken to see him go, but I'm not elated in the least bit. He's a decent hand.

I'm happy for him, but I'm pretty gutted to not have him. Constant bright spot on Smackdown and he was fucking over, given the chance.

Just listen to the old-school Raw when he comes out.

I wonder if he has "Christian Cage Syndrome" in which he thinks he is better/more over than he actually is and decides to go to a promotion that will put him in the main event and give him a World Title or two...only to be forgotten in the grand scheme of things and come crawling back to achieve upper midcard glory.

Or it could be he is legitimately trying to better himself on the ring while earning a bit of coin in Japan. You work so much you can't soak anything in while in WWE. Taking a break while he's in a dead end could be the best thig for him.

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My reaction...

I'm shocked. Not upset or disappointed though, just shocked. He was a solid worker

Or Steele could be right...

Honestly, I wouldn't doubt it for a second, because he was shuffled so much.

If he winds up in TNA within 6 months then we'll know his "international" line is bullshit, even if he goes for a few shows.

A few more years until he reaches his prime for TNA.

Hey, he's a young go-getter in TNA until he's 80.

His international line is the "no-compete" clause.

Can't honestly see how anyone working for any promotion where they earn enough money to live on, can flick on their TV, watch TNA (that's bad enough) then say "I NEED TO GET ME IN THAT".

Said it before but, i feel everyone overrated him on here, i mean world title pushes, REALLY? Never really enjoyed watching him tbh.

Hey, say what you will, but it's true that the travel for TNA is no where near as bad as WWE. Even if he were to take a pay cut, I'd think it'd almost even out without having to pay for all those flights or hotels.

I preferred him as a heel.

I think for some people it's more like "Wow, that place sucks, but if I was there, it would be SO much better!"...or somewhere thereabout.

TPWW's 'rating' of a wrestler has never had any effect on anything that has actually happened on WWE TV. If you never enjoyed watching him, I guess that's on you. Would you say that TPWW's opinion on him soured yours on him?

TNA is bout ta be BALLIN!! They'll change his name to V.I.P.

M...V...P IN DA R...O...H!

I wouldn't mind that actually. Him in ROH with Haas and Benjamin could be huge for ROH.

Never liked him, thought his ring attire made him look like he was wearing a giant condom.

Bahbye.

Damn.. With the new theme and all, I was hoping he was getting a push. Such a waste.

Nah, maybe slightly but never enjoyed him much anyway. Didn't really seem to offer anything. It just boggled my mind how others thought differently as much as they did.

I figured you didn't like him because he's black.

:D

Busted.

That's another pink slip point for yours truly: One third Slicky, another third tricky and finally one third Damon.

In this Pink Slip pool I'm straight up; BALLIN'!!!! Rey Allen for three!!

Holy shit...have you ALWAYS been 'SlickyTrickyDamon'? I always read you as 'StickyTrickyDamon'.

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Don't know what to think about this.

Oh shit, i think i've been doing that to.

I'm just wondering what this does for Smackdown overall as a show. If you look at a majority of the cuts and guys who were released by choice, SD has been hit hard and it seems they don't know who to push at this point. I mean you can count SD's main eventers on 1 fucking hand now.

Heh, good on him. He wasn't being used for anything major in WWE and isn't he from Miami? Good luck to him in TNA.

Probably because 'sticky' is a real word and 'slicky' is...well, I don't know what the fuck slicky is.

Unless Orlando, FL is "international" to the guy from Miami, I doubt he is going to TNA.

He's one tricky bastard that Damon is.

The Orlando International Airport.

MVP will be Antonio Banks or V.I.P

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Yes, I was Slicky Tricky Damon since 10th grade in high school when I made a gimmick in a backyard fed called New England Wrestling. It was was a mix of Godfather, Dude Love and The Doctor of Style Slick.I even used Jive Soul Bro as my theme song.

VIP is his brother's gimmick name in wrestling, so he can't use that.

I thought it was StickyTrickyDemon

I liked the guy, but to be honest he is 37 years old, so realistically a decent push for him in WWE is out of the question.

Hopefully we'll see him in TNA where he'll get a good run as a main eventer.

So the Slick part was 'Slicky'...the Godfather part was 'Tricky' (because his hoes turned tricks)...which leaves Dude Love to be...'Damon'.

If I can be honest with you, I think your gimmick might need some re-tooling.

I also carried around a gardening hoe as my ho since we couldn't really find any girls that wanted to do it.

The Dude Love part of the gimmick was that I straight up stole oww have mercy as a catch phrase.

Lol, just what TNA needs, another near 40 year old main eventer!

1-2 you hear the clock tickin- well his wwe time card is no longer in use.

Sad to see it end this way. he had good potential, which- sue me for saying it- he would have benefitted from being pushed higher during the attitude era.

Keep dreaming. :D:lol: Maybe european champ(i miss that title) at best.

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I think he may have been in prison at that time.

My finisher was called the Wet Dream :shifty:

It was the Russian Legsweep Cobra clutch that Ted Jr used when he first came into WWE, but I kept it on as a submission. Though I started doing the move in 1998, so I invented it!!!

I do not understand the MVP hate at all. He's a guy that does everything very well, but doesn't do anything great. He's not Shawn Michaels, but he's a guy everyone should want to have around.

If you hate guys like MVP, then what do you want out of wrestling?

Guys not like MVP. Duuuuuuuuh.

Oh right, but you bitch about everything so let's just ignore you. Talking to actual wrestling fans that hate MVP.

<font color=goldenrod>Yeah, certainly not surprising. Gonna miss having him around but they did next to nothing after moving him to Raw in 2007. I think a heel turn would have been the only way to save him. Ah well.

Pretty sure he could put on some good matches in Japan.</font>

lol, you must be getting me confused with someone else if you think i bitch about everything. Nice way to dodge the hate, though!

A FEW GUYS NOT LIKE MVP OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD:

* Naked Mideon
* Viscera
* The Goon
* Salvatore Sincere
* Mantaur
* The Great Khali
* Bushwacker Butch
* "Iron" Mike Sharpe
* Hardbody Harrison
* Henry Godwinn

Then shouldn't you be Sticky-Tricky-Demon?

:y:

Yes, see, this is what i was on about. :yes:

He stole Shelton Benjamin's finisher and his lack of caring of how his WWE career progressed.

He was like the longest reigning US Champion in WWE history but didn't use that to get himself over enough.

He had one of the best feuds of a very slow year in 2007 with Matt Hardy and became a tag team champion with him during the feud.

He was a victim of everything good happening on his career happening on the "B-show" Smackdown. He never asserted himself as a major force on Monday Night Raw. He went into Raw the US Champion after having a good feud with Shelton for it. Almost the week he came in he dropped the title to Kofi Kingston.

That is a pretty sick roster, to be fair.

I also miss that belt. I seriously would have rather been European Champion as opposed to WCW champion in 2000-2001. And European champions we're cool back in the day. Al Snow for example, and William Regal.

But I mean his character would have been better in the attitude era, and if he never got past European title status, he still could have been entertaining.



Ha. Probably, but when did the attitude era end exactly? He was thrust into main event status, or at least working with main eventers like Kane and Taker, and this was in 2005 or 2006.

But if WWE wasn't PG during his fued with Swagger last year, he could have been much more open about his prison stay and made it more personal.

I get that WWE doesn't need need cursing to be good, but MVP using bad language would have made it more real.

Hardbody Harrison is this the California Penal* Wrestling League?



*Major League reference, in case you didn't get it.

No, you bitch about everything. I'm not confused.

Also how did I dodge anything? I asked a question and you replied with a stupid answer. Explain this dodging I did.

Again, I say, Smackdown has lost another potential main eventer in their already lacking main event scene.

Yeah, i never praise anything, ever. :roll: You're seriously confused cause i say a bunch of times when stuff is done well(you'll see me in raw threads praising stuff alot also). Doesn't mean i can't fucking bitch to when i wish to. Calling me a non fan also when ive watched raws/ppv's alot and have to stay up till 4am to watch it all. Yeah, non wrestling fan indeed.

Whatever, go and cry some more.

I'm not sure MVP talking about being raped would have helped the feud too much.

Not surprised he was released since for a while he was unhappy with his direction and status in the WWE while the writers couldn't promise him anything in the near future to fix it.

I remember when there were reports of him being promised a nice push or something big in the future in exchange for doing the long loosing streak gimmick but his move to RAW fizzled out after the first few weeks.

His super long losing streak lead to him capturing the U.S. title...which he had already done. Sick push. :y:

Bummer. I liked MVP.

He liked you too, Triple Naitch. He liked you too.

Pink Slip Pool baby, Christian is next.....

I hope not

Now that would be a loss.:(