Spring cleaning has begun. The Con Man is gone.
 

World Wrestling Entertainment announced the release of Rob Conway this afternoon. Conway was last seen appearing on Ohio Valley Wrestling's 400th TV episode, wrestling CM Punk. He was "fired" from an on camera role by Vince McMahon last January on Monday Night Raw, but had since teamed with Sylvan Grenier in dark matches.

Conway had been on the main WWE roster since 2000. As a member of the La Resistance tag team, Conway held the WWE Tag Team championships on three occasions. An attempt to package him as a singles star was never really sustained by the company.

From PWInsider

So it's Conway and Scorpio so far.

Wow, he was with the company for 7 years???

Whatever...

Just look at me now
Moved to Velocity
Now it's the unemployment line for me....

Nice.

I liked Conway...this blows...granted I also didnt know that he was still with the company.

I didn't read the thread title right and thought it said Cor Von was gone. Which wouldn't make any sence.

OMG CONWAY WAZ THE BEXT EVARZ WWE SUX HE SHOLD HAV GONE 2 SMACKWODN AN BEN CHAMP CAUS HE RULZ AND HE WILL MAKE TNA THE BEST COMAPNY IN RESLING AND GO 2 HELL VINCE MCMANN

And actually, yeah for a second I also thought we were talking about Cor Von. Thought Conway got fired after he was fired on-camera.

Meh

Only person I remember that ever really happening to was Ron Simmons

Much like Scorpio, this is a lot of wasted talent, so it is stupid on the WWE's behalf of not using it to maximum capacity. This release is a good thing, in my opinion, however.

Rob Conway is not going to have trouble finding employment. He was a top guy in OVW under Jim Cornette, and with Cornette now in TNA, you have to believe that some strings will be pulled, and Conway will eventually find his way into the company.

Conway could also viably go to Ring of Honor. They apparently showed interest in Doug Basham when he was released, so I can't see why they wouldn't go after Conway, who is another great wrestler from OVW's glory days. He'll have some time shedding the WWE association, but after a few great matches, people will probably accept him as the guy with potential, again.

Alienoid, do you just love the flavor of vanilla?

I thought he was realeased a long time ago.

Dammit. This sucks.

He had the potential to go far. And had some good theme music too.

Conway never struck me as Vanilla so much as a guy who was stuck in lame ass gimmick after another.

I do watch the WWE occasionally, yes.

Seriously, Rob Conway may not have lit the world on fire in WWE, but he's a talented guy. He can wrestle, he's capable on the mic. He never really got the chance he deserved in the WWE. I'm not saying he could have been the next Rock, or anything, but he was solid on all counts, and got put in two gimmicks which are re-used over and over again. Playing an evil foreigner (despite not being foreign) and becoming a narcissist is not going to set the world on fire.

Welcome to TNA Buff Bagwell 2.0!

So when do you think he'll show up in TNA?
How long after that do you think he'll get the title?

Conway won't get the title. Within his first year, he'd be lucky if he won their tag titles.

The Dudleys haven't even won the NWA tag titles after almost two years of being there.

They're the current champions...

Love that answer that Alienoid gave in response to BDC's strange ass question.

But while I don't like it (the release, he was constantly on RAW as far as I can remember. Seriously, can't recall them moving him even briefly, so they couldn't just use him on SD or ECW?), makes some sense to just get rid of the people you're not going to use for anything other than retarded gimmicks.

Maybe TNA or ROH will get him and do something with him. Hopefully. He's got the work ethic to work with what a company gives him (he showed that with the WWE), and he certainly got some talent.

Like 80% of the wrestling world. Give him a cookie.

Bobby Lashley is shit on the mic and look where he is.

Which is why I called him vanilla. Now you see how I'm right.

ya we know this. but it did take them almost two years to get them.

True but lashley is huge and we all know mchmahon has a fetish for huge guys.

I see it more as "Now You see how wrong Alienoid is."

The thing is, no matter how standout or generic, Alienoid uses the same 4 or 5 generic bits of praise, none of them really meaningful.

Yeha, he's soilid on the mic and solid in the ring. Him and the majority of people currently cashing a check.

I mean, That works for everyone from Doug and Danny BAsham (And you really don't get much more unspectacular and vanilla) to RVD, Cena, and Taker. God, there's only a few people in WWE who aren't solid. By those standards, which are prety mediocre, almost everyone should be guaranteed a job for life.

Conway would never be ME material, but I think he managed to do quite a bit with a gaytarded gimmick, nd he could probably at least make it to niche status.

Don't blame Conway for Alienoid's shortcomings.

Shut the fuck up.

And don't PM me retarded questions.

Conway was bland. Trust me, no one is going to tune into HeAT and wonder where Conway is. Quite frankly, I hope to never see him again, not that he was so terrible, just that he was so nothing. He could move in the ring, work the stick, and draw decent heat. Whatever, pretty much every pro can. He had next to no charisma, and personally I'm tired of this "He may not be the next Rock, Austin, blah blah blah" crap. If they're not going to amount to something...why keep them on? I'm sure they get pay increases every so often, so if they really won't amount to being a money maker, why keep giving him the pay ups when you could go walk into any indy and find at least one guy who's just as good, willing to do the work for half as much, and who knows, may possibly actually BECOME something. WWE is overflowing with guys who aren't terrible but don't have that special something, and let me tell you something, after a while of beige, it becomes terrible. This isn't to say Conway sucks, just that I'm sick and tired of being force fed random guys who as "not terrible" as they may be, are nothing more than filler to get to the handful of guys who are worth a damn, but up until recently have been stretched apart by 2 companies, one of which has three different brands. Wrestling sucks today because fans have grown tired of putting up with "no terrible" to deal with the 4 or 5 guys per show who are actually "really good."

I didn't like him.

Can't believe he'd been there that long, though looking back, I can.

And yet somehow nobody cares.

The problem is...

Conway was awesome. I'M PISSED NOW.

Finally, TNA has their breakway star.

LOL! You are such a dick. We both made the exact same argument: Conway isn't vanilla. What kind of pussy shit are you pulling?

You're just retarded. What kind of watered down insult is that? There are only so many things you can praise a guy on. Sorry I don't praise a guy in the professional wrestling business for curing cancer.

I'm one of the few guys here who sees the good in talent on every level. For a guy who seems to obsessed with me, studying my posts, working out I only say the same 4 or 5 words of praises for a guy (I still don't understand that, what am I meant to say?), and picking me out for the smallest shit. And don't spin this (like we all know you will). I'm not making this all about me, you're the one who tore into me for having the exact same argument as you.

So what's your fucking point? Are you claiming he's vanilla or not? You're such a fucking dickhead. Pick a side and stick to it. You flip-flop and spin around so much, anyone would think you're AJ Styles. Maybe we should start calling you vanilla?

Conway is above solid. I won't make a list of all the guys he is better than (in my opinion), but my point was that he never got a good chance to utilise his abilities in WWE. He can wrestle better than most of the guys employed by the WWE, so why was he one of the first released? They had nothing for him, true, but that's why I wrote storylines for guys, to prove how fucking easy it is to change that. Having nothing for a guy is not an excuse for not thinking of something.

That was my fucking point, cockface. Now go change your argument again. Once again, you are a dick. You are just as much in disagreement with BDC as I am.

KK Mode: Don't worry, KK only ever uses the same 4 or 5 levels to describe a wrestler's position on the card. You have to take him lightly. I agree with him, but he's the one who's wrong.

Yeah, because I was the guy who came up with the retarded characters for him, booked his matches; told him what he can and can't do to get over, how to act, and ultimately fired him. Fuck, you are so retarded it's not funny. Although, perhaps if I could actually see the real-life consequences of your retardedness, it would be.

Ummm, tardboy, I didn't argue any words that described 90% of wrestlers today, verifying the vanilla statement.

Thanks for once against confirming that you can't read.

Strawman. You're throwing a tantrum because someone called you on empty, generic platitudes.

Nobody said they should be able to cure cancer.

No matter hwo vanilla. I mean, you're not even trying to help your argument. :lol:

Yes. Because I have an attention span and memory, I am clearly obssessed.

:lol:

This is at least a K3 Spazz out.

Generally when arguing that someone is not vanilla, something that isn't, in and of itself, vanilla?

Oh, wait, you don't understand that. Too many hard words for the little baby.

Says the bitch who's whining about an "insult" I didn't make.

OH WAAAA! YOU'RE SPINNING THIS.

Come on. You're so full of shit it's borderline tragic. You always complain I'm "spinning" shit because I don't immediately agree with you.

Guess what? They're different arguments. Mostly because I didn't describe them in vanilla terms. Something, you'll note, I called you on, and was what BDC used to indicate he was right.

:lol:
I don't know what you mean!

This is too complicated for me!

My point was that you described all but a handful of people on the roster with those terms. You're too stupid to see that, because you can't understand that it's possible to actually have more than your linear, tiny mindset or the mindset of the opposition.

In other words, you're stupid. You're calling me a dickhead because my opinion is option 3: I still don't think he's vanilla, but your argument is stupid and applies to EVERYONE. Which in and of itself, is vanilla.

Again, you're too stupid to get it. My opinion hasn't changed. That doesn't mean I can't criticise an argument that I fdind to be retarded.

You complain about flip-flopping because you're too busy getting offended to actually try thinking. You know, critical thinking and reasoning. Heard of them? Probably not. Would have made half your K3 spazz out moot.

But why think critically when you can whine?

Ironic, coming from the retard who had to make up his argument here, by arguing against a strawman.

I mean, it's nice to hide behind that shit, if you're a three year old.

I love the "you're retarded because I've made up off the wall arguments and because I'm flipping out at things I'm too stupid to understand." Yes, Alienoid. You can't understand it, which makes the OTHER guy retarded. You make a strawman, so the other guy is retarded.

Did mommy forget to tie your mittens on today or something? Poor baby.

Ahh, Hell. I forget. When dealing with stupid people, keep your answers short, so they stand a chance of understanding them.

My stance: BDC is wrong. Alienoid is wrong. Alienoid is saying that what I said is what he meant, but he poorly communicated that, and thinks I'm somehow at fault for being able to actually communicate words and feelings. Alienoid's dumb.

Fuck, i wonder how long Alienoids reply will be.

Anyhow, who's next I wonder? Couldn't give a shit about Conway.