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Originally Posted by Observer Big Show is set to take some time off as a regular television character for a while. He is currently filming the WWE Studios film "Vendetta." Since he was earmarked for it, the company chose not to use him much as of late, as to not get him involved in any key story lines that they couldn't fully pay off.

Originally Posted by PWI We noted before that WWE will not be holding a SummerSlam Axxess event this year. Fans who purchased the SummerSlam travel packages a while back will receive a pre-PPV VIP event as well as breakfast with WWE talents in place of the canceled Axxess event.

Originally Posted by Observer As things stand right now, WWE is running with the mindset that Daniel Bryan will not be ready in time for their Battleground pay-per-view, which takes place on July 20th in Tampa, Florida. The current working plan is for Bryan to return at SummerSlam in one of the main events, although it's unlikely that he'll be working against Brock Lesnar in the title match on the show, which was originally the plan. In fact, WWE isn't even sure Bryan will be available in time for SummerSlam. They do, however, expect him back in time for the Night Of Champions pay-per-view, which takes place on September 21st in Nashville, Tennessee. It is believed that Bryan will work a stipulation match with Kane upon his return, as from a story line standpoint, he's the guy who put Bryan on the shelf.

Originally Posted by Observer WWE's website points out that Triple H hasn't revealed who else will be in the second Money In the Bank ladder match but intimated in his recent Michael Cole interview that the other participants will not necessarily need to qualify for a spot. The Wrestling Observer reports that the match should be finalized on Monday's RAW from Washington, DC. The match wasn't announced on Monday's RAW because they had the battle royal and apparently a lot of the battle royal participants are in the ladder match. Dean Ambrose is expected to be in the match as well.

Originally Posted by Observer As noted, Vince McMahon recently cut RAW head writer Jay Gibson. This release was not believed to have been budgetary like the other releases. Even though WWE cut their head writer, it's not as significant as it sounds and there likely won't be a major change in TV direction. The Wrestling Observer noted that Gibson had been with WWE for about 5 months and basically organized writers to work on different angles and different Superstars, as opposed to actually writing himself. It was said that Gibson had very little knowledge of the WWE product and that was made apparent when he was asked his opinion on some things.

Originally Posted by Observer Regarding Aksana's WWE departure, The Wrestling Observer reports that she had been a favorite of Kevin Dunn's, but no longer was and didn't have much support backstage. With more Divas being called up from NXT soon, most notably Charlotte and Sasha Banks, they made the decision to cut her. It's said that Rosa Mendes was saved when Total Divas producers wanted her on the show.

It’s been reported how Vince McMahon has been down on some of the newer WWE characters, including WWE Divas Champion Paige. Coming out of this week’s RAW, it was said that Vince is growing wary of Paige and continues to be losing interest in someone he was high on at one point, at least. It’s said there was a similar situation with Emma.

Brian Myers, 29, trained with the current Zack Ryder after being trained together by Mikey Whipwreck. They were signed together in early 2006 as The Majors Brothers, with Myers and Brian and Ryder as Brett. They were brought up in 2007 as The Major Brothers, dropping the s, as part of a group headed by Edge as the Edge Heads. They were doing well until one day at a meeting, Vince McMahon found out that they weren’t brothers, and, as crazy as this sounds, said that if they weren’t brothers, why are we pretending they are. So they stopped being brothers and became Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder.

To start off with, the average salary of a WWE production/backstage crew member is anywhere between $40,000 and $75,000 a year. (Obviously this can change on depending on the contract and position and individual.) The crew member will spend around 300 days a year out on the road touring from city to city working on the TV shows, house shows, and PPV's as well as anything else in between. (This does not include the current iteration of NXT, as that is an entirely different production) ... Up until now, the WWE has paid for all travel expenses for the crew, including providing buses and airfare as well as hotel accommodations when needed. Now, due to budget cuts, these travel expenses have been removed and the crew is now responsible for their own travel. This is a major problem for 2 major reasons. The amount of traveling done by WWE is massive. If your paying your employee to travel all over the country nearly everyday, but now are expecting them to pay for that travel, it's going to cost the employee a very large sum of money, effectively it could cut thir yearly salary in half just on traveling alone, making working for the company seemingly pointless financially. The physical and mental toll that touring has on someone is exhausting. The normal day to day workload of a WWE crew member is intense and physical, causing very long days and nights. Yes, wrestlers normally carpool or drive themselves to the show, but at tapings and raw there not expected to be there until 1pm on a showday. The crew is there 8am. Most nights the load out of the show won't finish until 3am, sometimes later. If your being expected to work this schedule AND drive and take care of your own travel expenses year round, your going to be in a very unhealthy and potentially dangerous situation and work enviorment.

WWE likely going to face some serious problems with their production crew after the latest rounds of budget cuts. According to this person, WWE is likely going to face a mass exodus, a huge strike, or both occurring in the near future as a result.
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