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Former WWE creative writer Kevin Eck revealed in a new blog that Justin Bieber wanted to wrestle at WWE SummerSlam in 2014, teaming with John Cena and Big Show to face The Wyatt Family. Eck's full blog can be read at this link on his website.
Eck wrote the following about the idea:
The proposed match was discussed among the booking team (which I was on) about five months before SummerSlam, but a deal with Bieber never came to fruition. I'm not sure how close it was to actually happening.
My concern at the time was that Cena teaming up with Bieber -- who was making headlines for all the wrong reasons and most definitely would have been booed unmercifully by the WWE audience -- would not have done Cena, the face of the company, any favors. To address that concern, the creative suggestion was that Cena would become increasingly annoyed by Bieber in the weeks leading up to the match, but Big Show, who would be portrayed as Bieber's friend, would repeatedly play peacemaker.
After the babyfaces went over in the match, Bieber would be so obnoxious in trying to take credit for the win that Cena would hit the Attitude Adjustment on him for a big pop. Another point that was raised when discussing the potential match was whether it would have been a bad PR move for WWE to do business with Bieber. The feeling from the powers that be was that if Mayweather liked him, then Bieber must be OK.
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http://kevineckwrestling.sportsblog....ssibility.html
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TNA will be sending TNA Superstars Matt Hardy, Mr. Anderson and Drew Galloway to compete in AAA’s Lucha World Cup event. The event will take place on May 24 in Mexico. Top athletes from all over the world will be representing their home countries. Matt Hardy and Mr. Anderson will be representing the USA and AAA will be announcing which team Drew Galloway will be fighting for very soon.
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Former WWE Superstar JTG will be releasing his first book tomorrow. The book is titled, "Damn! Why Did I Write This Book?" and will feature backstage stories from his time in OVW and WWE.
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Originally Posted by F4W
Raw last night averaged 3.57 million viewers over the three hours, which, just barely, is the lowest viewing audience for a non-holiday or football season episode of the show since 1997.
The rating isn't out yet, but the low mark would be May 26, 2014, which did a 2.62 rating.
The NBA playoffs look to be the culprit, doing 4.59 million viewers for the early game and 4.66 million viewers for the late game.
It also follows the pattern that the weeks Stephanie McMahon and HHH aren't on, the ratings tumble. The good thing is they maintained what audience they had better than in previous weeks, so you can just imagine how bad it would have been if the show was bad.
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Supposedly the rating ended up being in the 2.5 range although the viewership drop (180k) was less than last week and the third hour (10pm) wasn't the typical weakest hour. Whole year is still on pace to reach 1997 and/or mid-90s level of bad.
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We could be in for another Kane push after all. Coming out of last week’s RAW, Vince McMahon was more interested in a Kane vs. Roman Reigns feud as he felt Kane was getting over and wanted to keep developing the character.
This is part of the reason why Kane vs. Reigns was nixed from Payback and Reigns was put into the WWE World Heavyweight Title Match with Randy Orton and Seth Rollins.
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A report surfaced on Reddit following Monday's WWE Raw from Montreal which speculated that WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, 69 is going blind. The fan said he witnessed McMahon struggling to get in and out of the ring without assistance.
On his way to the ring he was guided by crew and torch lights to point him in the right direction. WWE sources are indicating that McMahon is in good health and his eyesight is not a concern.
He wears glasses backstage and the fact he didn't wear them to them to ring may have caused him some difficultly seeing the path in front of him.
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Original source of the rumor:
http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircl...is_going_blind
Gif going around as evidence towards the blind claims:
http://giant.gfycat.com/JointFailingAmericantoad.gif
Some other sheet news include:
- ESPN E:30 special about NXT is showing at around 8PM EST tonight.
- In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, on this date 13 years ago the WWF officially changed their name to the WWE (courtesy r/SquaredCircle).