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Originally Posted by Observer Apparently Santino Marella's neck is so bad that he will have to undergo fusion surgery at some point. Santino has been promoting his own wrestling shows at his BattleArts school in Canada. Santino wants the shows to be like the BattleArts promotion in Japan, which is shoot style but worked, with a more realistic in-ring style and more focus on submissions.

The Miz is now doing a heel gimmick where he's trying to protect his face and calls it his money maker. According to Wrestling Observer, Miz has apparently been watching Andy Kaufman tapes for inspiration.

Originally Posted by F4W WWE has loaded up the August 16th WWE live event from San Jose with Ric Flair & Hulk Hogan as hosts, John Cena vs. Kane in a Street Fight, Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton, Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose and Chris Jericho vs. Bray Wyatt with Flair as referee. The show is being loaded up because it will also be the kickoff to WrestleMania 31 ticket sales

Originally Posted by PWI Ric Flair was originally scheduled to be at Tuesday's WWE SmackDown tapings in Fayetteville, North Carolina but the show was re-written on Tuesday morning and he wasn't brought in. WWE's original plans for Flair had him being used on TV every week but that may not be the case now. Flair has signed a new deal and will be popping up on TV semi-regularly going into SummerSlam, possibly beyond. We noted yesterday that it appeared on Monday's RAW that creative has nothing solid for him yet

Originally Posted by PWI WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Steamboat has reportedly been let go from the company due to budget cuts. Steamboat had worked as a coach in NXT and apparently was working at the WWE offices in Talent Relations under Triple H recently. Steamboat will be doing several conventions and non-WWE interview DVD's in the coming months, which is usually a sign that you're no longer under contract to the company. Steamboat was doing promotional work for WWE in Malaysia this past May

Eva Marie had a very rough night at the WWE NXT tapings from Full Sail University on Thursday night. She was given heat by the crowd from the moment she made her entrance and one fan commented that they "murdered her." She made it worse by putting on a bad performance in her match against Bayley. One fan noted that they "despised her" and "first we had X-Pac Heat and now we have Eva Marie Heat."

Was being claimed that the booing and hostility shown was around 2-3x the level of the ending to this year's Rumble.

Originally Posted by PWI Up until a few days ago, WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena was still being advertised for this Monday's post-Battleground RAW from Miami but he has been pulled from the listings. Cena will not be there as he has to be on the set of the Trainwreck movie that he is appearing in. This could be seen as a sign that Cena will drop the title at Battleground on Sunday. While it has not been confirmed or even rumored that is the plan, there are a lot of people who feel it's time to "pull the trigger" on Roman Reigns and give him the title on Sunday. With Brock Lesnar scheduled to return on Monday's RAW, it will be interesting to see how they use him with Cena gone.

TNA talents have been told to expect an announcement regarding the company's TV future at the New York City tapings during the first week of August.