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Headline: Vince McMahon Congratulates Kane
Kane has had a lot of ups and downs in his career, which were detailed in a tell-all
book, but he’s now got a new string to his demonic bow.
Hell, fire and politics took over Tennessee last week when Kane - under his real name
Glen Jacobs, of course - was elected The Big Red Mayor of Knox County.
He may be the devil’s favourite son, but a new interview with Sports Illustrated may
suggest that he’s Vince McMahon’s favourite politician.
Well, second favourite.
“He reached out to extend his congratulations.
Vince wants all of us to do well, no matter what we’re doing, because it reflects well
on the company.
On a personal level, between me and him, it’s important to me that he is proud of me.
He’s done so much for me and for my family.
He sent me a text that got me all choked up.”
In quite a sweet little detail, Sports Illustrated note that Jacobs had to compose himself while
saying that.
Which is quite lovely, really.
Maybe we’ve had this Katie Vick murderer wrong all this time.
Headline: Matt Hardy Retirement Update
Speaking of possibly being wrong, and last week Woken Matt Hardy sent out this cryptic
tweet that seemed to possibly be teasing a retirement.
“To all that supported me in the independents & OMEGA.
To the fans of Team Xtreme.
To the Mattitude Followers.
To the OUTSPOKEN fans who brought me back in 2005.
To the people who backed me when I was REINCARNATED in pro wrestling.
To the #WOKEN Warriors.
THANK YOU.”
While many used their jump to conclusion mat to assume this was Matt hanging up his wrestling
boots, there appears to be another reason.
Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer reported that Hardy is in fact injured, and his tweets
were to let his fans know that he won’t be wrestling forever.
Meltzer wrote, “He is in pain, not terrible pain and will be undergoing new rehab treatment
that he hopes will help.
Everything as far as what he's doing is being played by ear.”
Hardy himself tweeted a gif of him and his brother Jeff doing their top rope leg drop
and splash combo saying, “This maneuver was called EVENT OMEGA.
And is most likely the reason that I’ve recently learned that my lower back & pelvis
have started fusing together.”
You could say that Matt is BROK.. although it’s actually fused, so it’s not really
broken.
Yeah, that joke doesn’t really work.
Shall we just move on.
Headline: NXT Moving To Fox Sports?
Dave Meltzer is also reporting in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter that there has
been a lot of talk within Fox about their upcoming WWE programming.
The two companies signed a multi-billion dollar deal a couple of months ago, which will see
Smackdown move from USA Network to Fox on October 19th 2019.
But as been previously noted by various journalists, while Fox have gained Smackdown, they’ve
lost a large number of hours from UFC.
Not only just the live fight nights, but their hype shows, pre and post shows and the hours
of replays.
This is why there has been a lot of rumours of WWE moving NXT off the WWE Network and
putting it on FS1 or FS2.
Meltzer notes, however, “Those involved in the process told us it wouldn’t be happening.
WWE is interested in keeping [NXT] as exclusive network property.”.
He does also add though that moving NXT to Fox will increase its brand awareness, which
will in turn help live event ticket sales and merchandise - and it’s more programing
WWE can sell to Fox.
What has reportedly been more concretely discussed is the idea of doing pre and post shows for
every episode of Smackdown on their new Friday time slot.
Meltzer and Richard Deitsch of The Athletic - I apologise if I mispronounced that name
- also report that there has been the idea of doing a studio show similar to UFC Tonight
which could air on Wednesdays.
The possible downside for this though is that FS1 and shows like UFC Tonight are supposed
to be rooted in real journalism - real enough for Fox anyway - and UFC Tonight would report
on fighter pay and current lawsuits, which WWE aren’t likely going to do.
Deitsch is also reporting that on-air talent would be hired by Fox rather than WWE, but
there likely would be some kind of approval from Vince McMahon and co.
Meltzer concludes, “Those at FOX have said there are no announcements planned right now
regarding any new programming and those involved in those deals have said the original FOX
deal as far as in-ring wrestling programming goes only involved Smackdown and there was
no talk of any other wrestling.”
Headline: CGW Welcomes…
Chris P Bacon!
And our resident Crap Gimmick Wrestling artist Lewis Tillett has drawn up the new trading
card for signee Chris P Bacon.
You can find the other trading cards for CGW’s roster over on instagram.com/lewistillettart.
Oli and I give our thoughts on the second episode of WOS Wrestling, which you can check
out by clicking the video on screen right now.
I’ve been Luke Owen and that was wrestling.