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WWE Starrcade Match Planned Last week, WWE announced they’re bringing
back WCW’s most famous pay-per-view name Starrcade for a one-off live show the week
after Survivor Series.
Despite WWE having no plans to broadcast the event on the Network, they’re loading the
card in an effort to boost ticket sales - with both Shinsuke Nakamura vs Jinder Mahal and
Charlotte vs Natalya taking place in a steel cage, and the WWE debut of Booby Roode.
The show is also promoting appearances from WWE Hall of Famers Ricky Steamboat and the
Rock ‘n’ Roll Express [IMAGE]; the latter of whom Karl Anderson reckons are just a couple
of NEEEEERDS!
“We @LukeGallowsWWE , want the Rock N Roll Express at Starcade....
BAG OF DOLLARS EMOJI AND ALL OF THE YEN!”
According to PWInsider, Anderson’s post is more than just a fan-trolling tweet, with
The Club vs The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express officially booked backstage for the show.
Last week an interpromotional dream match was also teased for the event, with the Hardys
fantasy booking themselves against Goldust, Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks on Twitter.
Everyone involved and Smackdown producer Michael Hayes were behind the idea in honour of Cody’s
late father Dusty Rhodes, but Jeff’s recent injury might not be the only spanner in the
works…
Vince McMahon ‘Not Happy’ With Bullet Club
Possibly intrigued by their back-and-forth Starrcade tweets with WWE the previous week,
Cody and The Young Bucks staged a Bullet Club ‘invasion’ outside this week’s Monday
Night Raw, marching up to the Citizen’s Bank Business Arena - megaphone, stretch hummer
and all - where they proceeded to ask for Cody’s last name back, attempted to rescue
former Bullet Club members Finn Balor, Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows, and joked about
WWE’s low ticket sales for their TV shows.
It was a homage to WWE’s own invasion of WCW back in 1998, where DX turned up outside
an episode of Nitro in a tank [IMAGE].
But, unsurprisingly, the WWE Chairman didn’t appreciate the irony - with Bryan Alvarez
revealing on Wrestling Observer Live: “Vince [McMahon] did not find it funny at all.”
You could almost say, Vince didn’t find the whole Bullet Club Raw invasion ‘too
sweet’.
WWE Sends Young Bucks Cease & Desist In a running gag about WWE not letting Cody
use the last name ‘Rhodes’ outside the company, the Bucks have joked for months that
they’ve also been pressured to stop using the DX ‘suck it’ taunt, Marty Scurll can’t
carry an umbrella because Jack Gallagher has one on 205 Live, and that they’re also not
allowed to use the ‘too sweet’ hand gesture that’s been part of their act for years,
in homage to the nWo.
As any wrestler who’s done a breakup story with their wife on TV would tell you, sometimes
life imitates art.
Pro Wrestling Sheet are reporting that just one day after the Bullet Club ‘invasion’
of Raw, WWE sent the Young Bucks an actual cease and desist letter over the ‘Too Sweet’
hand gesture.
Yes, that’s right.
WWE are trying to take away our hands!
WWE claim to own the ‘Too Sweet’ copyright - presumably from their 2001 acquisition of
WCW - and have demanded the Bucks stop using the gesture in other companies and on their
merchandise.
WWE want a written agreement from Matt and Nick Jackson saying they won’t use WWE intellectual
property again in the future, or else, “they may be hit with $150K in damages or more”.
The Bucks confirmed this themselves in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session last night, writing:
“24 hrs after the #BCInvasion, we (Nick & I) received a certain type of letter.
Yes.
They are trying to do just that” The Bucks have reportedly consulted with a
lawyer on what to do next.
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