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TNA'S CURIOUS BOOKING, MCINTYRE SLIDES DOWN, ROODE-STORM STRIKE BACK AGAINST THE EMPIRE, SAVINOVICH LEAVES WWE AND MORE 

By Dave Scherer on 2011-10-25 09:58:00
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Do you know what happened to longtime WWE Spanish broadcaster Hugo Savinovich? I noticed he hasn’t been there since Money in the Bank. There is someone else in his place. Is he no longer with WWE?

He announced last week that he was released by the company.  He said that he doesn't have any hard feelings.

Okay, just saw the spoiler report for TNA this Thursday, and what the hell!? They decide that instead of putting the title on Roode, who has had good promos, and been pushed as a singles wrestler for a little while now, they put it on Storm, who has not really had a singles push at all recently. Do you see a major problem with this, and how badly do you think of creative now?

I do see a major problem with it.  They did a great job of pushing Roode, only to do a 180 at the last minute, largely because of Hulk Hogan's input.  At that point, even if the whole company had soured on Roode, they had put the plan in motion and they should have gone through with it and saw what happened.  Instead, they swerve us.  

I'm wondering whose proverbial corn flakes Drew McIntyre proverbially pissed in. He started off strong enough back in 2009 into the beginning of 2010, then it seemed like he just dropped off the face of the earth. I know he was in the doghouse for a while after the domestic incident with his wife, but that was summer of LAST YEAR. Is this a situation where the company doesn't have any faith in him after that incident, or is it just the "creative has nothing for him" card being played? Either way, it's a HUGE waste of talent to keep him off TV.

He lost a lot of stock in the company when the situation with Tiffany happened at SummerSlam last year.  Unless you are a top, top guy WWE holds a grudge when they are embarrassed by talents.

I apologize in advance for the nerdy analogy. It's the Bobby Roode as Harry Potter analogy. Imagine that for 7 movies Harry Potter is slowly built up as the last hope to defeat the evil Voldemort. While the final film is in production, an exec at Warner Brother said in an interview that he thought Harry's buddy Ron was the more charismatic of the two and should have been the hero. He gets ridiculed, his ego is bruised to he demands the film ge changed. So Harry dies in the climactic battle and his buddy Ron kills Voldemort during the final credits. That's just bad storytelling. So my question is would a Star Wars analogy have been more or less nerdy?

Given that Han Solo was actually more of a stud than Puke Skywalker, I think Star Wars would have been a better analogy since you could make the case that Storm is Solo to Roode's Skywalker.

What did The Rock say to Steve Austin in the ring right after the third Rock Bottom and his win at WM 19?

"You have toilet paper on your boot!"

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