Ringside Review: WWE facing a ‘talent turmoil’
The WWE is faced with a so-called “talent turmoil,” that will force a lottery on “Raw” on Monday night.
The “talent turmoil” was started a few weeks ago, but now must be fixed. Sunday night after WrestleMania XX, WWE.com reported that “Brock Lesnar has made a personal decision to put his WWE career on hold to prepare to try out for the national football league this season. Brock has wrestled his entire professional career in the WWE, and we are proud of his accomplishments and wish him the best in his new endeavor.”
Lesnar told people that he was miserable in the business and burned out by the WWE’s hectic travel schedule. He thanked Vince McMahon, Jim Ross, Gerry Brisco, Big Show and Paul Heyman for their help with his career, and said he would return.
• Kurt Angle will miss more WWE TV and house shows, as the former gold medalist is experiencing numbness in his fingers, a symptom he suffered last year when it was discovered that he would require neck surgery.
He has already been pulled off of this week’s tour of the United Kingdom.
• Adding to the WWE’s problems, Goldberg has not re-signed. His contract runs out March 31. Triple H will leave soon to start to film a movie, and The Rock is not coming back until the end of the year.
The best news the WWE has is that The Undertaker is back and Edge will be back next week.
• All the storylines ended with WrestleMania. Does anyone even know the issue between Big Show and John Cena? Orton pinned Foley, and there may be one good story coming out of WrestleMania, that of Chris Jericho and Christian.
• The whole “talent turmoil” is really a convenient excuse to cover up the true problem — a lack of creative ideas, and an inability to sustain a decent storyline from the top to the bottom of the card.
• “Brad about You” in The Tennessean had a story on The Rock in Thursday’s paper. The lead story said strange, but true: The Rock loves country music.
Brad Schmitt got to hang out at the Hermitage Hotel Monday night with Rock, and saw a guitar case on the floor. Turns out The Rock can play, and he likes the music of Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell.
Dwayne Johnson, aka Rock, went to school his sophomore year at Nashville’s McGavock and Glencliff High Schools. He says Willie Nelson is his best bud, and he owns one of only 100 guitars that the Martin Guitar Company designed for Willie.
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