John Cena Is One Angry Bird in WWE Superstar Slingshot

Angry Birds is a huge hit and Rovio has spun off a series of sequels. And then, you’ve got the knockoffs like Angry Turds. Well, there doesn’t much more turd-slinging than in the square circle of professional wrestling, so we somehow find ourselves looking at WWE Superstar Slingshot for the iPhone.

The app, as you can imagine, is pretty much Angry Birds, except the birds and pigs have been replaced with guys in tights. Developer Genera Interactive have included ten superstars from the WWE to feature in the game: Big Show, Edge, John Cena, Kane, Kofi Kingston, Randy Orton, Rey Mysterio, The Miz, Triple H and Undertaker.

There are 15 levels and 135 matches in all, including several that are named after popular WWE properties and pay-per-views. You can go to the Royal Rumble, for example, or participate in the Hell in a Cell. At least, that’s supposed to be the appeal.

But really, it’s Angry Birds with sweaty guys. Pick it up in the App Store for $1.99 if you really can’t wait for yet another Rovio stage pack.

source: mobilemag.com

WWE and ER Parody on Cartoon Network

WWE Top 25 Matches of 2010

#20 Elimination Chamber with Triple H, John Cena, Sheamus, Ted DiBiase, Kofi Kingston & Randy Orton. Click here for the full list.

King of the Ring Participants

John Morrison, Daniel Bryan, Ezekiel Jackson, Sheamus, Kofi Kingston, Cody Rhodes, Alberto Del Rio & Drew McIntyre

Kofi Kingston on ABC News in Baltimore

Q&A with Kofi Kingston

2010 WWE Draft Results

Kelly Kelly to SmackDown

Big Show to SmackDown

John Morrison to Raw

R-Truth to Raw

Edge to Raw

Kofi Kingston to SmackDown

Christian to SmackDown

Chris Jericho to Raw

Before They Were Stars

WWE Press Conference Talking WrestleMania 26

Just hours before WrestleMania 26, WWE held a press conference where several superstars discussed today's big event. Here is what Triple H had to say:

On how excited he gets at WrestleMania after being in so many over the years: "If you walk out into a stadium this big and 70,000 people stand up and scream and you don't get excited, something is wrong with you. To me, it's no different to me than the first time I walked through that curtain at WrestleMania. It's what you work for. We do what we do for the excitement of the WWE fans and the WWE Universe and when you can jam 70,000 of them into a stadium like this and have them go crazy, that's what we do it for."

On his thoughts of Sheamus: "What stand out to me about his from a behind the scenes standpoint is he is passionate about what he does. When I see a young guy that really wants to know and he's just tirelessly watching his performances over and over again to get better and asking everybody he considers to be better than him what he can do more. He's just a 24/7, I want to get better kind of guy and that impresses me. And there's a few guys like that. Miz is a guy like that. Kofi Kingston is a guy like that. There's a few guys like that we have coming up and to me that's the exciting thing for the future of the WWE is guys like that that have that passion."

Click here for the full recap.

source: fanhouse.com

WWE Stars List Beatles Favorites

WrestleMania goes head-to-head with Beatlemania tonight in Glendale, with the legendary Paul McCartney blowing the dust off any number of his favorite moments with the act you've known for all these years at Jobing.com Arena, while across the way, large men in tights will engage in heated battle scenes.

To mark this coincidence, the WWE Superstars told us their favorite Beatles songs. Here's what they had to say:

Chris Jericho: "The Beatles are my favorite band of all time. I will be going to the McCartney show after WrestleMania!" Favorite song: "I Want You (She's so Heavy)."

John Cena: "Come Together."

Shawn Michaels: "Let It Be."

Randy Orton: "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Edge: "A Day in the Life." "To me," he says, "they're singing a movie, and it's a point/counterpoint between Lennon and McCartney. They both have a character in the song."

Cody Rhodes: "Back in the U.S.S.R."

Sheamus: "Hey Jude." "It's been my favorite song since I was a kid," he says...More?

Money in the Bank Ladder Match

With his victory over Carlito on the Feb. 22 edition of Raw, new Raw Superstar Christian became the first man to qualify for this year's Money in the Bank Ladder Match.

On the Feb. 26 edition of SmackDown, Dolph Ziggler, Kane and Shelton Benjamin all qualified to join Christian on The Grandest Stage of Them All.

On the Mar. 1 edition of Raw, Jack Swagger and MVP qualified for the bout.

Matt Hardy will return to WrestleMania’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match for the third time, thanks to his qualification on the Mar. 5 edition of SmackDown.

Earning the eighth spot, Evan Bourne defeated William Regal on the Mar. 8 edition of Raw.

On the Mar. 12 edition of SmackDown, McIntyre finally qualified for The Grandest Stage of Them All by defeating a local athlete, who The Chairman himself hand-picked.

Lastly, just six days before WrestleMania XXVI, Kofi Kingston won a hard-fought battle against Vladimir Kozlov to earn the tenth and final spot in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match...More?

source: wwe.com

Raw Preview: Raw is Springer

Tonight's WWE RAW will take place from the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa with Jerry Springer as the guest host. Tonight's matches will see Elimination Chamber participants face off with Kofi Kingston vs. Ted DiBiase, Sheamus vs. Randy Orton and Triple H vs. John Cena.

Preview: WWE Championship Elimination Chamber Match

On Raw, WWE Champion Sheamus saw John Cena, Triple H, Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase and Kofi Kingston all win qualifying matches for the opportunity to walk out of the Chamber holding The Celtic Warrior’s title.

Big Show Warns Young Stars: "They Have to Earn It"

There was much criticism through 2009 that the WWE's headliners were the same old faces such as Show, his tag team partner Chris Jericho, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Undertaker, John Cena and Randy Orton.

Things have changed recently with newer stars like Scot Drew McIntyre and Kofi Kingston getting a push and Irish wrestler Sheamus even winning the company's world title from Cena.

But nobody has yet challenged 37-year-old Show's spot as the company's top big man — and he says it will stay that way until someone "steps up" to earn it:

"I want to let you know flat out there's not anybody good enough to take my position. And I'm certainly not going to give my position up just because I've been on top for a while, and nor would anyone else. If there's another giant that can walk in and take my position, then good for him. He can run with it and I'll retire. Until then I'm going to work on top as long as I can, make as much money as I can and entertain the fans as much as I can. It's up to the younger generation to come to the locker room, step up and be leaders. Every one of us who is on top right now has had to fight and dig and bend to the penthouse and bend to the outhouse as far as booking and positioning goes. I'm not just going to lay down because somebody new comes in — they're going to have to earn it."

Big Show refuses to blame Vince McMahon for failing to push the newer talent and instead says it's all about not enough guys having the right work ethic...More?

source: the sun

Sheamus Sits at the Top Table

You wait years for a Brit or Irishman to win a championship in the WWE — and then two come along at once.

Sheamus made history at last night's Tables, Ladders and Chairs pay-per-view by becoming the first ever person from the UK or Ireland to win the company's world title. He did something that not even Davey Boy Smith, Fit Finlay or William Regal could achieve.

And the TLC initials of the event had a double meaning, also standing for Three Lost Championships, as Scot Drew McIntyre won the intercontinental strap and Triple H and Shawn Michaels picked up the unified tag belts...More?

source: the sun

WWE Bloggers: Calm Down

Whether you like it or not, John Cena draws money and crowds. Hulk Hogan drew money and crowds. Triple H draws money and crowds. They are in those spots because they are the people the audience wants to see.

If there are no people paying no money, there will be no show, which then means no Kofi Kingston, or CM Punk, or Randy Orton, or any one of a number of other superstars who I consider to be great enough to make me willing to tolerate John Cena, thus proving that "backstage politicians" serve a purpose as well.

At the end of the day, it's McMahon's call, and it's McMahon's business. He's not going to put a jobber into a permanent main-event slot simply because he knows a friend. But, McMahon might be willing to give that jobber a shot at proving that he is more than just a jobber. The jobber simply has to be willing to go out on a limb and take a chance, and be willing to possibly fail in order to prove he can succeed.

Wrestling bloggers need to calm down. McMahon isn't always right, but he is right way more often than he is wrong.

Step back, calm thyself, and take a rational look at the situation. Then, if that fails, realize that you're sitting in your boxers writing words for an audience that is, at best, 1/1000th the size of Raw's viewership, and that McMahon will be swimming tonight in a pool of self-earned $100 bills, a la Scrooge McDuck.

I think Vince has everything under control.

source: bleacherreport.com

WWE Magazine Feature of the Week: Tomorrow's Champions

"WWE Magazine’s" all-new Holiday Issue heralds the arrival of today’s most talented young guns in WWE. But who, aside from themselves, do they think will be the first among them to reach mega-Superstardom? Click here.

Rumor Mill - Details Behind Why WWE is Pushing New Talent

The Wrestling Observer is reporting that the reason why Kofi Kingston is getting such a big push right now is because WWE officials feel that the company needs an African-American baby face towards the top of the card. After several other talents that were selected for the spot didn't work out the way the company had hoped, the decision was made to give Kingston the big push.

It's also being reported that Jack Swagger's push has been slowed down, and possibly even halted, as WWE officials feel that he is not panning out the way the company had hoped.

As far as Sheamus and Drew McIntyre are concerned, they are getting their respective pushes right now because Sheamus is the work out partner of Triple H, and McIntyre is well liked by both Triple H and Shawn Michaels.

Raw Review - Love the Old-School Feel

For old-school fans like myself, last night's Raw was one for the books. Starting with the minimalist set. I sincerely hope they bring that back. While I do like the epic entrances of Triple H and The Undetaker, The scaled down version seemd to fit last night.

The video package that was put together about the WWE/Madison Square Garden history was fantastic.

Other than DX hawkng their wares and the botched Roddy Piper/Vince McMahon promo, there weren't a lot of skits. It was match after match - I prefer it that way.

The street fight between Kofi Kingston and Randy Orton is definetly a match of the year candidate. It's good to see younger stars like Kofi and Sheamus getting a push. Let's hope this is a turning point in WWE.

Kofi Kingston Explains Why He Lost the Accent

"I was actually born in Ghana, West Africa," Kingston said. "As far as the whole Jamaican thing is actually concerned, growing up I actually loved everything about Jamaica. I loved the food, the culture, the laid-back attitude. When I came to the WWE initially I wanted to come out to something that attributed both my love for wrestling and the Jamaican heritage."

"I wanted to come out to something unique and something people had never seen before. But at a certain point it becomes about being real and true to yourself, as opposed to playing a character. You look at guys like Triple H. When he first started out he was Hunter Hearst Helmsley and before that he was Terra Ryzing - I don't know if a lot of people know that."

"Stone Cold Steve Austin was Stunning Steve Austin before he became Stone Cold. The Rock was Rocky Maivia before he became The Rock. Shawn Michaels was a Rocker before he became the Heartbreak Kid. I think in wrestling and the WWE you see a trend of guys who make transitions. And I think for me I'm in that transition stage into coming into my own."...More?

source: skysports.com

He's not sure if people know that Triple H used to be called Terra Ryzing?...Wow!