World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus vs. Dolph Ziggler
Winner: Sheamus (c)
United States Champion Santino Marella vs. Ricardo Rodriguez – Tuxedo Match
Winner: Santino Marella (c)
Intercontinental Champion Christian vs. Cody Rhodes
Winner: Christian (c)
Epico & Primo vs. Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel vs. Darren Young & Titus O'Neil vs. The Usos
Winners: Darren Young & Titus O'Neil
Triple H addresses his issues with Brock Lesnar and challenges him to a match at SummerSlam.
Divas Champion Layla vs. Beth Phoenix
Winner: Layla (c)
Hunico vs. Sin Cara
Winner: Sin Cara
WWE Champion CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Kane – Triple Threat Match
Winner: CM Punk
Ryback squashes two local jobbers.
John Cena vs. Big Show – Steel Cage Match
Winner: John Cena
June 17, 2012
WWE No Way Out PPV Results
Rumor Mill - NXT To Take FCW's Old Time Slot?
There have been talks that the new NXT program will take over FCW's former TV time slot on The Brighthouse Network.
Rumor Mill - Early Creative Plans For Triple H vs Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam
According to F4WOnline.com, early WWE creative plans, which can always change, are indeed calling for Triple H to face Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam this year, despite the rocky relationship between Lesnar and WWE.
At this point, the match being discussed would see Vince McMahon in Triple H's corner, and John Laurinaitis in Brock Lesnar's corner. This scenario would involve Cena winning tonight at No Way Out, then McMahon firing Laurinaitis, which would then see the Board of Directors support Laurinaitis and he would return, along with Lesnar as his enforcer, to take out Triple H.
Heath Slater Speaks on Wrestling Vader and His WWE Future
WWE wrestler Heath Slater joined Washington Redskins defensive end Adam Carriker and Chuck Carroll on this week's "4th & Pain" -- the only pro wrestling show hosted by an NFL player. It was Carriker's first time being on the other side of an interview and actually ASKING the questions.
Slater talked a lot about facing Vader on last Monday's RAW. Like Carroll, he was scared of Vader growing up. That big smoke-shooting helmet he'd wear to the ring was frightening. He also talked about his goals for the second half of 2012 and how he's able to keep his name out in the WWE Universe when he's not necessarily getting as much TV time as he'd hope for.
The full interview with Slater can be heard http://4thandpain.com/2012/06/4th-pain-wwe-superstar-heath-slater-interview-aj-is-crazy-vince-and-vader-are-back-wwe-no-way-out-picks-and-redskins-news/">here.
June 16, 2012
This Day in Wrestling History
At WCW's Great American Bash in Baltimore, MD, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash attacked Eric Bischoff. Nash powerbombed him off the stage.
June 16, 1996
June 15, 2012
The Next Raw Guest Star Is...
From WWE's Twitter Account:
Girls just wanna have fun ... on #Raw! Grammy-winning artist Cyndi Lauper guest stars on Monday's @WWE #Raw #SuperShow!
Cyndi Lauper had a run with the WWE in the mid-80's with Wendi Richter. She also was a celebrity at the first WrestleMania.
A Brief History of Wrestling Fakery
Ah, the Reality Era. It was almost one year ago that CM Punk sat cross-legged on the mat and delivered the most memorable, scathing promo in recent wrestling history. He launched WWE into a spiral of reality-based story lines that include, but are not limited to, the following: Triple H publicly embracing his front-office role; Trip's real-life buddy Kevin Nash limping into various story lines; John Cena questioning his role as WWE messiah; The Miz and R-Truth becoming vigilante cheap-shot artists in search of TV time; the entire WWE locker room staging a walkout to protest unsafe working conditions; and, at various times, Triple H and WWE chairman Vince McMahon being relieved of various duties, thus ushering in the unintentionally hilarious reign of current general manager John Laurinaitis.
Since then, despite the vague feeling that we were still in a new era, reality wasn't really an organizing principle. Punk became ingrained as the WWE champion, which made it all but impossible for him to operate as a subversive force; his beefs with Chris Jericho and, more recently, Daniel Bryan, touch on real life but mostly exist within WWE's alternate universe. Cena, for his part, has had his dance card filled with Kane and The Rock and Brock Lesnar, a sort of evolutionary spectrum of the Reality movement — from a cartoon villain to an action movie star to an actual UFC heavyweight champ — but even so, Cena's shtick remains couched in the old-school superheroics of a bygone era.
Not that there's anything wrong with this. Wrestling — even in the Reality Era — will never be reality, nor should it be. Since the earliest days of pro wrestling, the sport's otherworldliness has been its calling card. And since the first moment that it was exposed to be a "fake" sport, the industry has adapted and thrived.
Rumor Mill - Triple H Against WWE Utilizing Mick Foley On Television
Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer was asked by a reader during his radio show (available here) why WWE has not utilized Mick Foley on television more frequently since his return to the organization last November. He said this is due to wrestler/executive Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque’s lobbying, who is resentful of “The Hardcore Legend.”
Meltzer reports Levesque deprecates Foley whenever his name is broached in creative meetings. While Brian Gewirtz, WWE’s Senior Vice President of Creative Writing, feels Foley is creative and a good performer, Levesque thinks otherwise. He says Foley ‘doesn’t look tough’ and can’t be taken seriously as an in-ring performer.
A former WWE creative writer told Power Slam in 2008 under the condition of anonymity that Levesque would disparage Foley whenever he appeared for the company, and in the process, diminished his value in the eyes of Vince and Stephanie McMahon.
“Foley is an out-of-shape nobody,” Levesque was reported as saying by the writer. “No one cares about him at all. Funaki puts more asses in the seats than Foley does. He should pay us for coming on our shows.”
Meltzer believes the real reason Levesque still holds Foley in contempt is because he gets irritated over the consensus of his closest co-workers that his memorable matches with Foley in 2000 ‘made him a star.’
Foley has criticized Levesque in the past; he took several veiled shots at ‘H in his 2007 autobiography The Hardcore Diaries. He also took issue online with Levesque belittling ring announcer Lilian Garcia with a remark he felt was hurtful during an April 2010 episode of Raw. Foley acknowledged then that he may have cost himself professionally, but felt he had to stand by his principles.
D-Backs to Host Lucha Libre Mask Night
The Arizona Diamondbacks MLB team will be giving away lucha libre masks to the first 15,000 fans at the July 7 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The D-Backs are trying to reach the Latino population with give-aways this season. Last year, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim set a Guinness World Record for most wrestling masks assembled at one event as part of a give-away...More?
source: bizjournals.com
Maven Huffman: WWE Saved My Life!
Former "Surreal Life" star Maven Huffman has finished his stint in rehab following a major prescription drug arrest ... and says if it weren't for the WWE helping him out, he'd be dead.
TMZ broke the story ... Maven accepted rehab assistance from the WWE after he was arrested back in April for scamming more than 1,000 prescription pills from various doctors in the Florida area.
Now, after completing 50 days in a rehab facility, Maven tells us he has moved into a sober living facility and "has never felt better."
"I owe the WWE my life for helping me through this situation."
35-year-old Maven -- who won a WWE contract on the reality show Tough Enough in '01 -- says he hopes to get another shot with the organization ... inside or outside of the ring.
"Chapter 2 of my life begins now" Maven tells us, "I have the clarity and focus that comes with sobriety and will never let my family, friends and fans down again."
