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AmDrag and CM Punk for the WWE Championship at Over the Limit. I want to be excited, but after Wrestlemania I remain guarded.
"Sometimes I just want to be with my family and watch movie and eat some popcorn. But when I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be." - Marcelo Garcia
BIG BACKSTAGE BLOWUP AT EXTREME RULES PPV
By Mike Johnson on 2012-05-01 00:53:05
Following the Extreme Rules PPV on Sunday, there was a huge backstage blow-up involving Brock Lesnar.
According to several sources, Lesnar lost it on a number of WWE officials and began ripping apart a dressing room, upset over the John Cena promo that closed the PPV.
The original plan was for Cena, despite winning, to be so beaten that he was carried out of the building, leaving an opening for Lesnar to brag that while he had lost the battle on a fluke, he had won the war.
When Cena decided to address the audience, Lesnar perceived it as Cena double crossing him and lost in on WWE officials. It's not yet known how they calmed him down, but tonight's angle with HHH was planned in advance as a way to remove Lesnar from TV.
Sources within the company have indicated that Lesnar's current deal only requires him to work two dates minimum per month.
At today's Impact tapings, the word about the "new concept" that Hulk Hogan was been saying would "change the business" and be "momentum-shifting" is something where TNA will be calling on their fans to film TNA wrestlers whenever they may encounter them, in or out of the ring.
It almost sounds like a TMZ-style "paparazzi" thing, with people trying to film the every move of the TNA wrestlers.
Early reports are that the idea isn't going over very well with the TNA locker room, with one person pointing out that Hogan is perhaps the last person who should promote something like this with the way his own personal videos are coming back to haunt him these days.
Pillman style work going on or not, the Lesnar storyline should have been a pretty easy A-B-C, paint-by-numbers angle, but the WWE constantly has to out think themselves, so now it's a clusterfuck.
Hasn't anybody learned yet that fooling the smarks is the best way to not maximize profit? Why are you busy trying to work the hardcores, who are going to watch regardless, at the expense of a less compelling story for the casuals, who ultimately drive your revenue? So great, people who read newsletters (and your own employees) think there is some goofy worked shoot going on. Awesome. You fooled everybody! Now explain to me how that draws a dime, and why that's worth potentially tossing away lots of money by not only beating Lesnar, but also cutting his balls off by Cena no selling?
Shame on whoever is in on this. Lesnar, Vince, HHH, whoever.
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