The WWE Hall of Fame class of 2016 has just got some law enforcement addition as The Big Boss Man has just been announced as the latest member for this year’s ceremony.
Big Boss Man, real name Ray Traylor, made his professional wrestling debut in 1985 as Big Bubba Rogers and wrestled for the UWF for a year before leaving for the WWE. Managed by Slick, Boss Man arrived in WWE in June 1988 and teamed up with the One Man Gang to form the Twin Towers. After a couple of years as a heel, Big Boss Man turned face in 1990 and had several feuds against The Heenan Family, The Mountie, Nailz, and others.
In 1993 he jumped to WCW first as The Boss and then as The Guardian Angel before adopting his old name of Big Bubba Rogers. He spent five years in WCW and was part of the Dungeon of Doom and the nWo.
In 1998 he returned to the WWE and joined The Corporation. Perhaps his most memorable feud during his second WWE run was with Al Snow that involved Snow’s chihuahua dog Pepper. Boss Man took Pepper and “fed him” to Snow in a backstage segment after serving him with a dish that was supposedly made of Pepper’s remains. The feud led to the infamous Kennel from Hell match, a cage match with dogs surrounding the ring to prevent them from escaping. Another memorable one was when he dragged Big Show’s father casket from the funeral using a chain hooked up to a car with Big Show “casket surfing.” He was released for WWE in 2003.
Traylor passed away on September 22, 2004, at the age of 41 at his home in Dallas, Georgia.
ECW Press today announced the publication of NXT: The Future Is Now, a book written by Jon Robinson which will be released on April 1, 2017.
The new book follows the rise of NXT from its conception to becoming WWE’s newest global brand. The preview of the book reads, “Learn how NXT came to be, from the opening of the WWE Performance Center to WWE’s new, forward-thinking approach to talent development. See how Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt, Paige, Charlotte and other new stars have broken into WWE more prepared than any generation before. Get an inside look into WWE’s future as new and exciting performers hone their skills, personalities, and so much more under the watchful eye of Paul “Triple H” Levesque. With new, insightful interviews from Triple H, NXT trainers, Superstars and Divas, fans will learn how the future is indeed now!”
Before this NXT book is published, ECW Press will release Pat Patterson’s biography which is titled Accepted: How The First Gay Superstar Changed WWE. It will be released on August 1, 2016 and the foreword is written by WWE CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon.
TNA have announced five straight days of television tapings at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, starting on March 15 with a live Impact. All five days will taped at Soundstage 20.
On March 16, tapings will start at 7PM and these will be Impact Wrestling tapings. There will be two tapings on March 17, one starting at 1PM which will be a One Night Only: Knockouts Knockdown pay-per-view, and the other another One Night Only: World Cup 2016 pay-per-view. The first one starts at 1PM and the second taping kicks off at 7PM. On March 18 and 19, tapings start at 7PM and both days will feature Impact tapings for Pop.
All shows are free to those who are in the theme park but VIP tickets are being sold at ShopTNA.com.
The Hulk Hogan vs Gawker trial officially started this morning in Pinellas County, Florida, with Hogan hoping for a big pay out of $100 million against media company Gawker for posting excerpts of his sex tape online and providing a full play-by-play text description of what happened.
Opening remarks were kicked off by Hogan’s attorney Shane Vogt and said that Gawker is “full of hypocrites” who usually condemn other websites who post nude photos of celebrities. He said he won’t play the video to the jury but they are free to watch it if they want to. “He makes mistakes,” Hogan’s lawyer said. “He’s going to sit right there on that stand and he’s going to own it.” Hogan will be the first one on the witness stand.
He closed off his remarks by telling the jury that they want Hulk to be paid for each of the 7 million plus visitors who watched part of the video and explained how online advertising works with clicks and impressions.
In his opening remarks, Gawker’s attorney Mike Berry said that the company didn’t make any money from advertising from the post as posts tagged NSFW don’t carry ads. He said that the writer, AJ Daulerio, posted only 9 seconds of actual sex footage while “the rest was conversation” and only “used enough of the video to illustrate the point of his commentary.” He repeated that they don’t know who sent the DVD and it’s still a mystery to them on who threw Hogan under the bus.
“Mr. Bollea has spent years telling the public why he is a role model…Daulerio got a DVD that showed something different,” Berry concluded.
The trial is being streamed live by Tampa Bay’s WTSP and you can watch it below.
If you’re still paying your credit card debt from your WrestleMania travel package and want to go to SummerSlam, well, you better pay it up quickly as packages for the 2016 SummerSlam go on sale on March 14 at Noon EST.
Three different packages will be on sale – the Big Apple package, Platinum package, and Gold package. They all include a SummerSlam ticket, NXT ticket, Raw ticket, breakfast buffet and autograph session, round-trip subway transportation to all shows, and three nights hotel accommodation. The Big Apple package also includes an exclusive reception with WWE Superstars before SummerSlam and a tour to the 9/11 memorial. Seating for events depend on which package you get.
Prices start at $1,025 per person in a group of four and go up to $2,650 per person in a group of four for the top package. Single packages will be considerably more.
Mick Foley has launched his yearly WrestleMania Dream Vacation sweepstakes in benefit of RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, the largest anti-sexual assault organization in the United States.
The grand prize is a trip to Dallas for this year’s WrestleMania which includes two air tickets to Dallas, transportation to hotel, five nights hotel in Arlington, $1,000 spending money, an original 20×32 Rob Schamberger wrestling art, a dinner with Mick Foley, two ringside seats to WrestleMania, two tickets to the Hall of Fame, Axxess, Raw, NXT, and Ring of Honor events.
100% of the proceeds will go to RAINN with tickets starting at $2 each or less if you are buying multiple ones. The sweepstakes close on Tuesday, March 15, at 11:59PM EST. You can purchase tickets at www.rainn.org/wrestlemania .
Terrance Gerin, better known to wrestling fans as Rhyno, announced a few days ago on Twitter that he is entering the political world and is running to become State Representative for his district in Dearborn, Michigan.
Rhyno told FOXSports.com that he told Vince McMahon about his plan a few months ago backstage at a WWE show and that McMahon was supportive of his decision. “I told Vince, ‘I hope I make you proud,’” Rhyno told FOXSports. ”He said, ‘You already have.’ He then followed up by saying if there was anything (WWE) can do to help to let them know.” The former WWE, ECW, and NXT star then added, “He didn’t ask what party I was running for or this and that. The McMahons’ love for their country is just contagious.”
Asked about Donald Trump, the WWE Hall of Famer who has a good shot at becoming the Republican Party nominee for the upcoming 2016 elections, he said that he’s “not sold” on him yet and he’s backing Ohio governor John Kasich in the race.
Rhyno also revealed that he’s in negotiations to sign a WWE Legends deal.
The Roadblock WWE Network event for Saturday, March 12, is being advertised as a three hour show on the WWE Network.
Formerly known as March to WrestleMania, Roadblock will take place at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto, Canada, and will only be available on the WWE Network, similar to the Elimination Chamber and King of the Ring shows that WWE presented last year.
So far only three matches have been announced with just one week to go for the show. These are Triple H vs Dean Ambrose for the WWE World Heavyweight title, Brock Lesnar vs Bray Wyatt, and The Revival vs Enzo Amore and Big Cass for the NXT Tag Team titles.
The uber cute Noelle Foley, the daughter of Mick Foley, was stopped by TMZ paparazzi while in New York and was asked about her future with WWE.
“Chances are pretty high,” Noelle said, but added that at the moment she’s focusing on getting into modeling. The paparazzo brought up Playboy and if she would consider posing for it, and Noelle nodded in agreement, saying that Playboy already featured her on their website as the “hottie of the week” once.
Noelle said that there hasn’t been any talks with WWE yet about joining the company however there’s something in the works. She would do either wrestling or broadcasting and she feels comfortable interviewing people as she’s already doing similar work at the moment.
Noelle’s boyfriend, WWE super fan Frank “The Clown,” was accompanying her and said that her father Mick hasn’t been hard on him and he’s been really good and respects him to a degree. He said Mick is a “great girlfriend dad.”
There’s already a WWE Hall of Famer running for U.S. presidency – Donald Trump – but soon there might be another one and the decision will come next month.
Former Governor Jesse Ventura told CNN, “I’m considering it, that’s all. I’ll decide in the next month. I’ve been invited to the Libertarian convention and I’ll decide if I want to go in that direction.” Ventura does not associate himself with the Democrats or the Republicans so if it happens he will be running for the Libertarian party.
Ventura shocked the political world in 1998 when he ran for Governor of Minnesota and was elected to the office. He only served one term. The WWE Hall of Famer had good things to say about his friend Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders for taking on their respective parties when they were far from favorites to win anything.
WWE Divas champion Charlotte had to abandon her match against Becky Lynch last night at the non-televised live event in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after she got whacked in the nose.
With injuries piling up in the lead up to WrestleMania, having the Divas champion injured is surely something that WWE wants to avoid. The incident happened when Lynch hit Charlotte with a knee to the face and Charlotte started bleeding immediately from the nose. The match was stopped by the referee as it was obvious from the amount of blood on the ring canvas that Charlotte wouldn’t be allowed to continue.
Lynch, who is wrestling Charlotte and Sasha Banks at WrestleMania for the Divas title, looked pretty concerned over what happened. WWE has not acknowledged the injury yet however earlier today, the champ wrote that “everything is all good” and that she would be in Cedar Rapids tonight for the next show.
Yesterday’s non-televised NXT live event in Cleveland, Ohio, started off on the wrong foot as Emma got legit knocked out by her opponent Asuka.
Asuka performed a combination of kicks and backhands on Emma and one kick to the face put Emma on the floor. The ref immediately checked on her as it looked like a stiff one but Emma tried to get up, only to be kicked another time while she was on her knees, knocking her out cold.
The match was stopped by the referee and one of WWE’s on-site medical team attended to the Australian Diva. You can see the video below.
The March 3 episode of Smackdown drew a total of 2,491,000 viewers, an increase of nearly 100,000 viewers from last week even though the second hour went up against the Republican Presidential Debate on Fox News which drew 16.8 million viewers. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
In a move that may raise some eyebrows and question the sanity of those making the decisions, WWE announced that WrestleMania 32 will be free for new WWE Network subscribers who sign up this month. WWE is using the #FreeWrestleMania hashtag to promote this news on their social media.
This will be the first time that the show will be offered for free to new subscribers and usually WWE halts their free month promotion during WrestleMania season to get the maximum revenue from their Network. WWE stocks usually take a nose dive the day after Mania when the WWE Network subscribers number is announced and this time there will be much more thanks to this free promotion but the number will not represent the paying subscribers, but rather the overall subscribers.
A large number of subscribers ditch their Network subscription following WrestleMania and WWE has not found a way to keep churn at a minimum. The difference this year is that WWE will not get a single cent from those who subscribe just for the show and stop their subscription right after Mania.
Eiji Ezaki, better known to fans in the world of professional wrestling as Hayabusa, passed away at the age of 47 yesterday.
The Japanese superstar died of a subarachnoid hemorrhage – bleeding in the brain for the non-medical ones – and an owner of a tavern found him in his home dead just hours before Hayabusa was supposed to perform in a small concert.
Hayabusa was a legend in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling where he spent most of his career and even got to wrestle once for ECW at Heatwave in 1998, wrestling in a tag team match with Jinsei Shinzaki vs Rob Van Dam and Sabu.
Wrestling in several dangerous matches, the sport finally caught up to Hayabusa and in 2001 he cracked two of his vertebrae which left him paralyzed after a failed springboard moonsault. He made sporadic wrestling appearances since then and last year he regained the use of his legs, being able to walk with the support of a cane.
WWE paid tribute to Hayabusa with a short article on their website and also embedded tweets from Neville, Sami Zayn, Natalya, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, and others who have met him throughout their careers.
Thursday Night Smackdown! TV Report for March 3rd, 2016 – “‘Third Wheel’ Rolling!”
Introduction Segment: Video Promo and Welcoming
Recap of Raw’s issues between WWE World Heavyweight Champion Triple H and Dean Ambrose is shown, then the regular Smackdown! video plays.
Segment #2: Arena Promo
Dean Ambrose hobbles to the ring, selling his beating from “The Game.” He talks about going through what he did to get his match with Triple h for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship; it will take place on Saturday, March 12th, on the WWE Network. “The Lunatic Fringe” goes on about wrecking WrestleMania plans, as he thinks about defeating Triple H and being the one to meet Roman Reigns at WrestleMania.
Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens interrupts and can’t stand what Ambrose rambling on about and wants to do something about it. He goes to slug Dean with the championship, but Ambrose ducks and hits back. Owens retreats as Ranallo implies they will face off later tonight!
Later, Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks will wrestle for the #1 Contender’s spot at WrestleMania against Divas Champion Charlotte.
Commercials.
Match #1: Tag-Team – The Usos (Jimmy and Jey) VS. The League of Nations (Sheamus and Rusev) (with League of Nations members Wade Barrett and Alberto Del Rio)
Sheamus and Jimmy start out, then as Sheamus gets the upperhand, both switch partners. Jey and Rusev wrestle, with Jey struggling a headlock on him. Rusev kicks back, then uses his weight to get out of a Samoan Drop attempt and toss Jey to the apron. He follows with an impressive dropkick, and The League throw Jey into the corner barrier.
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Sheamus is now in control over Jey, giving him “10 Beats of the Baron.” Rusev is in and taunts Jey and Jimmy, while tearing at Jey’s face. He goes for a backdrop, but Jey flips out and gives him a Float-Over DDT. Jey makes the hot-tag to his bro, who is all over Rusev and Sheamus.
Both Usos dive onto The Nations, and Sheamus eats a superkick from Jimmy on the outside. Jimmy climbs the turnbuckle, but lands on Sheamus’ knees. “The Celtic Warrior” hits the Brogue Kick and covers for the victory!
Winners via Pinfall: The League of Nations
Post-match, as The League celebrate, The Dudleyz walk out with a table in their hands. Jey attacks immediately in the ring, but The Dudleyz are too strong and put The Twins to the canvas.
Segment #3: Video Promo
The announcer’s talk about Stephanie McMahon getting the Vincent J. McMahon Legacy of Excellence award, and a clip is shown from Raw of her “acceptance” speech.
Dolph Ziggler makes his entrance and will be wrestling, next!
Commercials.
Match #2: Single – Dolph Ziggler VS. The Miz
Miz punches Ziggler right after the bell and punches away. He kicks him hard in the face and gets two, then slams Dolph’s head into the turnbuckle. He runs in the corner with a clothesline but is caught into a backslide, and Ziggler gets the 1 – 2 – 3!
Post-match, Dolph celebrates with the fans while Miz is irate!
Segment #4: Backstage Promo
R-Truth is collecting food then notices Goldust sitting alone at a table. He tries to make amends with “The Bizarre One,” but Goldust is having none of it and messes up his own face with his own plate of food, then walks away.
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Match #3: Single – Becky Lynch VS. Sasha Banks (#1 Contender’s Spot for the Divas Championship)
They lockup a couple times then test each others strength, and Sasha reverses into a victory roll for two. Becky armdrags twice then boots Banks out of the corner. She clamps a wristlock on, which Sasha counters into a roll-up, then both wrestle back-and-forth for a bit before Divas Champion Charlotte and her father, Ric Flair, make their presence known and stand at ringside.
Commercials.
Sasha has Becky locked in a surfboard while Charlotte and Rick look on. Becky works her way out and clotheslines Banks a couple times, then catches a kick and gives her an exploder-suplex. Banks makes a comeback and almost takes this with double-knees, then turns a roll-up into the Bank Statement crossface! Lynch struggles to the rope, then kicks Sasha in the face. She tries the Disarmer, but Banks gets out of it and knees Lynch in the corner. 1 – 2 – Becky raises her shoulder!
Sasha kicks again, but is put to the mat with a European Uppercut! 1 – 2 – Banks gets her shoulder up! Both punch back-and-forth, then Becky rolls through a backslide and front-dropkicks her to the floor. Sasha and Becky double-clothesline each other, then Ric taunts and “whoos” over both; just as they get back up, Charlotte hits both from behind at the same time, causing a double-dq.
Winner: None due to Double-Disqualification
Post-match, Charlotte continues to assault Banks and Lynch, then walks off.
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Segment #5: Backstage Promo
Rene Young interviews Charlotte and Ric about their actions, then informs Charlotte she will be taking on BOTH Sasha and Becky at WrestleMania!
Segment #6: Video Promo
Ranallo, Lawler, and Saxton talk about The Undertaker’s response to see Shane McMahon inside Hell In A Cell at WrestleMania. The footage from Raw plays.
Tag-Team Champions The New Day dance to the ring as Kofi Kingston will wrestle A.J. Styles next!
Commercials.
The New Day are in the ring and rip on The League, A.J. Styles and Chris Jericho, and Atlanta.
Match #4: Single – Tag-Team Champion/New Day member Kofi Kingston (with Tag-Team Champions and New Day members Big E. and Xavier Woods) VS. A.J. Styles
A.J. is quick on Kofi to start, then planchas over onto Xavier. Kofi baseball slides him as New Day stand over and taunt.
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Kingston is controlling Styles now, stomping him in the corner and wearing him down with a grounding facelock. A.J. counters with a jawbreaker but is kicked down again. Kofi ascends the turnbuckle and dives, but is countered into a backdrop!
Styles builds up and forearm-smashes in the corner, then hits a fireman’s carry-knee for a close one! Xavier and Big try to interfere again, but the referee throws them out. A.J. capitalizes with the springboard-forearm to finish this!
Winner via Pinfall: A.J. Styles
Post-match, the trio go after Styles, but Styles escapes by sliding into and out of the ring.
Segment #7: Video Promo
“I stood upon the sand, and saw a beast rise from the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And upon those horns, ten crowns. And upon the heads, the name of ‘blasphemy.’” Bray Wyatt is talking about Brock Lesnar, who Bray will face at Road Block, the title of the WWE Network show on March 12th.
Commercials.
Match #5: Single – Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens VS. Dean Ambrose (Non-Title)
Dean twists Owens’ arm and takes him down with a side headlock to begin. He gives Kevin a shoulder-block and another side headlock takedown. Owens punches back, focussing on the injuries that Dean has sustained. He soon takes over until Dean tries a Dirty Deeds, but Owens gets out of it and goes to the commentator’s table for a break.
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The I.C. Champ gets control again and works over Ambrose’s damaged body until Dean hip-tosses him out of an abdominal stretch. Dean runs at Kevin, but is chucked to the floor, and is hit with a running-senton. Ambrose just makes it in before the referee reaches ten, but Kevin runs him into the corner of the barrier. Owens yells at Mauro, but turns into a clothesline!
Dean fights back again by running Ambrose into the ring post, and giving him a dive-through-the-ropes a bit later. He puts Kevin back into the ring, but is cut off the top rope. Owens runs at Ambrose in the corner with the Cannon Ball splash, but still cannot take this!
Kevin goes for a top-turnbuckle suplex, but Ambrose hammers away and follows with a diving elbow. Kevin kicks out of a subsequent pin attempt, then rolls to the outside. Dean runs after, but is caught into a guillotine position and run into the ring apron.
In the ring, both try their finishers but they are countered/reversed. Owens runs for another senton, but Dean lifts his knees and plants Kevin with the Dirty Deeds DDT; he manages the cover and victory!
Winner via Pinfall: Dean Ambrose
Post-match, Dean holds onto the ropes as Mauro puts him over with “the skill, the will, and the heart” while replays are shown to close the show.
End of Smackdown!
Reporter’s Rumblings
Starting with this one, I am going to recap both Raw and Smackdown! with my Smackdown Report, as I find I am a little too tired after writing Raw, so to give proper analysis on both shows, this way may work better.
This week was pretty-good in WWE-land for Raw and Smackdown! There were some great matches and great promos, but it also did have a few low-points with storylines.
Excellence: matches between Dragons/League (Raw), Styles/Jericho/New Day (Raw), Jey/Bubba (Raw), Usos/League (Smackdown!), Becky/Sasha (Smackdown!), Kofi/Jericho (Smackdown!), and Owens/Ambrose (Smackdown!)
Promos from HHH/Ambrose (Raw), Bray (Raw and Smackdown!), ‘Taker (Raw), and Owens/Ambrose (Smackdown!).
Loving the feud between Dudleyz and Usos; seems very old-school. Dean Ambrose has been awesome the last while with his mike skills and interactions with faces and heels; I can easily see him being in the main-event with the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Whether he wins it or not in Toronto, it should be a Triple-Threat as Triple H still has to close-out his feud with Roman Reigns too; and all three of these guys can put on a heck of a Triple-Threat!
Liking the rivalry of Owens/Show, and I believe these two guys can put on a great match at ‘Mania for the I.C. Title.
Not entirely sure about the whole A.J./Jericho teaming up, but do love the matches they’re putting on!
Bogus: too much recap! Both Raw and Smackdown! had video promos that reviewed almost-all of last week’s shows; this time could’ve been used for more in-ring action – particularly Sasha and Becky!
My Dad had a great idea, as he said it was predictable anyway for the Triple-Threat for the Divas Championship; let Sasha and Becky wrestle to a draw on Raw for around ½ an hour. It’ll keep both live and home crowds in suspense, taking about three commercial breaks; if that happened, then I think we really would’ve been more invested in how the scenario was going to play out. I felt the finish to Raw was lame, but Smackdown’s made up for it a little.
Vince should’ve have not said anything after Undertaker threaten him; it would’ve been much more effective.
Not sure where Dolph/Miz are going, but hopefully they’ll wrestle at ‘Mania for a long match. They do need to add some more verbal to their storyline though, as without, I’m not as interested.
All-in-all, liking a lot of the matches/potential matches for ‘Mania and the build for most has been pretty-well-done! Until next week’s Raw, Be Excellent Wrestling-Online Fans!
The jury selection in the Hulk Hogan vs Gawker trial wrapped up today with the final 70 jurors making one more trip to the courtroom to see who are the unlucky ones who have to endure three weeks of courtroom drama.
A total of nine jurors made the cut, including 3 alternates. Those who will be on the jury are 4 women and 2 men.
Hundreds of potential jurors were summoned during the week and many of them filled out a 14-page questionnaire to see how much they know about Hulk and Gawker. The Judge also asked them to stay off the Internet so they don’t get swayed one way or another, a request which wasn’t met by a lot of enthusiasm. Some jurors got dismissed after saying some outrageous statements, a very good way to get out of jury duty.
The WWE Divas title will be on the line at WrestleMania and this time around it will be a triple threat match with Charlotte defending her belt against Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch.
Banks and Lynch wrestled each other twice this week – on Raw and Smackdown – to determine the number one contender however both matches ended with no winner. On Raw, both Divas pinned each other for a draw while on Smackdown, Charlotte attacked both of them for a no contest.
The Divas title is very rarely defended at WrestleMania and usually it’s a tag team match or some other gimmick match. Last year the title was not defended as Paige and AJ Lee took on the Bella Twins and the year before the title was defended in the Vickie Guerrero Invitation Battle Royal.
Cricket Wireless and WWE announced today that they will team up with for a multi-year agreement, providing Cricket significant visibility and consumer engagement at WWE’s biggest events of the year, including WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Royal Rumble and Payback.
WWE’s relationship with Cricket Wireless is highlighted by a sponsorship of WWE Network. WWE will also utilize its platforms including broadcasts on USA Network, as well as live events, digital and social media to generate awareness and exposure for Cricket Wireless. WWE Superstar John Cena will serve as a Cricket brand ambassador and promote the sponsorship through social and digital media. Cena will also be featured in Cricket Wireless marketing materials and through custom branded content. Additionally, Dolph Ziggler, who began serving as a brand ambassador last year, will continue his relationship with Cricket.
“Fans came to our stores in mass, showing incredible passion for the family-friendly entertainment WWE offers and the larger than life Superstars and Divas that ignite the kind of excitement only they can produce,” said Janna Ducich, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Cricket Wireless. “It’s time to take it to the next level. This sponsorship enables us to reach fans through WWE events that have been staples in living rooms for decades. We are in an incredible position to introduce the simplicity, transparency and dependability that sets Cricket apart from all of its competitors.”
Bret Hart issued a statement on his Facebook page regarding his prostate cancer and the comments that Jim Ross made during The Gunz Show on 77 WABC Radio earlier this week.
“I just want to clarify that, while the surgery went well and my doctors and I are optimistic, it is still way too early to declare that it’s now a non-issue. I will be monitored every 3 months over the next couple of years as there is a possibility that the cancer can come back,” Bret said. He added that it will be a while before he can say he is cancer free.
During the interview, JR said, “They removed the cancer by removing his prostate. His cancer is a non-issue now, thank God.”
