Pinfall Recall News Feed For November 16th

WWE

Smackdown House Show Result

The following results are from the Smackdown house show in Berlin, Germany. The results are courtesy of PWInsider.com:

WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Carlito & Primo Colon (c) b. The Miz & John Morrison via Backstabber

WWE Diva´s Championship Match - Special Guest Referee: Maria
Michelle McCool (c) b. Maryse via Roll Up

The Great Khali b. Ryan Braddock via Chokebomb

WWE United States Championship Match
Shelton Benjamin (c) b. R-Truth via Roll Up

Matt Hardy & Finlay (w/ Hornswoggle) b. Chavo Guerrero & Mark Henry (w/ Tony Atlas)
via Twist of Fate to Chavo Guerrero

The Brian Kendrick (w/ Ezekiel Jackson) b. Kung Fu Naki via The Kendrick

Jeff Hardy b. Vladimir Kozlov via DQ after a chair shot from Kozlov

WWE Championship Match
Triple H (c) b. The Big Show via Pedigree

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WWE.com Article Takes Shot At UFC

WWE.com has an article up commenting on last night’s UFC 91 PPV which aired last night. The article takes quite a few shots at UFC and the MMA business itself, at one point saying the PPV bouts were ending quickly “leaving UFC producers scrambling to fill the three-hour event with content.”

WWE went on to say “The dearth of hearty competition left many viewers to watch less prestigious undercard fights and only served to bolster claims that UFC pay-per-view events can often be a “crap shoot” in regards to filling the full three hours.”

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TNA

TNA Congratulates Brock Lesnar On Victory

- TNAwrestling.com has an article up congratulating Brock Lesnar on his UFC Title victory last night. The article also hypes the release of the Kurt Angle DVD, where they tease Angle following his former opponent into the world of MMA. You can check out the full article here: http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/1165/84/

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ROH

Former ROH Booker Comments On Departure

The former RoH booker breaks his silence and comments on his departure from ROH…

- Former ROH booker Gabe Sapolsky has decided to make some comments since being dismissed from Ring of Honor last month. Here are some of the highlights…

On His Departure: “I’ve had a little over three weeks to reflect, think about things and get out of the ROH bubble. It’s funny how you don’t realize you are in the bubble until you are out of it. It is actually amazing the conclusions you come to and the things that become clear about yourself and business once you are removed from a situation. I’ve come to a lot of realizations in the last few weeks. First of all, while I won’t admit that I agree with the decision to dismiss me, now that I’ve thought about things I certainly can’t disagree with it. There are several reasons for this all relating to me and my behavoir, but that is for another time if I ever decide to even publicly talk about it.”

On ROH owner Cary Silkin and ROH as a company: “Cary Silkin put a lot of faith and trust in me, more than I could ever hope or ask for. He deserves much more than a huge thank you from me, but it is all I can offer at this time. Cary is the man. I still have nothing but love for ROH and everyone there. It is full of hard-working, professional, intelligent people and the pro wrestling business needs what ROH offers. Most importantly, it is full of good people and that includes the entire office and the locker room. I am looking forward to seeing how the company grows and what direction it takes now. It is a fun time for ROH with everything so fresh and exciting.”

On the ROH Driven PPV: “That said I just want to put over Kevin Steen, El Generico, Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black for the main event of the current PPV. This is one of my favorite matches in ROH history. It is now extra special for me because it meant that the final show I was involved with in Boston ended with a resounding bang. I saw Ric Flair vs. Lex Luger in that complex in 1989 and now was able to produce a great PPV from the same location. That is very special to me. Steen, Generico, Jacobs and Black deserve all the credit for putting together and executing what I believe is truly a perfect match. I have nothing to gain by plugging this. I’m not a shill for ROH anymore. I just want people to see it because these four deserve for it to be seen. Thanks guys for giving me that memory too.”

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Other

JR Posts New Blog

Former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar won the UFC Heavyweight Title Saturday night in Las Vegas with a 2nd round TKO over UFC legend Randy Couture. Perhaps now MMA purists will acknowledge Lesnar’s athletic abilities and not hold his tenure in the entertainment world of the WWE against him. But somehow I doubt it….at least not for now.

The pro wrestling bias has never been more prominently displayed than by what I perceive to be a vocal minority of MMA fans against Lesnar simply because he signed with the WWE after an outstanding amateur wrestling career that was topped off by winning a NCAA Heavyweight Title in 2000 after finishing 2nd in the NCAA’s in 1999 while wrestling for the University of Minnesota.

When my fellow WWE officials first saw Lesnar,  it did not take a Mensa member to ascertain what an amazing physical specimen that he was. As the head of the WWE Talent Relations department at that time and ultimately responsible for finding, signing, and monitoring the training of future WWE stars, signing Brock was a no brainer. He flourished in the Louisville based training camp and was one of the great amateurs like Danny Hodge and Jack Brisco to make a virtual seamless transition from the amateur world of wrestling, the world’s oldest recognized sport, to the world of entertainment/show biz  featuring great athletes aka pro wrestling.

Brock’s journey to the main roster in the WWE wasn’t without its bumps in the road but collectively we got through them and Lesnar progressed in rapid fashion to the main talent roster of the WWE. Lesnar was earning 7 figures faster than any rookie I ever signed in my role in the talent department in the WWE and that includes such stars as Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson and Kurt Angle.

Unfortunately Brock hated the amount of travel that it took to be a main event star in the WWE and earn the type of money that came with his “spot.” He left the WWE primarily due to travel issues and embarked on another adventure as Brock tried to earn a roster spot with the NFL’s  Minnesota Vikings.

When the NFL did not work out, Brock turned back to his long time roots and parlayed his grappling skills and amazing athletic gifts by signing with the UFC. Lesnar’s name identity that he developed globally with the WWE made Brock marketable from day one but it also came with a pre-conditioned identity. Lesnar was a former pro wrestler and that stigma made the South Dakota farm boy a marked man from day one by many UFC fans.

UFC promoters discovered what many successful pro wrestling promoters had known for years and that is their fan base would pay big money to see someone get their ass beat if that individual represented what the majority of the fan base disliked which could come in a variety of incarnations.  In the annals of pro wrestling, that could mean an evil  “German”, a diabolical “Japanese”, a menacing “Masked Man”, or a flamboyant “Loud Mouth” among many personas.

Lesnar was none of these but he did have the “distasteful” pro wrestling stigma attached to him that will be a part of his UFC bio until the day he retires. Never mind that the guy was a superb amateur wrestler long before his short albeit successful stint in the WWE. “Dammit the guy was one of those pro ‘rasslers and those guys have no business in any form of MMA.”  Wrong.

Simply being billed as a former WWE Champion was enough to make some MMA fans “hate” the 6′3″-275 pounder from day one. By the boos I heard Saturday night on PPV,  many UFC hardcore’s still despise Lesnar and perhaps even more so now that Lesnar is “their” heavyweight champion and more specifically because Brock defeated “Captain America”, the beloved, and deservedly respected, Randy Couture in such a dominating, no questions asked fashion. BTW Couture is a class act and a credit to the UFC. Hopefully, Couture will go down in weight and continue to fight as one can’t help but love his passion and warrior spirit.

However, now the UFC can promote Lesnar vs. virtually any qualified, MMA born and bred heavyweight they choose and the fans will be on board in the hopes of seeing Brock humbled and, more pointedly, beaten to a pulp.

The same pro wrestling methodology that has been around for decades is now exactly what MMA hardcore fans are buying into.

Of course, according to some of the MMA vocal minority, I, being a proud member of the pro wrestling community for many years,  have no business writing about a sport of which I am a huge fan on a website that our company owns. Shame on me.

The pro wrestling bias isn’t new nor is it going away any time soon. Some former wrestlers have reluctantly had to distance themselves from the genre to become successful in other fields. That’s not because these individuals don’t respect the fans or the wrestling business but it’s because the decision makers of their new endeavors don’t want to be associated with the wrestling biz.

That’s sad.

Brock Lesnar will likely never earn the full respect of the die hard, MMA, hard core fans. That’s their loss. Lesnar is not without his faults, the same as any other human, but no one with a modicum of common sense can deny Brock’s God given athletic gifts and the fact that because of his upbringing and his amateur wrestling background that Lesnar has a work ethic, and an ego, that will drive him to be the best in his field.

I have seen this first hand but of course my opinion, being that of a ‘rasslin announcer, means little.

Brock Lesnar was “The Next Big Thing” at one time in the WWE and he is definitely “The Next Big Thing” today in the UFC. I expect Lesnar to continue to improve his MMA skills with his burning desire to be the best in his field.  The self proclaimed purists of the MMA world can like it or not but for sure they will keep buying tickets and pay per views to see one of their own destroy Lesnar.

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Brock Lesnar’s Wife Is Pregnant

If you missed the UFC 91 PPV last night, then you didn’t see Brock Lesnar congratulated by his wife, former WWE Diva Rena “Sable” Mero. Following the bout, Sable hit the ring and Lesnar gave her a kiss and then kissed her stomach. Sable is pregnant with the couple’s first child.

Following last night’s PPV, UFC handed out several bonuses based on the results of the card. Here’s how the bonuses break down:

Knockout of the night was given to Jeremy Stephens for his uppercut on opponent Rafael Dos Anjos.

Submission of the night went to Dustin Hazelett for his armbar submission to Tamden McCrory.

Fight of the night went to Jorge Gurgel vs Aaron Riley after both competitors fought through all three rounds.

And as we reported earlier, Brock Lesnar will receive a huge bonus for defeating Couture.

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