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He said the door would still be open for her if she wanted to return in a year and told her he admired her strong religious beliefs.
There were and still are reports that Molly was not very happy with the upcoming RAW diva search as well as the current Women's division. She wont admit this publicly, but that is the feeling backstage. Also keep in mind Molly was not fired/released and it was a decision made on her part.
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The monthly WWE pay-per-view newsletter has confirmed that Triple H vs. Batista will have a Hell in a Cell match at the Vengeance PPV, which takes place July 26 and emanates from Las Vegas, NV.
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Hulk Hogan wasn't said to be very thrilled about his opponents at the Backlash PPV on May 1 when he teamed with Shawn Michaels against Muhammad Hassan & Khosrow Daivari. More specifically, Hogan wasn't said to be happy about Daivari using high flying wrestling moves on him, feeling that it wasn't appropriate or his style given the circumstances of the match. Daivari had been told by WWE officials since he signed with the company that there were no plans for him to wrestle at any point, but things changed when he was needed storyline wise. Hogan was said to be more open to Hassan teaming with a larger wrestler, but WWE was unable to fill that slot at such short notice.
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Valentine's Day was supposed to have been a special time for Matt Hardy.
Recovering from knee surgery, he was enjoying being away from the wrestling industry. For the first time in his life, he says he was able to breathe.
"It was so nice. It was something I wasn't used to."
More importantly, he had been looking at engagement rings during his time off, and was considering the real possibility of proposing marriage to longtime sweetheart Amy "Lita" Dumas.
Hardy was even preparing to have his large back yard fenced in. He could envision a bunch of dogs and kids frolicking in that yard. He thought he and Amy would complete the perfect picture of a happy, normal couple who just happened to have not-so-normal jobs.
"When Amy would come home those first few months, we'd hang out and do things together. It was very cool."
It was, indeed, a welcome change of pace from the grueling road schedule the couple maintained in the wrestling business. They had known one another for six years, and it had gotten serious the past four. The injury break had afforded Hardy the opportunity to literally stop and smell the roses.
"For those first couple of years, we casually dated and went out. But as time went on, and especially after we started living together, we sort of organically grew closer together and fell into love. It just felt natural."
Hardy thought it was time to make their commitment an even longer-term arrangement, and planned on popping the question to the WWE diva on the most sentimental of holidays.
"I started looking at rings after the first of the year. I was thinking about seeing if maybe Amy wanted to get married. It was going to be great. It was something we had discussed before, and I thought the time had finally come."
Hardy's voice trails off as he wistfully ponders his next thought.
"Then all of this happened."
What followed was something far different than anything Hardy could have even contemplated. In the ensuing weeks, not only would he be fired from his dream job with World Wrestling Entertainment, his dream relationship would go up in flames as well.
"This has definitely been the hardest period in my life," the 30-year-old wrestler said last week, still smarting from a course of events that has left him wondering exactly what went wrong.
The nightmare began when Hardy discovered that the woman he loved was having an affair with one of his closest friends in the wrestling business. Amy and Adam "Edge" Copeland had been traveling together while Hardy was back home recovering. He didn't have a problem with the travel arrangements, feeling that his friend was as good a candidate as any to watch over his girlfriend.
According to Hardy, he had no clue of the deception until Lisa Ortiz Copeland, Adam's wife of just several months, discovered some strange text messages between the two on her husband's phone and confronted Hardy with her suspicions.
Dumas had no choice but to admit the relationship after Hardy intercepted a series of telling messages from Copeland on a cell phone she had hidden from her live-in companion. Stunned and angry, Hardy asked her to leave his North Carolina home.
Once word of the wrestling love triangle surfaced on the Internet, Hardy says he felt he had to address the situation and comment publicly. He called Copeland and told him he was going to slap him across the face when he saw him.
"I talked to him a few days after that, but it came to a point where that was it. I had nothing else to say to him." Despite the crushing blow to Hardy's personal plans, he still had a job waiting for him with WWE. Or so he thought.
Nearly fully recovered from surgery last August to repair a torn ACL, Hardy was poised to return to the ring shortly before Wrestlemania 21. He looked forward to coming back with a renewed vigor, some new moves in his mat arsenal and his own creative ideas for a character change. He assured officials he could co-exist in the locker room with Dumas and Copeland. If WWE officials had any reservations, he was willing to be sent over to the Smackdown roster in the upcoming draft lottery.
WWE, however, had other plans for Hardy. Talent chief John Laurinaitis notified him that the company was looking at new talent and wouldn't be renewing his contract. In one fell swoop, he says, his dream girl and dream job seemed to all vanish in thin air.
Hardy didn't buy for a minute that the company was looking at new talent. He knew he was the odd man out and the most expendable of the three. While he was told his release wasn't connected to the domestic situation, he firmly believes it was politically motivated. He adds that his relationship with Laurinaitis hadn't been particularly smooth.
"We haven't been the closest of friends ... This obviously was the easy way out. But it was very bad business."
WWE found out quickly that it was very bad business. Hardy's poorly handled release prompted an outpouring of support for the Cameron, N.C., resident, including a petition with more than 20,000 signatures, along with growing anti-Edge and Lita sentiment at the arenas and even inside the locker room. The two were lustily booed at venues from New York to London, with WWE officials scratching their heads and wondering what to do about the situation.
Hardy contends the company should have been more concerned at the onset instead of going for the quick fix and releasing him. He says he is disappointed that WWE didn't handle the situation in a more expeditious, forceful and fairer manner. With company officials fearing a potentially explosive situation backstage, Hardy was advised to stay away from the arenas.
"I'm not saying they condoned it (the relationship), but they didn't say don't do it. For me, who was sitting at home, to be asked not to come to the house shows and to be kept out of the loop, was driving me crazy. If they would have sat the three of us down and talked about it - this is what we want, this is what we don't want and this is the situation - that would have been different. Instead they let things go on as they did and didn't do anything about it. If you don't address the situation, it just doesn't go away."
Hardy considered himself a model employee who had always gotten along with his colleagues and his employer.
"I'm a guy who's pretty respected. I've always gotten along pretty well with people. I've never had any problem with WWE. I've always done whatever they've asked me to do. But they chose to shut me out. "I wish JR (Jim Ross) would have been involved in the situation. JR is the one who brought Jeff and me in originally, and I loved JR. I have nothing but good things to say about him. Vince (McMahon) also has been really been good to me all of these years."
Time heals all wounds, but Hardy says the events of the past few months may take a while to get over. He says he can forgive Amy, who has apologized, but can't find it in him to have much mercy for Copeland.
"I had considered Adam one of my closest friends - the kind of friend you could trust your life with. It seems like he very much had an agenda going into it. I think there were things he did to lead Amy on and to get inside her head. Adam was leaving messages telling Amy he loved her, that if she stayed with me, he wouldn't be able to sleep at night. He was trying to put a guilt trip on her."
Hardy says he still has a hard time believing that Copeland, whose wedding he and Amy attended last October in Tampa, could betray a friend. Matt and brother Jeff were involved in one of WWE's most memorable tag-team programs with Edge and Christian (Jay Reso) during the height of the company's "Attitude" era. That series included a 2000 triangle ladder match also involving The Dudleys that was hailed as one of the greatest matches in Wrestlemania history, along with another ladder match at the 1999 No Mercy pay-per-view and several innovative TLC bouts that put both teams on the map.
"It's just a tough situation," laments Hardy. "Not only on a personal level but a professional level. Amy and I were a professional couple on TV. Christian has known Adam all his life, and he told him what he did was just wrong. It sickened him. Your true friends will tell you what they believe is true."
Hardy believes his ex-girlfriend simply got in over her head and didn't know how to get out of it.
"Amy's been very apologetic and remorseful. She knows she did wrong and she's been trying to correct things in some ways. Adam has not shown any remorse or offered any apologies."
Hardy says Copeland even accused him of slashing his tires at a recent house show.
"Without even being asked about it, I was specifically blamed," says Hardy. "There have been other things as well." Hardy believed he was immune to the sobering pro wrestling reality that most couples do not survive the rigors and temptations of the business.
"I definitely thought I was immune from it, but it came from someone who was supposed to be one of my closest friends in wrestling. Adam and I had built our careers off one another in the formative stages. Everybody there were tight friends. A good person just doesn't do stuff like that. That's just the bottom line.
"I would have loved for Adam to have been honest and come up to me and admit he made a terrible mistake, that he did things he shouldn't have done, and that he was going to stop and let me try to get my relationship together. But that just wasn't the case."
Hardy says Copeland's estranged wife is ready to move on her with her life as well.
"I think Lisa's depleted after expending all her energy and emotion on this. Right now I think she's saddling up for a real nasty divorce. She just wants to get through that and move on with her life because she has been so mentally tortured."
As for Amy and Adam, Hardy says that relationship appears to be short-lived.
"They're not boyfriend and girlfriend by any stretch of the imagination. Amy is just trying to find within herself what she needs to be. I think Adam has issues. I don't think he knows what love is."
Hardy and Dumas still speak occasionally. Things are different now, but he admits there are still feelings.
"Love isn't a switch you can turn on and off," he says. "You just can't get rid of it, regardless of the circumstances, if you truly love someone. It's just a real awkward situation."
Hardy also won't rule out an eventual reconciliation. Borrowing an old wrestling line, he says, "Never say never."
Despite making some bad decisions early on, says Hardy, he's making more logical ones now, trying to use his head more than his heart. He's lost two of the most important things in his life, but he's far from giving up.
"I have to pick up the pieces and move on. I have to get back to being Matt Hardy."
Hardy, whose non-compete clause with WWE expires July 10, says he has been overwhelmed by offers to work dates for other promotions.
"I guess the most natural thing to do would be to do some stuff with TNA. (Brother) Jeff's down there. I think Ring of Honor has a cool little niche in the business, and I might do some stuff with them. It's not like I'm not going to be busy."
Hardy says he'd also be interested in working in a creative capacity with TNA. "I'd like to be the guy to help contribute day-to-day ideas and to work with the younger guys. There are a ton of things that I've learned over the years. It's not just about Matt Hardy. I'm one of those people who want to give back and see other people do better. I'd like my legacy to be remembered as a guy who was more about giving back to the business than being selfish about the business."
Hardy says he has received thousands of e-mails from fans who have been in similar positions and are empathetic to his plight.
"It's amazing how many people have rallied behind me. I know everyone likes to discredit the Internet wrestling fans, but it was refreshing to have so many fans rally around me, regardless of it being right or wrong. It was an emotional situation, and their support was very flattering. It wasn't about Matt Hardy the performer. They sympathized with Matt Hardy the person. To me, that's on a different level. It's beyond fan support - it really shows their support for the human being."
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Oh for fucksake,another fucking title shot for HHH!
Give someone else a chance you big nosed cunt!
And Hogan........FUCK OFF YOU WHINGING CUNT!
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and someone tell matt hardy to quit being such a sideways.
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i guess that means neither hhh nor batista are being sent to smackdown. boo.
as for the hogan thing... the version i read from 411mania is that he was "upset" simply because divari was a manager, and it didn't make sense for him to, all of a sudden, be sucha great wrestler and give hbk such a hard time. as said, davari had, at that time, no intention of being a wrestler, but was now succesfully pulling off "advanced" moves against the raw icon? dudn't make sense.
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He already fought HBK before Backlash so it was no big surprise!
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Remember, his win was a fluke, mostly through Hassan's interference.
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Why would somebody who manages a wrestler know anything about wrestling? Man, it's just crazy.
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Remember, his win was a fluke, mostly through Hassan's interference.
you lost fuck face.
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Remember, his win was a fluke, mostly through Hassan's interference.
So?
He still had a match,and still pulled off high flying moves before Backlash!
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But the fact remains, that through most of the match with HBK, Dhaviari didn't look like a serious challenge to Michaels.
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He already fought HBK before Backlash so it was no big surprise!
i read it as hogan being upset with the notion of a non-wrestling manager doing that well at all, and not just at the ppv -- though especially at the ppv.
in the weeks prior to backlash, davari didn't do much of anything. his first match in early april was supposed to be seen as an insult when cheaply defeating michaels. he didn't wrestle the next week at msg, instead back in his suit-wearing managerial role.
the third week, in england, he was a super hero? all of a sudden a wrestler, all of a sudden they were referred to as a tag team, all of a sudden they were talented enough to topple the existing champs, etc.
i'd think, if anything, you'd agree that the push was too much, too fast (one week).
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Bull. He manages a wrestler. Why is it such a stretch that he knows how to wrestle?
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watching someone wrestle and yelling at them in funny-speak to get back in the ring does not equate posing a threat to someone on an hbk level.
it was never part of the storyline -- it was just crammed in there all quick-like.
storyline wise, he wasn't built up anymore so than other managers-turned-wrassler, like bobby the brain or paul heyman. when they inevitably were forced into some sorta match, they were all squirmy and begging to surrender -- not taking on the raw icon.
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So what?
Why does Hassan's little German buddy have to do the same bullshit managers have been doing for years?
The WWE decided to break from that mold. Maybe give everyone a little surprise. A manager who can wrestle.
Also, Hogan's day is done. He should just shut the fuck up and be proud to be helping out the future of the buisness.
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Another thing, since it's almost a given that managers/valets cannot wrestle why not keep the fact that your manager can wrestle a secret? The element of surprise. It's sorta like a tactic.
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And besides, it's not such a stretch that Dhaviari can wrestle, albeit a cruiserweight style. It is a stretch for, say, Paul Heyman to wrestle.
Here's how I see it- Hogan doesn't like to give props to little guys. Remember his feud with Kidman? There wasn't a single time he made Kidman look good, either in a match or in interviews.
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He is probably jealous. Hoagie probably wants to fly but he can't.
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In closing, Hogan doesn't think it's okay for Dhaviari the manager to wrestle, but has no problem with Mean Gene Okerlund donning a pair of tights.
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There is no reason to drag Hogan's love life into this.
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In closing, Hogan doesn't think it's okay for Dhaviari the manager to wrestle, but has no problem with Mean Gene Okerlund donning a pair of tights.
I missed that one.
How bad was it?
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Bad, but not so bad as the training vignette that lead up to it. However, there's a sound byte that is uproariously funny that sounds like Hogan's pounding Gene-o in the ass.
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Bless you, King Snarf.
400 points for you.
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If only I still had that sound clip on my computer. Oh, well. Wrestlecrap.com will probably repost it soon enough.
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He is probably jealous. Hoagie probably wants to fly but he can't.
"Brother, at my age my feet don't leave the ground."
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He already fought HBK before Backlash so it was no big surprise!
i read it as hogan being upset with the notion of a non-wrestling manager doing that well at all, and not just at the ppv -- though especially at the ppv.
in the weeks prior to backlash, davari didn't do much of anything. his first match in early april was supposed to be seen as an insult when cheaply defeating michaels. he didn't wrestle the next week at msg, instead back in his suit-wearing managerial role.
the third week, in england, he was a super hero? all of a sudden a wrestler, all of a sudden they were referred to as a tag team, all of a sudden they were talented enough to topple the existing champs, etc.
i'd think, if anything, you'd agree that the push was too much, too fast (one week).
Piss off!
When does timing mean anything in WWE?
And why cant managers be good wrestlers?
Look at the current womens champion,where the fuck did she start?
Oh yeah,as a fucking manager!
Kane couldnt talk once upon a time & was supposedly burned.
Rey Mysterio wrestled without a mask,but WWE do not recognise this.
Heidenreich had little Johnny,but we never saw who it was,and then the angle just vanished.
Nothing has ever been consistant with WWE except one thing,Hogan does not like making other people look good........hell,he doesnt even make himself look good with that stupid fucking image.
GIVE IT UP MAN,AND SHAVE THE HAIR OFF!
Anyone who didnt suspect that Davari was a wrestler who was hiding the fact,is a fucking idiot!
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Oh,& while I think of it,would it have made more sense that Hassan found an allie on the Raw roster in such a short time?
He has already alienated just about every nation,so who the fuck would he have got to team up with him?
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-- The fans chanting for Matt Hardy at pretty much every arena that WWE has run an event in, has been getting to Vince McMahon. Next week, it’s expected that Lita and Edge will be involved with each other in an on-air storyline.
-- Lita is said to be uncomfortable with the situation being exploited on TV, however she is in no position to complain at this point.
-- There’s talk within some circles in WWE that Vince McMahon may be talked into rehiring Matt Hardy, in order to take part in an on-air feud with Edge and Lita.
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Luther Reigns has been released from World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE wishes him the best in his future endeavors.
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
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Shawn Michaels suffered a Grade 1 concussion during his match against Edge, presumably when smashed in the head with Edge's briefcase.
From what we've been told, Shawn is expected to be OK and has been at home resting this week.
So Benoit pretends to be concussed,but Michaels really is........thats irony for ya!
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Luther Reigns has been released from World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE wishes him the best in his future endeavors.
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
My thoughts exactly.  I hated Luther Reigns.
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wow.
boy, there's nothing like expressing a differing opinion in here. you guys make these discussions so fun.
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Another thing, since it's almost a given that managers/valets cannot wrestle why not keep the fact that your manager can wrestle a secret? The element of surprise. It's sorta like a tactic.
i'd even agree with that... but they didn't do that. there was no story to support that. everything before and after disagreed with that.
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When does timing mean anything in WWE?
so... why bother making sense now, right?
...isn't this the kinda stuff you're always upset about?
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And why cant managers be good wrestlers?
i'm not saying that they can't.
i'm saying that its odd that someone who wasn't a wrestler was instantly elevated to a "take on hbk" status for one week, then demoted back again the week after.
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Hogan does not like making other people look good........
except the rock. or brock. or hhh. or taker. or angle. and everyone else he lost to in 2002/03.
let it go, nowie.
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Anyone who didnt suspect that Davari was a wrestler who was hiding the fact,is a fucking idiot!
yeah, he looked real tough not wrestling in that suit every week. and even tougher when his pal slapped him to the floor and made him grovel to the back the week after the ppv.
gentlemen, pretend for a moment that this wasn't hulk hogan. instead, it was one of the other wrestlers of your wanking choice. would this all of a sudden seem like a valid point?
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Sorry,I dont care who it was,anyone with half a brain knew that guy was a wrestler,just like we knew Grenier wasnt really a referee when he screwed Hogan a few years back.
Why would Hassan broadcast to the world something he obviously wanted to keep secret?
You also have to remember that the reason he bitched slapped him is cause Davari is his slave for all intents & purposes!
You tell us to forget its Hogan,but I could make the same argument for why you are defending him.
If it was anyone else I seriously doubt you would defend them.
To me,and many others,it made perfect sense that Davari was basically undercover!
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Oh & as for him making those people you mentioned,look good,I disagree.
At that point Hogan was jobbing to everyone,so winning against him meant very little.
Plus jobbing to someone does not make them look good unless you sell their moves!
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Sorry,I dont care who it was,anyone with half a brain knew that guy was a wrestler,just like we knew Grenier wasnt really a referee when he screwed Hogan a few years back.
its not that i'm debating his physique or whatever. he obviously looks like he'd put up a fight over, say, JR or heyman. i'm simply debating the credability of the presentation.
for example, charles robinson's "lil natch" persona had a storyline explanation. more retroactive than proactive, but i'm fine with that. they didn't just spring it up, then drop it, which is how i view davari's 2 week skill reign.
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You tell us to forget its Hogan,but I could make the same argument for why you are defending him. If it was anyone else I seriously doubt you would defend them.
fair enough.
though, truth be told, this is something i speculated ahout with my supervisor (who hates hogan) at backlash.
quick, unexplained switches like this are things i just personally dislike about wrestling. even if the explaination is bad, i'll accept it. but when it comes with nothing? drives me nuts.
like, batista's face turn. fine. he grew to hate hhh. thats easy to understand. but the first week after he split from evolution, all of a sudden, he's nice and buddy-buddy with all the backstage people and security guards, on his way to the ring? all of a sudden, he's JR's boy (even before the save)?
hell, even wwf/nwo hogan trying to assassinate the rock with a mac truck, then congradulating him 6 days later bugged me.
its not a character thing, its a storyline thing.
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To me,and many others,it made perfect sense that Davari was basically undercover!
i honestly wouldn't mind that perspective at all. its intriguing, to say the least.
my beef is, thats not what they've done. there was no reason to believe he was a credible wrassler before -- something that, you're right, could have been undone in the storyline by saying he was undercover. ... but the "undercover" part was never introduced. never announced, even when he was wrestling. its not something muhammad brought up, or even explained to us by JR.
davari was simply a great wrestler for two weeks, and then that perspective was dropped, entirely.
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Oh & as for him making those people you mentioned,look good,I disagree. At that point Hogan was jobbing to everyone,so winning against him meant very little.
 aw come on!
damned if he does, damned if he doesnt.
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Plus jobbing to someone does not make them look good unless you sell their moves!
he was bloodied and "dead" after brocks' f5
he tapped for angle
he was dropped by the people's elbow
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Rob actually has a point here. It's yet another example of WWE dropping the ball creatively. The examples of what could have happened that you guys have all put forth would work, if WWE were to put one forth. But from what I've read, they haven't, which is the problem. It's just another example of the lack of creativity they have right now.
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There’s talk within some circles in WWE that Vince McMahon may be talked into rehiring Matt Hardy, in order to take part in an on-air feud with Edge and Lita.
Translation: Vince is REALLY scared that Matt will go to TNA and ride this tremendous face heat that he now has, as well as reteaming with brother Jeff and making TNA $$$.
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Ok,so look at this from another angle.
Why did it make sense for HBK to call on Hogan as his partner at the drop of a hat?
Wasnt that a slap in the face to all the other guys backstage that HBK would call on a "retired" superstar over them?
At least Davari & Hassan had a working relationship before the match,so it made perfect sense for him to use Davari.
Also for me,the recent bitch slapping is prolly the start of a split between them so Davari can be drafter to SD for the cruiser division.
The face turn of Batista/Hogan is a nice analogy but just proves the point I am making cause that pretty much how face turns have always been!
In WWF/WWE things always get pushed very quickly!
With Davari though pushing it quick made perfect sense.
He is at Hassans beck & call,so if one week he tells him he is allowed to wrestle,he wrestles,if one week he tells him he's not allowed,then he ant allowed,thats how a master/slave relationship works.
Remember despite his protestations that he is an American,he has constantly used his (pretend) arab heritage such has the attire he wears to the ring & the fact that he has a subordinate like Davari.
Davaris biggest asset to WWE was that he was pretty much unknown before signing to WWE,meaning they could keep the fact he is a good wrestler quiet.
Yes,they could have given it a long build up,but then that would have ruined the impact when he finally revealed his true colours.
Personally I would rather his first match had been Backlash,then the angle could have worked where both Hogan & HBK totally underestimate him!
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Rob actually has a point here. It's yet another example of WWE dropping the ball creatively. The examples of what could have happened that you guys have all put forth would work, if WWE were to put one forth. But from what I've read, they haven't, which is the problem. It's just another example of the lack of creativity they have right now.
even grimmace agrees with me!
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Why did it make sense for HBK to call on Hogan as his partner at the drop of a hat?
logical or not, it can at least be explained.
1) hogan had, one week prior, been the only wrassler to soundly 'defeat' (no pinfall) the arabic pair, at 'mania.
2) when they started sorta pushing the "us (U.S.) vs them" thing more and more, hulk's newly-returned "real american" genre fit perfectly.
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Also for me,the recent bitch slapping is prolly the start of a split between them so Davari can be drafter to SD for the cruiser division.
thats fine. and i agree.
but it also further shows that davari isn't even a force-enough to fight back and defend himself, let alone actually take on davari (or hbk or hogan, etc)
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Personally I would rather his first match had been Backlash,then the angle could have worked where both Hogan & HBK totally underestimate him!
i would have preferred that, too!
it would have been a great and cool storyline to find out davari is actually the arab-benoit, and this amazing grappler, allbeit small and otherwise hidden.
but nothing like that happened. not even close.
so when hogan says he's upset with how it played out, i agree, because i was upset, too. it was weak.
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Daivari would work better in the cruiswerweight division, I agree.
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