RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Sports and Wrestling Who will be next on the WWE chopping block!

In the last few days WWE has ended quite a few contracts,very similar to last years cull,and many believe more names will follow.
So far from the active roster we have lost Rhyno,Matt Hardy (who was medically cleared to return) & Molly Holly.
Also given the boot were Chilly Willy (OVW development talent),Jesus (injured) & Paul Bearer (yes he was still contracted).

So who will be next?

My guesses would be from the following list.

Shannon Moore
Akio
Paul Heyman
Ultimo Dragon
Charlie Haas
Steven Richards
The Hurricane
Rosey

Also I have a feeling that the Dudleyz are far from safe!

heyman will stay (unless he choses otherwise). hurricane will definitely stay (unless he choses otherwise).

the rest are up for grabs, tho

I'm not sure about Rosey and Haas, but I could see the others going.

I'd also like to add:

Garrison Cade: The WWE aren't really using him, and he was boring to start off with.

Val Venis: Old, and vaguely talented.

Hardcore Holly: He's apparently been acting like a bully backstage, so I;d fire him. And, he's been neglected. A surefire case.

Rene Dupree: I don't even know who the guy is. Not a good sign

All good choices!
Cade is sposed to be moving to SD,but I dont see why they just wont bypass SD & move him to the unemployment line!

Hardcore I have to say was gonna be on my list,but I just feel he has enough clout with Vince to keep him on board!

Yer only jealous cause the only boyfriend you could get was the Big Show!

he lied to me - he said he was big all over!

Poor ROY,his anus knew no pleasure!

until I met you...whcih led me to llance!

I thought Ultimo Dragon had been let go already...

Anyway, if I had to choose, my guess would be that they would get rid of Molly Holly, Victoria, and Ivory next. Because, with few exceptions, it seems that the only attractive women Vince wants on the roster are the ones with absolutely no wrestling talent.

Molly's gone. As of today. It's on the site.

Err...Charlie's said that. On the Matt Hardy and Rhyno thread.

Ain't read that one yet.

you can't expect me to pay attention to. . .stuff. yeah.

honestly, they might as well just save themselves the time and fire all the good wrestlers right now. that way, there's no need for anybody to watch Raw, Smackdown, or any of their other gimp ass shows.

I tell ya something though,the guys like Matt Hardy who use their own names or gimmicks are a lot bet off than people like Billy Gunn & Molly Holly who cant wrestle under the names that made them famous,because WWE owns it!

I like the idea of gimps wrestling though!

What makes you say that?
He has been used quite a bit & is quite a prominent character,all the others are currently background fluff!

Don't forget Nunzio.

Thanks ROY I needed a laugh.

Kinda Sorta sucks

But Haas and Akio were let go!
They then came back!

Same with Shannon Moore!

The two I got wrong were Richards and Heyman (who is still under contract, despite being off tv).

they cut the entire Deep South Wrestling territory this week.

Just the terriotry. The roster is being exported en masse to Steve Keirn's school in Tampa.

OOK OOK ACK EEK!

heh.

remember how just a few short years ago, they kept shoving Orton down our throats and kept telling us how great he was an dhow he was the future of wrestling and all that nonsense?

orton is a great heel, his problem to me is the same bret hart had, he was a tweener. not quite heavy weight, too big too be a cruiser, could go to the top rope not, agile enough to be a high flyer, could brawl, not tough enough looking to be a brawler. hart overcame alot of this with support of the large canadian wwe audience and being in the right place at the right time, orton is no doubt a very good heel, but when your style has no definition its hard for the fans to really latch on to you

plus, all those moves he kept botching. meh. Orton had the potential to be a great heel, but he has no real heart for wrestling. he got into it cuz daddy had to bail him out after his failed stint in the marines.

now, Edge, Edge is a great heel. I like how he reinvented himself a few years ago.

While I don't care for some of the choices he's made in his personal life, Edge is one of the best workers the WWE has right now.

Edge is definitely a great heel, it's true, but isn't he quite a lot more experienced than Orton? I mean, Orton's no longer really a rookie, but Edge has been going since at least the mid 90's.

That doesn't necessarily matter- Batista's been in the business since about '00-'01, Samoa Joe has been in the business for about half as long. Who would you say is the better of the two? Heck, Kurt's been in the business for about 8 years, and he's already better than many guys with twice as much experience in the ring.

I think the big mistake with Orton, is how WWE seem to change direction with him way too much.

When he first came in, he was pretty much a nonentity who nobody would have cared if he was heel or face.
Then his momentum was hurt by constantly injuring himself (more than likely to his lack of in ring skill, which while better now, still has not improved anywhere near as much as it should have by now).

Then when they hooked him up with Evolution, they made exactly the right move to get him:
a) some decent exposure
b) some experience and training

HHH and Flair did wonders for him, and the whole legend killer angle was best gimmick he had, and quite frankly, is how he should have stayed!

As soon as they put the belt on him, they turned him face, which was a huge mistake, and killed any momentum he had, as the fans were just not behind him.
He wasnt ready to be turned face and he certainly was not ready to carry the belt and the company.

Of course WWE realised this, and he promptly turned heel again.

Since then, he has been involved in issues of his own making with stories of backstage antics, drugs and generally being such a twat that even guys like Flair & HHH, who were former friends, didnt want to know him.

Now, with Edge, WWE used the internet to amp up his heel turn, and continously used this to make the fans really hate the guy, which has done wonders for his career.
With Orton they let all that slide and never really gave the fans anymore reasons to truly despise him.

Whether its cause WWE has grown bored with him, or feel that he no longer deserves their pushes due to his attitude/antics, I dont really know.

What I do know is, despite his short comings in ring, he could have been up there as an Edge level heel if he had continued with the legend killer gimmick.

Teaming him with Edge seemed like a great idea at first, but once again, that has been a wasted opportunity.

Personally I couldnt care less about the guy, but maybe that would have been different if WWE had handled him correctly.
Lets face it, I thought Edge was a total wanker after the Lita/Matt thing, and felt he was the one who shoulda been fired, but now I am so glad they kept him on as he is one of the strongest characters in WWE right now.

well i think if you have plans to push edge and you realized that matt had run his course he is the one you should fire, why keep the guy that has ran his course and fire the guy with the upside?

The only reason I say he shoulda been fired was that WWE had always had an unwritten policy that you do not mess with another superstars partner, or risk being fired!

i dont know that to really be the case, i think if you look back at any instances where that happened it was always the lower draw got sent packing...