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I try to do them most weeks. Here it is this week
In this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer is reporting that the winner of last year's Tough Enough contest, Daniel Puder, has been cut by the company.
Puder has been given his 90 day notice, and will be released in December, after the first year of his WWE contract expires. After winning Tough Enough last year, Puder was awarded a four-year contract, paying him $250,000 a year, as a part of the company's promotion for the "$1m Tough Enough".
Puder's release is thought to be down to his high salary, and he has been offered a new developmental contract with WWE, which would send him to the new Deep South Wrestling group in Atlanta, rather than Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he is now. The contract would be paying $750 a week, as opposed to the near-$5,000 a week he had been earning in his first year as a WWE-contracted wrestler.
After winning Tough Enough, Puder was given an entry into this year's Royal Rumble match, which saw him receive a special "initiation" ceremony, where he had the taste slapped out of him by Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Hardcore Holly, after he entered the Rumble as the number three entry. Since then, Puder disappeared off the face of the earth, and was wrestling dark matches for OVW, before receiving a push under new OVW booker Paul Heyman.
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Shawn Michaels has been becoming a regular at WWE production meetings as of late. HBK recently spoke his mind on the creative team's apparent failure, in his opinion, to have anything better for him than Chris Masters after his loss to Hogan at SummerSlam. However, despite his opinion on the matter, Michaels has handled the situation professionaly in a manner comparable to that of his handling of the Hogan SummerSlam fued.
Other wrestlers such as Triple H and The Undertaker also attend regularly at WWE production meetings.
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It's officially going to happen. WWE vs. TNA! Well, sort of. According to a post on the Yahoo MXC Group from someone who works on the show, Spike TV is going to have a TNA vs. WWE (officially listed as "Total Non Stop Action (TNA) Wrestling vs. WWE") episode on October 6th. You can look at this as either Spike trying to promote TNA, or burying WWE, or both.
Credit: PWInsider.com
-Puroresofan.com announced today that former WWE champion Brock Lesnar will debut for New Japan Pro Wrestling on October 8th at the Tokyo Dome. Lesnar's match has not yet been decided, but don't think for a second it won't be a match near the top of the card, if not the main event itself.
-New Japan Pro Wrestling has also signed former WWE superstar Matt Morgan. Morgan was released by WWE in their most recent house cleaning of the roster this past summer. Morgan could debut on the 10/8 show as well, but that is not confirmed yet.
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The last one is one out of the blue, so I doubt it will happen considering there is a 10 year clause in his WWE contract stating that he can't wrestle anywhere else but the WWE within that time frame. He could still "appear" in the stands! That is how they sell tickets!
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