WWE Spoilers: Plans for Evan Bourne After Suspension Ends
After being suspended for the second time (which, per the WWE Wellness Policy, is a 60-day suspension) in his WWE career back on January 17, former WWE Tag Team Champion Evan Bourne will be allowed to return to the company any time on or after March 17 (tomorrow). With his suspension up tomorrow, there is speculation abound about Bourne’s future with the WWE. While many are surprised he was not released from his contract during his suspension, Drake Oz of The Bleacher Report is reporting that the WWE may even give the high-flyer a push after he returns.
According to PWInsider.com, the plan was to have Bourne feud with Jack Swagger over the United States Title, but things may go a different direction after the WWE had Santino Marella take the title off of Swagger a couple of weeks ago. It currently appears that WWE plans to take the U.S. Title off of Santino sometime after WrestleMania 28 and, as far as Bourne goes, it is very likely that the WWE will leave Bourne off of the WrestleMania card this year as a way of teaching him a lesson. If Bourne does end up getting a spot on the card, it will be part of Theodore Long’s team on the 12-Man Winner-Takes-All Tag Match.
History has shown that WWE has been uneasy about pushing WWE stars who have twice failed drug tests in the WWE, considering that a third failed drug test results in the Superstar getting released from his WWE contract and, given Evan Bourne’s track record (suspended for smoking fake marijuana on November 1, returned at a live event on December 3 only to be suspended again on January 17), the WWE has a right to be concerned.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Women's Wrestling: Aja Kong
Billed height: 5'5"
Billed weight: 220 lbs.
Born: September 25, 1970
Billed from: Tokyo, Japan
Trained by: Jaguar Yokota
Debut: September 16, 1986
Finishing Move: Urken
Favorite Moves: Northern Lights Superplex, Powerbomb, Brainbuster, Backdrop Suplex,
Notable Feuds: Bull Nakano
Shishido was trained by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling and made her debut in the summer of 1986. She immediately joined the Atrocious Alliance, a heel stable which included wrestlers Dump Matsumoto and Nobuko Kimura. After Matsumoto retired, the group dissolved and Shishido and Kimura went their separate ways only to reunite in 1990 as Jungle Jack. They now went by the ring names Aja Kong and Bison Kimura and they got into a two-year feud with Bull Nakano and her heel stable Gokumon-to. During this time, Jungle Jack won the World Women's Wrestling Association World Tag Team Championship twice and took part in some very memorable matches. Their most famous one was a hair vs. hair match on January 11, 1991. Jungle Jack lost this match and had to have their heads shaved. Kong challenged Nakano for the World Women's Wrestling Association World Tag Team Championship several times during the early '90s and failed repeatedly until November 15, 1992 when she won it, thus ending Nakano's three year title reign.
Kong then signed on with the World Wrestling Federation and was the sole survivor of a women's elimination match at Survivor Series 1995, pinning 4 members of the opposing team, including then-WWF Women's Champion, Alundra Blayze. Kong appeared in two episodes of Monday Night Raw, winning both matches. One of those matches was a vicious bout where she broke the nose of Chaparita Asari. Kong was being built up as a challenger for the WWF Women's Championship, which was held by Alundra Blayze. Kong and Blayze were set to go at it at the Royal Rumble in 1996 but Blayze was fired before this could happen. Kong also left.
In 1997, Kong left the AJW and started her own independent promotion called Hyper Visual Fighting ARSION (simply known as ARSION). She led the organization until February 12, 2001 when she announced on television that she was quitting and walked out of a tag team match. She continues to wrestle for various independent promotions in Japan. She recently formed a tag team match with Double Kong (Awesome Kong/Amazing Kong/Kharma) and held tag team championships in AJW, GAEA, and Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (Japanese women's promotions). On June 6, 2006, the team wrestled as Erika and Margaret against Wataru Sakata and Ryoji Sai and won the HUSTLE Super Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles to the American tag team Bubba Ray and Devon in a three-way match which also included the team of Sodom and Gamora. The match took place on October 9, 2006. Currently, Aja is wrestling for Oz Academy, where she has held the championship title and currently leads the Jungle Jack 21 stable, which includes AKINO and Tomoka Nakagawa. In December 2011, Aja participated in Chikara's JoshiMania where she lost to Sara Del Rey in the first night's main event on December 2nd. The next day, Aja defeated Ayako Hamada in the main event and got together with Mio Shirai and Tsubasa Kuragaki to defeat Hanako Nakamori, Manami Toyota and Sawako Shimono in a six woman tag team match on the third and final night of the JoshiMania tour.
Here is a video of Aja Kong wrestling against Awesome Kong:
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
Women's Wrestling: AJ Lee
Real name: April Jeanette Mendez
Billed height: 5'3"
Billed weight: 107 lbs.
Born: March 19, 1987
Billed from: Union City, New Jersey
Trained by: Jay Lethal
Debut: September 29, 2007
Finishing Moves: Shining Wizard and Sliced Bread #2
Favorite Moves: Hurracanrana, Spinning Heel Kick, Head Scissors, Mexican Armdrags
Notable Feuds: Alexa Thatcher
Previous Names: Miss April (Indy), April Jeanette, April Lee (FCW), A.J. Lee (FCW), A.J. (NXT)
A.J. enrolled in wrestling school in 2007 soon after graduating from high school and worked full time to pay for tuition. She made her debut six months later for Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU) as Miss April, losing a singles match to Soul Sister Jana. April then teamed with Malia Hosaka to participate in a tournament that would determine the inaugural WSU tag team champions. They advanced to the second round by defeating the Soul Sisters (Jana and Latasha) before losing to the Beatdown Betties (Roxxie Cotton and Annie Social). Later that night, April lost to Hosaka in a singles match. On February 7, 2009, Miss April got together with Brooke Carter to fight against the Beatdown Betties for the WSU tag team championship. They won. They retained the title at a rematch a month later. On April 11, Miss April defeated Roxxie Cotton in the first round of the third J-Cup tournament before losing to Rain in the second round. The next night, Miss April and Jay Lethal defeated Soul Sister Jana and Danny Demanto in the final of the tournament, becoming the 2009 WSU/NWS King and Queen.
On May 5, 2009, Mendez signed a developmental contract with World Wrestling Entertainment, thus assigning her to Florida Championship Wrestling (WWE's developmental territory). She made her FCW debut on August 14, 2009 under the ring name April Lee where she lost a fatal four-way match between her, Serena Mancini, Alicia Fox and Tiffany (Serena won). In September, she changed her name to AJ Lee and began challenging for the Queen of FCW title and on February 4, 2010, she defeated Serena Deeb to win the crown. Lee defeated Tamina Snuka in the first round of a tournament to determine the inaugural FCW Divas
Championship only to be defeated by Deeb in the semi-finals on May 20. She then unsuccessfully challenged Naomi Knight for the FCW Divas Championship. On June 2010, she appeared at WWE Raw house shows acting as the hostess and acted as ring announcer at an FCW show. The following month, Lee and Deeb interrupted a Naomi Knight promo, with Lee watching as Deeb attacked Knight, turning Lee into a heel. Knight defeated Deeb and Lee in a triple threat match, thus retaining her FCW Divas Championship title. Later on, Knight and Lee fought against each other in a double countout match in which both the Queen of FCW title and the FCW Divas Championship titles were on the line. On September 2nd, Lee and Knight's feud ended when Lee lost to Knight in a Lumberjill match. On November 18, Lee lost the Queen of FCW title in a match against Rosa Mendes. Later on December 18, Lee defeated Knight, winning the FCW Divas Championship and, as a result, became the first FCW Diva to have held both the Divas Championship and the Queen of FCW Championship. She held it until April 7, 2011 when she lost it to Aksana.
On August 31, 2010, Lee was moved to WWE NXT where she was paired with Primo (Rookie wrestlers are paired with wrestlers from either the Raw or Smackdown brands). On September 7, she and Primo defeated Rookie Aksana and Pro Goldust in a mixed tag team match. The following week, Lee and Primo lost a match to Rookie Kaitlyn and Pro Dolph Ziggler. Over the next couple of weeks, Lee won three challenges and on October 5, she was tied with Kaitlyn for the number of challenges won. Kaitlyn got immunity in the poll based on crowd reaction while Lee was eliminated from the competition despite winning a competition and a match earlier in the show. She returned to NXT for the season finale where she teamed with the Bella Twins and defeated Alicia Fox, Aksana and Maxine. Lee made an appearance in season four as a model for a "guess the price" challenge and made several appearances in NXT Redemption.
AJ Lee made her main roster debut on WWE Smackdown (May 27, 2011), pairing with Kaitlyn (as The Chickbusters) to fight against Alicia Fox and Tamina Snuka, a match Lee and Kaitlyn lost. A rematch was held the following week which they also lost. Lee's first victory came on June 10, where she went against Snuka in a singles match and won. She repeated the same victory on July 8. Lee, Kaitlyn and Natalya Neidhart (their mentor) feuded with Fox, Snuka, and Rosa Mendes. On August 5, Lee lost a match against Natalya who subsequently turned on Lee by attacking her and declaring war on the "pretty little princesses" that made up the bulk of the Divas division. The following week, Lee and Kaitlyn lost to Natalya and Beth Phoenix before Lee teamed with Kelly Kelly to defeat Natalya and Fox. Over the next several months, Lee and Kaitlyn continued to feud with Phoenix and Neidhart, losing both singles and tag team matches to them. In November, tension began to show between Lee and Kaitlyn because the latter was upset at constantly losing to Phoenix and Neidhart. In that same month, Lee came out in several backstage segments with Daniel Bryan culminating in a romantic storyline when Lee kissed Bryan for good luck on November 29. On January 13, 2012, Lee accompanied Bryan to a World Heavyweight Championship defense match against Big Show in which Lee was (kayfabe) injured when Show accidentally collided with her and Lee had to be taken out on a stretcher. Lee saved Bryan from Show when she returned on February 3rd.
Here's a video of AJ Lee vs Serena Deeb:
Women's Wrestling: 21st Century Fox
Real Name: Melissa Maughn
Billed height: 5'7"
Billed weight: 135 lbs.
Born: August 27
Billed from: Montreal Quebec, Canada
Resides in: Cambridge, Ontario
Trained by: Sid Summers, Johnny K-9, Elmira the Iron Maiden
Debut: March 2002
Finishing Moves: 21st Century Drop (Sitout slide slam spinebuster or bulldog) and The Foxmission (Standing Guillotine Choke)
Favorite Moves: The Hurricarana, Tilt-A-Whirl Headscissors, Suicide Dives, Forearm Shivers, The Tube Tier Submission
Notable Feuds: Elmira the Iron Maiden, Angel Williams, Misty Haven, Phil Latio, Addy Star
21st Century Fox made her wrestling debut with the Pure Wrestling Association. There, she defeated Misty Haven in the PWA's Women's Elite 8 Cup Tournament finals in 2005. That same year, she won the Elite Women's championship from Cheerleader Melissa for the first time. She dropped the title to Melissa in March 2006 only to regain it in a triple threat match against Melissa and Misty Haven. She defended the title against Maven on July 2006 at PWA's One Year Anniversary Show. Fox retained the title in a match against Tiana Ringer before losing it to Aurora. Title was regained that same night. Fox traded the title with Haven and defended it against challengers like Portia Perez and Miss Danyah. Fox defeated Ivory in a pole match with Molly Holly as special guest referee in September 2006. Fox defended her title against April Hunter in April 2007.
Fox was also involved in other promotions. She took part in the CIWA North's first women's wrestling match in late 2005 and also won a tag team match with Angel Williams against Tracy Brooks and Elmire the Iron Maiden. Fox also held a tryout match with the World Wrestling Entertainment in 2006. A month later, she took part in Great Canadian Wrestling's W.I.L.D. Tournament (she lost to Sirelda, who won it). Fox was defeated in the first round of the 2007 tournament by Portia Perez.
Here's a video of 21st Century Fox defending her title against Misty Haven:
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