First off, yes, I'm all lagged because I spent 14 hours on the job and on the road combined yesterday, but I swear, there will be bloggings today. Yes, there will be bloggings. Plentiful bloggings, including this week's Six Pack.Anyway, it turns out that Serena of the SES got fired over the weekend in a story that didn't really break until late Monday/yesterday. The word on the street is that she wasn't "living up to her gimmick" when the cameras weren't rolling and that she was seen outside drinking. ZOMG shock and horror, I know. How dare these people have lives outside the ring. If that's the only reason, it's an asinine firing because everyone knows wrestling is staged and that kayfabe is only alive when the shows are on the air. However, I'm also hearing that "not living up to her gimmick" was code for "being a blithering drunkie", which is a whole lot more understandable on the part of the WWE. No matter who's in the wrong here though, we can all agree that it sucks that she's not employed by the WWE anymore, because she was pretty good at what she did, which was make awesome facial expressions, play the evil valet role pretty well and of course, parade her giant knockers around for all to gawk at.
Also according to the F4W piece, TNA tried out Katie Lea Burchill. Quite frankly, I hope she signs there because fuck, the Knockouts division needs all the help it can get.
Finally, commenter and indie maven KoppoKick checked in on Monday's Rasche Brown post with some info. Here's what he had to say:
SkullKrusher no-showed the ROH show on Friday. His explanation was he was vacationing with his family last week and when he got home all tired he set his alarm to PM instead of AM and missed his Friday morning flight. It's unclear whether he missed a special Saturday flight ROH set up for him, which would mean the company had to eat two plane tickets.So there you have it. Hopefully, he's okay re: concussions, but other that, I have no sympathy for him. ROH didn't fire him after they had to eat two plane tickets, one of which was a special one, so for him to quit in response for being removed from two cards seems like an overreaction to me. Then again, I never really liked him all that much anyway, so I'm not all that broken up about this anyway.
Rasche wanted to make it up to ROH and drive down to Virginia this weekend (where ROH has a show on Friday) and tape what they needed from him that he missed at TV in Philly. It's an admirable gesture, but I'm not sure how feasible it is since I'm not sure the HDNet camera crew was going to be available in Virginia. Rasche's punishment for no showing Philly was being removed from the Plymouth, MA show on 9/10 and the iPPV in NYC the following day. That upset him enough to quit the company. He has also talked about dealing with the effects of concussions since last year.
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