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- I’m Oli Davis.
WWE Starrcade Match Planned
Last week, WWE announced they’re bringing
back WCW’s most famous pay-per-view name
Starrcade for a one-off live show the week
after Survivor Series.
Despite WWE having no plans to broadcast the
event on the Network, they’re loading the
card in an effort to boost ticket sales - with
both Shinsuke Nakamura vs Jinder Mahal and
Charlotte vs Natalya taking place in a steel
cage, and the WWE debut of Booby Roode.
The show is also promoting appearances from
WWE Hall of Famers Ricky Steamboat and the
Rock ‘n’ Roll Express [IMAGE]; the latter
of whom Karl Anderson reckons are just a couple
of NEEEEERDS!
“We @LukeGallowsWWE , want the Rock N Roll
Express at Starcade....
BAG OF DOLLARS EMOJI AND ALL OF THE YEN!”
According to PWInsider, Anderson’s post
is more than just a fan-trolling tweet, with
The Club vs The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express
officially booked backstage for the show.
Last week an interpromotional dream match
was also teased for the event, with the Hardys
fantasy booking themselves against Goldust,
Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks on Twitter.
Everyone involved and Smackdown producer Michael
Hayes were behind the idea in honour of Cody’s
late father Dusty Rhodes, but Jeff’s recent
injury might not be the only spanner in the
works…
Vince McMahon ‘Not Happy’ With Bullet
Club
Possibly intrigued by their back-and-forth
Starrcade tweets with WWE the previous week,
Cody and The Young Bucks staged a Bullet Club
‘invasion’ outside this week’s Monday
Night Raw, marching up to the Citizen’s
Bank Business Arena - megaphone, stretch hummer
and all - where they proceeded to ask for
Cody’s last name back, attempted to rescue
former Bullet Club members Finn Balor, Karl
Anderson and Luke Gallows, and joked about
WWE’s low ticket sales for their TV shows.
It was a homage to WWE’s own invasion of
WCW back in 1998, where DX turned up outside
an episode of Nitro in a tank [IMAGE].
But, unsurprisingly, the WWE Chairman didn’t
appreciate the irony - with Bryan Alvarez
revealing on Wrestling Observer Live: “Vince
[McMahon] did not find it funny at all.”
You could almost say, Vince didn’t find
the whole Bullet Club Raw invasion ‘too
sweet’.
WWE Sends Young Bucks Cease & Desist
In a running gag about WWE not letting Cody
use the last name ‘Rhodes’ outside the
company, the Bucks have joked for months that
they’ve also been pressured to stop using
the DX ‘suck it’ taunt, Marty Scurll can’t
carry an umbrella because Jack Gallagher has
one on 205 Live, and that they’re also not
allowed to use the ‘too sweet’ hand gesture
that’s been part of their act for years,
in homage to the nWo.
As any wrestler who’s done a breakup story
with their wife on TV would tell you, sometimes
life imitates art.
Pro Wrestling Sheet are reporting that just
one day after the Bullet Club ‘invasion’
of Raw, WWE sent the Young Bucks an actual
cease and desist letter over the ‘Too Sweet’
hand gesture.
Yes, that’s right.
WWE are trying to take away our hands!
WWE claim to own the ‘Too Sweet’ copyright
- presumably from their 2001 acquisition of
WCW - and have demanded the Bucks stop using
the gesture in other companies and on their
merchandise.
WWE want a written agreement from Matt and
Nick Jackson saying they won’t use WWE intellectual
property again in the future, or else, “they
may be hit with $150K in damages or more”.
The Bucks confirmed this themselves in a Reddit
Ask Me Anything session last night, writing:
“24 hrs after the #BCInvasion, we (Nick
& I) received a certain type of letter.
Yes.
They are trying to do just that”
The Bucks have reportedly consulted with a
lawyer on what to do next.
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