Santino's New Girlfriend?, New WWE Diva, WWE Creative, & More
It's interesting that new RAW Diva Milena Roucka, who debuted last week as a fan with a "GLAMAZON IN TRAINING" sign, is going into a program with Beth Phoenix. Earlier this year during media interviews, Santino Marella hinted that he would be getting a new girlfriend and that she would be a WWE Diva who was born in Canada. Speculation was that Roucka, born in Vancouver, would be brought up from developmental and paired with Santino. Roucka even teased that she was in love with Santino at Florida Championship Wrestling shows around this time when she read a poem. Santino also accompanied Roucka to the ring for a match. Shortly after all this Beth, who was born in New York, was paired up with Santino as his on-air girlfriend.
Former WWE creative team member Seth Mates criticized his former employers for the stunt they pulled with Jeff Hardy on Survivor Series Sunday in a Newsday.com blog. "Fact: Jeff Hardy is one strike away from his WWE career ending," Mates writes. "More importantly, he could be one relapse away from endangering his own life. To turn his real-life struggles into a storyline is sick and twisted." Mates was also critical of the company's decision to have Undertaker stuff Vickie Guerrero inside a casket around the same time as the anniversary of Eddie Guerrero's death. "Vince's life is wrestling," Mates wrote regarding Vince McMahon. "His family's life is wrestling. He's surrounded by wrestling people and has never wanted for anything. "And because his philosophy is 'what's right for the business is what's right,' then he feels everyone around him should give the same, even though they have complications in their daily lives that Vince wouldn't even understand. And the fact that Vince surrounds himself with enablers ? "yes men" whose survival on the business is contingent on keeping Vince happy and telling him what he wants to hear ? doesn't help matters." To read the full article, visit Newsday.com.
Jereme Warneck reports that the recently released WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 in Australia for this past week was the No. 10 selling game in the country. It was no. 1 on PSP and No. 2 on PS2.
Devin sent the following: Justin Credible, Brother Runt (aka Spike Dudley), "Dangerous" Danny Davis and Mr. Johnny Fabulous (aka John Cena Sr.) will be appearing at the Big Time Wrestling event in Webster, Massachusetts on December 6th, 2008.