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Bully Ray contacted us via Twitter regarding a note in the current issue of the Observer which said that he didn’t appear on the NXT shows in the Northeast due to him showing up as a referee on a TNA show, which is how it was explained to us.

He pointed to an article at PW Insider today which stated that he was booked for NXT shows on 5/15 and 5/16 in Philadelphia and Albany, NY, but said he didn’t appear due to a injury to his eardrum and contacted WWE about the injury and that is why he didn’t appear at the NXT shows.  Tommy Dreamer worked those shows in his place, facing Baron Corbin.

Bully Ray was never advertised for either event, but there were hints of his appearing that week.

Ratings for last night’s shows on Destination America

ROH at 8 p.m. 139,000 viewers

TNA at 9 p.m. 317,000 viewers

ROH at 11 p.m. 128,000 viewers

TNA at midnight 71,000 viewers

By dave@wrestlingobserver.com”>Dave Meltzer

We’re looking for reports on tonight’s TNA tapings in Orlando as well as tonight’s NXT show in Fort Pierce, FL at dave@wrestlingobserver.com”>Dave Meltzerdave@wrestlingobserver.com”>.

We’ll be doing weekend polls on tomorrow night’s ROH iPPV show in Baltimore, Saturday night’s UFC show in Chicago and we’ll be doing polls on the Friday, Sunday and Wednesday G-1 shows since they are the major noes this week at dave@wrestlingobserver.com”>Dave Meltzerdave@wrestlingobserver.com”>

Smackdown tonight on Syfy:

Dean Ambrose vs. Sheamus

Neville vs. Adam Rose

Rusev vs. Kevin Owens

Bella Twins vs. Naomi & Sasha Banks

Seth Rollins vs. Cesaro non-title

New Japan has a G-1 show tomorrow morning from Kyoto at 5:30 a.m. Eastern on New Japan World with A block matches:

Kota Ibushi vs. Doc Gallows

Bad Luck Fale vs. Togi Makabe

A.J. Styles vs. Toru Yano

Tetsuya Naito vs. Katsuyori Shibata

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

For tomorrow night, we’ll be looking for reports from the TNA tapings in Orlando, the WWE house show in Bakersfield and the GFW tapings in Las Vegas.  There is also a big PWG show in Reseda, CA headlined by the Young Bucks vs. Jack Evans & Angelico.

There will be a live iPPV at www.rohwrestling.com on Friday night from the William J. Myers Pavilion in Baltimore

Jay Lethal vs. Roderick Strong for the ROH title

Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian vs. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly vs. Michael Bennett & Matt Taven vs. Hanson & Ray Rowe for the tag titles

Adam Page vs. ACH no DQ

Cedric Alexander vs. Moose

Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta vs. Mark & Jay Briscoe

Adam Cole vs. Dalton Castle

Silas Young vs. Will Ferrara

Donovan Dijak vs. Takaaki Watanabe

New Japan has a G-1 show Saturday morning from Kagawa at 5 a.m. Eastern on New Japan World with B block matches

Tomohiro Ishii vs. Yujiro Takahashi

Satoshi Kojima vs. Michael Elgin

Hirooki Goto vs. Karl Anderson

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Yuji Nagata

Kazuchika Okada vs. Tomoaki Honma 

UFC on FOX 16

Fight Pass at 4:15 p.m. Eastern

Zak Cummings vs. Dominique Steele

Jessamyn Duke vs. Elizabeth Phillips

Andrew Holbrook vs. Ramsey Nijem

Daron Cruickshank vs. James Krause

FOX at 6 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Pacific)

Bryan Caraway vs. Eddie Wineland

Kenny Robertson vs. Ben Saunders

Danny Castillo vs. Jim Miller

Tom Lawlor vs. Gian Villante

Takanori Gomi vs. Joe Lauzon

Edson Barboza vs. Paul Felder

Jessica Eye vs. Miesha Tate for the No. 1 contender position

T.J. Dillashaw vs. Renan Barao for the bantamweight title

Saturday night will have WWE in Los Angeles at the Staples Center and Odessa, TX, while ROH will be taping four hours of television in Baltimore.

Sunday is the biggest G-1 show of the weekend live on New Japan World at 5 a.m. Eastern from Hiroshima with some key A block matches

Bad Luck Fale vs. Doc Gallows

Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Toru Yano

Togi Makabe vs. Katsuyori Shibata

A.J. Styles vs. Kota Ibushi

Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Tetsuya Naito 

Sunday has WWE house shows in Lawton, OK and Amarillo.

Raw will be Monday night in Oklahoma City.  Brock Lesnar is not advertised for the show.

Smackdown is Tuesday night in Tulsa.  Roman Reign and Seth Rollins are advertised as the top stars on the show.  Dolph Ziggler is being advertised on the show, so in theory he should be returning this week although what is advertised and what happens aren’t necessarily the same thing.

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–62nd anniversary of pro wrestling at Arena Puebla.

–What pro wrestling star appeared in the Latin American version of ESPN The Body magazine

–Notes on All Japan’s next title bouts

–Pro Wrestling NOAH stars jr. tournament

–A look at a near riot at a pro wrestling show in Japan with details on it

–Lots of New Japan business talk

–Changes being made by New Japan

–How New Japan continues to try and copy WWE

–Who New Japan considers its business partners

–Plans for all three New Japan Sumo Hall shows in August, as well as the annual King of Pro Wrestling show

–Notes on the first major New Japan shows after G-1

–Big Japan runs its biggest event of the year

–Notes on the death of wrestling historian Fred Hornby

–Coverage of Tommy Dreamer’s House of Hardcore show

–Notes on the GFW TV tapings this week

–Notes on GFW going to the U.K.

–Notes on PWG this week

–Wrestling stars in TV movie roles

–The retirement of Serena Deeb and her farewell as well as career highlights

–What TV show did a major promotion get invited to be on and why did they decide against it

–Why did ROH send a cease and desist latter to GFW

–A look at the ROH show in Las Vegas this past week as well as a possible future direction of Austin Aries

–Notes on the next ROH TV tapings and schedule

–Update on Kurt Angle’s condition

–Story behind MVP leaving TNA and all BDC footage being taken down due to legal issues with Lucha Underground

–How it all went down

–How TNA is changing its contracts

–Notes on TNA’s Bound for Glory PPV

–Notes on TNA production

–Why the Stitch Duran story is such a big deal

–Duran runs through what happened

–UFC 189 PPV notes

–Thoughts on UFC 190 on PPV and wide variety of estimates

–A look at plans for UFC to run AT&T Stadium in Dallas

–Why UFC won’t run a Friday night PPV

–How Pacquiao did when he headlined Texas Stadium

–Potential matches for later this year

–A look at the fourth quarter for UFC this year

–Notes on Ronda Rousey winning ESPY awards

–More on Rousey and Mayweather and story behind the diss

–UFC 191 matches

–UFC 192 main event

–More on Fedor in UFC

–Aldo threatens to sue Chael Sonnen

–Another drug test failure

–Mike Swick retires

–Cerrone accuses Dos Anjos of PEDs

–Coverage of this past week’s Bellator show and who to watch for from the show

–Tito Ortiz talks his future 

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THURSDAY’S NEWS UPDATE

• WWE officially announced a 12 cents per share dividend, which they have been paying for some time.  But it was officially announced for this quarter earlier today.
• We’ll have an interview with Stitch Duran up on the site today regarding what happened this past week as well as talking about his role as a cut man and fights that would have ended differently that went down in history due to the work of cut men.  
• Daniel Bryan has been doing New York media promoting his book.  He’s still been vague about his injuries and said that there are people who believe he won’t come back, but he insists he will come back, doesn’t know when, but is just awaiting a doctor to give him clearance.  He also noted that Steve Austin has reached out to him and given him advice on how to adjust his style to have more career longevity.
• They are expected to officially announce the October Hell in a Cell PPV for the Staples Center in Los Angeles at Saturday night’s house show.  The PPV date is 10/25.
• The WWN Live Experience has announced its schedule for WrestleMania weekend.  The location is not announced but these are the plans:

Friday April 1

Evolve at 4 p.m.

Viva La Lucha at 8 p.m. ‘

Kaiju Big Battel at midnight

Saturday April 2

Evolve at Noon 

Shimmer at 4 p.m.

WWN Supershow at 8 p.m.

Wrap up party at midnight   

• Dasha Fuentes has started doing interviews on the NXT broadcast team.  She was training originally to wrestle but had been switched to the announcing side after an injury.
• Former Team Alpha Male coach Duane Ludwig said that T.J. Dillashaw is the only member of the team who actually wants to be a champion in an interview on The Fight Club on Tuesday, saying he’s the hardest and most focused trainer on the team.  He said Dillashaw and Danny Castillo are the hardest trainers but Castillo overtrains. 
• After all the heat it was getting after the firing of Stitch Duran by UFC, Reebok tweeted yesterday:  “UFC Fans.  We have no input on decisions of UFC employment or fighter compensation.  Our focus is providing the best gear for fighters and fans.”
• James Storm (and I presume Austin Aries as well) are in Orlando working the TNA tapings even though their contracts expired several weeks ago, working on a per-match basis.
• Sheamus made some news yesterday as a passenger on a flight that had to make an emergency landing.  He was one of 159 passengers on a flight from Denver to Los Angeles which was forced to land in Grand Junction, CO when a passenger became ill.  Oxygen masks were deployed after a medical event caused a chain reaction of passengers to feel sick and lightheaded.
• Reporter Jeremy Botter last night said that Carlos Condit, and not Johny Hendricks, would be getting the next shot at welterweight champion Robbie Lawler.  Hendricks instead looks to be facing Tyron Woodley.
• Fox Sports schedule for UFC this weekend.
• The weigh-ins are tomorrow at 5 p.m. Eastern on FS 1 with Ariel Helwani, Daniel Cormier, Brian Stann, Anthony Pettis and Karyn Bryant.
• A replay of Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler II will air at 6 p.m. tomorrow on FS 1
• On Saturday night after the live show ends on FOX, there will be a post-game show on FS 1
• FS 2 will be doing a show on Ronda Rousey’s book tour, plus Beneil Dariush’s lief story at 5 p.m. Eastern on Sunday on FS 2
• Countdown to UFC 190, Rousey vs. Correia will air on Monday night at 9 p.m. on FS 1
• Today would have been the 36th birthday of Perro Aguayo Jr., who passed away in the ring in Tijuana on 3/21.  
• Regarding a question last night on Observer radio on Cima’s WWE tryout.  In early 2009, Cima, using a name like Ciba, wrestled Jamie Noble in a dark match.  He was in Southern California at the time scouting and doing an indy show.  He made contact with WWE and did a dark match at a taping.  Nothing was ever going to come of it as he was the key guy with Dragon Gate.   (thanks to Jae Church)
• Bill Simmons, who appeared on Raw recently, signed a multi-year exclusive deal with HBO after ESPN and he split up.  There was at least talk of Simmons to Yahoo but I don’t think it ever get to the serious point.
• Maxdome, which distributes WWE PPVs in Germany, will be airing UFC 190 as a PPV in that market for $14.99 Euro according to their Facebook page.  The show will have exclusive German language commentary, which isn’t the case with Fight Pass, which carries the show in Germany with English commentary. (thanks to Sebastian Essner)
• Amy Schumer talks her sex scene with John Cena
• Acclaim Pro Wrestling on 9/12 in Ottawa at 379 Waverly St.
• Renegade Wrestling Alliance on 9/20 in Burlington, ONT at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Centre featuring an old school Battle Royal.
• On last night’s Lucha Underground they pushed that Ultima Lucha will be two weeks, airing over the next two Wednesdays, featuring the season finale matches.
• The King of the Mountain match from the Slammiversary PPV aired last night on Impact as a filler for what was supposed to be a Beatdown Clan segment that had to be pulled for legal reasons due to Hernandez appearing.
• CWE tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Rock Garden Campground in Richer, Manitoba for a free show for registered campground guests.
• Sam Shaw is now taking bookings at showbis@aol.com based out of Jacksonville.  Others who can be booked through Bill Behrens include Moose (Atlanta), Christopher Daniels (Los Angeles), Frankie Kazarian (Los Angeles), A.J. Styles (Atlanta), Matt Sydal (Tampa), Drew Galloway (Tampa), James Storm (Nashville), Eric Young (Nashville), Abyss (Cincinnati), Devon (Orlando), Jay Lethal (Tampa, can only take dates outside the U.S.) and many more.
• Jake Roberts will be doing talk shows to the following locations in a few weeks:

8/2 in Hamilton, ONT at Club Asinthre

8/3 in Toronto at the Absolute Comedy Club with Jim Duggan as a guest

8/4 in Cornwall, ONT at Lai Maison Tavern with Jim Duggan as a guest

8/5 in Ottawa at Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club

8/6 in Ottawa at Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club

8/7 in Barry’s Bay at the Paul J. Kakabuski Center

8/8 in Kingston, ONT at the Royal Canadian Legion 560

8/11 in Westport, ONT at The Cove Country Inn

• NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling on 8/8 in Kingsport, TN at the Civic Auditorium featuring Matt Sydal, Davey Richards, Rob Conway, Cedric Alexander and Angelina Love.  Jason Kincaid vs. Sydal for the Southeastern title is the main event.  Richards faces Jordan Kage for the Smoky Mountain TV title.
• Steel City Pro Wrestling on 8/23 in Hamilton, ONT at 242 James Street.
• Smash Wrestling results from Sunday in Toronto before the PPV:  Brent Banks b Kevin Bennett, Candice LaRae b Vanessa Kraven, Tyson Dux b Takaaki Watanabe, Overdogs b Drew Gulak & Biff Busick, Super Smash Brothers b Goat Brigade in a tables match, Matt Cross b Tarik in an I Quit match, Chris Hero b Rich Swann, Johnny Gargano b Scotty O’Shea to retain the title’
• CMLL is planning on continuing to stream its Monday night shows at Arena Puebla going forward.
• Paul Lazenby has a front row ticket to tomorrow night’s GFW show in Las Vegas but will be unable to attend.  If anyone is interested you can contact him at lazenby.paul@gmail.com
• Evolve on 8/15 in Woodside, Queens, NY at La Boom

Timothy Thatcher vs. Zack Sabre Jr. in an Evolve title match

Johnny Gargano vs. Ethan Page

Rich Swann vs. Drew Gulak

Chris Hero vs. Mike Bailey

Trent Baretta vs Rey Hours

Biff Busick vs. Tracy Williams 

• Ric Flair is coming to Fall River, MA on 7/31 at the PAL Hall as part of a show that also includes Brutal Bob Evans, Michael Bennett, Matt Taven and Biff Busick.
• CZW has an iPPV on 8/8 in Voorhees, NJ at Flyers Skate Zone headlined by Matt Tremont vs. Pepper Parks.
• Former pro boxer Lorenzo Hood debuts with Bellator against Raphael Butler on the 8/28 show in Temecula, CA, which is the show headlined by Melvin Guillard vs. Brandon Girtz.
• Global Proving Ground MMA on 7/25 in Pennsauken, NJ at the Event Center.
• Magic Mike XXL with Kevin Nash was No. 2 at the Australian box office this past weekend (thanks to James Stanios)   
• Nazareno Malegarie vs. Joaquin Silva was announced for the 9/5 UFC show in Las Vegas.  Both lost in the semfinals of TUF Brazil.  Frankie Edgar has agreed to fight on the card, but doesn’t have an opponent. 
• Kevin Eck, who knows Patrick Clark personally, talks about his elimination from Tough Enough
• Brian Fritz interviewed Patrick Clark
• A trailer for the new James Bond movie with Batista
• A story on Ronda Rousey

ON THIS DAY IN PRO WRESTLING HISTORY INTERNATIONAL (thanks to Graeme Cameron)

1989 – The Killer beat Enrique Vera in Mexico City to win the UWA jr. heavyweight title

1999 – Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama beat Johnny Ace & Bart Gunn in Sendai to win the All Japan world tag titles 

By Marc Madison

Former TNA World Heavyweight and owner of Global Force Wrestling, Jeff Jarrett recently took some time to participate in an interview with Marc Madison of The News Hub. Jarrett revealed how growing up in the industry impacted him, the Bullet Club and the emergence of GFW. To read excerpts of the interview please read below and to read the interview in its entirety please click here:

On growing up in the wrestling industry:

I have often thought and I’ve been told this by numerous people that I respect in the business that have been around a long time. When you’re the son of a promoter and the son of a wrestler, it’s the best thing that could ever happen to them and it’s also the worst thing that could ever happen to them all at the same time. You have to take the good with the bad because being the son of a wrestler and a promoter and being the grandson of a promoter on his stepmother’s side, it’s a wrestling family.

Discussing the differences between the nWo in comparison to the Bullet Club:

Those guys, the Young Bucks, Doc and Karl have already been part of our Grand Slam Tour shows the first seven that we’ve had. The in ring ability of the Bullet Club versus the in ring ability of the nWo and I think those guys (nWo) would be the first to tell you is that without question would say the Bullet Club is off the charts bell to bell more talented. They organically came out from Fergal DeVitt and Karl Anderson and those guys came up through the hard way in the New Japan dojo. They worked their butts off, match after match, tour after tour. The timing was right also as it all exploded all at once. It is a completely different set of circumstances then the nWo when it was real life set of circumstances when Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, arguably two of the biggest four or five guys in the WWF at the time defected and went south and were taking over. That was as real as it gets. But when you talk about competitive and Global Force Wrestling, we are going to bring that type of competition to the forefront.

Discussing his vision and future with GFW:

The vision is fundamentally, very different. It’s also because of the timing of things. I named the company April 7th, 2014 and went directly and worked to form alliances with major promotions in Japan, Mexico and independent promotions in South Africa, Europe and Australia and really dialed in and the NEX GEN title was about giving guys opportunity which quite frankly are too many to name. Just in Lake County (Ohio) last weekend at the Grand Slam event, the main event of that show was Showtime Eric Young, a guy who is under contract with TNA wrestling has a serious issue in his head that I, a non-contracted TNA talent left his promotion with a belt and we invited him on the tour and out of that he faced Johnny Gargano, a local guy who is a phenomenal talent just a tremendous talent wrestling in his home promotion right there in Cleveland, AIW and that was the main event. That is a part of what we are doing when we are heading to Vegas.

We are going have Kushida the top Junior in the world out of New Japan Pro Wrestling competing for us, we are going to have Bobby Roode, the best wrestler in TNA wrestling, we are going to have Chris Mordetzky, we are going to have Nick Aldis, we are going to have Micki James who is a multi-time women’s champion. Sanada, he is a (Great) Muta protégé. So all of these different talents jigsaw, wrestling under one umbrella and that’s a big part of the vision. Then that’s the bell to bell vision and then you want to take outside of that all you have to do is go to @GFWwrestling our Youtube channel or any of our social media platforms and the word that I use is authentic…

Dan Spivey, Billy Jack Haynes and Bryan Clarke went at it on Facebook over the last day. 

First one is from Dan Spivey at 10:00 a.m. PST yesterday

You know I can’t keep my opinion to myself…and Billy Jack has once again put up a post which is bullshit. He talks about breaking into the business and being trained by Stu Hart. I can say that Stu Hart was one tough SOB and put his trainees, including his son’s thru hell! So talk about where concussions could have started, but you can’t sue Stu Hart, God rest his soul. Billy talks about his pill addiction and quitting the WWE because of that. Well I remember it as Billy taking to many pills on a flight and they had to make an emergency landing in Charlotte because he overdosed, and I believe Vince fired him because of it. Again Vince’s fault or Billy’s? Talk about putting everyone on the flight in harm’s way!

Billy constantly talks about Dynamite Kids and how he broke his back, literally for WWF/E. We all did Billy, because we loved the business and even more the pay day. Dynamite had a choice not to wrestle in WrestleMania 3, but back then in the wrestling business we got paid off the house (arena attendance) and the PPV buys, we all knew to be a part of WrestleMania meant a HUGE pay day. So did guys work hurt? Sure they did because there was no way they were going to miss out on that pay day! It wasn’t Vince demanding anyone to work. Also with Dynamite, again I spoke to his brother and Dynamite has no idea about this lawsuit and wants nothing to do with it. In fact Vince wanted to send him money, but Tommy refused as it would mess up his medical insurance in England. So because of you, Billy and your lawyers telling Vince’s lawyers that Dynamite is involved in the law suit, Vince’s lawyers are counter suing , which puts Dynamite in a worse position
– so who’s at fault now? AND Lex Luger, spoke with him the other day and he also has no idea about the lawsuit and wants nothing to do with it, and among the walking dead, as you claim, Lex is not among the walking dead!

Now onto the Hart family – Davey Boy, trust me Vince did not introduce him to his own doctors, no way. And no way did Vince introduce Davey to liquid morphine. As any good addict, as Davey Boy was, he found his own drugs and in good supply. Is it sad that Davey Boy passed away of a drug over dose? It sure is, and let’s hope his good attributes as a wrestler lives on in his son Harry, who is doing very well in Japan and whom I am in touch with. A good kid, and a good worker.

Bret Hart and his brutal concussion, yes he received it from Goldberg, but not in 2001, Bret wasn’t wrestling at that time. It was in 1999 when Bret was with WCW. So where is Ted Turner in all of this, a man who did nothing for the business but use it as a tax write off. Anyway, the Hart Family. Jim Neidhart, a man who has been in and out of the WWE Rehab program for 6 years! Fact. He has never taken it seriously. Fact. He stole pain pills from a neighbor – look it up it was all over the news – but then again I guess we can all use the memory loss card on that one.

Owen Hart…a very sad situation, one that haunts all of us. All I will say is that WWE did pay 18 million dollars, but then went after Lewmar the company who made the harness, the company that Martha dropped from the lawsuit – also in the news. The WWE was awarded 9 million dollars from Lewmar, which they should have. Vince paid his dues and respect to Owen.

Chris Benoit, another tragedy, and one you use very loosely, as your You-tube rant disgraced Chris and his family after their deaths, making un-true accusations especially about Nancy. Nothing was pushed under the rug, in fact because of this tragedy more medical research has been done as well as the WWE responded with a tougher wellness program and testing in regards to head trauma.
So let’s look at when this all started…hhhmmmm 1986 in Stu Hart’s dungeon, and it was called the dungeon for a reason. Or was it with Ted Turner when he owned WCW and truly did not give a damn about us, or the business. So give you my honest unbiased opinion? You’re full of it Billy. 2 years in the WWE cannot be the cause of you ailments. I have to say your own poor choices have gotten you there. You took the pain pills and became an addict. You took even more one day and almost overdosed on that flight. Oh yea another bad choice was taking part in a drug smuggling operation, which you skimmed off the top and got your ass beat. Maybe that’s where your head trauma started.

I wrestled for 14 years, 8 of them in Japan where chair shots were used every night and NEVER had a concussion, maybe that’s due to the fact that I knew what I was doing and my partner in the ring respected me enough to protect me.

By the way this is all my unbiased opinion

Here is Billy’s post…….
I broke into the pro-wrestling business at age 29 in August of 1982, I was invited to the toughest and greatest pro wrestling school in the world the Stu Hart Dungeon in Calgary Alberta Canada. I was trained by Dynamite Kid, Duke Myers, and Davey Boy Smith. In 1986 I would end up at the highest level of pro wrestling in the WWF-World Wrestling Federation, just at the Stu Hart dungeon alone in 1986 was with myself was Davey Boy Smith & Dynamite Kid (The British Bulldogs), Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart (The Hart Foundation), and also at the Stu Hart Dungeon was a couple of teenagers watching and helping me closely, the youngest son of Stu Hart Owen Hart, and his friend a young up and comer named Chris Benoit both 16 years old. Now if you heard of every name above you should have, because this is how sick and corrupt the old WWF was then in 1986 to this very date July 19th, 2015. First after WrestleMania 3 where every name would appear but Owen and Chris (then) on March 29th, 1987! First I quit the WWF in Dec 1987 after becoming a CHRONIC PAINPILL abuser all given to me after an ER flight landing, several injuries and having to work through them with no time off, 27+ years later I got clean and along with many other former WWF/E wrestlers are in court with VKM, Dynamite Kid who literally broke his back for VKM had to wrestle in WrestleMania 3 1987 or not get paid, and now has been in a wheelchair paralyzed for 2 decades and concussioned out barely speaking a sentence at age 57, his partner of the former WWF tag team champion British Bulldogs Davey Boy Smith through VKM’s own doctors got Davey hooked on painkillers like myself, but VKM introduced Davey to liquid morphine injections, a brutal habit,but Vince still gave Davey 5-6 chances with WWF cause he drew money, Davey DEAD May 18th, 2002 of a drug Overdose, Bret Hart who if honest will tell you the best there was, is, and ever will be is the DYNAMITE KID,
Bret Hart a great wrestler was forced to quit with a brutal CONCUSSION in 2001 from Goldberg, Jim Neidhart who like 90% was drug addicted, in fact was just tossed out of drug rehab a week or so ago in the now WWE wellness program, rehab does not work for concussion and or memory loss VKM, and let us not forget the 2 teenagers who in 1982 at the Stu Hart Dungeon were having their dreams of becoming a pro wrestler imagined for the future! Well the future in the WWF for Owen Hart was to fall 70-80ft to his DEATH May 23rd, 1999 VKM settled out of court for $18Million, and on June 24th, 2007 Chris Benoit allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself, and killing his wife and 7 year old son, I do not buy it for it was swept under the rug to fast without a proper investibation. Well anyhow you look and decide for yourself where, what. when, and why all this BS happened to the best ever trained at the STU HART DUNGEON! Give me your honest unbias opinion, then comment to what you think, what do you think VKM?????? Billy

Next one is from Bryan Clark on Billy Jack Haynes wall 5 hours later

I’m going to tell everyone I think Spivey is talking shit way above his head if he thinks he is speaking for everyone..guess what dip shit spivey, I was injured on more than 3 serious occasions in Vince’s ring and once so bad I ripped my shoulder out of socket and damaged everything , could not raise my arm over my head, had to walk into Vince’s office after I sat outside like a kid, finally got to the the sorry ass, had to beg to go have surgery, finally he let me go after working another week on it..I went home , had the surgery out of my pocket,18,000$. ( yeah, only his favorites had insurance) this broke my account, I know its hard to believe a wwf star with a weak bank account, but remember Vince was fighting and trying to avoid prison for all his steroid issues… We were working 280 plus days, I should have been out 8 months, I was back in 4 because Vince was starving my family out, so DAN SPIVEY , do not speak for me ever , and there are hundreds

and of more of the boys who were injured and suffered, and still carry those injuries for ever ..CARRY ON BJH…and you damn right Bryan Clark said it !!!! Check the records and doctors !

There is a response from Spivey on this on the post

Dan Spivey Brian, I invite you to man up, if you have something to say to me, and post it on my face book page. Better yet send me a personal message and I will give you my phone number so we can talk man to man. Otherwise my response to your rhetoric will be on my FB page
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Bryan Clark Spivey I have manned up my entire life , I know enough about you from Brian Adams and others, I really have to say I don’t want to be friends with someone who does Vince’s bs work. You need to let all the boys who were injured on vkm watch to have their say. AND I will have my say. You are one person with one view. We do not need you as our mouthpiece! Many wrestlers were injured before and after you and never even offered the basic medical needs. This will be our last “talk”as I don’t feel the need to discuss something you know nothing about! Bryan Clark, and yes I said it.

Last post is from Dan Spivey less than an hour ago

In response to Brian Clark and his less than stellar post on Billy Jacks FB page.
First Brian I don’t not speak for everyone and I have never spoken for you or about you, I speak for myself and only give my opinions and lay out the facts. I am sorry you received those injuries, such as I have but again I do not blame one man. AGAIN we all knew what we were getting into with wrestling. I too have had many injuries in the ring. My knee, back and neck. I had my neck fused while working for Vince and he didn’t pay for my surgery either, which was over $100,000, I paid that. He was kind enough at that time to pay me $500 a week while I was off to heal, which did not come close to paying that bill. Vince didn’t have to pay me as I was well aware, as an INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, you know that contract we all signed that stated we were responsible for our own health insurance and travel expenses with the exception of flights, we signed it!. We knew what we were getting into, we wanted to be in wrestling and with the top company which was
the WWF. The blame seems to fall on one man, Vince and on one else, not Ted Turner, Japan, ECW or any other wrestling promoters, and we incurred injuries from them as well.
My questions to you is this….If you were injured, why did you continue working for another week? And after your surgery why did you come back earlier than you should have? These were your choices, you could have said no to working that extra week, stay home and properly heal yourself after surgery, but you didn’t. I know you say Vince was “starving you and your family”, so you HAD to come back – I am sure with a doctor’s release to say you could work. Brian, it was up to me to be wise enough and prepared for such instances that would take me away from my work, my career and to be sure that I was able to provide for myself and my family. And yes Vince had the federal court case regarding steroids, I am well aware of this as I testified and in my testimony, as well as many of the other boyz testified, Vince never told us to take steroids or drugs. And this case did cost Vince a lot of money, and by the way many people who worked in the offices
at that time lost their jobs as well, so it wasn’t just the boyz who were “affected” by this. With the steroids and drugs, as I have stated many times, I chose to take them, as an addict I wanted them and no one had to tell me twice to take them. And like many of the boyz, whom I worked with and were/are addicts, just like me, they didn’t need anyone telling them to take them either. Addiction is deadly in and out of wrestling, I have seen many of my friends die from this disease.
In regards to Billy Jack, and now you, there is information that is clearly wrong, such as Bret Harts “brutal” concussion, which he sustained in WCW not WWF/E. Billy’s accusations on the Benoit family and what he accused Nancy of, this is simply a disgrace. Dynamite Kid and Lex Luger, they are NOT a part of the lawsuit, they are not, I speak to them I know. Addiction, again a scientific fact that we are all pre-disposed with the addiction gene, which is not called the “once you work for Vince you will become an addict” gene. Most of us were addicts before we walked into the Wrestling world, wrestling just gave us the excuse to use. Injuries, yes we sustained them, but not all from one promoter, which for most of us was over 20 years ago.
Brian, from what I have read and heard about you, you like to play the blame game. Such as your return to the WWF/E in 2001, for your 21 day stint. You are put into a major story line against Undertaker and Kane, two of the top superstars in the business, you all work at a few house shows and then right into a PPV and you stunk up the place, so bad in fact that Undertaker ripped you apart backstage after the match. And you blame everyone…because you and Brian had “ring rust, Kane had a staph infection, Undertaker had been off for a while” blame, blame blame, why don’t you just admit that you, YOU, were not good enough at that time, not that you were set up for failure. And for a man who is so bitter towards Vince, its funny how last year, LAST YEAR I SAID, you had an interview with WGD Weekly with Steve and the Scum stating how you wanted to return to the WWE 2014 Royal Rumble – yes I said 2014 – here is what you said
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Highlights of Clark’s interview with Steve and the Scum included:
Waiting for a call for the 2014 Royal Rumble: “…he is doing some acting…Bryan Clark…is also in phenomenal shape and he is waiting for a call for the Royal Rumble…There’s a lot of guys saying like, Jake Roberts and Scott Hall and these guys, I’ve never stopped training…Adam Bomb could definitely come back at the Royal Rumble in Pittsburgh in 2014 in January, these other guys are not ready, they are not physically ready, and I am, just throwing it out there and we’ll see…have the ‘Creation of Devasation make an appearance, come in , acouple of ‘Meltdowns’ on some people, you know, get it over…just a proper send off, you know…I’m definitely capable of it…”
Need I say more.