• Wrestling News & Wrestling Rumors – WWE & TNA

- WWE star Mr Kennedy’s contract is up sometime in the fall/autumn – although there is no reason to think he won’t re-sign. He’s still a major star, with a movie under his belt and would be stupid to throw that away because they’ve kept him out the top spot for a few months.

- Tuesday’s ECW on Sc-Fi which saw the rematch between Mark Henry and Matt Hardy drew a nice 1.5 cable rating, which is up from recent weeks.

- Good old Jim Ross is back with more JRSBARBQ.com blog thoughts (he’s probably the most tech savvy and hip out of everyone lol) – here are the highlights:

On Chris Jericho:
“Chris Jericho has become an easy man to dislike these days and looks to be the hottest antagonist in the WWE now that fellow Canadian Edge is vacationing in his condo in Hell. Jericho’s accidental punch to Rebecca Michaels’ mouth resulted in still yet to be confirmed damage to the young mother of two and the wife of HBK. It was obvious Sunday that her lip had swollen quickly immediately after she was struck by Jericho. This personal issue is arguably the most compelling matter in the WWE these days.”

On Ric Flair:
“Ric Flair refereeing? I read of this recent Flair news item and I’m not sure that I agree with this assignment. “Naitch” is and will always be “The Man’ but “The Man” doesn’t need to be refereeing any wrestling matches…at least in my view.”

On the Championship Scramble:
“WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson told me that he loved the idea of the “Championship Scramble” coming up at Unforgiven in about 3 weeks. Patterson created the Royal Rumble concept and apparently Pat has visualized the “Championship Scramble” and he feels certain that it will be exciting.”

On Takeshi Morishima:
“Takeshi Morishima had a non televised match that I witnessed on Tuesday night before we taped Friday Night Smackdown. Morishima wrestles for the Ring of Honor organization which does a really nice job with their promotion for the record. When I saw Morishima in his wrestling attire I thought that the late Terry Gordy, who toured Japan many, many times back in the day, had fathered a “love child”. Morishima’s physique reminded me of the late Freebird in an crazy sort of way. If the young Japanese athlete can get to Gordy’s level in the ring then Takeshi will have done something special because Gordy was extraordinarily special.”