sources: PWInsider.com, Wrestling Observer Newsletter
— As reported earlier, Batista is scheduled to appear on an upcoming episode of the Starz series Head Case. In an update on the scheduled appearance, the episode is scheduled to air sometime in May. His appearance on the program was taped prior to his hiatus from the ring.
The timetable for Batista’s return to the ring is early August, just in time for SummerSlam.
— WWE developmental wrestler Sweet Papi Sanchez is doing a kid friendly gimmick in Florida Championship. Initially, he appeared to be doing a gimmick similar to Viscera’s “Love Machine” act, but now he’s throwing candy out to kids in the audience when he makes his entrance. He debuted the gimmick at a recent television taping.
As recently as late last year, Sanchez was doing a masked monster gimmick under the name Black Pain. WWE had plans to call him up to the main roster as part of “dark” stable alongside Hade Vansen and Kevin Thorn to feud with Undertaker, but plans were called off after Vince McMahon saw Vansen’s bizarre vignette on a December episode of SmackDown. McMahon did not want unproven wrestlers involved in a program with Taker, so their call-ups were nixed. Vansen and Thorn were released from the company a few weeks later.
— WWE.com has an article looking at ECW newcomer Tyson Kidd and his unique hairstyle. Regarding the hairstyle, Kidd said, “It reminds me that I’m always wearing a crown. If this haircut doesn’t scream Extreme, what does?”
While he appears to be a babyface for now, it looks like WWE has plans to turn Kidd heel in the near future as he acts rather heelish towards the end of the interview by cutting off the person conducting it and making some rather disparaging remarks regarding ECW.
“Why don’t you just watch my match highlights on WWE.com,” Kidd said, “as I erase the legacy of your beloved Original ECW?”
He also proclaims himself as the “future king of Extreme” and says his hairstyle is the way it is because he refuses to follow “the rest of the sheep” in ECW.
You can read the article at the following link.
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