Weekend News.

Wade Barrett's injury is officially more severe than first thought. Barrett suffered the injury in a battle royal on RAW last week, and everyone remained hopeful that the Mancunian would be fit in time for Mania.The initial diagnosis had Wade sidelined for up to 8 weeks but he has now been confirmed out of action for up to 4 months.




Due to Barrett's injury the proposed idea of bringing the MITB match back to Wrestlemania has now been scrapped. Barrett was pencilled in as the winner for the match but because of his injury the match seems to have been scrapped all together.





Former WWF wrestler Doug Furnas passed away on Friday night. He competed with the company in the late 90's.





Xaiver Woods who was also known as Consequences Creed in TNA wrestled Curt Hawkins at a recent RAW house show. He has been in the developmental company of FCW since 2010.





Eve & Natalya, who were seen in a confrontation on Friday night Smackdown have now taken it to Twitter.
Natalya tweeted "After SD last night I'm more disgusted than ever by @EveMarie Torres' behaviour toward both @ZackRyder and @JohnCena. #TeamZack"
Eve responded with "And I'm disgusted by... you @NatbyNature. I wouldn't expect you, or any of these people to know how it feels to be beautiful & have to use it."
Also Natalyas' defeat to Eve was her 12th successive loss on TV.






With stories circulating that the locker room are getting increasingly jealous over The Rocks standing in the WWE another former star has come out on Twitter to back the Peoples Champion. Carlito tweeted a rant on Friday night.
 "My opinion on The Rock is that everybody should be thankful that he's back. Did he come back to save his movie career? Of course, so what? The Rock saved 'Mania last year and this year too. Do any of u see any other wrestler right now that can sell out 'Mania?" he wrote.

"The "boys" should be happy that 'Mania will be a big success and fans shouldn't even really care as to why Rock is back."

Bruno Sammartino appeared on Busted open with Doug Mortman which will air this week, and amongst other topics Bruno gave his thoughts on the WWE Hall of Fame and why he hasn't been inducted as of yet.
Here is just a snippet from what by all accounts seems a very interesting interview.

" Okay, first of all, let’s talk about the Hall of Fame. You see what people don’t understand about this Hall of Fame, they say that I’m being stubborn now. That’s not true. The first year he came out with the Hall of Fame, they totally ignored me like I didn’t exist. They named certain people—I don’t even remember who they inducted first—but they got these people. I was never even mentioned because that was McMahon—in my opinion—that was his way of showing me that “you don’t mean nothing to us” or “you’re out, you’re finished, you’re a has-been”. OK. But what happened was, it backfired on him because people called, wrote in, all kinds of stuff like “how the heck could you call that Hall of Fame? Here’s a guy who’s World champion for almost twelve years. Sold out the Garden more times than all these blah blah blah, and he’s not in Hall of Fame…” It was because I guess he didn’t expect that kind of reaction.

And after that a few years later, his attorney contacted me (Jerry McDevitt) and tried to talk me to go into it, and I said no, that I was not interested in it. I said first of all because I don’t believe I had part of that part of the wrestling. I was in the WWWF, not the WWF that he had which he transformed into something completely different from the wrestling that I had been involved with, number one. And I said so I don’t want no part of that Hall of Fame. And then also because,, when people say to me—the few, because most people understood me—but those who didn’t, I would ask them, I’d say “If you ‘re gonna go to this Hall of Fame, would you want to take your kids or whatever, tell me, where do you take ‘them?” I said, don’t you get it? This is strictly a marketing gimmick; this is no Hall of Fame! Where’s the building? Where’s the place that people can go to and see, what? And where does a guy like—eh, what’s his name—[Drew] Carey, a show host belonging to a wrestling Hall of Fame, or Refrigerator Perry or Pete Rose or Bob Uecker… These guys were all great guys and I’m not against any of them. They were all great at what they did, but what do they have to do with wrestling? So to me, I’d be embarrassed! I wouldn’t want any part of that kind of a “Hall of Fame”. And as far as McMahon and I…repairing our relationship, I don’t think it’s possible. I made it myself very very clear from the beginning: I totally disagree and went against what’s he done to wrestling. "