The following is a new tweet from the official Twitter page of WWE Hall Of Fame announcer Jim Ross:
"Bad day..got hit by a pickup..totaled my Escalade or so body shop thinks. Seat belt & airbag saved me."
Follow more JR tweets on Twitter @ JRsBBQ.
Skip Sheffield competed as Ryback in the opening match at Friday's WWE SuperShow in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He defeated Alex Riley with a series of power moves and a nasty spear.
Kofi Kingston partnered with Mason Ryan against WWE Tag Team Champions Epico and Primo at Friday's WWE SuperShow in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ryan took the pinfall following the Backstabber.
WWE announced Tuesday that Kingston's "Air Boom" partner Evan Bourne would be suspended for 60 days for his second violation of the company's Talent Wellness Program.
WWE Hall of Famer Tully Blanchard appeared on Busted Open, which airs every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on Sirius 92 and XM 208 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Highlights from the interview are as follows:
Why Barry Windham was chosen over other members for the WWE Hall of Fame: "The most dynamic group that we had was with Barry. You had more guys that could perform with more opponents. Big, small, all sizes and that was the most powerful group we had. Lex Luger was an addition. He was just coming in to work for Crockett as Ole was on his way out. So it was a place to put Luger to try to get him instantly to a star status since he had such a great look and it worked and it worked for quite a while. But when we switched him to babyface and Barry came back as a heel you had four guys that who could perform with Andre the Giant or the Rock and Roll Express or The Road Warriors. We could go out with all shapes and sizes and go out and tear the house down, and that is where your dynamics and your benefit for your promotion came.
Triple H possibly inducting The Four Horsemen: "He just shared with me in brief that he watched and appreciated everything we did, not just we, but he was talking about me specifically. Before he got into wrestling or at the start of his career, as he went in, if that is what he watched and that is what he molded himself after, then he would have a great amount of input on how the images of the Four Horsemen blended together and affected him."
Thoughts on JJ Dillon: "JJ is definitely one of the finest managers in my opinion, if not the best manager that the wrestling business has ever had, and I have known some good ones. But a lot of the very good ones were fighting for center stage with talent many times, and JJ never did that. He complemented everything that was done and not taking away from what the guy was doing in the ring or what the guys were doing in the ring. That made it very, very simple to go out and perform, just like you’re out there by yourself or in a tag team match and JJ could put the gas to the fire when you needed it."
What he expects the night of the Hall of Fame: "Right now the biggest honor is to be in the WWE Hall of Fame, in the wrestling business. There will be twenty thousand people at the American Airlines Center that Saturday night watching it. If I am still on this earth, I’ll be there, and I’m planning on having my four children there with me. They were born after my wrestling career and they have not really grabbed hold of the fact of what I used to do. With the magnitude of this setting and with Wrestlemania and Saturday night and Fan Axxess. My children have never seen me in that big of a setting. They have been in a couple of autograph settings with me, but this is going to be a little eye opening for them."
To thank fans for their patience with recent gaming issues, THQ will be releasing a free DLC Superstar soon. They wrote the following teaser on their website:
"And, as you may be well aware, we have a "make-good-free-DLC" WWE Superstar planned for you, as a thank you for your continued patience. This WWE Superstar doesn't just "break the walls down", he absolutely destroys any wall or foe in front of him with his monstrous power. Stay tuned, he's coming...back, to WWE '12."
THQ reps have shot down rumors that Chris Jericho will be released via DLC.
As noted before, Jim Ross was in a car accident on Saturday and totaled his Cadillac Escalade. Ross wrote the following on Twitter about the accident:
"Thx 2 seat belt/airbag I'm sore n places I didn't know I had but home. Escalade totaled. Hit guy head on as he made illegal turn. Blessed."
"traveling west crossing over I35 & pickup made left turn in front of me to get I35 south. Hit him head on. Sooner Magic. Thx."
Ross was on his way back from watching The University of Oklahoma women's basketball team defeat Texas.
- WWE Games reps revealed that Brodus Clay will be the "monster" from last year and not The Funkasaurus when he is released for WWE '12 later this month. Brodus will be released free via DLC.
Jeff Hardy seemed to have suffered some type of lower back injury during his match against Christopher Daniels, and subsequently the bout had to be cut short.
Hardy has yet to address his injury status and simply posted "ThanxWorcester" on Twitter after the event.