Mr. Kennedy Released

Podge2k7 · 30-05-2009 01:00AM #1

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WWE.com wrote:

World Wrestling Entertainment has come to terms on the release of RawSuperstar Mr. Kennedy (Ken Kennedy) as of today, May, 29 2009. WWE wishes Ken the best in all future endeavors

Not really surprised tbh!

Machismo Fan · 30-05-2009 01:02AM

I really can't believe they actually fired him. He's the kind of person who could go straight to TNA and if healthy become a huge star.

DM_7 · 30-05-2009 01:07AM

Ah FFS I'm pissed off now. Could they not of made him GM or something.

EDIT: Or a manager?

EdK · 30-05-2009 01:09AM

Also his name isn't Kennedy ha usually they refer to them by ring and real name

waltersobchak · 30-05-2009 01:12AM

wow thats kinda surprising, but not unexpected since the guys prob the most injury prone wrestler ever!! bit of a shame he never lived up to the hype.. but i suppose the **** reaction he got on monday didnt help.. but then again if he can stay healthy, he'll most likely return sooner than later..

waltersobchak · 30-05-2009 01:13AM

DM-ICE wrote: »

Ah FFS I'm pissed off now. Could they not of made him GM or something.

EDIT: Or a manager?

or commentator since matt strikers most likely gonna get the boot too

Podge2k7 · 30-05-2009 01:15AM

waltersobchak wrote: »

or commentator since matt strikers most likely gonna get the boot too

I'd say that he would be a good commentator.

30-05-2009 01:18AM

Predictable release to be honest. The man is far too injury prone.

RebelRockChick · 30-05-2009 01:18AM

Jokingly said to someone during the week that he would probably be released, after hearing he got injured again. Guessing by his release so soon after it happening, that his latest injury must be keeping him sidelined for quite a while.

The guy just has the worst luck with injuries!

DM_7 · 30-05-2009 01:19AM

Podge2k7 wrote: »

I'd say that he would be a good commentator.

If WWE decided to release him without looking for a way to get him on tv in a new role they are foolish

Maybe he asked for a release. He must be pissed off to be on the injured list 50 weeks a year. He may go into acting full time.

Machismo Fan · 30-05-2009 01:23AM

I think Orton may have stiffed him with the RKO on Raw. He looked really annoyed after Kennedy's backdrop.

DM_7 · 30-05-2009 01:25AM

Machismo Fan wrote: »

I think Orton may have stiffed him with the RKO on Raw. He looked really annoyed after Kennedy's backdrop.

Jeepers, I have a reason to watch RAW from LA again so i can check that out.

Handsome Bob · 30-05-2009 01:38AM

Gutted. Someone who could have been a real superstar and I'll always look back to that promo with Regal as the big what if. I'm annoyed that WWE tossed him but I understand begrudgingly why they did it. I guess it eventually gets tiring constantly building a guy up or a guy's return only for it to constantly go out the window in a matter of weeks.

Hope he gets well and I hope he goes to TNA. I'd actually watch that show if he was on it.:p

ShawnRaven · 30-05-2009 01:51AM

From a business standpoint, i completely understand. He's a liability and an insurance hazard. From a personal standpoint, i feel very sorry for him. He does come across as someone very down to earth and very likeable from interviews and stories i've heard from people who have met him.

The problem is, he doesn't have a lot going for him to TNA. Their roster is already far too big for it's miniscule amount of programming. The one thing that really got him over in WWE, his character won't be usable either and if TNA even remotely try to duplicate it, Vince & his boys will put cease and desist order on Mrs Carter and her crew.

Plus if he really is that fragile, the chances are his injuries aren't fully healed and he's coming back too soon. And that's the bit that pisses me off about the while situation.

There's a very good chance WWE rushed his comeback to fit in with storylines, and Kennedy probably knew himself that he wasn't fully ready but return to be "the company man", and it resulted him in getting sh*tcanned.

Shame.

Kane-N-Nite · 30-05-2009 01:59AM

I really liked Kennedy. Sorry to see him go, but I understand the reasoning behind the decision.

Rjd2 · 30-05-2009 02:02AM

Weird they hyped his return, stuck him i the ten man tag match and even had have a segment with Orton, like Cades release last year I suspect more details will emerge over the next few days.

markopantelic · 30-05-2009 02:06AM

hard to believe its like basically 4 years since his debut as Kennedy. kinda sad, a different time for wrestling. i havent watched it properly in about 2 years so I wasn't exactly aware what the situation was but I expected him to be a big star by now. Hows TNA lately? When I was watching they looked like they were on their way to competing properly with WWE

i beg for the day vince stops the wwe 'light' direction

ShawnRaven · 30-05-2009 02:13AM

markopantelic wrote: »

hard to believe its like basically 4 years since his debut as Kennedy. kinda sad, a different time for wrestling. i havent watched it properly in about 2 years so I wasn't exactly aware what the situation was but I expected him to be a big star by now. Hows TNA lately? When I was watching they looked like they were on their way to competing properly with WWE

Please keep this on topic. Either start another thread about TNA or ask about it in the TNA tour thread.

i beg for the day vince stops the wwe 'light' direction

The "light" direction that made WWE the corporate multimedia conglomerate it was long before the Attitude era? And which has nothing to do with Kennedy?

amacachi · 30-05-2009 02:14AM

ShawnRaven wrote: »

From a business standpoint, i completely understand. He's a liability and an insurance hazard. From a personal standpoint, i feel very sorry for him. He does come across as someone very down to earth and very likeable from interviews and stories i've heard from people who have met him.

The problem is, he doesn't have a lot going for him to TNA. Their roster is already far too big for it's miniscule amount of programming. The one thing that really got him over in WWE, his character won't be usable either and if TNA even remotely try to duplicate it, Vince & his boys will put cease and desist order on Mrs Carter and her crew.

Plus if he really is that fragile, the chances are his injuries aren't fully healed and he's coming back too soon. And that's the bit that pisses me off about the while situation.

There's a very good chance WWE rushed his comeback to fit in with storylines, and Kennedy probably knew himself that he wasn't fully ready but return to be "the company man", and it resulted him in getting sh*tcanned.

Shame.

QFT. As much as at first it sounds like a prickish thing for WWE to do, I'm sure they can't justify paying hundreds of thousands in salary, plus medical expenses to someone who does nothing to further the product.

As much as I like him and his character, he's probably pretty much finished, can't see how TNA would use him, not like they can give him time to develop his character.

Degag · 30-05-2009 03:09AM

waltersobchak wrote: »

or commentator since matt strikers most likely gonna get the boot too

I cant really see them dropping striker... pretty good colour commentator, especially considering he hasn't done it for very long.

Not sure about Kennedy. He had the mic skills and the potential but i never really saw him in a match over 10 minutes. Could he deliver? I think he could and i've no doubt that we'll see him back with WWE if his injury's heal.

BTW... maybe shawn could answer this, but i remember a time when the WWE would stand by a wrestler when he was injured (and perhaps release him when he was fully fit again) and never release him when he was so.... this applied to non-main event stars also i think.... or was kennedy's latest injury the final straw?

Lol his wiki profile has been edited... his name is listed as Kenneth C. Injury.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Kennedy

Probably going to be edited before ye see it but i don't know how to take a screenshot:(

ShawnRaven · 30-05-2009 03:17AM

Degag wrote: »

I cant really see them dropping striker... pretty good colour commentator, especially considering he hasn't done it for very long.

Gotta agree here. Striker is one of the best commentators WWE have at the minute, and given the Cole/King JR/Grisham combinations on the other brands, it's a pretty bad bunch, as King stopped being funny years ago, and I know i'm gonna take serious heat for this next comment, but JR has been terrible for several years now and a shadow of his former self.

BTW... maybe shawn could answer this, but i remember a time when the WWE would stand by a wrestler when he was injured (and perhaps release him when he was fully fit again) and never release him when he was so.... this applied to non-main event stars also i think.... or was kennedy's latest injury the final straw?

Encyclopaedia Ravenatannica says:
WWE hasn't taken that stance for quite some time in my honest opinion. Test got injured while working for WWE in 2004, and was subsequently released while rehabbing said injury (while Chris Nowinski sat in collecting paycheque after paycheque for telling people to "SMACKDOWN YOUR VOTE!"). And although a pregnancy isn't exactly an injury, WWE did release Dawn Marie after Vince had promised her that he would look after her.

So i'm not entirely sure if it's a case of natural selection there or what.

Whiplash · 30-05-2009 03:18AM

wow. kennedy could be a big draw if iww or awr book him for any upcoming shows! still shocking that he was released just after his return, even with his injury. most likely tho we will be seeing mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ANDERSON..........ANDERSON in tna before long

ShawnRaven · 30-05-2009 03:23AM

Whiplash wrote: »

wow. kennedy could be a big draw if iww or awr book him for any upcoming shows

Oh please! That's a bit of an overstatement with all due respect.
I like Kennedy and all, but I certainly wouldn't use the term "big draw", he has zero main event track record, and the only big championships the guy has accomplished is the "king of the hospital bed"!

Attraction maybe, but not draw. Let's not confuse the two here!

Degag · 30-05-2009 03:27AM

ShawnRaven wrote: »

but JR has been terrible for several years now and a shadow of his former self.

Since he's had vince yelling in his ear?;)

ShawnRaven · 30-05-2009 03:29AM

Long before that, more like since he started forgetting his lines and tripping up over his contradictions. But hey, what about that Kennedy fella, eh?

EdK · 30-05-2009 03:30AM

They were putting him over big time on commentary Monday night too now they'll act like he never even existed which will be interesting to see

I agree with SR his only claim to fame besides injury in wrestling Eddie Guerrero in his last tv match

Degag · 30-05-2009 03:45AM

EdK wrote: »

They were putting him over big time on commentary Monday night too now they'll act like he never even existed which will be interesting to see

I agree with SR his only claim to fame besides injury in wrestling Eddie Guerrero in his last tv match

Ya see, this is the big problem... WWE bring Kennedy back to confront it's biggest heel in Orton, yet the next week there is no mention of him. It'd nearly be better if they said (on live tv) that Kennedy had been released because of continious injuries..... Not gonna happen of course but they have to see that if they keep on treating their fans as if they have no memory or intelligence then they are going to lose out big time.

Whiplash · 30-05-2009 03:55AM

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Oh please! That's a bit of an overstatement with all due respect.
I like Kennedy and all, but I certainly wouldn't use the term "big draw", he has zero main event track record, and the only big championships the guy has accomplished is the "king of the hospital bed"!

Attraction maybe, but not draw. Let's not confuse the two here!

Well good point SR but in my opinion if you put kennedy on a poster he would "draw" a crowd on fact he was in wwe and was big for a time. anyway attraction, draw whatever he would get a crowd to a show. if only on name value alone. Hey SR did you ever think that we stay up to god damn late?!:p:pac:

Shaneomac · 30-05-2009 07:02AM

Kennedy will be back again in wwe 100%. Hell be given some time off to recharge the batteries and will be rehired at some point. Guaranteed. IF he can prove fitness levels that is.

Brolly · 30-05-2009 07:33AM

Shaneomac wrote: »

Kennedy will be back again in wwe 100%. Hell be given some time off to recharge the batteries and will be rehired at some point. Guaranteed. IF he can prove fitness levels that is.

They have already given him plenty of time to recharge the batteries! Back one match and he's injured again!

I like Kennedy, but the man is a f*cking hazard!:pac:

waltersobchak · 30-05-2009 10:41AM

Degag wrote: »

I cant really see them dropping striker... pretty good colour commentator, especially considering he hasn't done it for very long.

Not sure about Kennedy. He had the mic skills and the potential but i never really saw him in a match over 10 minutes. Could he deliver? I think he could and i've no doubt that we'll see him back with WWE if his injury's heal.

BTW... maybe shawn could answer this, but i remember a time when the WWE would stand by a wrestler when he was injured (and perhaps release him when he was fully fit again) and never release him when he was so.... this applied to non-main event stars also i think.... or was kennedy's latest injury the final straw?

Lol his wiki profile has been edited... his name is listed as Kenneth C. Injury.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Kennedy

Probably going to be edited before ye see it but i don't know how to take a screenshot:(

i think strikers a fantastic too but was talking about the bad publicity from his whole nude photo thing
http://www.wrestlingattitude.com/headlines.php?subaction=showfull&id=1243610490&archive=&start_from=&ucat=2&

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