Mr. Kennedy Released

Podge2k7

WWE.com

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

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

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


EDIT: Or a manager?

EdK

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

waltersobchak

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

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

waltersobchak wrote: »

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

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

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

RebelRockChick

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

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

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

DM_7

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

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

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

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

Rjd2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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&

Lone Kimono

I'm surprised he was released, especially after confronting tht WWEs top star on Monday.

Saying that, I never really liked him, thought he was overated on the mic and I wont miss him.

ShawnRaven

Whiplash wrote: »

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.

Yeah, but i'm not sure his name alone would do it. His name would need to be beside another big name in order to swing the deal.

Hey SR did you ever think that we stay up to god damn late?!:p:pac:

Sleep is the enemy.

Tricity Bendix

How many times does he have to injure himself before people realize he can't wrestle? He doesn't belong in a ring, be it WWEs or TNAs.

rossie1977

the raw roster is wafer thin at the moment, i am surprised they got rid of one of their upper mid-card guys, seems we will be seeing goldust and santino marella appear in 2-3 segments a week on raw for a while to come

of course the new injury might be serious and kennedy himself might have got so frustrated he asked for his own release

The Bull

The Latest Backstage News On Mr. Kennedy's WWE Firing

The early word on Mr. Kennedy's surprising release from World Wrestling Entertainment last night is that almost injuring Randy Orton as well as himself during his match on Raw on Monday night was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Kennedy made his return to Raw on Monday night after a ten month hiatus rehabbing a badly injured shoulder. As bad luck would have it, Kennedy ended up injuring his wrist after taking the RKO from Orton. Much more seriously in the eyes of management, Orton nearly re-injured his bad shoulder as a result of an errant maneuver on the part of Kennedy.

Following the show, Orton and Kennedy had words backstage, although it was not heated. Very calmly, Orton dressed him down, telling him he needed to be more careful so he wouldn't injure anyone else in the ring.

The Bull

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

Looks like maybe vince was just fed up with him, he had enough chances and injurys and fate has conspired against him, he won MITB and was suppose to win the WWE title at WrestleMania 24 but got injured.
He was suppose to be the person who blew up Vince McMahon's limo but Chris Benoit dying eliminated that push and of course he was suppose to be Vince's illegitimate son but he got suspended for pain killers.

as Alan Sugar would say "Your fired";)

JP Liz

He would be a good choice as gm or commentator but instead WWE let him go and i can see their point.

I wonder will he go to TNA now?

Bounty Hunter

id say his release might be a kind of we cant keep paying you when we cant use you, get yourself fit and show that we could use you again then give us a call Ken kinda thing

Rjd2

This was probably the last straw with Vince...

He was just to much of a risk in the ring to keep around.

Dancor

Rjd2 wrote: »

This was probably the last straw with Vince...

He was just to much of a risk in the ring to keep around.

What was his ring work like before he was caught for the roids? I wasnt watching when he debuted, but heard good hype about him. He gets caught, lost lots of size, had a **** program with Michaels where he had to be carried and made botches almost every match then nothing but injurys.

RebelRockChick

From his official website (http://www.ken-kennedy.com/)

Ken is physically 100 percent healthy, and very optimistic about his future in the business. More details will follow.

Diabhal Beag

I feel bad for anybody that gets fired nowadays. He was injury prone though but he had no talent and had only 1 scrap of a gimmick. He lost out when they had to say Hornswoggle was McMahon's son with the 'alleged' drug use. Wasn't a fan and now he seems like a waste of a push and money.

Poor Eddie

ShawnRaven

Little Shyte wrote: »

I feel bad for anybody that gets fired nowadays. He was injury prone though but he had no talent and had only 1 scrap of a gimmick. He lost out when they had to say Hornswoggle was McMahon's son with the 'alleged' drug use. Wasn't a fan and now he seems like a waste of a push and money.

I think it's too soon to tell, to be honest. People crapped all over Jeff Hardy after he got fired in 2003 saying the same sh*t (busted for drugs, had no in ring talent, etc.), he did pretty well on his second shot.

So i think time will tell to be honest.

Diabhal Beag

I forgot about Hardy. You could be right ShawnRaven

ShawnRaven

Little Shyte wrote: »

I forgot about Hardy. You could be right ShawnRaven

Also Orton, people who are now praising him in the last two years were the same that kept insisting that WWE fire him after he kept screwing up every easter for a few years earlier.

Diabhal Beag

TBH Shawn I get the feeling that Kennedy will either go from a Matt Morgan type to a Chuck Palumbo really. He has one line. There are more talented wrestlers and talkers so I think Kennedy has lost his chance.

He really made himself look like a tool on The Sun when he openly admitted ( Lets be honest he would have admitted he was a user if he thought he would get caught be WWE) that he was clean.

The man made the most unlucky mistakes but in steroid abusing America he may have no place in the American media. Lady Luck is not on his side.

I hope he does well though. There is a place for him in a TNA-like promotion.

ShawnRaven

Little Shyte wrote: »

He really made himself look like a tool on The Sun when he openly admitted ( Lets be honest he would have admitted he was a user if he thought he would get caught be WWE) that he was clean.

The man made the most unlucky mistakes but in steroid abusing America he may have no place in the American media. Lady Luck is not on his side.

True, but Vince took back Eddie Guerrero who had several issues with drugs. Let's call a spade a spade, but Eddie had been floundering from about October 2000-May 2001 before his firing. Nobody would have ever thought he'd have been pushed to WWE championship status at that time.

He signed the Warrior not once, but twice after his firing in 1991, despite several steroid violations during that time.

None of which have to do with Kennedy, but my point is, Vince changes his mind as often as the weather changes in Ireland.

Diabhal Beag

C'mon Eddie was popular in Japan for doing several tours along with Benoit. What has Kennedy done outside the WWE? Eddie was a far superior athlete to Kennedy. He had the talent to work for a talented ROH company when they had stunning workers like AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, CM Punk, Chris Daniels and others.

Kennedy is a one line worker. He can always improve as a wrestler but injuries will haunt his career.

A spot as a manager will always be a possiblitey though.

ShawnRaven

Little Shyte wrote: »

C'mon Eddie was popular in Japan for doing several tours along with Benoit. What has Kennedy done outside the WWE? Eddie was a far superior athlete to Kennedy. He had the talent to work for a talented ROH company when they had stunning workers like AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, CM Punk, Chris Daniels and others.

Doesn't matter! Once Eddie went to WCW, he was nothing more than a midcarder, and WWE was no exception. I'm not comparing them talent wise, i'm comparing similar situations.

Clearly you've missed my point that some people can make a better run of it the second time around. Jeff Hardy did it, Eddie Guerrero did it, what's to stop Kennedy doing it later down the track with a bit more experience and improvement?

Kennedy is a one line worker. He can always improve as a wrestler but injuries will haunt his career.

Yeah, i'll agree with you there. He needs to work a style that won't destroy him. It's doable too, i think Nash once managed to last three weeks without injury.

A spot as a manager will always be a possiblitey though.

Problem there is, managers are pretty much useless these days.

Diabhal Beag

I see where your coming from ShawnRaven but my opinion can't be changed about Ken Kennedy.For once I would like like to politely disagree because Kennedy is a failed project in my (Stuborn?) opinion.

You could be right though.......