News on John Cena, Trish Stratus, and Badd Blood By: Liz Sanders on May 24, 2003
Dion Morray sent this recap of John Cena on "Open Mike" in Canada yesterday. ... Cena came out in a Toronto Blue Jays jersey, which the crowd liked. He brought up practicing moves on the cement in his basement with his brothers and Mike Bullard made the remark that now since he's wrestling on mats, with safety, he must feel like a wimp. Mike brought up backyard wrestling and John said that those guys are crazy and it wasn't for him. I was hoping he would smack Mike because Mike pronounced Cena "Sina". Mike made the mistake of calling the WWE the "WWF" and John corrected him and stated that "We got the F out". Mike then touched very briefly on the World Wildlife Fund and John remarked, "Damn those pandas are scary". Mike said that he loves seeing Vince run from "tree huggers". John laughed pretty hard at that one. Mike asked who he hated and despised on the roster. John said no one. He brought up Brock Lesnar and called him "manster", stating he was half man half monster. He brought up the F U and stated that he came up with the move when he was working with Brock. Mike asked to show it off on someone but instead John just showed him how to do a reverse knife edge chop, which mike did to john and john basically laughed off. Overall it was a good interview. He started off in kayfabe mode but that didn't last long. He also brought up wrestling schools, John's "Dead end job", building gyms in California and John's home town, which was so small it "has one stop light and one post office".
Adam Lebow sent this one. ... Trish Stratus will be on the Mike Bullard show Thursday, May 29th. "Open Mike with Mike Bullard" airs weeknights at 7 PM (ET) on the Comedy Network and at midnight (ET) on CTV.
Doug Brown sent this one. ... Just wanted to let you know that during Smackdown on UPN-20 in Houston they ran a localized advertisement about tickets for Badd Blood. The advertisement, which featured a voice over by Jonathan Coachman, stated that it was a Raw only event.
Matthew Granoff added this. ... Since there is a lot of talk about "Raw presents" and "Stone Cold presents", I wanted to let you know that the booklet that comes with my Time Warner bill in NYC shows "Raw presents" and also has a picture of Goldberg and HHH.
