This week Ryan chats candidly with Nick & Blake about Mick Foley’s recent appearance on Robert Irvine LIVE, the chances one of the Foleys could wind up in TNA, Jim Ross’ recent Twitter hack and death hoax, backstage word on Melina’s alleged issues with Lucha Underground, WWE filming Cal Bishop’s recent firing for Breaking Ground, more
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You can listen to Ryan’s appearance starting at the 25:41 minute mark in the embedded audio player below. Some of his quotes have been transcribed below it:
On the chances Mick Foley talked with Jeremy Borash about a return to TNA while he was on set with him for Robert Irvine LIVE, which Borash is a producer for:
RS: Zero point zero percent. Maybe he brings it up. Maybe he brings it up but there is no way with Mick Foley’s son getting a job with WWE. I know he’s known about it for a little while now but there’s no way that he is going to be possibly jeopardizing that by going to work for TNA. At least in my opinion. They were there. It would be more likely that Borash asked Noelle to come in than Mick, I would think. Which I don’t think is a real possibility. Honestly, I’m sure WWE would like to do something with her and she would probably like to do something with them. It doesn’t seem like either side is working towards that in any way, shape or form right now. She seems to be comfortable kind of doing what she’s doing right now. Just kind of enjoying herself and having fun it seems like. Working with things on the side. It doesn’t seem like that’s something that she’s necessarily working towards.
On the recent Jim Ross Twitter hack and the death hoax that went along with it:
RS: Some jerk hacked good ole’ JR. Basically, I believe it was Saturday night there was a link to a family statement posted on Jim Ross’ Twitter account. Saying that he had passed away peacefully in his sleep. Everyone was obviously freaking out thinking that it was true since it came from his official account. Then afterwards that account started tweeting obvious fake tweets that were like pushing for Leeds. Just weird things they were tweeting about so people started to realize it was fake. Word got out, I believe it was Court Bauer tweeted about it that night. Letting everyone know that he had talked to JR and that he’s not dead and that everything was ok. I spoke with Jim Ross about the whole situation and he was telling me how he’s healthy but he was definitely not happy about the entire situation because he got locked out of his Twitter page after that. His Twitter page got suspended. Apparently, once he became aware of the hack he tried to reset his password. Whoever hacked in to his account was smarter than that and had already changed his email. So, he couldn’t reset the password. He was totally screwed out of the account. Things got too out of hand so Twitter suspended his account and his over a million followers were in limbo. Which is really crappy for someone who has built up that loyal of a following. You have things you need to promote and things of that nature. Luckily, as of last night or early this morning… one of the two… JR’s Twitter page is back. He’s back to @JRsBBQ. For some reason a bunch of people unfollowed him. I don’t know if it was the hacker or if people just thought that he wasn’t going to have the page anymore so they unfollowed it. He lost like 100,000 followers or something like that.
On the story that broke about the speculated backstage attitude issues with Melina in Lucha Underground:
RS: I worked on this story. The people I talked to, my sources, have worked with her in the past. They are not saying that her reputation is off… in the past. The things that she has done in the past. From what I am told from the story that Meltzer put up is definitely… look, to him, he only really put one line in the newsletter. You know? He put just one line saying it. I don’t know where he got his information from. I definitely had multiple sources tell me that Taya working in Lucha Underground with John Morrison now was not a replacement situation because she was difficult to work with. In fact, they did want to continue working with her but last season when she made her appearance during Ultima Lucha they tried to sign her on for a longer term deal like almost everyone in Lucha Underground. They just couldn’t make any sort of agreement work out between the two of them. What I am told is that they were like, “Look, come and do this thing. Here’s what we want to do next season. If you want to be a part of it come join us. If not, we understand.” It was a cool moment when she came out. It might have appeared like she was going to be there now. To be fair, everyone knows that those two have a history with each other. It was a cool moment when she came out and helped John Morrison. I’m told that in between Ultima Lucha and Season 2, once they started working on storylines the producers had realized what they had told Melina at the end of last season, about what they were going to do with John Morrison’s character, wasn’t quite the direction they had decided to go in this season. They let her know about it and they said they would still like her to be a part of it if they could make it work out. Apparently, the two sides just couldn’t come to an agreement and they parted ways. It’s not some sort of, “She had an attitude.” It’s just business. That happens in every company. Just because you can’t come to an agreement on whatever the terms are doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re a difficult person to work with. It could just mean you are a good business person.
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