Batista rumor

[Bubba JD]

source: www.f4wonline.com

This past weekend, some people within World Wrestling Entertainment leaked a story to PWInsider.com saying Batista had suffered a biceps tear. Their story was later changed to a torn tendon in his left biceps and that it was not a full fledged muscle tear. The webmaster of his official website, www.Demon-Wrestling.com, soon acknowledged his injury, confirming it as a torn tendon.

The webmaster wrote: "We originally thought Dave had a torn muscle (he's been hurt for around 2-3 weeks), but this has now been confirmed as a torn tendon."

However, the official WWE website would say differently.

According to their report concerning Batista's injury, he suffered a completely torn left biceps requiring surgery that will keep him out of action for at least four months — not a torn tendon.

A full fledged muscle tear is much more serious than a tendon tear, so something's clearly not adding up. If he did indeed suffer a torn tendon like his official website is saying, the amount of ring time he would miss would be considerably less.

Among some of the wrestlers, there has been plenty of skepticism over the true severity of his injury. The injury supposedly occurred over three weeks ago, but he had been working television, pay-per-views, and live events without any sort of tape on his arm whatsoever, let alone showing any signs of an injury. If the biceps tear was serious, and people within WWE are claiming it was serious enough for him to get surgery two days after his championship victory, it would certainly have been taped up. If the injury was not serious enough to require tape, one would think there would be no need for surgery.

Even partially torn biceps injuries are taped up, but considering WWE is saying he suffered a full fledged muscle tear, it makes the severity of his injury all the more suspicious.

At Monday's Raw in Lafayetteý, the wrestlers were told his injury was legitimate and he was having surgery the next day. However, the talk among wrestlers in the locker room is that his injury angle on Raw was a cover-up to have him avoid being suspended due to a violation of the company's drug testing policy.

For what it's worth, Monday's show was re-written several times during the day and the creative team was given a list of wrestlers not to use for the foreseeable future prior to show time as a result of drug testing held earlier in the day and at shows over the weekend.

WWE covering up a drug test failure with an injury would certainly be a major change of philosophy on how they handle their drug testing policy, and while things appear fishy, right now there is no concrete evidence indicating that has happened.

[Hollywood]

I remember Reaper and I talking about this same thing last night on MSN. I thought it was suspicious that he seemed to be moving around just fine this past Monday night on Raw.

[Bubba JD]

i'm sure you probably remember me bitching (in the past) about the alleged Wellness Policy. my biggest gripe involved how the top stars would be protected from punishment, if they were ever caught violoating the rules.

i'm of the belief that Batista was most likely caught & will most likely get away with things, because he's one of Vince's boys.

[sh17]

I have a hard time believing this, not because I think Vince McMahon is an honest and open businessman, because this sounds exactly like something he would do. My main problem with this theory is that if it's true, then the backlash you get for it is just incredible. Especially after the Benoit issue, all the steroid related deaths, how would you look if this is found out as truth. Plus, if you lose Batista, have you lost that much? The guy is over 40, and quite frankly not anything that special as far as actual talent goes. If he tested positive, then I wouldn't have any problem with him being shown the door. Rob Van Dam was insanely more popular than Batista ever was, and he held not one but TWO world titles at the time. Yet, they had no problem stripping him of both titles and suspending him for 30 days for something considerably less serious. The math just doesn't add up here

[Reaper]

Heres the problem... if he failed the test, then they'd have to report it publicly. IF they don't report it, then they (the WWE) look like liars and the popular media won't take them seriously. Now if he failed and they can cover it up and hush everybody up about it, then they don't have to look stupid for having a top guy get suspended.

Now, you ask what they would lose if they got rid of Batista, and the answer there is simple... money. No matter how much most of us who enjoy wrestling for good performance and good story telling, theres always going to be a bigger group, of casual fans that only care about the people that are pimped out to them. And sadly, as much as Rob Van Dam is talented and good at putting on a show, if you compare his merchandise revenue to those of Triple H, Batista, or Cena... or even the Hardy's, I would be willing to bet you that RVD's was marginally smaller. Also, and heres the nail in the coffin that has always been the case.... Batista is a homegrown talent, whereas RVD was not and they never REALLY backed RVD.

So that leads me to the fun part... on Monday night we saw the return of Triple H. Triple H has been priority for a long time, and since he's the super face of the hour, they didn't want 2 Major faces going after the same target. And with there actually being a lack of heels on Raw now... and by that I mean credible to be in big feuds... it only makes since that Batista gets sacrificed into making public appearances and other outside projects so they can focus on Triple H and build him back up.

So when you think about it, its a shitty situation but if you get down to some of the details, theres a real possibility that this whole injury is a work to cover a failure or to just move Batista out of the spotlight.

[Bubba JD]

if Batista gets removed because of "injuries", WWE & Batista save major face with the public. if it comes out that he's being suspended for drug violations, WWE looks bad. Batista would look bad. Vince McMahon would look bad. the bad publicity could harm them with merchandising sales, many casual fans would stop showing up (die-hards will either continue showing up or gave up on WWE years ago). considering that Batista is homegrown talent, as Reaper points out, that makes the bad publicity even worse.

there could be legal ramifications, as well.....depending on what the specific situation is.

when RVD was champion, WWE needed to prove that their Wellness Policy had some teeth. punishing him gave the Policy some teeth. at the very least, it made the Policy a bit more believable.

[sh17]

If anyone is interested, this note has made its way out

credit:prowrestling.com

Sources say Batista is coming to grips with the fact that his days are numbered as a full-time, active WWE wrestler.

While he plans to make a full recovery from his recent biceps injury, the talk is that Batista knows he will not be able to continue for much longer. Though most wrestlers end up going far longer than Mother Nature would recommend, the feeling is that Batista has accepted that his body is aging--he might not opt to make more returns if he again succumbs to injury after returning from this ailment.

WWE still places Batista's expected return timeframe at 4-6 months, although there is some optimism that he will try to get back in the ring by the end of the summer.

[Bubba JD]

good, i hope he starts realizing things. maybe his spot on the roster could be used for someone with some actual talent.

[Reaper]

The sad thing is, nobody in the WWE is ever allowed to use their full talent. Even Evan Bourne is a toned down version of the full extent of talent he's got. The only thing that matters to WWE is size and crowd response...with a small sprinkle of merchandise sales. If you're a big guy who is over, and your crap sells well, then the WWE will most likely love you to death and overpush you... this is where Cena and Batista come in. Its all a sham.

[Bubba JD]

unfortunately, you're right. Steve Austin, for example, used to show a lot more talent when working for WCW. when he was in WWE, the moment he started becoming huge, his matches would change quite a bit. i think his neck injury forced him to change even more then he possibly would have, without it.....but, the changes still happened.

Cena, before he became huge, used to have decent matches. before he became US Champ, i can remember a few matches of his actually entertaining me. once he finally gained the gold, forget about it. his matches became generic. it got worse when he beat JBL for the WWE Title.

i think Bret Hart was even a better wrestler, when he was only a midcard wrestler. once he became a full fledged main eventer, forget it. while he didn't suffer as much as many other wrestlers, his matches weren't up to the same standard.

every WWE wrestler suffers. they first have to suffer when they join the company. then, as they gain more popularity & raise in the ranks, their matches seem to go downhill.