Released Wrestler Calls For WWE To ‘Stop The Laziness & Start Building New Stars’

By AG

Posted on August 4, 2020

• ON THIS DAY IN WCW HISTORY (August 3, 1996) – WCW Saturday Night

On this day in 1996, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired an episode of their weekly TV show ‘WCW Saturday Night’.

This episode was pre-taped at the Disney MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida and featured matches & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WCW Hog Wild 1996’ PPV.

The card of the show can be found here:

1. Harlem Heat vs. Dick Slater & Mike Enos

2. Ric Flair vs. Chavo Guerrero Jr.

3. Ice Train vs. The Gambler

4. Alex Wright vs. Brad Armstrong

5. Public Enemy vs. Butch Long & Bill Payne

6. Dean Malenko vs. Steve Armstrong

7. Meng vs. The Renegade

8. Chris Benoit vs. Randy Savage

9. The Giant vs. Brian Knobbs

• Released Wrestler Calls For WWE To ‘Stop The Laziness & Start Building New Stars’

Former WWE 24/7 Champion Maria Kanellis was one of the many names released by WWE during the budget cuts in April.

As seen over the past couple of months, she isn’t happy with WWE about the way they treated her and her husband, Mike Kanellis. She’s also angry about the fact that they release her while she was pregnant.

Kanellis took to Twitter again to take a shot at WWE, telling them to focus on storylines instead of ratings.

“WWE doesn’t want to build new stars, they want to spike the ratings for a couple weeks to keep the investors/networks happy. What WWE doesn’t seem to get, is ratings improve when people care about the story/stars. Invest in talent, spend the time building stars, stop the laziness.”

WWE doesnt want to build new stars, they want to spike the ratings for a couple weeks to keep the investors/networks happy. What WWE doesn’t seem to get, is ratings improve when people care about the story/stars. Invest in talent, spend the time building stars, stop the laziness.
— MariaKanellisBennett (@MariaLKanellis) August 3, 2020