Shouts to International Podcast. This guy Gerald Murphy calls the WWE to get some answers about AW's firing and it gets heated. I'm surprised dude who got on the phone got so aggravated. Gerald has proof and the guy on the other end of the phone just sounds dumbfounded. You can download the phone call HERE.
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While I did post the video of AW putting the shoe to Kofi last night,I didn't go into the whole "like Kobe Bryant at a hotel room in Colorado ... he's unstoppable" line regarding Titus O'Neil that he threw out during last night's Raw, mainly because I wanted to see how quickly (if at all) he and the WWE would apologize. It's referencing the 2003 rape case Kobe went through for smashing that chick in his hotel room, and no matter if it's nine years old, it was in poor taste - and definitely something I'm glad my own five year old didn't have to hear and then ask me questions about afterwards. AW is said to have immediately apologized to both the McMahnon family and wrestlers backstage (as well as on twitter), and promised something like this wouldn't happen again. TMZ has since picked up on it, and WWE immediately commented on "taking the appropriate action in the matter", whatever that means. Hopefully it doesn't result in AW's termination, although with the fire at the arena before Raw (due to some kind of issue with the Titantron) and this incident, the WWE picked up the kind of media coverage they'd rather not receive. And in the second week of three hour Raws, in an already hectic backstage area, none of this helps. How do things like this happen, though?
After Raw last night, I exchanged a few tweets with Emilio Sparks, speaking on Michael Cole's role as a heel commentator, and my disdain for how he buries talent in that position. I always figured it made more sense for a guy like him, who knows how to talk and isn't afraid of taking a bump, to be more of a Bobby Heenan managerial role - that weasal who not only has the gift of gab and can speak for those who otherwise aren't great on the mic, but always has the right plan and a stable to back him up against a John Cena or whatever opposition are out there. For the time being, I don't see Michael Cole leaving either Raw or Smackdown to manage any superstar, but with the emergence of Abraham Washington as a player within the Raw show, we might have our guy. And he needs to make it.