| Stephanie Responsible For Recent WWE Firings?
Stephanie McMahon was promoted to the role where she decides who gets hired and who gets fired last week. Johnny Ace answers to her now, or she can overrule him on a decision if she wants. She's really making use of her title now, as she fired four people within mere days after there weren't any cuts since before WrestleMania.
Stephanie's first victims ended up being Rob Conway and 2 Cold Scorpio, who were released on 5/11. Scorpio had spent months and months sitting at home doing nothing, so this was no surprise. Conway was a surprise because he's a good worker and always had a good attitude. Stephanie felt Conway was a "jobber for life" and would never draw any money, and wanted to make room for more developmental talents to be called up.
Johnny Ace had to be the "bad cop" (which is his new role, as if he didn't have enough heat already), and made things worse for himself by lying, saying creative couldn't come up with anything for Conway to do.
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Two cut from WWE roster
In the first major roster move since WrestleMania, WWE has released two wrestlers from its roster. Rob Conway and 2 Cold Scorpio, two veterans of the squared circle, were given their release. On separate statements on wwe.com, the fed stated that both were released from their contracts. For Conway, the move was noted as being effective, "as of today, May 11." Conway, a former WWE Tag Team Champion as a member of the La Resistance, was a standout in Ohio Valley Wrestling before making his way up to the Fed, acting as a French sympathizer. Together with Rene Dupree and Sylvain Grenier, the trio became a mainstay on Raw. Later on, however, Dupree was moved to Smackdown (and later ECW), leaving Conway and Grenier as a tandem. Eventually, Conway and Grenier would part ways, with Grenier also moving to Smackdown.
Steph Behind Recent Cuts, Scotty 2 Hotty/Ariel, HBK
As reported earlier, Rob Conway, Too Cold Scorpio and Vito were recently released from their WWE contracts. These are considered part of Stephanie McMahon's house cleaning moves to show that she's putting her stamp on the roster now that John Laurinaitis reports to her, not Vince McMahon, on a daily basis. She has a much greater influence on roster moves than before, as unless it's someone on the top third of the card, Vince is probably going to rubberstamp any roster decision she makes. That wasn't the case with John Laurinaitis' recommendations to Vince in the past.
Ariel's profile was quickly removed from ECW.com after it was announced that she was being let go. Strangely, Scotty 2 Hotty's profile is still up on WWE.com at the moment.
A funny Shawn Michaels and his hair story.
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