Teen Mom Amber Portwood Hospitalized, Possible Suicide Attempt

[FlamesofFury]

Lethal Injection #3: Off to OVW

Lethal Injection #3: Off to OVW

LW, back atcha here when a new column. Yes I have to address something to get off my chest first. As you all read my column the last time it wasn't really a column it was a copy and paste job that I didn't have a lot of time for. I was going to do a Money In the Bank column and it was going to be in my own words but I shouldn't have rushed the column just because my first one was a blow on traffic that time. I am sorry for copying and pasting on that column and I won't do it again, look at my column here, it comes from the mind of the one and only Lethal Weapon. I do this for you guys on the forum and if you don't like it then I won't do it but I just want to help and provide so IWF has something to talk about. Again it wasn't the right thing to do and I am sorry, this one is original thought when I saw Raw a week ago. I don't want any more grieve about this so can you guys stop flaming and read my column. I don't plagiarize in real life when it really can get you in trouble so I am stopping now. Now off the topic that has the forum talking and back to producing the columns.

Now one of the events on Raw that made a lot of people talk is the event that took place around the 10:15-10:25 time on Raw, which is next to the last half hour of Raw. The event was Eugene getting shaved bald by Vince McMahon. I was watching this and thought it was not going to be shaved, that somebody was going to come out and rescue Eugene but they didn't. As the shaving kept going on I thought to myself that is another superstar that Vince McMahon is publicly embarrassing for absolutely no reason but then it hit me as I was watching the end of Raw that this was a favor for Eugene.

Vince was doing Eugene a favor and was doing what he is doing to a lot of superstars these days but has only been publicized once (When DX put the whole Spirit Squad in a large cardboard box and sent them to Louisville, Kentucky and it said "Ohio Valley Wrestling"). Eugene's shaving wasn't done in the best way but it got the job done and most wrestling fans will forget him by the time he comes back. This is debatable though as many young kids and males laughed at the Blue gimmick and maybe won't forget it. Repackaging has been done a lot and has been a good thing for the WWE of late with the DSW and OVW additions of "The Ripper" Paul Burchill and Vito (who is now doing a Muy Thai gimmick). Paul Burchill is without a doubt a great wrestler but under William Regal at the time he was under him would doom him because Regal was a jobber and you couldn't help that because Regal had no direction at that time and had a really bad gimmick. Paul Burchill is one of my favorite wrestlers on Smackdown at the time but then got stuck with a bad gimmick as Regal took off. Burchill got stuck with the pleasantly forgettable "Pirate Paul Burchill" gimmick. The only thing that he really had going for him were that he did bury Regal and make himself look good for a minute and few weeks where he made Regal his servant and a "Buxom Wench". While that was all funny and all that shit, it did foreshadow the burying of Paul Burchill. Burchill soon stopped appearing on Smackdown and then was squashed by Mark Henry, ending his run on Smackdown in the process sending him back down to OVW. The second good thing that Burchill did get was he had at that time the best finisher on Smackdown but he only got to use it about 2 times. It was a good move by WWE to send Burchill back down and get him a new gimmick.

Vito wasn't in the same predicament as Burchill but he did have a bad gimmick as well and nobody wanted him on TV, though he is a decent wrestler, Vito was stuck with the unforgettable "Toughest Man wearing a dress" gimmick. Also called "The Vince McMahon gay gimmick of the brand". I was glad when Vito left Smackdown for Deep South Wrestling because the "gay" gimmick was gone and wrestlers like Nunzio and Regal weren't buried. Vito was picking up lots of wins but burying superstars but McMahon pulled the trigger to send Vito back down to late, my mind is though stained forever because of seeing Vito's ass on TV. Vito came back to DSW in January and on January 25th beat Bradley Jay and Ryan O'Reilly to capture the OVW Heavyweight Championship but then lost it back a few weeks later to O'Reilly. Vito looks poised for a comeback to a main show.

Many more superstars that are considered "Good Superstars" in Lethal Weapon's opinion have been sent back down to developmental territories (The whole Spirit Squad except for Kenny, Rob Conway, and the WWE signed Chuck Palumbo back, remember Vince likes big athletic guys and Chuck isn't that bad of a wrestler)

Plans for Superstars:

Eugene: Send him back to OVW and repackage him as a dominant heel. I think he should win the belt and as many people before me have said, put him with Conway as a tag team on Smackdown or ECW.

Vito: Continue the Muy Thai gimmick and let it gel with him, send him to Raw and let him compete for the IC title

Former Spirit Squad: Repackage them but I don't like the gimmick that they have but instead spread them out between DSW and OVW and let them compete in the singles.

That raps it up folks. Lethal Injection will be back and you can count on that.

 

[Soulpower]

Obviously, I don't kow wheter to give you props or not on the column. Still I agree with most of it, but one correction... The US title is on SD, so Vito can't go to RAW and compete for that title.

 

[StageBomb]

Obviously, I don't kow wheter to give you props or not on the column. Still I agree with most of it, but one correction... The US title is on SD, so Vito can't go to RAW and compete for that title.

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Pay attention man, he said the IC title.

 

[phantomgerald]

if u wrote all that, then i'm impressed. most of us wrestling fans here at IWF agree that eugene should have been sent back to OVW. what i don't agree with is vito. i would have said let vito keep his gimmick. he isn't going to get any younger, so why not just let us see the best he has to offer before he turns 40

 

[CenaMark54]

I don't agree with your comments about Burchill and his pirate gimmick.

That gimmick would have been a career ender for just about any other wrestler. Somehow Burchill was able to make it work and he got himself over.

I'm definitely not saying the gimmick was good and I think Burch deserves better, but to call it forgettable is not accurate. For about a month and a half, Burchills entrance along was one of the highlights of SD. We also got to see a few pretty good matches with Regal. Overall, Burch was one of the few highlights for me during a pretty mediocre 2006 on SD.

He was squashed by Henry because he needed surgery and Henry was in line for a big push.

I definitley think his time off and repackaging are good, but his pirate gimmick was not a disaster in the least.

 

[phantomgerald]

i hope burchhill keeps his finisher, that was as good as the canadian destroyer

 

[The Ripper]

The C-4 and the canadian destroyer are probably right up the top in best finishers in professional wrestling and i cant wait for him to return to weekly tv nut hopefully not on sd. Maybe ecw with his "the ripper" gimmick to maybe compete with lashley or even if they bring back the tv championship hold that

 

[Kairi]

Teen Mom star Amber Portwood has been rushed to a hospital emergency room after being found unconscious in her home with a rope around her neck in a possible suicide attempt, Star magazine is exclusively reporting via RadarOnline.com.

The embattled 21-year-old MTV star is being treated at St. Johns Hospital in Anderson, Indiana.

A source said Portwood, the mother of two-year-old tot Leah, was found just before noon on Tuesday. The source said Portwood later admitted to hospital staffers she had taken a cocktail of pills.

Portwood's on-again, off-again boyfriend Gary Shirley became concerned about Portwood's state of mind after having a phone conversation with her, the source told Star.

He sent his mom to check on her.

After being let into her home, according to the source, Portwood was discovered unconscious on a couch.

“It’s believed she may have taken an overdose of some kind of pill,â€￾ the source revealed. “She also may have tried to tie a piece of rope or string around her neck.â€￾

Police and an ambulance unit were called to the scene and Portwood was transported to a local hospital.

Star has confirmed that she was admitted into the emergency room, where she later regained consciousness and was stabilized.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Porwood pled guilty to two counts of domestic battery last week, but escaped any jail time by striking a deal.

As part of a plea deal, a judge ordered her to serve two years probation instead of spending time in jail.

Portwood is required to get her high school diploma, complete 30 days of inpatient treatment with outpatient follow-up and start a college fund for Leah, of which Portwood must invest $10,000 of her own money.

She had been facing two felony counts and one misdemeanor for three separate attacks on Shirley.

Portwood was shown repeatedly hitting Shirley on the MTV show, prompting local officials to launch an investigation in September, last year.

Story developing; more details to come.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusiv...ortwood-hospitalized-possible-suicide-attempt