Daily Dropkick #1 - Fail Owens Fail

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Welcome everybody who is reading and thank you for finding yourself on this article, whether by accident or on purpose. This is the first ever article in the Daily Dropkick series. In today's article we look at SummerSlam, a potential rivalry between Ring of Honor and Global Force Wrestling and the continuous plummet of TNA.

Future for KO?

However we start with the big news of the day, in my eyes that is, and that's where the title gets its name from - Fail Owens Fail. In case you don't know, Kevin Steen has always used the slogan "Kill Steen Kill" before joining WWE, where his name changed to Owens and adopted a more friendly slogan of "Fight Owens Fight". Well according to David Meltzer, WWE Forces, who we believe to be Kevin Dunn (not official however) want to see Kevin Owens fail as they predicted him to fail when he first joined. It seems that Owens has fallen in the crossfire off Kevin Dunn and Triple H; Dunn constantly advice's Vince McMahon to bury NXT stars whilst Triple H argues they should be pushed.

It makes sense because that amazing momentum and heat Kevin Owens had has died off. He dominated NXT before coming up to the main roster where everything changed. The heat on him after Elimination Chamber was immense. However, he lost to Cena at Money In The Bank, which made sense, but then went and lost again at Beast In The East and lost a third straight time at Battleground. Kevin Owens isn't that powerful man we thought he would be!

Let's stay with WWE for a moment and look towards its next pay per view event - SummerSlam 2015. What we know is Brock Lesnar will face The Undertaker in the main event, however it seems despite speculation, Sting might not fight there! We thought Sting would face Seth Rollins for the title, but if RAW is anything to go by that match will be against Cena. Also, Sting hasn't featured on SummerSlam's poster, but its still early days.

Ended to soon?

I feel like bad news coming out off TNA will dominate this article everyday. Today, news has come out that TNA are changing the majority of the rosters contracts so no one is on guaranteed money. This will kill off a lot of the roster! Who would stay? Under contract the TNA roster couldn't appear for any other higher paying promotion but they were okay with that because they got guaranteed money. Not any more! Who would stay?

Former TNA wrestler Nick Aldis, who wrestled under the name Magnus, has blamed TNA's writing team for the demise in TNA - talking about the god awful train segment with his wife Mickie James and how the TNA World title was taken of him too early. This all happened during an interview with "PodNasty".

Aldis joined Jeff Jarrett's new promotion Global Force Wrestling following Slammiversary. GFW have grown a rivalry with Ring of Honor by the looks of things! Ring of Honor have sent an cease and decist letter to GFW after they run an advert announcing that Ring of Honor stars will appear at GFW Tapings on Friday in Las Vegas. Hmm. This Friday Ring of Honor host an iPPV in Baltimore so I believe this is very unlikely to happen.

Tuesday, 21st of July 2015
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