Fan who attacked Orton states why he did it

ENCA.com out of Johannesburg, South Africa, has picked up on the story of a fan attacking Randy Orton during the Cape Town live event, and the following is an article excerpt:

An over eager fan was met with a boot to the head from WWE wrestler Randy Orton in Cape Town yesterday after he jumped into the ring and hit Orton in the groin. 

Local wrestling fan Tshepo Sekhabi, who quit his job in Johannesburg to attend the event, left yesterday night's WWE world tour in Cape Town with a black eye and swollen face after getting kicked just under the eye by Orton.

The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is currently performing events across South Africa as part of its World Tour. 

Sekhabi (20) scaled the security barrier and easily evaded the events security guards to enter the ring where Orton was celebrating a victory against fellow wrestler Big E Langston.

Sekhabi had time to pause and size up Orton, who was standing on the rings corner ropes, before executing a shocking blow to the wrestlers groin. 

Orton fell to the canvas following the hit as security rushed in to apprehend the assailant. Security managed to haul Sekhabi out of the ring, but not before the ‘Apex Predator’ managed to cross the ring and deliver a solid kick to his attackers head. 

An equally irate Langston, real name Ettore Ewen, also had to be restrained by security from accosting Sekhabi outside of the ring.

Sekhabi was escorted to the casino’s security offices where he was issued with a five-year ban notice. 

In the offices Sekhabi, who said he doesn’t drink or take any drugs, eagerly posed for photos and willingly gave a statement to security personnel. 

Calling himself “Jozi, the wrestling machine” Sekhabi said he planned the attack before he arrived said “I just don’t like Randy Orton, this was an opportunity for me so I got up there and made a name for myself.”

The reason RVD lost quickly to Del Rio

On Friday’s SmackDown broadcast (taped Wednesday in Corpus Christi, Texas), Rob Van Dam lost in under a minute to Alberto Del Rio after the ECW Original was distracted by the match official, leading the World Heavyweight Champion to strike him with brutal kick to the face. The reason for the match outcome was because Del Rio had broken a rib or ribs the night before in a match against Sheamus and was therefore unable to properly compete.

Ted DiBiase injury update, Major WM match removed!

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*Spoilers!* SD! results for Friday 11/18

The show begins with Mark Henry attacking Daniel Bryan in the back. Henry continues the beatdown all the way to the ring where Bryan lays in pain while Henry cuts a promo on beating Big Show at Survivor Series.

Vickie Announces that Dolph Ziggler will defend the United States title against Zack Ryder at Survivor Series as well as compete in the 5 on 5 match. Dolph Ziggler beats Sin Cara in a good match. Ziggler wins with help from Swagger.

Mason Ryan beats Jack Swagger in a quick match. Vickie was at ringside for both Ziggler & Swagger's matches.

Backstage Ted DiBiase and Hornswoggle are playing the WWE '12 video game until Teddy Long interupts. Then Askana enters the room, Hornswoggle and Long leave. The romantic music starts to play while she attempts to get very romantic with DiBiase.

Christian comes out wearing a neck brace, leg brace and crutches. He says he blames Teddy Long for allowing him to get hurt. He says he wants one more match regardless of what match it is. He tells WWE universe good riddance and leaves.

Backstage Big Show is next to Daniel Bryan who is lying on the doctors table. Big Show says he will find Mark Henry and get revenge.

Ted DiBiase beat Derrick Bateman in a quick match.

Big Show cut a promo about how Henry forced Bryan to be carried out of here and on Sunday he is going to force Henry to be carried out of Survivor Series.

Kofi Kingston beats Hunico .

Beth Phoenix and Natalya beat AJ and Kaitlyn.

A promo for Ezekial Jackson aired.

Randy Orton and Sheamus beat Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett via DQ after Christian interupts the match. Orton and Sheamus hit their finishers and take out Rhodes, Barrett and Christian. They pose for the crowd as Smackdown goes off the air.

Dark Match Main Event

Big Show beats Mark Henry via a DQ with Booker T as the special referee. Big Show and Booker do a spinarooni and send the crowd home.

SmackDown! moving to Tuesday update & Punk/Cena

– John Cena has been topped as WWE’s top merchandise seller by CM Punk. For the first time in five years, a regular wrestler has topped John Cena. The Rock had previously accomplished this during his short return, but in addition to topping Cena, Punk has also topped the single day sales record of the Rock. This is the first time in 5-years anyone has topped Cena from within the company and not only has Punk done so at WWE Shopzone, but also at live events Punk is the merchandise king.

– As we noted last week here on the website, WWE has plans to run another live episode of WWE SmackDown!. The show will air live from Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday, November 29th. Just like last time they did a live episode, they’ll be airing the replay several days later at the normal timeslot on Friday night. This is basically another ratings test to see if a permanent move to Tuesday nights will take place.

*Spoilers!* SD! results for Friday 17/11

*Teddy Long announces 20 Man Battle Royal to crown number one contender for World title. Randy Orton is out there for announcement. Cody Rhodes confronts Orton It ends with Orton nailing RKO on Ted DiBiase.

*WWE Intercontinental champ Cody Rhodes defeated Ezekiel Jackson.

*Justin Gabriel defeated Tyson Kidd.

*In a great match, WWE champion Alberto Del Rio defeated Daniel Bryan, who was cashing in his Money in the Bank contract. Bryan taps to rolling armbreaker. Sin Cara hits the ring to make the save.

*DARK SEGMENT: WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio insults Bakersfield. Triple H comes out and announces Del Rio & Christian vs. Orton & Sheamus. Triple H Pedigrees Ricardo.

*WWE Divas champion Kelly Kelly & AJ defeated Alicia Fox & Natalya. Fox and Natalya get into it and Fox ends up placed in Sharpshooter.

*Mark Henry throws out Sin Cara to win the Battle Royal and become number one contender. Orton and Henry face off.

Dark Segment:

*Orton and Sheamus defeated Christian and Alberto Del Rio. Sheamus chases Alberto to the back as Orton RKOs Christian.

Heath Slater accused of assaulting female guard

Atlanta police is currently investigating the allegations that SmackDown! star Heath Slater assaulted a female security guard at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta during WrestleMania weekend.

Security officer Corinne Oliver claimed in her report that Slater thought she was pretty and then grabbed her in a chokehold while trying to get her back to his hotel room. She had fought to get loose and identified Slater later.

A source within the wrestling world claims that according to Slater, the allegations are untrue and he was with his fiancé the whole week.

More details have come out due to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the assault charges against Heath Slater.

The article notes that Corinne Oliver, the security guard who says Slater attacked her, claims that she has been experiencing back pains since the incident supposedly happened early Monday morning after WrestleMania. The article notes that Oliver didn’t report the attack until June 22nd because her employer said they would handle it and didn’t.

Edge reveals when he would have retired

Former WWE Superstar Edge appeared on Right After Wrestling with Arda Ocal and Jimmy Korderas. Highlights from the interview are as follows:

If he didn’t receive the news, how long he felt he would have competed before he retired: “I pretty much assumed that WrestleMania in Miami (WM 28) would be my last because my contract runs out around then. I just thought I would get to there and have my final match there and then retire. The best laid plans never work out the way they should. And they didn’t and that’s okay. I knew it was coming to an end but I didn’t know exactly when that end would be. All this did was speed up the process by exactly 1 year. I already knew I was ready to retire. My body was telling me it was time. All the pain I was in and mentally, the grind, was just getting me down.”

The unique way Tony Chimel announces him to the ring: “I loved the way Chimel announced me to the ring. He would announce me and Cena to the ring for like 250 nights and he would go out of his way for Cena and then simply announce ‘and here’s the Rated R Superstar Edge.’ So I was like come on Chimel, at least make an effort for me as well. So he started to elongate the ‘Super’ in ‘Rated R Superstar’ and it just became a huge joke in the back and everybody would say it along as he would in the ring. I don’t even think Kevin Dunn noticed, it just kinda flew under the radar.”

When does Edge want to enter the WWE Hall of Fame?: “I would love to be inducted into the WWE HOF but I never put any thought into when. I never said ‘I wanna be inducted in the next year’. I wouldn’t be offended if it was in a few years from now. If it was the same year that WrestleMania returns to Toronto, that would be awesome but I never really put any thought into when exactly I wanted to get inducted.”

The interview can be accessed at http://itunes.apple.com/

New WWE Diva debuts on SD!, Triple H on Jimmy Fallon

– WWE developmental talent Aksana debuted on tonight’s episode of SmackDown! in a backstage segment with Theodore Long.

Now with dark hair and wearing a catsuit, the NXT Season 3 contestant tried to seduce the SmackDown! General Manager into giving her his phone number. Long gave Aksana his card and wrote his personal number on the back. She said, “I can’t wait to do business with you.”

- Triple H was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, coming into the studio from the crowd. As The Roots played “Bow Down to the King,” Triple H came up from under the seats. When he sat down, he told Jimmy, “It never gets old coming out of a smoky hole.”

- The interview started by Triple H talking about how much fun it was to fire Vince McMahon on television, now that he is the new COO in the storylines. They talk about how he got to know Stephanie and how the two became a couple, saying that they were ahead of the game because they had a dry run on TV in getting married and then getting divorced.

- A clip was shown of Triple H firing Vince from RAW. Triple H said it brought “a tear to the glass eye.”

- Talk then switched to the upcoming special on NBC, and how it feels to have The Rock back with WWE.

How Sin Cara is able to return early – details

WWE announced on Friday’s episode of SmackDown that Sin Cara returns to action on next week’s show, which would indicate that he is returning prior to serving the full length of his 30-day suspension for a violation of the organization’s Talent Wellness Program. To get around their self-imposed ruling, there is talk that developmental wrestler Hunico will portray Sin Cara at live events until the SmackDown Superstar’s suspension is levied on August 17—the day following a SmackDown taping in Bakersfield, California.

Sin Cara was written off television at Money in the Bank, as he was booked to sustain a storyline injury during SmackDown’s Money in the Bank Match. WWE claimed he suffered a posterior fractured rib and would be sidelined for at least four weeks.

A clip of Sheamus powerbombing the masked wrestler from the ring apron through a steel ladder aired last night to explain his absence.

Justin Gabriel’s babyface turn, Ryder’s new title

– As seen earlier this week, Zack Ryder debuted a new Internet Championship belt on his YouTube show. The belt was custom made by Wildcat Belts out of Pennsylvania. They have also done the WWE United States Title and the belt that was used on Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling, as well as several independent wrestling belts.

– WWE continued Justin Gabriel’s babyface turn on SmackDown! this past Friday with video packages of Gabriel with fans during WWE’s recent tour of South Africa, where he is from. For those wondering, Gabriel is still dating WWE Diva Kelly Kelly in real-life.

CM Punk Officially 'reinstated'

CM Punk has been officially reinstated on the WWE roster as his profile has been added back to WWE.com’s RAW Superstars page.

WWE Chief Operating Officer Triple H addressed the WWE Championship situation on last week’s episode of SmackDown! and acknowledged that Punk was re-signed late Monday night. He vowed to make a decision on how to handle this troubling dilemma on tonight’s episode of RAW.

Zeke not being allowed into the arena!

WWE Intercontinental Champion Ezekiel Jackson reportedly had trouble getting into the arena before the SmackDown live event in White Plains, NY this past weekend.

Zeke apparently was denied entry by the arena security because they did not recognize him as one of the WWE Superstars. After pleading his case and still not allowed in, Zeke phoned one of the WWE agents, who came down and let him in. The agent has been reportedly pissed off and so was the WWE Management team at the security guards.

Sin Cara - suspended!

WWE announced on Monday that Sin Cara (a/k/a Luis Ignascio Urive Alvride) has been suspended 30 days for violating the Wellness Policy. You can read the official announcement at WWE.com.

2 Ex-WWE Talents Backstage At SD! Last Night

Source: Pwinsider

Justin Credible and Sylvan Grenier were both backstage at last night’s WWE tapings in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Credible was just visiting friends as he lives in the area while Grenier came down from Montreal with several students from his wrestling school who received a tryouts.

WWE SD! Talents Robbed!

Randy Orton stated on Twitter that over half of the WWE SmackDown! roster had items stolen from their luggage when they reached South Africa. He also noted that everyone who put a lock on their bag was robbed. He, however, didn’t put a lock on his bag and therefore wasn’t robbed.

The Times Live newspaper out of South Africa has now picked up on the story.

John Langford, the chief operating officer of “Big Concerts” (they promote WWE’s tours of South Africa) told the paper that when the bags came off the carousel to be picked up, WWE talents found the locks had been cut and their bags had been broken into.

“The bags that had locks on them had been targeted,” Langford said. “They stole everything from watches to GPS [navigators] – things that had financial and sentimental value.”
Langford noted that this was a huge embarrassment for “[Big Concerts] as the organizers” of the events.

WWE talents filed claims at the baggage counter and an investigation has begun.

WWE Capitol Punishment will stream LIVE on this blog FREE!

Thats right, Capitol Punishment will stream live for free only on WWE Unveiled! on Sunday, June 19. Be sure to be here at 8p.m. EST to watch the debut of the newest pay-per-view live for free!

WrestleMania 28 Main Event – John Cena vs. The Rock

What a crazy last few days, huh? As expected, there has been a ton of news and rumors coming out of WrestleMania. We’re not even close to being finished as we’ve got post RAW and WrestleMania news as well as the NXT/SD! tapings + WZR Radio tonight (Tuesday). It’s only going to get busier these next few days! Check back in often guys and thanks again for your continued support!!

In a fantasy bout for the ages, John Cena will face Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson next year at WrestleMania XXVIII, emanating from The Great One’s hometown of Miami, Florida. Yes, we’ve got a one-year buildup!

The match-up WWE is advertising as “the match the world wants to see” was announced at the conclusion of RAW during a confrontation between The Rock and John Cena. The Rock accepted Cena’s challenge for a match, but said it would be at WrestleMania XXVIII.

The Rock extended his hand to Cena, which he shook. Following their handshake agreement, the two were jumped by The Corre. Cena and Rock fought the group off and two shook hands again to conclude RAW.

It’s Official – Big WrestleMania Match Changed

– Mark Henry beat Primo this morning at WrestleMania Axxess.

– Following Vladimir Kozlov’s victory over Tyler Reks yesterday at WrestleMania Axxess, The Corre attacked the RAW Superstar. The faction used the steel steps to crush The Moscow Mauler’s shoulder against the ring post.

Via WWE.com, SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long announced that – as a result of the assault – Kozlov would not be able to compete in the Eight-Man Tag Team Match at WrestleMania XXVII. Instead, Kofi Kingston will assume his position. They have also posted this note on their Facebook.com page as well.

The Big Show suffers injury & Bret-Twitter

– Big Show suffered a minor injury at Tuesday’s SmackDown! taping during an angle involving Ezekiel Jackson. He was supposed to be thrown through a table by the Corre member, but the table didn’t break, resulting in a huge bruise on his forearm. He was scheduled to wrestle in the show’s dark match main event, but didn’t.

– Bret Hart has changed his Twitter handle to brethart