Presumably--he signed a long term contract with WWE. He was always planning to take this time off when the movie came out so he could promote it.
I don't think he's unsalvageable as a face, people just got mad last time because he got the push they thought Daniel Bryan deserved.\
Ricardo was released--his contract ran through summer slam but he asked to be let out because he wanted to wrestle and they weren't using him as a wrestler.
Yup. Wrong situation kind of thing. On the first day of his return he actually got some cheers. Just that when the Rumble came he was on the wrong side of the rebellion by the fans. Rey Rey even got the bad end of it and he's supposed to have been the wrestling darling.
watching that again, you could tell Rey was not used to, nor did he expect the reaction he got
Ha!
I just remember him having "ECW" on the back of his mask, and thinking that the crowd was booing him for pandering. But it didn't feel like they hated him, just like they were giving him a hard time.
I watched most of Royal Rumble 2000 tonight (I'd seen the Foley/HHH match before, and wasn't up to a gorefest) - there were fun matches (like the Hardys/Dudleys table match, and Tazz's debut against Kurt Angle), but the Rumble itself wasn't great. I did love Kaientai and the Mean Street Posse repeatedly trying to get into the Rumble, even though they'd been left out, and the Too Cool dance party was a fun moment. But on the whole, there wasn't a lot of drama to the match itself. And I got a little sad when I realized that four guys who are dead now came out in a row (Viscera, Big Boss Man, Test, and the British Bulldog).
Del Rio is doing Ricardo's backstage interviews for the Spanish broadcast now ... he really buried his, "fat & useless," amigo.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
I miss Ricardo.
Correction, backstage "segments" that are like interviews.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium