Byte This Report
Jan. 11 2006
Hosted by: Toady Grisham
Special Guest: Mmmmmisteeeer Kennedy! (dramatic pause) KEN-NE-DYYYY!
I’m getting this done and out the way a little early this week. Ken Kennedy is quickly becoming one of my favorite pieces of talent, and even while injured, he’s kicking some major ass. This was a really enjoyable show and it just cements the fact that once Kennedy is at 100% he’s going to be a force to reckoned with.
Ken shows up at the front entrance to Titan Towers in Stamford and has to beg and plead and even flirt a little to get let in. Funny stuff.
The Grish is in studio and talks about the crazy week the WWE has had. Todd talks about Batista getting injured and having to forfeit the title. He’s says Kurt Angle, straight from Raw, came in and won the Battle Royal to win the World title. He says Angle’s match with Shawn Michaels is still a go for Monday night, and lots of questions should be answered by then.
Mr. Kennedy comes onto the show. He yells at Todd for not announcing him right, basically it’s Todd playing the Tony Chimel role. The studio then got dark, the spotlight came over Ken and then the old MSG style microphone came down from the ceiling and Ken does his own announcing.
The Grish talks about how Ken has been announcing on Smackdown recently. He asks him why he’s so interested in announcing all of the sudden? Kennedy fires back at him and tells him he knows why, it’s because he’s injured.
Kennedy talks about his injury, a tear to his lat that occured almost a month ago. He has to take a few months off, but hopes his announcing gig will keep in the spotlight.
Todd asks Mr. Kennedy how he’s killing time up there in Green Bay, Wisconsin? He comically states that he plays alot of video games, beats his girlfriend up a little bit and then kicks his dog, Austin, around.
Grish tells Kennedy that his fly was down last week on Smackdown and then they show a clip. Kennedy then forces Todd to slep himself in the face.
A caller wants to know why Ken hasn’t gotten a title shot? Kennedy thinks he deserves one and will start winning WWE gold as soon as he’s healthy.
Q: Do you like beating up on the Big guys or Little guys better?
A: “I like beating them all up.”
A caller asks how it felt to be the last man to wrestle Eddie Guerrero. He considers it an honor now and he misses him. He hopes to wrestle him again someday, up in heaven.
I hope I’m there for that one…
A caller asks Ken who he’d like to wrestle in the future? He says, Star Jones from The View!
Actually, he’d like to wrestle Stonecold Steve Austin. When Ken was a kid he loved wrestling, but then his parents wouldn’t let him watch it. He stopped watching for a long time, but around the time the Attitude Era and Austin were big he got back into the business and got hooked.
Kennedy says that before he started wrestling, he worked as a security guard at a power plant, and even did pizza delivery for a short time. He talked about his dream to become a wrestler, how he would work 13 hour days at the power plant and what he really wanted to do with his life.
This is exactly what I’m going through right now. I’m sitting in a little cubicle, working hard everyday to one day fulfill my dream of being an active sports entertainer. One way or another, it’s gonna happen. If you want it bad enough – and I do, always have – then it will happen.
He talks about his old finisher, which is a variation of Jeff Hardy’s Senton Bomb. Kennedy called his move the Kenton Bomb. His tight rolling slam from the top rope has yet to be named and Ken is welcoming any suggestions. The callers suggested a few too him like, The Packer bomb or The Kennedy Assasination.
Todd decides it time once again for some…
Word Association with Ken Kennedy
Rob Van Dam: “He is amazing and can really clear a WWE ring. I hope he returns to Smackdown so we can wrestle.”
Chavo Guerrero: “Eddie.”
Shelton Benjamin: “The best athlete on Raw, bar none.”
KANE: “He’s a Big Red Machine. A monster. I liked him better with his mask on.”
Triple H: “He’s The Game, he’s the Cerebral Assassin and he’s the Man to beat and someday that’s going to happen.”
Mr. Kennedy is asked about how he sustained the tear to his lat. He says he was dropkicked off the apron and during the fall he turned so he wouldn’t land on his head and ened up landing his body on the concrete. He kept working for a couple of weeks through the injury, but eventually found out that the tendon was torn totally off the bone.
Kennedy says he will be back and he plans on targeting the World champion, whoever that may be at the time.
That was pretty much the show for this week. I’m intentionally leaving out someone of the pointless calls that were crap. All in all, it was a really good show to hear, so if you haven’t seen it yet then GO WATCH IT!
Also, don’t forget to catch Smackdown tomorrow night – could be one of the biggest shows yet! Angle wins! Angle wins! Angle wins! Then, on Saturday night – there’s Impact with Christian and Rhyno against America’s Most Wanted, should be a helluva match as we head into Final Resolution and return of Sting. I’ll be back next Tuesday with my perspective on Raw and the week ahead. Until, you can all BYTE me!
