WWE announced the track listing for their upcoming compilation album, WWE The Music – A New Day, which would be the 10th volume.

Here is the track listing:

1. “It’s a New Day” (performed by Adelitas Way) – Legacy
2. “I Am Perfection” – Dolph Ziggler
3. “I Came to Play” (performed by Downstait) – The Miz
4. “Just Close Your Eyes” (performed by Story of the Year) – Christian
5. “Return the Hitman” – Bret Hart
6. “Written in My Face” – Sheamus
7. “Insatiable” – Tiffany
8. “Domination” – Ezekiel Jackson
9. “Born to Win” (performed by Mutiny Within) – Evan Bourne
10. “Oh Puerto Rico” – Primo
11. “Radio” – Zack Ryder
12. “New Foundation” – The Hart Dynasty
13. “You Can Look (But You Can’t Touch)” (performed by Kim Sozzi) – Bella Twins
14. “Crank The Walls Down” (performed by Maylene and the Sons of Disaster – Chris Jericho and Big Show

Labels: legacy, the miz, wwe The music Volume 10

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In an interview featured in the latest issue of WWE Magazine, Randy Orton reveals why he kicked Manu out of Legacy.

“Respect, that’s something that Manu, who had a chance to be part of Legacy, didn’t have,” Orton told WWE Magazine. “He grew up in the business, and you would’ve thought he’d have that ingrained in his mind. He had been wrestling since his early teens, and he thought that he was already a veteran in his early 20s. That’s what got him fired from Legacy. But I think we’re looking to include another part man in the stable to make it all the more powerful. I’ll say no more.”

While Orton’s comments appear to be in-character, they are apparently not as the interview was a non-kayfabe interview with the members of Legacy discussing their real-life aspirations for the group, their families’ lineage, what makes the group different than other groups of the past, and more.

Behind the scenes, it is known that Orton legitimately pushed for Manu to be kicked out of the group, feeling he wasn’t in the same league as the other members, and didn’t fit in as a result. WWE officials apparently agreed as the son of WWE Hall of Famer Afa was booted from the group in an angle that aired on the January 12, 2009 edition of Raw. Manu’s departure from the group ultimately led to his release from World Wrestling Entertainment as the company didn’t have anything else for him once they opted against sending him back down to developmental.

Labels: legacy, manu, randy orton

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For a number of weeks there had been talk of adding DH Smith to Randy Orton’s Legacy faction, but those plans have cooled off after the twist with Vince McMahon and Orton on last Monday’s Raw.

Officials were looking to call up Smith and his tag team partner TJ Wilson to SmackDown, but their partnership quietly broke off in developmental after Smith suggested to the creative team that he be brought on board for the Legacy.

Orton himself hinted at Smith possibly joining the Legacy in an interview with ESPN.com this past week. Regarding Smith, Orton said: “One guy I’ve been looking at really closely is Harry Smith. He’s Davey Boy Smith’s son, and he’s a big, young kid who has that hunger. He’s a strong boy, and I think he’s at that age now where he’s learned from some of the mistakes he’s made in the past. He originally debuted as DH Smith, but he’s a completely different person right now. I have my eye on him, but we’ll have to see what the future holds. I need one more guy, but he has to have wrestling in his blood and he has to have that potential to one day follow in my footsteps. I won’t settle for anything less.”

Labels: DH smith, legacy, randy orton

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From: www.f4wonline.com

Several pushed for Manu to be kicked out of The Legacy, most notably, Randy Orton. The feeling is that he isn't in the same league or had the same amount of potential as others in the group, and didn't really fit in as a result. Many believe the group would be better off with Orton, Cody Rhodes, Ted DiBiase and possibly DH Smith.

Considering that he's no longer apart of Legacy, many feel Manu may not be long for WWE.

Labels: legacy, manu, randy orton, Ted DiBiase Jr

Posted by Matt Loede at 4:19 AM | Permalink | Comments

Sources in Florida Championship Wrestling report that the next member of Randy Orton’s legacy group is scheduled to be DH Smith, son of British Bulldog. All plans for the return of The Hart Foundation with Smith, Nattie Neidhart and TJ Wilson have been scrapped for now.

Labels: DH smith, legacy, randy orton

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Ah yes, the final RAW of 2008, and they made sure we knew that all night long. I mean, how many times did Michael Cole say "it's the final RAW of 2008" last night? Seemed a little too much for my taste, but I guess they wanted to make sure that if you don't have a calender you know by next week that it will be a new year.

On to the big matches, the fatal-four was was pretty predictable, and I stated last week we would see JBL take it and move on to a match with John Cena at the Royal Rumble. We've seen the Cena-JBL feud a number of times, but they did have a great match in their last big PPV brawl, a NY parking lot brawl back at the Great American Bash.

Now of course there is a new twist to the feud with Shawn Michaels involved, and it will be intersting to see if he actually goes through with attacking Cena on behalf of JBL for his new "boss." I am not a huge fan of the Michaels-JBL storyline, but I will say that it is at least somehwat new, and has an interesting twist to it as HBK is going to do whatever he can for Layfield.

The other matches on the show had to do with the new Randy Orton group - "Legacy" and the members of that group, Sim Snuka, Cody Rhodes and Manu all had to wrestle single matches and win to stay as members of the group. Cool concept, and the only one to lose was Manu, who lost to ECW champ Matt Hardy, who now wrestles on all three shows just about every week.

Snuka beat Charlie Hass, who was dressed as his dad - the "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, and Rhodes beat C.M. Punk via count-out as William Regal got involved. They had a women's battle royale with Melina winning to move on to tak on Beth Phoenix at the Royal Rumble. This was okay, and those two should have a solid women's match. The RAW women's roster is way stronger than the SmackDown roster.

In a 10-man tag, John Cena, Rey Mysterio, Cryme Tyme & Kofi Kingston defeated Kane, Mike Knox, World Tag Team Champions The Miz and John Morrison & Dolph Ziggler. This was pretty strong from start to finish, but why do you bury Mike Knox, who was being built as a big heel that was going to take guys out each week? They could have had Miz or Ziggler suffer the loss and it wouldn't have been a big deal.

We also know that the Kelly Kelly "lover" was none other than Orton, who then did what Orton would likely do in real life, which was blow her off. I assume this will lead to a match in a few weeks with Orton and Kane? Otherwise, why else have the encounter in the first place?

This was a kind of all over the place show. From the huge 10-man tag to the main event which was kind of weird how it ended, this was a decent show, with a lot packed in for two hours. Here's to a better quality of RAW in 2009.

Labels: kelly kelly, legacy, randy orton, rey mysterio

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WWE’s website has an interesting note on Sim Snuka, formerly known as Deuce, who debuted his new character on this week’s RAW broadcast. The note teases more additions to Randy Orton’s Legacy group by saying “Possibly even more troublesome, however, is the existence of even more Superstars with squared circle lineage. Who could possibly stand against this already fearsome group if they were to bring WWE Tag Team Champions Carlito and Primo or even the submission technician Natalya into the fold?” The article notes that we will be learning more about the intentions of Randy Orton and Snuka in the coming weeks on RAW.

Labels: legacy, randy orton, sim snuka

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Two night ago on the Armageddon pre-match report here on Let's Talk Wrestling, I said that I did not want to see them rush a match with Legacy vs John Cena and Batista. So what did we get on RAW last night? Legacy vs John Cena and Batista. And so it goes with the WWE.

The company just cannot stand to let things build, and instead of letting the fans wait for something, they instead rush things in the ring and out, and while the match with the five super stars was very good in my opinion, the ending with Batista being taken out with a Randy Orton kick was rather flat, and they ended the show with a rather weird scene of Cena over Batista with Orton looking on.

The rest of the show was okay, as there was the usual many recaps and then the awful and strange storyline with Kane and Kelly Kelly, which came out of nowhere, and really went nowhere. By the way, the wrestler at the end of the day that is going to be dating Kelly Kelly is going to be C.M. Punk, and that probably will come out during Punk's title shot vs William Regal, and then we'll see a Kane-Punk feud with Kelly Kelly in the middle.

Then we had the announcement by Stephanie McMahon about four matches next week to see who will face John Cena at the Royal Rumble. Then those winners of those four matches will go at it in a Fatal Four Way, which is kind of a cool way to decide the contender for the belt.

The matches will be:

Shawn Michaels vs Kane - Michaels goes over here
Rey Mysterio vs JBL - I like JBL here
Randy Orton vs Batista - Orton wins as they will play the Batista injury angle
C.M. Punk vs Chris Jericho - Y2J stays in the title picture

So that would put us with a match of Michaels, JBL, Orton and Jericho. Now while I am purley throwing this out there, I can see JBL winning, as he'll have Michales take out Jericho and then he'll find a way to beat Orton as Batista comes back for revenge vs Randy. Just a guess, but kind of makes sense as to where they are going.

The rest of the show was mostly filler, with Dolph Ziggler winning vs Santa Claas (Charlie Haas), Miz and Morrison beating Punk and Kingston to keep the belts (then Kane laid out Miz, thinking he was the boyfriend), Mysterio beating Sim (I'm not "Deuce" anymore) Snuka.

Speaking of which, what a weird way to change your name from "Deuce" to the son of Jimmy Snuka. Can you see a hook-up with Legacy coming as well for Sim?

Labels: batista, john cena, kane, kelly kelly, legacy, randy orton, RAW, sim snuka

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