New SmackDown Team, News on Del Rio's Ring Announcer

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- There has been talk of putting SmackDown stars Curt Hawkins and Trent Baretta together as a tag team. Their respective partners, Vance Archer and Caylen Croft, were fired by WWE last week.

- On the recent SmackDown show from England, WWE did production edits to make it look like Alberto Del Rio's ring announcer Ricardo Rodriguez was there when he wasn't even brought on the tour. WWE played a tape of Rodriguez in the arena and showed some older clips of him on TV to make it look like he was there.

- There was a feeling in WWE that Alex Riley may have been fired had Shawn Michaels or his family been hurt when they were hit by a drunk driver last week. Riley was arrested just a few days before Shawn and his family were in the accident.

Was riley something to with shawns acicident?

Riley had nothing to do with Shawn's accident. But should something had happened to Shawn or his family, Riley would've been fired because he was also arrested drunk.

well we fucked up two tag teams by firing half of each, lets stick the other two halves together and see what happens...

I no, but the others are more stronger tag teams, then the ones fired

I was never impressed by Vance Archer and I have no idea why they signed him in the first place. I saw him in TNA and I could careless about him then either.

doctorcube wrote:

well we fucked up two tag teams by firing half of each, lets stick the other two halves together and see what happens...

I think WWE knows what they can get out of Trent Barretta and Curt Hawkins since they worked together as a team in FCW. Hawkins was also a part of the Dudebusters with Barretta and Caylen Croft.

They can be a good tag team, on SD