From the desk of Jimmy James:
What’s crackin’ in WWE these days? In the past 6 months WWE has brought up many young performers from the FCW developmental territory to try to infuse the rosters with some young talent. Some of them have caught on like Jack Swagger, who quickly won the ECW title but most seem to do jobs and then are released with out much fanfare. This leads me to the news I read last night that Scotty Goldman was released by World Wrestling Entertainment. Just like everyone else on the chopping block they wish him the best in his future endeavors. This release puzzles me and unless it is strictly financial manner, this is one of the dumbest moves WWE has down in recent memory. Scotty Goldman, or Colt Cabana as he is more widely known is one of the most entertaining workers out there today. When he signed on with WWE about 2 years ago I was very excited because I knew the sky was the limit for this kid. It also helped that he is good friends with CM Punk who Vince took a liking to. As Punk’s stock was rising it seemed like it was inevitable that Colt would be brought up to the main roster.
In Ring of Honor Colt Cabana was one of the top guys. He cut great promos, he also was a great wrestler, but most of all I thought his entrance was the best part of the package. He would come out to “Copa Cabana” and he would dance around and the crowd (which was made up of men in their 20’s) would dance around and sing along with him. I remember after he got signed by WWE on of my friends who would go to ROH shows with me said, “That is awesome that Colt Cabana signed with WWE. Man I love his entrance! I can’t wait to see that in WWE, It’s gonna be crazy!” I agreed and it was obvious to me as a mark that Colt had whatever it was to pop a crowd. I mean his entrance got the crowd going and Colt had that charisma that is needed to take you to the next level. The only problem was that he did not fit the jacked up muscle men that Johnny Ace and Vince McMahon like to bring into the company. The thing is he didn’t have to look like that, because he could identify with the crowd and he has the charisma and psychology that makes a wrestler worth watching. There are too many guys out there that spend too much time worrying about the size of their arms and less time on the basics of working a crowd.
It seemed Colt’s WWE career was dead from the start, they gave him some entertaining promos but they gave him the very vanilla name “Scotty Goldman” and after few weeks of doing jobs he was off TV. I have a problem with the name change but I am not sure if it was a case that Colt wanted to keep the rights to his name or WWE just wanted a different one. They have a tendency to take guys who have really cool names on the indies and in FCW and give them very bland names. He was not used for a while and it seemed as though his release was imminent. About a month ago he was given a show on WWE.com entitled “What’s Crackin’ w/ Scotty Goldman.” He was also working in FCW as a color commentator. His show was a pretty entertaining weekly wrap up show going over the big events in WWE that week. The first episode even had WWE.com’s Joey Styles has a guest! It seemed that with the show and the commentary work there was going to be an opportunity for Scotty Goldman to show his talents to the WWE universe. Unfortunately for the 6th episode of his web show the name was changed from “What’s Crackin’ to “ Good As Goldman” and a few days later he was released after getting squashed by Umaga on Smackdown. I think WWE dropped the ball by releasing Colt Cab ana, but there are many doors open to him. With ROH going to television, Colt Cabana in would be a great fit. They would be bringing in a great worker fresh of WWE TV and he is a guy that the ROH audience loves and his return would play out great on television. I wish all the luck in the world to Colt Cabana and cannot wait to see him wrestles with out the shackles of World Wrestling Entertainment. I think Colt said it best in his latest blog, “Goodbye Scotty Goldman….Hello Colt Cabana!"
Until next time....J.J.
What’s crackin’ in WWE these days? In the past 6 months WWE has brought up many young performers from the FCW developmental territory to try to infuse the rosters with some young talent. Some of them have caught on like Jack Swagger, who quickly won the ECW title but most seem to do jobs and then are released with out much fanfare. This leads me to the news I read last night that Scotty Goldman was released by World Wrestling Entertainment. Just like everyone else on the chopping block they wish him the best in his future endeavors. This release puzzles me and unless it is strictly financial manner, this is one of the dumbest moves WWE has down in recent memory. Scotty Goldman, or Colt Cabana as he is more widely known is one of the most entertaining workers out there today. When he signed on with WWE about 2 years ago I was very excited because I knew the sky was the limit for this kid. It also helped that he is good friends with CM Punk who Vince took a liking to. As Punk’s stock was rising it seemed like it was inevitable that Colt would be brought up to the main roster.
In Ring of Honor Colt Cabana was one of the top guys. He cut great promos, he also was a great wrestler, but most of all I thought his entrance was the best part of the package. He would come out to “Copa Cabana” and he would dance around and the crowd (which was made up of men in their 20’s) would dance around and sing along with him. I remember after he got signed by WWE on of my friends who would go to ROH shows with me said, “That is awesome that Colt Cabana signed with WWE. Man I love his entrance! I can’t wait to see that in WWE, It’s gonna be crazy!” I agreed and it was obvious to me as a mark that Colt had whatever it was to pop a crowd. I mean his entrance got the crowd going and Colt had that charisma that is needed to take you to the next level. The only problem was that he did not fit the jacked up muscle men that Johnny Ace and Vince McMahon like to bring into the company. The thing is he didn’t have to look like that, because he could identify with the crowd and he has the charisma and psychology that makes a wrestler worth watching. There are too many guys out there that spend too much time worrying about the size of their arms and less time on the basics of working a crowd.
It seemed Colt’s WWE career was dead from the start, they gave him some entertaining promos but they gave him the very vanilla name “Scotty Goldman” and after few weeks of doing jobs he was off TV. I have a problem with the name change but I am not sure if it was a case that Colt wanted to keep the rights to his name or WWE just wanted a different one. They have a tendency to take guys who have really cool names on the indies and in FCW and give them very bland names. He was not used for a while and it seemed as though his release was imminent. About a month ago he was given a show on WWE.com entitled “What’s Crackin’ w/ Scotty Goldman.” He was also working in FCW as a color commentator. His show was a pretty entertaining weekly wrap up show going over the big events in WWE that week. The first episode even had WWE.com’s Joey Styles has a guest! It seemed that with the show and the commentary work there was going to be an opportunity for Scotty Goldman to show his talents to the WWE universe. Unfortunately for the 6th episode of his web show the name was changed from “What’s Crackin’ to “ Good As Goldman” and a few days later he was released after getting squashed by Umaga on Smackdown. I think WWE dropped the ball by releasing Colt Cab ana, but there are many doors open to him. With ROH going to television, Colt Cabana in would be a great fit. They would be bringing in a great worker fresh of WWE TV and he is a guy that the ROH audience loves and his return would play out great on television. I wish all the luck in the world to Colt Cabana and cannot wait to see him wrestles with out the shackles of World Wrestling Entertainment. I think Colt said it best in his latest blog, “Goodbye Scotty Goldman….Hello Colt Cabana!"
Until next time....J.J.
Jimmy James has nailed this one...Colt is a dedicated performer and let's hope that WWE's loss turns into our gain.
ReplyDeleteColt deserved better, and I'm sure he's going to get better. Good luck landing on your feet, Cabana!