WWE SummerSlam 2014: 5 reasons why Brock Lesnar vs John Cena is 'Bad for Business'

 

WWE is all set to bring their next pay-per-view installment, SummerSlam, for the fans and it will be headlined by a blockbuster match between Brock Lesnar and John Cena. On paper, there won’t be anything bigger than this that the company could give their fans as both Cena and Lesnar are multi – platform superstars who could fit in any poster or merchandize that WWE would produce to market the pay-per-view. Though this match is best if SummerSlam is isolated from the whole WWE Universe, there are many flaws in the booking if we see it from a wider angle. So here is a look at some of the reasons why Cena vs. Lesnar at SummerSlam is bad for business.

#5 Lesnar being the streak ender

At WrestleMania, Lesnar just shot himself into the stars when he ended Undertaker’s two decade long streak.
 There aren’t many heights that Lesnar can scale in the business right now and this makes him a crucial part in putting youngsters over.
Any wrestler who defeats Lesnar would find himself in a great position in the business and Cena was never the right candidate to explore this possibility.
Just like Lesnar, Cena is at the epitome of the business right now and defeating Lesnar wouldn’t do him any good or bad. At the same time, a youngster being in that position would be a future investment for the company rather than wasting the golden goose on the Cenation leader.

#4 Possibility of match being botched

Once all the buildup is over, these two superstars would have to prove themselves in between the ropes with the limelight beamed on to them.
The capacity to which Cena can wrestle is a main trolling topic for the Internet fans. Cena has had many good matches in the past with his brawling skills but cannot be trusted to carry his opponent throughout an entire match of such significance.
Lesnar on the other hand has flourished with the monster gimmick but looking back on the two matches that he had this year raises concerns. The first one against Big Show only had destruction and Lesnar barely had time in between the ropes.
Also the match he had with Undertaker was considered as one of the worst ones in the streak which make matters worse when thinking about how the match would turn out.  

#3 Brock being over as a face

The fifty-fifty reaction that Cena gets from the WWE Universe has been a big headache for the creative team. Almost everyone that feuded with Cena got a warm response from the WWE Universe no matter what his alignment was.
This was one of the main reasons why Cena’s feud with Bray Wyatt fell flat as Bray was the face in the mix when he was supposed to be the evil monster who wanted to stop the warrior.
From the looks of it, WWE is using the same formula to book Lesnar against Cena.
The reaction Lesnar got on Raw and how the fans chanted his name when Cena was in the ring suggest that Lesnar might end up being the face in the feud which is not an apt title for a man who had a lot of heat after WrestleMania.

#2 Against the expectations of fans

At the start of the year, the fans wanted to see the lights of Cesaro, Roman Reigns or Daniel Bryan being part of the main event at the big pay-per-views.
Bryan did just that at WrestleMania and was supposed to carry all the way to SummerSlam if it wasn’t for his injury. Reigns meanwhile got a good push after the Shield breakup but didn’t get the match that he wanted which was a main event with Hunter.
Cesaro meanwhile is lost in the midcard right now and him finding a place in the match card is still up in the air. These expectations of the fans were on the hopes of seeing WWE book the pay-per-view on basis of merit that popularity.
The slowly changing fan base wants to see good in ring action instead of two established names delivering an average match which is just what the WWE will give them at Summerslam.

#1 Possibility of title going to a part timer

Remember CM Punk? Well for the ones who don’t, he was a main event talent in the WWE who wrestled regularly throughout the year and got sick with the way WWE pushed part timers and gave them all the limelight.
If Batista winning the Royal Rumble was one of the catalysts for Punk’s exit, the fans are going to see Lesnar in Batista’s spot if he gets non deserving title win which will affect the product adversely.
This year, WWE gave special attention in keeping the title on superstars who could wrestle week in and week out.
Lesnar would be an entirely different champion who might not even show up for weekly episodes. If Lesnar doesn’t win, this makes him look weak after despite a lot of momentum which puts WWE in an awkward situation. 

Rs 40 LAKH FOR KIDNEYS LOST IN BOTCHED-UP OP

  Rs 40 LAKH FOR KIDNEYS LOST IN BOTCHED-UP OPJul 15 2014

15 years after a surgery went horribly wrong, court asks clinic to compensate the patient...
Shanti Manik, who lost her only kidney during a botched hysterectomy at Navjivan Maternity Home, was saved by her mother, who donated one of her kidneys

The state consumer commission on Monday ordered a Vile Parle maternity clinic to pay a 56-year-old patient Rs 40 lakh in compensation 15 years after doctors wrongly removed both her kidneys without her family's consent. In 1999, Shanti Manik, then 41, was admitted to Navjivan Maternity and Surgical Home for a simple hysterectomy procedure but ended up with her kidneys removed.

After removing her uterus and ovary, doctors told the family they had detected a tumour, before calling a general surgeon from Borivali and removing the tumour, without realising it was attached to her kidney. They did not even take the family's consent.

Complicating the case was the fact that Manik had a horseshoe kidney, a condition where both the kidneys fuse and become one organ.

Due to this, she was briefly left with no kidney and had to be shifted to a bigger hospital for immediate dialysis. Thankfully, her 70-year-old mother stepped in to donate her kidney.

Manik has had to live on medication ever since. Her medicines cost Rs 15,000 a month.
She further has to undergo dialysis twice every week, which costs Rs 1,350.

“Luckily my mother-in-law came to our rescue,“ said her husband Vishnu, 64. “But even after the surgery, Shanti developed various posttransplant complications and was put on immuno-suppressant drugs along with other medicines for the rest of her life.“

Manik's family then approached the consumer forum, which found gynaecologists Hira Shah, Neha Shah, Manohar Motwani and general surgeon Dinesh Bhagat guilty of negligence. The forum ruled the doctors did not perform simple diagnostic tests that would have shown there was no need for the kidney to be removed.
“While my wife was still on the operation table the doctors informed us there was a tumour attached to her ureter,“ said Vishnu. “They called a surgeon and removed the mass. Much later, they came and told me my wife had only one kidney since birth, which had now been removed with the tumour.“


Manik's lawyer Shirish Deshpande said if the clinic had bothered to conduct proper tests before performing the procedure they would have known the tumour was attached to the kidney. “Worst was that they did everything in such a haste when the tumour was not malignant,“ said Deshpande.

During proceedings, more than four experts testified in Manik's favour, saying the clinic should have performed a mandatory abdominal sonography before operating on Manik, based on which the court found the clinic guilty.

The court also observed that every single penny demanded by the Maniks was well accounted for and deserved. The court awarded Rs 7,81,474 to the Maniks for medical expenses and Rs 12,07,500 as compensation with 9 per cent from the date of filing the suit, besides Rs 10,000 as litigation costs.

 

Hard-Drive-Sniffing Dog Helps Fight Child Porn

A golden labrador like this one is helping Rhode Island police catch child pornographers.

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Rhode Island state police have a new weapon in their fight against child pornography -- a golden Labrador with a nose for computer hardware. New police dog Thoreau, who was given to the Rhode Island Internet Crimes Against Children task force by neighboring Connecticut state police, spent five months receiving specialized training on how to get the scent of hard drives, thumb drives, and other computer gear.

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The task force has a special interest in finding such devices, as they're usually small enough to be hidden far out of sight by child pornogaphers. Dogs like Thoreau can join in on a search warrant, catching by scent well-hidden things an officer might miss.
So far, Thoreau has already helped secure an arrest warrant on a suspect who had stashed a thumb drive filled with child porn deep within a metal filing cabinet.
"If it has a memory card, he’ll sniff it out," Thoreau's round-the-clock handler, Detective Adam Houston, told the Providence Journal. Thoreau will, of course, expect a yummy treat after all of his sniffing delivers the illicit goods -- that's how he was trained.

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The Connecticut program where Thoreau learned his trade is actually several years old, and was launched to help the state's computer crimes investigative unit. The program currently trains more than 60 dogs, who learn how to sniff out bombs and bodies as well as hard drives. They're often sent out to help law enforcement agencies around the country.
Thoreau and dogs like him are a welcome addition to police efforts to fight a multi-billion-dollar child porn industry populated by traffickers who have grown increasingly savvy about hiding their dark world from view.

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