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Jericho out… for now
ChrisJericho.com has a letter/press release from Chris Jericho on his break from the WWE. He had a “You’re Fired” match with WWE Champ John Cena last week and was well – fired. Or so they say. Actually word is his contract with WWE was up at Summerslam and he had it extended to last Monday to finish with the “You’re Fired” match.
Anyways, its an interesting read. Basically boils down to Y2J needing to recharge his batteries. He doesn’t give any type of timeline for his return, but you can bet it will be big when he does come back.
And for those wondering, here’s a list of his favorite matches:
July 16, 1993-w/Ultimo Dragon vs Negro Casas and El Dandy-Mexico City, MX
July 7, 1995-Ultimo Dragon-Tokyo, Japan-IJ Championship
June 22, 1996-Pitbull #2-Philadelphia, PA-ECW TV Title
Feb 22, 1998-Juventud Guerrera-San Francisco, CA-Cruiserweight Title vs Mask
April 17, 2000-HHH-State College, PA-WWF Championship
July 23, 2000-HHH-Dallas, TX-Last Man Standing
Jan 21, 2001-Chris Benoit-New Orleans, LA-Ladder Match For The IC Championship
May 21, 2001-w/Chris Benoit vs HHH and Stone Cold Steve Austin-WWF Tag Team Championship
May 22, 2001-w/Chris Benoit vs The Dudley Boys vs The Hardy Boys vs Edge and Christian-TLC Match
Oct 21, 2001-The Rock-St Louis, MO-WCW Championship
March 1, 2002-The Rock-Yokohama, Japan-WWE Championship
June 15, 2002-The Rock-Honolulu, HI
Oct 7, 2002-w/Christian vs Kane vs Bubba and Spike Dudley vs Jeff Hardy and RVD-Las Vegas, NV-TLC Match
Mar 30, 2003-Shawn Michaels-Seattle, WA-Wrestlemania 19
Feb 7. 2004-Chris Benoit-Tokyo, Japan
Oct 19, 2004-Shelton Benjamin-Milwaukee, WI-IC Championship
Jan 9, 2005-Edge vs Chris Benoit vs HHH vs Randy Orton vs Batista-San Juan, Puerto Rico-Elimination Chamber For The WWE Championship
April 3, 2005-Edge vs Christian vs Chris Benoit vs Kane vs Shelton Benjamin-Money In The Bank Ladder Match At Wrestlemania 21
July 2, 2005-Shawn Michaels-Tokyo, Japan
Aug 21, 2005 John Cena Washington DC WWE Championship
For the record, my favorite opponents in no particular order are Ultimo Dragon, Chris Benoit, The Rock, Christian and Shawn Michaels (my personal best friend – or so I say).
New Religion
How bout you? Would you jump on the chance to join this religion or avoid it like the plague?
No to Go
Communication Nation writes we need to change our default manager settings from No to Go.
I’ve found personally that its much easier to delegate and get things done when I can trust people to make decisions and not come to me for every single decision they make. I hate micro-management. I don’t want to have to sit over people and tell them what to do every step of the way. I like to assume that if you got the job, your capable and can manage to get a job done.
Unfortunatly, one thing I’ve seen is that some people who don’t know how to do something, just shut down and avoid asking questions. That’s not the right direction either. I’d rather have someone ask me how to do something than not do it at all.
How to win a deal after it’s already been lost
Communication Nation has intrigued me today. It’s written by XPLANE CEO Dave Gray. I’m sure I’ll report more later on this blog. Lots of good reading here.
“Tony is in charge of ‘closed lost’ analysis at a company that sells complex solutions in a crowded market. In a recent interview, Tony told me that he converts about 50 percent of the ‘closed lost’ deals he investigates to ‘closed won’ using the following approach.”
Dave gives a list of pointers for sales people and those involved in sales in moving from a closed sale/business to a new open sale and relationship.
Update on comments
For those of you who actually leave comments, you’ll notice an additional step when you go to leave comments. You’ll be asked to verify a random set of characters. I hope this isn’t too much of a nuisance, but it’s to help deter Spam commentary, which I’ve started getting a lot of lately. I think I’ve deleted them all, but they end up leaving comments that are nothing more than ads to their websites. And since the majority of them are done automatically with software, the added step helps deter them. So, hope you all don’t mind too much. And I appreciate your feedback.