McMahon says NO to New Hart Foundation

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A few weeks ago, I discussed in an entry about the comments current World Wrestling Entertainment [WWE] developmental talent DH Smith, the son of the late "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith, made to a local Miami newspaper where he said that he believe he was better than some of the current second and third generation wrestlers currently on the main WWE roster and I agreed with his comments.

On Dec. 4, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that Smith was a lock to be called up to the main roster after an incident two months ago. Reportedly, Vince McMahon was in a bad mood on a flight home to Connecticut after what he considered to be a bad week of television tapings and while looking of a paper listing of the ENTIRE roster, which included developmental talents, and afters seeing the name Harry Smith, McMahon scolded and railed on the creative team for letting this "Pedigree Kid" sit on the sidelines waste away.

Following McMahon's rant, Smith was paired up with TJ Wilson [both pictured above] as the "Canadian Bulldogs" in Florida Championship Wrestling [FCW] to get thm on track for thier eventual call-up to the main roster, which appeared to be coming soon as last week, it was reported that Smith and Wilson were on their way to the Smackdown roster to be the "New Hart Foundation" and have current WWE Diva Natalya, the daughter of Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart and current girlfriend of Wilson, be their manager.

Indications got stronger after Smith and Wilson dropped the FCW tag-team belts last week at an FCW television tapings to Tyler "Gabe Tuft" Rex and James Curtis coming on the heels of the duo working a Smackdown dark match prior to the television tapings three weeks ago against current WWE Tag Team Champions Carlito and Primo.

Unfortunately, it appears all that speculation was hogwash as the Observer reported today that Smith and Wilson are once again on the back-burner with regards to a call-up to the main roster as the company has decided to go with "The Brian Kendrick" and Ezekiel Jackson in the spot of challenging Carlito and Primo for the tag-titles.

According to Observer, officials main problem with Smith and Wilson is that they are not really that good at talking and even though officials have been grooming Natalya as their mouthpiece, they feel she's not good enough of a talker to get them the needed mic time on the show even though she is outstanding at ringside.

To make things more complicated, the trainers in FCW have been raving about Smith and Wilson and feel they are the most advanced wrestlers in the developmental league right now but it appears to not matter as its back to the drawing board for the duo.

This is now twice that Smith, Wilson and Natalya were suppose to debut as a new generation Hart Foundation and both times have been scrapped. The first time was in the fall of 2007 but Teddy Hart, who was to debut with them and is the nephew to Bret "Hitman" Hart, screwed those plans up with his immature attitude and was released from the company for a second time in Oct. 2007.

I do not know what to say about this other than are you freaking kidding me? Could someone please explain to me like I'm a five-year old how McMahon could suddenly flip his position on Smith and Wilson after scolding the creative team for not doing anything with Smith?

It baffles me beyond belief that WWE has two talents they could make a ton of money off of but because they may not have the strongest mic skills, they are going to waste them in FCW while the likes of Ted DiBiase, Cody Rhodes, Manu, Vladmir Koslov and others get television time on the main roster with weaker mic skills?

All I know for sure is that these two kids, Wilson and Smith, can produce the goods in the ring and are miles ahead of some of their peers who are currently on the main roster in terms of ring talent and natural ability.

I guaran-damn-tee you that if Jim Ross was still in charge of the talent roster and who got called up to the main roster instead of John Laurinaitis, this duo would already be multi-time tag-champions and would be carving out their name in professional wrestling history.

Hopefully, we will get to see this duo sooner than later as they could be the shot of adrenaline tag-team wrestling needs right now. Only time will tell and if McMahon keeps changing his mind like a dead fish flip-flopping, that wait could be a long, long time.