WWE News: Brian Kendrick Likely Heading Back to WWE for Cruiserweight Show
The WWE hasn’t had a cruiserweight division since 2007, but news broke last week that that would change in the near future.
"November is also when WWE plans to debut a new show featuring only Crusierweight wrestlers. Talents who had been in touch with WWE about working the show were told that plans to sign anyone were pushed to the fall. WWE is looking for wrestlers in the 200 lb range.
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The WWE is looking to highlight its talented, smaller wrestlers with an all-cruiserweight show, and there are plenty of guys who are already under contract—Justin Gabriel, Sin Cara, Tyson Kidd, Evan Bourne, Trent Baretta, etc.—who could make this show something really special to watch.
But as the report notes, the WWE will still be looking to fill out the show’s roster with wrestlers in the 200-pound range. And to start off that cruiserweight influx, a former WWE and recently released TNA star could be heading back to Vince McMahon’s company.
"Many people in WWE believe that Brian Kendrick will be returning to WWE later this year for the new Cruiserweights show that has been talked about for the WWE Network according to PWInsider.com
Kendrick appeared on the Lowdown Unlimited show last week and said that he has kicked his marijuana habit and would be interested in working for WWE again.
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All in favor, say I. I!
Although I don’t watch TNA all that much, I was always a big supporter of Brian Kendrick. Kendrick and Paul London made one hell of a tag team while in WWE together, and when the duo split in 2008, Kendrick became the breakout star of the group (even though it didn’t last very long).
Kendrick actually found himself competing for the WWE Championship in a Championship Scramble match shortly after parting ways with London, but didn’t really get much of a push afterward and wound up getting released by the WWE in July 2009.
He was one of the many superstars that the WWE missed the boat on that year, and I always hoped to see him return to the company at some point down the road because he’s got some incredible in-ring talent.
I doubt Kendrick would get much of a chance of making it to the world title scene on RAW or SmackDown, but he’d be a hell of an addition to the cruiserweight show, the mid-card title and tag-team title scenes.
The WWE would be wise to sign Kendrick, put him on the cruiserweight show, and then see what happens. He’s already just as good as a vast majority of the WWE roster, anyway.
Drake Oz is a WWE Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter and ask him any wrestling-related questions on Formspring.
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