Conference Call with Stone Cold Steve Austin

Highlights of a conference call with Stone Cold Steve Ausitn who was promoting next Monday’s three-hour special edition of Monday Night Raw on USA Network.

MMA fighter Vasquez dies weeks after fight

Sam Vasquez of Houston may have become the first fighter to die from injuries sustained in mixed martial arts competition in North America.

A report by The Fight Network cited the Harris County (Texas) medical examiner's office confirming Vasquez's death at 8:15 p.m. Friday. The cause of death was not released.

Vasquez had been battling for his life since taking a hard right to the chin from 21-year old Vince Libardi on Oct. 20 during a Renegades Extreme Fighting show at the Toyota Center in Houston. The blow knocked Vasquez out and he was rushed to St. Joseph Medical Center, where he stayed until moving to hospice care on Monday...More?

source: sports.yahoo.com

Ask Chris Jericho

WWE star Chris Jericho was online Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 2 p.m. ET via The Washington Post to take your questions about his career as a professional wrestler and his new book, "A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex." Click here for the complete transcript.

source: washingtonpost.com

Greatest Matches of the Year

The Dec. 28 edition of SmackDown will feature the greatest matches of the year, as well as the most unbelievable and amazing moments. Vote now for the matches you want to see on this special edition of SmackDown.

source: wwe.com

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WWE and mixed martial arts in grudge match

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is flexing its muscles overseas, looking to fight off a challenge from an increasingly popular combat sport known as mixed martial arts.

The Stamford, Conn., wrestling entertainment and media company is expanding operations around the world, adding businesses in London, Shanghai, Sydney and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The company also aims to discover emerging markets, improve its Web site and wireless business and increase sales of pay-per-view events amid growing competition from mixed martial arts.

Such diversification has reinvigorated the firm's stock (WWE), making it attractive to Wall Street after a murder-suicide involving popular wrestler Chris Benoit and the suspension of several performers for drug violations sent shares down 17 percent in a five-month period. Shares have rebounded almost 17 percent from their August 52-week low of $13.49...More?

source: chicagotribune.com

Ultimate Fighting Corrals Advertisers

Spike TV has found an unexpected ratings heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Once a vilified spectacle boasting of its lack of rules, UFC upped its sanctioning and is now the leading proponent of the interdisciplinary combat sport called Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).

But old impressions die hard. And Spike has been combating a major hurdle with its three-year-old franchise: convincing advertisers the adrenaline-packed content is not too bloody to sell their products against.

The network has found a gentlemanly solution. A subset of its sales force is now devoted to making the league more palatable to those advertisers. A three-man sales group wines and dines the clients, shuttles them to live events in Las Vegas and Florida and holds special sessions with UFC athletes at gyms and training centers, all in the name of quelling their skittishness...More?

source: broadcastingcable.com

Pics of the WWE Jet

Hogan Contests Alimony

Hulk Hogan says in a court filing that his wife, seeking half of the famed wrestler's estate and alimony in a divorce action, can support herself and can help support their minor son...More?

source: heraldtribune.com

Daredevil Evel Knievel dies at 69

Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69...More?

source: msn.foxsports.com

Wrestling Society X Coming to DVD

A new four-disc DVD package may keep a once-promising pro-wrestling promotion from remaining a secret society...More?

source: timesrecordnews.com

UFC Champ Rich Franklin Starring in Weapon

Rich Franklin is going to play a super soldier in an upcoming movie called WEAPON that sounds similar in concept to Universal Soldier. Rich Franklin is a former UFC champion who knocked out many a foe before recently being dethroned by Anderson Silva...More?

source: moviesonline.ca

Lawyer: Hulk divorce is a ruse

HULK HOGAN and his wife Linda have been accused of staging a divorce in order to protect their assets after son Nick critically injured a pal.

The lawyer for the Graziano family, whose son John was almost killed when travelling in Nick’s speeding car, has told a US newspaper that she feels the move is to stop a large court payout.

Linda, who has been married to Hulk for 24 years, filed for divorce last week asking for half of everything.

But Kimberley Kohn, who acts for the Grazianos, feels it is just a way to protect the Hogan family’s £5million worth of properties and other assets in the impending lawsuit over the accident...More?

source: thesun.co.uk