ECW’s esteemed General Manager, Tiffany, has returned to The Land of the Extreme, attempting to restore order to Tuesday nights. But once again, despite some setbacks, William Regal and his minions were the Superstars standing tall at the end of ECW on Syfy this week. Full results.
source: wwe.com
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October 6, 2009
ECW Results: Extreme Interruption
Mexico's AAA Signs a Domestic Toy Deal with Playmates Toys
Cookie Jar Group’s global licensing division, Copyright Promotions Licensing Group (CPLG), the North American licensing agent for Lucha Libre USA and the Lucha Libre AAA league, has signed Playmates Toys, Inc. as the master toy licensee for the popular wrestling brand. Playmates Toys will create a line of toys and collectibles that reflects the energy and excitement of this longtime Mexican wrestling sensation...More?
source: pwinsider.com
DX Take Down Jerishow
D-Generation X proved they have what it takes to become the unified tag team champions after they defeated Chris Jericho and The Big Show in a non-title main event match-up on Monday Night RAW...More?
source: skysports.com
Halfway to Hell
Remember that very first classic encounter between Undertaker and Shawn Michaels? Or thinking Mick Foley was dead after he fell off the top of the structure and through an announce table?
What about the violence of Foley v Triple H, which featured flaming barbed wire, or the 47-minute all-out war between Hunter and Michaels?
Those were phenomenal matches and among the best Vince McMahon's company has ever showcased.
But the very first WWE Hell In A Cell dedicated pay-per-view - which used the gimmick for all three main events - sadly fell flat...More?
source: the sun
October 5, 2009
McDevitt vs. Muchnick
In an attempt to promoted his forth-coming book about the Benoit murder/suicide, Irvin Muchnick is printing e-mails he receives from the WWE's outside counsel Jerry McDevitt. Muchnick says he is doing this to show the WWE's displeasure with his allegations that the WWE had anything to do with Benoit's death.
One of the emails reads as follows:
"Dear Mr Muchnick: Typically, the WWE has ignored your so-called 'reporting' and associated attempts to promote your upcoming book seeking to cash in on the murders committed by Chris Benoit last summer. Perhaps you have confused WWE's disregard of you as a license to print increasingly bizarre and defamatory statements regarding the WWE."
"He is a quack," McDevitt tells the Am Law Daily, adding that Muchnick had to retract his claim that the WWE's waited two weeks to respond to reports from Albany prosecutors that certain wrestlers were using performance enhancing drugs. Muchnick later admitted the WWE had acted within a day of learning the wrestlers' names...More?
Update on Jeff Jarrett's Current TNA Status & TV Return
The Wrestling Observer is reporting that Jeff Jarrett's TNA future is still being debated, and that TNA President Dixie Carter is expected to be the one that makes the final decision as to what is going to happen with Jarrett. At this point, Jarrett is working from home, helping to promote TNA events such as the Australian tour coming up in 2010/
Wrestlezone.com is reporting that it appears as if things between Jarrett and Kurt Angle have smoothed over considerably with sources claiming that both Jarrett and Karen Angle were very supportive of Kurt during his recent situation with Trenesha Biggers, aka Rhaka Khan. In light of this, it seems inevitable that Jarrett will return to TNA TV at some point down the line.
Predictions on Future Leadership at WWE
The past few weeks have actually given me hope for the future of World Wrestling Entertainment. Not because the shows or the wrestlers or the storylines have been better. They haven't. But I figure the future couldn't be any worse. Sooner or later, the McMahon family will have to send Patriarch Vince off to the nut hutch. At that point, Stephanie McMahon Levesque becomes the new President of WWE. Let's face it, Stephanie will be much better at that job than she is as head of Creative.
With Stephanie bumped up the ladder, Triple H becomes the leading candidate to take over the WWE creative department. Hopefully, he'll have retired as a wrestler by then. I haven't always bee a big Triple H fan, but he sure knows a whole lot more about professional wrestling than the person he would be replacing. There is also a better likelihood of Stephanie listening to Hunter than there is of Vince McMahon listening to, well, anybody on his creative team. So take heart, wrestling fans. It will happen.
source: pat mcneill of pwtorch.com
This Day in Wrestling History
Brian Pillman is found dead in his hotel room after passing away from a rare heart disease. On the same day, WWE Badd Blood takes place which features The Undertaker vs. Shawn Micheals first ever Hell in A Cell match. Kane would also debut in that same match.
October 5, 1997
Darren "Droz" Drozdov is paralyzed in the ring at a WWE SmackDown taping.
October 5, 1999
October 4, 2009
Hell In A Cell: DX-perience Prevails
Perhaps realizing how formidable the task was that lay before them, Legacy attempted to secure the upper hand even before the opening bell, attacking DX as they made their way to the ring. Once the dust had settled, Legacy had dragged Michaels into the cell alone, locking The Game outside. After watching helplessly as his partner was being punished, Triple H had seen enough. He retrieved a pair of bolt cutters, broke into the cell and devastated Rhodes & DiBiase. The earlier attack seemed only to enrage Triple H & Michaels, who sought – and found – revenge once inside the 20-ft. tall, steel structure when they locked out DiBiase in order to punish Rhodes.
While DX capitalized on their experience and taught The Legacy a lesson they’ll likely never forget, there’s little doubt that with their effort, Rhodes & DiBiase earned a great deal of grudging respect from many in the WWE Universe.
source: wwe.com
Hell In A Cell Results
Dark Match - Matt Hardy defeated Mike Knox in 5:00.
Hell in a Cell for the World Heavyweight Title: CM Punk vs. The Undertaker
Winner: The Undertaker - New World Champion
WWE Intercontinental Title Match: Dolph Ziggler vs. John Morrison
Winner: John Morrison (c)
WWE Divas Title Match: Mickie James vs. Alicia Fox
Winner: Mickie James (c)
Rey Mysterio returns after a 30-day suspension for a Wellness Policy violation.
WWE Unified Tag Team Title Match: Big Show and Chris Jericho vs. Batista and Rey Mysterio
Winners: Big Show & Chris Jericho (c)
Hell in a Cell for the WWE Title: Randy Orton vs. John Cena
Winner: Randy Orton - New WWE Champion
R-Truth vs. Drew McIntyre
Winner: Drew McIntyre
United States Title Triple Threat: Kofi Kingston vs. The Miz vs. Jack Swagger
Winner: Kofi Kingston
Hell in a Cell Tag Team Match: DX vs. Legacy
Winners: DX
This Day in Wrestling History
Happy Birthday to Linda McMahon
October 4, 1948
Ric Flair and others are involved in a serious plane crash. Flair suffers a broken back, doctors tell him he will never wrestle again.
October 4, 1975
The controversial Austin/Pillman gun incident episode of Raw.
October 4, 1996
October 3, 2009
'The Wrestler' Actor Pleads Guilty in Steroids Case
An actor who went from appearing in the Oscar-nominated film "The Wrestler" to leading police on a wild demolition-derby-style chase through Eastchester pleaded guilty Friday to steroid possession and assaulting federal agents.
Scott Siegel, 35, of Nautilus Place, New Rochelle, admitted guilt in U.S. District Court in White Plains to two counts of using a deadly weapon to assault officers - the truck he was driving on the night of Feb. 18 - and one count of possessing and distributing anabolic steroids.
The chase followed on the heels of Siegel's gaining a measure of celebrity from his performance in "The Wrestler". Siegel played a thickly muscled steroid dealer named Greg who supplies steroids to the lead character, played by Mickey Rourke, who was nominated for a best actor Academy Award...More?
source: lohud.com
Rev. Al's Ratings Turkey
You might think bombastic Rev. Al Sharpton would be right at home in the boorish world of pro-wrestling. But "World Wrestling Entertainment Raw" reported its lowest rating in nearly a year after Sharpton guest-hosted Monday night at the Times Union Center in Albany. Sharpton's show earned a meager 3.1 in the ratings, the lowest since last November, according to the WWE. The fans even loudly booed Sharpton's appearance. "Yes we were low, but 'Monday Night Football' really had a lot to with it," said WWE rep Robert Zimmerman.
source: nypost.com
Angelina Love/Lacey Von Erich Story
Lacey Von Erich demonstrates how NOT to deliver an effective promo.
This Day in Wrestling History
Rick Steamboat & Jay Youngblood defeated Jack & Jerry Brisco for the NWA World Tag Team title.
October 3, 1983
Vince Russo & Ed Ferrera leave the WWF(E) and join WCW.
October 3, 1999
October 2, 2009
SmackDown Results: Celebrating a Decade
On an historic edition of SmackDown, WWE celebrated a decade of bringing entertainment to millions of fans around the world. The night culminated in an epic Eight-Man Tag Team Match, featuring a thunderous Tombstone from Undertaker to Randy Orton. Full Results.
source: wwe.com
Congrats Rio!!
Felicitações, Rio de Janerio! Um grande dia para meus amigos brasileiros!
Rio de Janeiro to host 2016 Olympics
Q&A with Jim Ross
Even though you haven’t always worked on Smackdown, I’m sure you’ve seen all the shows. What is your most memorable Smackdown moment?
Even though I wasn’t on the broadcast itself, I was always on site on Tuesdays, because for a lot of the early days of Smackdown and a good time afterward, I was in charge of the talent department, so that necessitated me to be there anyway. When I ceased be the executive vice president of talent relations and was focusing from a TV perspective just on Raw, I would do Monday Night Raw and then go home, but I always watched the program. I think probably the most memorable night for me personally – and it was when I was not on Smackdown on a regular basis – was the Smackdown that followed 9/11. We had done Raw down in Texas – I think it was San Antonio – and then we had driven to Houston, and 9/11 occurred on Tuesday morning. It was such a tragedy and changed everyone’s lives, and on a small scale for us, it postponed the Tuesday night taping for a Thursday night airing, and we went live that Thursday night. I remember being part of that broadcast because of the uniqueness of it; the delicate nature of what we were addressing; the fact that it was one of the first public gathering of folks after the tragedy of 9/11. That to me was probably the most memorable Smackdown that I have been a part of. It was more memorable than the first one, even though the first one was exciting and it was a new venture. Just the nature of the subject matter of the program and what had happened in our country that week was much bigger than a wrestling match...More?
source: baltimoresun.com
Ben Roethlisberger Interviewed on Raw Guest Hosting
Next week's WWE Raw guest host Ben Roethlisberger says WWE chairman Vince McMahon approached him about hosting Raw based on Big Ben's previous informal appearances at WWE shows.
"I got asked to do it," Roethlisberger was quoted by the Beaver County Times. "Vince McMahon asked me to do it, and I said, 'Sure, why not?'"
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback says he doesn't understand why his coaches, specifically head coach Mike Timlin, would have had a problem with him appearing on the show during an off-period in the week...More?
source: pwtorch.com
Update on Raw Hosts
Actor/rapper Ice-T and his wife Coco said in a recent interview with Monday Mayhem that WWE contacted them to host an upcoming RAW. Schedules are being worked out, but the two believe a RAW appearance this fall is likely.
According to PWInsider.com, the talk in WWE is that Dennis Miller will be hosting the recently announced three-hour special edition of RAW on November 23rd in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
sources: impactwrestling.com & wrestlezone.com
This Day in Wrestling History
Booker T defeats Jeff Jarrett for the vacant WCW World Title.
October 2, 2000
October 1, 2009
WWE Superstars Results: Getting A Leg Up
Over the past several weeks, The Miz and Jack Swagger have both made the United States Champion’s life a nightmare, but on “WWE Superstars,” Kingston gained some momentum heading into Hell in a Cell with a win over The Miz. After controlling the early part of the match, Kofi looked to be in dire straits when the self-proclaimed “Chick Magnet” started focusing on one of Kingston’s legs, taking out a key dimension of the champion’s offense. However, just when it all looked to be over for Kofi, he mustered up everything he had, nailing The Miz with Trouble in Paradise and picking up the pin.
Unfortunately, the momentum Kingston sought to gain was plucked away from him when Jack Swagger decimated the champion and The Miz during Kofi’s celebration. Full results.
source: wwe.com
TV Ratings Info on the Kimbo Slice Edition of "The Ultimate Fighter"
Episode three of The Ultimate Fighter aired on Spike TV last night to an estimated 5.3 million viewers for the Kimbo Slice vs. Roy Nelson fight, which itself peaked with a 6.1 quarter hour. That would indicate a final cable rating of anywhere from 3.5 to 4.0 for the show, compared to the 3.1 the WWE RAW show delivered this past Monday. The Ultimate Fighter scored a 6.8 rating for Males 18-34, the highest in the history of Spike TV as a cable network. The Kimbo-Nelson fight itself did a 7.86 for Males 18-34.
The replay for the episode, which aired immediately after the first broadcast also scored impressively with 1.5 million viewers. This means 6.8 million viewers saw the entire episode last night alone.
source: wrestlezone.com
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
