sources: Pro Wrestling Torch, Wrestling Observer Newsletter After being released on Tuesday, Sabu has a 90-day no-compete clause that will run through the middle of August and prevent him from working for other promotions while WWE pays him out. Buddy Roberts and Jimmy Garvin were recently brought to WWE headquarters to shoot interviews for the […]
Source: PWInsider.com – Several broadcast trade publications have mentioned Saturday Night’s Main Event returning to the NBC network this Saturday night after NBC issued a press release announcing the show’s return earlier this morning. – Matt Hardy has posted his latest blog on WWE.com. In it, Hardy discusses the recent neck injury suffered by his […]
partial source: Wrestling Observer The buyrate for WWE’s first tri-brand non-“Big Four” pay-per-view, WWE Backlash 2007, has come in. Not including buyrate numbers for December to Dismember, Backlash 2007 was the least watched WWE pay-per-view since 2004. The previous low was No Mercy 2006, which did about 195,000 buys total. Looking at the graph on […]
Slammiversary: L.A.X vs. Rhino & Senshi With a WWE-like set of camera angles L.A.X is introduced to a huge pop. Followed by Rhino and Senshi. Rhino and Homicide start off circling the ring to a huge response by the audience. Rhino applies a side headlock. To the ropes, shoulder block on Homicide. Homicide slides through […]
This story is just breaking and more and more details are becoming available, but this is what Fox News has just posted: Detective Bo Turner told television station WAGA that the case was being investigated as a murder-suicide, but said that could not be confirmed until the evidence was examined by a crime lab. WAGA […]
sources: PWInsider.com, Wrestling Observer The New York Daily News has added Eddie Fatu (Umaga) and Shoichi Funaki to their list of WWE wrestlers that were clients of Signature Pharmacy out of Orlando. You can read the article at this link. Funaki wasn’t listed in the original New York Daily News article, though he was named […]
sources: Wrestling Observer, Wrestling Observer Newsletter — Edge has an undisclosed injury that he is telling people isn’t serious. Edge is telling people that it took place during the closing segment at Tuesday’s SmackDown taping in which Kane beats him down. He is still scheduled to defend his title against Kane at the Great American […]
Source: TMZ It seems like WWE news is becoming a regular staple of entertainment news website TMZ.com. They’ve now picked up the story that I reported here earlier this week – that the “Jackass invasion” and match with Umaga have been scrapped. Here’s what TMZ had to say about it: Even the jackasses in “Jackass” […]
sources: Pro Wrestling Torch, Wrestling Observer — WWE will be getting a welcome relief with last night’s Raw rating as the show did a 3.8 cable rating. The first hour drew a 3.67 and the second hour drew a 3.94 with an overall average of 3.80. This is way up from last week’s 2.5 rating […]
Here are the names of this year’s WWE Diva Search contest: Taryn Terrell – Mandeville, LA Naomi Kirk – Los Angeles, CA Brooke Gilbertsen – San Diego, CA Lena Yada – Los Angeles, CA Eve Torres – Los Angeles, CA Jessica Hatch – Houston, TX J. Kim – Catawba, NC Lyndy Frieson – Vancouver, BC […]