Miscellaneous WWE News Thread.

[Y 2 Jake]

Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Nobody really knows what's going on with the Vickie Guerrero/Theodore Long/Kristal storyline, mostly because Vince McMahon keeps changing his mind on what to do with it. It's more because of that then officials souring on Vickie Guerrero.

One week, Vince wants Long as the classy G.M. with integrity and hates the storyline of him falling for Kristal, thus making Vickie the G.M. of SmackDown. The next week, he wants Long to be seduced by Kristal, which is what they did for last week's show as he gave her a flower. There has even been a proposal of making Long having a drinking problem, although they haven't gone that far just yet.

Vickie Guerrero has been brought to TV in recent weeks because no one knows ahead of time in regards to what direction Vince McMahon wants to go in. As of late, Vickie has not been used. She last appeared on SmackDown on 2/23.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Indies wrestling website DeclarationOfIndependents.net is reporting that Victoria Crawford (the other catalog model signed last spring), Jake Hager (former collegiate wrestler from Oklahoma) and Atlas DeBone showed up in no condition to work last Friday's OVW house show in Owensboro, Kentucky. Allegedly, all three individuals were intoxicated and smelled of marijuana.

The trio was immediately reprimanded by Idol Stevens. There is no word if the three will be punished.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Steve Austin was backstage at RAW last Monday in Dayton, but wasn't used. Although there was talk of fitting him onto the show, it was decided that forcing him onto TV for the sake of his star power would water down his future impact with the company down the line.

Tonight on RAW, Shawn Michaels will square off against Randy Orton with a WWE Championship Match on the line.

Edge will also host a live edition of The Cutting Edge. The Rated-R Superstar will welcome none other than WWE Champion John Cena as his special guest.

Mick Foley will make a special announcement involving the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Mick Foley will be speaking at MIT on Thursday from 5PM to 7PM. The event is being called "The Real World's Faker than Wrestling: Former WWE Champion and Best-Selling Author Mick Foley" and will take place in Building 54, Room 100.

WWE.com reports that they did 67.6 million page views last Monday alone thanks to the post-WrestleMania 23 buzz. They also report that the site did 120 million page views and drew 5 million unique visitors from Saturday, March 31st to Monday, April 2nd.

As reported last week, RAW did a 4.3 rating on Monday. Both hours of RAW drew 4.3s.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Marcus Cor Von vs. Rob Van Dam is the main event for ECW tomorrow.

Shawn Michaels was busted open the hard-way during RAW last night. He'll be in pain tomorrow.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Thanks to Coolbeans and Mike Johnson for the following:

Before the show Eugene came out and shot of several t-shirts to the crowd. Khali came out and Eugene shot a shirt right at his chest. Khali then gives Eugene a double handed chokeslam. The ref gives Eugene a t-shirt and helps him back up.

After Monday Night Raw went off the air, The McMahons and Umaga continued to beat down ECW champion Bobby Lashley. The heels all celebrated and strapped the ECW title around Vince McMahon's waist, then picked him up as if he had won the title and paraded all the way to the back with it.

Lashley took a long time to recover and then finally returned to the back. Cameras were filming so it may pop up on the WWE/ECW websites.

There was no post-taping dark match to send the crowd home.

 

[A.J.]

The 4.06.07 edition of Smackdown scored a 2.7 broadcast rating, with a 4.9 share.

Steve Austin will appear on CMT's 2007 Country Music Awards ceremony this Monday starting at 8PM.

The "Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen" DVD was released nationally today. The DVD features comments from every "major" player in the history of the group, minus Ole Anderson who was not interviewed for the project.

A WWE Raw-themed Socko energy drink will be released nationally on 5.15.07.

 

[A.J.]

Thanks to Jagger K and PWInsider.com for the following recap of Hulk Hogan's appearance on Bubba The Love Sponge's show:

Hulk discussed his upcoming match with Jerry Lawler in Memphis and said it was going to be the last event ever at the Mid-South Coliseum but due to demand they moved it to a larger 14,000 venue. Hulk said he doubted he would sell it out because it is only a few weeks away but wants to do a lot more than the 4,000 Vince draws there

Hulk asked Bubba to be part of the show as a wrestler and Bubba said he doesn't know enough to wrestle a full match but Hogan said all he needed to know was the basics and he would get over. Bubba said he rather manage but will be there.

Other names mentioned as possibilities for appearing were Ed Leslie (yes, he'll be there) and Brian Knobbs (no, he won't). Bubba kidded about Randy Savage and Hogan said its time to bury the hatchet and he would love Randy to be involved. Hogan kidded Savage would need to dye his har black because its full gray. Bubba said if Hogan was serious that he would mediate it and Hogan said to do it and that Randy is a great guy who was going through personal issues.

Hogan used the F-bomb towards Vince McMahon and was obviously pissed that he felt Vince mocked Brooke with Jillian Hall doing a Brooke-type character on Smackdown. Bubba admitted he was the one that told Hulk about the character.

Bubba talked about how he misses the old Hogan and could not wait until he becomes "free again" (obviously alluding to his rumored marriage problems). They said that once Bubba got off the air they would go out and hit some strip clubs and that even though Hogan has a house in Miami and another being built in Vegas that he will be back in Tampa soon and hanging out again.

 

[A.J.]

WWE officials decided that Chris Benoit would be keeping the title at WrestleMania when the decision was made to not send him over to RAW. It was never 100%, but it was the on-paper plan and the reason Benoit didn't appear on television much in recent weeks.

Curt "Mr. Perfect" Hennig's father Larry "The Axe" Hennig had asked that they play the "Rap is Crap" song from WCW during his induction, but they didn't go with the idea and instead chose to play the Mr. Perfect theme.

Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior and Bruno Sammartino will all be signing autographs at the same New Jersey convention and Expo Center in Edison, NJ on 5/6. Sammartino will be signing for free since he refuses to charge for autographs. Warrior is charging $45 for autographs and $75 for photos. Hogan is charging anywhere from $150 to $250 per autograph.

 

[InstantClassic]

Stephanie McMahon-Levesque has had her official job title changed to Executive Vice President of Creative. She now has more power on the Board of Directors and has gotten a nice pay raise.

Credit- lordsofpain.net

 

[A.J.]

WWE.com has created a new "WWE Alumni" section where they list wrestlers who no longer work with the company. Currently people like Lita, The Rock, and Trish Stratus listed.

WWE.com has a profile up of new WWE Intercontinental Champion Santino Marella.

Many people are questioning the rumors that broke last week about Hulk Hogan and his wife Linda getting a divorce. While we are unable to confirm these rumors, it is likely they are doing this to draw more people towards the Hogan Knows Best reality series on VH-1.

THQ has some WWE-themed giveaways going on their site.

This past Friday’s edition of SmackDown did a 2.5 broadcast rating with a 4.5 share.

 

[xpsdeset]

As I wanted to share with you all but I am not allowed to create threads

The Divas are not yet completely removed from wwe.com
The Diva Dish still is there in wwe.com
http://www.wwe.com/superstars/divas/divadish/
this simple google search will show many more

and also
Chris Benoit

Still on wwe.com



Just I was surfing for stuff in wwe.com and found this

http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/webshows/bytethis/200407/22bytethis



if you see the whole video still bandwidth is saved for Chris Benoit on wwe.com



even like

http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/webshows/bytethis/200306/26bytethis

http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/jukebox/2005/april/drm-aprjuke_17_

I just made an query for searching google

Open the following google search

http://www.google.co.in/search?as_q...&as_sitesearch=wwe.com&as_rights=&safe=images

or just enter in google



"Chris Benoit" site:wwe.com



You will see tons of stuff that wwe has not been able to eliminate Christ from their site


and also did you notice this year All the major champions ships have been vacated one time or the other and also changed more than 3 times already this year

Wwe Championship vacated due to injury of John Cena vacated for 6days
World Heavyweight Championship vacated due to injury of Edge
vacated for just minutes
Ecw Championship vacated due to Bobby Lashley been drafted to Raw
vacated for 2 weeks

also did you notice the main event of No Mercy changed last minute
both last and this year

Last year It turned from an singles match to an fatal four way between
Batista,King Booker,Lashley and Finlay
which should have been between King Booker & Lashley