Post by EUGENE on Feb 25, 2005 18:55:46 GMT -5
Word is that Barry Werner was fired from his position as Head of WWE Magazine Publications because Vince McMahon did not like a lot of his recent covers, including one in particular. As we reported last week, Shane McMahon will be taking over most of Werner's duties.
The Rock singing "You Ain't Woman Enough" will be part of the "Be Cool" soundtrack.
Chris Jericho will be debuting his new radio show, "Da Boneyard," this Sunday at 8PM ET on XM Radio's Channel 41. The show will focus on music, not wrestling.
The Rock will be on "Good Morning America" on 3/1 to promote "Be Cool."
WWE has announced that they will be running shows in Australia, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, and Great Britain in April. The majority of the month will be dedicated to international shows.
Scotty 2 Hotty's bio being removed from WWE.com appears to be a mistake as he is booked to work the April European tour.
A book entitled "The Unauthorized History of Kane", published by WWE, is in the works.
John Cena and Stacy Keibler will be appearing at the Carl Casper Custom Auto Show in Kentucky this weekend
According to an article on Hotel-Online.com the former hotel property once owned by WWE has once again undergone an ownership change. The then-WWF bought the property out of bankruptcy for $10.6 million in 1999 with plans to develop the property into a 35-story hotel with a wrestling theme. They sold the property a year later to Mark IV Realty of Chicago for $11 million. They were unable to develop the property themselves and recently sold it for $52 million.
Talk backstage at Smackdown this week was that Orlando Jordan may be the next in line to get the US title.
The $250,000 Raw Diva search was the lowest selling WWE DVD in 2004.
WWE has plans to release yet another theme CD in 2005. Word has it this time the CD will feature themes done by real bands such as Randy Orton's theme done by Mercy Drive.
Chris Jericho will be co-hosting the "Friday Night Rocks" radio show this Friday night, February 25th on WAXQ 104.3 in New York City with Eddie Trunk.
Sabu was recently offered $8,000 to work the ECW reunion PPV by the WWE. No word yet on if he excepted the offer.
Tommy Dreamer apparently offered The Sandman $5000 on behalf of WWE to work their 6/12 ECW PPV and NOT work the 6/10 ECW reunion show that Shane Douglas is putting together.
Right now RVD and Tazz are the planned team to commentate the ECW Reunion PPV.
Justin Credible and Sabu have been contacted by Shane Douglas' to work his ECW reunion show. I'm sure WWE will try to get these guys for their PPV as well.
There will be new WrestleMania commercials featuring The Undertaker and John Cena in the coming weeks. They will be film parodies lik the current ones that are airing/
WWE.com has an interview up with Nikolai Volkoff discussing his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame in April/
Tonight will likely be the first Madison Square Garden show that Vince McMahon has missed in decades. He is at home nursing his qwuad injuries.
There is talk of a major snowstorm on the East Coast on Monday and Tuesday of next week. With WWE running the entire Northeast over the weekend followed by TV on Monday in Providence, RI for RAW and Tuesday in Albany, New York for SmackDown, this could be one interesting weekend,
WWE Films booked its first trademark in "The Condemned". The other movies are trademarked to WWE, Inc. Also, WWE has submitted a new trademark for XFL. I think they are just protecting the mark, but it is brand new, not an assignment or resubmission
-- Right now there is a lot of confidence in Rey Mysterio as a centerpiece star on Smackdown as the year progresses. WWE management is happy with his reliability, professionalism, and of course the big pops he always gets. Right now his physical size is less of an issue than ever before, but to a point it will still hold him back.
When Guerrero realized that there weren’t any plans for him at WrestleMania 21, that’s when he and Mysterio started talking. They came up with the idea of teaming up for a while then breaking up, leading to a singles match at WrestleMania. Management liked the idea, and right now the plan is to have Rey Mysterio vs. Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania.
According to the WrestlingObserver, WWE has gone to war in its attempt to recruit former ECW talent for the ECW PPV, tentatively schedule for 6/12.
With Shane Douglas planning an ECW reunion show on 6/10, WWE is using Tommy Dreamer to court wrestlers away from Douglas' show. WWE has reached out to a number of wrestlers who it feels might otherwise consider working the 6/10 event.
It is known that Sandman was personally offered $5,000 to work WWE's version of the ECW reunion. One can only assume that the other wrestlers contacted also received simiar four-figure offers.
However, in the case of The Sandman, who is already a multi-millionaire thanks to his work in construction, money may not be the selling point for him. He has stated on various occasions that he pretty much only wrestles for his friends who are booking shows now.
Former TNA star Johnny Swinger who WWE signed recently, is good friends with Edge from their training days back in Toronto. So it's possible that WWE may put them in a program together on RAW and hope for some chemistry between them to resurrect from back when they broke into the business together.
Thanks to Brian for this:
WWE Women's champion Trish Stratus was on UK's Radio 1 eariler this afternoon. Here is a recap
- The show opens with Trish calling from a hotel room in State College, Pennsylvania in just black panties ('knickers' as she called them) while talking to them.
- Colin, commented to Trish that he has a cardboard cutout of her in the studio that replaces his co-host Edith - and she once kicked it for being jealous. Trish joked of going there and having a mud wrestling match with her.
- When asked what women she respected the most. Her answer was Lita & Victoria. Victoria because they went out and raised the bar with women's wrestling and Lita because they have a special relationship and fans really want to see them clash because they know what to expect.
- The subject of Playboy was brought up and why she hasn't done it yet with her character having the 'sl*t' tag. Trish, firstly joked of wanting to have a cool million and we'd might see a toe but in seriousness, she wanted to be remembered as Trish Stratus the great women's champion and not Trish Stratus the wrestler who was in Playboy.
- It was noted, Trish loves singing anything Shania Twain for karaoke.
- The show closes with Colin jokingly telling Trish to go put some clothes on.
credit: Impact
The Rock singing "You Ain't Woman Enough" will be part of the "Be Cool" soundtrack.
Chris Jericho will be debuting his new radio show, "Da Boneyard," this Sunday at 8PM ET on XM Radio's Channel 41. The show will focus on music, not wrestling.
The Rock will be on "Good Morning America" on 3/1 to promote "Be Cool."
WWE has announced that they will be running shows in Australia, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, and Great Britain in April. The majority of the month will be dedicated to international shows.
Scotty 2 Hotty's bio being removed from WWE.com appears to be a mistake as he is booked to work the April European tour.
A book entitled "The Unauthorized History of Kane", published by WWE, is in the works.
John Cena and Stacy Keibler will be appearing at the Carl Casper Custom Auto Show in Kentucky this weekend
According to an article on Hotel-Online.com the former hotel property once owned by WWE has once again undergone an ownership change. The then-WWF bought the property out of bankruptcy for $10.6 million in 1999 with plans to develop the property into a 35-story hotel with a wrestling theme. They sold the property a year later to Mark IV Realty of Chicago for $11 million. They were unable to develop the property themselves and recently sold it for $52 million.
Talk backstage at Smackdown this week was that Orlando Jordan may be the next in line to get the US title.
The $250,000 Raw Diva search was the lowest selling WWE DVD in 2004.
WWE has plans to release yet another theme CD in 2005. Word has it this time the CD will feature themes done by real bands such as Randy Orton's theme done by Mercy Drive.
Chris Jericho will be co-hosting the "Friday Night Rocks" radio show this Friday night, February 25th on WAXQ 104.3 in New York City with Eddie Trunk.
Sabu was recently offered $8,000 to work the ECW reunion PPV by the WWE. No word yet on if he excepted the offer.
Tommy Dreamer apparently offered The Sandman $5000 on behalf of WWE to work their 6/12 ECW PPV and NOT work the 6/10 ECW reunion show that Shane Douglas is putting together.
Right now RVD and Tazz are the planned team to commentate the ECW Reunion PPV.
Justin Credible and Sabu have been contacted by Shane Douglas' to work his ECW reunion show. I'm sure WWE will try to get these guys for their PPV as well.
There will be new WrestleMania commercials featuring The Undertaker and John Cena in the coming weeks. They will be film parodies lik the current ones that are airing/
WWE.com has an interview up with Nikolai Volkoff discussing his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame in April/
Tonight will likely be the first Madison Square Garden show that Vince McMahon has missed in decades. He is at home nursing his qwuad injuries.
There is talk of a major snowstorm on the East Coast on Monday and Tuesday of next week. With WWE running the entire Northeast over the weekend followed by TV on Monday in Providence, RI for RAW and Tuesday in Albany, New York for SmackDown, this could be one interesting weekend,
WWE Films booked its first trademark in "The Condemned". The other movies are trademarked to WWE, Inc. Also, WWE has submitted a new trademark for XFL. I think they are just protecting the mark, but it is brand new, not an assignment or resubmission
-- Right now there is a lot of confidence in Rey Mysterio as a centerpiece star on Smackdown as the year progresses. WWE management is happy with his reliability, professionalism, and of course the big pops he always gets. Right now his physical size is less of an issue than ever before, but to a point it will still hold him back.
When Guerrero realized that there weren’t any plans for him at WrestleMania 21, that’s when he and Mysterio started talking. They came up with the idea of teaming up for a while then breaking up, leading to a singles match at WrestleMania. Management liked the idea, and right now the plan is to have Rey Mysterio vs. Eddie Guerrero at WrestleMania.
According to the WrestlingObserver, WWE has gone to war in its attempt to recruit former ECW talent for the ECW PPV, tentatively schedule for 6/12.
With Shane Douglas planning an ECW reunion show on 6/10, WWE is using Tommy Dreamer to court wrestlers away from Douglas' show. WWE has reached out to a number of wrestlers who it feels might otherwise consider working the 6/10 event.
It is known that Sandman was personally offered $5,000 to work WWE's version of the ECW reunion. One can only assume that the other wrestlers contacted also received simiar four-figure offers.
However, in the case of The Sandman, who is already a multi-millionaire thanks to his work in construction, money may not be the selling point for him. He has stated on various occasions that he pretty much only wrestles for his friends who are booking shows now.
Former TNA star Johnny Swinger who WWE signed recently, is good friends with Edge from their training days back in Toronto. So it's possible that WWE may put them in a program together on RAW and hope for some chemistry between them to resurrect from back when they broke into the business together.
Thanks to Brian for this:
WWE Women's champion Trish Stratus was on UK's Radio 1 eariler this afternoon. Here is a recap
- The show opens with Trish calling from a hotel room in State College, Pennsylvania in just black panties ('knickers' as she called them) while talking to them.
- Colin, commented to Trish that he has a cardboard cutout of her in the studio that replaces his co-host Edith - and she once kicked it for being jealous. Trish joked of going there and having a mud wrestling match with her.
- When asked what women she respected the most. Her answer was Lita & Victoria. Victoria because they went out and raised the bar with women's wrestling and Lita because they have a special relationship and fans really want to see them clash because they know what to expect.
- The subject of Playboy was brought up and why she hasn't done it yet with her character having the 'sl*t' tag. Trish, firstly joked of wanting to have a cool million and we'd might see a toe but in seriousness, she wanted to be remembered as Trish Stratus the great women's champion and not Trish Stratus the wrestler who was in Playboy.
- It was noted, Trish loves singing anything Shania Twain for karaoke.
- The show closes with Colin jokingly telling Trish to go put some clothes on.
credit: Impact
