Post by steve on Oct 24, 2007 17:40:53 GMT -5
1. Austin speaks on Tna
WWE.com posted an interesting article today with Stone Cold Steve Austin interviewing actor and former WCW Champion David Arquette. Arquette's WCW title reign is considered by many to be the epitome of the company's ineptitude during its final days. As if David Arquette being interviewed on WWE.com isn't strange enough, Stone Cold actually mentions TNA Wrestling in one of his questions. Austin asked Arquette: Knowing wrestling like you do, being in WCW for a little bit and now seeing the business today with really only WWE around • you’ve got some stuff in TNA but no major stars • who is your favorite guy going right now? It is very rare that WWE mentions rival promotion TNA Wrestling in any way. Despite what Stone Cold says about TNA, their weekly television show iMPACT! draws ratings that are comparable to ECW on Sci Fi. As far as TNA having no major stars, Austin seems to have a short memory. He dropped the WWE Championship to TNA's top star Kurt Angle at Unforgiven 2001.
WWE Magazine 500th Anniversary Issue. Celebrate 25 years of the greatest features, photos & fights in this special collector's magazine! The 500th Issue celebrates the storied history of the magazine! This collector's compilation is a must have for any WWE fan! Pick up your copy on newsstands now!
From Ben Jordan Kerin: Just thought inform incase anyone wasn't aware, that because our clocks go back this Saturday night/Sunday morning and the US don't change theirs until the following week,Cyber Sunday will begin at 12am-3am (SKY SPORTS 1) - SUNDAY 28. and that the following nights Raw will be on at 1am-3.15am (SKY SPORTS 3)- MONDAY 29.
Lena Yada was voted off the Diva Search competition on RAW as the final three participants made their first appearance on the show. This year's contest took a different direction from the previous years as it was more or less a WWE.com-based contest rather than a weekly segment on WWE television. Brooke Gilbertsen and Eve Torres are the two remaining finalists and the winner will be announced next Monday on RAW. In the meantime, voting is open at WWE.comto elect the winner.
2. Carolina's Krissy Vaine gets released
Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Before her WWE release, there were plans to give Krissy Vaine a huge push on SmackDown with a lot of TV time. Michael Hayes was especially high on Vaine and felt she was above most of the Divas on the roster. There were no plans to send her boyfriend Ryan O'Reilly to RAW or anywhere else, they just booked him on some RAW shows to get him back on the radar. Vince McMahon was reportedly high on O'Reilly.
As previously posted, WWE developmental wrestler Cassidy James broke his arm in a match with The Major Brothers recently. James will be out for six weeks and is currently in a cast.
Believe it or not, the idea for Lilian Garcia to record a Spanish CD came from Vince McMahon. Garcia grew up in Spain. She was pushing to do an angle with Jillian Hall, figuring the attention would help CD sales.
As noted last weekend here on the site, Ric Flair is still doing promotional dates for WWE. He is telling people that the creative team is working on an idea to bring him back.
3. Masterpiece suffers a possible injury
Source: F4WOnline.com
During the European Tour there was reportedly an incident in the Undertaker & Kane vs. Finlay & Chris Masters match that may have resulted in Chris Masters' getting a broken nose.
During the match The Deadman was working over The Masterpiece's arm and got pissed off when he wouldn't sell the arm after tagging out. After numerous attempts to get Masters to sell that his arm was hurting he got the idea, but seemingly forgot again later in the match ticking Taker off some more.
When The Undertaker and Chris Masters tagged in to face each other at the end of the match Taker was said to be working stiff on him, eventually bloodying Master's nose.
When the match had finished it was clear that Masters had ended up injuring his arm legitimately, dislocating his elbow as previously reported.
His injury is not thought to be from a legitimate attack from The Undertaker and the incidents that took place in the match, although may seem shocking are quite common place between the ring veteran Taker and the relatively newcomer Masters. It's all part of being a ring general to make greener talent sell their "injuries."
WWE.com posted an interesting article today with Stone Cold Steve Austin interviewing actor and former WCW Champion David Arquette. Arquette's WCW title reign is considered by many to be the epitome of the company's ineptitude during its final days. As if David Arquette being interviewed on WWE.com isn't strange enough, Stone Cold actually mentions TNA Wrestling in one of his questions. Austin asked Arquette: Knowing wrestling like you do, being in WCW for a little bit and now seeing the business today with really only WWE around • you’ve got some stuff in TNA but no major stars • who is your favorite guy going right now? It is very rare that WWE mentions rival promotion TNA Wrestling in any way. Despite what Stone Cold says about TNA, their weekly television show iMPACT! draws ratings that are comparable to ECW on Sci Fi. As far as TNA having no major stars, Austin seems to have a short memory. He dropped the WWE Championship to TNA's top star Kurt Angle at Unforgiven 2001.
WWE Magazine 500th Anniversary Issue. Celebrate 25 years of the greatest features, photos & fights in this special collector's magazine! The 500th Issue celebrates the storied history of the magazine! This collector's compilation is a must have for any WWE fan! Pick up your copy on newsstands now!
From Ben Jordan Kerin: Just thought inform incase anyone wasn't aware, that because our clocks go back this Saturday night/Sunday morning and the US don't change theirs until the following week,Cyber Sunday will begin at 12am-3am (SKY SPORTS 1) - SUNDAY 28. and that the following nights Raw will be on at 1am-3.15am (SKY SPORTS 3)- MONDAY 29.
Lena Yada was voted off the Diva Search competition on RAW as the final three participants made their first appearance on the show. This year's contest took a different direction from the previous years as it was more or less a WWE.com-based contest rather than a weekly segment on WWE television. Brooke Gilbertsen and Eve Torres are the two remaining finalists and the winner will be announced next Monday on RAW. In the meantime, voting is open at WWE.comto elect the winner.
2. Carolina's Krissy Vaine gets released
Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Before her WWE release, there were plans to give Krissy Vaine a huge push on SmackDown with a lot of TV time. Michael Hayes was especially high on Vaine and felt she was above most of the Divas on the roster. There were no plans to send her boyfriend Ryan O'Reilly to RAW or anywhere else, they just booked him on some RAW shows to get him back on the radar. Vince McMahon was reportedly high on O'Reilly.
As previously posted, WWE developmental wrestler Cassidy James broke his arm in a match with The Major Brothers recently. James will be out for six weeks and is currently in a cast.
Believe it or not, the idea for Lilian Garcia to record a Spanish CD came from Vince McMahon. Garcia grew up in Spain. She was pushing to do an angle with Jillian Hall, figuring the attention would help CD sales.
As noted last weekend here on the site, Ric Flair is still doing promotional dates for WWE. He is telling people that the creative team is working on an idea to bring him back.
3. Masterpiece suffers a possible injury
Source: F4WOnline.com
During the European Tour there was reportedly an incident in the Undertaker & Kane vs. Finlay & Chris Masters match that may have resulted in Chris Masters' getting a broken nose.
During the match The Deadman was working over The Masterpiece's arm and got pissed off when he wouldn't sell the arm after tagging out. After numerous attempts to get Masters to sell that his arm was hurting he got the idea, but seemingly forgot again later in the match ticking Taker off some more.
When The Undertaker and Chris Masters tagged in to face each other at the end of the match Taker was said to be working stiff on him, eventually bloodying Master's nose.
When the match had finished it was clear that Masters had ended up injuring his arm legitimately, dislocating his elbow as previously reported.
His injury is not thought to be from a legitimate attack from The Undertaker and the incidents that took place in the match, although may seem shocking are quite common place between the ring veteran Taker and the relatively newcomer Masters. It's all part of being a ring general to make greener talent sell their "injuries."