Month: January 2021

— It was announced on Raw last night that five Divas from SmackDown will be wrestling five Divas from Raw in a Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match next Sunday. Team Raw will be captained by WWE Women’s Champion Beth Phoenix with Mickie James, Kelly Kelly, Candice Michelle & Jillian by her side. Team SmackDown will be captained by Divas Champion Michelle McCool, with Maria, Maryse, Victoria & Natalya rounding out the group. Divas being left…

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Source: TMZ.com Linda Hogan’s 19-year-old boyfriend Charley Hill tried to get a restraining order against Hulk Hogan, but a Florida court doesn’t believe Hulk is out to get Charlie and has denied the request. You can read the official court documents here. Charley claimed Hulk “dangerously followed” him in his car a couple weeks ago and “pulled up next to him and stared at him” at a stoplight — a crime in no states. Charley…

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— Under the Ring has an interview with former ECW Superstar Big Daddy V, who talks about his release from the company this past August. He claims his doctor led to his firing from WWE. Reportedly, it was due to issues with his weight. “Actually, the way I got released from the company this last time, it was a blessing in disguise. My doctor really got me fired,” Big Daddy V said. “Basically, my doctor…

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— Next week’s edition of ECW on Sci will be a “Best of 2008” type show, according to Jim Ross in his latest blog. This explains why ECW was heavy on the Christmas theme even though one more show was scheduled to air before Christmas. WWE’s holding a Supershow next Monday night in Toronto, and it probably would have been too much to tape three shows during one live event setting. SmackDown is scheduled to…

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— There should be some Royal Rumble qualifying matches on Raw next week. The TV Guide preview for next Monday’s show reads: “HD, (TV-PG,V), Superstars continue to qualify for the “Royal Rumble.” (Pro Wrestling), (V=Moderate Violence) — MyNetworkTV.com has video of the commercial currently airing on TV promoting the Divas of SmackDown. You can see it at the following link. However, this commercial is slightly different from the one actually running on television. In the…

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source: www.prowrestling.NET — As reported earlier, Kevin Nash missed last night’s TNA Genesis pay-per-view due to a staph infection in his elbow. Officials didn’t know for sure that Nash would be off the show until late in the afternoon. Officials were left scrambling and didn’t have many options other than using Kip James as a replacement in the match. The usual jokes popped up backstage due to Nash’s history of missing shows, but he had…

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With WWE holding their Royal Rumble pay-per-view on Sunday, there will only be one house show this weekend. On Saturday night, all three WWE brands: Raw, SmackDown, and ECW will hold a Supershow at the Savage Arena in Toledo, Ohio. Bell time is set for 7:30 p.m. and Triple H, John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, Vladimir Kozlov, Matt Hardy, CM Punk, Cryme Tyme, The Miz, R-Truth, Jack Swagger, John Morrison, Beth Phoenix, Maria, and Maryse…

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WWE taped this week’s edition of ECW at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. Special thanks to Wrestling News World readers Brent Garrison, John Lamer, and Robert Fontes for sending text-message updates. If you are attending a future WWE TV taping and would be interested in sending us live text-message updates, please email your name, mobile number, and show date to wnwryan [at] yahoo.com. Thanks for your support! * A WrestleMania video package is…

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sources: www.f4wonline.com, Wrestling Observer Newsletter — Internally, no one has any confidence that Wrestlemania will do a buyrate anywhere close to the past two events. Most company officials predict the show doing somewhere in the 500k range, which would be the lowest since WrestleMania XIX in 2003. If the “25th Anniversary of WrestleMania” experiences the same percentage drop as the Royal Rumble did (23 percent), the number would be around 800,000 buys. However, it would…

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Williams George Russell and Nicholas Latifi will be in action this Sunday, albeit in the virtual world as F1 Esports’ Virtual Grand Prix series returns this weekend. Sunday’s Virtual Austrian GP will kick off a three-race series in which teams will battle for a share of prize money that each entrant will donate to a charity of their choice. Russell – who won last year’s sim series that took place during F1’s pre-season lock down…

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