source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
— At No Mercy last Sunday, WWE had plans to air a segment featuring Charlie Haas impersonating Hornswoggle late in the show, but it was cut due to time constraints. It was cut because they didn’t want the segment to potentially cut off any time from the ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho. Additionally, Haas’ impersonation of “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was relegated to dark match duty the next night on Raw, perhaps as to not take attention from the actual Piper being announced as a choice for Santino Marella’s Intercontinental Championship match at Cyber Sunday. Haas lost to Dolph Ziggler in the dark match.
— In recent weeks, Vince McMahon has been talking about having the wrestlers work a more realistic style of wrestling. That’s one of the reasons former WCW wrestler Norman Smiley was hired (as a coach in developmental). Smiley was told he was brought in due to his background in the more realistic Japanese wrestling style. Basically, they don’t the wrestlers to sell moves that miss, and for the moves to look light. Also, instead of the old school pro wrestling style where a guy gets punched in the face, the guy selling would at least put his hands up in defense of the punch.
— The WWE: The Life And Times Of Mr. Perfect DVD dropped to second place in Billboard’s Video Sales – Recreational Sports DVD chart in its third week out. The Perfect DVD held the top spot in its first two weeks out, even beating the release of the SummerSlam DVD last week. NFL Dallas Cowboys Team History, which has been out for 13 weeks, took over the top spot on this week’s chart. The SummerSlam DVD dropped to No. 4. The Rock DVD is still holding on strong despite being released four months ago. It finished in fifth place this week. The Ric Flair DVD, which was released a month after The Rock DVD, finished in ninth place this week. You can see this week’s chart at the following link.
— In case you missed this week’s edition of ECW on Sci Fi, you can see the vignette promoting the return of The Boogeyman at the following link. The vignette is similar to the initial vignettes promoting his debut in 2005 that showed a closed door.
See photos of The Boogeyman out in public!