John Cena Moving To New Orleans, News From RAW Tapings, JBL Update
– Former WWE Champion John Cena is moving to New Orleans, LA to film WWE’s next movie, “12 Rounds.” This will be the first WWE movie filmed inside of the United States. See No Evil starring Kane, The Marine starring John Cena and The Condemned starring Stone Cold Steve Austin were all filmed in Australia…
Aston Martin expects ‘great partnership’ between Vettel and Stroll
Aston Martin F1 team boss Otmar Szafnauer believes that Lance Stroll’s talent and youth will combine with Sebastian Vettel’s experience to form a “great partnership” at the Silverstone outfit. Vettel’s move on to Aston in the wake of a disappointing end to his six-year stint with Ferrari during which he was outperformed by his younger…
RAW Rating, Doctors Say Chris Benoit Not At Fault
Source: Gerweck.net — This week’s edition of WWE RAW scored a 3.59 rating. Hourly ratings were 3.64 and 3.53. The show averaged nearly 5.1 million viewers. 3.6 is an acceptable number but this week’s show is down from last week’s 3.9 and the show lost viewers in the second hour. — The Ottawa Sun has…
Trish Stratus Judging MMA Contest, TNA Doing A "Fully Interactive" PPV
– TNA Wrestling sent out a text message to their “TNA Mobile” subscribers earlier today announcing that they will be holding a “fully interactive PPV” later this year. — Former WWE Diva Trish Stratus will be appearing a mixed martial arts show this Saturday night. She will be a celebrity judge Maxiumum Fighting Championship’s “Ring’s…
D.H. Smith's Plight, Real PPV Buy Number For Cyber Sunday, WWE.com Traffic
source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter — WWE mistakenly listed Cyber Sunday 2007 as doing 290,000 PPV buys on their corporate website a few months ago. In the company’s financial report released last week for the entire year, the show was listed as actually doing a total of 194,000 PPV buys. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter originally estimated…
Rey Mysterio Undergoes Successful Surgery For Torn Bicep; Full Update
WWE.com has posted an update on Rey Mysterio who underwent successful surgery to repair his torn right bicep in San Diego, California yesterday. The surgery was performed by Dr. David Chao. Chao told the official WWE website that Mysterio is recovering well. Chao noted that Mysterio’s torn bicep was one of the most significant that…
Kurt Angle Talks About His DUI, Lesnar-UFC, Benoit, Drug Testing & More
Kurt Angle recently spoke very openly with Wrestling-Radio.com host Orlando Quinones about several subjects including WWE erasing Chris Benoit’s name from the books, his DUI, his family life and much more. You can listen to the interview here. – Kurt says that TNA’s goal is to match SmackDown’s ratings, and wants to get it done…
Hulk Hogan & Eric Bischoff's Wrestling Project Gets The Green Light – Full Details
Source: PWInsider.com For weeks we’ve been hearing that Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff are on the verge of launching a new celebriy pro wrestling TV project. We can now confirm that the series has been picked up by cable TV channel CMT and has a name – “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Wrestling.” The first season will…
WWE Star Pulled From Match At WrestleMania
According to an article updating the condition of Candice Michelle’s injury on Raw last week, she has been pulled from the “Bunnymania” match at WrestleMania. However, she does plan on attending WrestleMania nonetheless. Michelle had surgery earlier today to repair the re-broken clavicle she suffered in her match on Raw last week. On how she…
WWE Stock Hits A 7-Year High, WWE Drops Another $12 Million On HD
— The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that WWE recently signed a $12 million deal for more production equipment as part of its TV studio expansion and HD upgrade. They acquired severs, aproduction editing system, productions switchers, and HD router and signal conversion modules. — WWE stock closed today at $18.81 a share. It peaked earlier…