Source: F4WOnline.com
- Vince McMahon has scheduled a Board of Directors meeting to discuss where WWE should open up international territories. The internal feeling is that WWE could be at its lowest point ever here in the United States as the company prepares to go before Congress with a potential wrongful death lawsuit, but that the company is still embraced overseas. The four territories that WWE is looking at the most are the United Kingdom, Asia, Canada, and Mexico.
- For those that have asked, Shawn Michaels is doing well as far as the rehabilitation process of his knee is concerned, however, he is still not able to go 100%.
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Source: PWInsider.com
- Former WWE superstar Rob Van Dam will be on the Between the Ropes radio show tonight. The show airs from 10 PM-Midnight Eastern time on WQTM 740 The Team in Orlando, Florida. The show is streamed live online at BetweenTheRopes.com.
- Bill DeMott noted in a recent blog entry on his MySpace.com page that he intends to retire from professional wrestling at the end of this year. DeMott said that he has contacted both WWE and TNA; however, neither company has shown interest. He said that he plans to continue to do training seminars and would be writing on a book about the business.
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Source - Wrestling Observer Newsletter
WWE's tour of upstate New York scheduled for later this month has been moved. The September 28th show in Syracuse was moved to January 18th. The September 29th show in Utica was moved to January 6th. The September 30th show in Jamestown was moved to January 19th. The moves were credited to WWE wanting a deeper roster present at the events.
Shiely Martinez (a/k/a Ariel) is now advertising herself up as a woman with 34DD breasts who men can pay for her to wrestle them. Martinez advertises herself as being clean and professional with submission wrestling experience. She was released from the ECW brand a few months ago after an argument with Dave Batista.
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Source - PWInsider
Former WWE champion Brock Lesnar is said to be finalizing his deal with UFC.
As an update to Lilian Garcia’s "Quiero Vivi" CD, Amazon.com is now taking pre-orders.
Fans attending the September 15th Cleveland Indians game will get a free Travis Hafner bobblehead featuring Hafner wearing the WWE title. RAW commentator, Jerry Lawler will also be in attendance signing autographs.
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Source - Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Rey Mysterio may be working a lighter schedule, as he has not been booked at a lot of house shows recently.
This year's New Year's Eve falls on a Monday night. WWE will be taping RAW two days earlier on Saturday, December 29th in Greensboro, North Carolina.
WWE RAW ring announcer Lilian Garcia has a CD coming out on October 9th called "Quiero Vivi" (I Wanna Live). It includes duets with Jon Secada.
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Partial Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
RAW writer Brian Gewirtz has once again renewed his push for a more prominent role for Mick Foley on Raw since Foley will pass any drug test. However, Vince has shot this one down time and time again, feeling Foley is yesterday's news.
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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
-- When the Signature Pharmacy drug scandal story broke out, all of the wrestlers that came up on the list from the media were ordered to report to Titan Towers in Stamford, CT to talk about their dealings with the pharmacy with WWE officials. It was reported that one of the wrestlers on the list missed his flight to Stamford. We can report that the wrestler who missed his flight was Chris Masters. Masters got added heat from management for missing his flight, thus not having a face-to-face meeting when WWE's announcement regarding the suspensions broke out.
-- People from Dateline NBC were at a recent SmackDown/ECW taping to interview Chavo Guerrero and ECW referee Scott Armstrong since they were the two people who got the strange text messages from Chris Benoit in which he sent out his home address multiple times and talked about his pet dogs being in the enclosed pool area with the garage side door open -- perhaps as a cry for help or attention. It is believed that Benoit killed himself shortly after he sent out those 4 a.m. text messages. Anyway, WWE had their own camera crew filming everything the Dateline crew did. It is unknown if Dateline asked the two talents about anything besides the Benoit case. If they asked Guerrero about steroid use in wrestling, and going by what he said in an interview with Fox News two months ago, it's obviously not going to do him or WWE any favors if footage of his response is aired.
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- Vince McMahon has scheduled a Board of Directors meeting to discuss where WWE should open up international territories. The internal feeling is that WWE could be at its lowest point ever here in the United States as the company prepares to go before Congress with a potential wrongful death lawsuit, but that the company is still embraced overseas. The four territories that WWE is looking at the most are the United Kingdom, Asia, Canada, and Mexico.
- For those that have asked, Shawn Michaels is doing well as far as the rehabilitation process of his knee is concerned, however, he is still not able to go 100%.
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Source: PWInsider.com
- Former WWE superstar Rob Van Dam will be on the Between the Ropes radio show tonight. The show airs from 10 PM-Midnight Eastern time on WQTM 740 The Team in Orlando, Florida. The show is streamed live online at BetweenTheRopes.com.
- Bill DeMott noted in a recent blog entry on his MySpace.com page that he intends to retire from professional wrestling at the end of this year. DeMott said that he has contacted both WWE and TNA; however, neither company has shown interest. He said that he plans to continue to do training seminars and would be writing on a book about the business.
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Source - Wrestling Observer Newsletter
WWE's tour of upstate New York scheduled for later this month has been moved. The September 28th show in Syracuse was moved to January 18th. The September 29th show in Utica was moved to January 6th. The September 30th show in Jamestown was moved to January 19th. The moves were credited to WWE wanting a deeper roster present at the events.
Shiely Martinez (a/k/a Ariel) is now advertising herself up as a woman with 34DD breasts who men can pay for her to wrestle them. Martinez advertises herself as being clean and professional with submission wrestling experience. She was released from the ECW brand a few months ago after an argument with Dave Batista.
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Source - PWInsider
Former WWE champion Brock Lesnar is said to be finalizing his deal with UFC.
As an update to Lilian Garcia’s "Quiero Vivi" CD, Amazon.com is now taking pre-orders.
Fans attending the September 15th Cleveland Indians game will get a free Travis Hafner bobblehead featuring Hafner wearing the WWE title. RAW commentator, Jerry Lawler will also be in attendance signing autographs.
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Source - Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Rey Mysterio may be working a lighter schedule, as he has not been booked at a lot of house shows recently.
This year's New Year's Eve falls on a Monday night. WWE will be taping RAW two days earlier on Saturday, December 29th in Greensboro, North Carolina.
WWE RAW ring announcer Lilian Garcia has a CD coming out on October 9th called "Quiero Vivi" (I Wanna Live). It includes duets with Jon Secada.
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Partial Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
RAW writer Brian Gewirtz has once again renewed his push for a more prominent role for Mick Foley on Raw since Foley will pass any drug test. However, Vince has shot this one down time and time again, feeling Foley is yesterday's news.
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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
-- When the Signature Pharmacy drug scandal story broke out, all of the wrestlers that came up on the list from the media were ordered to report to Titan Towers in Stamford, CT to talk about their dealings with the pharmacy with WWE officials. It was reported that one of the wrestlers on the list missed his flight to Stamford. We can report that the wrestler who missed his flight was Chris Masters. Masters got added heat from management for missing his flight, thus not having a face-to-face meeting when WWE's announcement regarding the suspensions broke out.
-- People from Dateline NBC were at a recent SmackDown/ECW taping to interview Chavo Guerrero and ECW referee Scott Armstrong since they were the two people who got the strange text messages from Chris Benoit in which he sent out his home address multiple times and talked about his pet dogs being in the enclosed pool area with the garage side door open -- perhaps as a cry for help or attention. It is believed that Benoit killed himself shortly after he sent out those 4 a.m. text messages. Anyway, WWE had their own camera crew filming everything the Dateline crew did. It is unknown if Dateline asked the two talents about anything besides the Benoit case. If they asked Guerrero about steroid use in wrestling, and going by what he said in an interview with Fox News two months ago, it's obviously not going to do him or WWE any favors if footage of his response is aired.
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