Flair’s New Show, Meet Cena & Cade Today, Sandman & More
07/18/2008
Pro Wrestling Unplugged returns to action for "Family Reunion" on Saturday, July 26 at 7:30pm to Boyle's World Gym, 11000 Roosevelt BLVD in Philadelphia, PA. The PWU Wrestling Academy at Devastation University is sponsoring a Sandman Seminar on Saturday, July 26 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm for the low cost of $25.
ECW’s Lena Yada has recently started training for pro-wrestling with UPW in California.
John Cena and Lance Cade are scheduled for an autograph session today at Six Flags, Louisville, KY. The autograph session will begin at 6pm.
Ric Flair will be doing a new series exclusively for WWE.com. The show will be called "Stylin' and Profilin'" and is scheduled to debut this Tuesday. WWE.com currently has a preview of the show up.
Raw/ECW Merger in 2009?, Regal's Return, Rock/DVD Update
It appears as if WWE's plans to merge ECW with Raw have now been pushed back to 2009. The company is advertising a Smackdown/ECW show to take place on December 26 from Charlotte, North Carolina.
William Regal's 60 day suspension for his second violation of the WWE Wellness Policy expires tonight. He is therefore able to return to the ring at tomorrow night's multi-brand house show event at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Mass.
In its fourth week in, The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment tops this week's Video Sales - Recreational Sports DVD chart on Billboard.com. It beat out the One Night Stand DVD in its first week out.
FCW Correction, Val Venis Update, New Joey Styles Show, More
To correct a previous report here on the site, Florida Championship wrestling is planning on taping for television every Thursday and not every other Thursday.
Val Venis is actually slated to return to the ring next month. He's been out with a shoulder injury and once he's back, it would have been three-four months total that he was out of action, rather than it taking another three to four months before he's able to return.
Joey Styles debuted his new blog on WWE.com's Fan Nation called "Oh My Blog" where he answers fan questions and talks about site developments.
Eric Bischoff Teases Wrestling Return, Hulk Hogan’s CCW
Eric Bischoff has updated his blog on his official website, EricBischoff.com. He speaks on his new reality show with Hulk Hogan that is produced by Bischoff-Hervey Entertainment, his new reality show and also teases that he would return to the competitive wrestling business again. Below is a piece of his blog:
On July 2, Bischoff-Hervey Entertainment finished production on “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” for CMT. This was an idea that my partner Jason Hervey and I have been working on for quite some time. As I have stated before, when we first brought the idea to Hulk, he liked it but was pretty committed to another show (Hogan Knows Best) and it was a question of timing. For me personally, it was also a question of whether or not I really wanted to commit to being involved in another wrestling project. Anyone who knows me well knows that I like new challenges. I must to have a “been there, done that” gene that makes it difficult for me to get excited about doing things that are in any way “less than” experiences I have already had.
This project certainly fulfilled that pre-requisite. In my book “Controversy Creates Cash” I discuss my “better than, less than, or different than” approach to creative strategy and solutions. This reality show hit on all eight cylinders by being different than any other wrestling show on television, and therefore in my own not-so humble opinion, “better than”. The wrestling ability of the cast and their performances improved so dramatically over the period of just a couple of weeks, that even the most cynical critics will be surprised. The effort that our production team as well as Jimmy, Brian, Brutus and Hulk, and a hundred others put into this effort really makes me very proud of the product.
It has also whet my appetite.
People continue to ask me if I will ever get back into the wrestling business in a competitive way. I ended “Controversy Creates Cash” with six words: “Probably Not, But Never Say Never”.
I’m glad I did.
07/18/2008
Pro Wrestling Unplugged returns to action for "Family Reunion" on Saturday, July 26 at 7:30pm to Boyle's World Gym, 11000 Roosevelt BLVD in Philadelphia, PA. The PWU Wrestling Academy at Devastation University is sponsoring a Sandman Seminar on Saturday, July 26 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm for the low cost of $25.
ECW’s Lena Yada has recently started training for pro-wrestling with UPW in California.
John Cena and Lance Cade are scheduled for an autograph session today at Six Flags, Louisville, KY. The autograph session will begin at 6pm.
Ric Flair will be doing a new series exclusively for WWE.com. The show will be called "Stylin' and Profilin'" and is scheduled to debut this Tuesday. WWE.com currently has a preview of the show up.
Raw/ECW Merger in 2009?, Regal's Return, Rock/DVD Update
It appears as if WWE's plans to merge ECW with Raw have now been pushed back to 2009. The company is advertising a Smackdown/ECW show to take place on December 26 from Charlotte, North Carolina.
William Regal's 60 day suspension for his second violation of the WWE Wellness Policy expires tonight. He is therefore able to return to the ring at tomorrow night's multi-brand house show event at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield, Mass.
In its fourth week in, The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment tops this week's Video Sales - Recreational Sports DVD chart on Billboard.com. It beat out the One Night Stand DVD in its first week out.
FCW Correction, Val Venis Update, New Joey Styles Show, More
To correct a previous report here on the site, Florida Championship wrestling is planning on taping for television every Thursday and not every other Thursday.
Val Venis is actually slated to return to the ring next month. He's been out with a shoulder injury and once he's back, it would have been three-four months total that he was out of action, rather than it taking another three to four months before he's able to return.
Joey Styles debuted his new blog on WWE.com's Fan Nation called "Oh My Blog" where he answers fan questions and talks about site developments.
Eric Bischoff Teases Wrestling Return, Hulk Hogan’s CCW
Eric Bischoff has updated his blog on his official website, EricBischoff.com. He speaks on his new reality show with Hulk Hogan that is produced by Bischoff-Hervey Entertainment, his new reality show and also teases that he would return to the competitive wrestling business again. Below is a piece of his blog:
On July 2, Bischoff-Hervey Entertainment finished production on “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” for CMT. This was an idea that my partner Jason Hervey and I have been working on for quite some time. As I have stated before, when we first brought the idea to Hulk, he liked it but was pretty committed to another show (Hogan Knows Best) and it was a question of timing. For me personally, it was also a question of whether or not I really wanted to commit to being involved in another wrestling project. Anyone who knows me well knows that I like new challenges. I must to have a “been there, done that” gene that makes it difficult for me to get excited about doing things that are in any way “less than” experiences I have already had.
This project certainly fulfilled that pre-requisite. In my book “Controversy Creates Cash” I discuss my “better than, less than, or different than” approach to creative strategy and solutions. This reality show hit on all eight cylinders by being different than any other wrestling show on television, and therefore in my own not-so humble opinion, “better than”. The wrestling ability of the cast and their performances improved so dramatically over the period of just a couple of weeks, that even the most cynical critics will be surprised. The effort that our production team as well as Jimmy, Brian, Brutus and Hulk, and a hundred others put into this effort really makes me very proud of the product.
It has also whet my appetite.
People continue to ask me if I will ever get back into the wrestling business in a competitive way. I ended “Controversy Creates Cash” with six words: “Probably Not, But Never Say Never”.
I’m glad I did.