Sherdog.com reports that Yushin Okami may be next in line to fight Anderson Silva for the UFC Middleweight championship. Silva has been on a rampage since joining the UFC in 2006, cleaning out the middleweight division with impressive wins over several top fighters. Yushin Okami is the last man to score a win Silva, earning … Read more
— Scenarios for a number of matches at WrestleMania are still up in the air. Many wrestlers are politicking and giving their ideas for how they want things to go down in their respective matches. — Mae Young’s WWE Hall of Fame inductor(s) will likely be either Stephanie McMahon or a slew of babyface WWE … Read more
This past Tuesday night’s edition of ECW on Sci-Fi did a 1.2 cable rating according to data compiled by Nielson Media Research. The ECW rating has hovered between 1.2 and 1.4 for the entire year. Today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a new article online on Amy “Lita” Dumas and her ban the Luchagors. Dumas is quoted … Read more
Hornswoggle is scheduled to appear on Saturday’s WWE house show in his hometown of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, according to a story in today’s Oshkosh Northwestern. The article contains quotes from Hornswoggle, Finlay and a representative from WWE. MyNetworkTV executive Paul Franklin was a recent guest on the Monday Night Mayhem radio show. When asked whether SmackDown! … Read more
The 2/29 Friday Night Smackdown did a 4.8 Hispanic Rating. Speaking of ratings, for the month of February Raw averaged a 3.61 cable rating. ECW on Sci Fi averaged a 1.35 cable rating. On 3/9, Candice Michelle and Mick Foley will be signing autographs from 4 to 6PM at the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, IL … Read more
Jim Ross updated his blog at JRsBarBQ.com with a health update on WWE Hall of Famer Bobby “The Brain” Heenan: “Bobby Heenan, who has had a helluva tough go if it in recent weeks with surgeries to rebuild his jaw, is in a rehab facility in Florida and is reportedly getting stronger by the day, … Read more
– The episode of “Made” on MTV featuring Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley, The Motor City Machineguns, will air this Saturday at Noon Eastern. We will be talking to Sabin and Shelley later today in Spike TV’s monthly media conference call. – TNA will put tickets on sale for their Lockdown pay-per-view Fanfest this Friday … Read more
The Grand Rapids Press is Michigan has an article up about some of the doubts going around about whether WWE is actually paying Floyd Mayweather $20 million to appear at WrestleMania. Thenorthwestern.com has an article up about Finlay in which he talks about his partnership with Wisconsin native Hornswoggle. The Carmike Cinemas chain will be … Read more
Hulk Hogan has told the Dayton Beach News Journal that he will be inducting legendary Florida promoter Eddie Graham into the WWE Hall of Fame. Hogan got into some hot water as he revealed last year’s Hall of Fame Class through a phone call on Bubba the Love Sponge’s radio show. In the interview he … Read more
The Chicago Sun-Times has articles on TNA’s ODB and WWE’s Maria, which can be read at SunTimes.com. With WWE no longer associated with Ohio Valley Wrestling, the top stars are now former WWE superstars Rob Conway, Nick Dinsmore (Eugene) and Joey Matthews (Mercury). Matthews and Dinsmore are also working as trainers. Michael DiPaoli (Roadkill) will … Read more