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WWE Buyrates Continue To Fall

WWE has released their latest batch of PPV buyrates at their corporate website. WWE No Mercy, headlined by Vince McMahon vs. Stephanie McMahon, did roughly 200,000 buys. The WWE October PPV last year did roughly 300,000 buys. The WWE October PPV in 2001 did roughly 325,000 buys. The second WWE Smackdown only PPV dropped 100,000 […]

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Raw Preview – 3rd November 2003

WORLD’S STRONGEST MAN VS. THE ICONNov. 3, 2003 Since arriving to RAW, Mark Henry has been engaged in a bitter rivalry with Shawn Michaels. This Monday night on RAW, the rivalry comes to a head when “the World’s Strongest Man” goes one on one with “the Icon” of sports entertainment, Shawn Michaels. Henry has looked […]

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ROH: Elizabeth, New Jersey Results – Teddy Hart Legitimately Fired

  Ring of Honor returned for it’s sophmore appearance at the Rexplex in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Complete results: *The Outcast Killas defeated Special K’s Lit and Cloudy.   *Luis Ortiz defeated Jose Perez went 6:53. Both are regulars in the MA wrestling scene.   *Slyk Wagner Brown and the Grimm Reefer (with April Hunter) defeated […]

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WWE: SmackDown House Show, Kitchener, Canada

  WWE HOUSE SHOW RESULTS FROM KITCHENER, CANADA The arena was about 1/3 to 1/2 full. A local radio DJ and 3 female models welcomed the fans to the show, then Edge talked about his recovery and hyped the main event. Tiny Teddy Contest:Torrie Wilson defeated Dawn Marie and SableEdge was the host. Sable withdrew […]

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WWE Stars Implicated In Steroid Scandal

There is a huge news story in the Tampa area about John Todd Miller, 35, an alleged steroid distributor who was charged with five counts of delivery of a controlled substance, five counts of possession of a controlled substance and four counts of unlicensed practice of health care. Miller is charged with masquerading as a […]

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WWE: Byte This! – 30/10/2003

Hosts: Dr. Tom Pritchard and Josh Matthews Guests: Batista, Tazz, Ray “Big BossMan” Traylor, and Rob Van Dam. (2:30)-Batista joins the show. Dr. Tom tells Batista he seems very motivated now. Bastista says that he is and he is very glad to be put back into Evolution. That he was nervous that Evolution would have […]

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WWE: Possible New Japanese Signing

 Taken from www.1wrestling.com While I have yet to get this confirmed with anyone here in the U.S., word out of Japan is that Kenzo Suzuki has been offered a three year deal with World Wrestling Entertainment, presumably to work on the Smackdown brand. Suzuki, a former Rugby player (actually, he was a star in that […]

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WWE: Austin speaks candidly on Howard Stern Radio Show

  Report from Dave Scherer: I caught part of Steve Austin’s appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show today. When I turned it on, Austin was talking about why he left WWE a few years ago. Basically, he said that he was injured and didn’t like the creative direction that the company had for him at […]

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WWE: Website Updates (Edge/Survivor Series)

WWE.com has been updated, with a new commentary from injured superstar Edge. In the commentary, he talks about his view of tag team wrestling. As this comes from one half of one of the best tag teams in recent years, it makes very good reading. Click here to read it. The Survivor Series website has […]

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Possible New Velocity Commentator *Spoiler*

For the last few weeks, the Velocity commentating position has been occupied by Josh Matthews and either Michael Cole or Tazz. It has been this way since Ernest ‘The Cat’ Miller was dropped from announcing, with a possible in-ring return scheduled. It has now been rumoured backstage at SmackDown! in Atlanta that Bill DeMott (aka Hugh Morrus) […]