<font size="3" face="arial">Chris Jericho Updates, Bret Hart News, Much More</font></p> <font class="newsbody">Bret Hart is currently on a heavy publicity tour in Canada promoting his book, which will not be released until 2008 in the United States. There is a huge article on Bret Hart at macleans.ca on his life, changes in the business and more. The Chris Jericho book has moved up in the ranks to 168 on Amazon.com. The book is now available at Barnes & Noble stories as the first shipment reached most stores on October 12th. The Chris Jericho clue of Rev_2:25 is from the book of Revelations in the Bible. It also mentions the walls of Jericho and the imminent return of the savior.</font></p> <font class="newsbody">Chris Jericho Update</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">News on Future PPV's, Karen and Kurt, Big Main Event, More</font></p> <font class="newsbody"> - TNA's next pay-per-view will be Genesis on November 11th, live from Universal Studios in Orlando, FL. The December PPV, Turning Point will be on 12/2 and 2008's first PPV, Final Resolution will be held on 1/6. WWE previously had the December and January dates booked for December To Dismember and New Year's Revolution before pulling the shows. - Kurt and Karen Angle's interview on Bubba the Love Sponge show for today has been canceled. Chris Jericho will be on the show to promote his new book on 11/2. - The main event for TNA's Genesis PPV next month will be Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash vs. Sting and a partner to be named, with whoever gets the pinfall is the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion. </font></p> News On Future PPV's</p> <font size="3" face="arial">Wrestling Being Taxed, Vaine's Huge Push, Injury Update, More</font></p> <font class="newsbody">- California's State Athletic Commission is getting ready to start taxing professional wrestling. Bill Douglas of the CSAC is currently organizing a meeting of wrestling promoters in the Southern California area to discuss "where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going with this." He said right now professional wrestling in CA was unregulated and would continue to be so, but they were keeping an eye on Congressional hearings and that if regulation in the state actually happens, "look forward to California testing wrestlers across the board the way we do for boxing, kickboxing, and MMA which means testing for anabolic agents, masking agents, diuretics, and drugs of abuse". Reports say they're going to take 5% of all event gates or $500 upfront, effective immediately. - Before her WWE release, there were plans to give Krissy Vaine a huge push on SmackDown with a lot of TV time. Michael Hayes was especially high on Vaine and felt she was above most of the Divas on the roster. There were no plans to send her boyfriend Ryan O'Reilly to RAW or anywhere else, they just booked him on some RAW shows to get him back on the radar. Vince McMahon was reportedly high on O'Reilly. - As previously posted, WWE developmental wrestler Cassidy James broke his arm in a match with The Major Brothers recently. James will be out for six weeks and is currently in a cast. </font></p> <font class="newsbody">Wrestilng Being Taxed</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">More on Hart, Future of Hart Foundation, Releases, More</font></p> <font class="newsbody">- Teddy Hart's release came amidst heat with other wrestlers in Florida Championship Wrestling and a run-in with WWE officials. Sources say that Hart had improved his attitude outside of the ring, but it was a different story inside the ring. Hart would have to get his spots over in the matches, and would go out and do the opposite of what officials told him to do in the match. Management has still been in touch with Nattie Neidhart and Harry Smith, so there's still some plan for them. No other details are available on the future of The New Hart Foundation. There was an idea going around to have Harry Smith debut in England accepting an open challenge and winning, similar to what Santino Marella did. However that didn't happen but Smith did work a few dark matches. - It appears WWE released OVW trainer Robert Gibson due to the whole CM Punk/Tony Atlas situation that we reported on last week. After the incident, there was heat on Atlas from the wrestlers for acting the way he did, heat on Punk for having a confrontation with a WWE Hall of Famer and heat on the OVW trainers for allowing the whole thing to happen. Officials were extremely upset at Danny Davis until he explained he was in another room editing TV at the time. Then the heat got passed onto Al Snow and Gibson with Gibson ultimately getting fired. </font></p> More On Hart</p> <font class="newsbody"></font><font size="3" face="arial">Booker T And Sharmell Update: Headed To TNA? More News</font></p> <font class="newsbody">- WWE's announcement of Booker and Sharmell's releases as of October 27th could be the company's way of sending a message to insiders saying Booker had been suspended for 60 days on August 27th and that the two were fired instead of walking out. The announcement came just two days after Booker removed the WWE logo and media request from his official website. TNA does have interest in bringing Booker and Sharmell in. He will be free to work after next week, so there is a possibility that he could appear at TNA's Genesis PPV if the two sides could work something out. The two did say in an official statement on their website that they weren't done with wrestling and to look for them soon. </font></p> <font class="newsbody">Booker T And Sharmell Update</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">Save.Us.222 Updates, Vince’s ‘Death’, O'Shaunessy, More</font></p> <font class="newsbody"> I have a friend who writes for UGO.com and I also get a RSS news feed for recent posts. Today, there is a Top 11 Crime sin entertainment--movies, TV, comics. One entry on the list (that appears to be in no particular order) is the death of Vince McMahon. [Thanks to Matt] WWE developmental stars Sheamus O'Shaunessy and Ted Dibiase Jr. who are based at WWE's newest developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling are currently renting an apartment with each other near the FCW training facility. On the Save.Us 222 video, one part in writing says RAW_WAR. Another part says NO_MERCY, and another part says BOOKSHELVES, which could be about Chris Jericho's new book. [Thanks to Lewis Gibson] </font></p> <font class="newsbody">Save.Us.222 Updates</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">Teddy Hart Returns To The Ring, HBK DVD, More</font></p> <font class="newsbody">Teddy Hart who was recently released by World Wrestling Entertainment will be wrestling for the PWA in Calgary on October 19th. Hard will team with Kid "Hannibal" Nichols to face TNA's AJ Styles and Samoa Joe in a main event tag team match. Right now details are sketchy, but here are the match details for the upcoming Shawn Michaels: Heartbreak & Triumph DVD: *Shawn Michaels vs. Billy Jack Hayes *The Rockers vs. The Brainbusters (1989, possibly from Madison Square Garden) *The Rockers vs. Orient Express (likely a Royal Rumble '91 bout) *The Rockers vs. The Hart Foundation (could be the tag title switch that was dropped and never aired or a 1990 Saturday Night's Main Event) *Shawn Michaels vs. Jeff Jarrett (In Your House - Lumberjacks) *Shawn Michaels vs. Davey Boy Smith (In Your House - Beware of Dog) *The Rockers vs. La Resistance (Raw reunion match from 2005) *Shawn Michaels vs. Kurt Angle (Could be Wrestlemania 21 in Los Angeles, the Raw Homecoming 30 Minute Marathon match or the Vegeance PPV) *Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H (Take your pick) *Shawn Michaels vs. John Cena (Could be Wrestlemania 23 or the 60 Minute Raw match) </font></p> <font class="newsbody">Teddy Hart Returns To The Ring</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">The Rock News, WWE Plants Signs On RAW & Much More</font></p> <font class="newsbody">According to the UK’s Sun, WWE's European President intimated they were working on a subscription channel over here. This could mean some form of WWE 24/7, there has been previous talk of WWE doing something when their contract expires with Sky in 2009-2010. Sky Box Office are also offering 3 WWE pay-per-views for the price of 2, this could also be to see if enough people will buy it, with a pay-channel in the talks. I was at the Birmingham Monday Night Raw taping and thought I'd mention that fans were not only told to take their belts and signs off before they entered, but WWE actually gave out signs and planted their own. I saw a WWE guy carrying them and asking if they'd hold it up in the normal positions for WWE cameras and promised them they would be on TV as a way of thanking them because the guy below me got told it. [Thanks to Lee] The Game Plan featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, which will actually be his last film role to be billed as The Rock, has grossed $59,534,000 to date domestically. The film hasn’t even been released internationally yet. The Game Plan could be the best grossing film of The Rock’s career if it continues to do well at the box office. </font> The Rock News <font class="newsbody"> </font></p>
