<font size="3" face="arial">Top Main Events Announced For Cyber Sunday</font></p> <font class="newsbody"> Today WWE announced the top two main events for this year’s Cyber Sunday pay-per-view. The RAW main event will be Randy Orton vs. Triple H for the WWE Championship. Fans will be able to logon to WWE.com and vote whether the match will be inside a Hell in the Cell, a No DQ match, or a Falls Count Anywhere match. The SmackDown main event will be a Four Way bout for the World Heavyweight Championship with Batista vs. Finlay vs. Rey Mysterio vs. The Great Khali. Fans will be able to vote on WWE.com on who will be the guest referee. The choices are JBL, Mick Foley, or Steve Austin. Cyber Sunday will air live on pay-per-view on October 28, 2007.</font></p> <font class="newsbody">Top Main Events Announced For Cyber Sunday</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">WWE Release: Vote to Determine Next WWE Fathead Superstar</font></p> <font class="newsbody"> WWE issued the following press release this afternoon: WWE® Fans Vote to Determine Next WWE Fathead® Superstar as Part of Sponsorship of Cyber Sunday™ STAMFORD , Conn. , October 8, 2007 - Fathead®, the fast-growing sports and entertainment brand best-known for its life-size wall graphics, will give World Wrestling Entertainment® fans the opportunity to choose who should be named the next WWE Superstar Fathead through a cross-platform advertising and promotional campaign launched during the Cyber Sunday pay-per-view event on Sunday, Oct. 28 at the Verizon Center in Washington , D.C. Fans will be able to vote for WWE Superstars Rey Mysterio®, Boogeyman™, Jeff Hardy™ or CM Punk™ to determine who should become the next WWE Fathead. Fathead currently produces big, bold 3-D-like vinyl wall graphics of WWE Superstars John Cena®, Triple H®, Undertaker®, Batista® and Bobby Lashley™. Leading up to Cyber Sunday, Fathead will be highlighted in weekly WWE programming and will be incorporated in all outgoing WWE media, including cross-channel cable spots, a WWE Magazine ad and local cable TV and radio advertising in the Washington , D.C. area. Fathead branding and products will be integrated into the action during the Cyber Sunday pay-per-view event. WWE.com and Fathead will also host a sweepstakes after the conclusion of Cyber Sunday that will offer fans the opportunity to win a full set of signed WWE Fathead images. We're ecstatic about our partnership with WWE and Cyber Sunday. To integrate Fathead products across all of WWE’s established media platforms is very exciting” said Brock Weatherup, CEO, Fathead. ”WWE has an exceptional relationship with their fans, and we expect the WWE Fathead line to be among the ‘must-have’ items going into the holiday season.” Fathead will sponsor Cyber Sunday’s special interactive voting section that allows fans to vote on which wrestlers will face off, what the rules will be and other elements of the event. Fans have cast more than 10 million individual votes during previous Cyber Sundays. Fathead’s sponsorship also includes a mobile voting element, editorial integration and exclusive ownership of the Cyber Sunday section on WWE.com, including custom page skins and ads. We're thrilled to help Fathead market its life-size WWE Superstars wall graphics. WWE’s unique ability to not only license its Superstars’ images, but develop deeply integrated programs across all WWE media assets will give Fathead visibility among the attractive male demographic while resonating with an active and loyal WWE fan base,” said Patricia Clark, Vice President of Digital Sales for WWE. In 2006, WWE entered into a licensing agreement with Fathead that allows for the creation of life-size vinyl wall graphics depicting WWE Superstars. All images use high-resolution 3D graphics, and are currently available for purchase at www.fathead.com and www.wweshop.com. </font></p> <font class="newsbody">WWE Release: Vote to Determine Next WWE Fathead Superstar</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">The Latest On Ric Flair's Lawsuit; Details</font></p> <font class="newsbody"> The Associated Press picked up the lawsuit filed by Ric Flair this afternoon: Nature Boy' Wrestler Ric Flair Sues South Carolina Car Dealership Over Ads COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Professional wrestler Ric Flair is suing a Columbia dealership for imitating the "Nature Boy" and his well-known slogans to sell cars, federal court documents show. The world champion wrestler -- whose real name is Richard Fliehr -- contends that Freedom Suzuki wrongfully used his name, slogans, likeness and personality in radio and TV ads featuring a blond-haired Captain Freedom shouting and "To be the man, you got to beat the man!" The "Whoeee" sounds like the "Wooo!" Flair has shouted into microphones in and outside the ring for decades, his lawyer Eric Bland said Monday. Though not trademarked, the slogans have become synonymous with Flair, or "Nature Boy," who has wrestled full-time since 1972, Bland said. World Wrestling Entertainment's Web site biography on the 6-foot-1, 243-pound wrestler says that Flair "made his name on wrestling hour-long marathon matches, his cocky interview style and his knack for shouting 'Woooooo!' into microphones." A lawyer for the dealership, Timothy St. Clair, said Monday that he had not yet reviewed the complaint and declined to comment until he'd done so. The federal lawsuit, filed last week, seeks unspecified actual and punitive damages, including any profits the dealership made in car sales from the ads. The minimum would be $75,000, the amount required for an out-of-state resident to file in federal court. The suit also asks the court to stop Freedom Suzuki and its parent company, Stivers Automative, from using the promotion again and to require the dealership to run a new ad for 90 days telling the public that it improperly used Flair's image. Flair, 58, of Charlotte, N.C., is nearing the end of his wrestling career. To capitalize on his image after retirement, he must protect it, Bland said. "It's real important for someone who has a brand like Ric Flair to protect it and not permit its use without compensation, or the brand gets diluted. He's cultivated that brand through blood, sweat and tears," Bland said. The dealership contacted World Wrestling Entertainment about using Flair in commercials but never agreed to a fee or signed a contract, Bland said. Flair was shocked to hear the ad after he turned on his radio while driving home to Charlotte from a WWE event in Columbia, he said. "Whoeee. To be the man you got to beat the man. Ric Flair was right all you other car dealers out there," says a character in the ad who calls himself Captain Freedom, according to an ad transcript filed with the court. The lawsuit calls Captain Freedom a "confusingly similar likeness" to Flair's WWE persona. The ad ends with the character saying, "Come check out me and the WWE at the Colonial Center Aug. 21. Whoeee!" The Freedom Suzuki ads ran in August. Bland said he was unsure how many times the TV and radio ads were broadcast. Flair usually gets between $10,000 and $25,000 for each appearance, Bland said. </font></p> <font class="newsbody">The Lastest On Ric Flair's Lawsuit; Details</font></p> <font size="3" face="arial">John Cena To Appear Via Satellite On RAW Tonight</font></p> <font class="newsbody"> The following comes from WWE .com: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The day after his nemesis, Randy Orton, won the WWE Championship, former WWE Champion John Cena will speak out via satellite on Raw Monday night. This will be his first interview since undergoing surgery for a torn pectoral tendon last Tuesday. What will the former Champ have to say about Orton, the man responsible for both putting him out of action for six months to a year and ending his title reign? It had to have been heartbreaking – and maddening – for Cena to surrender his WWE Championship and then see Orton take his spot atop WWE. And what does Cena have to say about his injury, his prognosis for recovery and his future? Don’t miss Cena’s interview. Tune in to Raw tonight from Grand Rapids, Mich. at 9/8 CT on USA Network.</font></p> <font class="newsbody">John Cena To Appear Via Satellite On RAW Tonight</font></p>
