June 2007 News Archive (Page 8)

WWE.com serves up a weekly Diva Dish. Last week, the ladies talked about their favorite music at the moment:

“I have everything on my iPod, literally from A to Z. When I say that, I mean I have hard house music to Barbara Mandrell to Patsy Cline to hip-hop, but mostly dance,” Candice Michelle said. “One of my new favorite songs of this month is ‘It’s Gonna Be a Lovely Day.’ It’s a motivational song.”

When fellow Raw Diva Torrie Wilson hits the gym, she’s all about house music.

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TNA Wrestling has announced that Kurt Angle will take the stage at LP Field, home of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans in downtown Nashville for the CMA Festival this Saturday celebrating Country music.

Angle will be on hand to introduce some of the major musical names hitting the stage and give everyone the lowdown on Nashville’s biggest event of the year: Slammiversary.

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Celebrity Appearances Lined Up for Special Three-Hour RAW on June 11

STAMFORD, Conn., June 6, 2007 – With the official 2007 draft season underway, World Wrestling Entertainment is ready to shake the foundations of the sports entertainment world when it holds its own WWE talent draft on a special three-hour edition of Monday Night RAW (USA, 8 p.m. ET/7C) on June 11. The live broadcast will be accompanied by a special Mr. McMahon Appreciation Night with television appearances by Steve-O from JACKASS, Jesse Ventura, Gene Okerlund, Bobby Heenan and Mick Foley, among several other notables.

“With the 2007 draft comes an unprecedented occasion in WWE history where each Superstar across all three of our programs is subject to being placed on another roster,” said Stephanie McMahon Levesque, Executive Vice President, Talent and Creative Writing. “No one will be safe this evening. This is what makes it so exciting to witness, as viewers will see some of their favorites being traded to a different roster, making for a thrilling dynamic in the months ahead.”

All WWE Superstars and WWE Divas from WWE’s highly rated prime time television programs – RAW (regularly at 9 p.m. ET/8 C), Friday Night SmackDown® (CW 8 p.m. ET/7C) and ECW®: Extreme Championship Wrestling™ (SCI FI, 10 p.m. ET/9C) – will participate in the draft. With this year’s draft being the first to feature all three WWE brands, there are sure to be some major talent roster changes.

The talent draft is a historical fan favorite. The first draft was held on March 25, 2002, when WWE decided to create two distinct brands, each with its own talent rosters and self-contained storylines within their respective television programs: Monday Night RAW and Friday Night SmackDown.

That first draft pitted Vince McMahon, drafting for SmackDown, against WWE Legend Ric Flair, who then managed the RAW brand. It featured some of WWE’s most well-known Superstars, such as The Rock, Triple H, Undertaker and current World Heavyweight Champion Edge.

Paul Heyman could be making his way back to WWE television soon. Their has been some talk of bringing him back as a heel manager for a heel superstar that needs a little extra help to push him to the main event level. Discussion of bringing him back began with the recent plague of injuries in WWE.

Vince McMahon is said to be lukewarm about the idea, as this is a big change from his attitude this past December when he said Heyman would never be brought back. Heyman still remains under contract with WWE.

The Wrestling Observer is reporting that the 6/4 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw drew a final 3.8 cable rating. This is up from last week's 3.3 rating, which was down due to the Memorial Day holiday.

This is also up from the 3.7 rating the show drew two weeks ago.

The following report is courtesy of wrestleview.com...

As soon as we started the show, we see Vince McMahon in a rocking chair on a podium near the ring entrance. He was listless and staring into space. The New ECW World Champion Bobby Lashley’s music hit and he came out to the ring for his match.

Handicapped Extreme Rules Match: Bobby Lashley v. Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman & Balls Mahoney
All three originals jumped Lashley with road signs and ran him out of the ring. Lashley came back into the ring and tried to figure out who to go after and elected to chase Sandman but the other two quickly jumped him and chased him out of the ring again.

Lashley hit the ring a second time and this time got clocked with a trash can and mugged by the Originals. Dreamer loaded Lashley up for a suplex to the outside but the ECW Champion reversed it and suplexed Dreamer into the ring. Lashley chased after Balls Mahoney and hit a clothesline but was quickly caned by Sandman who was joined by Tommy Dreamer. Together, they suplexed the champion onto the floor.

Lashley managed to fling Tommy Dreamer into the ring steps but was jumped again by Mahoney and Sandman. The two hung him up on the top rope before Sandman mounted the ropes and flew off with a leg drop across the back of Lashley’s head. Tommy Dreamer didn’t want to be left out and lined up the chair on the hung upside down Lashley and connected with the drop kick to the face.

Dreamer signaled for Sandman to get the tables. Dreamer held Lashley up for a chair shot but Lashley ducked and Mahoney cracked Dreamer. He recovered quickly and connected with Lashley before he lined his head up in the chair and looked for a leg drop. Lashley got up and caught the Sandman and drove him through the table he just brought into the ring. Lashley speared Mahoney shortly thereafter and scored the victory.
Winner: Lashley via pin fall

Stevie Richards v. Kevin Thorn
Thorn quickly backed Richards into the corner and began laying it in with some punches and bots to the gut. Thorn whipped Richards off the ropes but Richards ducked under and was able to connect with a few strikes and even managed to toss Thorn to the outside. The momentum didn’t last long though, as Thorn picked up Richards and dropped him on his face on the guardrail.

Back in the ring, Thorn laid the boots to Richards before connecting with a big clothesline before slapping on a nasty looking rear chin lock. The hold evolved into a side headlock as Thorn used his body weight to maintain the advantage. Thorn tossed Richards to the corner before picking him up and dropping him throat first across the top rope. Thorn went right back to the rear chin lock before choking Richards out on the mat for fun.

Thorn slammed Richards into the corner and hit some more strikes before jaw jacking with the referee. The distraction let Richards get some shots in and mount a little bit of a comeback. Richards connected with lefts and a few clotheslines and hit a nice drop kick into the middle rope before getting a two count on the cover attempt.

Richards charged the dazed Thorn but got absolutely killed with a baldo bomb. Thorn looked for Original Sin before Richards wiggled out and went to the corner to look for something of the high risk nature. Thorn cut him off and murdered him with Original Sin for the 1, 2, 3.
Winner: Kevin Thorn via pin fall

The New Breed v. The Major Brothers
Cor Von and Bryan started things off and Bryan connected with some impressive chops before tagging in brother Brett who connected with an arm drag and grabbed a quick arm wringer and a quick tag to Bryan who came flying off the top rope with an axe handle.

Cor Von tossed Bryan aside and tagged in Elijah Burke who found himself getting stuck in a myriad of hip tosses and arm bars from both Major Bros. Bryan looked for a leap frog variation of a move and Burke killed him with a clothesline.

Cor Von tagged in and began landing some nasty looking stomps before chasing off the other brother. Cor Von hit a nice whip before Cor Von flattened his foe with a shoulder block and a slam. Burke tagged back in and hit a huge catapult elbow before torking the neck with a rear chin lock. The crowd rallied the Major Bros but Burke cut them off.

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• According to reports, Scott Steiner had successful surgery on his trachea today and remains in Puerto Rico. Steiner will be unable to fly for several weeks because of the incident. TNA is working on alternative transportation to get him back to the mainland United States.

• Kurt Angle is scheduled to do local promotion for the Slammiversary PPV this week in Nashville. TNA is doing lots of promotion for the show as its considered a homecoming of sorts for the company.

• This week's WWE RAW posted a 3.8 rating.

• Jackass' Steve-O confirmed in his MySpace blog that he and fellow Jackass castmates will be in a main-event at the Summerslam pay-per-view.

He filmed a Summerslam commercial at Monday's RAW, but noted that following a number of incidents (including his "running around trying to get famous wrestlers to choke me unconscious for my Paparazzi Stuntman DVD," his "not bothering with bathrooms" and his missing his originally scheduled flight to Florida for the show), there was some talk of canceling the match.

The match is presently on, however, and, according to WrestlingObserver.com, will feature Steve-O (and presumably other Jackass cast members) in wrestling roles.

Over on his official website (robvandam.com), Rob Van Dam added a new blog entry over the weekend talking about the rumors on the internet about his contract status with WWE. RVD had the following to say about the situation:

"About the internet rumors- one thing I have to know. How can "reporters" put their name on reports that continually end up being bull sh** and maintain any credibility? Always wondered that. As for how it feels reading about yourself? Sometimes it's flattering, sometimes it's offensive, sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's just silly but too lame to be funny."

We'll keep you updated on what exactly all this means.

The following is courtesy of The Times Leader...

There are people who go to World Wrestling Entertainment events for the wrestling … and there are others who go for the ladies.

Considering one segment of stereotypical wrestling fans is made up of testosterone-filled, beer-guzzling men, can you blame them?

That’s not to say the floor at the Wachovia Arena is going to be filled with beer cups after Monday Night Raw, which starts at 7:30 p.m. June 11.

But the WWE Divas, the scantily clad women who wrestle, will be there. If you think the Divas are just pretty faces, Candice Michelle will prove you wrong – and not just with a spinning heel kick.

“If I could take a picture of what my legs and body looks like right now, I have 20 bruises on my body,” she said. “I’d show them those bruises first. Second, I’d talk to them about injuries.”

Michelle, 28, broke her nose in November, and superstar Gregory Helms underwent neck surgery last month for two broken vertebrae.

“The third thing, my favorite thing that I love to do, is say to people, ‘If it’s not real, let me just give you a chop across the chest.’ Nobody will ever let me do it.”

Maybe because no one wants to get beaten up by a girl – not even the April 2006 Playboy cover girl.

“For me, to be honest, it was really a dream come true,” said Michelle, who grew up in Milwaukee. “I had always wanted to be a part of ‘Playboy.’ … When they asked me to be on the cover, it took my dream to a whole other level.”

Some of her wrestling outfits don’t leave much to the imagination, but you can’t really hide anything on Playboy.

“The photo shoot was comfortable, considering what type of photo shoot it is,” she said. “They’re not even looking at you. It’s like, ‘I’m looking at the lighting. This or that. Move over an inch.’ Not the fact that you have no clothes on. It was really comfortable.”

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