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  • Austin Appears In The UK, Heenan Update, Hogan DVD?, More

    Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

    — Stone Cold Steve Austin was in London over the weekend and was brought out onto the field during the West Ham vs. Fulham soccer game yesterday. Austin got on the microphone and said: “If you want to see West Ham open a can of whoop-ass, give me a hell yeah.”

    — Bobby Heenan was not at his scheduled autograph appearance in Philadelphia yesterday. Promoters said he was injured in a fall on Friday. This would have been his first appearance at an event of this type since all of his surgeries.

    — From the ‘Where are they now’ file: Kevin Fertig, who wrestled for WWE as Kevin Thorn, wrestled for Insanity Pro Wrestling on Saturday night in Indianapolis. He used the name Seven Thorn.

    — There are talks for the Hulkamania tour of Australia being released on DVD in North America, but nothing is confirmed. Contrary to rumors, the shows likely won’t be available on PPV.

    — Reminder: Matt Hardy appears on SyFy’s Scare Tactics tonight.

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  • Backstage Heat On CM Punk After Incident With Undertaker

    Word going around the WWE locker room is that the reason CM Punk lost the World Heavyweight Title last night is because of heat on him stemming from an incident on the recent European tour, according to Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

    The story goes that there was in issue with how Punk was dressed, and The Undertaker tried to nicely tell Punk that he was the World Champion and was representing WWE overseas so he should dress better. Punk said something to the effect of “what about John Cena?”

    This got back to WWE management and they took it as Punk thinking he was a bigger star than John Cena. Then the decision was made to take the belt off Punk at Hell in a Cell and put the match as the opener. There are a couple versions of the story going around, but which ever one is being told, the end result remains the same.

    The problems with Punk has been the talk of the SmackDown locker room for the past two days. There are some who are wondering why Undertaker was given the title considering his limited schedule and health problems with the feeling that it was too soon to take the title off Punk. Word is that WWE is planning on going with a Batista vs. Undertaker feud for the World Heavyweight Title.

    UPDATE: Jim Ross has commented on this situation in his latest JRsBarBQ.com blog, writing, ‘Crazy email….CM Punk lost the World’s Title because of a “dress code” violation. Please, stop the pain.’

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  • WWE RAW Gets Plugged On NBC’s Sunday Night Football

    From site reader Jeff W: Al Michaels mentioned on Sunday Night Football on NBC that “tomorrow Ben Roethlisberger and some of his line are going to jet up to Wilkes-Barre to partake in Monday Night RAW with Vince McMahon and company”. Then he and Chris Collingsworth went into the controversy about his appearance. Considering that NBC owns USA Network (at least for now) you would think that Al would have been handed a formal billborad to read, but he was not.

    From Andy R: I’m watching football tonight instead of the PPV and the NBC guys have mentioned Big Ben’s appearance on Monday Night Raw a few times. It even came up in Bob Costas’ pre-game interview with Ben where he advised him to watch out for the Big Show. Ben said he was bringing his O-line with him, so he’ll have back-up in case someone tries something. He did go out of his way to say that he wouldn’t be coming off the top rope or anything tomorrow. Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth were just talking about the appearance and Collinsworth said if you want to make your O-line happy, take them to wrestling.

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  • WWE RAW Gets Plugged On NBC's Sunday Night Football

    From site reader Jeff W: Al Michaels mentioned on Sunday Night Football on NBC that “tomorrow Ben Roethlisberger and some of his line are going to jet up to Wilkes-Barre to partake in Monday Night RAW with Vince McMahon and company”. Then he and Chris Collingsworth went into the controversy about his appearance. Considering that NBC owns USA Network (at least for now) you would think that Al would have been handed a formal billborad to read, but he was not.

    From Andy R: I’m watching football tonight instead of the PPV and the NBC guys have mentioned Big Ben’s appearance on Monday Night Raw a few times. It even came up in Bob Costas’ pre-game interview with Ben where he advised him to watch out for the Big Show. Ben said he was bringing his O-line with him, so he’ll have back-up in case someone tries something. He did go out of his way to say that he wouldn’t be coming off the top rope or anything tomorrow. Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth were just talking about the appearance and Collinsworth said if you want to make your O-line happy, take them to wrestling.

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  • SD Problems In Memphis, Kimbo’s Loss, Edge/Eve, Heenan

    Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

    — Several readers sent work that MyNetwork TV is no longer available in Memphis, TN. SmackDown will now instead be airing every Saturday Night in Memphis on the CW affiliate in Memphis channel 30 starting at 7 p.m.

    — Bobby Heenan will be making a rare public appearance this wekend at an autograph signing run by Turnbuckle Promotions and Jason Blaustein (the son of Beyond The Mat director Barry Blaustein). It takes place on October 3rd and 4th in Oaks, Pennsylvania at the Greater Philly Expo Center, 100 Station Ave.

    — Edge and Eve will be in Australia from November 11th through the 16th to do promotion for WWE’s tour of the country in 2010.

    — Roy Nelson talked about defeating Kimbo Slice on this week‘s episode of The Ultimate Fighter to USA Today: “First round was 44 punches to the face, and then Herb Dean doesn’t know how to ref, but we’ve seen that before. And then the next round was 22 punches. You could even see me yelling at Herb Dean, ‘Come on, ref.’… But the thing is, there’s a lot of people, there’s a lot of money… So I think it was more that Herb Dean was afraid to lose his job, because there’s a lot of people with a lot of money that can have a lot of influence with his career.”

    — From the ‘Where are they now’ file: Collector’s Realm has an autograph signing with “Mr. Kennedy” and Dusty Rhodes on Saturday, November 7th from 1-3 pm at 44 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie – one block north of Vassar College.

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  • UFC & Kimbo Slice Crush RAW In The Ratings – Full Details

    Wednesday night’s  highly anticipated edition of UFC’s The Ultimate Fighter delivered a monster rating that put this week’s edition of WWE Raw to shame. UFC President Dana White boldly predicted 6 million viewers would tune in for Kimbo Slice’s first UFC fight and he was right on the money.

    The 1-hour broadcast drew a 3.7 cable rating and averaged 5.3 million viewers. The final 15-minute segment featuring the Kimbo-Nelson fight drew a staggering 6.1 million viewers, making it the most watched MMA show on Spike ever.  The show drew a massive 6.81 rating in the M18-34 demo, with a 5.4 for M18-49.

    Despite Kimbo Slice’s shortcoming inside the cage, his ability to draw in fans is undeniable. ?He now holds three of the top four most viewed MMA fights in the sport’s history.

    By comparison, Monday’s Raw hosted by Al Sharpton drew a 3.1 cable rating with 4.5 million viewers, the lowest rating of the year.  Even uglier was Raw’s performance in the M18-49 demographic. UFC killed it with a 5.4 rating while Raw drew a meager 1.86.

    Before the Ultimate Fighter rating came out, the backstage feeling within WWE was that “sh*t would hit the fan” and changes would be in store if UFC beat Raw this week. While the UFC show featured a special attraction in Kimbo Slice’s first UFC fight and the company likely won’t be able to sustain those numbers, WWE will not take this lightly.

    Dana White was right on with his prediction of the Kimbo Slice-Roy Nelson fight on Wednesday’s episode of the Ultimate Fighter, as a record setting 6.1 million viewers tuned in for the fight.

    The full hour drew an average of 5.3 million viewers, with viewership peaking in the final 15 minutes. The 3.7 household rating the show garnered was the highest for any MMA show ever, though this was just a one hour broadcast.

    It is officially the most viewed MMA fight on Spike, surpassing the 5.9 million that tuned in to see Quinton “Rampage” Jackson square off against Dan Henderson on the UFC 75 event. The show drew a massive 6.81 rating in the M18-34 demo, with a 5.4 in M18-49. It was the most watched episode of an original series in Spike’s six year histor

  • UFC & Kimbo Slice Crush RAW In The Ratings – Full Details

    Wednesday night’s  highly anticipated edition of UFC’s The Ultimate Fighter delivered a monster rating that put this week’s edition of WWE Raw to shame. UFC President Dana White boldly predicted 6 million viewers would tune in for Kimbo Slice’s first UFC fight and he was right on the money.

    The 1-hour broadcast drew a 3.7 cable rating and averaged 5.3 million viewers. The final 15-minute segment featuring the Kimbo-Nelson fight drew a staggering 6.1 million viewers, making it the most watched MMA show on Spike ever.  The show drew a massive 6.81 rating in the M18-34 demo, with a 5.4 for M18-49.

    Despite Kimbo Slice’s shortcoming inside the cage, his ability to draw in fans is undeniable. ?He now holds three of the top four most viewed MMA fights in the sport’s history.

    By comparison, Monday’s Raw hosted by Al Sharpton drew a 3.1 cable rating with 4.5 million viewers, the lowest rating of the year.  Even uglier was Raw’s performance in the M18-49 demographic. UFC killed it with a 5.4 rating while Raw drew a meager 1.86.

    Before the Ultimate Fighter rating came out, the backstage feeling within WWE was that “sh*t would hit the fan” and changes would be in store if UFC beat Raw this week. While the UFC show featured a special attraction in Kimbo Slice’s first UFC fight and the company likely won’t be able to sustain those numbers, WWE will not take this lightly.

    Dana White was right on with his prediction of the Kimbo Slice-Roy Nelson fight on Wednesday’s episode of the Ultimate Fighter, as a record setting 6.1 million viewers tuned in for the fight.

    The full hour drew an average of 5.3 million viewers, with viewership peaking in the final 15 minutes. The 3.7 household rating the show garnered was the highest for any MMA show ever, though this was just a one hour broadcast.

    It is officially the most viewed MMA fight on Spike, surpassing the 5.9 million that tuned in to see Quinton “Rampage” Jackson square off against Dan Henderson on the UFC 75 event. The show drew a massive 6.81 rating in the M18-34 demo, with a 5.4 in M18-49. It was the most watched episode of an original series in Spike’s six year histor

  • Sharpton Trashed For RAW Appearance, UK Ratings, & More

    — Radio personality for New York’s POWER 105, Ed Lover, has a new video online where he discusses Al Sharpton’s appearance on WWE RAW this week. Lover says: “Speaking of stupid s***, did you see Al Sharpton on WWE? Is this the same man who stood up for Sean Bell and non-violence in the streets? And then you’re at the WWE? The WWE is nothing but violence. […] Come on, son. Who do you think you are, Classy Freddie Blassie? You‘re a reverend, son.” You can watch the video at this link.

    — In the UK for the week ending Sept. 20: TNA iMPACT did 50,000 viewers, RAW did 58,000 live and 66,000 for the replay, and SmackDown did 56,000.

    — ESPN came in first place once again for last week’s cable ratings race, with USA coming in second. SyFy was at #13 and Spike was at #17 despite thie big ratings for The Ultimate Fighter. The two hours of RAW hosted by Cedric were the #3 and #5 rated shows for the week, with football dominating the rest of the chart. In the 18-34 demographic, the second hour of RAW was #4 while the first hour didn’t crack the top 10. In 18-49, the two hours of RAW were ranked #2 and #7, while The Ultimate Fighter was #5.

    — In Leonard Maltin’s 2010 Movie Guide, he gives The Wrestler 3.5 stars and gives 12 Rounds 2.5 stars.

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