— While Vince McMahon informed Bryan Danielson he was being let go from World Wrestling Entertainment due to choking ring announcer Justin Roberts with a tie, some within the company believe spitting on John Cena was the real reason for his release. McMahon hates spitting and has banned it in WWE’s rings for the past several years. In addition to spitting, McMahon greatly dislikes people smoking cigarettes and sneezing as it’s been noted that if someone near him sneezes, he will lash out at the guilty part for it. On another note, it’s said to be guaranteed that Danielson didn’t spit on Cena without clearing it with him ahead of time. (source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

— Promoting WWE’s Saturday’s live event in Youngstown, Ohio, the Youngstown Vindicator conducted an interview with Evan Bourne. The high-flying wrestler was asked what the hardest part of transitioning from the independents to WWE was, commenting: “There was a huge learning curve understanding the scale of the company. It’s so massive and such a well-oiled machine. From a managerial standpoint, it’s run with an efficiency. I’’ve been around a lot of wrestling, and it used to be not as corporate as it is now, but the WWE is just jaw-dropping. I went to business school, and for me finding out how they operate from the business standpoint has almost been as intriguing as all of the wrestling skills I’ve acquired.”

The interview can be read here.

— A dark match pitting Zack Ryder against MVP took place before tonight’s live Fatal 4-Way pay-per-view broadcast. Ryder pinned MVP after striking him with the Zack Attack.

— Maryse suffered a wardrobe malfunction during the Divas Championship Match at tonight’s Fatal 4-Way pay-per-view. The malfunction, which was captured on camera during the live broadcast, occurred when Fox went to pin Maryse.

— Bryan Danielson was over with the live audience at the Nassau Coliseum’s for WWE’s Fatal 4-Way event as fans reportedly chanted for “Daniel Bryan” just prior to the show going live on pay-per-view. His name could also be heard during the conclusion of the show when the NXT season one Rookies stormed the ring during the WWE Championship Match.

— A number of WWE stars trended tonight at various points on Twitter including Rey Mysterio, Sheamus, Alicia Fox, Chris Jericho and Evan Bourne.

– Former WWE superstar Daniel Bryan posted a message on Twitter.com stating that it’s “still not the right time” to speak freely about his situation, but that he’s available for independent bookings. For those wondering, -anielson won’t be free to work for TNA until September.

Update: EVOLVE Wrestling has announced that Bryan Danielson will be appearing at their EVOLVE 4 event on 7/23 from Union City, NJ

The following night (7/24), Danielson will appearing at Dragon Gate USA’s anniversary show from the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, PA.

– TNA star Tommy Dreamer wrote this on Twitter about his first week in TNA:

“The Impact Zone is really cool Great atmosphere live. A very fan friendly place. This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.”

– Deadline.com reports that Eric Bischoff & Jason Hervey’s production company have signed an international distribution deal with Shine International, which already widely distributed the Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling show. The article notes that Bischoff & Harvey have several other projects in development and production with VH1, Spike TV,  TruTV, A&E & Fuse.

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Bryan Danielson

WWE announced on Friday that NXT season 1 rookie Daniel Bryan (Bryan Danielson) was released effective immediately and wished him the best in all future endeavors. People in WWE, including the creative team, were told that Danielson was fired for his conduct during the NXT Invasion angle on last week’s RAW. He was shown choking ring announcer Justin Roberts with his own tie during and spit on WWE champion John Cena during the heated angle.

The industry buzz is that a very powerful person outside of WWE complained to Vince McMahon about Danielson’s choking of Justin Roberts and deemed it too violent for WWE’s PG audience. There’s talk that Danielson broke a company protocol that was put in place after the Chris Benoit tragedy that nobody is to use ropes or other objects to choke opponents. Exactly who made the complaint isn’t known. but there’s speculation that it could be someone from Linda McMahon’s Senate campaign.

Read More: Jim Ross Comments On Daniel Bryan’s WWE Release & Future

The within WWE is that Bryan Danielson is being thrown under the bus. The company apparently does want to bring him back once the whole thing blows over. He has a 90-day no compete clause, but after that time would be free to join TNA.

For what it’s worth, Danielson has been described as having a great attitude backstage during his brief WWE run and was liked by most.

Bryan Danielson changed his Twitter account from to Twitter.com/bryandanielson. He wrote on Saturday:

“Just changed my twitter name to Bryan Danielson. The winds of change are stirring.”

On Sunday, he followed up with:

“Biding my time, waiting for the right moment to speak.”

Update: WWE Champion John Cena has posted a lengthy message on Twitter regarding Danielson’s WWE release. Check it out here: John Cena Comments On Daniel Bryan’s WWE Release

– WWE developmental star and former Ring of Honor champion Bryan Danielson has a new name in Florida Championship Wrestling. At last night’s television tapings, he was introduced as “Daniel Bryan.” WWE almost always requires that they own the ring names of their talent, so Danielson likely refused to sign over the rights to the “Bryan Danielson” name – thus, Daniel Bryan.

– John Morrison worked the SmackDown/ECW live event last night in Ecuador, teaming with Matt Hardy in the opening match of the night. Morrison and Hardy defeated The Hart Dynasty. Morrison appeared to be fine and showed no signs of a broken ankle. As we reported yesterday, Morrison’s claims on Twitter that he broke his ankle were not true and he was simply “working the Internet fans.” (Editor’s note: Man, he really got us good!)

– Mickie James will make her live concert debut on February 22nd in Nashville, TN as a part of the Dustin Wells Gift of Music concert. Mickie will share the stage with country music stars Rascal Flatts, Kellie Pickler, Jason Michael Carroll, Keith Anderson and Little Big Town.

source: PWInsider.com

— In a battle of former ROH World Champions, Kaval (Low Ki) defeated Bryan Danielson with a double stomp at last night’s Florida Championship Wrestling television taping in Tampa. Danielson is expected to stay in developmental for only a few weeks before being called up to the main roster.

— This week’s episode of ECW scored a 1.0 cable rating, up 0.1 from the previous week.

— WWE’s return to the Civic Center in Amarillo, Texas has been moved to Saturday, February 27th, 2010 and changed to a Smackdown/ECW house show. The event was originally going to be a Raw house show on Friday, February 26th, 2010. (Thanks to Devin Cutting)

— This managed to fall under the radar, but just before the holidays, developmental wrestler Dylan Klein handed in his notice to World Wrestling Entertainment.

In a blog post dated Thursday, December 24, 2009, Klein released the following statement:

This week I gave my notice to WWE

This week I gave my notice to WWE. It was a really tough thing for me to do, as this has always been my passion, my goal, a dream to me. I want to say thank you to everybody who has supported me along the way, I’ve had a lot of fun entertaining all of you. Best wishes & follow your dreams.
Sincerely,
“The trend setting…, Attention getting, One of a kind”
Dylan Klein

His picture has since been removed from the FCW talent page.

— Eve Torres and former ROH World Champion Bryan Danielson will be taking part in a meet-and-greet autograph session prior next Thursday’s Florida Championship Wrestling television taping at the FCW Arena in Tampa. Eve will be participating in another meet-and-greet the very next day at the Fort Myers Harborside Event Center. Visit www.fcwwrestling.info for more details.

— Jim Ross has begun tweeting. You can keep up with “good ol'” J.R. at twitter.com/JRsBBQ.

Back in the fall, WWE signed one of the top free agents around, former Ring of Honor champion “American Dragon” Bryan Danielson. At the time, it was widely reported that Danielson, a seasoned performer, would bypass WWE’s developmental system and be called up straight to television. Months have passed and we’ve yet to see Danielson’s debut.

At Thursday night’s Florida Championship Wrestling event in Tampa, Florida, it was announced that “International Superstar” Bryan Danielson will make his FCW debut at next week’s TV taping. According to PWInsider, Danielson is actually the one who requested some time in WWE Developmental.

Danielson wrestled a dark match before Monday’s RAW from Dayton, Ohio, reportedly felt some ring rust and wants to sharpen up his timing before moving onto RAW, SmackDown or ECW.

– Former Ring Of Honor champion and recent WWE-signee Bryan Danielson is still in Las Vegas working out and waiting on “the call” from WWE to come to work. Danielson, a seasoned worker, is expected to bypass WWE’s developmental system and head straight to the main roster.

– Michael Solomon, a member of WWE’s Board of Directors, cashed in all of his WWE stock last week to the tune of over $20 million. Solomon was reportedly unhappy with the way certain things were being run and got out. John Laurinaitis also cashed in $155,000 of his stock.

– Last week, ECW on SyFy had 17 minutes and 45 seconds of wrestling including a 10 minute and 57 second main event. TNA on the same week had 26 minutes and 34 seconds of wrestling. That broke down to 9 minutes and 21 seconds in the first hour and 17 minutes and 14 seconds in the second hour, including a 4 minutes and 49 second main event.