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In an effort to minimize inaccurate reports about Walter “Killer”
Kowalski, his wife has asked us to send a brief update:

Initial reports by Georgiann Makropolous were correct in that Walter did, in fact, have a heart attack late on Friday. At the time, he was revived, placed on life-support and transferred from the nursing facility to an area hospital. Friday night and Saturday were critical for Walter. As of Saturday evening, Walter was
responsive to those around him, including some visitors from the wrestling industry. He is still being assisted by medical equipment but certain vital signs have improved slightly. The medical staff is hoping that he will continue to stabilize.

Walter is still in serious condition and we can all only hope for continued improvement. His wife believes that his slight improvement is due to the thoughts and prayers that he has been receiving from around the world. She asks that everyone continue to pray for Walter.

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-phillyBurbs.com-At one time, SummerSlam was arguably the number-two show of the year from the WWE. 2008 may not look like it, but some of the biggest matches in the WWE would come to a head at SummerSlam. There have been some great moments in SummerSlam history, and WWE.com has captured the top 10.

The list includes video highlights of all ten moments, including a story you can read about the match which takes you through the story and the match itself. WWE.com also has plenty of pictures from past SummerSlams. It is evident from the start that WWE.com put a lot of hard work into the list. WWE Summerslam top 10 moments

-Bob “Hardcore” Holly is no longer being used by WWE right now and at age 45 things are not looking good for the WWE Supestar. Vince is said to be having him remain in the company just to have him around. As of right now there are no storylines set for Hardcore Holly.

-Join us for the CableFAX Program Awards Luncheon on October 29, 2008, as we salute the most outstanding cable programs and people of the year. This event is for and about cable programs, from best cable sports program to top kids show on Cable. We also salute top directors, producers, writers, and best HD and online content among our cable programmers. Join us for this special awards luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, DC Wednesday, October 29th. The luncheon will be filled with excitement from the award winners, great food and entertainment; all while you mingle with top cable executives. See 2008 CableFAX Hall of Fame Inductees

–Tuesday, August 5, 2008-SLAM! Wrestling’s Kenai Andrews will be interviewing RAW Superstar Batista in Montreal this weekend. Have a unique or creative question for “The Animal”? Send them to Kenai at kenai.andrews@gmail.com marked “Batista Montreal Interview” in the subject line and Kenai will ask as many as he can. Remember, the more unique the question, the better chance it will be asked! Don’t forget to include your name e.g. J. Doe or Jane D. and your location e.g. Atlanta, Georgia. Here is Batista’s previous interview with SLAM! Wrestling in June.

-Mick foley will not be doing commentary for this Friday’s Smckdown! Edition. Due to Edge took Foley out on last week’s edition of Smackdown and/or Foley has walked and not put up with Vince’s Bull%$it….The word going around backstage at tonight’s ECW/SmackDown tapings in Atlanta is that Tazz will fill in for Mick Foley in the color commentary spot on SmackDown.

This explains why Matt Striker joined Todd Grisham for tonight’s edition of ECW on Sci-Fi.

Eric Bischoff, best known as producer of WCW, has posted this thoughts on Ric Flair departing with WWE. Here is what Bischoff has to say:

And yes, ego.

But I cant help to wonder about Ric Flair’s motivation to leave WWE. In some ways, Ric Flair is in a simalar position to Brett Favre. In May I wrote in my blog “Finally” about how happy I was for Ric, that he could retire on a grand stage like Wrestlemania with the love, support, and respect from the people around him. To have the opportunity to retire in a way that put a proud period at the end of the last sentence of a great book that was Ric’s career is rare and should be appreciated.

If Ric asked for his release from WWE in order to pursue a career as a public/corporate speaker, I wish him the best. Ric is great in front of a crowd, and if charm and charisma were publicly traded commodities on the New York Stock Exchange, Ric would be a walking Fortune 500 company.

But if Ric is being driven by his “sense of self”, and is contemplating a return to the ring as a result, I fear,that the special moment that was Ric’s retirement and in many repects his legacy, will be diluted forever in the process.

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-WWE.com has posted this statement about officially confirming the departure of ” The Nature Boy”, Ric Flair:

WWE and Hall of Famer Ric Flair have mutually agreed to contractually part ways. After an extraordinary career Ric has chosen to pursue opportunities outside of WWE.

-Mick Foley is said to be unhappy with his current role as SmackDown announcer and may be leaving WWE television shortly. Several sources indicate that Foley is fed up with getting yelled at in his headset by Vince McMahon and is disgruntled with the current arrangement.

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On Monday night, Shane McMahon appeared on Raw and announced the show’s new General Manager: Mike Adamle. Our fans were shocked to learn that WWE’s flagship program would now be headed up by the absent-minded ECW commentator. Will Adamle be able to take control and command the respect of the Raw roster, or will the mayhem overwhelming the show continue to run unchecked?

On his very first night as Raw GM, Adamle made a number of matches. The biggest of these however, was Raw’s first SummerSlam match: For the first-time ever, John Cena vs. Batista. Recent weeks have seen both Superstars displaying their hunger for championship gold, but their match at SummerSlam will be to determine who is truly the top contender on Raw. With two competitors as intense as Cena and The Animal, will they even make it to SummerSlam before a collision?

Though SummerSlam is right around the corner, there’s plenty to look forward to on the next Raw as well. For the first time since having his right eye severely injured by Chris Jericho at The Great American Bash, Shawn Michaels will appear for an interview on Raw. Y2J has claimed that he ended the career of HBK, will Michaels corroborate this evidence? What will The Showstopper have to say to the man who injured him so severely?

Though he is still gloating about his win over Michaels, Jericho has begun to look forward as well. The man once known as the Ayatollah of Rock ‘n’ Rolla hosted what he announced as the last edition of his talk-show, the Highlight Reel. Y2J shared several clips of a more fun, fan-friendly Chris Jericho, and then let the WWE Universe know that it was a thing of the past. Like a slew of other top Superstars, Jericho has his eyes on nothing short of the World Heavyweight Championship, and communicated as much. Will new GM Mike Adamle be receptive to Jericho’s desire for championship gold? Who will fall into Y2J’s sights next?

According to a number of independent promoters, they were told today by representatives of Ric Flair that he has decided to part ways with World Wrestling Entertainment and that he is now available to take independent bookings.

The last few months, Flair has been forced to back out of bookings, becuase of WWE didn’t approve of them.

Stay tuned…More details to come…..

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- The Gillespie Agency, on behalf of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair, issued the following statement to PWInsider earlier this evening:

WWE and I parted on the best of terms. This gives me the chance to pursue new opportunities…corporate speaking engagements, product sponsorships, autograph shows for my loyal fans (who made me what I am today) and film and television roles. My agent and I are very excited about what the future holds!

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The Gillespie Agency is taking booking for the WWE Hall of famer Ric Flair. If you are interested in on booking Ric Flair go here…

As Edge prepares to face a returning Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell Match at SummerSlam (Match preview …), the Rated-R Superstar will have a mystery guest on “The Cutting Edge” this week on SmackDown. The Ultimate Opportunist will no doubt be talking about his upcoming potentially epic encounter with The Phenom. As Edge plans for his first-ever Hell in a Cell Match, who will his special guest be?

Also on SmackDown, Playboy cover girl Maria will make her SmackDown debut after being drafted from Raw in the 2008 Supplemental WWE Draft. Ever since the draft, anticipation has been building for her appearance on Friday nights, as well as her upcoming feature in Summer Skin. Experience Summer Skin …

As summer continues to heat up, all of SmackDown’s Superstars are focusing their sights on SummerSlam, especially WWE Champion Triple H, who will defend his title against The Great Khali. Match preview …

As the Biggest Blockbuster of the Summer draws near, don’t miss the action on Friday Night SmackDown at 8/7 CT on The CW Network.

MVP was interview by Gotricities following Monday’s Saturday Night’sd main Event taping. MVP talks about how an prison officer changed his life and put him on the correct path:

MVP: A lot of fans don’t know, but I think it’s getting out there. As a teen-ager, I ran the streets and got into all kinds of very serious trouble, which resulted in me going to prison for 9½ years. While I was in prison I met a corrections officer who was an independent wrestler. Got out, started training with him and discovered that pro wrestling was my passion. I devoted myself to it and worked hard and made sacrifices and after 5½ years finally got a shot with WWE, and the rest, as they say, is history.

With MVP being in prison, he has a hard time getting into other countries:

There are some countries that I’m not allowed into — Japan being one of them. When I go to Canada, there’s all kinds of legal paperwork that has to be done. There’s a special permit. For the most part, it’s been almost 20 years since my conviction and I haven’t been in trouble. There’ll be times I’m in the airport, they do a background check when I’m going to another country and they pull me to the side. Take me into a room and check my stuff out. But I understand it. Not that I agree with it. But I understand it.

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I did a little browsing and I found at that WWE Haller of Famer Afa of the “Wild Samoans” was in an music video.

Afa the Wild Samoan Featured in Music Video!

Fans of 80s music may remember the song “Shattered Glass” by Laura Branigan. Well, many people don’t know that wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Afa the Wild Samoan was IN that video!

Watch the video in its entirety, and pay particular attention to the middle and end. Yes, that is REAL broken glass he’s walking on! It was all done in one take, too.

“SHATTERED GLASS”- LAURA BRANIGAN

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WWE Diva Natalya, also know as Natalie Neidhart, daughter of former WWE superstar Jim “Tha Anvil” Neidhart. (Just for a quick reference, if you already didn’t know) Jim Neidhart married Ellie, daughter of Stu and Helen Hart. Stu and Helen owned the Hart House, thus an Wrestling Era was born.

Natalya has posted her answers to hundreds of questions by her loyal fans. What was the Hart House like and what was it like being there?

Here is Natalya’s answer:

So many of you from all over the world have asked me about the Hart House and what it was like there. It’s hard to put it into one simple answer … but I always love going back to the way I remembered it.

I spent most of my free time at Hart house and in the Dungeon … even in its final days. There truly was never a dull moment in that old, brick house that was once a hospital in the war.

I can still picture my grandmother walking down the steps from the kitchen to the basement … nonchalantly checking her laundry. The washing machine and dryer happened to be located right next the Dungeon. She thought nothing of it when she heard grown men scream at the top of their lungs in pain. Stu was usually spending Saturday and Sunday mornings practicing the fine art of submission wrestling on anyone he could get his hands on.

The Dungeon was just a little room. There were holes in the walls and in the ceiling from people’s bodies and heads going through it. The mats were old and weathered, and not soft at all. Some of the padding had actually been ripped out for years … we just wrestled around it. A little door took you into it from the side of the house and there were a few small windows in it where you could catch a glimpse of what was inside. Picture Perfect

HollyWood.com has got an article up on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on his recent movie Race to Witch Mountain opens in theaters March 13, 2009. The Rock was at Comic-con this passed week-end, here is the interview….

Dwayne Johnson may have retired his wrestling name, The Rock, but he’s still doing battle in the movies. He brought his upcoming family adventure, Race to Witch Mountain, to San Diego Comic Con to put it up against all the other big studio movies showing early footage to fans. This follow-up to the Disney series started with 1975’s Escape to Witch Mountain casts Johnson as a Las Vegas cab driver protecting two alien teens from bad guys who would force them to use their special powers for evil.

Here are a few questions on the movie..

Hollywood.com: So why remake the Witch Mountain movies?

HW: How much trouble is it to protect these kids?

Here is one questions I thought was a spoiler for the movie:

HW: Do you believe in aliens?
DJ: Well, how come you can’t ask me that with a straight face? Of course I do, yeah. I think it’d be extremely arrogant to think that we’re the only ones. I firmly do and I’m always fascinated and intrigued. Spending three or four months with Andy as all of us did in preproduction and his love and his passion, he had all these videos and books. He just literally took us on this course. It was amazing.

Here is the link to the interview……

Stacy Keibler: Keepin’ Fit in LA

Looking sporty in a black tantop and blue running shorts, Stacy Keibler was spotted out walking to Emerson Fitness Gym in West Hollywood on Monday afternoon (July 28).

The “Bubble Boy” babe and former WWE diva is coming off of a weekend appearance and signing autographs at the 2008 Comic-Con Convention in San Diego.

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Saturday, July 26 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
San Diego Convention center located at 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA

Come meet Mr. Kennedy, star of the upcoming movie Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia. Comic-Con International – San Diego Convention Center located at 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA. (20th Century Fox Booth #4129)

-There were only two people more excited than the Great Khali about his match with Triple H at SummerSlam. The infamous Undertaker vs. Undertaker battle at SummerSlam 1994 is universally regarded as the worst main-event in WWE history. The Undertaker and Brian Lee should send WWE management a cake and flowers after booking the Great Khali vs. Triple H at SummerSlam 2008. The Great Khali to challenge Triple H at WWE SummerSlam