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-Jamie Noble wrestled WWE developmental wrestler Jake Hagar in a dark match prior to last night’s SmackDown/ECW. Noble got hurt following a belly-to-belly suplex as he landed on his neck and upper shoulders. Took WWE officials three minutes to get noble backstage.

- The Sun UK has got an article on John Cena’s Injury. in the article states why WWe superstar Edge has taken time off:

Our source added: “This is why Edge is taking a few weeks off. He desperately needs to.

“His performances on the mic and limited actions kept him OK through the Hell in a Cell Match with Undertaker, but Edge is a man in a lot of constant pain, he just doesn’t want to give up his top spot right now.”
Sun UK report on Cena’s Injury>>>

-PRO wrestler David ‘Fit’ Finlay has smashed his way to the top of the brutal world of violent entertainment, beaming: “I have lived the American dream.”
Finlay’s glittering career has seen him throwing grown men out of rings, stepping on heads and applying backbreakers, brainbusters and thunderous piledrivers.

Along the way the 48-year-old has earned himself the nickname ‘The Fighting Irish B*****d’. I’ve lived the American dream

- Sylvain Grenier and Rob Conway will be reuniting as La Resistance at the Northern Championship Wrestling event in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on August 30th, 2008.

-Lilian Garcia gives her advice on an fan on Fans WWE .com, click here.

-Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men”
– Jane Addams

Here we go again. Can anyone say, “Airplane Ride From Hell part 3?” For some reason or another, YOUR Host of Hosts seems to always have the most awkward plane ride experiences that one could possibly have. So of course with that being said, YOUR Guiding Light is about to take you along for the ride as well.

It’s 5 a.m. in the morning and I’ve just awakened from a 2 ½ hour sleep following SmackDown/ECW, and it’s time to head to the airport. It’s bad enough that I’d rather remain asleep, but getting home sounds a lot more endearing. Once I arrive to the airport and check in, I have about 15 mins ‘til boarding. I decided to stop for a quick bite so that I can have some food in my stomach. (One should never fly on an empty stomach.) I go to the food counter where I stand in line awaiting my turn to order. The Elijah Experience (Aug. 25, 2008)

Mondays are for Lance Cade, the best day of the week. I get to perform on the only show that I’ve ever wanted to be on every single week. Mondays remind me of the Monday Night Wars. What an awesome time to be a wrestling fan. I’ll never forget how such a diehard WWE fan I was, even when WWE was in second place. I did watch Nitro, but only on the replay at midnight. And, Mondays remind me of my early childhood of watching Prime Time Wrestling when it was so great to watch Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon in the studio between the matches. I could go on and on … Point is, I love Mondays! My first Monday EVER that I’ll be thinking of not only wrestling

Two additional guilty pleas have been linked to the Applied Pharmacy Services federal steroid investigation. Dr. David A. Wilbirt and his fiancée, Candace V. Toler, have both pleaded to conspiracy to illegally dispensing and distributing anabolic steroids. Physicians Scott Corliss, Kenneth Olds, Kelly Tucker and Pamela Pyle have previously pleaded guilty to steroid conspiracy charges while dispensing various anabolic steroids via Applied Pharmacy Services (APS); Anti-aging expert James Abernathy has also been linked to APS (”Doctor, fiancée plead guilty to steroids charges,” August 23). Steroid Doctor for Pro Wrestlers Pleads Guilty in Applied Pharmacy Services Investigation

- The Nature Boy, Ric Flair is scheduled to appear at Crown Plaza in Monroe in New jersey on Friday October 10th. Click here for more details.

“The past is not dead; it’s not even past.” — William Faulkner

I had the same feeling after attending last weekend’s NWA Legends Fanfest gathering in Charlotte.

For three days and four nights, wrestling fans were taken back to a time when their childhood heroes once again basked in the spotlight, relating old war stories that only seem to get better with age. Seemed like old times at Fanfest

-Interesting note that several WWE wrestlers are attending the upcoming Democratic and Republican National Conventions. It’s good that some wrestlers want to see the political process of selecting our Presidential candidates and not just do a drive by for a photo op even though there will be plenty of those. I’m not sure whos going where but I do know that Batista and President Bill Clinton would have a helluva time together considering they are both socially inclined. We dont’ do many politics on this site but I will tell you that Ihaven’t decided who I am going to vote for come November. Professional politicians who can’t even balance our country’s check book and who govern only to be re-elected and not to better our country have used up all their “passes” with me.

More on Jim Ross>>>>>>>>

-Sources in WWE are saying WWE diva Eve Torres underwent breast enlargement. Here are two photos for you the fan to decide.

Here is a photo of when Eve was a finalist in the WWE Diva shoot

Here is a photos just put up on WWE.com for Eve’s Summer Skin layout

- Here is a poster advertising former WWE Diva Ashley Massaro’s appearance at the Beta night club in Denver, Colorado yesterday. Here it says she is an WWE Diva..

WWE Superstars and Divas will be attending the Democratic and Republican National Conventions over the next two weeks as part of our Smackdown Your Vote! efforts to encourage more voters, ages 30 and younger, to vote in this year’s election.

Batista, Shelton Benjamin and Candice Michelle will attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver from Aug. 26 to 31. Shawn Michaels, Mr. Kennedy and Mickie James will attend the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., from Sept. 1 to 4.

On Monday, WWE will post its version of an online debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain based on their written responses to Smackdown Your Vote!’s national 18-30 Voter Issues Paper (VIP), which outlines the critical issues and questions from younger voters based on national polling.

During the conventions, to promote voter registration, WWE will feed video footage from WWE Superstars’ activities at the conventions into WWE programming, and WWE.com will provide complete convention coverage. In partnership with Cable in the Classroom, WWE also will videotape footage for use in a series of videos for K-12 schools nationwide via Cable in the Classroom’s free, online learning game, eLECTIONS: Your Adventure in Politics. eLECTIONS is a standards-based election simulation being used in classroom’s nationwide featuring content from CNN Student News, C-SPAN and History Channel. WWE has already worked with one of its partners, University of Virginia’s Youth Leadership Initiative, to create curriculum materials for use in 8,000 classrooms based on the 18-30 VIP.

WWE also has created video PSAs featuring John Cena and Mr. Kennedy to promote a voter registration initiative with AT&T and Rock the Vote.

Following the conventions, WWE.com will continue to cover the election and encourage young Americans to vote. WWE Magazine, one of the most popular men’s magazines on newsstands, will feature WWE Superstars and Divas discussing the issues in the election in its November issue, which hits newsstands before Election Day.

This is the third presidential election in which WWE’s Smackdown Your Vote! has been active. The program has been engaged in national, state and local elections each year since 2000. In 2004, 20.1 million 18-29-year-olds voted, a 4.3 million jump over 2000. The turnout increase among the youngest voters was more than double that of any other age group. Young voter turnout is one of the top news headlines of 2008 with turnout doubling and tripling in early 2008 contests. Partners in the Smackdown Your Vote! initiative include Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, League of Women Voters, National Association of Secretaries of State, University of Virginia’s Youth Leadership Initiative, Sacred Heart University and Mobilize.org.

WWE Universe, stay tuned to WWE.com for complete coverage of WWE’s involvement at the upcoming Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Make your voice heard. Join WWE and Smackdown Your Vote! Visit SmackdownYourVote.com to learn more and register to vote.

WWE has confirmed the following 2009 PPV dates:

-Jan. 25 - Royal Rumble

-Feb. 15 - No Way Out

-April 5 - Wrestlemania 25

-April 26 - Backlash

-May 17 - Judgment Day

-June 7 - One Night Stand

-June 28 - Night of Champions

-July 26 - Great American Bash

-August 23 - Summerslam

-Sept. 13 - Unforgiven

-WWE has posted new rules for the Championship Scramble matches for Unforgiven.

The old rules stated:

-The match has a 20-minute time limit. The champion and a randomly selected challenger will start the match, with a new challenger entering the match every five minutes.

-If a Superstar scores a pinfall or submission on any other Superstar in the match, he is declared the “temporary” champion for match purposes (and is not officially recognized as champion in the title history). He holds that designation until another Superstar scores a subsequent pinfall or submission on any other Superstar.

The NEW Rules states:

-The match has a 20-minute time limit. Two randomly selected challengers will start the match, with a new challenger entering the match every five minutes.

-If a Superstar scores a pinfall or submission on any other Superstar in the match, he is declared the “temporary” or interim champion for match purposes. He holds that designation until another Superstar scores a subsequent pinfall or submission on any other Superstar.

-Whoever is the interim champion at the final bell becomes the officially recognized champion.

WWE continues to walk that fine line, with Chris Jericho “mistakenly” punching Shawn Michaels’ wife Rebecca during Summer Slam.

Michaels would have agreed to allow his wife to be part of the storyline, knowing there would be shock value — and a future main-event match against the protagonist, Jericho. And I get that. The bottom line in wrestling is the bottom line. There’s not a whole lot of social conscience. WWE walks fine line on violence

-As soon as Mike Adamle announced on Raw Monday that there was going to be a five-man Championship Scramble for the world heavyweight title at Unforgiven, I’m betting that most viewers knew exactly who the four men were that would be challenging champion CM Punk. Excluding Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels – who will likely face each other at the pay-per-view – John Cena, Batista, JBL and Kane are the top stars on Raw, and, not surprisingly, they are all in the title match. Smackdown Scramble shakes up status quo

-In just two years, Kofi Kingston, the aerial specialist, was in the right place at the ring time and influenced the right people to stand where few have landed.

”I definitely feel it’s a great thing to be in WWE,” said Kingston, a young star on the rise. “There are a lot of eyes watching. Sometimes you’re given the ball, and it’s up to you to take the ball and run with it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be doing well.”

With the success, more and more fans know Kofi Kingston. Fast rise for high flying Kingston

- Gail showed up at Florida Chapionship Wrestling last night. Just as she arrived, she bolted immediately to the back but got caught by the fans. The fans chanted her name. FCW Results last night 8-21-08..here
Photos Of FCW here.

Ross is at it again for another entry, but this post in on Fans WWE Nation website. Here are a few thoughts from his post:

-Yours truly spoke with Stone Cold Steve Austin recently and Steve is still working out as diligently as ever but 3:16 fans don’t get your hopes of a “one more match” scenario for Austin. That is likely to never occur even though I would love to see it. However would WM25 in Houston, Texas be a good time and place for Steve to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame? It seems as if there is no demand for out of shape action adventure, film stars which pretty much eliminates that vocation for yours truly’s post WWE life.

-Speaking of the WWE Hall of Fame, I would like to see WWE.com and its visitors to be involved in the voting for the Hall of Fame to some degree.

-R Truth is slated to debut very soon on Friday Night Smackdown and it seems as if there is an anticipation of such. What will call this young man, R Truth or once we get to know him can he be simply called “R”?

More on JR on Fans WWE Nation>>>>>

Rey Mysterio’s website in temporarly shut down. This shut down says “DUE TO THE RECENT ANNOUCEMENT BY KANE ON MONDAY NIGHT RAW”, check out Rey’s website…

In case you missed this passed Monday Night Raw, here is what Kane said was the result of “Mysterio missing in action”…

Kane Addresses Rey Mysterio: RAW 8/18/08

-News Journal Online has got an article up on an recent interview with Diamond Dallas Page. Recent WWE superstars are actually using YRG, DDP program.

Q: Is YRG being used by anyone in MMA? In wrestling (HBK, Samoa Joe, Christian Cage, Randy Orton)?

A: I do know that Shawn Michaels is doing it. Cody Rhodes is in the book. There are a couple of other guys. I’m about to make a huge impact (in MMA).”

Also DDP gives his recent thoughts on Men of the wrestling industry. Check out the interview, pretty interesting….Go HERE.

FUTURE wrestling star Rob Terry’s dreams of hitting the big time have moved a step closer — after WWE bosses offered him a new three-year contract.
The 28-year-old weightlifting champ, of Morriston, has been in America since last October taking part in a special training programme.
He is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his heroes Hulk Hogan and Triple H to become the first Welshman to grace the sport.
And it seems that Rob is coming on leaps and bounds.
He said: “The past 10 months have been like a dream come true. Big Rob muscles in on dreams

-Here is a list of WWE superstars that are going to be on special events on television, besides WWE:

Friday, September 5:
Mickie James will guest star on PSYCH at 10 PM on USA Network

Thursday, October 2:
Maria and Eve will appear on Magic’s Greatest Secrets Revealed at 9 PM ET on My Network TV

Wednesday, October 8
Mr. Kennedy will guest star on The Tony Rock Project at 8:30 PM ET on My Network TV

Wednesday, October 29
Chris Jericho will host Redemption Song at 11pm ET on FUSE TV

-WWE and MyNetworkTV will officially kick off their relationship on Thursday, October 2nd at 8pm with the first-ever broadcast presentation of WrestleMania XXIV. The very next night on Friday, October 3rd WWE SmackDown will premiere on its new home at 8pm. This will be the first-ever broadcast television debut of WrestleMania. MyNetworkTV President Gary Meidel expressed his excitement for WWE’s debut on the network, saying “These side-by-side primetime events are sure to deliver two nights of edge-of-your-seat, action-packed entertainment.” Vince McMahon added, “What better way to introduce MyNetworkTV viewers to the WWE brand than to schedule our first-ever broadcast television debut of WrestleMania.”