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        Impact tonight:
*Brutus Magnus vs. Mr. Anderson
*Samoa Joe vs. Jesse Neal
*Pope D'Angelo Dinero vs. A.J. Styles
*Kurt Angle vs. Tomko
*Angelina Love vs. Tara
*Kevin Nash vs. Mick Foley
 
        Superstars tonight at 8 p.m. on WGN America
*Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres vs. Katie Burchill & Alicia Fox
*Evan Bourne vs. Carlito
*Matt Hardy & Great Khali & John Morrison vs. Hart Dynasty & Drew McIntyre
 
        Unleashed at 8 p.m. on Spike
*Paul Kelly vs. Paul Taylor
*Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura
*Clay Guida vs. Samy Schiavo
*Michael Bisping vs. Jason Day  
 
        We've got a loaded issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter coming out Monday, including a look at the life and career of Jack Brisco.  We also have an update on the next chapter of the Monday Night Wars, an analysis of the situation, and looking at a lot of comments made by Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff.  We also have news on the death of ECW, as well as exclusive notes on different ideas talked about for the new show in its place, and what the good and bad points are of those ideas.

        We've got coverage of the Royal Rumble, the MMA debut of Herschel Walker, lots on the Saturday night TV ratings battle with UFC and Strikeforce and why UFC did such big numbers for a tape of a several month old show.  We look at whether Walker will fight again, the future of Bobby Lashley and a show rundown.

        We also have full coverage of what happened with Chris Jericho and Gregory Helms, discussing the blow-by-blow of the situation, repercussions, coverage and more.

        We also have a very interesting story on the UFC brand name and how acceptable it is or isn't with some very surprising poll results.

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        Our lead story talks about the legend of Jack Brisco, who he was, looking back at the early 70s, Brisco's later health problems and death, why Brisco was so popular with promoters, his amazing wrestling background as well as his football background, how he got started in pro wrestling, his early major supporters, his meeting with Billy Robinson in Australia, the rivalry with Dory Funk Jr., his two world title runs, and second part of his career as a former champion, the debut of Hulk Hogan, the turn of Dusty Rhodes and the sale of Georgia Championship Wrestling to Vince McMahon.

        We also analyze TNA going to Monday, WWE's reactions, and TNA's growing pains with its audience.  We also look at where TNA's television audience has grown the most.  We look at where Hogan and Flair are drawing hte most from, the affect on revenue streams, and surprising things said about Sting.

        We look at the end of the ECW name, the attempts by WWE to market the ECW brand, and the new ideas and what the pluses and minuses of them are.

        We look at the Royal Rumble, the Elimination Chamber match and the road to Wrestlemania as well as Rumble business notes.

        We have more on WrestleMania 27 coming to Atlanta, and the reaction of the Atlanta media, as well as Antonio Inoki in the WWE Hall of Fame and a look at Inoki's WWF title run and the controversy that went down during that period.  We also look at why WWE and TNA women's matches are different, updates on John Cena, updates on WWE developmental and the talent there, a former WWE star that has been talked with about returning, a WWE star looking at writing his second book and WWE house show notes.        

       We also have a look at the ratings for all the major pro
wrestling and MMA shows on television over the past week.

    We also have our usual weekly features such as the results of the
biggest matches of the week and rundown of the major television shows.

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Also in this week's issue:

--Two stars suspended for 60 days

--A wrestling legend and movie star talks about retiring this year after more than 40 years as an active wrestler

--Why CMLL is expecting its biggest crowd in a long time this week

--Major changes expected in one of the top promotions

--Reason why you should never go too crazy when running down a promotion you've left

--What legend helped set an attendance record for  a struggling group this past weekend

--Huge show announced featuring stars from several different major offices

--Kenta Kobashi health update

--Marufuji vs. Prince Devitt IWGP jr. title change

--New Japan star headed for a TNA run

--Hall of Famer to come out of retirement in April to form a tag team with his son, who will be debuting

--What pro wrestling star created the chant everyone is talking about going into the Super Bowl

--A former pro wrestling world champion who played a major part in his team being the first-ever NFL champions

--PWG's biggest show at the WrestleReunion convention with RVD, Great Muta and Jushin Liger

--Update on Gene Kiniski

--Second week box office for "Tooth Fairy"

--Latest wrestling convention horror story

--A look back at the golden era of Jim Barnett's World Championship Wrestling

--Update on Torrie Wilson

--Former WWE woman performer in contest to be a magazine cover model

--Thoughts on a recent wrestling book and lessons in the book

--Notes on the Davey Richards leaving Dragon Gate USA story

--ROH's lawsuit against Ric Flair

--A look at ROH's Los Angeles debut

--Kurt Angle's name comes up in a federal steroid trial

--Ric Flair's role in TNA

--RVD talks about going to TNA

--Notes on the Lockdown PPV

--Taz talks knee replacement

--Who was backstage at the last TV tapings

--Hogan talks about TNA's future

--Lots of notes on the TNA European tour

--Notes on UFC's debut in Abu Dhabi

--Update on when Brock Lesnar is looking at fighting next

--WEC PPV thoughts

--UFC video game sales

--Booking issues in UFC

--Lots of new UFC matches

--Next Strikeforce TV event

--First Dream show of the new year

--New promotion gets a multi-year television deal

--Another celebrity makes MMA debut

--Former WCW promoter has first MMA show this week

--MMA fighter becomes TV star overseas           


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--At today's UFC 109 press conference, Dana White said the Chael Sonnen vs. Nate Marquardt winner will become the No. 1 contender for the middleweight title.  Dana White used the word "dominate" to describe Randy Couture's win over Brandon Vera.  Not quite the term I'd use.  He also said they're going to China and he was awarding a $1,000 Cazadores Authentic Spirit Award in the name of Brian Stann, who competes on the undercard.   

--White also confirmed Kimbo Slice vs. Matt Mitrione on 5/8 in Montreal

--For the cable ratings last week, USA was No. 1 with a 2.6 prime time average to 2.2 for ESPN.  Spike was No. 15 at 0.9, boosted by the surprisingly high number for the UFC 107 replay.  Syfy was No. 16, also at 0.9  Raw was No. 10 and No. 12.  State of the Union speech analysis had five of the top ten spots.  The Pro Bowl was first with an 8.2 rating while USA shows NCIS were 4.1 and 4.0 and Burn Notice at 3.9 also outrated Raw.  Raw as No. 4 and No. 6 in 18-49 and No. 8 and No. 10 in 18-34.  
 
--The retirement of Asashoryu, the sumo legend, earlier today in Japan, has been gigantic news over there.  Asashoryu, whose older brothers are both pro wrestlers, has been sumo's biggest star for about eight years now and considered top five of all-time in the sport.  He allegedly punched somebody while being out on a night of drinking two weeks ago, and they have a very strict conduct code in that sport and even though he's still No. 1, he was forced out.
 
--In the U.K., for the week ending 1/3, Impact did 21,000 viewers, Raw did 51,000 on New Year's Eve and Smackdown did 139,000 viewers, the biggest rating for the show in several years (thanks to Ian Hamilton)
 
--WWE will have a tri- branded super show on 5/22 at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati on 5/22, the night before the Extreme Rules PPV in Detroit. (thanks to Brian Henke)
 
--Chris Jericho's band Fozzy performs on 5/13 in Glasgow, 5/14 in Nottingham and 5/15 with two shows in London.
 
--An update on the Graziano family lawsuit against Hulk Hogan is at http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/civil/guardian-seeks-punitive-damages -against-hulk-hogan/1070721  New filed documents say the driving by Nick Bollea and parenting by Terry Bollea constitute gross negligence, saying the father should not have allowed Nick to drive after drinking alcohol.  Another story is at http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/feb/04/motion-asks-additional-damages-ho gan-son/
 
--Alex Marvez talks Jack Brisco at http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/51160
 
--Want to send condolences to Shane Helms on the death of his grandmother this morning.  He wrote, "Make sure your loved ones know you love them. For some, tomorrow may not come.  . . I was able to see my last remaining and closest grandparent yesterday before she passed away this morning.  She was very weak, but she woke up, looked at me and rubbed my face.  We got one final `I love you' in.  I will never forget that moment."
 
--Feeling on the death of ECW
Don't care, it's just a name 45.5%
Happy it's being done 35.5%
Some sadness 19.1%
 
--What are your thoughts regarding the WEC PPV sow?
Regularly buy UFC, will buy this 11.0%
Regularly buy UFC, won't buy this 9.6%
Sometimes buy UFC, will buy this 9.1%
Sometimes buy UFC, won't buy this 16.4%
Rarely buy UFC, will buy this 1.7%
Rarely buy UFC, won't buy this 15.3%
Never buy UFC, will buy this 0.3%
Never buy UFC, won't buy this 36.5%
 
--What February major show are you most interested in
WWE Elimination Chamber 47.9%
UFC 110 Nogueira vs. Velasquez 32.1%
UFC 109 Couture vs. Coleman 10.3%
TNA Against All Odds 9.7%
 
--TNA officially announced Lockdown for 4/18 at the Family Arena in St. Charles, MO.  The names they list on the show are A.J. Styles, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Kurt Angle, Jeff Jarrett, Kevin Nash, Mick Foley, Samoa Joe and Team 3-D.
 
--The ROH TV title tournament starts tomorrow night in Philadelphia with first round matches of Kevin Steen vs. Rhett Titus, Kenny King vs. El Generico, Colt Cabana vs. Eddie Edwards and Delirious vs. Davey Richards.  Semifinals and finals are Saturday night, both at the Arena in Philadelphia.  
 
--Scott Lost and Scorpio Sky have been added to the ROH shows on 3/26 and 3/27 in Phoenix
 
--The MMA debut of Cole Konrad is up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJR3DJqL1SE
 
--Konrad's second fight will be 2/27 for Matrix Fights in Philadelphia at the Arena, facing Joel Wyatt (5-2) of Richmond VA
 
--Here's a find.  Someone who should be very familiar to all current pro wrestling fans appeared 32 years ago on the game show "The Match Game," that replayed recently on the Game Show Network.  Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApLkKmWrpK0  The person is known by another name today.
 
--Rickson Gracie debuts on Spike TV a week from tomorrow in the Best of Pride Fighting Championships show.  Matches airing are Rickson Gracie vs. pro wrestling Hall of Famer Nobuhiko Takada in the match that made the promotion, Frank Trigg vs Fabiano Iha, Quinton Jackson vs. Masaaki Satake, Phil Baroni vs. Ryo Chonan and Wanderlei Silva vs. Guy Mezger  
 
--Chris Kanyon has been added to Saturday's wrestling convention at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Brooklyn, which also includes Nikolai Volkoff, Brutus Beefcake, Tony Mamaluke, Johnny Valiant and Romeo Roselli
 
--River City Wrestling on 2/6 in San Antonio at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Activity Center
 
--Yesterday's Montreal Gazette had a story on skelton racer Michelle Kelly, who will represent Canada in the upcoming Winter Olympics.  This is her second Olympics.  She said her dream job would be to work as a pro wrestler, noting she got in the ring with Lance Storm, who said that she would be able to do it because of her gymnastics background.
 
--Brian Gravagna at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it is looking for a tape of the 6/30 ECW episode and the 1/22 Smackdown episode
 
--The New York Daily News yesterday at http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/02/03/bramhall.jpg had a cartoon with a wrestling theme. (thanks to Jeff Sheridan)
 
--Sean Denny won Mid Atlantic indie wrestler of the year while Denny vs. Mark Bravura won match of the year in the Mid Atlantic awards announced last night  NWA Fusion won Best promotion
 
--The season opener for old school Bay Bombers Roller Derby, now 37 years after the folding of the league, will be 3/6 at Kezar Pavilion with the Bombers against the Red Devils, managed by Georgia Hase.
 
--Tom Prichard will be doing a WWE tryout at the IWF Wrestling School in West Paterson, NJ from 4/23 to 4/25.  For more info go to http://www.WrestlingIWF.com