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- "Ashley Massaro" has been linked to an LA escort service that the FBI is currently probing, according to an article in Rolling Stone. WWE's Ashley went on her Myspace today and said there was nothing to any rumors and that she was contacting her lawyer. It's now believed the Ashley Massaro in question is a different girl, but Rolling Stone used WWE Ashley's picture. I think no matter what the truth ends up being, some heads are going to roll.

- We've got WWE reports from Canada up on the front page, and if you attend any of the shows on this tour we'd love reports. I should note that this is the first Canadian tour since the Benoit tragedy nearly a full year ago.

- The ROH WrestleMania weekend DVDs are out right now at ROHwrestling.com.

- A correction from the latest issue of the newsletter, and from many reports swirling about online, Al Barone has not, in fact, signed a deal with WWE. They are taking a look at him this week. Nobody has been hired to play Santino's bodyguard yet and a few guys are in the running.

- Ultimate Fighter was down to an 0.9 rating this week. Yikes. As noted yesterday, TNA also did a 1.0. Yup, same rating they did for Angle vs. Joe on free TV.

- Mark Coleman and Brock Lesnar will be in Vegas for this month's UFC PPV, so expect an ANGLE~!

- There will be an open training session with Wanderlei Silva at UFC Headquarters Gym in Las Vegas from 11:00 AM to noon this Monday.

- CMT -- yes, CMT -- has picked up Hulk Hogan's new wrestling series, 'Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling', which will debut this fall. They've ordered eight episodes to start.

- The Dave Meltzer show will be up later tonight for those keeping track. We've got a huge week upcoming as we'll be celebrating Cinco De Mayo with Figure Four Daily LUCHA WEEK~! We've already got Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday booked with Kurt Brown, Cubsfan and Steve Sims respectively. We're working on some big guests for the final two days but aren't yet confirmed.

- Just a quick note that I will be out of town all day Sunday and thus tonight's Wrestling Observer Live will be a replay. We'll be back next week with a brand new show and perhaps a big name guest!

- Mike Sempervive writes: With his fight against Stevie Forbes tonight, Oscar De La Hoya will top Roy Jones Jr. as the fighter with the most audio-video broadcast rights owned by HBO. Oscar will have 33 (27-5 record, 1 pending) to Jones' 32 (28-4, the last being his bout against Felix Trinidad). Other notables include Shane Mosley (23), Mayweather (22), Arturo Gatti (21), Marco Antonio Barerra (20), and Pernell Whitaker (19), Erik Morales (17), Mike Tyson (17), and Bernard Hopkins (16).

- Trish's new gig

- Irv Muchnick has seven, count 'em, SEVEN Benoit articles up today. You can read them here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

- An article on Penn and Sherk passing their drug tests in advance

- Blue Meanie with an important message

- Phil Strum has a blog here with an interview with Velvet Sky

- Another pretty good Redbelt review

- Dave Musgrave has a new blog he's doing up here, called Wrestling With Mental Health - A Psycho-Social Perspective on Professional Wrestling

- Kennedy interview, always good for comedy

- Todd Martin, our guest on Figure Four Daily Wednesday, has new articles up here and here.

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