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        Raw on Monday is from Laredo, where WWE has rarely done television from in the past, but is traditionally one of its best responding house show markets, again with a heavy Hispanic audience.  Teddy Long will be guest General Manager on both Raw and Smackdown this week.
 
        Smackdown will be billed as The Great American Bash, and air live on Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Syfy, from Corpus Christi.  There will be four more Money in the Bank qualifying matches, a Battle Royal featuring the big names like John Cena, C.M. Punk and Big Show, as well as Great Khali & Layla vs. Antonio Cesaro & Aksana.

 

        We've got an update on WrestleMania numbers and what they mean, the legacy of Fedor Emelianenko, how Silva vs. Sonnen mirrors pro wrestling interviews from 40 years ago, an update on Ring of Honor and UFC after weekend shows, details on WWE's new TV, Randy Orton, Rey Mysterio, and tons more on John Cena among the highlights of the latest issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

 

        The issue will be on the site today if you are a web site member.  We also have a new back issue on the site from 1995 which covers the legacy of Atsushi Onita, a shoot tournament featuring a number of pro wrestlers and Rickson Gracie, and how the international economy changed wrestling at that time.

 

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        The legacy of Fedor Emelianenko is looked at with his announced retirement, career highlights, where he stands among the all-time greats, his skill set, biggest wins, when the chinks in his armor were first apparent and the legacy of dead promotions in his wake.

 

        We look at the buildup of Chael Sonnen vs. Anderson Silva with the latest interviews.

 

        We also look at the good and the bad coming out of the ROH iPPV, including how much the misfires hurt the company, the problems ROH has in drawing and why, the audience reactions, the plight of Adam Cole and Michael Elgin being elevated, Kevin Steen's attempts to turn the crowd, as well as match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results on the show.

 

        We also look at UFC's weekend, including judging Guida vs. Maynard, what happened after the fight, who blew a title shot, ratings and business notes from both shows, the story behind Franklin vs. Silva and the new stars in the Brazilian market.  We've also got complete coverage of both shows.

 

        We also look at the new WWE Main Event show on Ion, including where Ion stands as far as a network, WWE's return to Japan, the returns of Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio, the trend of the television business that most affects UFC and pro wrestling and where it stands, a WWE cross promotional effort, WWE video game pre sales, what major name who has been out of wrestling for eight years is at least thinking about returning for a big match, as well as Kenn Doane talks about why his WWE career faltered and a view of Doane from the outside. 

 

        We also look at new WWE hires, John Layfield's mountain climbing, update on the WWE Network, notes on how the business from May compared with last year in a number of categories, as well as sales of this year's Mania DVD compared to last year.  We also look at a movie that will star one of the biggest stars in both pro wrestling and one of the biggest stars in MMA that will be filmed starting in a few weeks.

 

        We've also got business notes from the weekend WWE shows and highlights from all the company's house shows of the week.

 

        We also have a look at the famed Luchador Adorable Rubi, a landmark figure in the history of pro wrestling, where he came from, what American stars inspired him and his promoter, as well as his career highlights from his 70s heyday.

 

        We also have notes on how Over the Limit did on PPV and the stipulation of John Laurinaitis' employment being at stake and if it sold PPV orders.

 

         We also have a look at the ratings of all the major shows and complete details on how every segment of Raw and Impact this past week did.  We also look at how the time slot move and going live has affected TNA numbers.
 
        We also have reviews of all the major television shows.
 
Also in this week's issue:

 

--Details on the new Mistico

 

--Multiple women risk their hair in a big match this week

 

--Hall of Famer undergoes eye surgery this week

 

--TNA prelim wrestlers that have gotten interest outside the U.S.

 

--Upcoming Dragon Gate shows in the U.S. and one of its biggest events in Japan

 

--TNA stars coming to Pro Wrestling NOAH and the political significance of that move

 

--A look at NOAH's next major show

 

--Two of pro wrestling's biggest stars each announce 20th anniversary events

 

--Huge ratings for a pro wrestling world title change

 

--A look at major matches in July from New Japan Pro Wrestling including its biggest monthly show

 

--Ric Flair update including contractual stipulation

 

--Update on Scott Hall and Lex Luger

 

--Notes on Kevin Nash movie role

 

--More on TNA's lawsuit against Scott Steiner

 

--Details of Steiner's contract with TNA

 

--Steiner's twitter war with Brooke Hogan

 

--Update on TNA international

 

--More on the payoff on Styles and Dixie Carter

 

--Why it made no sense to do it when they did it

 

--Update on Destination X PPV

 

--More on the Sting being attacked angle

 

--Update on the X Division title

 

--TNA wrestler wins bikini contest

 

--Background of Taelor Hendrix and the cancer story

 

--Why Gut Check with a woman brings up different issues than with a guy

 

--Notes on the weekend TNA house shows

 

--Update on Velasquez vs. Dos Santos

 

--How many people now can get Fuel

 

--Fighter issues a challenge to opponent for stricter drug testing

 

--More on Brock Lesnar, UFC and WWE, as well as who he is most interested in fighting

 

--Fighter talks about giving up testosterone replacement therapy

 

--Lots of new UFC matches

 

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--There was an incident last night backstage at the Extreme Rising show in Philadelphia involving New Jack.  It was not unexpected as New Jack had apparently threatened Balls Mahoney.  New Jack had buried him for a long time on interviews and Mahoney called him the N word in a tape that was done within the last week and the word got back to New Jack.  The report we got was that New Jack drilled him with a punch and landed about 15 more punches.  Mahoney never fought back, was not seriously hurt although his face did lump up and never went down.  Then New Jack pulled out what was described as a machete and then security, which didn't break up the fight at first, stopped him.  Security shadowed him because there was also heat with New Jack and Homicide and people were worried about that getting out of hand, but nothing happened there.  No doubt the company will try and turn both into a work.  Mahoney's face was noticeably bruised and swollen in the ring for his match later that night.  The show did about 850 fans, or about half of the first show, which really isn't bad considering everything.  Bestia 666 and Pesadilla were said to have stolen the show.  The plan is to run the next set of shows in September in Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

 

--Perry Saturn suffered a stringer in the opening match but continued.

 

--Keiji Muto and Daichi Hashimoto have already been announced for the 1/4 New Japan show at the Tokyo Dome. 

 

--The  Silva vs. Sonnen Prime Time show airs throughout the day at different times on various Fox Sports Network affiliates.

 

--Wrestler April Hunter and former American Gladiator Jamie Kovatch (Fury) are schedule dto be in a horror movie that is filming next month in New Jersey.

 

--I'm not done with it yet, but wanted to recommend the Jim Duggan autobiography.  It's really cool because you can tell the guy is trying to be honest all the way through, whether it's friends or enemies.  Some of the stuff on Mid South Wrestling is really good, and he's pretty clean on things that most wrestlers hide or downplay.

 

--On today's Vintage Collection show, during the Fit Finlay vs. Psicosis match, there were tons of mentions during the match of Chris Benoit, who Finlay was in a program with in commentary, all edited out.  Finlay had Psicosis in a chinlock and began screaming, "Benoit, I'm coming for ya."  Not only did WWE do a sound edit, but they digitized Finlay's mouth so you couldn't lip read what he said.  The question is why they even chose that match, since they've got tons of Finlay matches they could have put in without so much awkward editing (thanks to Stephen Lyon)    

 

--If you are keeping track, with Siyar Bahadurzada injured and off the 7/21 show in Calgary, that makes nine injury replacements so far and we're still three weeks away.  Matt Riddle will now face Chris Clements, who Bahadurzada was originally to face.

 

--The movie "Magic Mike," starring Channing Tatum, is estimated at doing $39.16 million this weekend putting it No. 2 behind Ted ($54.1 million).  Tatum plays a stripper and Kevin Nash plays an aging stripper in the troupe.  Nash isn't listed as one of the major stars, but he is listed in the credits.  Nash is also in "Rock of Ages" that is estimated at doing $2.7 million for this, its third week out. (thanks to Gerald Glassford)

 

--For those coming to the web site convention, Future Stars of Wrestling is having a show on Friday night at 7:30 p.m. (head to head with our dinner) at the FSW Arena with Paul London, Michael Modest and Daivari all scheduled.  It's a TV taping and anyone from the web site can get $5 off tickets.  

 

--Regarding the injury on Friday night in Melbourne, FL to Windham Rotunda (Husky Harris, Bray Wyatt), who has a potential winner of a gimmick, the only word we have is there was injury, they will be examining it and word should be out of the extent of it early in the week, but it doesn't look like a shoulder injury.  The first word we'd heard was a possible badly separated shoulder.

 

--Stephany Lee, who was to represent the U.S. in women's wrestling in the 158 pound weight class (the same weight class as Kyoko Hamaguchi), tested positive for marijuana and has been banned from all wrestling competition for one year.  Ali Bernard, who placed 5th in the 2008 Olympics, and second to Lee in the recent trials for the U.S. team, will take her place.  This was her second positive, as she was suspended in 2009 as well. 

 

--Chael Sonnen talks about Obama at http://www.breitbart.com (thanks to Joe McMenamin)

 

Kurt Angle 63.7%

Verne Gagne 16.2%

Jumbo Tsuruta 9.3%

Danny Hodge 3.3%

Karl Gotch 2.4%

Riki Choshu 1.4%

Hiroshi Hase 1.4%

Mad Dog Vachon 1.0%

Badnews Allen 0.7%

Masa Saito 0.5%

        Oh boy.

 

Dan Henderson 74.1%

Mark Coleman 12.9%

Ronda Rousey 7.6%

Hidehiko Yoshida 2.2%

Daniel Cormier 1.8%

Ben Askren 1.1%

Matt Lindland 0.4%

 

Cheered 58.4%

Booed 41.6%

   

Excellent 15.2%

Good 44.6%

Average 28.6%

Fair 5.4%

Poor 6.3%

        43.4% of those responding didn't see the show  

 

--Mike Mooneyham has an interview with Kurt Angle at http://www.postandcourier.com/  Angle said how doing pro wrestling and training for the Olympics at the same time was too hard on a 43-year-old body.  Well, duh.  It wouldn't be recommended for a 23-year-old body.

 

--Kevin Nash on Twitter claimed that the 1,000th episode of Raw comes at the same time of a pre-planned family vacation and that family comes first.  Keep in mind that Nash often uses twitter to work angles, throw people off track, lie, however you  want to phrase not being honest, in his posts.

 

--If he was still alive, and granted, that's a big if, Ed "Stranger" Lewis would have turned 122 years old yesterday. 

 

--For those who have a hard time going through a Sunday without a PPV, you are in luck.  Yes, ShoFight from a few weeks ago is on everywhere in the U.S., inDemand, DirecTV, Dish Network with a show at 8 p.m. Eastern, the usual wrestling PPV time, for $19.95.

The card has

*Karo Parisyan vs. John Gunderson

*Kendall Grove vs. Derek Brunson

*Lyle Fancy Pants Beerbohm vs. Marcus Aurelio

*Matt Kovacs vs. Mike Wessel

*Jonatas Novaes vs. Drew Fickett

*Chris Gruetzemacher vs. Roli Delgado 

 

--Last night on Sportscenter, when talking about not allowing any spectators on the golf course due to storms that hurt the course the night before, when talking about last night's third round of the AT&T tournament, the anchor said it was golf's version of the 1981 Terry Funk vs. Jerry Lawler empty arena match. (thanks to Gary Falkenhagen)

 

--Millennium Pro Wrestling from last night in Simi Valley, CA:  Ryan Jay Morals b Sam Chowder, J.J. Steel b Brett Walters, Jimmy Mayhem b Roger Ruiz, Spectre & Hellkid & Logan X b Whiskey Fists MacIntosh & Omar Slam Duncan & Tofer Cash, Hobo b Mario Banks, Nikki the New York Knockout b Scatman Negro, Mr. Tanaka b Frankie D, Fern Owens & Head b Bar Room Saints-COR, Bo Cooper b Hector Canales.  Next show is 8/4 with Cooper vs. Hellkid for the title (thanks to Scott Walton and Dan Farren)

 

--Lucha Xtreme TV from last night taped from some time back from the Fresno Grizzlies ballpark before about 100 fans: Chupacabra b Sheik Khan Abadi, Suburban Commandos b Mike Rayne & Wise Guy, Bobby Hart b Val Venis (who worked in street clothes), Manny Fernandez & Homicide b Brian Tannen & J.R. Kratos. They announced Chavo Guerrero for next week's TV show. (thanks to Jon Southerland)

 

--Pro Wrestling Evo from last night in Concord, NC before 100 fans:  Chiva Kid b Joe Black, John Skyler b Adam Page, Robyn Golphin b Derek Ryze, K.C. McKnight d Marcellus King, Fun Athletic Guys b Corey Hollis & Chip Day, Zack Salvation NC Cedric Alexander (thanks to Jer Polk)

 

--NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling from last night in Kingsport, TN:  Alex Winters won 2 ring Battle Royal, Josh Cody & Alex Pain b O-Dog & Michael Starr, Lance Erikson b Ricky Morton, Jason Kincaid d Menace in 2/3 falls (double pin after splitting falls), Chase Owens b Skylar Kruze, Kyle Matthews and Sigmon, Josh Crawford & Johnny Knievel & Jeff Connelly & Keith Knox & Travis Dykes b Robbie Cassidy & Chris Richards & Tony Givens & Derek Billings & Bryan Kyle in a two ring cage of death match.  The next show is 8/4 featuring Kevin Douglas defending the NWA jr. title against Chase Owens.

 

--Ring Wars Carolinas from last night in Fayetteville:  Unknowns b Real Steel, Mark Blade b Majd, Kris Nemesis b Krazy Horse, Hangtyme b Shooting Star, Majd & Kris Nemesis & Hangtyme b Mark Blade & Shooting Star & Krazy Horse, Mia Svensson b Sopheara Black, Caprice Coleman b Zema Ion-DQ (thanks to Matthew McCoy).  Next show is 7/14 in Lumberton, NC at the Flea market.

 

--Platinum Championship Wrestling on 7/4 outdoors as part of the Porterdale, GA July 4th celebration featuring a War Games match.

 

--NWA Anarchy from last night in Cornelia, GA before 120 fans in temperatures in excess of 100 degrees in the building:  Joey Rhymer & Todd Sexton b Brandon Parker & Vandal, Anthony Henry b Adrian Hawkins, Jacob Ashworth & Skirra Corvus b C.B. Gibson & Tommy Daniels in a tornado match, Seth Delay over Mike Posey, Johnny Dangerous and Adrian Hawkins, Billy Buck b Bobby Moore in a bunkhouse match, Seven & Shaun Tempers & Bo Newsome & Jacoby Boykins & Jagged Edge & John Johnson b Mikal Judas & Dany Only & Stryknyn & Azreal & Slim J & Nemesis in an elimination match for control of the promotion. (thanks to Larry Goodman)