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Hogan as a face And the Shiek as a heel. Check out his "I Like To Hurt People" movie.

Umm, nope. Blabbermouth is hosted by Roadrunner. Spitfire will release the new album. Read the links.

Haven't you heard, they are back together and playing shows. They just finished touring Europe and a new album is rumored: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermo...ewsitemID=37277 http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermo...ewsitemID=37314

Yeah, cause only hundreds and hundreds of other guys can make the same claim.

www.savetoby.com

She's just a bitter ex porn star. At 35 she thought she'd have a career. Minor league wrestling valet and b movie actress I doubt this is what she had in mind. How is she looking these days? Old and used up?

Your mom.

Unless of course, Vince IS the father.

I guess he didn't noticed that nobody did watch before they walked out and that's why ESPN dropped them. I remember reading that the XFL had a higher rating than the NHL playoffs. Oh well, our minor league team is more fun and affordable to watch than the Blackhawks.

In 1979, Vince McMahon founded Titan Sports, Inc., and in 1982 purchased the WWF from his father, Vincent J. McMahon. Off the back of the success of the Attitude era, on October 19, 1999 the WWF's parent company - Titan Sports, Inc., became a publicly traded company. To boost recognition, the company changed its name to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (though its wrestling company was still known as the WWF).

If you like wrestling for wrestling you'll love house shows. If you like wrestling for the soap oprea angles, you won't. I've been to good and bad though.

"John Cena & Tha Trademarc's "You Can't See Me" (Sony) opens at No. 15 with sales of 43,000, marking the first chart appearance for the hip-hop act and professional wrestling champion." http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_...t_id=1000926813

For those keeping score, it dropped out of the top 100 in it's 3rd week.

http://www.chicagowrestling.com/iwahighlaind5-1-05.htm An announcement was made to the IWA-MS fans at the end of intermission on Friday night in Valparaiso concerning the Lincoln Center in Highland, IN making the decision to no longer host IWA-MS live events. We attempted to convince Lincoln Center management to allow us to run one last show at the building on 5/28 and they refused. Their decision was due to fans drinking alcohol in the parking lot during the shows. Alcohol containers were found in the parking lot the day after the last show... and parents bring their children to the facility for activities on Sundays. Management of the building told us that the "atmosphere" we bring with us is not something they wish to deal with any longer. We will, from this point forward, be enforcing a strict policy concerning alcohol that any fans bring into the vicinity of any of the venues in which we run. It will NOT be tolerated, and if any fans are caught with alcohol in the future at any IWA-MS events, those fans will be permanently banned from attending our events. We cannot, and will not tolerate it. It has already cost us our most financially successful venue. If you are a fan of our product, respect the guidelines we and the venues we promote our shows at have set... and wait until after the show if you want to drink. We are set to return to Valparaiso on Friday, 5/27. The "No Blood, No Guts, No Glory 2005" event featuring the double ring, double cage War Games match was scheduled to take place at the Lincoln Center on 5/28. We've contacted all of the venues which we currently promote shows at within the general Highland/Chicago area, and none of them have 5/28 available. We are exploring other options, and several locations within a 20 or so mile radius of Highland, to try to hold the show on the same date, just at a new location. If we are unable to confirm a new location for 5/28, the alternate date we're looking at is the originally scheduled June Highland date, 6/18. We've booked the Hammond Armory for that date, regardless. As soon as it is determined when and where NBNGNG '05 will take place, an announcement will be made on the web site. Fans who have tickets to the show that wind up unable to attend either at the new location or on a potentially rescheduled date will be able to obtain refunds. We thank the fans for their patience, and we will keep everyone informed about the NBNGNG '05 event as soon as arrangements are made with a new venue

The only tickets gone are the $100 ones.

Correction....... It went to #47. I assumed it dropped and didn't bother to look at the Top 50.

It's called free publicity. Ain't Americia great.

Great show and a great final last night indeed. Too bad NBC cancelled it last week. RIP Najai "Nitro" Turpin.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Where on Wall Street can you get dropkicked, clotheslined and paid a dividend which yields more than most Treasury bonds? Why, with shares of World Wrestling Entertainment, of course. Strange as it may sound, the company that banks on large men wearing spandex, and being covered with body oil, may be a safe investment in these tumultuous times in the market. WWE (Research) has practically no debt, a big pile of cash, a stranglehold on a niche market and an annual dividend yield of about 4.5 percent. "It's a conservative investment, despite the flamboyant nature of the business," said Robert Routh, an analyst with Jefferies & Co. Despite some worries that's the business is a fad, he added, "Pro-wrestling isn't going anywhere." With all that, though, the stock's gotten body slammed in recent years. At around $10.50, the stock is down some 60 percent from when the company, then known as the WWF, went public in 1999. (Its IPO was the same day as that of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. How's that for a study in contrasts?) Moreover, Wall Street doesn't have high hopes for WWE for the fiscal year ending April 2006. Analysts, on average, have slashed their earnings estimates 28 percent over the past three months, from 61 cents a share for the year to 44 cents. So is WWE down for the count or can the company come back and put a leg lock on bearish investors? Spiked! Why the sudden cut in forecasts? Look no further than the company's flagship show "Raw." WWE said last month that the show will return this October to the USA cable network, where it was much more popular than it's been since moving to Spike TV in September 2000. But the new deal with USA is less favorable for WWE. The cable network will keep all TV advertising revenue for "Raw," whereas at Spike, WWE retained all ad rights. To reflect the expected drop in ad revenue, analysts slashed their profit forecasts. Dennis McAlpine, an independent media and entertainment analyst, estimates WWE generated about $37 million in ad sales from Spike during the fiscal year ended last month, about 10 percent of total revenues. And McAlpine said about $13 million of that total flowed to the bottom line, profits equal to 18 cents a share. Analysts said increased exposure on USA could make up for the loss, since more viewers should lead to more attendance at live events, more pay-per-view customers and more merchandise sales. Pay-per-view (PPV) events, in particular, are a big sales generator for WWE but revenues have been sluggish from this part of the business. What the WWE really needs is a big new star to reel in viewers and spark a trickle-down effect. "The Rock did tremendous things for the company because he brought in people who didn't even like wrestling, much like Hulk Hogan before him," said McAlpine. "When WWE gets its star, the stock will start to rise again. And they've never had a problem finding a star." Fighting form While the company tries to find the next "Rowdy" Roddy Piper or Andre the Giant to boost network ratings and PPV sales, it's turning to video-on-demand in a bid to smooth revenue peaks and valleys. And with about 75,000 hours of wrestling footage on tape, WWE is hopeful there's a hungry audience nostalgic to pay to see Jesse "the Body" Ventura chicken-winging Tony Atlas. If the company successfully creates steadier viewer interest, some say WWE could even create enough demand for its own cable channel. In the meantime, WWE's thriving international business could fill the gap before video-on-demand takes off, a process that analysts say could take about 18 months to bear fruit. Live events are selling out in international markets, especially in Europe and Australia; fans abroad are spending about twice as much on merchandise at matches as their American counterparts. And Jefferies' Routh thinks there's more room to grow overseas. "If anything, you could say they're expanding pretty slowly into international markets," said Routh. "They're financially a very conservative company. But now they're ready to dive in overseas." But skyrocketing international business won't boost profits forever. At some point, attendance is likely to drop off as pro wrestling becomes less exotic and the markets become saturated with merchandise. Champs or chumps? Even though WWE wrestlers take high-stakes chances, the stock seems a conservative buy for longer-term investors. James Clement, an analyst with Sidoti & Co., said he's a bit more skeptical than other analysts about how successful the company's video-on-demand pitch will be. But even he said the healthy dividend helped mitigate some of the stock's risk as investors get paid to wait for a profit turnaround. Still, the stock seems pricey. It trades at a relatively high P/E ratio of 24 times WWE's estimated earnings for fiscal 2006. But if you take out the company's pile of cash, the P/E falls to about 15.4, a shade below the 15.7 the S&P 500 is trading at, using 2006 estimates. Analysts said this is more than reasonable given that the company pretty much has a monopoly. "It would be too capital intensive for anyone to recreate what WWE has," said Routh. With all this in mind, investors shouldn't wrestle too much with a decision about whether to buy the stock: WWE looks like a champ

The stock market folder seems to be missing.

Enigneering and design of precast concrete products.

Outback Jack

They did do a program with the Midnight Rockers as heels, but it was in the Memphis/CWA area after the first short run in the WWF for the Rockers.

It's being bumped in many areas for MLB games?

You mean you think he was never in the NWA right? Well: "In 1980, Martel came to the NWA Pacific-Northwest, and immediately became one of their main stars. On March 22nd, 1980, he beat Buddy Rose to become the Heavyweight Champion. A few days later, Martel, teamed with "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, won the Tag Team Titles as well, beating the Kiwi Sheepherders. He held the two titles together until May, when they lost the tag team titles back to the Kiwi Sheepherders. In August 1980, when the Sheepherders left the NWA P.NW, Martel and Piper again were the Tag-Team champs. But, on August 16th, 1980, Martel lost a "Loser Leaves Town" match with Buddy Rose, forcing him to lose both the Tag-Team title (which Piper found a new partner for) and the Championship title. Martel then went to the WWF. "