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Well ECW will get Sydal, Lagana is the guy really pushing for him to be signed, ECW may end up actually being a realy really good workrate show at some point.

PWI news.... -King Booker is expected to sign a new 3-Year deal with World Wrestling Entertainment, keeping him employed in to 2010. It was uncertain for awhile if he would resign, as he was upset about being moved from the Smackdown brand and not getting the new developmental territory. But it is now expected he'll be re-signing. -From numerous sources, it seems inevitable now that Matt Sydal will be signing with WWE under a developmental deal. Word has begun making its way around the indies that he'll be on his way out very soon. -Stevie Richard's recent push is a direct result of him getting numerous great reviews from producers based on his house show matches as of late. He is regarded as one of the best sellers in the entire company by Vince McMahon in particular. -By October or November Big Daddy V will be moved to Smackdown to have feuds with top stars such as Batista and Rey Mysterio. He'll continue being built up as he is now as a total beast. This is more or less a mirror image of what they did with Snitsky before shipping him back to Raw.

I don't care if they hire models I just think they should understand a person who's never been in the business before shouldn't be treated like someone who has experience in it. Speaking of models the Diva search has arrived... 2007 WWE Diva Search kicks off Written: August 16, 2007LOS ANGELES – Welcome to WWE.com, the official home for the 2007 WWE Diva Search! Even as you read this, WWE is setting up shop in sunny California to conduct its 2007 Diva Search casting. Right now, we’re meeting and greeting 50 of the hottest women in North America – several of whom applied via WWE.com. Later tonight, from those 50, we’ll announce the eight women who will serve as this year’s Diva Search contestants. Be among the first to see who they are! This year’s Diva Search will take the digital world by storm as it plays itself out almost entirely on WWE.com. You’ll experience competitions, never-before-available inside peeks at the contestants, sexy photo galleries (LOTS of sexy photo galleries), high impact videos, fan feedback, informative stories and so much more. In fact, we’ll offer our fans new, unique content just about every day until a winner is announced at WWE’s pay-per-view extravaganza Cyber Sunday on Oct. 28. Who decides this year’s winner? That’s the best part – YOU do. The fate of eight gorgeous women resides in your hands. Your votes and your votes alone will dictate who will become the next WWE Diva. Everything gets underway on Tuesday, Aug. 21. That day, we’ll give you an overview of the final eight contestants and plenty of other goodies so our fans can start picking – and clicking – their favorites. Mark your calendars – the first Diva Search competition goes live on WWE.com on Sept. 3 and voting opens Sept. 10. Our fans will be able to vote for their favorite contestant once a day per registered e-mail address. Vote immediately on WWE.com or use your mobile phone to log your choice. Each week, live on Raw (9/8 CT on USA Network), the contestant with the lowest vote total for the week will be eliminated from the competition. Once the announcement is made, voting for the next week will begin immediately on WWE.com. The new competition with the remaining contestants gets posted the next day. Things are heating up fast, so stay tuned to WWE.com – the official home for the 2007 WWE Diva Search! Don’t miss one hot second. WWE.com is the official home of the 2007 WWE Diva Seach. Sounds like it's not going to be on TV as much as years past.... Breaking News: 2007 WWE Diva Search contestants announced! This year’s eight finalists are: Taryn Terrell - Mandeville, LA; Naomi Kirk - Los Angeles, CA; Brooke Gilbertsen - San Diego, CA; Lena Yada - Los Angeles, CA; Eve Torres - Los Angeles, CA; Jessica Hatch - Houston, TX; J. Kim - Catawba, NC; and Lyndy Frieson - Vancouver, BC. For pics go to this.....http://www.wwe.com/divasearch/photos/ Ok this is now what I've learned by actually looking at the women.....I think Eve Torres is the best looking one, that's just my opinion though. And in useful news to everyone here if you type Taryn Terrell's name into Google she has some nudes, she's shockingly the only one.

She's still not "that" fat.......any regular guy wouldn't consider her fat in that state, she was skeletal in the before pic. Hell I don't think she's fat.

They should obviously hire Tina.

You all remember Amy Zidian right........she looked like this.... Now she looks like this..... If you wanna see more just go here.....http://www.imagestation.com/album/index.html?id=2088560715 She obviously a little bigger now, I wouldn't consider her fat but it looks like she gained 10 lbs of head weight its very weird. I'd also like to point out the guy in the Mario brothers shirt....nothing tops that.

Latest in the Benoit case is that Manny Arora, the attorney for both Dr. Phil Astin and Pacman Jones (hell of a gig these days) has asked a judge to throw out evidence seized in Astin's office the first time it was searched. He's claiming that besides Benoit's files, they seized three years' worth of bank records, two computers, and the files of six other patients. He actually asked for all evidence seized that day to be thrown out, and at the very least anything not directly relating to Benoit. He claims the "search was done without probable cause" and "grossly exceeded the scope of evidence sought and authorized to be seized." Astin is aware that a superseding indictment with new charges is coming. "They haven't indicated anything to me as far as what the additional charges would be, but I would imagine it would be more of the same. I can't predict what it is they plan to do, but I can't imagine there would be any evidentiary basis to try to blame Dr. Astin for the murder-suicide," he said. Astin's office was also raided on June 29th and July 9th, plus his mom's house was raided on the 29th and a storage facility he rented was raided on July 6th. At this point, Arora is only asking for evidence seized in the first raid, on the 27th, to be tossed. WWE released Sylvan Grenier and Tomasso Whitney this week. Tomasso was a developmental guy working in OVW. Grenier was the latest victim of the "get a new push and immediately get fired syndrome". Well, it wasn't really a push, but he did return to Smackdown on Friday night and had a way more competitive match with Kane than I would have figured. He was the last remnant of La Resistance still employed, which was quite the irony since for a long time he was the least talented of the three. There had been talk of reuniting them for some time, and in fact Rob Conway had just received his new gear in the mail when he was told he was fired, the excuse being that creative didn't have anything for him. Oops. Rene Dupre was also fired recently after being sent to rehab for at least the second time. Grenier, who was discovered by Pat Patterson back when he was doing modeling, debuted with the company in the early 00s doing the heel ref gimmick, then ended up bulking up and wrestling. He was horrible for a long, long time, but eventually improved to the point where he was a passable singles wrestler. Recently, he'd been working singles matches on the road with Maryse as his manager. Never heard anything about the act having any sort of spark, which is saying something since she's ungodly hot. The loss of Dupre may have been the straw that broke the camel's back. Shantelle Taylor was also released this week. She'd been working the Florida territory. They told her they had no ideas for her. She was a pretty girl, though she didn't have the usual WWE fake Barbie doll look. For awhile, they were putting her under a mask and having her work matches as a male luchador. That's actually a really interesting gimmick and I have no idea why they didn't at least give it a try on Smackdown. I think a mask vs. mask match down the road where she unmasked as a woman would have been a really cool moment, but that's all out the window now unless they have someone else they want to try it with. Tank Toland is no longer teaching the beginning class at OVW, having been replaced by Joey Matthews, formerly Joey Mercury. Matthews was fired from WWE earlier this year when he showed up in catering in no condition to perform, shortly after having served a stint in rehab Lacey Adkisson, 21, a very pretty model and the daughter of Kerry Von Erich, was signed this week. She's already been sent to Florida Championship Wrestling. They also pushed back the release of the World Class DVD to October (it was scheduled out this month), so either they want to do a tie-in with her on TV prior to the release or they want to get some additional footage/interviews with her to insert. I hope all goes well because I'm leery of any further Von Erichs getting into this business. I'm actually leery of any daughters or females in general getting into this business, but there's not much that can be done about that A BBC film crew visited OVW and DCW this week, both to look at the Derby City developmental developmental concept, and also because there are a ton of British guys working in OVW. Speaking of Derby City, after Aaron Stevens was released from his WWE contract, he went to Rip Rogers and asked if he could join his intermediate class and work on Derby City TV. In other Derby City news, WWE has been watching the tapes and were impressed enough with announcer Timmy Baltimore that they invited him to Smackdown Tuesday night for a tryout as a backstage interviewer. No word at press time on how it went. Lashley's surgery was a success last Tuesday. He'll be out three to five months. He had been suffering from a shoulder injury since around March of this year, but was told he could probably gut it out for awhile. He injured it again during a house show match two weeks back. They didn't know the extent of the damage but feared the worse, so on Raw the following Monday they did the angle where Kennedy kicked his shoulder into the steel steps, destroyed it throughout the match, and then got the clean pin. The fear was that Lashley had a torn rotator cuff and would be out until 2008, and thus the clean pin was a way to try to further strap the rocket to Kennedy's ass. Lashley had surgery two days later. The good news was that it was not a torn rotator cuff. The bad news was that there was severe damage, more than an arthroscopic scope could fix. So he'll be on the shelf probably until late 2007/early 2008. There is talk of Iron Sheik guest hosting a show on Howard Stern's Sirius channel every six weeks or so. In what they are claiming is a cost-cutting measure, which is hilarious if you take a look at the latest financials, WWE is apparently no longer going to be putting name plates on the championship belts. They're even taking it off the big gold belt that Ric Flair used to wear, which is a tragedy. credit:F4W Newsletter

The Hulkster's Bling Burgled! TMZ has learned that Hulk Hogan's Miami Beach home was robbed of $100,000 worth of jewelry just last night. Damn! The Hulkster and his family were in the process of moving out of their home, when the jewelry was reportedly taken from right under their nose. Some of the pricey gems that have gone missing include a diamond-encrusted watch and two gold chains. Sources close to the Hogans tell TMZ that the family was in the middle of moving to a new Hulk-palace when they discovered that the jewelry was gone. Someone took down the Hulkster...

You should be here Boras is essentially distancing himself from his player (Mike Moustakas) by making all sorts of comments such as "it was his decision". He has stopped just short of calling the kid a moron for signing a contract he didn't like, Boras had demanded 7 mill guaranteed the kid signed for 4. I wonder how long he will remain the agent for this guy.... The Os didn't get Wieters signed til like 11:45 or so and he got $6 million signing bonus (largest ever) and he was only the 5th pick..and guess who his agent is.. And we wonder why the Os have often avoided drafting players who had Boras as their agent. I dont care who the guy projects out to be, he hasn't played one professional game yet and they just hand him $6 million.. I almost expect them to deal Ramon Hernandez and have Wieters starting at catcher Opening Day next season at this point.. The deal Moustakas accepted with the Royals had been the same one on the table for the last 3 months, 10 minutes before the deadline Boras called and said it was accepted. He apparently is not happy that Moustakas took the deal....

You should be here Boras is essentially distancing himself from his player (Mike Moustakas) by making all sorts of comments such as "it was his decision". He has stopped just short of calling the kid a moron for signing a contract he didn't like, Boras had demanded 7 mill guaranteed the kid signed for 4. I wonder how long he will remain the agent for this guy....

Seeing as Booker is running his own promotion now maybe he's decided he wants to do more behind the scenes in general.

She only gets away with speaking that way because she's good looking...

Today's Atlanta Journal Constitution has a story today covering a battle in the division of the family's assets in the Benoit family tragedy. According to the story, since she didn't have a will, if Nancy Benoit died first her assets will go to Daniel's estate. Then, Daniel's assets would go to his half brother and sister in Canada, Chris Benoit's children from his first marriage, since they are his closest surviving relatives. If Daniel Benoit died first, the assets will go to Nancy Benoit's family. The story states that both Chris and Nancy's parents have hired lawyers to plead their respective cases and determine the order of the killings. The first court date is scheduled for later this month. The story also states that "Georgia law stipulates that Chris Benoit is legally considered to have died first in the house. The intent of the 'Slayer's Statute' is to make sure neither the killer nor his heirs profit from their crimes." Ironically, if it is determined that Nancy died first, that is exactly what could end up happening. It's possible that the medical examiner, Dr. Michael Heninger, may not be able to definitively determine the order of the deaths. In that case, I would guess that the assets would be split between the sides, but that is just a guess. pwinsider If Nancy's parents really fight that going to the 2 other children I find that pretty fucked up....

http://www.myspace.com/shantelletaylor First off, I would like to thank all my fans for the loving support. Without you I would not be able to do what I love and that's to wrestle. My experience with WWE is something that can never be replaced. It gave me the opportunity to get a taste of what it's like to live your dream, None of you should be worried about me though! I have lots of goals and aspirations. I'm a fighter!! This is fuel for me, I'm going to use this negative and turn it into a positive. I'm 21 years old and I have my whole life ahead of me. I will defiantly not be sitting around waiting for something to happen. I am doing everything in my power since my release to make many opportunities available. All I ask is for you all to keep an eye on my myspace and my website which will be completely renovated very shortly because I have a lot of great things coming up. You guys are the best and I can not thank you enough for watching and backing me every step of the way. You Rock! Love, Shantelle

Until he eventually shows up in the WWE right? He'll be "Stylish" Allen Jones by then, with a gay gimmick. He hates the gays remember?

I didn't like him much without the mask, Mysterio has always been a favorite of mine so it's hard for me to hate on the guy. I liked him immediately after he lost the mask, when he worked with Billy Kidman against Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn, and Raven. I also liked him towards the very end of WCW when the Cruiserweight Tag Team titles were introduced. I think sometimes people forget how good of a worker he is and take it for granted so then they act like he's not that good or find some reason to rip on him.

Until he eventually shows up in the WWE right?

I didn't like him much without the mask, Mysterio has always been a favorite of mine so it's hard for me to hate on the guy.

I don't think that has ever happened, and I would so like to see this board so I could soak up the stupidity. This was awhile ago, if it happens again I'll show it to you, there's been a lot of smark hate for Mysterio for awhile. I mean there's a lot to hate about a guy who was a world class worker had numerous knee injuries and is still a good enough worker to have excellent matches when he can't do 75% of the things he use to. I think the fact that Mysterio can still have good matches speaks to how good of a worker the guy really is.

It's not just him, it's Mark Henry, it's Khali........it's seriously like on smarky boards it's cool to like guys who suck balls and act like someone who likes a good worker is stupid. I had a guy who was saying Khali ruled tell me Mysterio sucked.

After this show every other board I read will be going on and on about the greatness of Big Daddy V....I don't get it. Is it the new cool to like guys who suck?

The WWE is into pushing these big monster types no, regardless Snitsky V all of them...

The WWE cares more about putting over a guy with big titties than building up the guy facing Morrison for the title.

I like how CM Punk has never appeared on WWE tv in regular clothes, he dresses in his gear just to speak.

New Gm.......LOL