MISC UPDATE ON JERICHO, FAREWELL ECW RATING, RAW ON MAY 10

Chris Jericho noted on Twitter yesterday that he was headed to the dentist for a root canal, a pretty painful operation just days before the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view.

Chris Jericho will be co-host of the upcoming metal music Revolver Golden Gods Awards for MTV 2. The show will be taped on April 8th at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA.

The final episode of ECW on SyFy this week scored a 1.14 rating with 1,445,000 viewers.

WWE Monday Night Raw on May 10th, 2010 will be held at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  

NEW FASHION DESIGNER FOR MICKIE

WWE announced on its website that Women’s Champion Mickie James has hired fashion designer Natasha Rawls of NaJo Creations to design her clothes for Mickie’s country concert debut on February 22nd in Nashville. NaJo will also design Mickie’s attire for the 2010 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.

No MITB on WM??

As noted earlier this week, qualifying matches for Money in the Bank at this year’s WrestleMania were scheduled to begin on this coming Monday’s RAW. With the news from yesterday that WWE is planning a Money in the Bank pay-per-view for later this year, it’s highly unlikely that the match will take place at this year’s WrestleMania but that’s still not confirmed.

MORRISON SPEAKS ON MENTOR MIZ

On his new DVD: “The usual Superstars DVD release is a 3-disc career retrospective and they wanted to try a new format. It’s a one-disc engaging thing that someone can watch all in one sitting. I think they decided to have me be the experiment/prototype for it to see how the format would do. To see if it could be interesting or if it’s going to sell. I think that was the thought behind it.”
On ECW ending: “I think it’s the end of an era. But the ECW that people fell in love with in the late ’90s has been gone for a while already. What I think ECW presented was a big opportunity for a lot of WWE superstars. Definitely me. It revitalized my entire career when I moved to ECW. I became the ECW champion, and it’s when I started tagging with The Miz. CM Punk debuted on ECW. That’s where he started also. So I think it’s going to be sad to see it go. But the show that’s replacing it, the NXT show – I think hopefully it’s going to do the same thing for a lot of people. It’s going to give a lot of people an opportunity. I can’t remember everyone on there, but I know that Bryan Danielson is on there. He’s going to be one of the new guys on the show. So I hope it will give people the chance to make it big in WWE just like ECW did.”
On The Miz mentoring Daniel Bryan: “Yeah, when I saw that, I was at the ECW taping, and I actually saw Miz. He didn’t know either until he saw the graphic on the screen. That he was the “Pro” and Bryan Danielson was the student. I walked by and said, “Pssh, he knows more than you do.” And that’s pretty much what everyone thinks. It’s gonna be interesting and I think that’s the point of it.”

3 NEW PPV FROM WWE

WWE has added three new theme pay-per-views to their schedule this year in WWE Wild Card, Fatal Four Way and Money In The Bank. The following are the dates and names of the shows that were advertised on the WWE website earlier today.

* 03-28: WrestleMania XXVI
* 04-25: Extreme Rules
* 05-23: WWE Wild Card
* 06-20: Fatal Four Way
* 07-18: Money In The Bank
* 08-15: SummerSlam
* 09-19: Night of Champions
* 10-03: Hell in a Cell

NEW RECORD FOR CAPTAIN CHARISMA

Christian’s ECW Title defense on this week’s final episode of ECW was his 65th defense of the belt, the most in the history of ECW, dating back to the beginning. Taz defended his ECW Title 61 times in an eight-month reign back in 199

MIZ ON MENTORING BRYAN DANIELSON

No pairing of WWE NXT Pros and Rookies has garnered more scrutiny than Daniel Bryan and his allocated mentor, The Miz. In a blog post on the WWE Universe website, the United States Champion responds to those online saying he's not fit to teach a wrestler of Bryan's caliber.

In its entirety, here is what The Miz wrote:

Mentoring Daniel Bryan on WWE NXT

There has been a lot of controversy this week about me mentoring Daniel Bryan on WWE's new show, WWE NXT.

I've read a lot of interviews, blogs, ect. about the matter and they all seem to be asking the same thing. "Why is The Miz mentoring Daniel Bryan when Daniel Bryan has wrestled all over the world for 10 years plus?"

It's come to my knowledge that some members of the WWE Universe think they know everything about WWE and what it takes to be a WWE Superstar. They think that if a guy does well in the independent minor leagues, then all of a sudden he should be in the WWE.

They think that if a guy can main event in front of a hundred people at a bingo hall, then he's ready to main event at WrestleMania. Just because fans on the Internet say you’re ready doesn't mean you really are.

Just because a fat guy with no teeth who sits in the front row, buys your T-shirt and says you're the king of wrestling, doesn't mean you really are.

What the WWE Universe doesn't understand is there is so much more then I can describe in a single blog involved in being successful in the WWE.

My job is to make Daniel Bryan a star in the WWE, because let's face it, if you look at a picture of him right now, do you think STAR?

No, Daniel Bryan looks like my accountant ... ordinary and bland.

Maybe if he had The Miz's charisma and look, he would have been in the WWE by now. Don't hate on me because it didn't take me a decade to get a WWE contract and go down in WWE history to be the first Superstar to win the United States Title and Unified Tag Team Titles.

Don't get me wrong, Daniel Bryan has all the talent in the world, but every wrestler has weaknesses. And that's what my job is, to find his weakness and make him the biggest star possible.

I just hope Daniel Bryan doesn't believe himself what these ignorant members of the WWE Universe believe about him, or WWE NXT is going to be a nightmare for him.