Monday, January 25, 2010

Update on Eric EsCober, Katie Lee

Eric Escobar’s WWE release didn’t come as a surprise to most within the company last week. Escobar had a reputation for being a “major headcase” during his time with WWE developmental in Florida. A lot of people were even surprised he got called up to the main roster.

Katie Lea Burchill is now an official member of the RAW roster after competing in a Divas Title tournament match last week. While her profile has been added to the RAW roster, Paul Burchill’s still hasn’t. Paul has been working RAW live events over the past few weeks

Big show's film pushed back due to Cena

Big Show's Knucklehead was tentatively scheduled for the theatrical release date of Friday, April 23, 2010, but is now been pushed back to the fall in favor of the John Cena drama film Brother's Keeper.

Filming for Brother's Keeper wrapped us just last week in New Orleans while Knucklehead finished in November. Current plans call for Brother's Keeper to be released theatrically this summer, thus pushing Big Show's comedy movie to the fall.

WWE Studios recently reached an agreement with Samuel Goldwyn Films to oversee it's theatrical releases, and Vivendi Entertainment to handle the home video releases. As part of the agreement, World Wrestling Entertainment has agreed to produce nine movies through 2012.

Future releases include Big Red starring Randy Orton, a thriller written for Batista, and the comedy Midnight Run with John Cena.

News on tonights Raw

 Tonight’s RAW will take place from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. No matches have been announced for tonight’s Royal Rumble go-home show but the special guests will be Dule Hill & James Roday from USA Network’s Psych. Sheamus vs. John Cena is being advertised locally.

Kelly Kelly talks about her ex-boyfriend

WWE Diva Kelly Kelly spoke to the UK's Daily Star this week about the untimely death of her ex-boyfriend, former WWE & TNA star Andrew "Test" Martin.

"Not a day goes by when I don’t think about Andrew. ... He was a big part of my life, we were together for two-and-a-half years. When I first started, Andrew looked after me. We were there together, we had some good times and some hard times – he wanted more than anything to be healthy,"

Andrew Martin, who Kelly calls the "love of her life," died back in March 2009 prescription pill overdose after a long battle with addiction.

Kelly is dedicating the remainder of her wrestling career to Andrew MArtin and vows to become a respected in-ring worker. She explains that even though women wrestlers aren't having "25 minute matches" like the men, the Divas are still on the road upto 300 days a year and live the same hectic lifestyle.

“We’re on the road for the same amount of time as the guys, I know we don’t have to wrestle 25-minute matches like the guys but we travel 200 to 300 miles a night exactly the same as them. But this is my life – I've been doing it since I was 18 so by now I’m used to it! I’m young and I have no plans to settle down!"

HBK talks on his DVD , Retirement and Probable Disbandation of DX

It would appear that the latest D-Generation X run is coming to an end as Shawn Michaels said during an interview with the KISS-FM radio station out of San Antonio this past week that DX will "probably disband" following the Royal Rumble so they can focus on their respective matches at WrestleMania.

When asked if he had any plans on retiring, Michaels said: "Well, that's always the million dollar question. I'd like to go on record as saying I have been trying to retire for the last three years... [WWE] makes it very difficult, you know, Vince McMahon is nuts. I try to walk away then WrestleMania comes up, they put me in a match, I do well, and [Vince] doesn't make it very easy."

Also it would appear that he had zero input in selecting matches for WWE's upcoming DVD release on him, Shawn Michaels: My Journey. He responded with the following: "They found my 25 greatest matches?"

It had been rumored that Michaels would handpick his favorite twenty-five matches of his career for the DVD release