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WWE Releases Longtime Veteran

We are able to confirm WWE has released longtime referee Jack Doan from his contract with the company. Doan began his WWE career as a WWE truck driver in October 1991. Details surrounding his release are not currently available. [...]

March 23, 2013 WWE News
The Beautiful People

Velvet Sky Credits Lita For Inspiring Her Career

TNA Knockouts Champion Velvet Sky was on Charlotte Today on Friday to promote the TNA Wrestling live event in Concord, North Carolina (show results). She credited Lita for inspiring her career. You can watch the appearance embedded in the video [...]

March 23, 2013 TNA News
WWE Saturday Morning Slam

WWE Saturday Morning Slam Watch Party – Drink Coffee & Talk Wrestling

WWE Saturday Morning Slam Watch Party Saturday, March 23, 2013 Results by Richard Gray of WrestlingNewsWorld.com The WWE Saturday Morning Slam open airs as we go to crowd shots. This week new SMS General Manager Mick Foley has made a [...]

March 23, 2013 WWE News, WWE Results
Aces and Eights

TNA Live Event Results (3/22/13) – Concord, North Carolina

Below are quick results from Friday’s TNA Wrestling live event in Concord, North Carolina: * TNA X Division Champion Kenny King b. Zema Ion in a non-title match * TNA Knockout Women’s Champion Velvet Sky b. Gail Kim * Wes [...]

March 23, 2013 TNA House Shows
Paul Bearer

Paul Bearer’s Cause Of Death Revealed

TMZ is reporting it was a heart attack that killed Paul Bearer on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Citing Bearer’s son Michael, TMZ reveals Paul’s death certificate lists the cause of the heart attack as supraventricular tachycardia or SVT — a [...]

March 23, 2013 WWE News
Richard's Backstage Blog

WWE Hall Of Famer To Be Involved In Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar At Wrestlemania 29?, Latest News Regarding The Match Outcome

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March 22, 2013 Backstage News
Aces and Eights

This Week’s Impact Wrestling Rating & Viewership

This week’s episode of Impact Wrestling did a 1.07 cable rating with an average viewing audience of 1,387,000 viewers on Spike TV. TNA Ratings Archive [...]

March 22, 2013 TNA News
Kofi Kingston

Kofi Kingston Puts Over CM Punk, 5 ROH Wrestlers WWE Needs, Why Fandango Needs To Beat Chris Jericho

- Kofi Kingston did a new interview with Digital Spy where he said CM Punk is one of the best of all time. You can watch it at this link. - Have you checked out our all new sister site [...]

March 22, 2013 WWE News
Kane

Kane Remembers Paul Bearer, Comments On Daniel Bryan, Wearing A Mask

The Flagship out of Norfolk, Virginia has a new Q&A online with Kane. Below is an excerpt: The Flagship: With the unfortunate passing of Paul Bearer, would you like to share how he impacted your career? Kane: He was an [...]

March 22, 2013 WWE News
Chavo Guerrero/John Cena

Chavo Guerrero Takes A Shot At John Cena

FOX News Latino has a new interview online with Chavo Guerrero. In it, he takes a jab at John Cena. Below is an excerpt: FNL: You’re 40 years old now. How long are you going to keep going? Guerrero: In [...]

March 22, 2013 TNA News, WWE News
Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy Discusses Becoming The No. 1 Contender

Jeff Hardy discussed becoming the new number one contender for the TNA Championship following this week’s episode of Impact Wrestling. You can watch his comments at this link or embedded in the video below: Impact Wrestling Results (3/21/13) – The [...]

March 22, 2013 TNA News
Eric Bischoff

Eric Bischoff Says He Won’t Be In TNA Much Longer, Calls Bret Hart Sad & Broken

Eric Bischoff was a guest on Inside the Ropes Radio where he responded to Bret Hart’s recent negative comments about him. Below is a detailed excerpt sent out by the show to promote the interview: On Bret Hart’s run in [...]

March 22, 2013 TNA News
WWE Raw

Raw In KC Presale, Chris Masters On GMA, The JBL & Cole Show

- A presale began on Friday over on SprintCenter.com with the password WWERAWTV to obtain tickets to the 5/20 episode of WWE Raw from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Tickets go on sale to the general public on [...]

March 22, 2013 WWE News
Dave Batista

Batista & Harley Race Among Visitors At WWE NXT Tapings

- Visitors at this week’s WWE NXT tapings in Winter Park, Florida included Harley Race, Batista, Chris Jericho, The Bella Twins, Big E Langston, The Shield, Cameron, Namoi, AJ Lee, Kaitlyn and Wade Barrett. Jericho Tweeted a photo with Harley [...]

March 22, 2013 WWE News
Bully Ray

Bully Ray Reveals The Hoax

TNA uploaded TNA Champion Bully Ray’s complete promo from this week’s Impact Wrestling on their YouTube channel. The promo, titled “Bully Ray reveals The Hoax,” is embedded in the five videos below: [...]

March 22, 2013 TNA News
Austin Aries

Five New TNA Live Event Dates

TNA Wrestling has announced the following new live event dates: April 19, 2013 from the Massena Ice Arena in Massena, NY April 20, 2013 from Rouses Point Civic Center in Rouses Point, NY April 21, 2013 from BOR Ice Arena [...]

March 22, 2013 TNA News
TNA Wrestling Live

Details On The New TNA X-Division Rules

TNA Wrestling announced new X-Division rules on this week’s episode of Impact. The following is from TNA’s official website: The X-Division is evolving! New Rules Announced! 230lb Weight Limit! All X-Division championship matches will now be held under triple threat [...]

March 22, 2013 TNA News
Stephanie McMahon

Video Of Stephanie McMahon Boxing

WWE uploaded a video of Stephanie McMahon boxing on their official YouTube channel. You can watch it at this link or embedded in the video below: TMZ caught up with her about the video and interviewed her in the video [...]

March 22, 2013 WWE News
The Rock

The Rock On The Tonight Show, Fast And Furious Spinoff

The Rock appeared in two segments of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday night. Neither WWE nor Wrestlemania 29 were brought up and Rock didn’t have the title belt with him. The appearance was done to promote “G.I. [...]

March 22, 2013 WWE News
Paul Bearer

Paul Bearer’s Son Talks About Approving CM Punk Angle

We reported here on WrestlingNewsWorld.com Premium that Paul Bearer’s sons signed off on the usage of their father’s death in the build to CM Punk vs. The Undertaker. TMZ caught up with Bearer’s son Michael to ask him about it. [...]

March 22, 2013 WWE News
NXT Wrestling

*Spoilers* 5 Episodes Of WWE NXT From Winter Park, Florida

The following article contains spoiler information. Due to the fact the material in this post will spoil upcoming programming, we have removed the excerpt so you must click the link to view the story contents. [...]

March 22, 2013 NXT Wrestling, WWE News, WWE Spoilers
Cm Punk & The Rock

WWE Annual Report, New Head Writer, Rock Taking On Impact

- WWE released their 2012 Annual Report. You can read through it in PDF format at this link. - Former WWE writer Court Bauer, who broke the news of the termination of Eric Pankowsi, has broke the news of a [...]

March 21, 2013 WWE News
Steve Austin & Vince McMahon

Steve Austin Delivers Bottom Line On Wrestlemania 29 Status

Steve Austin confirmed Thursday on Twitter he will not be at Wrestlemania 29. The following is from Austin’s Twitter account: I’ve had many questions concerning WrestleMania 29. The decision has been made that I will not be at WM29 and [...]

March 21, 2013 WWE News
WWE vs. UFC

Top UFC Fighter To WWE?

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March 21, 2013 Backstage News
Kurt Angle

Impact Video Preview, Hot Tessmacher Photos, Kurt Angle/WWE

- TNA has video preview for this week’s episode of Impact Wrestling at this link or embedded in the video below: - Brooke Tessmacher is “Today’s Girl” here at Maxim.com. - Kurt Angle is featured on WWE’s Alumni section at [...]

March 21, 2013 TNA News
Bully Ray

Bully Ray Apologizes Again For Gay Slurs

TNA Champion Bully Ray posted the following on Twitter: Had a very positive talk with the man I got into a verbal altercation with in Chicago. — Bully Ray (@REALBully5150) March 21, 2013 I personally apologized for my careless choice [...]

March 21, 2013 TNA News
Dolph Ziggler

TNA Touring, CM Punk & Triple H, Brock Lesnar vs. The Rock, Dolph Ziggler Leaving WM29 With Two Titles?, Outcome Of Wrestlemania Main Event, JBL Wrestling, Sting/HBK & Religion

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March 21, 2013 Premium Mailbags
WWE Payback

WWE Payback Presale Password & Info

A presale begins Friday morning at 11 AM EDT to obtain tickets to WWE Payback 2013. You can obtain tickets at this link using the password PUNKPPV. This will be the first ever WWE Payback as the show will take [...]

March 21, 2013 WWE News
Impact Wrestling

Full Impact Wrestling Spoilers For Tonight

The following article contains spoiler information. Due to the fact the material in this post will spoil upcoming programming, we have removed the excerpt so you must click the link to view the story contents. [...]

March 21, 2013 TNA News, TNA Spoilers
Sin Cara

The Rock On Leno, Sin Cara Injured, The Miz Hosting DVD, HHH Training

- WWE Champion The Rock will be a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday night. Click here for more. - Sin Cara is out after recently suffering a concussion. - The Miz will be hosting the [...]

March 21, 2013 WWE News
WWF Hardcore Championship

Bringing Back Titles, HoF Additions, HHH vs. Lesnar, TNA PPVs & TVs

The following is today's edition of Ask WNW. Ask WNW is the most popular feature on the website where Richard Gray answers four questions daily, Monday through Friday. To submit your question for the next installment of Ask [...]

March 21, 2013 Ask WNW
WWE Raw

Raw In Tulsa Presale Pass, Masters Update, NXT Tapings Tonight

- The presale password to obtain tickets to the 5/13 episode of WWE Raw in Tulsa, Oklahoma is RAWTULSA. The presale begins on Thursday at 10 AM and goes on until Friday at midnight. (Thanks to WNW reader David Hocstein.) [...]

March 21, 2013 WWE News
George Barrios

More On PPVs To The WWE Network, Price Point

4-Traders.com has a new interview with WWE Chief Financial Officer George Barrios. In it, he discusses the future of pay-per-view and the WWE Network. Below are the highlights: Sure. So on the first part, continuing on with our core products, [...]

March 20, 2013 WWE News
Impact Wrestling

Dish Network To Move Spike TV, Important For Anyone DVRing Impact

TNA Wrestling sent out the following on Wednesday: TNA IMPACT WRESTLING ON THE MOVE ON DISH | SATELLITE TV PROVIDER MOVES SPIKE TV TO CHANNEL 241 ATTENTION DISH NETWORK CUSTOMERS: Fans of TNA IMPACT WRESTLING who are also customers of [...]

March 20, 2013 TNA News
The Uso Brothers

Jimmy Uso (Real Name Jonathan Fatu) Not Arrested For Second DUI

We’ve received correspondence from the lawyer representing Jimmy Uso, whose real name is Jonathan Fatu, requesting we correct our report from last week that he was arrested on charges of Driving Under the Influence. According to a statement sent out [...]

March 20, 2013 WWE News
Vince McMahon

WWE Network Expected To Struggle – What WWE Is Doing To Prepare Investors & Potential Partners For The Worst

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March 20, 2013 Backstage News
Mickie James

New TNA Interviews With Christopher Daniels, Austin Aries & Mickie James

- Christopher Daniels did an interview with EveryJoe.com at this link. - Brandon Baxter continues his interviews with TNA talent as you can listen to new ones with Austin Aries and Mickie James embedded in the videos below: Austin Aries: [...]

March 20, 2013 TNA News
The Rock

The Rock Reveals Reason For Crazy Diet

WWE Champion The Rock is in the process of “beefing up” for his latest movie role as Greek hero Hercules. Rock recently stated he’s eating a crazy diet where he eats six to seven times a day. He proclaimed: “A [...]

March 20, 2013 WWE News
George Barrios

WWE Exec On UFC – “It’s A Lot Of Guys, It’s A Lot Of Cigars And A Lot Of Smoke”

UFC fighter Chasel Sonnen recently said no one on the WWE roster can count to eight, while discussing Vince McMahon challenging Dana White to a fight. WWE Chief Financial Officer George Barrios revealed his thoughts on the UFC audience at [...]

March 20, 2013 WWE News
Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Kevin Nash

Scott Hall Scheduled For Surgery

Scott Hall is scheduled to undergo an operation on April 9, 2013. Brooks Oglesby reported on Sunday that $80,000 was raised to pay for Hall to have surgery, undergo physical therapy, dental work and for other medical expenses. The following [...]

March 20, 2013 Other News