WON News + Notes, December 18th Issue, Writing teams, MMA, Heyman, Rock DVD etc etc
Ratings
Smackdown on 12/1 did a final 2.81 rating with 4.72 million viwers.
Raw in 12/4 did a 3.66 final rating with 3.54 and 3.79 hours.
ECW on 12/5 was up to a 1.76 rating with 2.01 million viwers. In the quarter hours;
RVD & Punk vs Holly & Test = 1.8
Dreamer vs Daivari = 1.7
Kelly vs Ariel = 1.7
Lashley vs Show = 1.8 with a 2.1 overrun
Smackdown on 12/8 did a 2.6 rating with an early estimate of 4.17 million viwers. CW finished 5th out of the 5 major networks that night. The show did a 2.6 in New York (2.9 for Noble vs Yang, Benoit vs Sylvan and Miz vs Scotty), 3.2 in LA (3.4 for Kennedy/Taker), 4.0 in Chicago (4.7 for Noble vs Yang), 1.7 in Philly (1.9 for Dave vs Fit), 2.4 in San Fran (2.7 for Dave vs Fit), 1.7 in Boston (2.1 for Benoit vs Sylvan), 3.4 in Dallas (3.9 for London and Kendrick vs Regal and Taylor), 2.4 in DC (3.0 for Kane vs Kennedy), 2.4 in Detroit (3.1 for Miz vs Scotty), 4.5 in Atlanta (5.7 for Kane vs Kennedy) and 4.1 in Houston (5.5 for Kane vs Kennedy). Segment by segment based on the majot markets the show performed like this;
London & Kendrick vs Regal and Taylor + 98,000
Batista vs Finlay + 265,000
Noble vs Yang + 491,000
Benoit vs Sylvan - 197,000
Miz vs Scotty and the Boogeyman + 296,000
Kane vs Kennedy + 70,000
When he got back from Iraq, Vince told people that Heyman was done with the company in every way. However it is not believed that Heyman has been given a contractual release. Heyman himself believes that he's done with the company and has headed off to Hollywood for meetings with people about scripts he's been working on.
WWE is have meetings and discusions about getting into the MMA business. The idea is not to buy Pride, which was offered to them, but to look into doing something on their own. They had a meeting with MMA people who were not from UFC or Pride 12/14 but there's no word yet over what the end result of that was.
With Heyman out the current writing structure is like this;
Raw
Brian Gerwitz
Ed Koskey
Dave Kapoor
Smackdown
Michael Heyes
Dusty Rhodes
Court Bauer
Chris DeJosephs
ECW
Dave Lagana
Pantelis Ypsilantis
The general feeling among the writing staff is that they feel Heyman leaving was the best thing for Paul and the company. Ypsilantis was the only writer upset by Heyman leaving as he felt Paul had helped him keep his job over the last three weeks and was considered his latesd protege.
Booker strained his back a while ago and was advised to rest up for a while. He worked through Survivor Series as he was in the main event, but was then given time off from in ring work. This lead to Big Show being asked to work Smackdown shows for another week and they were so lacking in star power.
There was an article on Booker in the Houston Chronicle by Ken Hoffman, who is semi-famous in the business for being responsible for a North American title change when he wrote that Jake Roberts would be losing to **** Slater because Roberts was leaving. On reading that Bill Watts had Roberts win the match and the title just to prove Hoffman wrong. In this article he said the King Booker gimmick was his wife's idea and the WWE has given Booker permission to use their talent when he runs indy shows in South Texas. His first is booked for 12/21 in Pasadena, TX with Booker vs Haas in the main event and Boogeyman (who is Booker's personal training project) and Umaga on the card. Booker has been running a training school and hopes to start a small territory.
Flair came back earlier than scheduled as his divorce was settled out of court. Terms were undisclosed, but Beth had threatened to to reveal 'everything', whatever that may mean, in court but her kids managed to convince her to settle without going to court.
The card for New Year's Revolution is,
Umaga vs Cena (for the title)
DX vs Rated RKO (probably not for the titles)
Hardy vs Nitro in a cage (for the IC title)
James vs Victoria (for the title)
Carlito vs Masters
Flair vs Kenny
Cryme Time vs WGTT
The plan for ECW is to go back to having it be a glorifed developmental territory. There's no names yet, but several OVW guys are expected to start on ECW TV soon.
Vince seems to have decided against having MNM and the Hardys as full time tag teams. A lot of people backstage have high hopes of Nitro as they feel he's at the right age and has the right look to be a big star and don't want him dragged down by being a tag team wrestler.
Tazz's contract expires soon and he's looking for a raise. He's probably not going to get it as he's very low on the priority list now he's on ECW. There is already talk that he may well be leaving.
The DVD for See No Evil has grossed $3.79 million and was No. 9 in the DVD charts in its first week of release.
The idea on Smackdown is that Batista is the one carrying the ratings, so they want his TV matches to be as long as possible to try and boost the average. The problem is that Batista doesn't usually do long matches very well.
A second single from the Brooke Hogan album has been released, called Heaven Baby. It is getting airplay on around nine stations. Brooke and Hulk will be going on the road aggressivly to promote it.
The Rock's Greatest Matches DVD will be a 3-disc set.
Sandman is getting unpopular backstage by, basicly, being the Sandman. The Undertaker was especailly annoyed at Hak being his loud and goofy self on the European tour, and that's not someone you want on your bad side.
Referee Marty Rubacable has been given the TV name Marty Elias.
Torrie Wilson is in the 2007 FHM calender for September.
The shows on 12/4 and 12/5 in Portugal both did about $533,000 on the gate.
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Heyman need some investors to start up another fed. I don't know who though I would tell bill gates Vince's was talking **** saying he got money stacks bigger then him
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Originally Posted by Just BlackAf
Alot of folks look to Jay as big brother figure because most don't have a father in their life.
well i heard Heyman is in line for a big inheritance, supposedly his pops is rich, multi millionaire, but i think heyman wants to do the hollywood thing.
Heyman is better off not starting his own company because he'll just go bankrupt again. Unless he gets a proper financial adviser to help him out or something.
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London & Kendrick vs Regal and Taylor + 98,000
Batista vs Finlay + 265,000 Noble vs Yang + 491,000
Benoit vs Sylvan - 197,000
Miz vs Scotty and the Boogeyman + 296,000
Kane vs Kennedy + 70,000
Seems as though people are finally recognising that these guys can work.
Ma guerre des nerfs, parceque l'ignorance est nerf de la guerre
On nous dit nous sommes tous freres, Dieu est lumiere
Mais on constate que la lumiere est etteinte...
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WON News + Notes, December 18th Issue, Writing teams, MMA, Heyman, Rock DVD etc etc
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