Off air notes from RAW in Birmingham, SmackDown magazine, + more

»Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com

On Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 1:40 PM EST

Joe Baker sent in the following report from RAW on Monday in Birmingham, England... I was at RAW last night in Birmingham, UK. After the match between Christian and Batista, when HHH put the pedigree on Batista, he was with Ric Flair on the microphone taunting Batista and the crowd. I think at this point the coverage ended, so the viewers would have missed Batista recovering and beating up both Flair and HHH, then throwing them both out of the ring. He (Batista) then showboated for a bit until he left the stage with fireworks going off all around him. Cheers.

Brett Armstrong sent in the following... Hey, I was just flipping through the Smackdown magazine with Rey Mysterio on the cover and there was a couple little newsworthy items in it. First, there will be an ECW special edition magazine coming out on May 31st a couple weeks prior to the ECW One Night Stand. Also, in a Q & A session with Rey there was a question about doing a CD his reply was “I’m working on something right now, it will be hip-hop and in Spanish and English.”

Harold R. sent word that Bill Goldberg was spotted in the audience on the second episode of "The Contender" on NBC this past Sunday night.