Former WWE star sighting, 'World Title' history, & wrestling in Australia
On Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 2:13 PM EST Stew sent this in: Dateline September 5th: The syndicated Maury Povich show just showed a clip of a show on the Playboy Channel called Totally Busted. On that clip they showed a prank being played on a man where he was hired to work at a mental ward and everyone in a mental ward was freaking out and ripping off their clothes. One of the security folks in the clip wearing white appeared to be wrestler, Matt Wiese, (known as Luther Reigns in WWE or Horshu on Indy Circuit). The episode may be a rerun, but just passing on the sighting.
Alex Bryer sent this in: There is a very interesting article up at WWE.com now celebrating the five year history of the World Heavyweight Championship. The lineage of this championship has often been debated whether WWE considered it the same title as the WCW World Title, or whether an entire new lineage was created when Bischoff handed this particular belt to Triple H. It had now been confirmed in this article that the WWE World Heavyweight Championship IS the same championship as the WCW World Title and the lineage has continued. Paul McWilliams also sent word that Chris Benoit's name is kept on the list, but no photo link is provided.
Paul Allen sent this in: Just thought I would let you know of some exciting happenings coming up here in Australia through October as we have RVD, Jasmin St Claire and Sabu appearing at Armageddon Expo to sign autographs and meet people etc in Melbourne on October 13, 14.
The week before that will see Sabu work for Aussie promotion the AWF based in New South Wales working 3 dates on October 5, 6 and 7, he will be joined by Super Shenlong and Gamma from Japan.
While to finish the month of October, Raven will be downunder appearing for Adelaide based High Risk Pro Wrestling - HRPW - to complete a huge month in Aussie wrestling of overseas visitors.
In November WWE RAW tours Australia in November in Brisbane on the 8th, Sydney 9th and Melbourne 10th.
Following that in November the NWA will crown an Australian champion as Claudio Castagnolio and NWA World tag champs Joey Ryan and Karl Anderson will also appear on the one night only November 27 show.
All this follows the Australia wide television debut of Australian wrestling for the first time in 30 years as Sydney based promotion the IWA made its tv debut on September 3 and will screen every Monday night for 12 weeks at this stage on pay TV channel, Aurora.