The Fight Network

**Tonight on The LAW Dan ‘The Mouth' Lovranski, Jason Agnew and myself will be focusing the majority of the show on tomorrow night's head to head battle between the WWE and TNA and taking your thoughts at 1-888-942-7326 and law@liveaudiowrestling.com. We will chat with Dave Meltzer of the ‘Wrestling Observer Newsletter' as well as Ring of Honor producer and former WWE creative team member David Lagana on his time in the WWE, helping with the re-launch of ECW in June 2006, working with Paul Heyman and a ton of other topics. Tune in tonight at 11pm EST on Sirius 98 Hardcore Sports Radio and online on the site here.

**Tonight on the show will be also be giving away three pairs of tickets to the Ring of Honor event in Mississauga, Ontario on March 20^th so tune in tonight to find out how you can win.

**When you download The LAW late tonight you will also receive the latest edition of ‘Review a Wai' where Wai Ting and I review classic and  not so classic events with this week's offering of ‘WrestleMania 9' from 1993. We also have a bonus on the show this week with exclusive comments from Bret Hart regarding his match with Yokozuna at that show and his thoughts on the WWE's decision to put the title onto Hulk Hogan at the same event, a must download this week. If you haven't joined our Facebook group, than join now at www.reviewawai.com.

**TNA is heavily promoting the fact that a major angle will be shot during the first five minutes of the show Monday night. It is expected that Sting, Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy will all be on the show Monday night in Orlando, Florida however the company wanted to go the surprise route and haven't done any type of promotional job in hyping their appearances.

**TNA ‘Impact' did a 1.1 rating on Thursday night. The company has built Monday night's show completely around Hulk Hogan wresting one more match with the idea that Hogan and Ric Flair are the only performers that can do any kind of numbers. It depends what your thought process is, right now I agree that those two are probably the only two that are going to make a difference numbers wise however, it's also an indictment that in two months this new regime has not been able to get any talent into positions that fans would care enough to switch back and forth to make sure they see the ‘new stars'. The pay per view next week is dead in the water and I'm surprised it's even happening as it's so off the radar right now.

**WWE is in Portland, Oregon Monday night for ‘Raw' with Criss Angel as the host of the show. They have announced John Cena Vs Vince McMahon for the show plus Randy Orton Vs Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes.

**Linda McMahon confirmed over the weekend that Stephanie McMahon and Triple H are expecting their third child.

**Jeremy Borash has stated that there will be a new opening theme for ‘Impact' that will debut Monday night.

**According to Sean Morley on his Facebook page he will be primarily working for CMLL in Mexico moving forward and that TNA had nothing for him in regards to his release from the company this past week. It's hilarious that of all weeks they released him on this one where he was featured prominently on the show and even pinned Jeff Jarrett. It had to have been a last minute decision to drop him as why wouldn't you do the reverse and have Tomko (who is staying) pin Jarrett and Jarrett gets the clean win on Morley on his way out?  

 
LAW MMA UPDATE

**Here are the results from the WEC 47 event in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday night at the Nationwide Arena in front of 8,345 fans:
*Ricardo Lamas over Bendy Casimir by KO at 3:43 of Round 1
*Fredson Paixao over Courtney Buck by rear naked choke at 2:39 of Round 1
*Leonard Garcia and George Roop fought to a majority draw (29-27, 27-29 and 28-28)
*Anthony Pettis over Danny Castillo by KO at 2:17 of Round 1
*Chad Mendes over Erik Koch by unanimous decision (30-27 all)
*Scott Jorgenson over Chad George by guillotine choke at 0:31 of Round 1
*Bart Palaszewski over Karen Darabedyan by armbar at 4:40 of Round 1
*L.C Davis over Deividas Taurosevicius by majority decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-28)
*Javier Vasquez over Jens Pulver by armbar at 3:41 of Round 1
*Joseph Benavidez over Miguel Torres by guillotine choke at 2:57 of Round 2
*Dominic Cruz over Brian Bowles doctor stoppage at the end of Round 2 to win the WEC Bantamweight Title

**The WEC 47 show was a very good show but ended anti climactically with the sudden end to the main fight. Brian Bowles broke his hand with his first punch of the fight and went two round with a broken hand before his corner advised him to end the fight at the end of Round 2. Cruz looked very good in the fight but it was hard to gauge with Bowles offense significantly limited. This likely sets up a fight between Cruz and Joseph Benavidez (who trains at Team Alpha Male in Sacramento with Urijah Faber), who looked outstanding in his fight with Torres, who is a different fighter since his loss to Bowles. Benavidez is only 5 foot 4 but the lack of reach was of no consequence to Benavidez, who was more active, engaged and was able to take down Torres. Torres was busted over the right eye with a big gash in the second round but before the doctor's could even take a look at the severity of the cut, Benavidez locked on the guillotine for the win. The most emotional moment of the night was the post fight interview with Jens Pulver, who was in tears apologizing to the audience and stating that he doesn't make a lot of money doing this but does it for the fans and that he can't keep doing this to the fans (he has lost five fights in a row and seven of his last eight), he didn't say he was retiring but all but said he was done. He got the biggest reaction on the entire show and there needs to be a role for Pulver in this promotion with his best day in the cage behind him. The Davis Vs Taurosevicius fight was just atrocious and brought the show down. This was a fight that was stand still for 15:00 of two guys that were caught at a stale mate throughout the bout and was just unfortunate this was on the main card and couldn't get some of the exciting fights on the prelims onto the main show. Palaszewski scored a come from behind win as he was losing the fight to Darabedyan, but Darabedyan was careless in letting his arms free while on top of Palaszewski, who was constantly going for  shoulder locks and arm bars and then finally caught Darabedyan and got the tap.

**The Score in Canada had a ton of problems with the transmission of the fight with constant delays and a message coming up on the ticker apologizing for the issues.

**Here are the bonuses for the show last night, each for $10,000:
*Fight of the Night - Leonard Garcia Vs George Roop
*Knockout of the Night - Anthony Pettis
*Submission of the Night - Joseph Benavidez

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