LAW Feb 5 Update – WWE Cancels Show; ROH Capitalizes
**Here are the matches
scheduled for ‘Smackdown’ tonight, which were taped this past Tuesday night in Memphis, Tennessee:
*Mickie James & Beth
Phoenix Vs Michelle McCool & Layla
*Drew McIntyre Vs John
Morrison Vs Kane
*R-Truth Vs Mike Knox
*Batista Vs CM Punk
*Chris Jericho Vs Matt
Hardy
*Rey Mysterio Vs Dolph
Ziggler
The show will also feature
Edge hosting ‘The Cutting Edge’ with guest The Undertaker.
**Ring of Honor will be doing
their next set of TV tapings starting tonight in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania with the tapings continuing
tomorrow night in Philadelphia
as well. The tapings will revolve around a tournament to crown the first ROH
Television Champion, the first round matches will take place tonight:
*Kevin Steen Vs Rhett
Titus
*Kenny King Vs El Generico
*Colt Cabana Vs Eddie
Edwards
*Davey Richards Vs
Delirious
Also scheduled for tonight is Chris Hero Vs Jay Briscoe in a non tournament
match.
**The WWE was scheduled to
have a ‘Raw’ brand house show in Philadelphia
tonight but due to the oncoming snowstorm in the Northeast they have postponed
the show until next Thursday. In a way to capitalize, Ring of Honor has
announced that any fans with tickets to the WWE show tonight will be able to
get into the ROH TV tapings for free with their WWE tickets.
**The ‘Raw’ crew will be
in Alexandria, Louisiana
Saturday night while the ‘Smackdown’ and ECW crews are in Waco, Texas
tomorrow night.
**The TNA crew is in Wichita, Kansas for a
house show tonight and Joplin,
Missouri Saturday night headlined
both nights by Jeff Jarrett Vs Ken Anderson.
**There are promos already
running on SyFy promoting WWE ‘NXT’ and you can check out the logo here.
**The start date for WWE ‘NXT’
has been moved up to Tuesday February 23rd, which would be the
tapings held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that night. The original start
date was scheduled to be Tuesday March 2nd in Wichita, Kansas.
**It was officially
announced on ‘Impact’ Thursday night that A.J Styles Vs Samoa Joe for the TNA
Title will headline ‘Against All Odds’ on February 14th in Orlando. The show will
also feature the eight man tournament to determine the #1 contender for the TNA
champion at ‘Lockdown’ as well as Team 3-D Vs The Nasty Boys.
**Hulk Hogan called into
Rob Van Dam’s radio show this past Wednesday and discussed RVD coming into TNA
and recruiting him on the air. Hogan also mentions that he was talking to Jeff
Hardy this past week. Van Dam seemed very receptive to the offer from TNA and
is definitely considering going to TNA.
**WWE Studio’s is holding
an open casting call this weekend in New York and Los Angeles to cast a male
between the ages of 13 and 16 for the lead role in the upcoming project ‘Big
Red’, which will also feature Randy Orton. For casting location information
click here.
**Dwayne Johnson will be a
guest on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ today.
**Ring of Honor producer
and former WWE creative team member Dave Lagana will join us Sunday night on
The LAW to chat about the ROH TV tapings from this past weekend and the
promotions 8th Anniversary card next weekend along with some stories
of his six years working for the WWE from 2002 – 2008. Tune in Sunday night at
11pm EST on Sirius 98 Hardcore Sports Radio and live here on the site.
**This weekend on Review a
Wai, Wai Ting and I will be reviewing ‘WrestleMania 13′, a link to join the
Review a Wai Facebook group is at the bottom of the update.
LAW MMA UPDATE
**Weigh ins for UFC 109
are set for later today for the show tomorrow night at the Mandalay Bay Events
Center in Las Vegas, we will have a preview in the update Saturday prior to the
card.
**Dana White stated on
Friday that the number for UFC 108 last month headlined by Rashad Evans Vs
Thiago Silva is in the neighborhood of 420,000 buys, which is a mind blowing
number considered all of the injuries that ravaged that card and had little
buzz going into. White estimates that tomorrow night’s card will do about
385,000 buys, which is ludicrous if last month’s show did that high of a number
as Couture and Coleman has a lot more marquee value than Evans and Silva,
however that 108 number does indicate to me that the last season of TUF did make
Evans a star that people will pay to see and has made that leap. I think White’s
new strategy is to predict low and than the numbers greatly exceed public
expectations. Vince McMahon should come out and predict 400,000 buys
domestically for WrestleMania right now.
**Many outlets are
reporting that UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar is hopefully of returning
to the octagon for the rumored July 3rd UFC 116 event in Las Vegas, Nevada.
That same card is also likely to
feature Tito Ortiz Vs Chuck Liddell
coming off of the ‘Ultimate Fighter 11′ season.
**Here is the updated main
card lineup for UFC 111 on March 27th in Newark, New Jersey:
*Georges St. Pierre Vs Dan Hardy for the UFC
Welterweight Title
*Frank Mir Vs Shane Carwin
for the Interim Heavyweight Title (if neither gets injured they will fight
Lesnar in the summer, if there is an injury than the winner of the Feb 20 Cain
Velasquez Vs Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira fight will be next for Lesnar)
*Thiago Alves Vs Jon Fitch
- this was just confirmed today and is a rematch from a June 2006 fight that
Fitch won by 2nd round TKO. This loss eats away at Alves and when I
last spoke to Thiago this was the fight he wanted more than any other. The
winner of this fight will have to be guaranteed next in line for the winner of St. Pierre and Hardy.
*Ben Saunders Vs Martin
Kampmann
*Mark Bocek Vs Jim Miller
**Tyron Woodley is the
latest name added to the EA Sports MMA video game that comes out later this
year.
**On the UFC video game
front Brock Lesnar will be on the cover of ‘UFC Undisputed 2010′.
**
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