Randy Orton Injured?, WWE Beats American Idol?, More

As a precaution going into tomorrow night’s Backlash pay-per-view, WWE held Randy Orton off of this week’s shows in Birmingham, England and Glasgow, Scotland due to a minor injury he’s dealing with.

World Wrestling Entertainment sent out a peculiar press release this past Thursday saying WWE programming beat American Idol in the all important Males 18-34 advertiser demographic for the week of April 13th, reaching more than 16 million viewers. You can read the press release at corporate.wwe.com. To come up with the 16 million viewers figure, you’d have to combine both hours of Raw as two different shows, not to mention ECW, Smackdown & WWE Superstars, as well as all of the show replays on Universal, Mun2 and WGN America. You’d also have to consider that none of those people watched more than one show (including both hours of Raw), and then compare the total number of viewers for the week to a single episode of American Idol.

WWE has added a second Paris show to the European tour in September. This event takes place on September 26th with tickets going on sale May 13th at 10 AM. Tickets for the previously announced September 27th event in Paris are already on sale. Go to http://evenements-lutte.tk for info about upcoming wrestling shows worldwide. (Thanks to Devin Cutting)

The Boogeyman will be touring England with Extreme World Wrestling in July of 2009. Here are the dates & locations:

July 16th – Pyramid & Parr Hall in Warrington
July 17th – Liverpool Olympia in Liverpool
July 18th – Olympos Centre in Burgess Hill
July 19th – Summerfield Leisure Centre in Hastings (Thanks to Devin Cutting)

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