Welcome to The People's Wrestling Website, TPWW.net. There are a few interesting stories to talk about today, including the Dudleys returning to ECW, the return of Triple H, Tazz, and more. So without further delay, here are today's news and rumors.
In this week's edition of the Ross Report, Jim Ross mentioned that the Dudley Boyz will make a one night only appearance at an ECW show on December 21 in Queens, New York, most likely at the infamous Elks Lodge. According to Dave Scherer, tickets will go on sale for the event at the December 3 ECW PPV in Manhattan, NY. The Elks Lodge only holds around 800-900 seats, so ECW should have no trouble selling the show out, most likely at above average ticket prices. Hey, hopefully I'll be able to grab a couple of tickets.
Jim Ross also recently mentioned that Triple H may be able to "return to physicality" as soon as this Monday night on Raw. However, Triple H will miss this weekend's WWF house shows in Chicago and Omaha in order to rest up for his return on Monday night. Whether or not he'll be wrestling is unknown at this time, but if the WWF is keeping him off weekend house shows, I can only imagine that his action, if any, will be limited.
Tazz will be "filling in" for Jerry Lawler at the commentating table at the December 2nd UK-only PPV, WWF Rebellion alongside Good Ol' JR. THAT should be interesting.
While we're on the subject of Tazz, what in the hell has the WWF been doing with him wrestling-wise lately? While I was talking to TPWW columnist and good friend Adam Kirk the other day, Adam brought up a few good points... Tazz entered the WWF before the Radicals and was seemingly immediately buried. However, the Radicals were (maybe with the exception of Saturn - another wasted talent) seemingly immediately pushed high in the card and are now feuding with the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin. However, over the last few months, Tazz has been jobbed out badly in the WWF Hardcore division, jobbed out to a fifty year old commentator in Jerry Lawler, and now jobbed out to Raven, who entered the federation only a couple of months ago. Personally, I like Raven, but it seemed like he was booked to totally squash Tazz in their match on Smackdown. Tazz has been with the WWF for almost a year now and has obviously been trying to prove himself, but for whatever reason, the WWF has been holding him back.
The WWF Shopzone is now receiving pre-orders for the Undertaker's new "Dead Man Inc" shirt. The shirt will be released on November 30, but you can pre-orders yours now by clicking HERE.
The WWF may sign Kurt Angle's brother Eric to a development deal soon, according to Jim Ross. If he is signed, he will be sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling to improve his skills before being brought in full-time in the WWF.
The WWF has sold around 86% of tickets for WrestleMania 17 on April 1 from the Houston Astrodome. If my memory serves me correctly, the WWF had around 66,000 total tickets for sale, meaning they have sold a little under 57,000 tickets already. Great achievement there. Tickets are still available in all Ticketmaster outlets.
On the other side of things, this Sunday's WCW Mayhem PPV at the US Cellular Arena in Milwaukee has only sold around 2,300 tickets, according to Dave Meltzer. Ouch.
On the subject of the WCW Mayhem PPV, there are rumors that a match pitting Rey Jr, Kidman, and Konnan against Kronik and Alex Wright may be added.
We may see the return of the Harris Brothers as soon as tomorrow night at the WCW Mayhem PPV or Monday night on Nitro. They will reportedly play the roles of Jeff Jarrett's bodyguards, according to Dave Meltzer.
Michael Mercury sent along the following: "I just wanted to let you guys know that WCW superstar Goldberg will be appearing on the Maury Povich show on Monday (Nov 27)."
USA Network's Farmclub.com aired a one minute ECW video montage featuring Kid Kash and EZ Money last night as part of the deal between Farmclub and ECW. In case you missed the video, Farmclub.com will re-air it tonight at 12:00 AM EST.
ECW was forced to cancel two upcoming shows on December 8 in Dallas and December 9 in Houston. The reason for the cancellation, according to Dave Scherer, is that the Bronco Bowl, who were supposed to promote the show in Dallas, pulled out because ECW superstars Steve Corino, the Sandman, Mikey Whipwreck, and Tajiri will be working a show for XSE wrestling, an independent federation, the night before the Dallas show, and they felt that due to the XSE show selling tickets cheaper for their show in the same market, it would hurt the ECW show. So for this reason, the upcoming ECW Texas shows were cancelled, much to the chagrin of ECW owner Paul Heyman, who had planned on using the shows as television tapings.
It's just about time to wrap this one up. We hope you'll join us tomorrow night for live coverage of the WCW Mayhem pay per view, featuring Booker T vs. Scott Steiner in a steel cage for the WCW title, Goldberg vs. Lex Luger, and more. The coverage starts at 8:00 PM EST. As always, thanks for reading. Until next time, later.
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