Thanks to Mike Aldren from Wrestling Globe Newsletter:

WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

11/13 Smackdown TV results from Sheffield, England: CM Punk over
R-Truth; Natalya over Mickie James; Drew McIntyre vs. Finlay was a DDQ;
Dolph Ziggler vs. John Morrison was a DCO; Beth Phoenix over Lisa
Taylor; and The Undertaker over Chris Jericho.

11/12 Raw house show results from Birmingham, England: Big Show won a
battle royal;  The Hurricane over Paul Burchill; The Miz beat MVP;
Melina & Gail Kim over Jillian & Alicia Fox; Chris Jericho over Evan
Bourne over; DX & Kofi Kingston over Randy Orton & Legacy; and John Cena
over Big Show.

Thanks to Matt Wall who sent along notes from the show: 'More people
here than last year, crowd looked to be around the 10,000 mark. Really
disappointed in the early efforts, a sloppy battle royal and an awful
match between the Miz and MVP, really phoned in. Oddly, Divas tag match
was excellent. Top, top efforts from Jericho and the other main eventers
– just a pity some of those lower down could have looked a little more
bothered about being there. One note of amusement. Kelly Kelly was up in
the nosebleed section and asked a quiz question to a little girl which
she got right, winning front row tickets. The crowd booed the crap out
of it, and her. May be worth mentioning that Jack Swagger did not work
this show. Not sure if he is injured but he didn't have a match and
didn't even feature in the battle royal.'

11/13 Smackdown/ECW house show results from Leipzig, Germany: John
Morrison over Matt Hardy & Dolph Ziggler in a three-way; Goldust &
Shelton Benjamin over Zack Ryder & Ezekiel Jackson; Drew McIntyre over
Finlay; Mickie James & Katie Lea over Michelle McCool & Beth Phoenix;
Rey Mysterio over Batista via DQ after a chairshot; Christian over
William Regal; R-Truth over Eric Escobar; and The Undertaker over CM
Punk in a casket match.

11/14 in Hamburg was the same results as Leipzig drawing 7,000 and
10,000 respecitvely.

11/13 Raw house show results from Lyon, France: Sheamus won a battle
royal; Paul Burchill over The Hurricane The Miz over MVP; Melina & Gail
Kim over Alicia Fox & Jillian Hall with Kelly Kelly as referee; Evan
Bourne over Chavo Guerrero with help from Horswoggle; Randy Orton over
Kofi Kingston; DX over JeriShow; and John Cena over Sheamus.

11/14 Raw house show results from Lyon, France: Kofi Kingston over Chris
Masters; The Hurricane over Paul Burchill; Sheamus over Santino;
Hornswoggle over Chavo Guerrero; MVP & Mark Henry over Legacy; Melina &
Kelly Kelly over Jillian & Alicia Fox with Gail Kim as referee; The Miz
over Evan Bourne; and DX & John Cena over Chris Jericho, Big Show &
Randy Orton.

We're looking for reports from the Smackdown shows tonight and Sunday in
Dublin, Ireland to [email protected].

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Dave Meltzer broke the news tonight that Shane McMahon had a meeting
recently with Dana White at the UFC offices. White refused to comment
when asked about Shane this weekend while promoting UFC 105 in England.
Depending on how this plays out this is potentially one of the biggest
stories of the decade. The only thing certain right now is that only a
handful of people know what took place in that meeting and none of them
will be talking about it.

The European tour has been a phenomenal success for WWE grossing many
millions of dollars. The Raw crew finished tonight in France while
Smackdown has their last house show in Ireland on Sunday. No major
injuries to report although many are burned out and looking forward to a
few days off after television next week in New York and Philadelphia.

Some of the Raw crew are hoping to arrive in New York City early
tomorrow to take in the Metalica concert at MSG ahead of Monday's Raw 
which is sold out.

Jim Ross wrote on his blog at www.jrsbarbq.com that he could be facing 3
to 4 months of recovery before, as he put it, is "facially ready" to
return to television following a recent Bells Palsy attack. He said he
is still keeping active running his restaurant business and attending OU
football games.

An interesting note in that TV producer Kevin Dunn dumped half of his
company stock for just over $800,000 on Wednesday.

The WWE themed episode of Dinner Impossible on the Food Network did a
0.8 rating, up slightly on it's usual number.

Katie Lea worked as a babyface tagging with Mickie James this weekend in
Germany. She was actually born Lüneburg, Germany and relocated to
England as a teenager for college.

The next UK TV tapings are April 12 and 13 at the O2 Arena in London.

Marty "Boogeyman" Wright is telling people he is returning to WWE in
January... During an interview with James Guttman at www.clubwwi.com
this past week he said won't be taking his gimmick on the indy circuit
because he doesn't want to devalue what he achieved with WWE. He also
talked about going MIA recently and buried booking agent Scott Epstein
claiming that he told him not to book him in October because he thought
he would be back with WWE for Halloween. He said: "For all those people
that he said that I committed to, I want to apologize for any
inconvenience that Scott put you in, because I certainly didn't agree to
those particular date. It's sad enough that my name had to be dragged
through the dirt to raise another person's image... I never once, and
God is my witness, ever confirmed any dates that Scott said I was
supposed to be at." Wright didn't explain why he went MIA in October nor
why he didn't return dozens of messages from concerned friends.


TOTAL NONSTOP ACTION WRESTLING NEWS

11/12 Impact TV results from Orlando, FL: Dr. Stevie over Abyss; Alissa
Flash over Traci Brooks; Jim Neidhart over Jay Lethal; Awesome Kong &
The Beautiful People over Tara, ODB, Sarita, & Taylor Wilde; The Machine
Guns & Amazing Red over Homicide, Sheik Bashir & Kiyoshi; Beer Money
over The British Invasion in a non-title tables match; and Samoa Joe
over AJ styles via KO in a non-title match.

11/12 house show results from Wayne, NJ: Sara del Ray over Alyssa Flash
to retain the JAPW women's title; Daffney over Hamada; Suicide over
Chris Sabin; D'Angelo Dinero over Eric Young in a non-title match;
Amazing Red over Homicide; Taylor Wylde & Sarita over The Beautiful
People; and a preview of Turning Point with AJ Styles over Samoa Joe &
Daniels in a three-way.

Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame was at the show which drew just
under 600 with many comps. Homicide gave a nice speech after his match
talking about Eddie Guerrero, who passed away four years ago on Friday.

***

We can confirm that SouthPeak, a video game publisher in Virginia, has
acquired assets owned by Midway relating to video games based on the TNA
Impact brand. Further details are expected to be released in the near
future.

Impact on Thursday night did a 1.1 rating.

A former Knockout is rumored to be returning at Sunday's PPV.

No update on Angelina Love although she continues to collect on indy
bookings around the country. She was released from her contract in
September when it came to light that her U.S. work visa had expired.

It appears there are no plans to use Jethro Holiday (the former Trevor
Murdoch) moving forward as his bio was removed from the TNA website. He
hadn't been used on TV since August.

The Feast or Fired gimmick match returns at Final Resolution on December 20.

Kevin Nash is advertised for the January house shows in Westbury,
Poughkeepsie, and Danbury so I guess that is his punishment for his
outburst a few week's ago at the TV tapings. They also appear to have
dropped his search for a new valet.


OTHER WRESTLING NEWS

Brock Lesnar was hospitalized last week in Canada. Dana White revealed
tonight at the UFC 105 post-fight press conference that Lesnar is
currently undergoing treatment some where in North Dakota for Mono and a
disease that was just detected that Lesnar has asked UFC to keep
private. White said: "I can't really talk about it right now, but he's
in rough shape. He's in really bad shape, and we're going to have to do
some stuff to take care of this guy. He is not well and he's not getting
any better. We're going to have to send him to the Mayo Clinic or to
Scripps, or one of those really good hospitals to figure out what's
wrong with this guy." White did specify that Lesnar does not have cancer
or AIDS but is now out of UFC indefinitely.

While TNA drew 600 last night in New Jersey, Northeast Wrestling drew
800 at the high school in Waterbury, CT with Bret Hart cutting a promo,
and Jim Neidhart, Ken Anderson, Paul London, and TNA's own Christy Hemme
working matches. The show was a fundraiser to benefit the local Police
Athletic League. Results: Matt Taven over Mike Bennet; Christie Hemme
over Alexxus; Ricky Steamboat Jr over Jake Manning which was said to be
a very good match; Jim Neidhart & The NOW over Bob Evans, Rob Eckos &
Thomas Ciampra; Ron Zombie & Bull Dredd over Brian Anthony & Jalil
Salim; Paul London over Jason Blade to win the title; and Mr Ken
Anderson over Romeo Roselli.

Border City Wrestling also out drew TNA last night in Windsor, Ontario
with 900 in the building to see Kurt Angle as special referee in the
main event of Scott D'Amore & Petey Williams over Joe Doering & Tyson
Dux.

Lance Storm is now booking for an indy group in Alberta called Prairie
Wrestling Alliance. More info at www.stormwrestling.com.

Dallas Page is shooting a movie in December with David Arquette and
Vivica Fox called Land of the Astronauts.

Savio Vega is opening a gym and wrestling academy this coming Monday in
Puerto Rico. More info at www.iwapr.tv.

The latest wacky Hulkamania promo is online at
http://tinyurl.com/ydwrhtt.

There is a big article on the indy wrestling scene in South Philadelpia
at http://tinyurl.com/yjpogg7. Includes comments from Cary Silkin, Gabe
Sapolski, Jay Brisco, Mike Quackenbush, Colt Cabana, and Ken Doane. The
story also mentions WWE coming to town for a TV taping and mentioned
that TNA is the only real national competition but that it's roster is
"clogged by aging WWE cast-offs — the latest being yet another
resurgence by Hulk Hogan."

Torrie Wilson is running in the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon in San Antonio on Sunday.