WWE News and Notes from The Ross Report
Submitted by Robert Fallon on Friday, July 19, 2002 at 9:07 PM EST



-To make the talent relations department more cost effective, the WWE has ended their affiliation with Heartland Wrestling Association (HWA) in Cincinnati and is reducing the talent roster, especially within the developmental area, they will be focusing their efforts on Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) in Louisville.

-Steve Bradley, Mike Sanders, Race Steele, Jon Heidenreich, Jason (EZ Money) Broyles, ason Sugarman and Kim Nielsen have been released.

-The remaning talent will be moved to OVW, which will soon be moving to a new facility and will feature about 20 developmental talents at a time and each talent will be evaluated by John Laurinaitis, Tom Prichard, Bob Clarke and WWE road agents on a weekly basis and then will be officially reviewed every 90 days.

-Shannon Moore, Johnny Stamboli, The Island Boys, Bull Buchanan, Shelton Benjamin and Victoria are all being called up to the RAW and SmackDown! rosters.

-Mike Awesome and Chris Kanyon will be back on the road with the WWE this week.

-Jackie Gayda and Linda Miles will be based in Louisville for practices and television but will also be booked on the road for WWE at times.

-WWE has reached terms to new agreements with Molly Holly, Batista, John Cena, Nidia, Maven, Linda Miles and Jackie Gayda.

-The WWE has not had any metings with Dusty Rhodes in Stamford offices recently. They did talk on June 10th in Atlanta where Raw was held.

-Randy Orton sustained a mild concussion last week and has been held out of action as a result. His MRI came out fine.

-Kane is likely to return from his in two weeks (torn biceps).

-Triple H's elbow is healing very well, he will be able to resume physicality in a couple of weeks.

-Christopher Nowinski chipped his tooth at the last television taping.

-Goldust tweaked his knee Monday night but seems to be okay.

-Bubba Dudley has stitches in his lip as a result of Monday's match.

-Steven Richards has several staples in his head from the Singapore Cane Match with Tommy Dreamer.

-Kevin Nash will be staying in Birmingham, Alabama until further notice to work with the HealthSouth folks on his torn quadriceps muscle.

-Maven will be cleared to return in a couple of weeks (broken fibula).

-Godfather is having neck problems and is on the inactive list.

-Jazz is rehabbing and should be back before the end of the year (torn ACL).

-Rhyno is healing well and looks to be on target for an early November return (neck surgery). Rhyno also has a speaking coach to help his verbal skills.

-Jim Ross interviewed Eric Bischoff for this Saturdays Confidential.

To view the whole WWE.com Ross Report, Click Here.

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