Wrestler Aspires To Make WWE Despite Painful Tryout, WWE's Characters And Cliffhangers Drive Global Success In TV
Submitted by Errol Leigh Farrell on Monday, June 25, 2007 at 3:24 PM EST







• Decorated Officer; Wrestler Aspires To Make WWE Despite Painful Tryout
  
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  Jason Maschke isn't about to let a little thing like a brush with death pin him to the canvas.
  
  Kingston's grappling cop made an emotional return to the squared circle this weekend in Napanee after a freak injury following a World Wrestling Entertainment tryout last year hospitalized him and almost cost him his life.
  
  Const. Maschke, who wrestles as the bleached-blond Daytona Beach Bad Boy Jason Cage, defeated the villain Cutthroat with his trademark finishing manoeuver, the Spring Breaker, in a 17-minute bout at the Strathcona Paper Centre.
  
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• WWE's Characters And Cliffhangers Drive Global Success In TV, Film And Digital
  
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  A teary-eyed Stephanie McMahon, daughter of infamous World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Chairman Vince McMahon, vowed to avenge her father's presumed death. “Vengeance will be true,” said the shaken progeny of wrestling's impressario, who may or may not have “died” in a storyline currently running on WWE's cable and pay-per-view programming. Looking heavenward, she screamed, “I love you, Dad!” into a microphone emblazoned with the WWE logo.
  
  The current “investigation” into McMahon's “passing” is a melodrama that has played out effectively for the last few weeks. Before the “Is McMahon Dead?” cliffhanger, the Chairman (as he is known in the ring) staged a battle of media moguls with Donald Trump, a stunt that culminated with winners Trump and wrestler Bobby Lashley shaving McMahon's head in the ring during WrestleMania 23. The stunt proved lucrative: The match broke WWE pay-per-view records, with global revenues in excess of $24.3 million.
  
  Such staged spectacles are part of the over-the-top, soapy storylines that have propelled a small company into a publicly held global enterprise with a $1.2 billion market cap and thriving businesses in TV, film, live events, consumer products and digital media.
  
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