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Submitted by Blake Wolfson on Monday, November 26, 2001 at 4:53 PM EST
Here is tonight's RAW line-up: As was reported late last week, Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. William Regal may happen as the show's 1st hour main event. Just an update on what we covered a few days ago concerning the WCW talent in HWA. They will be re-introduced to storylines as early as this and next week, so it was just all an angle for a few shows. Rikishi will make his debut in HWA on 12/1 teaming with D'Lo Brown vs. EZ Money and Johnny The Bull. There are rumors circulating that The Undertaker may be turned heel in the next few weeks, but at this stage, it's only a rumor. Stacy Keibler limped to the back after last night's WWF show in Tulsa, OK, and at this point it is unclear whether is was a legit injury, or just a sell job. Chris Jericho was kept off weekend shows so his heel bruise could heal, but as noted above he will return to action tonight. The WWA crew which begins a two-week tour in England and Ireland left the US yesterday. [Source: WrestlingObserver.com] Booker T was cut open and suffered a possible concussion after receiving a Van Daminator at Sunday's Tulsa, OK show. Booker is now added to the list of recently busted open guys by RVD including Steve Austin, Kurt Angle (three times), Chris Jericho (twice), Test and Raven. [Source: 1wrestling.com] Thanks to Robert Fallon for sending these in: 11/24/01 - Lodi's latest commentary http://www.lodipage.com/commentary.htm 11/24/01 - Click here to read the latest Update from Kurt, where he answers some of your questions! http://www.kurtanglewwf.com/updates/102701update.htm 11/26 (Monday) is Ivory's birthday. UPN sets WWF Divas special By John Dempsey NEW YORK (Variety) - The World Wrestling Federation will produce ``WWF Divas,'' a one-hour prime-time entertainment special for UPN in March that will be similar to the annual TV edition of the ``Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.'' ``WWF Divas,'' the UPN prime-time special, will center on a photo shoot on location in the Bahamas featuring such muscular bombshells as Lita, Trish Stratus, Torrie Wilson and Stacy Keibler. McMahon said it's the first of a potential seven specials a year that the WWF could produce as part of an overall deal with Viacom, which owns, among other networks, UPN and TNN. That's the word from Linda McMahon, CEO of WWF Entertainment, who also told analysts during a conference call about fiscal second-quarter earnings that she will soon hire a full-time Hollywood-based programming executive to coordinate the deluge of ideas flowing into the federation for theatricals, TV movies and series. For the quarter ended Oct. 26, WWFE saw revenues fall off dramatically to $98.2 million from $111.9 million a year ago; net income was halved from $9.5 million to $4.8 million this quarter. McMahon blamed ``softness in our ratings, attendance and pay-per-view buys during the quarter,'' reinforced by ''the continued economic downturn and the impact of the Sept. 11 tragedy.'' Ratings are off for both the UPN Thursday night ``WWF Smackdown'' and the TNN Monday night ``WWF Raw,'' at least in part because ``we haven't delivered storylines as compelling'' as the shows' fans are used to, McMahon said. ADDING FLAIR But wrestler-entrepreneur Rick Flair, formerly of World Championship Wrestling (the company that the WWF bought early this year), has signed with Vince McMahon, chairman of the WWF and Linda McMahon's husband. Linda McMahon said WWF writers are planning a story arc that will turn Vince and Flair into powerful on-air antagonists, creating the kind of top-of-the-lungs conflict that wrestling fans dote on. She added that even though she wants to get WWF personalities into movies and TV shows, ``we won't do it at the expense of our main brand'' -- the 200 or so live events every year, 52 of which go out live over TNN, another 52 on tape for UPN and a dozen or more for pay-per-view. McMahon said there's very little chance she'd allow one of her star wrestlers to take the lead in an action-adventure series, for example, because it would prevent him or her from performing in arenas for six months or more each year. ENRAPT BY 'SCORPION' But she's enthusiastic about Universal's forthcoming ''The Scorpion King,'' a sequel to ``The Mummy Returns'' that stars Dwayne ``the Rock'' Johnson: If it's a hit, the Rock's appearances on TNN, UPN and PPV will probably attract more viewers than they do now. Also, Linda and Vince McMahon will each get an executive producer's credit on the movie, pocketing an undisclosed fee for their approval of U's casting of the Rock. [Source: Yahoo! News] ULTIMOWRESTLING.COM
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