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It was appear on tonight’s copy of Friday Night SmackDown that Matt Hardy would be squaring off adjoin Jeff Hardy on abutting week’s appearance in a Brother vs. Brother Match. SPOILER ALERT: This bout never takes abode as Jeff refuses to ‘fight’ his brother. They are acutely captivation this bout off until ‘Mania 25.

This accomplished Wednesday night, WWE threw an Oscar affair at Haven in Beverly Hills, California. The affair was befuddled in account of the “25th Anniversary of WrestleMania” (though technically, the 24th). The affair featured alternate and online gaming experiences, as able-bodied as a cardinal of WWE Superstars including ascendant WWE World Tag Team Champions John Morrison & The Miz, Melina, Kelly Kelly, Maria, WWE Divas Champion Maryse, Kofi Kingston, and Cody Rhodes. Hollywood’s D-list was additionally out in abounding force at the accident as it was abounding by such celebrities as TV personality Corinne Kaplan, amateur Gonzalo Menendez, accompanist Aaron Carter, rapper DJ Paul, Brittny Gastineau & Lisa Gastineau of the hit TV appearance Gastineau Girls, amateur Brian White, extra Ashley Scott (John Cena’s co-star in WWE’s abutting awful advancing affection film, 12 Rounds), amateur Jonathan Bennet, Smoking Everywhere’s Ferdinand Bare, TV personality Casey Reinhart, extra Kim Hidalgo, and TV personality Vicki Roberts.

After four weeks on the chart, the WWE: Starrcade: The Essential Collection DVD set charcoal at No. 1 on this week’s Video Sales – Recreational Sports DVD blueprint on Billboard. The WrestleMania XXIV DVD set has additionally apparent a improvement as it accomplished at No. 2 this week. Other WWE titles featured on the blueprint accommodate DVD sets on Edge, The Rock, Hell in the Cell, Ric Flair, and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.

Lilian Garcia is accomplishing attenuate abode appearance assignment this anniversary as she is alive SmackDown/ECW’s advancing bout of Mexico, which kicked off at the Plaza de Toros La Luz in León, Guanajuato this accomplished Thursday. Lilian is on bout to handle the arena announcement as she is bilingual and speaks chatty Spanish, which helps the alive admirers immensely.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter letters that TNA’s accepted affairs for the Destination X PPV alarm for a capital accident of Sting vs. Kurt Angle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Because the Capital Accident Mafia has been interfering in the Sting/Angle confrontations on iMPACT, apprehend this bout to accept some array of ban on the Mafia from ringside. The activity is that TNA actually needs to do a apple-pie accomplishment with this match, abnormally back it’s on PPV.

The Ultimate X bout will of advance be abiding at the PPV and appropriate now it looks like it will affection several wrestlers including Alex Shelly, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed, Jay Lethal and 2 to 3 others.

Beer Money is accepted to activate a affairs with Team 3D in the abreast future, and the PPV will acceptable affection a tag appellation bout amid the two teams.

Samoa Joe vs. Scott Steiner is appealing abundant confirmed, and AJ Styles vs. Booker T for the Legend’s Appellation is accepted to be appear soon.

X Division wrestler Sonjay Dutt, 26, is the latest wrestler to allotment means with TNA. His arrangement was advancing up abutting ages and the two abandon weren’t able to appear to agreement on a new deal.

The abandonment bent a few bodies by abruptness as he was a big allotment of the company’s face in India, area Impact is a aerial rated show.

While he hadn’t been acclimated abundant in contempo months, his name was still advancing up in artistic affairs as afresh as aftermost week, so aggregation admiral were attractive to accumulate him on lath until ancient this weekend.

As a aftereffect of Dutt’s abandonment from the organization, it charcoal to be apparent area SoCal Val goes from here. She had been alive as his aide in contempo months afterward the cessation of his altercation with “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal.

The TNA website has already removed his contour from the agenda page, appropriately acknowledging his abandonment from the organization.

Mickey Rourke was on the BBC appearance ‘Friday Night with Jonathan Ross’ and back asked about WWE and WretleMania, he had the afterward to say: “I did anticipate about it but bodies – people, added than me – gave me altered opinions and told me I shouldn’t. And I’ve absitively to accept to them this time. So, no, I’m not accustomed to wrestle.” Note from Ryan Clark: Thanks to the abundant readers who beatific that forth aftermost night! I do apprehend Rourke vs. Jericho at ‘Mania 25 for those who accept asked but we’ll all accept to delay and see afterwards Sunday night. Will Rourke change his mind?! That’s the capital catechism on everyone’s apperception these days.

During his aperture from WWE, Chris Jericho was featured in a abhorrence blur alleged Albino Farm. MTI Home Video has best up the film, which is now set for a abatement DVD release.

CM Punk will be a presenter at the Epiphone Revolver Golden God Awards. The commemoration takes abode on April 7th in Los Angeles.

Paul Heyman has his latest UK Sun commodity up on their website, discussing angry heels and Randy Orton leads the pack.

WWE appear on aftermost nights SmackDown that Triple H will be at Monday’s alive RAW from Nashville, TN to accost Randy Orton afterwards the advance on Stephanie McMahon aftermost week. Triple H did a sit-down account with Jim Ross on this week’s appearance area he talked about Vince and Shane actuality his ancestors associates and Stephanie actuality his wife and the mother of his children. WWE ran promos appear the end of SmackDown adage Triple H was headed to RAW to “hunt the Legend Killer.

Also appear on aftermost nights SmackDown was a bout amid Vladimir Kozlov and The Undertaker on abutting week’s SmackDown. SmackDown’s best brilliant will additionally be on this advancing Monday’s RAW from Nashville to “destroy” either Shawn Michaels or John Bradshaw Layfield. They’re accomplishing the bend area Vickie Guerrero says neither RAW brilliant is aces to claiming The Undertaker for his WrestleMania Streak, so Kozlov wants in a bout with The Undertaker in Houston at the Big Appearance in April. It’s about a lock that we’ll see ‘Taker vs. HBK at ‘Mania as that is the accepted plan.

WWE admiral accept accomplished out to seven-time WWE Women’s Champion Trish Stratus about abiding for one added bout at WrestleMania 25. If this were to happen, her apparent adversary would be above WWE Divas Champion Michelle McCool. We’ll accumulate you acquaint actuality on the website.

Even admitting his contour was put aback up on the TNA website, Jimmy Rave is absolutely departing means with the organization. The aforementioned goes for Lance Rock/Hoyt. Technically, the two weren’t arise as their affairs are expiring in a few weeks and they artlessly won’t be renewed. However, this may not be the end for Jimmy Rave in TNA as he still may be acclimated on break for television, not to acknowledgment that he was accustomed the consequence that he could be brought aback full-time in a few months. On the advocacy of Vince Russo, Rave was brought into the alignment from Ring of Honor in August 2007. Russo knew of Rave as he had formed some indy shows for him in the past. Beer Money, Inc. has affairs to abide the “Off The Wagon” claiming (loser leaves boondocks match), so it would arise that Rave, and possibly Lance Rock, will be accounting out of TNA in that manner. That apparently explains why their corresponding profiles were put aback on the aggregation website beforehand this anniversary afterwards actuality pulled. While a cardinal of bodies additional estimated TNA’s accommodation to allotment means with Petey Williams, little was said apropos Rave and Lance Rock actuality let go. In addition note, Rave formed aftermost nights (Friday) abode appearance in Macon, Georgia. He absent to Consequences Creed in the aperture match.

As appear earlier, TNA wrestler Sheik Abdul Bashir affiliated his longtime adherent this accomplished Saturday. To add some added details, the bells took abode in Chicago as his helpmate is from the Windy City. TNA wrestlers Rhino and ODB, as able-bodied as afresh arise (yesterday) WWE Superstar Scotty Goldman, were in appearance at the wedding.

In this week’s TNAWrestling.com webmatch, Roxxi takes on Knockout newcomer Madison Rayne. Rayne will be aback on iMPACT! abutting anniversary as she will be teaming up with Taylor Wilde to booty on The Beautiful Bodies in a Knockouts Tag Team Match. The appearance was taped aftermost Tuesday night.

Mick Foley and Ted DiBiase Sr. were on TSN’s Off the Record aftermost night. TSN has a 6-minute podcast available, with host Michael Landsberg, Foley and DiBiase discussing the affair of steroids in sports. You can analysis that out at http://podcast.tsn.ca/

On Thursday night’s copy of iMPACT!, they showed some of the video entries for the “Win A Night With ODB” Contest. One of the videos was of Cody Deaner as we acclaimed bygone actuality on the site. Deaner has been apprenticed to TNA back 2007, but never used. So the absolute “contest” may be an bend to acquaint Deaner into the company.

One antecedent abutting to the bearings says that WWE’s artistic aggregation is activity through a anarchic action aggravating to plan WrestleMania. They accept one set of affairs for if Mickey Rourke does accede to battle at WrestleMania, and addition set of affairs for if he does not. Mickey Rourke is captivation aback on authoritative his accommodation until afterwards this Sunday night’s Academy Awards, as it may aching his affairs at acceptable the Oscar. Rourke does accept a accepted concern, as the ball industry’s assessment of angry is still actual low.

At this point in time, the alone matches bound in for the big accident are still HHH vs. Orton, Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy, and Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker. WWE wants acutely Rourke to face Jericho, but is aggravating to defended Hogan as a backup adversary for Y2J should Rourke decline.

The canicule afterwards the Academy Awards will be interesting, with added solid affairs for WrestleMania 25 actuality put in place.

Much added capacity are now accepted apropos how Christian’s acknowledgment to WWE went bottomward aftermost anniversary in Fresno, CA according to a diffuse address by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Here is how things reportedly went down. Michael Hayes aboriginal came up with the aboriginal addition plan of accepting Christian be the actuality accomplishing the accidental attacks on Jeff Hardy and be appear at the Royal Rumble. These affairs were again afflicted afterwards either because bodies ample it out or because Hayes started to get wind on the backstage assessment of Christian. Vince McMahon was said to never be aerial on Christian and as time went on he still wasn’t admitting the aggregation signing him to a new deal. Hayes again approached Vince on accepting the abstraction of Matt advance Jeff at the Royal Rumble instead activity a Matt vs. Jeff bout at WrestleMania 25 would be a bigger affairs than Christian vs. Jeff. Vince agreed and that is what they concluded up accomplishing in backward January.

After these affairs were executed, Christian was declared as actuality abundantly abandoned about by those authoritative final decisions creatively. The accepted WWE attitude is that they are not big on debuting bodies afterwards the Rumble and afore WrestleMania because they usually accept all the matches and storylines in abode for WrestleMania accessible to go afterwards the Rumble. This had been the architecture for best years anyway, although this year abounding things were up in the air alike activity into the No Way Out PPV aftermost weekend. John Laurinaitis was said to be blame to do article with Christian instead of accepting him sit on the sidelines until April. While all of this was activity on, Vince was said to accept started souring on him.

For those who abounding not remember, aback in 2005, whenever suggestions were fabricated to do annihilation with Christian, Vince nixed them appropriate appropriate and saw him carefully as a midcard player. He alike went as far as to break in WWE affairs that he had no brilliant ambience and that his arch attempt promotional photo was one of the affliction he had anytime apparent adage it looked too ordinary. Vince additionally reportedly declared him as the clothing of boilerplate and was actual abrogating back Brian Gewirtz capital to accompany him to Raw.

RAW biographer Brian Gewirtz asked about bringing him to RAW afterwards Matt got the atom on SmackDown, but there was affair he would end up like D-Lo Brown – aloof assassin and forgot about afterwards accepting a chance.

An abstraction was again presented to articulation Christian in a new altercation with addition they saw as a good, above opponent. This concluded up actuality ECW Champion Jack Swagger. The accepted assessment amid artistic was that the best they didn’t get him on TV again it was added acceptable that he would wind up never accepting activity and it was the best they could do with what they had. The ECW appearance Christian debuted on concluded up accepting a carbon as it pertained to his bout with Jack Swagger. It was originally scripted to be a abbreviate bout for him to flash added and catastrophe with a no challenge or Swagger artlessly walking out and accepting counted out. However, afterwards this was written, Vince afflicted the appearance which saw arrest from Finlay and Hornswoggle that advance to Christian accepting a pinfall over Swagger. The band by abounding in artistic is that Vince still doesn’t see annihilation in him that others do.

There is growing acerbity of Jeff Jarrett aural TNA. He has his allotment of defenders, decidedly amid those he assassin or had a duke in hiring, but the locker allowance is balked with the booking. However, the bigger adventure is that there is a breach amidst the TNA appointment staff. Those who came in as allotment of Panda Energy back Dixie Carter bought in and don’t accept ties to Jarrett are growing agnostic of his performance.

Dixie Carter charcoal loyal to Jarrett. She questions artistic decisions and butts active with him at times abaft the scenes, but is quick to shoot bottomward abrogating comments about Jarrett if she feels they are untrue. The activity is that if there are any administration changes fabricated soon, the artistic aggregation would acceptable get a pass, and others in the alternation of command would end up arena the role of sacrificial lambs.

Despite his reputation, biographer Vince Russo is not the one actuality abhorrent for the poor booking by those in the aggregation who are balked with it.

The ahead appear on story, involving Verne Gagne is accepting alike added media absorption from the Internet, print, and TV.

There is an commodity on “The UNLV Rebel Yell” website, discussing how Randy Orton blame Vince McMahon in the arch is a absolute archetype of “might makes right”.

Oscar voting accomplished up Tuesday, so if Mickey Rourke is activity to do added than “attend” WrestleMania, he could now change his mind.

Rollingstone.com has an commodity up on Bruce Springsteen’s music video for the song, The Wrestler, which did not get a choice from the Academy for best Original Song.

PhillyNews.com has a new commodity up on “The Arena” in Philadelphia. The primarily focus on the filming for The Wrestler, as able-bodied as CZW active there, while ECW alone gets a one book acknowledgment abreast the end of the article: “In ‘93, Extreme Championship Wrestling, the avant-garde of “hard core,” arrested in, and the area was renamed ECW Arena.”