[MISC] Late Night News EXPLOSION

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– WWE.com has posted Foley’s latest blog (about being anti-ECW), a story on custom mouthpieces that Kurt Angle has had made, a video segment called 28 Segundos, a story about a disabled wrestler who will be attending Judgment Day, behind the scenes comments from the Summerslam commercial shoot and an interview with London & Kendrick about their Judgment Day title shot.

– Booker T and Batista had breakfast in NY before The CW network’s upfronts this week. You can read the story here.

– Benoit and Kidman talk ECW with the UK Sun, including comments from Kidman about how he feels WWE will fail with the ECW experiment, and pull the plug if it gets “too” successful.

– For a further interview with Benoit, where he talks about using Eddie in storylines and more, click here.

– HHH’s commercials can be found here.

– For more details on Ric Flair’s charges getting dropped in NC click here.

– MTV and VH-1 put together al ist of actors who can take a steel chair to the face, including Kane, who has been doing a ton of press for See No Evil which opens this weekend. For another story on Kane, click here, and click here for WWE.com’s interview with the monster. WWE.com has several superstar comments on the movie as well.

Deep South Wrestling, WWE’s Atlanta-based developmental territory which has been rumored to being axed when ECW comes back, relaunched its Web site.

– PWInsider.com reports that Mick Foley, WWE writer Brian Gerwitz and TNA producer Jesse Ward were all backstage visiting at the Ring of Honor event in Lake Grove, Long Island last Friday night. Foley lives close to the facility.

– Also from PWInsider.com: TNA iMPACT!’s ratings from last week were a 1.0, including a 1.3 among Males 18-49 and 1.9 for M18-34, and an average of 1.1 million viewers. The iMPACT! ratings have risen 20% in comparison to their Saturday averages, and the above numbers were #1 for the two important Male demographics in that timeslot.

– OVW developmental team the Highlanders have been working house shows and RAW dark matches.

– Eddie’s Guerrero’s official Web site, www.eddicts.com, now redirects to WWE.com. As reported in this week’s RabbleCast, the site was supposedly going to become a tribute to Eddie, but WWE’s plans are unknown at this point.

Credit: PWInsider.com, WrestlingObserver.com, WWE.com & other online sourcse

Matthew Michaels is editor emeritus of Pulse Wrestling, and has been since the site launched.