The News Dribble for February 8th, 2007

News

Trish Stratus is going home

My priority right now is to enjoy my husband and then I’ll come back and see what offers are on my desk and move forward with something really fun.

Read more on where Trish’s life is at in an About.com interview

One of us! One of us! Lance Storm explains why he dogs on TNA


WWE and TNA are in two completely different boats. WWE has a stable loyal audience that tunes in every week, buys enough merchandise, and orders enough PPVs for WWE to make money. As long as they don’t do enough stupid things to drive their audience away in droves they will stay in business. TNA on the other hand does not have a large enough fan base, and they do not order enough PPVs, for TNA to stay in business without financial help. So TNA needs to attract a ton of new fans in order to become a success. When your goal is to attract new fans rather than just not repel current ones you need to be far more careful and can get away with far fewer mistakes.

Check out the rest here

Jake the Snake Roberts removed from wrestling event by the police:
This report comes to us by the way of the Pro Wrestling Insider, I’m surprised no one else has reported this:

“One of the most talked about stories of the past weekend was former WWF star Jake Roberts being escorted by local authorities from Friday night’s Full Impact Pro event in Melbourne, Florida. Roberts was booked against Larry Sweeney after an angle the previous month. After Larry Sweeney cut a promo inside the ring to build to the match later in the event, Roberts demanded more money from promoter Sal Hamoui, claiming he didn’t know the show was being filmed for DVD release, although his previous appearance for the company was also filmed for DVD. Hamoui refused to adhere to the request, which led to Roberts refusing to wrestle. After an argument between the two, Hamoui finally called the local authorities to escort Roberts from the venue. Roberts later defended himself via a MySpace.com statement. Hamoui booked WSX’s Sean Waltman to appear the next day in Crystal River, Florida to replace Roberts.”

Amazing. Simply amazing.

JR blogs and damn, that’s some good bloggin

News flash: ECW is being re-designed and it will most likely never resemble the original ECW ever again. I am sorry to be the bearer of this particular piece of bad news but let’s see where it goes over the next year before some long time fans contemplate watching the NHL .only kidding about the NHL.

That settles it. I’m going to JR’s house to cover ECW this week. Who wants to join me? Read more here.

Rhino enjoys cutting his lawn. And he never burned the ECW title belt.
I’m sure no one ever thought he actualy burned his title belt. That’d be insanity. This is according to an interview he did with his local paper in Michigan. Other interest points are that the WWE attempted to get the belt back when they re-launched ECW and that he was also offered his old job back in ECW as well.

BG James says now’s a good time to go back to the WWE

“If I were to go back up [to WWE], now would be a really good time to do it … a wrestling contract is barely worth the paper it’s written on … it’s very one-sided, it’s very pro-promoter, anti-talent. It’s very one way … so yeah, you get yourself a decent lawyer and you can get out of that, no problem.”

His words, not mine.

Newspaper writes fluff piece on two wrestlers, internet columnist posts link, you visit and drive up advertising numbers for said newspaper
The Del Rio News Herald wrote a piece about Kennedy and Mickie James. Not exactly an amazing article, but not a bad read.

Dan Severn has 21 year old son, local paper writes about it
The Daily Journal wrote an article giving a profile of Dan Severn’s son Mike. That’s all.

Today’s news that doesn’t require an exclaimation point:
Cheerleader Melissa re-launches her website!
Just like the headline suggests, www.cheerleadermelissa.com is all new.