According to the Wrestling Observer, the Fabulous Moolah, Mae Young and Katie Glass had long ago purchased caskets and headstones for burial plots next to one another in a cemetery in Columbia, South Carolina. Glass, a former midget wrestler named Diamond Lil, was trained by Moolah, who considered Glass to be her daughter.
Brooke Adams, recently released by WWE, reportedly had heat with some of the other women there. Melina, for instance, was upset that Brooke wore a similar style of boots as hers in the Halloween costume Battle Royal on Raw recently. That was said to have been the last straw from other discrepancies and so Vince McMahon made the call to release her. John Laurinaitis had been a big fan and made a number of pitches on her behalf for all three shows before the Extreme Expose gimmick began. Originally the group was going to accompany 2 Cold Scorpio to the ring, riffing on his old Flash Funk gimmick, but Scorpio wound up never returning on ECW.
Further to the above, Jim Ross’ on-air criticism of the Halloween costume contest at Cyber Sunday was indeed scripted.
A potential future WWE Diva, Amy Hennig, the daughter of Curt Hennig, got a week-long try-out in OVW recently.
The decision to reunite D-Generation X for ‘one night only’ on Raw was made to try and appease Bonnie Hammer, the USA Network executive. She was a big fan during the 1998-2001 boom period and thinks bringing back more stars from that time will bring back more viewers too.
The 10 December edition of Raw will be a three-hour 15th anniversary special.
The 26 January house show in Providence, the day before the Royal Rumble, will be a tri-branded card.
Triple H got some backstage heat following the San Diego house show on 3 November. It was a Raw card with Rey Mysterio as a special addition, since the event was in his hometown. The last time he appeared there was when he had just had surgery and Vince McMahon had Umaga beat him up as part of the build towards a Vince/Mysterio match at SummerSlam that never actually happened. Umaga felt the best way to end the show would be with Mysterio, who is a good friend of his in real life, pinning him. The consensus of the other wrestlers was that it was the right way to book the main event, which saw Mysterio and Triple H team up to face Umaga and Randy Orton, yet Triple H made sure the finish was him pinning Orton.
Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter, 12 November 2007 (subscribe here)
