Random News: Daniels At Marvel, UFC/WWE, ECW Reunion Show

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Recent Disney acquisition Marvel.com has video of Christopher Daniels interviewing Invincible Iron Man and Uncanny X-Men writer Matt Fraction at this year’s Comic Con. Thanks to Ben Morse for pointing this out.

MMA Torch’s Jason Bent thinks UFC may be following WWE’s lead a little too closely with all the PPVs.

Professional wrestling used to have but a few PPV events per year and slowly but surely increased the amount in direct correlation to the sheer number of people who would buy all of them. In the times of WCW vs. WWE, there were a minimum of two PPV events per month, and this number stayed true once McMahon finally controlled the entire industry. It made sense, the business was hot, fans were buying t-shirts and video games and ponying up the dollars to watch each and every PPV event without fail.

Well, until the bubble burst and having multiple PPV events seemed like a bad idea. What made it seem like a bad idea was that fans were flocking to MMA in droves and away from professional wrestling. Not all fans left professional wrestling for MMA, but by and large, a bulk of the fans did switch their allegiances, going from wearing “Suck It” to “TapouT” overnight. Suddenly, there was no market for two professional wrestling PPV events per month and WWE is lucky to garner 250K buys for an event.

PWI’s Mike Johnson has an update on the Shane Douglas run ECW reunion show which may or may not happen. Things aren’t looking good, as he hasn’t secured a venue and the show’s meant to happen on November 7th.