Archive for September 16th, 2009

UFC held its “UFC Fight Night 19″ event as a lead-in to the tenth season premiere of “The Ultimate Fighter” Wednesday. Headlined by Melvin Guillard vs. Nate Diaz, the card also featured an intriguing bout between touted lightweights Gray Maynard and Roger Huerta. Who won the key fights? Quick results follow! Ryan... »

With singles “Run This Town” and “Empire State of Mind” presently all over the place, week two of Jay-Z’s “The Blueprint 3″ will be another good one. The album is poised to stay on top of the pack with over 200,000 sales for its second week, according to Hits Daily Double estimates. It debuted... »

– WWE Chief Executive Officer Linda McMahon stepped down Wednesday in conjunction with plans to run for United States Senate. McMahon, from Connecticut, would seek the Republican nomination for incumbent Christopher Dodd’s seat. Rob Simmons, Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley are also in the race on the republican side. “I never do anything half-heartedly,” said... »

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the decision to script a Jeff Hardy-centric line into CM Punk’s Breaking Point promo was a late call that garnered lockerroom heat. Several WWE employees close to Hardy deemed the reference to Jeff’s arrest “classless,” although the feeling was that it was, in the grand scheme of things, a... »

Things did not look good when “Melrose Place” (which, based on reviews, was not going to have the benefit of post-show word-of-mouth) premiered to lukewarm numbers last week. Sure enough, the show suffered an alarming dip in week two. Week two of “Melrose” dropped to a mere 1.4/2 household rating with 1.8 million total... »

– Courtney Taylor is WWE.com’s Daily Diva for September 16. The Miz is Superstar of the Day. – After initially hesitating to offer official confirmation on the matter, Eric Bischoff formally announced to Prowrestling.net that Ric Flair has signed on for the upcoming “Hulkamania” tour in Australia. – According to early reports from this week’s... »

– According to F4WOnline.com, the recent string of developmental roster cuts could grow in the coming weeks. Nothing has been confirmed–and PWInsider, in fact, reported that all names who had been rumored as released have now been made public–but that is a story going around. – On the TNA front, the company released BG... »