Wrestling News July 22, 2005
The latest WWE release is Ivory: Ivory’s World Wrestling Entertainment television contract will not be renewed. She will make her final appearance on The WWE Experience this weekend. WWE wishes Ivory well and hopes to work with her again in the near future.
SD: We all saw this coming. She’s been on the E-show and almost nowhere else since WWE Experience started. With the upcoming move to USA they will only have 1 broadcast hour of weekend programming. No way the fifth most watched weekend show makes the cut. No reason to keep the host then either. Funny it says “television contract” though — even funnier that everybody seems to gloss over that word. Will she be a trainer in the Deep South Wrestling territory opening soon?
WWE.com put out a release about the Muhammed Hassan/UPN situation. Due to the unfortunate terrorist attacks in London on Thursday, July 7, which coincided with our pre-produced WWE SmackDown! program, UPN has asked us to be sensitive to the usage of the Arab-American character, Muhammad Hassan. We have agreed with UPN, and have not had the character on SmackDown! since that date. It is uncertain as to whether or not the WWE will continue with this character beyond this Sunday’s Pay-Per-View, The Great American Bash.
SD: I hope creative can think of something better to do than “killing” him. Such as my suggestion to have him use his real name and calling out everybody because he exposed their racism. The dirtsheets are seem to agree that he’ll be sent back to OVW but I think it would be a mistake not to capitalize on the situation. We’ll see.
WWE says: Gunsmoke jobs to Raw. World Wrestling Entertainment will celebrate the milestone of producing the most original episodes of any weekly fictional entertainment program ever on television when Monday Night RAW airs on August 1 on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
RAW celebrates original episode No. 636 on August 1, surpassing the previous record-holder, Gunsmoke, which produced 635 original episodes during its 20-year run on television, according to several sources, including the book Gunsmoke: A Complete History and Analysis of the Legendary Broadcast Series with a Comprehensive Episode-by-Episode Guide to Both the Radio and Television Programs by Suzanne and Gabor Barabas. With a production schedule that calls for 52 original episodes a year, RAW surpassed the mark set by Gunsmoke in less than 13 years.
SD: Definitely a milestone. Now where’s the Raw is War Season 1 DVD box set already…?
SD: We all saw this coming. She’s been on the E-show and almost nowhere else since WWE Experience started. With the upcoming move to USA they will only have 1 broadcast hour of weekend programming. No way the fifth most watched weekend show makes the cut. No reason to keep the host then either. Funny it says “television contract” though — even funnier that everybody seems to gloss over that word. Will she be a trainer in the Deep South Wrestling territory opening soon?
WWE.com put out a release about the Muhammed Hassan/UPN situation. Due to the unfortunate terrorist attacks in London on Thursday, July 7, which coincided with our pre-produced WWE SmackDown! program, UPN has asked us to be sensitive to the usage of the Arab-American character, Muhammad Hassan. We have agreed with UPN, and have not had the character on SmackDown! since that date. It is uncertain as to whether or not the WWE will continue with this character beyond this Sunday’s Pay-Per-View, The Great American Bash.
SD: I hope creative can think of something better to do than “killing” him. Such as my suggestion to have him use his real name and calling out everybody because he exposed their racism. The dirtsheets are seem to agree that he’ll be sent back to OVW but I think it would be a mistake not to capitalize on the situation. We’ll see.
WWE says: Gunsmoke jobs to Raw. World Wrestling Entertainment will celebrate the milestone of producing the most original episodes of any weekly fictional entertainment program ever on television when Monday Night RAW airs on August 1 on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
RAW celebrates original episode No. 636 on August 1, surpassing the previous record-holder, Gunsmoke, which produced 635 original episodes during its 20-year run on television, according to several sources, including the book Gunsmoke: A Complete History and Analysis of the Legendary Broadcast Series with a Comprehensive Episode-by-Episode Guide to Both the Radio and Television Programs by Suzanne and Gabor Barabas. With a production schedule that calls for 52 original episodes a year, RAW surpassed the mark set by Gunsmoke in less than 13 years.
SD: Definitely a milestone. Now where’s the Raw is War Season 1 DVD box set already…?
posted by Stefan at 6:41 PM
1 Comments:
I believe the "television contract" referred to in Ivory's release denotes the contract that non-wreslting on-air performers have. They are for former wrestlers who still have an on-air role, like Al Snow, Jerry Lawler and Bill Demott.
I believe Al Snow talked about it saying he could do any indy show he wants except televised work without WWE's approval. Regular WWE wrestlers have to get approval from management.
Chris Arrant
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