News & Notes

- Scheduled for the FCW event in Kissimmee, Florida on July 22nd are Sheamus, The Uso Twins, Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov. The show starts at 7pm.

- Super Luchas reports this week that EMLL will debut their new Mistico this coming Friday night at their Arena Mexico show, the same night that WWE will be in town with the former Mistico, Sin Cara.

- Stan sent word that there was 34 minutes and 21 seconds of in-ring action on this past Friday’s SmackDown, down from the previous week’s 36 minutes and 31 seconds.

- WWE officials have been surprised at the uproar of criticism from fans after Christian lost the World Heavyweight Title to Randy Orton. Officials weren’t expecting there to be such a backlash against Orton.

- John Morrison will be appearing at the FYE store on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, DC on June 19th at 11am. The signing is open to the first 200 fans and a wristband policy is in effect. Wristbands will be given to the first 200 attendees that purchase the WrestleMania 27 DVD/Blu-ray or the John Morrison: Rockstar DVD.

- WWE has replaced their “50 Biggest Matches in WWE History” DVD set with a new set called “50 Most Shocking, Surprising & Amazing Moments in WWE History”, scheduled for release on August 23rd in DVD and Blu-ray formats.

- In an update on the story about Mick Foley wanting to appear at last week’s RAW for The Rock’s birthday, Foley actually heard weeks before that there would be a birthday party for The Rock on RAW and was interested in going and being a part of it in some way. Foley thought the party would be on the April 18th RAW and he had a TNA appearance that night that was canceled. So Foley asked if he could attend the April 18th RAW, which was actually in London, thinking it was in Miami.

About an hour later, Foley found out that he had the dates mixed up and that Rock’s birthday celebration was scheduled for May 2nd. Foley already knew he was scheduled for iMPACT tapings on May 2nd and the story ends there. Foley did ask TNA’s Dixie Carter and Terry Taylor if he could go to RAW when he thought it was on April 18th and was reportedly given permission.