TAKE PWTORCH
WITH YOU! Get our iPhone App (FREE!): Click Here Or enter "PWTorch.com" on your Blackberry or other Smart Phone browser for mobile-version of PWTorch.
Torch Today
TOP SIX STORIES: Hogan to TNA, Raw Ratings, Christian-Yoshi Tatsu, Survivor Series title match, SD announcer change, DGUSA-ROH Oct 28, 2009 - 6:45:20 PM
Over the past 36 hours, several significant news stories have developed along with the major news of Hulk Hogan signing with TNA. In case you missed some of the big news on Tuesday and today, here's a Top Six look at the big news heading into the end of the week.
(1) Hulk Hogan signs with TNA
We'll have a comprehensive, definitive look at the Hulk Hogan to TNA story in a separate article on the site capturing every news angle and possible future angle to this story. Following is a list of our wall-to-wall news and analysis coverage of Hogan signing with TNA.
WWE Raw's TV ratings from Monday night surged 12.1 percent from the previous week's show. Adults and males 18-49 were up to the highest levels since the beginning of September. Our break down of the ratings is below.
Lost in the shuffle on Tuesday night was the near-four-star level match between Christian and Yoshi Tatsu for the ECW Title that aired on WWE's Tuesday night ECW TV show. The match was excellent and helped elevate both men in babyface champion and challenger roles.
WWE announced the Smackdown brand's World Title match for the Survivor Series PPV. WWE already had World Hvt. champion The Undertaker and Big Show in the match, but they will add a third person to make it a triple threat match. The match will take place on Friday night's show. Torch specialist Greg Parks's Spoiler Report live from New York is available below.
For the time being, Jim Ross has been replaced by Matt Striker as Smackdown's color commentator alongside Todd Grisham. Ross is still awaiting results from a series of tests to determine the severity of his recent Bell's Palsy attack. Until then, WWE has made a decision to put Striker in Ross's spot.
At the beginning of the week, Ring of Honor announced plans to hold their traditional WrestleMania weekend shows next March in Phoenix. A day later, Dragon Gate USA announced their plans to also run two shows during WrestleMania weekend. DGUSA announced they have signed top stars used by promotions, Davey Richards and the Young Bucks. The battle lines have already been drawn.
INCREDIBLE BENEFITS! Over 50 full-length audio updates per month (iPod compatible)... New weekly award-winning Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter (text and printable pdf versions) with latest exclusive insider news, new Torch Talks, great columns, Keller's cover story, much more... Hundreds of full-length back issues of PWTorch Newsletter from late-'80s to today... Ad-free access to PWTorch.com's Main Listing... VIP Forum with interaction with other subscribers and Torch staff... Torch Talk Library with text and audio of hundreds of interview installments from last 20 years... Great layout... Deepest archives on pro wrestling history anywhere... Keller's PWTorch Today PDF Bulletins with email alerts... VIP Email reports on major PPVs and TV shows... Staff Roundtable Reviews (text and audio) followiing major events... The best staff of writers and world class reporting since 1987... We'd love for you to join us and experience the most entertaining, authoritative, experienced staff of professional reporters and commentators in the business...
Compare the value of four or five months of PWTorch VIP content to the price of just one PPV. Can you cut 25 cents a day from your budget to make room for PWTorch VIP?
AND NEW FOR 2009! Monthly "Vintage Audio Torch Talks." We are releasing for the first time ever audio versions of our text Torch Talk updates, the historical first series of insider interviews ever. Wade Keller's newsmaking in-depth interviews with wrestling's biggest names are now being made available exclusively to VIP members. But you must be a member each month, as these are not archived, so they are replaced with a new one each month! This debuted in January 2009 with a 68 minute interview with the late "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith. Who's next? Hulk Hogan? Eric Bischoff? The Rock? Goldberg? Jeff Hardy?
