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Recap of The Rock on The Tonight Show, Ultimate Warrior Giving Away His Yellow IC Title
-- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. Johnson talked about his new film "Get
Smart" and they showed a clip of Johnson stapling a piece of paper to a guy's head. He spoke about phasing out "The Rock"
name and Jay acknowledged that he's probably the most famous "Dwayne" in the world. Johnson told a few stories, including
a recent one about a drunk woman sneaking onto the set of his new movie "Escape from Witch Mountain" and trying to kiss him
while the cameras were rolling. He also talked about being on a private jet that was shaking violently before taking off.
He was relieved to hear that the plane was a former Air Force Two (used by the First Lady of the United States) but then was
alarmed to learn the First Lady who used it was Nancy Regan, over 20 years ago. Leno asked Johnson his favorite TV shows were
and he answered Americas Most Wanted, Extreme Home Make Over and Family Guy.
-- The Ultimate Warrior is giving away his signed yellow Intercontinental title that he wore back in 1990. Here is the official
statement from Warrior:
"Here is your chance to win the Yellow Autographed Intercontinental Belt signed by the Ultimate Warrior! All you need to do
is comment on the video below to enter -- comment as many times as you want until we select the winner on June 25. The more
you comment, the better chance you have at winning."
Here's a link to the Youtube video where you can comment to become eligable.
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WWE Touts The Success of Most Recent Overseas Tour
World Wrestling Entertainment issued the following release today:
SmackDown®/ECW® Tour - The Biggest And Best Ever
June 19, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia, June 19, 2008 - On June 11, the entertainment heavyweight that is WWE® descended upon the shores of Australia
and New Zealand. The tour swept through seven cities in seven days, playing in front of fanatical crowds in Auckland, Christchurch,
Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, and Newcastle before finishing up in Brisbane on June 17, making it the longest live event tour
to date in the region.
Along with more than 68,000 WWE fans who attended the seven live events, ringside to watch the drama unfold were top TV comedian
Rove McManus, Australian cricket hero Shane Warne, former champion boxer Jeff Fenech, as well as stars from Newcastle Knights,
Sydney Swans, The NZ Warriors and Geelong Football Club.
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*Spoiler* On Undertaker's Return To Television, More On WWE's Decision To Bring Him On Tour Down Under sources: www.f4wonline.com,
Wrestling Observer Newsletter -- Undertaker will return to television by crashing the wedding between Edge & Vickie Guerrero
scheduled for a SmackDown taping in mid-July. He will then be plugged right back into his program with Edge and feud with
him for at least the rest of the summer. If they don't have a match at The Great American Bash, then definitely at SummerSlam,
although it looks like the wedding is happening before GAB, so they could hotshot it for that show too. There was a feeling
that his feud with Edge needed to be put on the shelf for a little while, although he did have some nagging injuries to tend
to. The feeling was that it was going to run out of steam without a major twist, hence the retirement storyline. -- As noted
earlier, despite his "retirement," Undertaker worked SmackDown's tour of Australia and New Zealand this past week. The decision
for him to retire on television was a last minute move, but he had been advertised as the top star on the tour, so they decided
to bring him on it. Tickets went on sale several months ago and the company drew huge advances everywhere, so a lot of fans
were expecting to see him. The storyline explanation for his appearances on the tour has Shane McMahon coming out at the start
of shows to say that he was talking with Vickie Guerrero and they agreed to let him have an "Undertaker farewell tour."
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