— As reported recently, WWE creative have brainstormed a program between Booker T and Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes. Plans are now in place for an angle between the two that would lead to the former World Heavyweight Champion’s return match. That angle may kick off as early as tonight’s SmackDown taping in Houston, Texas, Booker T’s hometown. Part of the reason WWE is doing the feud is to promote their upcoming The Best of King of the Ring DVD set, which Booker T is hosting. — Matches taped Monday in Austin, Texas for this week’s episode of WWE Superstars were Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston vs. JTG and Primo; Eve…

Swedish fashion retailer KappAhl is launching a new “playful” childrenswear brand, Minories in February 2021. As it looks to consolidate its position as a retailer of “good children’s clothes,” following on from the success of its Newbie brand. The childrenswear brand has been developed in-house to cater for 0 months to 8-year-olds, aimed at challenging gender stereotypes, which the fashion retailer describes as “super boring” to offer kids clothing that “makes a clear statement: kindness is a super-power”. Desiré Westerberg, vice president business unit kids, at KappAhl, said in a statement: “KappAhl is on the threshold of an exciting phase of growth, where Minories is one of the initiatives that…

AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost is confident that Pierre Gasly will be staying with the Red Bull family for some time to come. Gasly made his Formula 1 debut with the team (then called Toro Rosso) at Malaysia in 2017 and had a brief 12-race stint with the senior Red Bull team in 2019. But since his return to the smaller squad he finished on the podium in Brazil, and then went on to claim his maiden win in Monza last year. Read also: Gasly hails ‘best’ season ever – ‘fantastic job’ by Honda Despite a strong season, Gasly wasn’t considered for a second shot at the Red Bull seat when…

– In a piece of news that can’t be seen as good for TNA, Spike TV senior vice president Brian Diamond is no longer with the network. Diamond’s official title was “senior vice president of sports and specials for Spike TV.” Diamond was a strong supporter of TNA. Jon Slusser has been named as Diamond’s replacement. – TNA star Hulk Hogan appeared on the Howard Stern show this morning and set the record straight about an accusation his ex-wife made about him having a gay experience. He also talks about his ex-wife possibly being jealous of thier daughter Brooke: * John Morrison’s Final Days In WWE & Brock Lesnar Says…

WWE is looking to launch the WWE Network as soon as April – which is much earlier than many were expecting. By launching around the time of WrestleMania, WWE can take advantage of the increased exposure WrestleMania will bring to the product. As you can imagine, there will be a very aggressive marketing campaign leading up to the network’s debut. WWE has been conducting a number of online surveys in recent months – asking fans to name WWE shows, whether they’d switch cable providers in order to get the WWE Network and if they want to see WWE PPV events aired for free on the network. Originally, WWE discussed having…

Click:Plastic bag making machine According to WWE’s updated monthly Key Performance business figures, September’s Night of Champions pay-per-view (featuring Triple H’s in-ring return against CM Punk) drew only 165,000 pay-per-view buys. By comparison, this number is dead even with last year’s Night of Champion event. WWE has been doing approximately 64% of PPV buys from the United States, so applying that figure to the Night of Champions buyrate, the show did approximately that translates to roughly 105,000 buys from the United States and 60,000 buys internationally. For more on WWE’s monthly financial numbers from the company’s corporate site, click here (.PDF). * Pictures of WWE Divas as ZOMBIES For Halloween…

The Urban Wrestling Federation ran their latest pay-per-view event “Street King” on Sunday night .. Here are the results: Urban Wrestling Federation “Street King” PPV Results (Taped in Manhattan, NY) – Buck Chyld defeated Steve Mack in a loser leaves crew match. – The SAT’s defeated Lance Lude and Brian XL. – Eddie Carnage defeated B.C. Killer in a Night Club Brawl. – Rasche Brown beat Homicide, Bestia, and Ricky Reyes in a four-way elimination match to become the first UWF Champion. * Picture of RASCHE BROWN With the UWF Championship Belt

WWE taped Wednesday’s episode of NXT tonight form Hershey, PA. * Percy Watson beat Derrick Bateman. * JTG defeated Yoshi Tatsu. * Titus O’Neil beat Tyler Reks. Darren Young was in Reks’ corner while Percy was with Titus. They were sent to the back during the match but Young came back out after the match and beat Titus down. * STACY KEIBLER Suffers WARDROBE MALFUNCTION On The Red Carpet (VIEW HERE)

– WWE is looking to brand the WWE Network “the most interactive network on TV.” The idea is to feature programming that keeps people in front of their computers, cellphones and iPads. One idea is to have tweets from fans scrolling at the bottom of the screen, like an ESPN news ticker. – There’s a running joke going around WWE is that up-and-coming superstars should worry less about having good matches and interviews – and focus on being entertaining on Twitter. – On a related note, Vince reportedly is wanting certain Superstars to change their Twitter usernames. Dolph Ziggler’s Twitter name @HEELZiggler is on the chopping block – since Vince…

— Kelly Kelly has launched her official website, www.barbarablank.com. — The following was sent in: I recently put a bunch of rare WWE merchandise items up on eBay for auction starting at very low prices. Merchandise includes WWE DVDs, WWE Videogames, WWE T-Shirts, WWE Baseball Caps, WWE Bags, featuring John Cena, Triple H, WWE Legends and more. You can check out the auction at http://bit.ly/ncT6qy. — Kevin Nash stated this evening on Twitter that he’s packing his wrestling gear for tomorrow night’s Raw SuperShow in Tampa, Florida. He wrote, “Made up my mind, packing my wresteling gear. Someones getting a beat down in Tampa tomorrow night on Raw.” As of…