WWE held its Scooby Doo! WrestleMania Mystery premiere in New York earlier today to celebrate the release of the latest collaboration between WWE Studios and Warner Bros.
WWE Superstars Brodus Clay, Sin Cara, The Miz, Kane, Triple H, AJ Lee, and Stephanie McMahon were present for the premiere along with Scooby Doo.
The movie is being released on DVD on March 25 however it’s already available on iTunes.
You can see photos from the premiere below.
The Royal Rumble received 445,000 buys worldwide this year, down almost 100,000 buys from last year’s show which was headlined by The Rock and CM Punk in a WWE title match.
This year’s Rumble featured the return of Batista and a WWE World Heavyweight title match between Randy Orton and John Cena. It will probably be forever remembered as the night CM Punk worked his last WWE match since he walked out of the company the day after.
Meanwhile, the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view had 203,000 buys worldwide, also down from last year’s show by about 10,000 buys. Last year CM Punk and The Rock also headlined that show with the main event this year being an Elimination Chamber match for the WWE World Heavyweight title.
Episode one of season two of Total Divas drew 1,070,000 viewers on Sunday which featured the introduction of Summer Rae to the cast.
That is down from the 1.34 million opener of season one and down from the 1.29 million season one finale this past December.
The $5,500 Hulk Hogan boot which was stolen over the weekend from the Hogan’s Beach Shop in Clearwater, Florida, was returned according to TMZ.COM.
TMZ reports that when the husband of one of the four women who were involved in the theft saw the news, convinced his wife to help return the boot to its owner.
Hogan told TMZ that while the woman who originally stole the boot went back home to Michigan, she left the memorabilia in her friend’s car who lives in Tampa. After the woman called the store to return the boot, staff at Hogan’s Beach Shop called the cops and police officers met the woman as soon as she came in with the boot.
The woman who returned the boot was not arrested, but a warrant was issued in Michigan for the woman who actually stole the boot.
TNA Wrestling has unveiled the Slammiversary travel packages for their twelfth annual pay-per-view which will be held at the College Park Center at the University of Texas at Arlington on Sunday, June 15.
All travel packages include premiere seating at the Slammiversary XII PPV, 3 nights hotel accommodations, an exclusive Welcome Reception with TNA Superstars on Friday, June 13, VIP Weekend Pass which includes a full-day pass to Six Flags Over Texas on Saturday, June 14, meet and greet sessions with TNA Superstars, a Slammiversary XII Anniversary Celebration inside Six Flags, an exclusive breakfast Before the Bell with TNA Superstars on Sunday, June 15, and a commemorative Slammiversary XII souvenir.
For more information and prices go to http://shoptna.com/slamm-14-tp.aspx.
WWE sent an e-mail to ask what fans would like to watch as part of the WWE Network reality series, pitching a total of nine shows to its customers.
The titles of these shows are Blackman’s Bounties, NXT: Behind the Scenes, Pros vs. Joes, WWE Around the World, WWE Dirty Jobs, WWE Prankdown, WWE Rescue, WWE Ultimate Challenge, and Xtreme WWE Collector starring Michael Patterson.
These shows are take-offs of shows that are already available on television such as Dog The Bounty Hunter, Toy Hunter, Nanny 911, The Amazing Race, etc, but obviously with a WWE or wrestling flavor to them.
A preview of Blackman’s Bounties, featuring former WWE Superstar Steve Blackman has been online since the end of 2012 but no one has picked the series up.
WTSP in Tampa, Florida, is reporting that Clearwater Police are investigating the theft of an expensive piece of memorabilia which was stolen from the Hulk Hogan Beach Shop on Sunday.
An autographed wrestling shoe once worn by Hogan which carries a price of $5,500 was stolen by a white female in her 50’s on Sunday afternoon.
Police say four women came into Hogan’s Beach Shop at 5:16PM and four minutes later, a large statue of Hogan fell over outside the premises, and store workers were temporarily distracted. When employees walked out to see what happened, one of the women stole the shoe which was only discovered missing on Tuesday evening.
A video of the theft can be seen below.
WWE has fixed what seems to be the final issue with the WWE Network for Xbox 360 users, with WCW and ECW pay-per-views now available.
The pay-per-views are now available under Shows and then Vault. It is very important that under content controls, the setting must be set to allow TV-14 content otherwise nothing will show up.
To change the content controls, go to Xbox Settings, click on Family, and then allow TV-14 content under Content Controls. After you save the settings you will need to restart the WWE app.
The WrestleMania pre-show will not be 30 minutes or 60 minutes as in previous years, but a whooping two hours!
WWE today announced that a “super-sized” WrestleMania XXX pre-show will air live, with the first hour starting at 5PM EST and airing only on the WWE App, WWE.COM, YouTube, and Facebook, and then at 6PM EST the pre-show will move over exclusively on the WWE Network.
The first hour will only feature analysis of the show from the yet-to-be announced panel and interviews while the second hour will also feature a pre-show match.
It is going to be a very busy day for the WWE production team as with the four hours of pay-per-view, they are now looking at six hours of straight live programming.
Quoting the latest WWE SEC filings, the Hartford Courant newspaper is reporting that Vince McMahon took a 30% pay cut last year, getting $1.7 million in salary, down $732,000 from the previous year.
The three quarters of a million less in salary however is not really affecting McMahon, as his and his wife’s WWE stocks generated an additional $677 million since the start of the new year and the recent spike on Wall Street.
The company’s stock jumped 50% from the end of 2013 to now among many rumors and the start of the WWE Network.
The WWE Network free trial will be ending on Saturday, March 22, and it’s the last chance to try out the product for free most likely till the Summer.
Those who took the free trial already but decided not to take a subscription are also being offered a second week free via e-mail from WWE, as the company hopes of a six month commitment the second time around.
If you decide to take the free trial, WWE will charge you $9.99 on your credit card however you will be refunded if you cancel before the trial ends.
TMZ’s latest story involves UFC champion Ronda Rousey and her love of professional wrestling, saying she’d be up to appear at a WrestleMania.
However, she’d only do it if WWE hires her gang with her – Shayna Baszler, Marina Shafir and Jessamyn Duke – who call themselves the Four Horsewomen. All four are MMA fighters are and all four are huge wrestling fans. Last week, Rousey posted a video on her Instagram working a wrestling match with Baszler.
Sources close to Rousey told TMZ that while this year’s WrestleMania is out of the question, she’d be all for WrestleMania 31 next year in Santa Clara, California.
The possibility of this happening however is close to zero since UFC President Dana White would probably not allow one of his top stars to participate at a WWE event.
TNA Hall of Famer and former champion Sting will be in New Orleans on WrestleMania Sunday, however he will be at the WrestleCon event rather than on screen at the big pay-per-view.
Merchandise website Highspots.com announced that the Stinger will be their guest at WrestleCon, taking photos and signing autographs from 10:30AM to 1:30PM on Sunday, April 6.
There are only 250 tickets available to get up close with Sting and they will sell for $99 each, which includes a photo op and an autograph. You will also need a WrestleCon entrance ticket.
For more information go to WrestleCon.com.
After RAW went off the air, the show continued for those who were present in San Antonio, Texas, with the usual post-RAW antics.
John Cena came out to talk to the crowd when all of a sudden Bray Wyatt, Eric Rowan and Luke Harper of the Wyatt Family tried to spoil the party. The three on one affair soon turned into a 3 on 2 with help in the form of the Undertaker.
With the lights out and the “gongs” on the speakers, the Undertaker suddenly appeared in the ring when the lights came back up. Bray Wyatt quickly exited the ring as Cena and Undertaker beat up Rowan and Harper and then delivered a chokeslam and Attitude Adjustment in sync to send the crowd home happy.
You can see the video below.
Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Scott Hall will be hosting “A Night with Wrestling Legends” on Friday, April 4, at the House of Blues in New Orleans.
“Hey yo, ‘The Bad Guy’ and ‘The Snake’ coming to New Orleans, WrestleMania weekend, big time Hall of Fame party,” Hall says in a commercial which has Roberts and Hall “playing” musical instruments.
Roberts said on his Twitter that it will be a “star studded party” and there will be a lot of surprises for those who wish to join them.
Hall is expected to be announced as the final member of the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2014.
Tickets for this event are being sold at Livenation.com with general admission tickets on sale for $137 and VIP tickets for $512.
The Undertaker will be making his first appearance on Main Event tonight on the WWE Network at 9PM EST as he responds to Paul Heyman’s promo as the feud between Taker, Heyman, and Lesnar continues to play out for WrestleMania.
Ever since Main Event has shifted to airing live on the WWE Network, WWE has been putting some big names on the show in a bid to increase viewership as well as to continue testing the live streaming capabilities of the infrastructure while hoping to fix any bugs in time for WrestleMania.
Main Event will air as well on iON tomorrow night in its usual time slot.
If you are thinking of benefiting from the one-week free WWE Network trial, you better do it fast as the promotion is coming to an end.
With WrestleMania XXX fast approaching, WWE will be shutting down the free trial so anyone who wants to watch WrestleMania will be locked-in in a six month commitment. There was never a plan to let the free week trial run through WrestleMania and the promotion was used to encourage people to sign up.
With some pay-per-view providers dumping WWE, the WWE Network will be the only option to legally watch WrestleMania if your cable or satellite provider has decided not to air WrestleMania.
WWE has so far not released any subscriber numbers for the WWE Network but plans to give the first figure on April 7, the day after WrestleMania XXX.
If you are overseas and you are interested in watching the WWE Network, you can follow our tutorial guide at http://w-o.it/1k4w3Yu
Arnold Schwarzenegger will be returning to WWE next Monday on RAW and will be making a guest appearance to promote his new movie Sabotage. Coming with “Terminator” will be his co-star in the movie, Joe Manganiello.
In 2012, Schwarzenegger was the social media ambassador for RAW and in 1999 he appeared in an episode of Smackdown and got physical with Triple H, attacking the former champ and then drank a few beers with Steve Austin in the ring to celebrate.
Last year, the former California Governor inducted Bruno Sammartino in the WWE Hall of Fame in Madison Square Garden.
Apart from the two stars of Sabotage, WWE will be using the Scooby-Doo cast as well on the show to promote the new Scooby-Doo WrestleMania Mystery movie.
The WrestleMania XXX main event is now officially a triple threat, although the third addition will still have to be decided earlier in the night on April 6.
During yesterday’s Monday Night RAW opening segment, former Evolution members Triple H, Randy Orton, and Batista had a little fall out which ended with Triple H announcing the change of the WrestleMania main event.
HHH said that when he beats Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania, he will go on to the main event for the WWE World Heavyweight title which surprisingly enough got a nice pop from the crowd.
If Daniel Bryan defeats Triple H, it will be Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton vs Batista for the title.
