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WHY THERE IS A TWO HOUR WRESTLEMANIA PRE-GAME, CODY ON RESURRECTION OF THE IC TITLE, FOLEY ON BRYAN-HHH ENDING OF RAW AND MORE NEWS

By Mike Johnson on 2014-03-20 11:12:17
The reason there will be two hours of a Wrestlemania pre-game show is that the first hour is being designed to push fans online to sign up to watch the show via the WWE Network. The second hour will then be the traditional pre-game show on The Network, PPV barter channels, etc.

Mick Foley wrote a new blog on Facebook looking at The Daniel Bryan beating angle that closed Raw, praising it at this link. Foley wrote, "Yes, it was brutal, yes it was tough to watch at certain points - but it served notice to all of those who had forgotten, that Triple H was one of the best bad guys of his generation - and Stephanie, with her recent work on the microphone, has become an abslolutely compelling authority figure - as effective as I've ever seen her; seemingly channelling her inner Vince. I've known Stephanie a long time, and somewhere in the McMahon/Helmsley home, she still has the pot-holder my daughter made for her many, many years, ago. No matter what happens in business, she is someone I will always consider a friend. But man, do I want to see her get what she has coming to her? Maybe a WWE Diva who might happen to have a close connection to Daniel Bryan to smack the taste out of her mouth. Any candidates?"

TorrentFreak.com featured an article on what WWE legal allegedly did to track down a Romanian man that was illegally offering their events via online streaming.

Cody Rhodes was interviewed by The Hartford Courant to promote this weekend's house shows at this link. On spending his own money to have the old Intercontinental championship rebuilt so it could be brought back, Rhodes said, "Sometimes, stuff happens. Sometimes, there's no plan. Sometimes, you've got to be ready for that red light to turn on and have a new look or something about you. I had been going to WWE management about the Intercontinental title for five, six weeks, and I was met kind of roughly individually each time. But to me, it's because they weren't my age. It wasn't because they thought I was stupid. I think it's initially because they didn't connect with my generation because they aren't part of my generation. Three weeks in, I was very confident that I was going to get them to say yes on it out of pestering them alone, so I went ahead and followed through in getting it made for that reason. I wanted them to see it and maybe they could feel it. Sometimes, your passion isn't always there when your ideas are shared, so I went directly to them with my passion, and the rest is history. At [WWE Hell in a Cell 2011 in] New Orleans, I pulled it out of some velvet bag, and it's there forever, and I hope it stays the way that it is."

Beacon Magazine recently ran a cover article on former WWE star Ted DiBiase at this link.

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