The Goldust-WWE Book, Wrestlelicious Note, WWE Lawsuit, More
The latest episode of Wrestlicious will feature a 20-woman battle royal, with the last two competing to become the first Wrestlicious Takedown champion. Wrestlicious sent out the following press release, regarding their next TV taping? LOS ANGELES, April 7, 2010?Wrestlicious TakeDown will hold its first-ever public television taping on Friday, May 28, 2010 at 7 PM in Minneapolis at the storied First Avenue. (www.first-avenue.com) The venue was once owned by rock legend Prince, and the 1984 movie "Purple Rain" was filmed there. The popular TV series is seen on Dish Network Channel 361 and local cable via MavTV (www.mavtv.com), America One Network (americaone.com), independent broadcast syndication in 30 cities in the U.S. and on Bite TV (www.bite.ca) in Canada. Wrestlicious TakeDown is available in over 50 million U.S. homes. Scheduled to appear on the May 28 live show are TakeDown stars Toni The Top, Autumn Frost, Tyler Texas, White Magic, Cousin Cassie, Marley, Jailbait, Marley, CoCo Montego and Annabelle The Cannibal. The show is being presented by First Wrestling of Minneapolis. (https://www.myspace.com/f1rstwrestling) Key management personnel for Wrestlicious LLC include founder Jay Vargas, the youngest Powerball winner in history, former G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling) executives Steve Blance and Johnny Cafarella, and Hart, a legendary WWE manager and Hall Of Fame member. Closed set production of TakeDown continues during April and May in Florida. For more information on Wrestlicious, go to wrestlicious.com
The WWE biography on Dustin "Goldust" Rhodes, titled Cross Rhodes, is scheduled for a December 7th release date. Mark Vancil will write the biography. He previously worked on Michael Jordan for several book projects.
Joe "The Assassin" Hamilton's lawsuit against WWE was officially closed on March 16th, both parties agrees to settle out of court. In January, both sides had agreed to negotiate a settlement, and Judge Charles A. Pannell signed off on the deal. Hamilton has 90 days to open the lawsuit again if WWE didn't come through on its settlement agreement, which was confidential.
USA once again held the top spot in average primetime cable ratings last week. Their 2.4 average was well ahead of 1.5 for perennial runner-up Fox News. SyFy was 14th with 0.8 and Spike was at 24 with 0.6, which would have been lower if not for the UFC Fight Night and Ultimate Fighter premiere. RAW's two hours were 1st and 4th, sandwiching 2 episodes of NCIS. In the 18-34 demographic, the second hour came in at 3 with the first hour not in the top 10. In the 18-49 age group, Raw was 1 and 2.