Huge Afternoon Update: No Mercy, Angle To SmackDown!?, Cena, Hogan, More
The poster for the October 8th WWE Pay-Per-View No Mercy has been released. The poster features The Undertaker with gravestones in the background and the WWE No Mercy logo at the bottom with the date and ordering details at the bottom. The poster also features a small WWE SmackDown! logo on the top left corner.
It appears as though that former Women's Champion Mickie James will continue to feud with Lita even though she didn't appear on RAW this past Monday. According to a kayfabe article on WWE.com, Mickie James is anxious to get even with the new champion by reclaiming the gold. "I think [Edge and Lita] are bad champions," Mickie explained. "You're not a true champion if you have to continuously cheat to keep your championship. I'm not a cheater and I would never do that."
For people who simply want a wrestling-oriented WWE Magazine under the new infrastructure of the magazine, a magazine free of articles on gadgets and gizmos not really having to do with pro wrestling, this new special magazine will be probably appeal to you. WWE will be cranking out magazine specials every few months or so, and it looks like this will be the second one (the first was the summer-oriented magazine with Torrie Wilson on the cover). The magazine is called the "WWE Worst Offenders Special Magazine." Basically, WWE Magazine presents the 51 worst villains in WWE History. The magazine is 100 pages and it contains interviews and exclusive photos of these villains. The cover of the magazine features Rowdy Roddy Piper, Edge, Ric Flair and Vince McMahon (and probably a few other wrestling stars as the cover looks to be a foldout) in a "police lineup" setting. At the moment, it is unknown if this issue comes along in peoples' subscription to WWE Magazine.
ECW's Kurt Angle is being advertised on the SmackDown brand house on September 18 in Ottawa.
Kelly Carlson who plays a role in John Cena s upcoming movie "The Marine" has recently been interviewed by about.com. She speaks on her role in the movie as John Cena's wife.
Hulk Hogan was recently on Bubba the Love Sponge. Hogan was almost in tears when noting how Bubba's listeners had voted Brooke's music video up to No. 4 after Hogan went on the show and told them to vote for the video on VH-1.com. Bubba said on the show that Hogan was overcome with emotion because he's invested so much money and emotion into Brooke.