Hornswoggle/Vince Storyline, Nowinski Fired?, More News

The man who showed up to be the adoptive father of Hornswoggle two weeks ago was Brian Kalinowski, the General Manager of WWE's Digital Media division. He went under the name 'Ed Koskie', which is the real name of a person on the WWE creative team.

As noted before here on the site, the tagline for next year's WrestleMania 24 from Orlando, Florida is "The Biggest WrestleMania Under the Sun." Tickets are scheduled to go on sale for the event on November 3rd, with an Internet pre-sale taking place a few days prior. WWE is advertising locally that tickets will not be available at the venue the event will be held (the Florida Citrus Bowl) but will instead be available at the Amway Arena box office.

WWE has removed all mentions of Christopher Nowinski off of their web site, including everything from the WWE SmackDown Your Vote area. While not confirmed, this is likely due to WWE parting ways with Nowinski due to his Sports Legacy Institute's involvement with the study of Chris Benoit's brain. It appears he might have been released.

It appears as if Ty Bailey will replace Mike "Simon Dean" Bucci as WWE's Talent Relations head. Several WWE developmental talents are worried there could be some cuts coming with the change in power.