R-Truth To Debut This Week, Carlito's Brother Update, & More
It was announced on Friday night's SmackDown that R-Truth will be making his in-ring debut on next week's edition of SmackDown.
The newest star of Raw, Primo Colon (brother of SmackDown star Carlito), started working house shows this weekend. He defeated Snitsky with a roll-up in the opening match at Friday night's Raw brand house show in Bridgeport, CT. In perfect timing, Colon worked last night's Raw brand house at the famed Madison Square Garden. He defeated William Regal by reversing a move into a quick backslide for the pin.
Rebecca Treston (a.k.a. Becky Bayless) – a well known women's wrestler on the independent circuit – was arrested on Thursday, August 21 at 2:43 a.m. for Driving under the influence with a 0.21 blood alcohol level (significantly above the 0.08 legal limit). Treston was booked into a Tampa jail at 4:04 a.m. She was released on $500 bond later in the day. Alongside Daffney and Amber O'Neal, Bayless appeared as a candidate for Awesome Kong's $25,000 Fan Challenge on the June 5, 2008 edition of TNA iMPACT!. You can see Treston's mugshot and police report at https://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/pub/default.asp?/Online/qdisp/bn=08050912.
The Sun has an article on Gail Kim re-joining World Wrestling Entertainment. They wrote: "FORMER TNA Knockouts champion Gail Kim has sensationally quit the promotion ? and is almost certainly heading back to the WWE. Several sources close to the situation claim Vince McMahon will re-hire his former women's title holder to beef up the group's depleted female roster."