Kelly Kelly/Batista To FCW, WWE Show Postponed, More
FCW sent out this press release today: Florida Championship Wrestling Teams Up with Bright House Sports Network FCW programming returns to the Sunshine State on October 5 TAMPA, Florida, October 2, 2008 ? Officials from Florida Championship Wrestling? (FCW) and Bright House Sports Network? (BHSN) announced today they have reached an agreement to broadcast the weekly "Florida Championship Wrestling" program starting Sunday, October 5, at 6PM ET. Florida Championship Wrestling will be broadcast in over 1.6 million Bright House Network households on Channel 47 in the Tampa/St. Pete/Clearwater and Orlando/Kissimmee/Daytona Beach metropolitan areas. Florida Championship Wrestling? is the official developmental territory of World Wrestling Entertainment?. FCW, Bright House Sports Network and the WWE are proud to bring Florida Championship Wrestling's weekly programming back to the Sunshine State airwaves. The next FCW TV taping will take place THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, starting at 7:30 PM. WWE Superstars Kelly Kelly, Batista and many others are scheduled to appear.
WWE's 12/19 house show in Fort Lauderdale, FL has been postponed to 01/02/09.
Shari Tyree, ex-wife of Warrior "Ultimate Warrior" Warrior, is going around trying to sell the book rights of her memoir which is mostly about her marriage to Warrior and is titled "Behind the Paint; My Life with Wrestling's Ultimate Warrior." The pitch for the book is below: For the very first time, the wife of a professional wrestling star speaks out. Shari Tyree was married for ten years to Jim Hellwig, known as the Ultimate Warrior, and saw him through his meteoric rise, and bizarre fall from the pinnacle of WWE. Warrior packed the aisles, and was a merchandising boom to pro wrestling. Fans, known as 'Little Warriors' screamed and cheered, and then were left baffled by his abrupt disappearance at the height of his success. Only Shari Tyree knows the stunning truth behind the Warrior's face paint. Hellwig was a man possessed by demons, abusing steroids to achieve his massive, muscular frame, and then pain medications and anti-anxiety drugs to quell his fears, who had led a secretive double life that filled his marriage with turmoil and doubts about his fidelity, and even his sexuality. The avowed anti-homosexual avenger and anti-drug advocate battled with his own duality, and became the engine of his own destruction. Behind the Paint chronicles Helwig's early career as a bodybuilder, and his stunning rise in pro wrestling, the excesses of success beyond imagination, his battles with Vince McMahon and the private life no fan could have guessed at. Hellwig continues to be a media personality, even outside the wrestling ring, making frequent personal appearances to espouse his anti-gay, anti-drug ideals.