Tons Of Backstage ROH News Inside, Final SD! Rating, & More

ROH News Credit: PWInsider.com

Mark Briscoe will be having knee surgery soon. He gutted out the weekend shows, and they ran an angle where the American Wolves attacked him at Final Battle 2008, which was Saturday night. There is no word on how much time he will miss due to this most recent injury.

Former ROH World Champion Low Ki as well as Hit Squad member Monsta Mack were backstage at Final Battle 2008, visiting with friends.

Kensuke Sasaki's wife, former All Japan Women and WCW star Akira Hokuto, was also at the event, as she flew in from Japan with Sasaki and Nakajima.

Former ROH performer Allison Danger and her husband, European wrestler Ares, are expecting their first child.

ROHWrestling.com is currently running a 35%-40% off sale on all merchandize and tickets.

Former ROH Booker Gabe Sapolsky recently updates his Myspace Blog, with some interesting comments as he discusses the Wrestling Observer year-end awards ballot. On Best Booker: "Me- come on. I'd give it to Pearce, but he needs to thank me for the house last Saturday." On Best Promotion: "Well it can't be ROH cause if it was so good the booker wouldn't have been fired."

The 12.26.08 edition of WWE Smackdown scored a 2.0 broadcast rating, down from last week's 2.1 rating.