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Oklahoma Scoop

Posted: Jul 17th 2006 By: mikeiles

- WWE has announced that Monday Night Raw will be held at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City on September 25th.

- At the last set of Impact tapings on 7/3, Jake Roberts arrived with Canadian wrestler Sinn. After the show, Roberts told wrestlers that TNA had hired him and that creative is working on story line ideas for him, although those reports are not confirmed.

- Ene Watts, the ex-wife of "Cowboy" Bill Watts, has been negotiating with WWE to sell them the complete Mid South/UWF tape library. The former Mrs. Watts was awarded the tape library in their divorce settlement. Currently, DVDs and VHS of the old Mid-South and UWF are available on the website www.universalwrestling.com which is run by Micah Watts, Bill and Ene's son.

- Jim Cornette's current TNA contract is for 10 dates. Cornette will miss the next two TNA PPVs do to prior bookings.

- Ring of Honor filmed a shoot interview with J.J. Dillon and Jim Cornette over this past weekend.

- Christian Cage vs. AJ Styles will headline the International Wrestling Cartel event on August 5th in Elizabeth, PA. Abyss will also be on the card.

- Ted DiBiase's sons, Mike and Ted Jr., made their official in-ring debuts over the weekend for Harley Race's World League Wrestling promotion in Missouri. The promotion posted a story on their debut, complete with photos at www.harleyrace.com/wlw.

- According to Dave Meltzer, at the "Saturday Night's Main Event" taping in Dallas, WWE showed a classic WCCW clip from May 1984 the 1st Parade of Champions when The Von Erichs defeated the Freebirds, then Kevin Von Erich came out and received a good pop. Von Erich was originally scheduled to cut a promo talking about the World Class video library, but of course, it didn?t happen. It is believed WWE paid more than $250,000 to acquire the World Class video library from Von Erich.

- Many people in WWE loved Mick Foley's promo on RAW. Many were saying that it's amazing how good a promo can be when a guy can write his own material instead of having to go by a script word for word. That said, many people in WWE creative hated Foley's promo.

- The word going around last night was that Sci Fi officials enjoyed the ECW broadcast last night, especially the main event. They were said to be really pleased with the blood and thumbtack spots in the Ric Flair vs Big Show match and enjoyed the general ECW "feel" everyone talks about. You can check out the Big Show vs. Ric Flair match from last week's episode on Sci Fi at ECW.com

- Several wrestlers have heat on the addition of Jaime D to the America's Most Wanted vs. Christopher Daniels & A.J. Styles angle. The idea is that these wrestlers have great matches on their own and adding her into the equation will only take the match quality down.

- On July 27th the Pulaski County Fairgrounds in Somerset, KY will host the United States Wrestling Federation ?Legends of Wrestling?. Stars such as ?Hacksaw? Jim Duggan, King Kong Bundy, Brutus ?The Barber? Beefcake, Tito Santana, Butch Reed, Chase Stevens, and Shark Boy will all be doing battle in the squared circle. Other wrestlers with Oklahoma ties on the card are "Mr. Saturday Night" Michael Barry, "Space Cowboy" Jason Jones, and "Big Country" Jake Boulder. Butch Reed will face Boulder on the card.

- ?Assassin? Jody Hamilton?s autobiography ?The Man Behind the Mask? is now available at www.crowbarpress.com.

- Starting July 18th, Viewers Choice PPV, Star Choice PPV, and Shaw PPV are offering a Pro Wrestling Superstars pay-per-view show from the past featuring Andre the Giant, Abdullah the Butcher, Kareem Muhammad, The Sheik, Athol Layton, Tom Zenk, Scott Irwin, Steve Strong, Dino Bravo, and Masked Superstar. The price is only $5.99.

- A photo library of over 1000 photos taken from the original NWA/Mid-Atlantic and WCW was recently put on eBay. Some of the wrestlers include Sting, Ric Flair, Sgt. Slaughter, Sam Houston, Mark Youngblood, Dick Murdoch and many others.

- Ring of Honor has several new DVDs in stock at www.rohwrestling.com include the 5/12 "How we Roll" event featuring Christian Cage, the May 13th "Ring of Homicide" event, and "Straight Shootin with Bill Watts and Jim Cornette Volume 2". Also there is currently a free shipping sale on all merchandise.

- When WWE Classics returns to the Madison Square Garden Network on July 26th at 8:00 EST (7:00 Central), matches will be from June 21, 1985 and include Greg Valentine vs. Ricky Steamboat among others. Also on July 26th starting at 9:00 EST (8:00 Central), the matches are from September 22, 1997 and include Cactus Jack vs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

- At the TNA Victory Road pay-per-view, Shane Douglas gave a rousing speech how he ?franchised? The Naturals, two inches of hair, and new tights and then left ringside. Reports say that Andy Douglas still has his long locks. The Naturals won the match but Shane Douglas returned to ringside and berated the Naturals.

- Also at Victory Road, A.J. Styles & Christopher Daniels defeated America's Most Wanted to retain the NWA World Tag Team Titles. Also Sting won a 4-Way Match to determine the #1 contender for the NWA World Title.

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