Vote On New WWE Kurt Angle T-Shirt; Highlanders Debut Tonight In 'WWE Rules' Match; 'Assault The WWE Magazine Editor'; Article On Booker T Wrestling School
WWE.com has a poll asking fans to vote on three new T-Shirt designs. Notice how there isn't any ECW reference whatsoever on the shirts? We already talked about it on the hotline about Angle coming back to WWE TV and leaving the Velocity ECW. You would think WWE would try to keep the subtle hints to a minimum. I know, they could put the poll on ecw.com and remove it from wwe.com. Fans need to remember though that ECW merchandise is found only on WWE's Shopzone.
CLICK HERE to check out the poll.
The Houston Chronicle has an artilce posted on Booker T's Texas wrestling school. CLICK HERE to check it out.
The NY Times published the following article in today's edition. As our title teased, did the cane shot to the WWE creative member serve as a prelude to a feature in this upcoming WWE Magazine? Here's the NY Times article:
World Wrestling Entertainment is introducing a new lifestyle magazine this month aimed at the same young, male readership currently served by FHM and Maxim. In addition to the soap-operalike storylines of professional wrestling, the new WWE Magazine, will also offer movie reviews, grooming tips and critical assessments of new gadgets.
Shane McMahon, an executive vice president at W.W.E. and the son of Vincent McMahon, the company's chairman, said the company had thought seriously about partnering with one of the existing young-male-oriented magazines, but in the end opted to start its own publication. "If we are going to pull the curtain back and share the magic," he said, the company wanted to own the product. He said he could imagine wrestlers fighting with each other over comments printed in the magazine, with each outlet fueling interest in the other.
WWE's editor, Tony Romando, said that past W.W.E. publications had an intense following, but "were like a zine," fanatically devoted to what happened in the ring, and printed on less-attractive paper stock. In the new magazine (which will carry a pumped up newsstand price of $5.99), rather than simply review "the greatest razors for the season," he said, "we have a wrestler who dresses in drag, why not have him test the razors and serve two masters at the same time?"
Mark Edmiston, managing director of AdMedia Partners, financial advisers to magazines, struck a note of caution. While he said he understood why W.W.E. would want to expand its fan base, "the more they broaden and try to compete with FHM and Maxim the more they are competing with people who are established, and do it really well."
Still, W.W.E. knows its fan base well. A column, Abuse, shows an editor being hit by a cane, with welts on his back to prove it. In later issues, Mr. Romando says, the editor will demonstrate what it is like to be hit by a folding chair or slapped across the face by a wrestler. "That's the stuff the readers want to know," he said.
Gotta love WWE's logic. Have you noticed at ECW 'house shows', they are advertising certain matches as 'ECW Rules'? Um wasn't the show fans were attending an 'ECW' event? That's like saying The Highlanders debut on Raw tonight at a WWE event, the match will be a 'WWE Rules' match. No shi*.
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