WWE 24/7 Coming To Mediacom; Updated Raw Preview; Article On New WWE Magazine; Dark Match @ Vengeance
Val Venis def Rob Conway was your dark match prior to the Vengeance PPV.
Here is your updated preview for tonight's Raw:
Vengeance fallout
Monday night, RAW will be left to sort out the fallout from Vengeance when the Superstars head to Fayetteville, N.C.
At Vengeance, Edge failed to bring the WWE Championship home to RAW when he lost to Rob Van Dam. However, after John Cena’s victory over Sabu in an Extreme Lumberjack Match, RVD approached the man he won the gold from and offered him a rematch tonight on RAW. Of course, Cena quickly accepted and the match is on. Will he be the one who brings the championship back where it belongs?
Also at Vengeance, DX defeated the Spirit Squad in a 5-on-2 Handicap Match, even forcing Mitch to kiss Triple H’s ass after the match was over. As DX celebrated, however, Mr. McMahon stood on the stage and told Shawn Michaels & Triple H that he would see them tonight on RAW. Does the WWE Chairman have something else up his sleeve for the degenerates?
Plus, Johnny Nitro won a Triple Threat Match to become the Intercontinental Champion, stealing Carlito’s pin on Shelton Benjamin. Will the Caribbean Superstar or the former champion come looking for some payback tonight?
Find out all this and more on RAW, Monday night at 9/8 CT on USA Network.
Multichannel News reports this morning that WWE has made a deal with Mediacom Communications for the 24/7 service.
The service will premiere on Medicacom in July for $7.99 per month (sugg retail).
Mediaweek published the following article regarding WWE relaunching their magazine.
For fans of Wrestlemania, World Wrestling Entertainment this week will launch a lifestyle publication focusing on the rough-and-tumble superstars of professional wrestling.
WWE Magazine will unveil a special summer issue on June 26, with a $5.99 cover price and a rate base of 250,000. The August issue, its first on a regular monthly schedule, will debut on July 11 and carry a $6.99 cover price.
The title will publish eight regular issues and four specials through 2006, and 13 regular issues and eight specials next year. The new magazine will replace WWE Smackdown and WWE Raw; the titles’ 250,000 subscribers will instead receive WWE Magazine.
A handful of former staffers of Ziff Davis Media’s defunct Sync moved to WWE, including editor in chief Tony Romando, and vp, publishing director Bob Lee.
While WWE Magazine may look like a laddie magazine for wrestling fans, Romando, who is a veteran of FHM and Maxim, said it’s no knockoff. “It’s a celebrity magazine—[wrestler] John Cena is bigger than Tom Cruise to these guys. No one cares if we give a guacamole recipe, but they do if it comes from the wrestling star.”
Although WWE only carries direct-response ads in the first two issues, Lee said he has expanded his sales staff from two to 12 people, and will break wireless and footwear advertisers in the September issue.
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