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Monday, May 27, 2013

Hogan in hospital, WWE signs DGUSA star, WWE business notes, ex-WCW/TNA star passes away, King Mo shoots at indie show?, and Questions on a physical Hall of Fame, Prime Time Wrestling, Taker vs. Brock, Barrett's boxing, and Heyman on Creative

Hulk Hogan went to the hospital after a radiator on his boat exploded and burned his hand. Gruesome pictures have been posted on his Twitter account. What's sad is that TNA probably cares more about this than what happened with Zema Ion. Can you tell I'm in a bitter mood?

WWE has signed DGUSA's Samuray del Sol. Cagematch has your hookup. Some nice stats on him. I hope we see good things from him in the years to come.

Here's a look at some WWE business news like demographics and such. VERY interesting demographics notes. I would have thought that the little Jimmys were their biggest crowd.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.

Former WCW and TNA talent Hector Garza passed away at 43 after a battle with lung cancer.  PWInsider.com looked back at his career. I remember liking some of his work in TNA (having missed WCW when it was around). It's true that a lot of times in American promotions, foreign and/or smaller talents are considered relatively interchangeable. Garza was a victim of this.


King Mo got into an altercation with a wrestling manager at an independent show, which the manager is claiming as legitimate. Looks like a work to me. Did they not have security there? And note that Mo doesn't attack Stone when he's being heckled, but when Stone is on the apron. Time will tell what the truth is here.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Absolutely! There are a number of locations they're looking at, including Florida and Las Vegas. The idea is for it to be at a place that would already have a lot of traffic. There's also the idea of it being something of a traveling museum. But yes, there are plans.

2. I don't see a lot of demand for that in 2013, though given those demographic numbers that I linked earlier, maybe I'm wrong!

3. That'd be interesting to say the least. I'd like to think that they could work something out in order to do business, but who knows? Maybe Taker would try to "teach Brock a lesson".

4. They actually got heat over the gimmick at one point if I remember correctly because the vignettes they showed were too "realistic" and the show's supposed to be more of "entertainment" style fighting. But I don't see them changing things at this point unless another controversy pops up.

5. ABSOLUTELY.... not. Heyman was asked if he would consider it around Mania time and emphatically said that he wouldn't do it. He knows what it's like to work under Vince and Stephanie and doesn't want to go through that again. I can't really blame him.

More wrestling tomorrow.

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