Monday Night Raw takes place tonight in New Orleans, LA, with ECW also being taped for broadcast tomorrow night on Sci-Fi.

Eric Bischoff has provided more detail on the cease-and-desist filed by WWE against Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling.

Flair’s thoughts on both subjects in a preview of his upcoming shoot interview release.

For this week’s column I want to do a more traditional historical piece on the power hierarchy of the WWF(E). While Vince McMahon has always maintained overall creative control of his product, there has generally been a constantly changing pattern of creative staff and booking team members.
What I want to do here is write a potted history (in no way exhaustive) of these different creative eras from 1995 to the present day, encompassing memorable themes, matches, and angles, as well as highlighting the actual wrestlers who were mainly featured by …

- WWE this morning issued a press release confirming that Freddie Prinze, Jr is now part of WWE’s creative team. The press release noted the actor was a long-time WWE fan (something which more often than not won’t get you a job with creative.
Vince McMahon was quoted as saying: “Freddie Prinze, Jr.’s passion, energy and creativity make him an excellent fit for WWE.”
Chris McCumber, Executive Vice President Marketing Digital & Brand Strategy, USA Network, added: “Bringing on board an experienced Hollywood writer, actor and producer like Freddie Prinze, Jr. will …

- WWE tapes ECW and Smackdown tonight in Philadelphia, PA. tonight at the Wachovia Center. As always we’re looking for a report/results from Smackdown and you can get in touch at phil@wwepreview.com if you’re heading to tonight’s show.
The main event for ECW is a four way match between The Miz, John Morrison, Finlay and Matt Hardy with the winner facing Mark Henry at Summerslam next month. No matches have been announced for Smackdown although its safe to assume that the show will be built around Edge and Vickie Guerrero.
We should also …

Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’re posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.
So far on we’ve posted our awards for the following (click links to view our picks and reasons for them):
- Worst in-ring performer in the WWE
- Least improved wrestler of the year so far
- Worst WWE PPV of the year so far
- Worst announcer in the WWE (aka The Adamle Award)
- Worst feud/storyline in the WWE in …

Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’re posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.
So far on we’ve posted our awards for the following (click links to view our picks and reasons for them):
- Worst in-ring performer in the WWE
- Least improved wrestler of the year so far
- Worst WWE PPV of the year so far
- Worst announcer in the WWE (aka The Adamle Award)
Our fifth award is for the Worst …

WWE last night announced that “McMahon’s Million Dollar Mania” has been suspended and that a press release regarding details of the incident that closed last night’s edition of Raw will be released later this morning.
The incident was 100% angle, and was done as a storyline reason to give WWE a way out of the weekly $1million give away.
For those who missed last night’s show, Raw ended with lighting equipment and a large electric sign falling on top of Vince, and wrestlers and officials scrambling to help him.
WWE are selling it …

A question that sends the male population crazy. The bigger the better right? Wrong. How very wrong. Vince McMahon and some of the female population need to get a clear sense of reality. Sometimes, the biggest doesn’t necessarily mean the best in the world. It’s the smaller guys who tend to show up the big men.
Enough with the innuendo’s already and let’s get serious. WWE has always, and I believe will always, be the land of the giants. It’s a shame but that’s the way it is. The likes of …