In the most memorable segment, according to those inside and outside of WWE, of the competition thus far, WWE allowed the RAW Diva Search Contestants to "diss" one another on Monday's edition of WWE RAW. WWE did not script the contestants' responses, and consequently, could not censor all of the lude remarks that flowed during the segment.

Answering a call placed into the Amy Weber camp regarding the segment, a representative speaking on behalf of Amy told this reporter that the diva had no regrets for what was said on the telecast and does not feel any lines were crossed:

"Please bear in mind, that the E in WWE is entertainment and that the natural course of the segments challenge would allow and possibly solicit that kind of response. The crowd reactions have been a lot stronger for Amy and for her confrontations with Carmella. Amy is a trained professional and naturally responds to what the viewers are responding to. The girls were made aware that there would be a time delay for bleeps if they would accidentally said the wrong thing....The backstage reality will inevitably translate into promos of this nature. Lying about someone's professional career and not honoring the privacy of an individual by mentioning a person's family and children in a promo would seem to me a much greater line that has been crossed."

Although the "reality show" opinion is that Carmella DeCesare is being portrayed as a victim and consequently scoring sympathy votes, Amy and the other divas do not agree and are not worried about saying things that may further victimize the Playmate of the Year.

In fact, the Amy camp doesn't even believe Carmella's suffering any vicious attacks, "The girls aren't so much viciously attacking as responding to Carmella's unprofessional and unprovoked behavior backstage. There have been a lot of incidents instigated by Carmella but that's a far as I'm going to go with that."

While Amy, Christy and Joy made references to Carmella's "sleeping around," Carmella went a different route with Amy, attacking her on the basis of a Playboy shoot. Carmella let fans know that while she's the Playmate of the Year, Amy Weber was laughed at by Playboy executives during a tryout. Amy Weber completely denies that claim:

"Amy has done a few covers for Playboy that have generated record sales for the company. Due to the success of those covers she has been offered, on numerous occasions over the years, to do a spread. She has turned each of those offers down. Doing a nude spread for the magazine is not of interest to Amy and has never been an issue." A cover featuring Amy on a past issue of Playboy's Bathing Beauties was submitted as evidence. It has been placed online for your perusal.

Despite some very candid remarks from the other divas, representatives for Amy felt that Carmella's comments were absolutely without justification.

When asked what Amy wants fans to take away from the segment, the response was, "She has many dimensions and will do whatever the segments call for. She's been sweet, sexy and tough. If the fans want her to eat pie, then she'll eat the pie. If the segment calls for Dissing the Diva. Well...she's just going to have to diss someone then. She treats each segment with as much enthusiasm as the last. Her goal is to entertain as best she can within whatever the parameters of the segments call for."

For those who didn't see WWE RAW last night, there was special focus placed on the "Diva Search" segment as there was excess profanity involved from each of the women.

The four finalists were told to cut promos insult each other, which resulted in swearing that had never been witnessed on WWE programming before. Infact, there was so much swearing that the censor was unable to bleep all the words.

Many felt that the language used was not at all appropriate for the show, but it did have an affect on viewers and for one of the first times, there were people actually interested in the Diva Search.

It appears from this, that the WWE will be letting the fans choose the stipulations of the matches via the phone or internet and will involve the fans in the entire Pay Per View. There should be more on this as Raw leads up into the October PPV.

The following is an excerpt from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on Kurt Angle:

"Right after the Olympics, I didn't make a lot of money, even with the [positive] press I got," added 1996 Atlanta wrestling star Kurt Angle, a Mt. Lebanon man who initially turned down a million-dollar offer to join professional wrestling and instead became a sportscaster at Fox affiliate WPGH-TV. "You know Rulon Gardner, he made a couple of million bucks after the Olympics. I made a couple hundred-thousand - that's the difference. And I worked my [butt] off. I was doing appearances every day, speaking engagements. It got so bad that Fox was like, 'Kurt, do you even work for us?' But I just wanted to keep it going." Athletes hoping to cash in after successful showing.

Speaking of Kurt Angle, his henchman Luther Reigns has a cameo in the new DVD/VHS comedy movie "Girl Next Door". His role is a porn stars boyfriend in the third act of the film.

There are some backstage who felt showing HBK at the RNC, while also hyping his Unforgiven return, removed the impact of the Lita-Kane announcement.


As reported, Tajiri was working with an injury last night, which explains why he did not have a huge role in the handicapped match last night.


The man tributed pre-RAW last night, Marcin Makukski, was a graphic artist for WWE who died in a motorcycle accident earlier this month.


Along with Christian, Shelton Benjamin is also awaiting a program for RAW. It was reported yesterday that either Christian or Shelton would replace Edge in the program with Jericho, and it seems that WWE decided to go with Christian, due to preexisting heat between the two characters.

World Championship:
-Randy Orton © vs. Triple H

World Tag-Team Titles:
-La Resistance © vs. Tajiri & Rhyno

Women's Title:
-Trish Stratus © vs. Victoria

Singles Match:
-Shawn Michaels vs. Kane

Tag-Team Match:
-Chris Benoit & William Regal vs. Evolution

Singles Match:
-Chris Jericho vs. Christian

Well known rapper Sean "Puffy" Combs challenged Hulk Hogan to a wrestling match at a New York gig that took place Friday, August 27th.

Combs made the challenge but soon withdrew the offer when he saw Hogan running to the stage.

Obviously Combs regretted making the offer for which he had proposed '$1 million to the winner' of the bout.

Last night on local channel 7 WSVN here in Miami the MTV hoopla was recapped and included a shot of The Hulkster’s limo after it was involved in a crash.

The side of the white limo was hit and they had a clip of a seemingly dazed 'Hollywood' dressed in black saying, "We’re ok, brother".

The accident appeared to be right in front of the Triple A (American Airlines Arena) just before the VMA's.

Last night on local channel 7 WSVN here in Miami the MTV hoopla was recapped and included a shot of The Hulkster’s limo after it was involved in a crash.

The side of the white limo was hit and they had a clip of a seemingly dazed 'Hollywood' dressed in black saying, "We’re ok, brother".

The accident appeared to be right in front of the Triple A (American Airlines Arena) just before the VMA's.

"Please bear in mind, that the E in WWE is entertainment

The side of the white limo was hit and they had a clip of a seemingly dazed 'Hollywood' dressed in black saying, "We’re ok, brother".

The online feature in its upcoming WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW will indeed make the final version of the game. Known to be a possibility that hinged on the results of the 4000-person beta test held by Sony Computer Entertainment earlier this month, the announcement of a definite online component is news that hopeful players have been writing us letters about for months now.

In keeping with its trend of keeping secrets this year, however, THQ has only confirmed a single online gameplay mode: Head-to-Head competition. What this means for veteran SmackDown players is that they'll be able to participate in exhibition matches with at least one other person over the Internet. Unfortunately, THQ representatives will not comment on just how many players can wrestle each other at one time. Nor will they reveal how many other (re: if?) online game modes there are, or whether or not there will be some kind of ranking system based on performance. It is also unknown whether or not it will support broadband users only, or if it will allow dial-up players to participate as well.

THQ will make the formal announcement to the rest of the gaming press later today at an official media event held in Los Angeles. There, company representatives will make the same proclamation we've made here with the possibility of elaborating further on what kind of features the new online inclusion will have. Regardless of how many modes the game ends up sporting, however, confirmation of online play alone should definitely be comforting news for doubtful wrestling fans.

Amazing how they can say that, and yet put out a product that is so obviously NOT entertaining  They do know that the second W stands for "wrestling" right?