— Dan Arsenault sent in the following… Just wanted to pass along some further info on HTM’s injury over the weekend. The accident happened outside Boston Pizza in Charlottetown, PEI Canada. The fan, no it wasn’t me, was not at fault. The stunt was supposed to happen as follows, HTM and the fan swing the guitars together and a photographer snaps a pic of the two exploding. According to HTM himself, when the guitars collided, the neck of the guitar Honky was holding twisted and that was what caused the injury. While he was unable to wrestle that night, HTM came to the ring at the Charlottetown Civic Centre told the fans what happened, apologized he was unable to wrestle, but he made himself fully available for autographs and pictures and gave a great performance of singing and dancing for his “beautiful audience”. On a side note, HTM’s replacement that night arrived 2 minutes before the start of his match after being price gouged for over $200.00 for a rental car at the Halifax Airport and driving the 3 hours on short notice to perform. (again not me, just passing along info)
— Former WWE Diva Dawn Marie has helped launched a website aimed at helping people who have chosen a career in professional wrestling and are having financial and health care issues as a result. Wrestler’s Rescue plans on holding two separate events to help raise funds to support the health care needs of retired wrestlers. They plan on holding a convention as well as a semi-formal dinner on Sunday, September 14, 2008. The events will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Piscataway, New Jersey. For more information on the organization and their upcoming events, visit WrestlersRescue.org. For some reason, the domain name doesn’t work if you add the “www” part in the URL, so you have to visit the site without it.
— Hulk Hogan appeared on The Howard Stern Show this morning.
See “Honky Tonk Man Almost Loses A Finger” video