In the aftermath of the Benoit tragedies, the news seems to keep going downhill for the world's biggest wrestling organization:- Former WWE Champion (and arguably their freshest and best character) Edge will be out longer than expected with a torn pectoral muscle. He now is expected to be out around five months. This is worse than the Cardinals losing Chris Carpenter for a year.
- Ratings for Raw and ECW have been down for three weeks. Smackdown has remained the same, but hey, nobody watches that anyway.
- The stars of Jackass, including Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O, were supposed to be in a match at the SummerSlam pay-per-view in August but they pulled out after the Chris Benoit situation allegedly because they didn't want to be associated with the product at this time. Wow, the guys who once did a movie where one of them took an open dump in a hardward store didn't want to have their reputation soiled by associating with wresting. Ouch.
- According to a report at pwtorch.com, some WWE officials such as Shane and Stephanie McMahon, John Laurinatis, and Kevin Dunn each recently got rid of a nice chunk of WWE stock. Sort of like rats jumping off of The Titanic. Stay tuned.....
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