The Smackdown and ECW brand will be heading off on a tour of Mexico this week starting this Thursday with an event in Mexico City. The tour continues on after that with a second event in Mexico City on Friday, Chihuahua on Saturday and Monterrey on Sunday. WWE.com has an article up featuring various Smackdown and ECW stars talking about the upcoming tour.
WWE Canada has confirmed to The LAW that the March 31st Hall of Fame ceremony will be carried by TSN. The show will be shown at 11pm EST and will be replayed Monday April 2nd at 7pm EST. This is the first time the WWE and TSN have worked together since the WWE left the station back in July of last year and moved their successful Monday night “Raw” program to The Score. As of right now there is no broadcaster for the Hall of Fame in the United States though talks are ongoing for the special to air on the USA Network.
It has been confirmed that Don Muraco will be inducting Mr. Fuji into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Former SmackDown Diva Lauren Jones will become an employee of TV station KTYX for the filming of a reality comedy show to be aired by the FOX TV network. The show will be centered around her and it is scheduled to run for six episodes. The show is scheduled to begin taping in May, with the first episode set to air in mid-to-late summer or in January because those are the months when they have open spaces in their programming.
