Just a variety of notes on One Night Stand:
There were some meetings this week at WWE headquarters in Connecticut to discuss the ECW One Night Stand PPV scheduled for 6/12 in New York City. WWE is said to want to find a balance between talent that can still go and put on the type of matches that the ECW audience is going to expect and talents who are older or beaten down physically and can't go like they used to, but will still get a big reaction as long as they are booked properly and not exposed. Sources have told me that WWE doesn't want the show to come off like a night of nostalgia, but something that can stand on it its own as if the PPV does well, they would like to possibly do more shows down the line, including possible house show tours in old ECW markets. The feeling is that the ECW DVD sales basically paved the way for the PPV, so if the PPV does well, the company is open to doing more with the name down the line.
For those of you who have asked about commentary on the show, sources indicate that WWE has yet to come to an agreement with Joey Styles at this time, although there have been conversations. If Styles doesn't come on board, names that have been tossed around about doing commentary have included Tazz, Paul Heyman, and Terry Funk.
It appears there may be something of an FBI "family" reunion on the show as Nunzio/Little Guido, JT Smith, Tony Mamaluke, Tracy Smothers, Big Sal E. Graziano, and Primo Carnera III (who worked as Big Guido in ECW and has been down in Ohio Valley Wrestling of late) are all scheduled to appear.
Ashley Colton sent word that when she called the WWE offices in Stamford, CT asking about when tickets for the ECW PPV would go on sale, she was told they would go on sale the weekend of 5/14 but that prices hadn't been determined. PWInsider.com hasn't independently confirmed that on sale date but we did hear it would go on sale in mid-May earlier in the week.
Also, a disgruntled Kid Kash fan has started up a petition to get him on One Night Stand, it currently has over 1900 signatures, will be at least starting on Mikey Whipwreck tonight, think I'm going to wind up not having a column done for my site come monday since I have serious homework to do that I'm pretty much gonna shirk tonight it looks like. So yeah, might as well accomplish something I've been meaning to do.