**Here are the matches on WWE ‘Smackdown' tonight, taped this past Tuesday in Bridgeport, Connecticut:
*Cryme Tyme Vs The Hart Dynasty
*CM Punk Vs Matt Hardy"
*Batista Vs Kane
*John Morrison Vs Eric Escobar for the Intercontinental Title
*The Undertaker Vs Chris Jericho

**Alexis ‘Lexi' Pillman, the step daughter of Brian Pillman and daughter of Melanie Pillman died tragically on Thursday evening in a car accident. Pillman had begun working as a wrestler and a valet in January 2008 alongside Sean Casey on the independent circuit. She was 26-years old.

**The ‘Raw' crew starts their house show tour Saturday night in Johnson City, Tennessee and then head to Charlottesville, Virginia on Sunday and hold the TV tapings in Baltimore, Maryland Monday night feature Verne Troyer and every midget they can find for the DX / Hornswoggle sketch.

**The ‘Smackdown' and ECW crews start up Saturday night in Upper Marlboro, Maryland and are in Hampton, Virginia on Sunday night for the TV tapings due to some of the talent leaving for the Middle East and the ‘Tribute to the Troops' show on Monday with the ‘Raw' crew after their TV tapings.  

**Dragon Gate USA will hold their ‘Open the Freedom Gate' show tomorrow night in Philadelphia to crown their first champion with the following lineup:
FIRST ROUND MATCHES (four winners advance to the finals)
*Mike Quackenbush Vs CIMA Vs Super Crazy Vs Jorge Rivera
*BxB Hulk Vs Brian Kendrick
*Davey Richards Vs Yamato
*Nick Jackson Vs Matt Jackson Vs Jigsaw Vs Lince Dorado Vs Johnny Gargano Vs Gran Akuma
*Finals - elimination match with all four winners
*Dragon Kid & Shingo Vs Masato Yoshino & Naruki Doi in a non tournament match

**Dragon Gate USA will also be holding a bonus match card starting at 6:30pm EST for those that get to the building early with the following matches:
*Eddie Kingston Vs Hallowicked
*Jon Moxley Vs B-Boy
*Kyle O'Reilly Vs Adam Cole

**Sunday night Howard Brody joins The LAW - check out his new book ‘Swimming with Piranhas' that you can order here. We will also chat with Dave Meltzer of the ‘Wrestling Observer Newsletter', Title Bout Trivia and our topic for the evening will be looking at the WWE's push to get over new talent and what kind of job they're doing and who you would like to see get the big push. Tune in Sunday night at 11pm EST on Sirius 98 Hardcore Sports Radio.

**WWE wants to know what you thought of the ‘Survivor Series'.

**Reader Justin Arthur attended one of the recent Hulkamania shows in Australia and edited together the following video of Hulk Hogan Vs Ric Flair.

**Here are the results from the Hulkamania show Thursday in Brisbane, Australia:
*Pimp Fatha (Charles Wright) over Jon Heidenreich
*Shannon Moore and Matt Cross wrestled to a time limit draw (I guess that's the problem with booking a Best 2 of 3 falls deal over the course of a four show tour)
*Sean Morley over Nick Dinsmore
*Ken Anderson & Brutus Beefcake over Umaga & Orlando Jordan
*Brian Christopher & Rikishi over The Nasty Boys, Rock of Love and Vampire Warrior & Black Pearl
*Hulk Hogan over Ric Flair

**Matt Cross Vs Shannon Moore will be a Ladder Match for the final show on Saturday in Sydney, Australia.

John Pollock
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