• Wrestling News & Wrestling Rumors – WWE & TNA

- The United States Department of Justice in Georgia actually sent out a press release including details on Dr. Astin’s connections to pro wrestling:

“The evidence showed that a professional wrestler said that it was widely known in the professional wrestling community that Astin would dispense prescriptions without performing a medical examination. This patient received prescription drugs, including Lorcet, Percocet, Xanax and Soma, from Astin from December 2004 until November 2005, and said that he did not receive a legitimate medical examination or testing from Astin during that time. The wrestler developed an addiction to the drugs and Astin never questioned his addiction and instead wrote prescriptions for larger quantities of pills. The patient said his girlfriend at the time and a number of professional wrestlers obtained prescription drugs from Astin for the purpose of abusing the drugs, adding that some of the wrestlers were also addicted to drugs.”

Astin who is now serving 10 years for illegal prescriptions served both Chris Benoit and Johnny Grunge.

- WWE sent out the following press release hyping their impressive online stats. That being said they do a rubbish job of monetizing them:

STAMFORD, Conn., May 13, 2009 – In the month of April, World Wrestling Entertainment®’s flagship website, WWE.com, had more U.S. visits than premiere pop culture and sports hubs Disney.com, TMZ.com, Hulu.com, PerezHilton.com, CBS.com, ABC.com, NBC.com, NBA.com and NFL.com, according to Hitwise, a leading online competitive intelligence provider.

WWE.com also reported a staggering 18 million unique visitors, 28.3 million video streams, and a record breaking 663.1 million page views for the month of April. The monthly page views represent a 62% increase from April 2008. Page views per visit also increased 57% to an average of 17.2 pages viewed versus 10.9 pages per visit in April 2008 (source: Omniture – Worldwide).

- In TNA news, rapper Filthee will be performing the theme song for the Hard Justice PPV. He is not yet quite on the mainstream scene, so it’s obviously a crossover deal.