Flair Moves ECW Star To Tears, 2009 WWE PPV News, Indy Workers Working WWE

sources: Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Wrestling Observer

— CM Punk & Elijah Burke were very happy work a tag match with Ric Flair on ECW a few weeks ago. Backstage, Burke asked Flair to sign his wrestling trunks and Punk was moved to tears saying it was due to working as Flair’s tag team partner in one his final matches before he retires.

— Georgia area indy wrestlers Truitt Fields, Andrew Pendleton, Shatter, Mikal Judas and Jeff Lewis are booked as extras for this week’s Raw & SmackDown tapings in the Carolinas.

— WWE announced in an advertisement in the Toronto Sun newspaper that next year’s Royal Rumble will be taking place on January 29, (which is a Thursday, so it’s probably a typo) and No Way Out will be on February 15.

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