Street Fight At RAW, Gladiators Gone, Tomko, & More News

There were two dark matches that took place at last night’s joint SmackDown & RAW TV tapings from Toronto. Before SmackDown began, Kizarny beat Zack Ryder. After Raw went off the air, John Cena took on Chris Jericho in a Streetfight. Cena won in about 5 minutes with the FU.

Entertainment news site HollywoodReporter.com is reporting that NBC has cancelled Hulk Hogan’s show “American Gladiators” after just 2 seasons. The show did big ratings for season 1 but viewership tanked for the second season. Unlike most reality-style shows, American Gladiators was very expensive to produce.

We reported last week, WWE has released the first batch of downloadable content for the new SmackDown vs. RAW 2009 videogame. Download Pack 1 includes 3 new playable characters (Evan Bourne, Ted DiBiase and Charlie Haas) and new ring attire for Chris Jericho. IGN.com reports that the Playstation 3 version of Download Pack 1 will also include a few exclusives – Holiday costumes for Kelly Kelly and Maria as well as alternate ring attire for Kane, MVP and Edge.

Video has surfaced online of Tyson Tomko’s dark match with Paul Burchill prior to last week’s Raw. You can see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qzvTNDi8ss

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