Greetings fellow Power Bombers!

A new era in sports entertainment has been ushered in as Vince
McMahon hired General Managers for Raw and Smackdown last week (Erich
Bischoff and Stephanie McMahon respectively). We discussed Bischoff
last week, so this week we will discuss the return of the "Billion
Dollar Princess" and how SmackDown will fare under her control.

The shakeup in power in the WWE went directly from the hiring of the
new General Managers to this past Sunday's Pay-Per-View Vengeance.
We'll recap a card that had some actual surprises and take a look the
Main Event at SummerSlam that was decided at Vengeance- Brock Lesnar
vs. The Rock for the WWE Undisputed Title.

Our Wrestling Spotlight is going to be on one of the most dangerous
habits in the sports entertainment industry: Cross-promotion. From
movies to NASCAR to music, pro wrestling is a breeding ground for ill-
thought marriages of wrestling with "regular" entertainment. We'll
discuss the pitfalls of this trend and decide if cross-promotion is
really worth all the effort that the federations put into it.

We will also have our recap and preview of NWA-TNA as well as
wrestling news.

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the live show and the archive (available all week) can be found at
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since that's where ALL the action takes place on Power Bomb, where we
talk all things wrestling.

Selena Nichols
Host, Power Bomb

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