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Don't forget to check out another WWE NXT Recap from Aaron Dammit at 10 PM EST and a new episode of Ring the Bell at 11 PM EST in the AngryMarks chatroom! With that out of the way here's Tuesday's latest wrestling news.

If you're looking for last night's TNA Impact spoilers we have complete results HERE.

In post-Raw action from last night, WWE champion Sheamus came out and demanded John Cena come out and face him right now as Cena wasn't going to make it to the PPV. They went back and forth until Cena caught Sheamus in the STF. Sheamus was about to tap when the Nexus crew hit the ring and attacked Cena. The Raw locker room, including Randy Orton, The Usos, William Regal, The Mixz, Vladimir Kozlov and Santino Marella, among others hit the ring for the save and there was a brief brawl. It cleared out to Cena and Orton, who posed for the crowd. Cena went around ringside greeting fans to close the show. (PWI)

As first reported last night during AMP Raw Reaction, Drew McIntyre and Wade Barrett have been pulled from WWE TV because their current work visas have expired and they can no longer work in the United States. Barrett has gone back to Great Britain and McIntyre has gone back to Scotland while they wait for new visas, but there is no word on how long getting the new visas will take. (PWI) Sheamus somehow managed to escape having similar issues despite being signed by WWE around the same time as the other two stars. (WO)

Chris Benoit is referenced in an ESPN story about former NFL wide receiver Chris Henry having brain damage when his autopsy was performed HERE. Coincidentally the Chicago Sun Times has a story up which features quotes from former WWE announcer Mike Adamle about the damage done to his brain as a result of playing football: ''I have epilepsy from lesions on the left hemisphere of my brain. Scar tissue up there. From football. Neurologist Richard Rovenor, from Northwestern Memorial, diagnosed it and probably saved my life. I went to his funeral recently, and I shoveled dirt on his casket. He was a guy who knew about football, a wonderful man. He helped me so much, and I miss him.'' You can read the rest of the article HERE.

BloggingStocks.com writes about WWE stock dividend making it a good buy in tough economic times HERE. As a shareholder I'm very happy to hear that!

In Ring of Honor news, Alex 'Sugarfoot' Payne of ROH will be living in Japan for the next two months training at the Pro Wrestling NOAH dojo - he debuted for NOAH over the weekend. Also ROH's next two shows are July 16th and 17th - ROH on HDNet tapings in Philadelphia. Ring of Honor's Prince Nana is working on setting up a wrestling school in the New York City area under the Embassy name, and last but not least in ROH news the following matches have been announced for the July 22nd Bluegrass Brawl in Louisville, Kentucky. (PWI)

* ROH champion Tyler Black vs. ROH Tag Team Champion Claudio Castagnoli - non title.
* The Briscoe Brothers vs. The American Wolves
* Roderick Strong and the House of Truth vs. Austin Aries, Kenny King, and Rhett Titus
* Chris Hero vs. Colt Cabana
* Sara del Rey vs. Daizee Haze
* Delirious vs. Mike Mondo (former WWE star Mikey of the Spirit Squad)

Here's the official card for Dragon Gate USA's Uprising PPV on July 9th. (DGUSA)

* Open The Freedom champ BxB Hulk vs. Masato Yoshino
* CIMA & Dragon Kid vs. YAMATO & Shingo
* Naruki Doi & PAC vs. Mike Quackenbush & Jigsaw
* Jimmy Jacobs vs. Jon Moxley in a No DQ Match
* Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Akira Tozawa

Naruki Doi vs. Dragon Kid has been added to the July 24th Anniversary show. Lince Dorado, Drake Younger, Ricochet, Brodie Lee, Adam Cole are also scheduled for the show. Bryan Danielson has been added to the September 25th Chicago show and will also be signing autographs. Danielson's return to DGUSA and EVOLVE is reported to have been huge for both companies in terms of ticket sales. (DGUSA)

Dragon Gate USA stars YAMATO and Shingo will be heading up a training seminar before the July 24th Anniversary show. (DGUSA)

Speaking of Bryan Danielson, he wrestled for AIW in Cleveland over the weekend against Johnny Gargano. After the match Danielson said he was reminded of how much he loves working indies and tha he hopes to bring new fans to the indies who will still support the groups when he leaves. He signed autographs after the show for free. Also in Danielson news during this weekend's CHIKARA match, fans chanted "Please don't go to TNA" at him. (WO)

Full Impact Pro results from this weekend in Crystal River, Florida are available HERE.

A complete set listing for Ricky Steamboat: The Life Story of the Dragon (in stores today) is available HERE.

Bret Hart has finally commented on Martha Hart's lawsuit.

As far as the recent lawsuit filed by Martha, I'm working on a detailed response that I will post soon, but I think my fans might be a little surprised at my take on things. Aside from that, I know that the WWE Universe is more than curious to know what my status is anymore and the truth is nobody knows, including me. There are a lot rumors out there about me and all I can say is that they're rarely true. I will have some major announcements forthcoming, but right now I'm going to keep the lid on things because I'm not looking for any distractions.

You can visit Bret Hart's website for updates HERE. Hart's not the only one commenting though as Jerry McDevitt has called the lawsuit a "personal attack" on Linda McMahon in comments you can read HERE.

MMA ratings from Saturday night are in - the free UFC 113 replay did a 1.1 and Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Werdum did a 1.4 including the quarter hour Fedor vs. Rogers replay that aired before it. (WO)

J.R. has a new blog HERE talking about Daniel Bryan, JBL and which wrestlers are "legit" tough. We've included an excerpt below.

When I said Daniel Bryan had become relevant in the 13 or so weeks that he had been on WWE TV I meant that in a positive light and stand by the statement as many outside the WWE world had no familiarity with the talented grappler before he appeared on NXT no matter his exposure on Ring of Honor which does not have a large TV audience.

No...I do not expect JBL to EVER wrestle again. Last time John and I talked he was playing golf in St. Andrews Scotland which is a helluva lot better gig than traveling up and down the road with 'the boys.' Sorry...but that's a fact.

Who's the toughest street fighter type guy I've ever seen in the biz since 1990? The emailer said to exclude Lesnar and Ken Shamrock and whether I did or not I would still say without question the toughest man I was ever around as it relates to street fights, brawls, etc was Steve "Dr. Death" Williams who beat cancer once and was a man that I would never bet against in a down and out, nasty fist fight. Yep, I'm partial but many of my peers will concur.

The Young Bucks a/k/a Generation Me feel the need to clear up some rumors about their TNA contract, and "Max" has taken the lead using Twitter: "Really need to put this rumor to rest. Our contracts with TNA are NOT up until 1/11. The reports are 100 % false. We aren't going anywhere!"

Matt Morgan has a new (in character) interview you can read HERE.

Ring of Honor announced today that Tyler Black will defend the ROH World Title against Kevin Steen on July 24th in Chicago. The updated ROH summer tour schedule and expected cards are below. (PWT)

* July 22nd - Louisville
ROH champion Tyler Black vs. Claudio Castagnoli (Non-Title)
The Briscoes vs. The American Wolves.
Roderick Strong & House of Truth vs. Austin Aries & Kenny King & Rhett Titus.
Colt Cabana vs. (4) Chris Hero in a Pick 6 Challenge.
Sara Del Rey vs. Daizee Haze.
Delirious vs. Mike Mondo (former WWE Spirit Squad member Mikey).

* July 23rd - St. Louis
Generation Me vs. The American Wolves.
ROH champion Tyler Black & Jerry Lynn & Delirious vs. Austin Aries & Kenny King & Rhett Titus.
ROH tag champions Kings of Wrestling & Sara Del Rey vs. Briscoes & Awesome Kong.

* July 24th - Chicago
ROH World champion Tyler Black vs. Kevin Steen.
ROH tag champions Kings of Wrestling vs. Young Bucks.
Colt Cabana & El Generico vs. The American Wolves.
Austin Aries vs. (1) Roderick Strong in a Pick 6 Challenge match.
Kenny King & Rhett Titus vs. Jerry Lynn & Delirious. 

The June 18th edition of SmackDown did a 1.8 rating, with 2.85 million viewers. The June 26th edition of AM Raw did a 0.57 rating, with 584K viewers. (PWI) WWE Raw last night did a 3.3 rating overall off hours of 3.28 and 3.27 with 4.5 million viewers. (WO)

WWE will be running a show at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, New York on September 5th with tickets going on sale July 12th at 10 AM. (PWI)

NXT will be running live tonight to accommodate the voting on WWE.com for the rookies. (WWE)

Undertaker and Michelle McCool got married over the weekend in Texas. Booker T, Sharmell, Tara and Torrie Wilson were all in attendance. (PWI)

Wrestlicious is taping new episodes for their "second season" this week at a Soundstage in the Tampa, Florida area. (PWI)

Roddy Piper beat up a comedian who calls himself "The Amazing Racist" last week at a comedy club. Piper was at Sam Tripoli's "Naughty Comedy Show" at the Improv in Los Angeles when Racist a/k/a Ari Shaffir was talking smack to a porn star. Piper called him on stage, bashed him into a piano, then whipped and choked him with a belt. It was all staged as Shaffir does shock comedy to "film people's reactions" to what he says and does. (TMZ)

Bite.ca has a look at where Kimbo Slice is now HERE.

As part of the NXT/Nexus storyline WWE is reporting that Ricky Steamboat suffered "cracked ribs, internal injuries and a sprained neck" after last night's attack. (WWE)

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts sent out this message today on the web.

To my fans, friends, anybody else planning to show up August 15th, 2010 at Justin Credible's Pro Wrestling Icons II show in Cromwell CT. I won't be there. Any questions? Maybe YOU can get Justin to call you back. GOOD LUCK with that. Good luck if you are going. I'd sure make an advance inquiry as to who's really going to be there, or if there is really a show. I have no idea what has happened, except everyone that I have spoken with that is involved has abandoned ship. I got the message, I hope you do too.

This past Monday night on ABC, Justin 'Rated-R' Rego (an indie wrestler from Canada) was booted from the ABC show "The Bachelorette" after it was revealed that Rego had a girlfriend during the taping of the show. (PWI)

Neither Hulk Hogan nor Eric Bischoff are at tonight's TNA Impact taping in Orlando. (PWI)

Last but not least CM Punk had arm surgery last week and is out for the next 4-8 weeks. He came out for tonight's taping wearing a sling. (PWI)