-- Joey Styles has posted a blog on the WWE Fan Nation site regarding yesterday's release of Stevie Richards, who he has been friends with for over fifteen years. {"WWE wishes Stevie Richards the best in all his future endeavors"}

-- WWE.com has put up a profile page on ECW star Ricky Ortiz, which you can see at this link. Ortiz remains undefeated on WWE television at 3-0. ECW's New Superstar Initiative is apparently back in effect as Theodore Long told him in a backstage segment during last Tuesday's ECW that he will be wrestling a brand new ECW Superstar on next week's show.

-- According to WWE.com, SmackDown star Umaga underwent surgery this week to repair his posterior cruciate ligament (PCL). Umaga was injured at a SmackDown house show in Johnson City, Tennessee last week when he fell out of the ring onto his knee. He will be out for four to six weeks. {Samoan Bulldozer stopped...for now}

See RARE PHOTO of Umaga holding a TNA belt