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THE ISLE OF PUERTO RICO: WWC UPDATES, SAVIO VEGA HEADING TO TNA, CORINO UPDATE AND MORE

By Jose M. Perez on 7/27/2008 8:38 PM

- Not many news coming out of the WWC front this past week as they took a few days to regroup after having a successful Anniversary show last weekend.  As we had reported on the site, "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels has been announced for next Saturday to face the new WWC Universal champion, Noriega in Bayamon, PR.
 
- During an interview for a local wrestling website in Puerto Rico (luchalibreonline.tv) Jose Roberto Rodriguez, WWC's Marketing Director talks about all the work that was put into ensuring that the Anniversary show was a success.  He also spoke about some of the plans the company has for this year and for the future.  He mentioned that they have been discussing the possibility of a relocation of their offices into another building.  They are looking for a building that can serve as a TV studio as well as a small arena and he mentions FCW as a blueprint of what they want to accomplish.  He goes on to say that one of the things they really want to work on is to get their talent to sign contracts, which will prevent a lot of the surprise jumps from one company to another (WWC to IWA & vice versa).  They want to start working more with the young talent in order to develop their own "home grown" product just like they used to do back in the 80's and early 90's.  A very interesting piece of information coming out of this interview is that Rodriguez mentioned that the company now has the help of a couple of new financial investors that have a vested interest in making sure that the company keeps the momentum coming out off their biggest show of the year.  He promised a lot of surprises for the rest of the year and that they are starting next weekend with Daniels making his appearance.
 
- Regarding Steve Corino, the last information I received was that he is to move to Puerto Rico in the coming weeks and that his contract will be a 6 month deal to begin with.  Corino has mentioned during a couple interviews that his deal is only as a wrestler and not as a booker, but that if the book is offered to him that he would consider it.  The word making the rounds on the island is that he will be the booker for the company.
 
- The IWA-PR website has posted that Savio Vega is scheduled to report to work at TNA on Monday July 28th.  Savio has accepted a position as an agent with the company.
 
- IWA will hold their weekly house show/TV taping tonight in Levitown.  There has been a change in the main event for the show as Chicano will be in a handicap match against not only Faces of Fear Damian and Spectro, but also a new comer by the name of Giant Manson.  I will be waiting patiently to see where they take this match and the angle as a whole.  They have done a good job so far building Chicano back up from the dumps where they had him for a while.  His character has been getting stronger with the way they have worked his face turn this time and it would be a shame if they ruin it by squashing him at the hands of the company's big men.