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I was reading another wrestling site about how there was the biggest story in the business going down.  I clicked the link and it talked about someone named Mirko Cro Crop and how his jumping companies was a big deal.  I thought it was joke and someone made up a stupid name.  I kept reading and found that they were talking about ultimate fighting or something and not wrestling, even though they teased it as being a wrestling story.  My question is, why do some website think that UFC people should be covered as if they are pro wrestlers?  They aren't even close to the same thing.  Why don't wrestling sites cover boxing too if they think UFC should be covered?

This is a subject that we get email here at the site about all the time.  My take on it is that if a top pro wrestler goes into MMA, his attempt at fighting something that should be covered here, just as we did when Brock Lesnar tried to make the Minnesota Vikings.  Just because we cover that specific story doesn't make us an MMA or NFL website though.  

As best as I can tell, some people started covering MMA because they liked it personally and since there were some fringe pro wrestlers who went into the field, they justified its inclusion on their sites that way.  I don't see it as something that should be covered on an equal basis to pro wrestling on a wrestling site and certainly a top fighter jumping from one promotion to another isn't a top pro wrestling story.  If this site were MMAInsider.com, maybe, but it's not.

I wanted to know whatever happened between Stephanie McMahon and Chyna.

In a nutshell, Chyna was dating HHH.  While this was going on, Stephanie and HHH became an item.  Soon thereafter, Chyna was kicked to the curb and gone from WWE.  It's the oldest of all stories of all.

Is DirecTV ever going to get WWE 24-7?

If you listen to sources in their company, most probably in the near future.  They have been working on adding Video On Demand for years now and once they get that done and implemented, I expect them to add 24-7 pretty quickly thereafter.

I was hoping to receive a concrete answer to this question. Recently, I've noticed more wrestlers like James Storm on TNA either tearing up signs held up by fans in the front row or giving a light shove to a heckling fan. Does Storm catch any flack from management once he returns to the back after the match? Are these plants or are these real fans approached in advance to allow the heel to act this way and receive free stuff afterwards? I was just curious.

The simple rule of thumb in wrestling is if someone does something like that on a repeated basis, management has no problem with it.  As for fan interaction, in most cases the fan is on it.  Remember "Hat Guy" from back in the days of the original ECW?  He was seen jawing with wrestlers all the time and had his hat taken off of his head many times.  What you didn't see was that he got in to the former ECW Arena early and helped set up the chairs before the show.  So, only on very rare occasions is a worker actually taking it to the edge on his own.

Sometime around 1999-2000, WWE introduced a female character named "Muffy," who was supposedly Stephanie McMahon's personal trainer. She disappeared after just 1 or 2 weeks. Was there ever a plan for her to become an active worker, and if so, what happened?

Muffy was played by Caryn Mower, who was a stunt woman and aerobics instructor before coming to the WWF (as it was called at the time) in 1999 on a developmental deal.  She basically did the Simon Dean, heel trainer gimmick.  She was supposed to be with Steph for a while, but it was quickly killed off.  Rumors at the time were that Steph wasn't overly happy to have the hot, ripped Mower next to her on camera.

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