The 2009 WWE Annual Shareholders Meeting was held on Friday, May 1.

Here are some of the newsworthy items from the meeting:

* Kevin Dunn missed the meeting due to an illness & may have been hospitalized.

* Vince McMahon said that he is not interested in running an MMA promotion.

* Vince McMahon said that WWE is looking into creating a Wednesday night TV program. He feels that it would not be overexposure due to the huge number of TV stations available & that being on…

The WWE’s annual draft. A heavily hyped 3-hour behemoth of a show. An event that rears its ugly, bulbous head once per annum, looming high overhead like a wayward zeppelin. And once it’s passed by, once the dust has settled, and the shadows have dispersed, is it safe to come out? Is it okay to emerge from your little shelter and gaze back into the grappling world?

Of course it is.

Post-draft, nothing has changed, or to express another cliché, in this column chock-full of them, the more things change, the more they stay the same…

World Wrestling Entertainment will report its 2009 first quarter results on May 7, 2009, with chairman Vince McMahon among those hosting a conference call to discuss the results.

Check out ESPN’s E:60 feature on WWE and Vince McMahon in full right here.

A video preview of Tuesday night’s WWE feature to air on ESPN’s E:60 show.

Jerry Lawler was promised a match at WrestleMania by Vince McMahon, according to The King himself.

Seven years ago, following WrestleMania 18, I had a feeling of emptiness inside. Although I’d just witnessed Hogan versus The Rock, which was one of the most electrifying spectacles I’d seen in years, the PPV on which it occurred left me under whelmed.

Not since that WM has the same result transpired, not even in 2003, when WM 19 was a box-office flop (those who watched it appreciated a superior card of entertainment and grappling).

The closest I’ve came to feeling that disappointed, was with WrestleMania 22, which also didn’t feel like a special WrestleMania in some regards…

A preview of he main event at WrestleMania 25 between Triple H and Randy Orton.

Mark Bright looks at some of the matches you should be watching during WrestleMania week.

WWE confirm that Vince McMahon will induct Steve Austin into the Hall of Fame this weekend.

TNA President Dixie Carter has hit back at Vince McMahon after comments made earlier this week by the WWE chairman.

In an interview to promote WrestleMania, Vince McMahon labels TNA “reprehensible.”

Ken Shamrock battles Bobby Lashley in the main event of the MMA portion of the March 21 pro boxing/MMA hybrid PPV in Pensacola, FL.