The following press release was sent out earlier tonight:

PRESS RELEASE 12/28/2008

Re: CHYNA’s Hospital Visit!

As reported early Saturday morning Chyna was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank, Ca.

Upon finishing the video shoot for Lovechild’s new single, Chyna and a couple of friends including myself, Jeff Bauer AD on the Lovechild shoot, had a few drinks to celebrate her birthday and the end of a great shoot.

Unfortunately, newly prescribed medication she is taking had a very adverse effect combined with the alcohol and Chyna blacked out and fell into her mirrored closet doors. She received minor cuts on her arms and legs.

She spent half the day Saturday at St. Joseph’s emergency and was released by the doctors without being admitted to the hospital.

Chyna is doing fine if not a little embarrassed about forgetting she was on this new medication. The family at Hybrid Culture Entertainment is with her.

Chyna is a delight on the set and we at Hybrid Culture welcome her anytime she is willing to be involved in one of our productions.

Jeff Bauer
Mad Dad Promotions
Assistant Director, Lovechild video shoot
818/536-9337

Laurer was taken to the hospital for a psych evaluation but her blood alcohol level was too high to test her.

In a follow up to an earlier report, it is believed that Joanie "Chyna" Laurer mixed a bottle of prescription pills and vodka together, which sent her to the hospital.

According to a source close to Laurer, she may have been trying to commit suicide. Laurer is still hospitalized, and is waiting on a mental evaluation.

Mike Esterman, Laurer's manager, has stated that once she is released from the hospital, Laurer will go into rehab.

At Monday's Raw in Toronto, two anti-Cena signs were quite visible on camera when Cena himself got on the mic to introduce the returning Trish Stratus as his tag team partner for his match with Santino Marella and Beth Phoenix. The signs read "Cuck Fena" and "We've Cena 'Nuff!" - which was held up a few moments later. Both signs were held up by the same person, and quickly confiscated by security.

As recently as a few months ago - and definitely a few years ago when WWE marketed products featuring catchy slogans such as "Ruck Fules!", "Blow me ... Into the Stratusphere!", "APA - Always Pounding Ass", and "Wine me, Dine me, 619 me!" - both signs would have passed through, but that's not the case anymore due to the company's new-found kid-friendly directive, as well as WWE becoming more meticulous over what appears on-air.

As noted earlier, Jim Ross talked about the confiscated fan signs in his most recent blog and said those types of signs are not going to pass through in this day and age. Ross wrote: "As I have said many times, I am all for freedom of speech unless it crosses the line in the form of signs that essentially profanely scream, "please look at me." The "Cuck Fena" sign that was wisely confiscated in Toronto is a good example of crossing the line. It's akin to the "Tuck Fexas" shirt some here in Oklahoma wear. Bad taste...not cool. There was a time when that sort of material was actually encouraged and marketed in the WWE but that attitudinal ship has sailed."

Just to note, there is always a guy on a headset sitting by the announcers, and he is the person in charge of directing security to confiscate questionable fan signs, at least upon hearing from the people in the production truck. Sometimes he'll even get out of his chair and confiscate the questionable fan signs himself.

SmackDown Diva Maria posted a blog on the WWE Universe site responding to people criticizing her for not being a great wrestler. "I am not a person to respond to anger and cruelty but lately I have had such a hard time even getting on this site," Maria said addressing the criticism. "Mind you I do not claim to be the greatest wrestler or the quickest learner. I work hard, I get in the ring, (and) I try and still can't win. ... Wrestling is hard. I love it and that is what keeps me going. I love what I do." Maria added more on the negative comments. "If you want to be negative that is okay. I just can't read your comments cause negativity breeds negativity. I refuse to get down on myself. I could lose a million times and mess up a thousand things and as long as I love being out there I continue to march on."

If you missed iMPACT! last night, Mick Foley announced that he will be returning to the ring at the TNA Genesis PPV. Foley will team with AJ Styles and Devon to battle Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner and Booker T.

The WWE Tribute to the Troops special, which aired on December 20th, scored a 0.9 broadcast rating with 2.9 million viewers overall.

The UFC ended 2008 with "The Ultimate 2008" which featured three main event caliber fights on its card. UFC 92 drew 14,103 fans in attendance and brought in $3.47 million dollars at the gate.