World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) announced this morning its most successful business period ever, with the first three months of 2008, featuring WrestleMania 24 and Royal Rumble, grossing $ 162.6 million and turning a $ 19.5 million after tax profit.

It was well above the same period last year, but WrestleMania was last year figured into the second quarter.

WrestleMania 24 is estimated at doing 1,058,000 buys.

Former ECW champion Bobby Lashley opened LashleyNutrition.com - a website selling nutritional products - last week. It turns out that Lashley has also opened a real nutritional store in Colorado, where he now resides. Lashley is currently training for mixed martial arts (MMA), but is still considering a return to professional wrestling (most likely TNA).

The Hollywood Reporter (THR.com) is reporting that Hulk Hogan's new celebrity wrestling show has been picked up and will debut on cable channel CMT this fall.

"Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling" will feature celebrities competing for the title of Celebrity All Star Wrestling Champion.

According to prowrestling.net, Trishelle Cannatella of MTV "Real World" fame has signed as the first celebrity contestant. Contestants who appear on the CMT show will be paid $ 40,000 for roughly one month of filming.

Hulk Hogan and producer Eric Bischoff will serve as two of the three judges.