Various News: Umaga Not Taking Indy Dates, New Foley Book, WWE Returns to St. Paul, Minnesota, More

– Eddie Fatu (Umaga in WWE) is turning down independent dates at this time. [Credit: Pwinsider.com]

– On September 5th, WWE will be returning to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota for the first time since 2004. Tickets will go on sale June 27th at 10AM. [Credit: Pwinsider.com]

– IGN.com currently has an article up called “Big Stars, Bad Gimmicks”, which look at some of the embarrassing gimmicks some of the more popular wrestlers have had. Raven, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash are all discussed. You can read the full article here

-Mick Foley announced on his MySpace Blog that he is working on his fourth autobiography, this one titled Crossing the Line. Grand Central Publishing, which handled Chris Jericho’s first autobiography and is also handling his second one, will publish the Foley book. This will be Foley’s first autobiography not published by Simon & Shuster. You can read the full blog here, but here are some highlights:

I think most of you will enjoy the new book I’m working on, “Crossing the Line”, which is coming along nicely. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I will try to give out a little sample here and there – which is the case this week, as I update lists of favorite things from “Foley is Good”, in a chapter I will call, “A Few of my Favorite Things”. This past weekend, I was thrilled to visit Santa’s Village, along with Storyland and Six Gun City in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Many of you know of my fondness for Santa”s Village from past books, so I won’t get into that here. Instead, I’d like to write about Knoebel’s Grove Amusement Resort in Elysburg, Pa. – an incredible place I visited with two of my children a week earlier. So here it is, a sneak peek at “A Few of My Favorite Things”, from “Crossing the Line” to be published in the winter/spring of 2010 by Grand Central Publishing.