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Joey Logano and Kyle Busch To Host WWE® Monday Night Raw®
Press ReleaseJoe Gibbs Racing Teammates Promote New Video Game, Texas NASCAR Race
Huntersville, N.C. (Oct. 23, 2009) – On Monday, Oct. 26, the worlds of NASCAR and World Wrestling Entertainment® will collide at 9:00 PM ET on USA Network as NASCAR drivers Joey Logano and Kyle Busch appear as guest hosts of WWE Monday Night Raw, the most-watched regularly scheduled program on ad supported cable television..Logano and Busch will appear on the program to promote the upcoming O’Reilly Challenge NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the Texas Motor Speedway on Nov. 7 – a race during which each driver will helm cars featuring paint schemes from the WWE SmackDown® vs. Raw® 2010 (THQ, ESRB: T) video game. The video game tie-in is nothing new for Logano, as his No. 20 Toyota is sponsored by GameStop, the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer.
“I’m excited for the opportunity to guest host WWE Monday Night Raw and I’m happy that we were able to get Kyle on board too,” said Logano. “GameStop is one of the coolest sponsors a driver can have and I love that I’ll get a chance to bring the WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 video game to life the best way I know how – on the racetrack.”
Operating much like a tag team in professional wrestling, the Joe Gibbs Racing combination of Logano/Busch has been taking turns visiting Victory Lane this season.
Together they have won 12 races and demonstrated that they are the team to beat in the Nationwide Series. Busch, driver of the No. 18 Z-Line Designs Toyota, currently leads the Nationwide series standings and has notched seven series wins thus far this season; Logano has five wins in 18 starts.
For more information about Joey Logano and the No. 20 GameStop Toyota visit: www.gamestop.com/logano. For more information about WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 visit: www.gamestop.com.
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About GameStop
Headquartered in Grapevine, TX, GameStop Corp., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company is the world’s largest video game and entertainment software retailer. The company operates 6,333 retail stores in 17 countries worldwide. The company operates e-commerce site GameStop.com and publishes Game Informer(R) magazine, a leading multi-platform video game publication. GameStop Corp. sells new and used video game software, hardware and accessories for video game systems from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. In addition, the company sells PC entertainment software, related accessories and other merchandise. General information on GameStop Corp. can be obtained at the company’s corporate website: http://www.gamestopcorp.com.
About Joe Gibbs Racing
Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) is one of the premier organizations in NASCAR, currently fielding three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams, two NASCAR Nationwide Series teams and a driver development program. Its driver lineup consists of Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano in the Sprint Cup Series; and Hamlin, Busch, Logano and Brad Coleman in the Nationwide Series. Based in Huntersville, N.C., and owned by Joe Gibbs – a three-time Super Bowl winner as head coach of the Washington Redskins and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame – JGR has competed in NASCAR since 1992, winning three Cup Series championships, and one Nationwide Series owner’s championship along with more than 100 NASCAR races, including three Brickyard 400s and the 1993 Daytona 500.
About World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE: WWE), is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly, PG content across all of its platforms including television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing. WWE programming is broadcast in more than 145 countries and 30 languages and reaches more than 500 million homes worldwide. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney.
Additional information on World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. For information on our global activities, go to http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/.
- MCG Sports Marketing for GameStop/Joe Gibbs Racing, Press Release
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