ECW alum Francine Fournier shared the sad news that both her father and sister succumbed to cancer during the last week. On Monday, Francine wrote:

I am grateful that he didn’t suffer for a long period of time. Now I am haunted by the image of the way he died, but i’m hoping that will fade away and I can just remember the way he was. We were extremely close, and you have no idea how heartbroken I am right now. I am just so thankful that God let him come to my wedding and walk me down the aisle. I will never ever forget how wonderful my Dad was to me and now I have another guardian angel to pray to.

I love you Daddy. I will always be your little girl.

And today we learned that Francine’s older sister Chrissy passed away on Wednesday while she and her mother attended her dad’s wake:

My Mom let out a scream. It was bone-chilling. I came back in and went right to my Mother. How much more could this poor woman take? Here is her husband lying there and she gets word that her daughter passed. Thank God for my family. We get strength from one another. We stayed at the funeral home until a little after 9pm and went right to Chrissy’s house.

When we got there, we saw Chris. My nephew said that when she passed, her mouth was wide open. When the nurse went back in the room about a hour later, Chrissy’s mouth was closed and she had a smile on her face. No one had touched her mouth. No one had closed it. Talk about having chills run up and down your spine. It is amazing how God works. That smile was there when we saw her. She is at peace now after being in pain for almost a year. I believe the smile came when she met our Dad in heaven.

As sad as I am, I truely believe that they are both in heaven together. No more suffering, no more pain. I will miss both of them so very much, but they are in my heart and another guardian angel has been sent to me.

Our deepest heartfelt sympathies go out to Francine and her family.

If you don’t keep up with the weekly ECW on Sci-Fi show, which admittedly, is sometimes painful to keep up with, you might not know who Tiffany is. The busty blonde ECW diva (former Playboy model Taryn Terrell) debuted in June 2008 and gets about as much air time as any other ECW diva in recent months, which is to say, almost none.

Tiffany, finally got a WWE.com profile in August. While it might not mean much in terms of her popularity with the company or fans, it’s nice to see her get a little attention today with the release of a new set of studio photos.

The photo shoot is entitled “Having Fun” and includes eight pics of Tiffany in a low-cut pink mini-dress. The whole set is available on WWE.com.

ECW alum Paul Heyman is looking for friends, and he’s not above bribery.

Okay, so the real story is that Heyman’s latest venture, The Heyman Hustle, is running a contest on MySpace, and all you have to do to enter is add The Heyman Hustle as your “friend.” They’re offering some pretty cool wrestling memorabilia as prizes, so it’s worth a minute of your time to head over to MySpace to enter.

Three winners will be selected from The Heyman Hustle MySpace friends list on September 1, 2008, and each will receive one of the following prizes:

• The official ECW badge Paul wore in the early days of the Original ECW (signed by Heyman)
• Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar framed 8×10 (This item sells for $250.00 at ManiacJoe.com.)
• An extremely rare framed promotional flyer from the Original Studio 54 in New York City for the very 1st wrestling event Paul Heyman ever promoted, on August 23, 1985 featuring Nature Boy Ric Flair.

Check out the contest announcement on The Heyman Hustle MySpace blog.

Wrestling Epicenter brings us a brand new interview with ECW alum Amy Dumas, best known as WWE diva Lita. The interview focuses primarily on her burgeoning music career with The Luchagors, including the origin of the band name, making their first record, and touring to promote their debut CD.

Amy also shares her thoughts on Vince McMahon, Trish Stratus, Iggy Pop, Shane Morton, Joan Jett, Lillian Garcia, Team Xtreme, and her former wrestler personality Miss Congeniality.

The interview transcript hasn’t been posted yet, but you can listen to the full interview at Wrestling Epicenter.

Looks like The Baltimore Sun’s Kevin Eck was spot on. Reports are surfacing that Knockout Gail Kim has indeed parted ways with TNA and will be heading to WWE.

Gail reportedly met with WWE talent relations exec John Laurinaitis on Thursday afternoon, and is on the verge of signing with the company. Rumors suggest that Gail’s decision to jump ship from TNA was financially motivated, and that she is leaving TNA on good terms.

While Gail has not yet addressed her career move on her MySpace page, she upgraded her “mood” from “sad” to “optimistic” today.

Gail Kim’s final TNA match will air on Spike TV tonight.