John Cena said he won't leave WWE for Hollywood during a Miami Herald interview. "I'm going to be the first guy to work two full-time jobs,'' Cena said. "I'm certainly not going to leave wrestling anytime soon, but I'm not going to do movies as a hobby. I really want to devote 100-percent effort into any project I get involved with."...More?
March 23, 2009
Piper States Pro Wrestling Needs a Union
"As someone who has been in the business for a long time, I don't mind saying that the movie really got to me," Piper said. "I had the chance to speak to Mickey, and I told him, 'I don't know what kinda research you did, but you hit the nail right on the head.' What stood out to me as a wrestler was that at no time did that character ever get physical outside the ring. And that's very typical; most of us are pretty soft outside of the ring.
"But even moreso than that, the thing that probably grabbed me the hardest was the way it ended. All my brothers (wrestling peers) are dead, man. So, at the end, it caught me because it just went to black, and that's how it happens in our world. Look at Curt Hennig (who died in 2003 due to cocaine intoxication) -- he was the picture of health. And boom! Black. Not fade to black, just black. I've been to so many funerals."
"The WWE have done some wonderful things for wrestlers. But we can't keep on dying. The wrestlers give their hearts -- they give the best part of their lives. So as the success goes on, why aren't they being taken care of?"...More?
source: slam wrestling
Update on Indy Wrestling Show Featuring Former DX & NWO Members
It was recently reported that the WWE sent a cease & desist order to wrestling promoter David Herro for a Great Lakes Championship Wrestling show he was promoting featuring Kevin Nash and Scott Hall vs. Kip James and BG James. The show was held this past Saturday night in Waukesha, WI and drew about 1,500 fans. A fan in attendance noted that Scott Hall was totally out of shape and appeared to be intoxicated. Nash even had to help Hall up the ring steps. The fan noted that while Hall's hair is quite gray, he has dyed it a blue/black color that looks more blue than black. Nash worked the match with a hockey elbow pad covering his staph infection that he has been recovering from. Hall could barely work and wore blue jeans and an ICP jersey.
The finish of their match came when Hall went for a tag but Nash jumped off the apron and Kip James hit the Fameasser on Hall for the win. According to the fan, Nash cut a promo on Hall after the match saying he knows how it feels to be left out in the cold but at least give him credit for showing up.
source: impactwrestling.com
This Day in Wrestling History - The End of WCW
The WWF(E) buys WCW for 2.5 million dollars
March 23, 2001
March 22, 2009
Q&A with Champion Wrestler Triple H
Highlights from an interview Hunter did with USA Today:
You're the best but who is the guy closest to you?
Shawn Michaels. I know he’s been my tag team partner but he’s the best guy I’ve ever been in the ring with. He’s incredible. He can do anything in the ring.
What is the one Man Law you never violate?
Don’t drink so much in a room alone with your friends that you pass out.
Are you mad that you were a vampire years ago in the Blade movies and now vampires are cool?
That has gotten me a little steamed up. I do a vampire movie and a year later all of a sudden vampires are hot. I think I could have made a very sexy vampire in one of those movies but I guess they don’t want to typecast me now. My wife loves that True Blood, she is addicted to it. She couldn’t have cared less when I was a vampire.
What comes with being Teen Mr. New Hampshire?
(Laughs): At the time, absolutely nothing.
Last kid's flick you saw?
Peter Pan. I enjoyed it actually.
Do Not Call Me Paul
This person does not like their birth name; if you call them by it, they will either correct you or ignore you. This could be for a number of reasons. They might feel that you are assuming too much familiarity with them. They might find their real name embarrassing (though their aliases are not always much better). They could want to reinvent themselves. Or it might be that no one calls them by that name besides their parents.
Unfortunately for them, it does not always stick; someone will always call them by their old name, much to their chagrin. This person is not only known by their nickname, despite their best efforts. The person who calls them by their real name might be trying to mock them or threaten them, or perhaps is unaware they feel this way.
The name comes from the fact that the professional wrestlers Triple H (Paul Levesque) and the Big Show (Paul Wight) both have told fans who refer to them by their birth names that since all their friends and even their spouses refer to them by their ring names, as far as they are concerned, those are their real names.
source: tvtropes.org
Styles Enjoys the Circus Inside a
Six-Sided Ring
It still hasn't hit Allen Jones. No matter how many times he walks down the aisle in the toy department, no matter how many times his two young sons may find a mini-version of their dad behind see-through plastic, the man wrestling fans call "the Phenomenal A.J. Styles" doesn't think he's reached the summit of his career.
"It's cool to have the action figures and get to be in all of the video games," the TNA (Total Nonstop Action) wrestling headliner says, almost tossing the accomplishments aside like one of his opponents. "But I don't think I've made it yet."...More?
source: spencerdailyreporter.com
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
