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The Sun.Co.Uk reports WWE Hall Of Famer and Legendary Ric Flair calls Bret “The Hitman” Hart an mid-card wrestler…

Flair blasted: “He is a p***-ant in the history of wrestling.

“He has the nerve to compare himself to me! Let’s get realistic. If you put Bret Hart in your left hand and me in your right hand, compare the career…who is he?

“In my world he is a nobody!” Read the full article go here.

-Wrestlingepicenter.com did an interview with Candice Michelle. She says she is done with wrestling and talks about producing her own line
of lingerie.

-Jeremy Piven did an interview on a Fox affiliate today in Los Angeles and didn’t once mention that he will be hosting Raw in two weeks.

-Chris Masters return is said to be imminent.

-Lilian Garcia’s last date with the company hasn’t yet been finalised and
they still don’t have a replacement despite grooming Angela Fong from
developmental for the role. WWE Producer Kevin Dunn has reportedly
suggested an American Idol-style talent show on Raw in the week’s
leading up to Summerslam to find her replacement.

-Superstar Billy Graham’s Hall of Fame ring sold for $11,500 on eBay. The
ring went to a 29-year-old man from Liverpool, England who owns a string
of pubs.

Source:WRESTLING GLOBE NEWSLETTER

-One half of the Unified Champion Chris Jericho posted the following message on his new tag partner for tomorrow’s Night Of Champions pay-per-view on his Twitter:

I’m not gonna say who my partner is going to be tomorrow….but he is EVIL….

–Wrestling News World reader Brandon Owen sent in the following report:

Here are the results of WWE Supershow in Salisbury, Maryland. Below are quick results:

* Drew McIntyre b. Jimmy Wang Yang with a double arm DDT

* MVP b. Carlito after a Playmaker

* IC Champ Rey Mysterio b. Dolph Ziggler after 619 and WC Pop

* ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer b. Christian, Vladimir Kozlov, & William Regal after pinning Regal

* The Miz b. Primo after Carlito interfered

* WWE Divas Champ Maryse b. Mickie James

* World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk b. Jeff Hardy with a GTS

* John Cena b. Big Show in a no disqualification match.

TNA House Show Results - Monroe, Louisiana (7/24/09)

-Headlines India got an e-mail interview of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Johnson talks about his morning ritual, realization of being an dad and working action to comedy movie. You can read the interview here.

-Paul Heyman of the Heyman Hustle, with new home to Crave Online, discusses WWE and TNA not recruiting new talents that could be future stars of the wrestling industry. Read the article here.

-WWE.com has posted this week’s Power 25, head over to WWE.com.

-Meet the following WWE superstars at various places:

Saturday, July 25 7:00 p.m.
Best Buy, Philadelphia, PA
Meet WWE Superstars Kofi Kingston & Tiffany at Best Buy, 2300 South Christopher Columbus Blvd., on behalf of Comcast Cable!

Saturday, July 25 2-4 p.m.
New York Sports, Massapequa, N.Y.

Meet WWE Superstars Finlay and Hornswoggle at New York Sports at the Westfield Sunrise Mall in Massapequa, N.Y.! Call (516) 541-4475 for tickets.

Saturday, July 25 12-2:00 p.m.
George’s Collectibles, Levittown, PA

Meet Raw Superstar Santino Marella at George’s Collectibles, located at 7755 New Falls Road in Levittown, Pa.!

Saturday, July 25 3-4:00 p.m.
Jack’s Place, Avalon, N.J.

Meet Raw Superstar MVP at the Philadelphia 76er’s Beach Blast event located at 36th and Ocean Drive in Avalon, N.J.!

Saturday, July 25 noon-2 p.m.
Radisson Hotel, Carteret, N.J.

Meet WWE Legend Mike Rotunda starting at 12 p.m. at tthe Radisson Hotel in Carteret, N.J.! Visit www.franklinsquarevideo.com or call
1-516-328-3691.

-Rumors have been flying around the internet of this HUGE Aussie, Nathan Jones. Where has he been?…To make more rumors flying through the internet, Wikipedia has Nathan Jones under TNA wrestling contract. See for yourself Here. If anything comes to light, will keep you updated.

Few sources within has reported that Jones has been training again at Booker T & Stevie Rays school. Nathan Jones has now been said to be debuting at “Bound For Glory 2009” on Sunday, October 18, at the Bren Events Center at University of California at Irvine in Irvine, California.

-The following is from TNA wrestling:

Huge News: TNA and SpikeTV executives met and have agreed to run the show past the scheduled 11pm EST time slot. Make sure to set your DVR’s an extra 15 minutes to be sure you don’t miss the extra action of TNA’s 200th episode of iMPACT!

-News Times has an article on Gillette tagging up with WWE as you can see on WWE.com. Gillette has been an huge success.

In the first two weeks of the Gillette Fusion campaign, video views are up 200 percent week over week, and photo mosaic and comment wall placements are in the six-figure range, DelGrosso said.

The campaign is a sign of how far product endorsement has progressed, said Jon Schallert, president of the Schallert Group Inc., a Colorado-based marketing and retail business consultant.

“It is also a cleverly constructed Web site that pushes their (Gillette’s) newest product, and allows for young people visiting the site to virally spread the message that Gillette products are cool and sexy, without saying it,” Schallert said.

-Rumors have been flying around the internet of former WWE superstar, John “Bradshaw” Layfield in negotiations with TNA Wrestling. JBL posted the following on his WWE Universe blog:

Vince McMahon gave me an opportunity back in December of 1995 and through WWE everything I have financially has been possible. I would never go to a competitor of any kind out of respect for the opportunity I was given.

I did a wrestling interview that obviously was misinterpreted-and I don’t know why because I thought I was clear, I should not have done it and won’t in the future.

ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer has posted on his WWE Universe blog. Here is an few snippets:

-I will try my best to put into words just how much returning to Philadelphia as ECW Champion means to me. I was born and raised in New York, but Tommy Dreamer’s career was born in Philly. I remember the first time trying to find the ECW Arena driving around Philly for about an hour lost with Taz. We saw the old Vet,the Rocky Statue, the Spectrum. Where the hell was this ECW Arena it had to be some huge building was are thoughts. Well after asking a police officer he pointed out that the bingo hall next to Forman mills store,may be it. Sure enough it was and my love for Philadelphia began. To read the rest of Dreamers thoughts to Philadelphia gohere.

-Shaquille O’Neal is OFFICIALLY on WWE Universe: http://fans.wwe.com/shaquilleoneal

-Florida Championship Wrestling, an WWE training grounds, are having an Summer Heat Event on July 25th. Prior to this event Scotty 2 Hotty is signing autograph from 7-8PM. Oddly noted Scotty To Hotty is advertise as an WWE Superstar, not an former WWE superstar. Assuming this is true, World Wrestling Entertainment has resigned former WWE star. with his finishing move, “the worm”…Scott 2 Hotty. For more information go here.

-Next years edition of WWE’s No Way Out 2010 will be held on February 21st.

-Slam Wrestling got an recent interview with WWE diva, French Canadian born, Maryse.

-”I’m pretty happy to defend my title this Sunday, pretty excited about it,” she said before reverting into heel mode. “A lot of people say that I’m scared of Mickie James and I am running and hiding and trying to avoid her. It’s not true and I don’t know why those rumours are all over the papers, the Internet, everywhere. It’s pretty funny. I know that she is very good, I know that she was the champion four times, that she defended her title against Lita, Trish Stratus, those big names in the Women’s Division. It’s fine. I think it’ll be a pretty interesting night. If you had watched Monday Night Raw the past two weeks, I was the one who won. And I must be better because I’m the Divas’ Champion for eight months. That means something.”

-”Michelle McCool is my all-time number one fan. She, from the beginning, wanted to be me, copying me, did everything to be like me. But I don’t blame her — she’s not the first one, probably not the last one,” she said and later added: “If I wasn’t me I would want to be.”

-”I’m pretty surprised, because being French Canadian, I feel like I’m from a different country, so (that) and being a heel, that’s kind of cool and I’m flattered about that. It’s really nice,” she said. “I would say I’m pretty different from all the other girls. I’ve heard that I have a lot of sex appeal and that’s really something I try to use when I get on stage. Well, you don’t really try — it’s something you have or you don’t have. But I guess I must have it and a lot of men gotta love that!” Read the full interview at Slam Wrestling.

-WWE’s auction has John Cena’s signature jean shorts he wore at No Way Out on WWE Auction. John Cena has signed, dated and actually put in the match that he wrested in, you can bid on them here.

-Sky Sports got an exclusive interview with current WWE World Champion CM Punk, Punk heading into this Sunday’s World champion against Jeff Hardy.

Cm Punk says that He is an better role model for kids, Jeff has too many demons to deal with.

Talks greatest champion ever:

CM Punk: That’s a really hard call. Off the top of my head, guys like Harley Race, Ricky Steamboat and Eddie Guerrero were awesome champions. I liked different things about those guys. Harley was a man’s man, a tough son of a gun and was the guy to beat for so long. Eddie was great in everything he did; he could talk, he could wrestle and he could do the entertainment aspect of wrestling. As for Ricky Steamboat, he is probably the best role model the business has ever seen.

More tattoos:

CM Punk: Oh yeah, I’ve got plenty of room. I’m not done yet. But I’m not going to spoil the surprise and tell you what I’m gonna get. You’ll have to stay tuned and find out! Read the full interview here.

CFM Music Scene got an exclusive interview with Legacy member, Ted Dibiase Jr. Dibiase attened Comic Com to promote his movie that is scheduled to go straight to dvd “The Marine 2″. Interview is below: To check out EXCLUSIVE photos of Dibiase ONSet of The Marine 2

CFMNews: Is this the first time you have been to Comic Con?
Ted DiBiase: The first time, yes, and it is…absolutely insane.

CFM: So going from doing live shows every week (on WWE Monday Night Raw, Mondays 9-11pm USA Network) to working on a film, what was different about that?

TD: You know wrestling and acting, the film industry….they have their similarities. In wrestling there is a lot more physicality. Well there was a
lot of physicality in this film. I did all my own stunts but when we are wrestling, it is more over the top. When you are playing to a live crowd, you are a little
bit exaggerated. You know….a little bit more. And there are all of those millions of people who are watching on TV at home. And the camera, it catches your facial
expressions. And that is something that you have to let those people at home feel - that emotion your face, whereas people in the crowd who are at the top of the arena,they have to feel it through your movements. Film is more here (frames face). Less is more. And that is something that I learned as the process of the movie
went through and I really enjoyed it. The learning experience was just incredible. I think it helped me a lot with my wrestling, you know? Cause you understand the
importance of exemplifying that emotion. This was my first film. I hope there is more, because it was so much fun.

CFM: Are films something you always thought that maybe you wanted to do?
TD: It was something that was always in the back of my head. My mom always thought I would be an actor. I was always pretending that I was hurt and she
would get worried you know? And I was like, no I was just kidding. And she would slap me and it would be bad. (laughs) Yea it was always in the back
of my head and when the opportunity came, it was just really a surprise to me because I had only been wrestling like 6 or 7 months and they came to me
with the script and I read it. They said “wow how long have you been acting” and I looked at my wrist and said “about 10 minutes!” They said they would get back
to me and they called me a week later and said you got the part. And I was like, I got a part in a movie?!? What part is it? I was thinking it was
something small. And they said…no you are the lead role. And then it hit me and I was just….oh my gosh. It was on from there. It was just
a lot of learning and it was quite a trip and it was so much fun.

CFM: Did you talk to John Cena (star of THE MARINE) to get any advice?
TD: Yea, I talked to Cena and he is incredible. He is in THE MARINE 1 and he just finished 12 ROUNDS which just came out on DVD and is doing extremely well. His
advice was…be yourself. Just be yourself and listen. It was all I could do. It was my first time in any kind of acting role, apart from wrestling. It was different.
This is new to him too. He’s done two movies now but it’s still pretty fresh. He said be yourself, have fun with it, listen to what they have to say. It was a
rollercoaster ride but it turned out to be an incredible film.

CFM: How did you get along with the rest of the cast?
TD: Michael Rooker who plays Church…I mean Michael Rooker was in DAYS OF THUNDER and TOMBSTONE. He was awesome. Oh my gosh he was so much fun. And Lara Cox who plays my wife….we just had great chemistry together. Our director, Roel Reine, he made us do these exercises together. We want to malls and stuff holding hands and acting like a couple.
I had never done anything like that because I had never been to acting school or in Theatre or anything like that so it was interesting. We hit it off right off
the bat. They really helped me out a lot. I was surrounded by good people, great actors….veterans of the business so that really helped as well. It inspired me
to do as good of a job as I could do to represent them and the WWE. It was good all around.

CFM: When does the film come out?
TD: December 29th on DVD and Blu-Ray.

-WWE diva Kelly Kelly has just finally joined twitter: http://twitter.com/RealKellyKelly. Here is what she said:

Im finally on Twitter Yayyy now i just gotta figure this thing out

This twitter account is confirmed through Kelly Kelly’s, a.ka. Barbie Blank Myspace.

-Bret “The Hitman” Hart was interview on Busted Open Radio show on Sirius satellite on XM105. Here is what Bret talked about his relationship with vince McMahon.

“It’s kind of live and let live,” said Hart. “I appreciated when they did the DVD thing with me. That meant a lot with me. I’ve always tried to be more positive than negative. We had a bad ending, but we certainly had some great years together. I’ll never forget those.”

“I think it meant something and I felt it was very sincere. I think it was that conversation that kind of turned the tide for us. I wouldn’t be talking to you right now if it wasn’t for all the things that Vince McMahon did for me years ago.”

-WWE Hall of Famer Roddy Piper entered a not guilty plea in court today to a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence in Hollywood last month. He faces a maximum of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

-WWE has isssued an survey online of dvd purchases here:

http://www.wweresearch.com/se.ashx?s=0B880140725437F7

-The August issue of Movie Entertainment magazine in Canada has an advertisement for this year’s WWE SummerSlam PPV which lists the following talent for the show:

Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, Chris Jericho, John Cena, Kofi Kingston, Rey Mysterio, Triple H and CM Punk

While the advertisement is likely dated because it features Edge, who is now injured, WWE is absolutely advertising Shawn Michaels for SummerSlam.

-TNA Shop has already got an Taz t-shirt up for sale. You can purchase it here.

–Jim Ross has posted in his JRSBarBQ.com website. here are a few snippets:

*Spoke with Jerry Brisco Tuesday afternoon while “in hurry up and wait mode” in Richmond. Jerry’s doctors are extremely happy with the HOF’er’s progress and expect him to make a full recovery from heart surgery after a few months rest. Having three months off sounds pretty intriguing to me but having to have heart surgery to facilitate such hopefully isn’t in my cards. Jerry’s speech and strength are making a big comeback!

*Shawn Michaels celebrates birthday # 44 Wednesday and our very best wishes go out to HBK. There is rampant speculation that Shawn will return to WWE in time to compete at Summerslam but I have yet to hear that confirmed. HBK returning at Summerslam would be my guess but I just can’t be sure at this time. Michaels is still, arguably, the best in ring performer in the business today.

*Much has been made of the Steve Austin tax matter resulting from the sale of some property. Knowing Steve as well as I do, and we have not discussed this particular matter, I would assume that this is merely a clerical error and someone on the accounting or Realtor end dropped the ball. Austin is one of the most obsessed individuals I know regarding saving money and taking care of his business the right way. Austin “got it” when I used to preach to the wrestlers about saving their money, preparing for their future, getting professional financial planning and income tax help and not living beyond their means IE pay one’s bills and don’t buy too much bling. Trust me, Steve Austin won’t have any issues taking care of this $22K matter that I suspect simply fell through the cracks. I can tell you from personal experience and from dealing with accountants that things like this have happened to many of us and more often than not, if one is diligent in this area, these matters are simply oversights. Austin shares my philosophy and that is to NEVER “mess” with Uncle Sam and the IRS.

*Helluva coup for Raw to nab Shaquille O’Neal as guest host this Monday night in Washington D.C., the day after Night of Champions in Philly. Shaq should be tremendous as his personality, like the rest of him, is huge. Shaq has been a long time fan and he once told me that he DVR’ed Raw every week so that he could keep up with what was happening especially during his NBA season. Shaq has an upcoming reality show that ABC is going to air this summer which will likely get some “stretch” come Monday night. The big fellow is a legit good dude let me assure you. Could we see Shaq in the ring Monday night? I don’t know but I do suspect that the Cleveland Cavaliers would likely not be overwhelmed. I suggest the Cavs send King James to D.C. to chaperon. LeBron is a big wrestling fan too. Nice tag team. You can read the full entry here.

Ken Anderson has posted the following video on his Facebook.

-New signee Taz has posted his recent thoughts on signing with TNA Wrestling on hos Twitter:http://twitter.com/OfficialTaz

I am having nothing but FUN with TNA! Great talented lockeroom & backstage peeps very cool also! Its ALL good baby!

-TNA star/MMA fighter Bobby Lashley has launched a network of official sites at www.lashleynetwork.com.

-Shawn Michaels turned 44 today.