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- You can follow Michael Manna, aka Dr. Stevie on TNA wrestling. Here is his personla Twitter account: http://twitter.com/MichaelManna

-WHSV.com has an video interview with “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair on an autograph session in Harrisonburg, Va. on May 9th. Fans slept overnight in the parking lot to get first in line to get The Nature Boy’s autograph. You can watch the video here.

–Former WWE superstar Taz, yup spelled right, just the way he like it. Has put up yet another question and answers. Here are a few:

-Who is your favorite wrestler you’ve been in the ring with?

***I assume your question is “who is my favorite I’ve wrestled”. This answer might surprise some of you. I’ve been VERY lucky to wrestle some great stars & great guys from Undertaker, Stone Cold, Rock, Kurt Angle, HHH, Sabu, Dreamer, RVD, Team 3D, Bam Bam, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho and Edge. But honestly speaking, I had LOVED working with Chris Candido!! I had the opportunity to wrestle Candido from early Northeast Indies, Smoky Mountain and ECW (the real one!). Chris was an awesome guy that I miss very much and was grossly underrated!

-When did you start wearing the towel on your head during your entrance and what inspired it?

***Once the Taz-maniac died and TAZ was created (around 1994 or 95). Mike Tyson use to wear a white towel on his upper body that had a hole in it to slip his head trough. I thought that was bad-ass. I didnt want to copy his stuff or his gimmick so I thought I would use a black towel (and back than sometimes an orange towel) on my head insead of like a pancho like Tyson wore. Iron Mike wasn’t the biggest dog in the fight and was from the mean streets Brooklyn USA and also was a “no frills” combatant….so in my mind I saw a connection to his persona that inspire me back than.

-I wanted to know when you decided to retire were you upset that you only wrestled 2 years with wwe?

***Absolutely NOT!!!! I felt like I had a certain legacy in my wrestling career before I arrived in WWE, a legacy that I was very proud of and I was concerned it would get tarnished even more by WWE….I wish it was 1 year! Along with the agents & writers they had back than and the “other powers that be”, I felt like they never had a CLUE what the Taz character was truly about. Obviously my neck issues had a lot to do with me hanging them up also. Read more on Taz Q&A here.