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-WWE held a tryout down at Ohio Valley Wrestling this past week and “The Professor” Gavin Garrison was signed to a developmental deal. Garrison has also previously wrestled for Derby City Wrestling. You can view his profile here.

-Alfonso Castillo of the Newsday has a recent interview with Bret Hart on his published book, My Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling:

AC: That’s a heck of a long book. Did you worry about that at all – writing something that’s too long, especially with wrestling fans having gotten used to a certain kind of book?

BH: The truth is I didn’t write it for wrestling fans. I wrote it for people that were familiar with it and knew a lot about it, but never really knew about the real life of the wrestler that worked. That’s the perspective I tried to offer. I tried to write it for the people who knew a little bit about it and were really looking for a smarter book – a more honest book – about wrestling and told a little more truth about it.

AC: Tell me a little about the process. I understand this wasn’t a situation where you sat down and went through everything in your head and put it down. This was literally something you were working on for years and years and years. This was the product of an audio journal you kept, is that right?

BH: Yeah, it took me seven years. I started the audio journal in 85. But the truth is, when I did that I didn’t do that to write a book. I just made these little tapes and I put them away. I kept locking them up when they were finished, and I never looked back. I made myself a promise. I said I’d just drive myself crazy and I’d start editing myself all the time out of fear of what I said. So I just decided to say whatever I did into the tapes – sometimes in a drunken state. There’s a lot of gibberish in my tapes. But there’s a lot of juicy tidbits that came out of me just laying there and saying something. I would go through the tapes, I would write down something that I said and I’d say, “Jeez, that’s the perfect way to describe that situation” or “That’s a great analogy.” I got lots of little gems out of those tapes. More on the interview>>>>>>