Former TNA Gunner recently spoke to PWMania.com about his time in TNA and his lifelong goal of working for WWE. Here are some highlights of what he said about:

His Time in TNA, His Departure & What’s Next:

“I really enjoyed working for the company. I’ve been with them since 09’, Terry Taylor helped me get my foot in the door with me and Murphy and working the security deal. I will definitely miss the guys that I worked with. I think it goes the same way and that they will miss me. I talked with a handful of them. I really think it was best. After six years, there were times where I felt I was underutilized. Even though I worked with James Storm and I did the main event with Magnus, even after the Sam Shaw stuff I was put on the backburner for some odd reason and didn’t do anything wrong. After six years, I was to the point where I was stressed out a lot. I’m 33 you know and I don’t want my youth soaked up. I feel like I have something more to offer to somebody whether Impact calls me back in a couple months or WWE or Ring of Honor whoever it is, I know that me as a person I have a lot to offer. I think it was what was best for business.

“There is no bad blood. It was a mutual agreement and I thank them for the opportunities of having me in the Impact ring. But I have bigger and better goals and I think that since I was 5 I wanted that Wrestlemania moment. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to compete in the WWE ring and I’m not getting any younger. It’s still in the back of my mind, hey, I want to compete in a WWE ring or NXT has an amazing product right now down there. So I feel like I could wrestle on Impact and I’m looking forward to the future.”

His future and WWE:

“I personally hope to one day in the future compete in the WWE. I mean like I said a minute ago, that is my ultimate goal since I was 5. I really feel like even if I go and another huge goal of mine is acting. I’ve done two movies this year and I do numerous amounts of auditions every week but I think my heart lies and still does with having a WWE match and having that Wrestlemania moment. After that I can probably retire and hopefully build The Rock’s status and act as much as I can because I love acting. The beating on my body and wanting to have kids one day and enjoy them. If I’m 65 and I never even attempt to try WWE then there will be a missing and void there. I’m in Kingsport, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and right outside of Atlanta. So anybody that follows me, I post independent shows. I’m booked up all the way to December from Virginia to North Carolina to South Carolina and I’m working on a UK tour, going to Korea for some Military appearances. I stay busy, man.”

NXT Champion Finn Balor recently spoke to Title Match Wrestling about the NXT brand’s success and whether we’ll see an NXT live event during WrestleMania 32 weekend.

Balor said it’s hard to believe how far NXT has come in the past year. “For a lot of the boys at NXT, we feel like we’ve captured lightning in a bottle. A year ago we were wrestling in front of 30-40 people in Florida. Now we’re in Texas, and we’re blowing the roof off.”

After selling out the Barclays Center last month for NXT Takeover: Brooklyn, NXT is keeping the momentum going and has already sold out the SSE Arena for December’s NXT Takeover: London event. Balor is hoping they can keep the momentum going with another NXT special event from the Dallas area next year for WrestleMania 32 weekend.

“A lot of us believe we’re completely separate from what they’re doing on the main roster, and some of us don’t necessarily want to be on WrestleMania. We’re going to have our own card, hopefully, the night before. We’ll sell out a building, and saying to the boys follow that.”

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson posted the following on Instagram about the first time he met Vince McMahon back when he was only 11 years old.

My nightmare aka my very first TV “appearance” when I was 11yrs old.

At a WWE TV taping in Allentown, PA. Since my dad was always on the road wrestling, any father/son time we got in was great, so I was super pumped to travel with him.

It was backstage that I’d meet a man who years later we’d enjoy tremendous success together, and he’d become one of my strongest mentors in business – Vince McMahon. I’ll never forget he shook my hand, looked down at me and said “We gotta get you on camera tonight young man!”. I thought, “WHOA I’m gonna be on TV… can’t wait to tell my friends… AWESOME!”. So I’m sitting there in the crowd, the camera man comes over and tells me he’s getting ready to shoot so be ready. It was in that defining moment that I just realized something awful… I was just getting over a bad case of Chicken Pox (you can clearly see a few “post pox” on my face), and I thought “Holy sh*t this is terrible! The world will see me for the first time, and I look like someone set fire to my face and stomped it out with cleats”. Looking back at this gem of a picture, there’s two things I’ve learned: Things are never as bad as they seem (especially at 11yrs old) and instead of worrying about my Chicken Pox I should’ve been concerned with the world questioning whether I was a boy or a girl. Which, for the record happened all the time to me when I was a kid.

#PrePubertyWasABitch#StopWorryingSweatheart#GetYourLittleAssInTheGym #TBT

A photo posted by therock (@therock) on Sep 24, 2015 at 8:52am PDT

WWE Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch was arrested on Wednesday 9/23 and is currently jailed at The Carbon County Correctional Facility in Nesquehoning, PA.

Sytch had a bench warrant issued on 9/3 after she missed three hearings that were scheduled to deal with her arrest from back in May, when a police officer noticed her driving erratically into a Wal-Mart parking lot and arrested her for driving under the influence. She also had a suspended license and was cited with careless driving. She is scheduled to see Judge Joseph J. Matika today and a trial is set to begin on 12/7.

In addition, she has another court date scheduled for 10/7 for DUI arrests that took place on 6/1 and 6/20. The charges for the June arrests include careless driving, failure to stay in her lane during traffic, driving without a license and DUI.

Paige spoke with E! News this week to promote Tuesday’s season finale of Total Divas. Here are the highlights of what she said about:

Her upcoming wedding:

“We haven’t gotten very far yet. We haven’t started planning anything because I think I could be engaged for five years. I don’t want to rush into stuff. But I’ll keep you posted as soon as I know what’s going on.”

Putting her life on display for the cameras:

“I was definitely worried at first and very skeptical. I wasn’t ready for it. But the crew is absolutely amazing. We’re like a big family. They make it so easy and you don’t even realize they’re there half of the time. They’re so respectful. It’s different because obviously I don’t like my personal life being out there, but this is helping people as well.”

To read the full interview, visit Eonline.com.

Mick Foley says if he could change anything about WWE, he would “Push Cesaro.” The hardcore legend posted a message on Facebook voicing his strong support for Cesaro and questioning the baffling booking of his character. Foley wrote:

TWO WORDS: PUSH CESARO

Last night, I was asked a simple question during the Q&A part of my show in Philadelphia: “if you were in charge of WWE, what one change would you make?” I gave a simple answer. Push Cesaro. I’m not trying to create controversy or be a pain in WWE’s neck – but the recent treatment of this guy on TV is downright baffling to me. Besides, as long as I said it, and it will be reported on (which I’m pretty sure it will be) you might as well read it here first. I know Steve Austin has been an enthusiastic Cesaro supporter. Maybe he needs a little bit of help. Maybe my opinion will mean something. Maybe yours will too. Tell me about your favorite Cesaro – WWE match. Give this post a like and a comment..maybe even share it – and we’ll see if a few thousand comments on the Foley Facebook page (which I KNOW the WWE front-office reads) might make a difference.

– At Thursday’s WWE NXT live event in Lakeland, Florida, sparingly seen wrestler Noah Kekoa unveiled new attire, which includes a headdress.

Dig the new look and attitude from @kekoawwe #nxtlakeland pic.twitter.com/EZNxaF1bAh

— Wayne (@BrokenZen333) September 24, 2015

https://twitter.com/snkxwwe/status/647196305580756992

https://twitter.com/snkxwwe/status/647197098778230784

Kekoa lost to Angelo Dawkins in a singles match.

– To promote this Tuesday’s season finale of Total Divas, E! News chatted with Paige about her future wedding, Rosa Mendes’ pregnancy, why she compares her family to The Osbournes and more.

On last week’s show, A Day To Remember guitarist Kevin Skaff proposed to Paige, and she said, “Yes.” She was asked how the wedding planning is going and said, “We haven’t gotten very far yet. We haven’t started planning anything because I think I could be engaged for five years. I don’t want to rush into stuff. But I’ll keep you posted as soon as I know what’s going on.”

Paige was also asked about sharing her life with the cameras on the show.

“I was definitely worried at first and very skeptical. I wasn’t ready for it. But the crew is absolutely amazing. We’re like a big family. They make it so easy and you don’t even realize they’re there half of the time. They’re so respectful. It’s different because obviously I don’t like my personal life being out there, but this is helping people as well,” she said.

To read the full interview, click here.

• Backstage news on Undertaker’s WrestleMania opponent

Another wrench just got thrown in the private life of Hulk Hogan. Today, the Associated Press reported on a motion that they filed in Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker.

As you may recall, about three years ago, Gawker published an article about being sent one of the videos that shows Hogan engaged in sexual relations with Heather Clem. The videos were shot on the Clem family home security system without Hogan’s knowledge, and Gawker included a “highlight reel” of the video they were sent with the article.

Hogan sued Gawker right away, and Gawker later sued the FBI for the records of their investigation into Hogan being extorted by a third party over the videos. Gawker quickly won the FBI case, but the judge in the Hogan case ruled that the products of that investigation(including a video and transcript of Hogan’s racist rant) must be sealed. The AP and its fellow intervenors want the records unsealed.

Charles Tobin, who filed the motion, said that “It’s highly unusual for this much secrecy to surround a civil proceeding. Ordinarily, whether it’s a celebrity or an average citizen, once you ask the court to help solve a dispute you open the proceedings up to public review. What’s going on in Hulk Hogan’s case certainly is not the norm when it comes to public transparency of the courts.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRpnLCvRhkw

I’ve obtained a copy of the filing, and here’s what we can add on top of what the AP noted in their own report:

• Joining the Associated Press in filing the intervening motion are First Look Media (The Intercept and Reported.ly), WFTS TV (a Tampa, FL TV station), WPTV TV (a West Palm Beach, FL TV station), Scripps Media (owns many local newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations), Journal Broadcast Group (a multimedia company that recently merged with Scripps), and the Tampa Bay Times.
• The argument is, essentially, that the files were ruled public information in Gawker’s lawsuit against the FBI, and Florida’s own state laws err on the side of court records being incredibly open. But…
• …even if there was a time where the sealing was warranted, the argument is that Hogan demanding an investigation into a potential leak means the records must go public because he put them at issue.

While none of the intervenors would be expected t publish the sex tapes if this action succeeded, it wouldn’t really matter since they’d be ruled public record and someone else would release them.

The “Magnificent” Don Muraco is the latest guest to appear on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast, and they covered a large variety of topics in their conversation with him. At least a few of those have to do with current events in the wrestling business. Some of the highlights include:

His thoughts on Hulk Hogan’s post-coital racist rant going public:

Honestly, I was never a part of his clique so I don’t have a dog in the fight. I was never a part of his clique with the guys they used to fawn around him and kiss his ass for work and for bookings and for places on the card. He always seemed though to be one of the guys, kind of. Even though he wasn’t because he was “The Hulk”. He had the TV, the NBC, the movies and everyone coming after him. I never did see or saw him as a racist or a bigot or anything. He got caught. It was stupid for a guy that spends that much time talking publicly like we are talking now for a person that spends that much time being taped it was dumb and pretty insensitive. I don’t know if he was secretly being taped or what the story is but still with all the political correctness and stuff going down now you have to watch your p’s and q’s all the time.

Was he aware of the issues between Jimmy Snuka and Nancy Argentino at the time?

I was right there around it the whole time. It was the week after we shot the thing where he tore all my clothes off and I hit him with the microphone. The same night, it was the oddest coincidence. That same night Eddie Gilbert had run his brand new Lincoln Town-car off the back end of a semi-truck and got drug down the freeway and he called me in the middle of the night and that’s how I ended up crossing over with all of the State Troopers and everything else and that’s how I got involved but I could see my whole future going down the drain there for a while.

Has he talked to Snuka lately?

I was talking to him on the phone until he started having his medical issues. I haven’t spoken to him in a while. His wife wanted me to see him when I’m up in New Jersey and she wanted me to say hello to him and kind of perk up his spirits.

Where does he stand on the wrestlers suing WWE for negligence in treating concussions:

I would have to be more for the personal responsibility. Although we were getting run really hard. I don’t know, but I guess I would follow (Dan) Spivey where you have to take responsibility for yourself. I just saw a tape of Led Zeppelin doing Stairway to Heaven and Jimmy Page and the four of them and I think the girl from Heart was doing it too and they are all still surviving. So if Led Zeppelin is still going then a lot of wrestlers should be. I think though I have to agree with Danny Spivey and you have to take personal responsibility for yourself when it comes to addiction and taking care of your bread. We are all afforded the opportunity to make money and when you lose it and you are knocked off your high horse you want to blame somebody else.

In the full interview, Muraco talks about working for both Vince McMahons, his run with Hogan, “Fuji Vice” on Tuesday Night Titans, and more.

As of this writing, the only match that’s been announced for next month’s Hell in a Cell pay-per-view is the Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker main event. According to the Wrestling Observer, the following matches are also planned for the card:

– WWE Champion Seth Rollins vs. Kane

– Kevin Owens vs. Ryback for the IC title

– The New Day vs. The Dudley Boyz in a Tables Match for the WWE tag titles

– Divas Champion Charlotte vs. Nikki Bella vs. Paige

– Wyatt Family vs. Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Randy Orton

No word yet on what’s planned for John Cena.

It was announced on this week’s episode of NXT that Apollo Crews will take on Tyler Breeze at the upcoming NXT Takeover: Respect live special on Wednesday, October 7th. Here’s the updated card:

– NXT Women’s Champion Bayley vs. Sasha Banks in a 30-Minute IronWoman Match

– Baron Corbin & Rhyno vs. TBA (Dusty Tournament semi-final)

– The Mechanics vs. TBA (Dusty Tournament semi-final)

– The finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament

– Apollo Crews vs. Tyler Breeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKzKcl0VgWs

Frank Iadevaia, the Jersey All Pro Wrestling promoter best known by the affectionate nickname “Fat Frank,” has passed away at 43 years of age. Jason Powell confirmed the unfortunate news at ProWrestling.net, as did Mike Johnson at PWInsider.com and Dave Meltzer at F4WOnline.com. A number of wrestling personalities have been expressing their condolences n social media, including Evolve’s Gabe Sapolsky:

https://twitter.com/BookItGabe/status/647068791600513024

Frank launched JAPW in 1997 as a hardcore themed independent promotion where he was in the mix as part of top tag team NC-17. Early on, the promotion got a lot of attention when he made an elaborate prank call to the Howard Stern Show. Claiming to be an indie wrestler who had a “big match coming up against NC-17,” he said that he and friends who had been abused by their high school principal tracked him down and badly beat him. It was quickly determined to be a hoax, obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2eb_e2S-gg

JAPW took a turn in 2001. Thanks to local news coverage shining a spotlight on JAPW and rival Combat Zone Wrestling’s bloody, weapons-filled matches and New Jersey’s lack of pro wrestling regulation, the state legislature felt the need to take action. They banned “extreme wrestling,” which was defined as “an activity in which participants struggle hand-to-hand and cut, slash or strike each other or themselves with an implement to intentionally cause bleeding or perform any intentional act which could reasonably be expected to cause bleeding, primarily for the purpose of providing entertainment to spectators rather than conducting a bona fide athletic contest.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft3AssT5b60

This led to a style change, and JAPW began to load up on the best local talent in addition to producing their own through their wrestling school. Wrestlers like Homicide, Low-Ki, and Da Hit Squad made JAPW their home promotion, and their school was churning out a steady stream of promising prospects. Most of them, like Dixie, Insane Dragon, Deranged, Tony Lazaro, and Rainchild eventually quit the business, but one, Jay Lethal, is currently the man that Ring of Honor is built around.  On that note, JAPW wrestlers made up the nucleus of the early ROH roster, and it’s hard t imagine what ROH would look like if there was no JAPW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDzD9a1pEC0

Frank was usually the head booker, and JAPW featured some of the best show to show storytelling in indie wrestling. The episodic nature of the shows lessened over time, especially once they lost their own building (Charity Hall, a converted A&P supermarket in Bayonne that doubled as the wrestling school) and thus had to run less shows. Still, JAPW continued to hook fans in good storytelling. Most memorably, the feud between Homicide and Teddy Hart that kicked off the post-Charity Hall era.

Eventually, Frank developed a relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling. It started with Jushin Thunder Liger appearing on JAPW shows and putting over Homicide, but eventually, it led to a JAPW-hosted “NJPW USA” tour of the northeast in 2011. Attendance was not bad per se, but it wasn’t enough to offset Frank’s costs. The timing just wasn’t quite right: Access to Japanese wrestling footage in the west was at an all-time low, and of the fans who were able t get anything, they were heavily concentrated in the United Kingdom. Three years later, with NJPW having added internet pay-per-views available worldwide, ROH was able to do great business for ROH/NJPW dual branded shows.

Since then, JAPW had only run about once a year. Their anniversary show on November 14th in Rahway was announced with a Rey Mysterio vs. Low-Ki dream match main event, and as of this writing, it’s not yet clear what’s going to happen to that event. Since Frank generally did have some kind of outside investor, it wouldn’t necessarily be a surprise if the show still goes on as a memorial show, but that’s purely speculation on my part.

JAPW was an irreplaceable part of the indie wrestling boom of the 2000s and none of it would happened without Frank Iadevaia. Rest in peace.

– WWE is no longer planning to give Eva Marie an NXT Women’s title push in the immediate future. She continues to train and improve, but she’s not even close to as good of a worker as Bayley, Sasha Banks or Charlotte.

The latest plan is for Bayley to feud with Dana Brooke and Asuka once her feud with Sasha Banks winds down.

– Chris Jericho announced that he’s working on yet another book:

I’m proud to announce that I just approved the deal for my FOURTH book! It’s gonna be something a little different this time…. #staytuned

— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) September 24, 2015

The Brothers of Destruction will be reuniting next month for WWE’s live events tour of Mexico.

The Undertaker and Kane will join forces against The Wyatt Family’s Luke Harper and Braun Strowman on three consecutive nights.

The tour kicks off on Friday, October 16th from Merida, continues on the 17th in Mexico City and wraps up on Sunday 10/18 from Monterrey.

The talk within WWE right now is that Vince McMahon is putting enormous pressure on the WWE creative team specifically because of the September 21st rating for WWE RAW, which was the post-Night Of Champions edition of the show.

It appears that panic didn’t set in for the low ratings the previous two weeks, as WWE conveniently used the Labor Day holiday and the start of the NFL’s Monday Night Football season as excuses for the low numbers, however when the 9/21 number came in, everything changed.

Generally when WWE runs big angles at a pay-per-view, it is to boost the television ratings the following night, in basic “cliffhanger” fashion, however when WWE took that approach this past weekend and it resulted in an all-time low audience, it was the first time the term “panic” has been thrown around behind-the-scenes in WWE regarding ratings in quite a while.

• FINALLY — UFC Set To Announce CM Punk’s UFC Debut Date AND Opponent~!

(Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

TNA President Dixie Carter has announced that the October 30th TNA live event in New Orleans will actually be a TNA “One Night Only: Battle of New Orleans” pay-per-view taping.

Below is the announced lineup for the 10/30 pay-per-view taping:

#TNANOLA is now a PPV event. Cameras rolling Oct 30 for ONO: Battle of New Orleans Get tix now http://t.co/qFVoE4Zx5n pic.twitter.com/DiHRZh7HKg

— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) September 24, 2015

Steel Cage Match Match
– Kurt Angle vs Eric Young

Steel Cage Match Knockouts Match
– Gail Kim vs Awesome Kong

TNA Tag Team Title Match
– Ethan Carter III and Tyrus vs. The Wolves

King of The Mountain Title Match
– Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Roode

Monster’s Ball Match
– Abyss vs. Robbie E

* Appearances by Jeff Hardy, Chris Melendez and others

• FINALLY — UFC Set To Announce CM Punk’s UFC Debut Date AND Opponent~!

E! issued a press release this week to hype the season finale of the current season of the popular WWE reality show, “Total Divas.”

Below are all of the details on the season four finale episode, which E! describes as an “explosive” show.

DON’T MISS THE EXPLOSIVE SEASON FINALE OF E!’S HIT SERIES TOTAL DIVAS!

The Season Four Finale Will Air This Tuesday, September 29 at 9 PM ET/PT

LOS ANGELES, CA – This season on Total Divas, we have seen the Divas bring the heat in ways they never have before. Whether it was Brie Bella™ and WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan’s™ fertility issues, Paige’s™ unconventional engagement, Eva Marie’s™ impressive in-ring improvements, or Natalya™ (Nattie) overcoming her father’s substance abuse problems— no stone was left unturned for this eclectic group of Divas. All of this drama combined with Nikki Bella™ reigning supreme over the entire division as Divas Champion has made this season a complete and total knockout!

In the season finale, Nikki, who is currently dating WWE Superstar John Cena™, finds herself in a bind when her ex-boyfriend WWE Superstar Dolph Zigger™ says he wants her back. Meanwhile, Nattie faces career-ending news for both her and her husband WWE Superstar Tylson Kidd™ (TJ), and Paige debates telling her fiancé her true feelings on their engagement.

The Total Divas season finale will air on Tuesday, September 29 at 9 PM ET/PT only on E!

• FINALLY — UFC Set To Announce CM Punk’s UFC Debut Date AND Opponent~!

The current belief within WWE right now is that “interesting changes” are expected to happen to SmackDown when the program moves to USA Network in January.

As one would expect, they are looking for a new look for the show once they debut on the new cable network channel, as well as some new ideas for the show itself.

The expectation is the same as in many similar cases in the past, in that WWE will stack the deck for the first month or two, however gradually, once the show is no longer WWE’s “new toy,” it will slowly change back to the same show everyone has been used to for years.

• FINALLY — UFC Set To Announce CM Punk’s UFC Debut Date AND Opponent~!

(Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBuDQUINZBY

As shown above WWE 2K have released a brand new trailer highlighting the My Career mode which this year gives you a whole new range of options to play through.

In My Career mode in WWE 2K16 your character can now become a big name in WWE NXT, join a tag team, battle the Authority, make it to the Hall of Fame, and much more!

WWE 2K16 will be released on the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One consoles in North America on the 27th of October, with the international release a few days later on the 30th of October.

Photo Credit: WWE.com

During his match at WWE Night of Champions this past weekend against Seth Rollins for the WWE World Heavyweight Title, Sting was visibly injured after taking a running powerbomb into the turnbuckle.

On watching the match live and again on demand you could see Sting’s head snap back on contact with the turnbuckle and it was moments later that it was apparent he couldn’t shake this off.

His legs gave way but he got back to his feet, it was a second time that his legs gave way and he collapsed again, it was during this time that the referee paused the match and called in the trainer.

Sting would go on to lose the match to Seth Rollins and since then the rumor mill has been spinning with regards to just how serious Sting’s injury was. He has now spoken with WWE.com. Highlights are below.

WWE.com asked if can set the record straight on the extent of his injury:

Bottom line, I had tingling, numbness down both arms, all the way to my fingertips. And then, later in the match, I just fell wrong, whatever it was, and this time [the tingling and numbness] went down both arms and into my legs, and I couldn’t feel my legs too well. They just felt like rubber. I don’t know how to describe it. I had to go down on all fours there for a minute, get my composure. I was a little … I was worried.

Long term, well, I’m just going to take care of the short term first and see how the long term might play out.

Sting was asked about what treatment he received following his match at Night of Champions:

I was out in the hospital — out like a light. They had a neck brace on me, and they were pumping me with [medication] to get me out of pain. I had to do a CT scan and an MRI. They ended up talking to my wife, and I have some details from my wife, but I still have [further evaluation ahead]. They mentioned cervical spinal stenosis, but that’s only part of what I heard. I don’t know if there’s anything else. The doctor did tell my wife, “He’s going to have to get this dealt with. He’s lucky he walked out of there.”

Photo Credit: WWE.com

WWE.com then asked Sting whether or not he would get back into the ring again to which he replied that he would, but only in the right scenario.

Sting went on to explain that he was aware that on both times into the turnbuckle that he was injured, the first being like whiplash and the second being a lot worse.

He also recalled what was going through his mind when the referee stopped the match and he was being looked at by the WWE trainer:

The referee, the doctor, they’re all in there talking to me: “Are you OK? What’s going on? Can you continue? Are you all right? Tell us what’s happening.” And the whole time, I’m just thinking, “Oh, man, not now,” I mean, I want this to be good, you know? And if it ends up being the last thing I ever do in the ring, I don’t want to go out like this.

“God help me.” I’m trying to just shake it off, you know? “C’mon, c’mon.” I’m stamping my feet or moving my toes, just trying to get a feel back, get my legs back underneath me. It started to kind of clear up a little bit. My fingers were still tingling and all that, but my legs were not at that point. I said, “Let me try to continue, let’s just try it.” So I just stood up and walked away from them, and we continued.

To read the rest of the interview that WWE.com had with Sting, you can do so by clicking on this link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8c_eH81o8I

2K are set to release WWE 2K16 at the end of October and one surprise addition to the roster this year was that of Arnold Schwarzenegger who is also known as The Terminator.

The actor was added to the game as a preorder exclusive and will be available as two different playable characters – one from 1984 and another from 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

IGN caught up with Schwarzenegger ahead of the release of the game and spoke about what his wrestler name would be, others he’d like to see in the WWE and who is stronger between him and Brock Lesnar.

If he were to get into the ring, what his wrestler name would be: 

Maybe the Austrian Oak, which is what people called me in bodybuilding. I think I would have been a good guy, not a heel. But I’ve loved playing both – I’m the only person on both the “Best Villains” and “Best Heroes” list as Terminator.

IGN also asked which other characters of his he’d like to see in the WWE:

Not mine, but a character I have fought: the Predator. Can you imagine the Predator jumping into the ring?

When he was in his prime IGN asked who was stronger, him or Brock Lesnar:

I’ve stood next to Brock. He is a monster. I am not sure I would want to ever compete in a lifting tournament with someone that big.

Just who are Arnold’s favourite wrestlers of all time:

I love them all, The Rock, Stone Cold, but I really identify with Bruno Sammartino. He is a fellow immigrant, and he is truly a legend. He sold out Madison Square Garden 187 times! And he is so powerful.

I remember the first time I saw him picking up someone over his head. Imagine the power. And he is the sweetest, most inspirational guy.

WWE 2K16 is scheduled for release on the PS3. PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One consoles in North America on October 27th, followed by the international release on October 30th.

To read the full interview IGN had with Arnold Schwarzenegger you can do so by clicking on this link and make sure you preorder your copy of WWE 2K16 to ensure you get to play as The Terminator.

WWE 2K16 is due to be released at the end of October and the WWE 2K Development Team have been spoiling us as of late with extended gameplay videos.

The most recent video which was released yesterday (23rd September) features WWE NXT Superstars Enzo And Big Cass taking on The Vaudevillians.

Earlier this week 2K released their “Raise Some Hell” Gameplay Trailer for WWE 2K16 which featured the Superstars we’ve seen already and gave a further glimpse into the Showcase mode.

WWE 2K16 is scheduled for release on the PS3. PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One consoles in North America on October 27th, followed by its international release on October 30th.

Tag-team legends The Dudley Boyz — Bubba Ray and Devon — were Michael Cole’s guests on this week’s WWE.com sit-down interview.

During the interview, which you can watch above, Devon noted that they were overwhelmed by the reception they received for their WWE return on RAW in Brooklyn, New York. Bubba Ray added that the great part about the whole situation was that it was kept a secret.

Regarding what The Dudley Boyz have been doing over the past ten years, Bubba Ray said, “everything,” while Devon mentioned All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), however neither alluded to TNA Wrestling in any way, unless you count Devon saying that they have been active all over the world, as they go “non-stop.” (Total “Non-Stop” Action)?

Bubba Ray Dudley then spoke about how he saw the once nearly insignificant WWE tag-team division begin to thrive once again, particularly because of The New Day, and said that it was time for The Dudley Boyz to help get the WWE tag-team scene back to where it once was, and where he feels it belongs again today.

Michael Cole then brought up The New Day and asked if they feel they are entertaining. Devon said that they are a good team and they are very entertaining, but that they are also “kick-ass guys.” He mentions that The New Day is trying to follow in the footsteps of The Dudley Boyz because they are doing everything that The Dudley Boyz used to do to get attention.

Finally, Cole brings up the fact that The Dudley Boyz will be challenging The New Day for the WWE Tag-Team Championships at the next live WWE Network special, scheduled for Saturday, October 3, 2015 from Madison Square Garden in New York City. As far as that fact is concerned, Bubba Ray mentions that it doesn’t get any better than to win the titles back in their hometown, especially in a building like MSG.

Make sure to visit SEScoops.com on Saturday, October 3, 2015 for the best live WWE Network results coverage from Madison Square Garden.

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Coming out of this past Sunday’s WWE Night of Champions pay-per-view event, there was a throughline to the big news stories: Wrestler safety. On the undercard, we saw the latest in the series of recent fan run-ins/attacks on wrestlers, leading to the fan in question getting arrested. In the main event, Sting suffered some kind of neck injury taking a turnbuckle powerbomb from Seth Rollins, and it was bad enough that they quickly went to the finish. On the surface, they’re separate problems, but the safety issue ties them together. WWE already appears to be increasing security to deal with unruly fans, so we’ll set that aside for today.

Sting’s injury gave me a lot of pause about both WWE using older wrestlers (especially in a main event position) and the type of moves they allow. Sting is in fantastic shape for a 56 year old man, but he’s still a 56 year old man. The buckle bomb, as Seth Rollins normally does it, is relatively safe, and it looks that way, too. Just look at how Rob Van Dam took it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCPso908-68

The goal is to come down as parallel to the ring post as possible, the way Van Dam did. Personally, I always thought the move was kind dumb because of how obviously Rollins is trying to protect his opponent. If you want the move to look “good,” you do it the way guys like Ricky Marvin did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2u7oWHdV24

Of course, that’s clearly  many orders of magnitude more dangerous than the way Rollins usually does it. If there’s no real middle ground and the safer version looks ineffectual, why do it in the first place?

Sunday at Night of Champions, Sting hit the turnbuckles much more folded over than Van Dam did in the first example. This type of newer spot that uses the areas of the ring you’r not supposed to bump on require incredible body control and timing ven by pro wrestling standards. If I had to hazard a guess, maybe a 56 year old man who barely wrestles anymore doesn’t have the reflexes to ever take the buckle bomb correctly. That’s nothing against Rollins, and he could very well have done everything on his end correctly, but my gut is that whoever produced the match for them should have nixed that spot. Maybe it was just a miscommunication and Sting could hav taken it safely, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eo-rpv4gfA

Sting’s injury reminded me of how a couple months ago at Battleground, for whatever reason, the show was full f wrestlers taking bumps on the ring apron. Apron bumps were popularized on the independent scene in the IWS promotion in Quebec where Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn first made a name for themselves. The whole point is that everyone knows it’s legitimately unsafe (again, but relative standards) to bump on the apron because of the lack of give. It’s just a cheap pop, especially when it happens repeatedly on the same card, and Battleground showed a surprising lack of continuity in WWE when it came to limiting those spots. Like with a man nearing his 60s taking a buckle bomb, it’s hard to believe it happened.

Of course, there’s also the question of whether or not someone Sting’s age should even be taking bumps, doing dives etc. I hesitate to say they shouldn’t wrestle at all because you can work a simple, safe match, but Sting being expected to work a 2015 WWE main event style match with modern indie influences was not smart. He’s a beloved legend who still looks really athletic doing his trademark spots and should not have been put in that position when something safer would have sufficed.

After thinking about it for a few days, my gut says WWE needs to b more diligent about cutting guys off and not letting them wrestle past a certain age. Jerry Lawler was, by all appearances, an ageless freak of nature who could wrestle forever until his heart stopped right after a match on Raw. Ricky Steamboat suffered a brain bleed much worse than most fans realized after the 2010 angle where the Nexus attacked him. Hulk Hogan, who has no business taking a bump these days, took one on the floor at WrestleMania, though he may have gone into business for himself on that spot.

And that’s is really part of the problem: You can’t guarantee that they’ll agree to work a restricted style while they’re amped up in the ring. WWE has been pretty careful as of late with how they’ve used older wrestlers, but they’re in a business where they can never be too careful.

WWE is loading up the October 19th edition of WWE RAW from Dallas, Texas with special appearances from several Hall of Famers and legends. Already announced for the show are “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Brock Lesnar and The Undertaker.

WWE.com posted the following teaser for the special RAW from Dallas:

“As Brock Lesnar’s Go to Hell Tour winds its way toward Los Angeles, The Beast Incarnate’s infernal caravan will make a stopover on WWE’s flagship show, where a few Legends and Hall of Famers will join the ride.

WWE.com can confirm that the Oct. 19 Raw, scheduled to emanate live from Dallas — the home city of WrestleMania 32 — will not only feature a live appearance by Lesnar, but also WWE Hall of Famers Shawn Michaels, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Ric Flair, as well as Lesnar’s Hell in a Cell opponent, The Undertaker.

Not only will this be the final Raw before The Beast’s Hell in a Cell contest with The Phenom, but the Go to Hell Tour will continue after Raw goes off the air, when Lesnar and Austin sit down for the latest edition of the “Stone Cold” Podcast, live on the award-winning WWE Network. See the final stop on The Beast’s road to Hell when Raw emanates live from Dallas on Oct. 19 at 8/7 C on USA Network!”