Pro wrestling fans got excited the moment it was confirmed that it was confirmed that Dark Side of the Ring is coming back for season five. Now, we are getting even more details about what is in the pipeline.
VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring has become a must-watch for wrestling fans, as they dive into sometimes controversial topics from pro wrestling’s past. With its past four seasons generating significant discussion in recent memory, season five has a lot to live up to.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter noted that the upcoming fifth season of Dark Side of the Ring is in the works, and a list of episodes has been revealed.
Season five is set to cover “Black Saturday,” the 1984 moment when Vince McMahon orchestrated a takeover of Georgia Championship Wrestling’s lucrative TBS cable TV timeslot. Additionally, WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle and ECW legend The Sandman will each have episodes dedicated to their life stories.
Other people slated for featured episodes in season five reportedly include Brutus Beefcake, Buff Bagwell, and Harley Race, who passed away in 2019 due to lung cancer.
Chris Adams, who is credited for training Stone Cold Steve Austin and popularizing the superkick, will also get a focus for an episode on season five.
For the new season of Dark Side of the Ring, we know of these episodes: Brutus Beefcake, Harley Race, Buff Bagwell, Kurt Angle, Chris Adams, Sandman and Black Saturday (when Vince McMahon purchased Georgia Championship Wrestling to get access to the TBS time slot in 1984. Glenn “Kane” Jacobs was campaigning for Donald Trump in Iowa.
Dark Side of the Ring Season 5 Air Date
As of right now, there is no information on the air date for season five on VICE TV, as filming is scheduled for later this year. We will keep you updated when an actual date comes out.
The show is unafraid to tackle wrestling’s darker moments, such as The Plane Ride from Hell, the Benoit family tragedy, and Owen Hart’s tragic death. The success of the show also led VICE TV to produce several spinoffs, including Dark Side of the ’90s, Dark Side of Comedy, and Dark Side of Football in recent years.
Greg “The Hammer” Valentine’s name trended today on X, but not in a way he would ever want it to. A video was released of him using some harsh homosexual language, and it is quite shocking.
Greg Valentine’s Homophobic Video
Missy Beefcake, wife of WWE Hall of Famer Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake, recently shared video clips on her X account featuring Greg “The Hammer” Valentine. It was not stated where this video was shot, but Valentine was using derogatory language targeted at the LGBTQ+ community.
In one clip, Greg “The Hammer” Valentine is heard saying, “You f*cking f*ggot. I can whip you with one arm tied behind my f*cking back!” Another clip captured Valentine mentioning, “The f*ggot on CNN besides Don Lemon.” He was talking about Anderson Cooper in that second clip.
Missy Beefcake dropped those two clips, along with a short caption to sum up her thoughts on the content.
“Greg Valentine making homophobic remarks! He’s disgusting!!!!”
While such language might have been more tolerable in the territorial days of pro wrestling, where Greg “The Hammer” Valentine gained fame, it is receiving significant backlash in the present day.
Greg “The Hammer” Valentine is now facing criticism for his remarks, with some calling for consequences and expressing their disapproval of his actions. Fans are weighing in about what Valentine said, and there will likely be a lot more discussion and memes to follow.
Video Is Possible Revenge
It should be noted that Greg “The Hammer” Valentine laid quite a hammer down on Missy Beefcake in a recent interview. He was asked who he loved beating up the most in the ring, to which The Hammer replied Brutus Beefcake, because of “that f*cking c*nt that he married.” He also said that they didn’t have to cut that part out, which they didn’t.
Missy Beefcake’s response to that shot very well could have been in the form of this latest homophobic video drop. There are definitely shots being fired between those two pro wrestling personalities, and things got ugly in a hurry.
WWE Hall Of Famer Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake is dealing with some health issues and his wife is asking for fans to pray for the wrestling veteran.
The wife of the former WWE star Missy Leslie recently noted on Facebook that the 64-year-old has a blood pressure reading of 170/110. He is also feeling shortness of breath and a headache.
Brutus Beefcake was taken to see a doctor on Wednesday morning but there is no further update available on the former WCW star’s health as of this writing.
The former wrestler started his career in the industry in 1977 and wrestled regularly until 2000. He continued making sporadic wrestling appearances even after this until 2015.
Beefcake is best known for his run with the World Wrestling Federation from 1984 to 1993. His original gimmick in the company was of a male stripper. He started teaming with Greg “The Hammer” Valentine in 1985 and the duo became known as The Dream Team.
After the end of his tenure with WWF, the wrestling legend also had a couple of stints with WCW from 1994 to 1996 and 1998 to 1999. He was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame by Hulk Hogan in 2019.
Wrestling is an evolving business and it has seen many major
changes in the past few decades. The average size of a wrestler has decreased
and the sport has become more of a high flying affair than it ever was.
During a recent interview with WrestlingInc, WWE Hall Of
Famer Brutus Beefcake talked about a number of things and he also discussed
these changes in the wrestling business.
The WWE Hall Of Famer started his career in 1977 and after wrestling for more than 2 decades, he took semi-retirement from the sport around 1999.
Comparing the current style of wrestling to the one he is familiar with, Beefcake said that wrestlers are closer to being gymnasts than they ever were. However he then claimed that they worked more than the current wrestlers do:
“It’s a whole different type of wrestling now. They are
closer to being gymnasts than we ever were; we did less high-risk moves
although we worked way more than they ever have.
We worked seven days a week, sometimes twice on the weekends
doing TV tapings. I checked my books when being interviewed by CBS Sports and
had basically 500 matches in 1985-87. That’s another feat in itself.'”
Brutus Beefcake went on to explain that they worked all the time and barely had any time off. So they worked a style which allowed them to still show up and perform every night.
Apart from this Brutus, who had a couple of runs with WCW in
the 90s also discussed Eric Bischoff’s appointment as the Executive Director of
SmackDown Live.
He said that he wishes Bischoff best of luck because it’s going to be a tough position with all the people coming and going. You can check out his full interview at this link.
WWE Hall Of Famer Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake recently had an interview with WrestlingInc where he talked about a number of things, including his run with the tag team championship and more.
Beefcake was inducted into the Hall Of Fame as part of the 2019 class earlier this year. Other legends who were inducted in the same class include the likes of DX and The Hart Foundation.
While the ceremony went as planned for the most part, there was one unplanned incident when Bret Hart got jumped by a fan. Though the attacker was quickly tackled by the wrestlers and security staff.
Discussing the incident, Brutus recalled how he was standing
in the Gorilla position when it happened and he thought that it was a publicity
stunt:
“I was standing in Gorilla position and when I saw it
happened, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought it was a publicity stunt and
maybe one of the young Harts that I didn’t know about it. They’re gonna do a
rumble or something and then pop up and be like, ‘Here I am! I’m the new Hart!’
The WWE Hall of Famer went on to explain that everybody was surprised when it didn’t turn out to be a work and while they have seen a lot of things happening over the years, nothing has been quite like that.
Apart from this, Brutus Beefcake also discussed his run as a heel, the crowd response during their run as the tag team champions and more. You can check out his full interview at this link.
WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan is set to induct former WWE star and good friend Brutus Beefcake into this year’s class of the Hall of Fame.
WWE made the news public on Thursday in a statement posted on their official website. This news also ended the speculation on inductors being done away with this year.
WWE touted in the announce that “Hogan and Beefcake first joined forces in 1989, headlining that year’s SummerSlam against “Macho King” Randy Savage and the monstrous Zeus and later stepping into a Steel Cage to battle the ruthless duo. When Beefcake returned to the ring after a parasailing accident that nearly ended his life, Hogan was literally in “The Barber’s” corner, joining forces with him to form The Mega Maniacs, a duo that battled then-World Tag Team Champions Money Inc. at WrestleMania IX.”
WWE holds their 2019 Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The ceremony will air on WWE’s streaming service, WWE Network at 7 PM EST with a one hour WWE Hall of Fame Red Carpet special airing the hour before. DX will headline the class. Here is the list of inductees:
D-Generation X (X-Pac, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Billy Gunn, Road Dogg, and Chyna)
WWE has officially announced that Brutus “the Barber” Beefcake will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year. Beefcake performed for WWE from 1984 to 1994 and with WCW from 94 to 1999.
“This is the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of work,” said Beefcake to SI.com. “I’m grateful to the WWE, and I cannot wait for the tremendous honor.”
Beefcake is a former WWE tag team champion along with partner Greg “the Hammer” Valentine. The pair were known as the Dream Team.
“I never went to a wrestling school,” Beefcake continued. “So I learned the basics from the veterans, and that is how I learned my craft. It’s a tough way to learn, but there were people like Ivan Koloff and Mr. Wrestling who took a real interest in trying to help me.”
Beyond EXCITED to be inducted into the WWE HOF!!! New York here I come!!! #wrestlemania#HOF
When Beefcake and Valentine split up at WrestleMania III, he adopted “the Barber” gimmick. He would often cut, style, or just shave an opponent’s hair after matches. As Brutus “the Barber” Beefcake, he became one of the most popular babyfaces in the company for a time.
Beefcake would follow his longtime friend Hulk Hogan to WCW in 1994. They also got their start in the wrestling business together.
“Terry and I were just a couple kids from Tampa living our dream,” said Beefcake. “We had sat on the beach for endless days talking about wrestling, and then there we were, living it, working territories in Florida and Alabama with guys like Ox Baker, Bob Armstrong, and Professor Toru Tanaka. They took us under their wing and helped make us into what we became.”
Hogan and Beefcake had a following out a few years back but were able to patch things up recently.
Last fall, Hogan, and Beefcake were involved in a public spat. Beefcake mentioned he was writing a book and that it would be a “Tell All”. This message seemed to be directed at the Hulkster, or at least Hogan replied as if it was.
Working on my book which is fastly becoming a tell all! Hold onto your bandana Brother it's about to get real! #BTFBB#KARMA
“Got the bandanna glued on tight, get a good lawyer, brother..HH”
The two continued back and forth on Twitter for some time like this. It now appears, however, that the two have patched things back up again.
Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake – The Mega Maniacs
Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake formerly comprised the tag-team “the Mega-Maniacs”. They first teamed together at SummerSlam 1989 when they defeated the team of Randy Savage and Zeus.
Hogan and Beefcake would team up again 4 years later at WrestleMania IX. Later that night, Hogan would defeat Yokozuna for the WWF Championship in an impromptu match. They would align again in WCW and again in 1998 while both were members of nWo Hollywood.
WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan and longtime friend Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake have been going at it on Twitter this weekend. It began on Thursday, with Beefcake announcing on Twitter that he’s writing a book and implied that he’ll be airing out dirt on Hogan.
Beefcake alleges that Hogan stabbed him in the back and accusing Hogan of hanging out with his ex-wife in an attempt to get under his skin. Hogan says Beefcake is a ‘poisonous snake’ who has always been a follower and has no idea ‘how deep the water is.’
You can check out the full exchange below, including a statement from Beefcake’s ex-wife Barbara.
Working on my book which is fastly becoming a tell all! Hold onto your bandana Brother it's about to get real! #BTFBB#KARMA
while hanging out with my ex-wife trashing the person who always had your back!? Keep praying to that false God of yours! Jesus is my Savior pic.twitter.com/bITupUMQTS
Parental alienation for 7 years and that's the TRUTH! Hogan never have time for my X or my daughter until he ended our friendship! #BTFBBpic.twitter.com/JRRpEE6fTb
– One notable complaint from WWE Network subscribers is the lack of old footage being rolled out. According to F4WOnline.com, one major reason that WWE doesn’t add a ton of classic footage on a regular basis is because “almost nobody watches it.”
The most popular programs on the WWE Network are the specials and NXT. The most watched shows this past week were the WWE 24 episode on Roman Reigns and Chris Jericho’s chat with Stephanie McMahon. Jerry Springer Too Hot For TV and Tough Enough episodes from 2011 have also drawn strong viewer interest.
– While most wrestling fans would not consider Virgil a legend, according to WWE, he is.
Topps’ WWE 2015 trading card set features a legends category and Virgil is among those featured. Also included in the set are Bret Hart, Jimmy Hart, Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Sting, Pat Patterson, Ric Flair, Bruno Sammartino, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Gerald Brisco.
– SportsOttawa.com has a story on former WWE Superstar Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake, who is advertised to wrestle for Great North Wrestling Event on Saturday, May 30 at the Earl Armstrong Arena in Ottawa, Ontario.
It looks like Hulk Hogan’s longtime friend Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake (Ed Leslie) has been selling unauthorized signed photos of The Hulkster.
Hogan posted a photo of the two on Twitter this weekend with the caption, “Back in the day when it was straight up brother.”
A fan replied, saying he met Leslie back in March at a signing and Leslie was selling 8×10 photos of Hogan. Hogan told the fan he never signed any 8×10 photos or gave them to Leslie to sell.
Hogan told another Twitter user that this was a “shoot” and he was not working the fans.
– A video surfaced Thursday showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford in a rambling rage, using threatening words such as “kill” and “murder.” Former WWE Superstar Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake attempted to speak with Ford at Toronto City Hall, but was escorted out by security after cutting a promo on the embattled mayor while advertising a submarine sandwich.
– Savio Vega is the latest addition to the Alumni section on WWE.com. The website is branding him as one of the unexpected heroes of WWE’s “New Generation,” and acknowledges his path to the organization through Puerto Rican professional wrestling.
– AVClub.com has published an article naming the nineteen least essential entertainments from 1993 and Mr. Nanny starring Hulk Hogan heads the dubious list—the movie was shot during Hogan’s hiatus from WWE following WrestleMania VIII.
The website labels Hogan’s early 1990s outside-the-ring ventures with the following: “Tuba-voiced pro wrestler Hulk Hogan was a ubiquitous media presence throughout the ’90s, trying his hand at everything from music (1995’s Hulk Rules) to restaurants (the terrifyingly punctuated Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania!) despite showing very little talent for anything that didn’t involve leg drops.”
-There will be a pro wrestling legends show on Saturday in Youngstown, Ohio at the Covelli Center featuring “Rowdy” Roddy Piper holding a “Piper’s Pit” segment with fellow WWE Hall Of Famer “The Mouth Of The South” Jimmy Hart. Also scheduled to appear at the event are Sean “X-Pac” Waltman, Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake, Marty Jannetty, Bushwhacker Luke and Tatanka.
-The following is another excerpt from the recent John Cena interview with the New Orleans Times-Picayune. This time, Cena discusses his recent matches with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson at WrestleMania:
“I really got to live a dream the past few years having some big marquee matchups with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. And when you rub elbows with a guy like The Rock, you truly are in the company of the greatest of all-time. It was like watching a prize fight where everyone is just throwing haymakers. For us to be interactive over a 2 1/2 year span, it was pretty impressive, especially in this day and age. It was a dream scenario for me.”
You can read the complete interview online at NOLA.com.
As previously reported, Bill Goldberg appeared during Pro Wrestling Night at the Miami Marlins baseball game this weekend. Goldberg threw out the first pitch before the game, and even performed a vicious spear to Marlins pitcher Tom Koehler. Check out an animated GIF of the spear below:
Results from matches at the show were as follows:
-Koko B. Ware defeated Chavo Guerrero Jr.
-Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake defeated Mike Knox
-Harry Smith defeated Wes Brisco
-The Nasty Boys defeated Ken Anderson & Garett Bischoff
Additionally, WWE Hall Of Famers Bret “The Hitman” Hart and “The Mouth Of The South” Jimmy Hart, as well as “Leapin'” Lanny Poffo and Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart appeared at the event.
And finally, Goldberg talked a bit in one of the interviews about the recent WWE and WrestleMania XXX rumors. While he didn’t rule out the possibility at some point in the future, he did shoot down the specific rumors about his supposed return at the annual classic next year. He mentioned that if he did come out of retirement for a match, he would be interested in facing off with either “Stone Cold” Steve Austin or The Undertaker, as he said he has no interest in working a match with Ryback.
For more coverage from Pro Wrestling Night at the Marlins game, check out the official MLB.com coverage of the event.
– WWE.com has posted a video of Stephanie McMahon’s new theme song, titled “Welcome to the Queendom.” The song is also available on iTunes.
– Tommy Dreamer and Joey Styles were together this week working on the upcoming “ECW Unreleased: Volume 2” DVD/Blu-Ray, which will be released July 30th. Here’s a preview of what’s confirmed thus far:
Taz vs. Tommy Dreamer (October 1993, first ever match in ECW)
Sabu vs. Chris Jericho (August 1996, their only singles match)
Cactus Jack vs. Terry Funk
– Ed Leslie (Brutus Beefcake) was interviewed by John Pollock of The Fight Network at WrestleCon last weekend. Leslie took exception to Donald Trump being inducted into WWE’s Hall of Fame before other wrestlers who are more deserving, but mentioned he is friends with Trump.
– WWE’s YouTube channel has posted the following video of the Top 10 WWE Debuts:
– The official WWE website is advertising Paul Heyman to appear at the Sept. 22 Raw house show in White Plains, New York at Westchester County Center and the following day’s show in Worcester, Massachusetts at DCU Center. Heyman’s associate, WWE Champion CM Punk, is scheduled for face John Cena at both events.
– WWE.com has added Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake to its Alumni section. WWE says of the memorable wrestler, “As the flamboyant hairdresser who clipped the locks of WWE rivals in the ’80s and early ’90s, Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake was all about two things — cuttin’ and struttin.”
– SmackDown ring announcer Lilian Garcia and former WWE Diva Maryse Ouellet will be signing autographs at the Frank & Son Collectible Show on Saturday, October 13 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; event located at 19649 San Jose Ave. City of Industry, California 91748. Garcia will be performing a free live acoustic set at 2:15 p.m. (Event Details)
– 12 Rounds, starring John Cena, airs on FX on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 8:00 a.m.
– WWE Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch claims she is now sober after checking out of her WWE-sponsored rehabilitation program on Thursday. The legendary Diva was admitted to an emergency room on the evening of July 13 for consuming a large amount of vodka, and her boyfriend, independent wrestler Damien Darling, insisted that she seek professional help.
She wrote on Facebook Thursday evening, “FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, FREE AND SOBER AT LAST!…….DONT WORRY, I HAVENT TURNED INTO A BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN!”
– Vince McMahon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of WWE, Inc. (WWE), turns 67-years-old Friday.
The WWE head has no intention to ever retire. “This is not a job,” he told Bloomberg last year regarding retirement. “I love what I do.” He said he hopes there are people who will tell him he’s slipping. “It would only be then that I would decide to go to a beach somewhere and sit back and discover that they’re right, I am senile. Other than that, I intend to be, as they say, die in the chair. That’s the way I would like to go.”
– Former WWE Superstar Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake appears for World’s Best Wrestling Wrestling on October 6th, 2012 in Sardinia, Ohio at Chad D.Heckler Building gymnasium. (Event Information)
– WWE has reached out to Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch in the last week about making an appearance building to or for the historic 1000th episode of Raw.
– Brutus Beefcake is advertised to appear for Abbotsford Agrifair in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada on August 4 and 5, 2012.
– Amy “Lita” Dumas appears on the debut album of JD & the FDCs as a guest vocalist for the song “From the Shadows.” Additional information is available here.
– Big Show is today’s Superstar of the Day on WWE.com.
Arda Ocal (@arda_ocal) of theScore Television Network caught up with Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake. Beefcake appears more open in this piece that in some interviews in the past. Highlights:
Pat Patterson giving him “The Barber” and how it spawned from a simple rib.
Watching Hulk Hogan play baseball as a kid and who decided to try wrestling first.
Memories of the “Barber Shop”:
“The one I did with Andre The Giant is probably my favorite because I watched him my whole life. It was the best interview segment that I ever saw him do. It makes me proud knowing that he was excited for it. He didn’t like doing interviews. For him to step up the way he did was an honor to me. That’s a show of respect in our business. That huge man stepped up and wanted to do a good job for me.”
What gave him the will to live after enduring a near fatal para-sailing accident, both his parents dying and a divorce in the early 90s.
— The official website of the BMO Harris Bank Center is advertising CM Punk as a special guest for the WWE SuperSmackDown Live special that will air on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 on Syfy.
Two bouts are advertised for the event as Daniel Bryan will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Big Show and Randy Orton will face Wade Barrett in a Street Fight Match.
— Metro Calgary has published an article on researchers with National Geographic’s Genographic Project approaching Bret Hart for a DNA sample. Links were found from as long ago as 60,000 years and in places such as India, Iran and several European countries.
“It pretty much goes back to the beginning of time,” Hart said. “It’s not something you can easily wrap your head around. It’s pretty fascinating stuff.”
— Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake and Greg “The Hammer” Valentine have been announced for Legends of the Ring 14, which takes place Saturday, June 2, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Monroe, New Jersey.
Former WWE & WCW wrestler Brutus Beefcake was interviewed by Daniel Donnelly of Imetawrestler.com this week and had some very interesting comments to say about Hulk Hogan’s feelings about TNA (and TNA “not wanting to win”), Linda Hogan’s allegations that he and Hulk had a homosexual relationship, whether he expects to get inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame and more. Here are some highlights of what Beefcake said about:
Hulk’s feelings about TNA: “He was trying to help them. In my opinion, they seemed to want to make a difference at first, but then it seemed like they just didn’t want to win. Hulk’s a guy who wants to make a difference and wants to win, you know? And once he realized that they didn’t want to win, and all they want to do is make an event and have a little piece of the little corner of the market and be satisfied with that, he’s just had to say, ‘Okay, if that’s what you want then that’s what you’re gonna get.’ It doesn’t look good, but I wish him the best.”
Differences between today’s wrestlers and his generation: “It’s more like an assembly line, they’re turning out wrestlers like rubber stamps out of a mold, and that’s not how we were all made. It just made that difference. People had their own personalities, guys were able to differentiate, and everybody was their own person. Scripts weren’t handed out before the shows, people weren’t told what to say, told what to do, told how to wrestle, told how to talk, told how to walk, told what they were supposed to look like and how to comb their hair. There was none of that. Everyone was an individual, everyone was drawing on their own personal skills and knowledge, and everything was genuine.”
Linda’s allegations: “It’s really sad. I’ve known Linda a long time and it’s really sad. You know, I’m not a hater, Hulk’s not a hater, he doesn’t hate his ex-wife. He wants to move on with his life, and for her to come forward with these ridiculous allegations that he had beat her up and things like that, you know, after several years of the divorce and all the trials and the transcripts, there’s never been a mention of anything. There’s never been a phone call to the police, never been a report of a bruise or anything, and for her to come forward now and say that he abused her, and then to come forward and say that he was a homo with his best friend Brutus who he grew up with, is so ridiculous. Anyone who knows us, knows that it’s so ridiculous that it’s not even remotely believable. It’s such a shame that she had to stoop, she got money and she should just go away.”
Could Brutus be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year? “I hope so. I’m not really sure why Vince hasn’t done it. They’ve called me for different things beyond the internet, for their Wrestlemania, they’ve put me in their magazines, so I’m not really sure what problems may be between us. But you know, he’s always taken back everybody else whose really done some dastardly things to him, and I can’t understand for the life of me why he wouldn’t wanna put me in the Hall of Fame.”
Working out over the years: “I started working out nearly forty years ago with The Hulkster down in Florida, back when I was a teenager. Hulk and I have been training together throughout all these years… and that discipline of steel, you might call it, meant we always made it to the gym. We put the gym first, before going to the bar, before going out, chasing girls or any of that stuff. We always put that time in the gym first.”
To listen to an audio file of the entire interview, head over to Imetawrestler.com.
— Following Daniel Bryan’s victory over Kofi Kingston on Monday’s Raw SuperShow, the World Heavyweight Champion was encountered by Big Show. Bryan offered Show another opportunity for the World Title at any time. The World’s Largest Athlete revealed that SmackDown General Manager Teddy Long granted him a No Disqualification, No Count-out World Title rematch on Friday’s SmackDown.
— On Twitter, a fan wrote to Jim Ross with a message reading “Help Push Drew McIntyre.” The WWE Hall of Famer instead offered McIntyre advice.
Ross wrote, “Drew needs to push Drew. It’s a PROCESS.”
— Brutus Beefcake, Lanny Poffo and Larry Zbyszko have been announced for Wrestlereunion, which takes place January 27-29 at Westin Los Angeles Airport 5400 West Century Blvd. Los Angeles, California.
– The latest on Kane’s upcoming return is that he’ll be back in time for the Royal Rumble and he’ll be wrestling as a heel on the RAW brand. As to whether he’s really bringing back the mask, WWE creative is said to be currently undecided on the issue.
– Former WWE star Brutus Beefcake (Ed Leslie) tells TMZ that he’s ready to sue Hulk Hogan’s ex-wife Linda Bollea for spreading the rumor that he and Hulk Hogan had a gay relationship. Beefcake denies the allegations, stating:
“I’ve known (Linda) for almost 40 years. But when she starts trying to ruin our careers, it just ain’t fair.”
– According to ComicBookMovie.com, WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter is rumored to have a cameo in the upcoming “G.I. JOE”movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Longtime wrestling fans will remember Slaughter was a big part of the G.I. Joe cartoons and comic books in the late 80’s.
— Damien Sandow, a top prospect at Florida Championship Wrestling, competed on this weekend’s SmackDown live event tour in matches against Tyson Kidd. Triple H is reportedly high on Sandow, who was signed last year after competing in Puerto Rico.
— Former WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia announced on Twitter that she will be releasing the trailer of her new music video, U Drive Me Loca, tomorrow at noon via LilianGarcia.com.
— On this week’s episode of WWE Vintage Collection, today’s WWE Superstars and Divas weigh in with their inspirations from the past. Matches include Lex Luger vs. Sting (WCW Starrcade 1999), British Bulldog vs. Haku (WWF Prime Time Wrestling – May 7, 1991), Rey Mysterio vs. Tajiri (WWE SmackDown! – January 1, 2004), “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase vs Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake (September 12, 1987).
— Kayfabe Commentaries recently sat down with “The Ninth Wonder of the World” Chyna to dish on a number of topics including Triple H, Sean Waltman, WWE, TNA, past suicide attempts and more. During the “YouShoot” interview, she reveals that she dated Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake when she was 18 years old. This would have occurred in 1989 when Beefcake was a top star in the World Wrestling Federation.
— Paul Bearer was interviewed for WWE’s latest Steve Austin video release, Austin: The Bottom Line on the Most Popular Superstar of All Time, and recalls seeing the future Hall of Famer at Chris Adams’ wrestling school in Dallas, Texas. He was teaching the young students how to do interviews and felt Austin stood out before he even saw him showcase his abilities.
“So when I first saw Steve, he just stood out. Head and shoulders above ’em all, before I ever heard him talk or see him get in the ring for the first time. You kind of scan all of them and he stood out,” Bearer said. “So once Chris Adams got the students into the ring, he started teaching them and then I got my chance to start teaching them about how to do interviews with the cameras; he was a natural.
— WWE filmed interviews for their upcoming video release on The Rock this past week.
