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-- WWE will be doing a tryout on November 5th (new date -- old one was October 22nd) in Freehold, NJ at the Matt Borne Professional Wrestling Academy. It's $325 per person and limited to the first 100 people, and you must be pre-registered with no walk-ins allowed. John Lauranitis and Ty Bailey will be there scouting. For an application and more information contact Joanne Rosenberg at 732-409-1132.
-- TNA is also doing a "Gut Check Workshop" on Saturday, September 25th at the Rahway Rec Center in Rahway, NJ. You can sign up at tnagutcheck.com. There is a $20 application fee which is non-refundable, and if you are "accepted" it's another $230 on top of that to get looked at.
-- NXT tonight will have the replacement for Vickie Guerrero's pro, the first physical challenge (oh no), and then next week is scheduled to be the first elimination. Smackdown taping tonight has Undertaker in his first TV match in months against CM Punk.
-- Not looking good for the proposed Florida promotion as Mr. Saint Laurent, who had been working as head of talent relations for the company, quit this week citing breach of contract. He's looking for indy dates at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
-- For this weekend's DGUSA PPV, iN DEMAND is only showing it on their secondary PPV channel for the Friday night 10 PM premier. They will be airing on the primary channel at 11 AM and 4 PM on Saturday if you don't get the secondary channel.
-- Don't know yet what this means for the future of their over-the-air PPVs, but DGUSA also announced today that the Bushido: Code of the Warrior PPV on October 29th would be airing on iPPV through gofightlive.tv. The show will be available for $14.99.
-- Kenny King vs. Jay Briscoe and Rhett Titus vs. Mark Briscoe has been added to the ROH iPPV Saturday from the Manhattan Center in New York City.
-- Today's Figure Four Daily with Scott Norton is being pushed to next week as Scott is in the middle of moving.
-- Wrestling stuff on Bubba the Love Sponge today from Chris Porter: A caller said he lives in Jim Neidhart's neighborhood and the Anvil will walk around with a 12-pack under his arm, knocking on random doors, yelling at folks. He also said saw Neidhart riding a mountain bike in a car lane of a nearby street and Anvil was just swearing at the people honking at him for holding everybody up. Also, Hogan explained that about a week ago he was picking up seashells -- while smashing 2 bottles of wine -- and didn't take enough breaks while bending over. By the time he was firing up the grill that night, he could barely move. Then a few days later his back locked up on him entirely & he peed himself. Then he went to the hospital. Brutal.
-- Video of the Hulkster in the hospital is up here.
-- Ain't It Cool has an interview with John Cena here talking Legendary. Seems pretty favorable about the film.
-- Another story on the movie here
-- Jim Ross has a new blog up here with thoughts on Jim Neidhart.
-- Funny note on Smackdown tonight. First off, there are "plenty of good seats still available" according to the First Mariner Arena. Anyway, the main event dark match on the show is listed as The Deadman vs. The Undertaker vs. Kane. Thanks to William Rausch.
-- The first issue of Axe Bomber, a digital magazine for fans of wrestling games has been released. You can download it here.
-- The Shane Mosley vs. Sergio Mora September 18 PPV will be shown in HD in more than 300 movie theaters throughout the country because of a deal Golden Boy Promotions has with NCM Fathom. Thanks to Jereme Warneck.
-- The Sport & Style magazine which came with yesterday`s (Monday) Sydney Morning Herald had a list of athletes who have excelled in two sports. On the list was Brock Lesnar (wrestling, MMA). Also on the list was Bo Jackson (NFL, baseball), Marion Jones (track and field, basketball), Anthony Mundine (Australian boxer and former rugby league player) and Keith Miller (late Australian cricketer and Australian Rules football player). Thanks to James Stanios.
-- King of the Cage will make its East Coast debut on Friday, September, 17th at MGM Grand at Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The fights will air live on HDNet at 10:00pm ET.
-- Eugene on Right After Wrestling with Arda Ocal last night, when asked about whether he'd re-signed with WWE, said he could neither confirm nor deny the rumors. He also denied the rumors that he was "an avid gardener".
-- Dutch Mantell has part three of his look at the Gathering of the Juggalos up here.
-- EWF Pro Wrestling, Friday, September 10, 2010, "The Garage", 2301 South Western Avenue, Marion, IN, 46953. Doors open at 6:00 PM, 7:30 PM Bell Time\
-- On September 25th, 2010, Platinum Championship Wrestling presents its biggest show of the year, "Sacred Ground: Chapter One", at Kennesaw State University Convocation Center, 1000 Chastain Rd., Kennesaw, GA 30144
-- Sat. Sept 11th 2010 DWF/loco with PWF Presents “War Games – Free Zone” (free show), 7:30pm Bell Time, B&B Fitness, 2301 Haddonfield RD, Pennsauken NJ
-- Ed, Craig and Cutrer talk best babyfaces and heels here
-- DREAMWAVE Wrestling, Saturday, September 11th, 2010, Knights of Columbus- 209 Gooding St. LaSalle, IL 61301. Doors Open at 6:30 p.m. Bell Time 7:00 p.m.
-- Meet Pequeno Halloween, Super Nova and Octagoncito tomorrow night between 6 and 7 PM at LaPalmera Mall, 5488 South Padre Island Drive. They have a show Thursday at a place called, get ready, Whataburger Field.
-- DGUSA announced CIMA, Jimmy Jacobs and Genki Horiguchi for 10/29 in Fall River, MA and 10/30 in Rahway, NJ today. This is the first time Horiguchi has been on the East Coast ever.
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