- The upcoming DVD on the history of the World Heavyweight Championship will apparently trace all the way back to Frank Gotch in 1908. The documentary portion also includes chapters on Lou Thez and Buddy Rogers, and the following NWA matches: Pat O'Connor vs. Buddy Rogers from Chicago in 1961; Gene Kiniski vs. Dory Funk Jr. from 1969; Jack Brisco vs. Terry Funk from 1975; Harley Race vs. Dusty Rhodes from 1979; Ric Flair vs. Magnum TA at SuperClash in 1985; and Ric Flair vs. Sting from the Great American Bash in 1990. Of course there are also a selection of late 90s/early 2000 matches from WCW and WWE.




- Hulk Hogan is a guest on CBC Television's The
Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos in Toronto on November 18. Free audience tickets are available by emailing to jeff.perrin@cbc.ca.




- Billy Bob Thornton has signed on to star opposite Dwayne Johnson in CBS Films' Faster, an upcoming action movie starring Johnson as an ex-con who is out to avenge his brother's murder after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago. Director is George Tillman, Jr. who produced Notorious, the biopic on the life of Christopher 'Biggie' Wallace.




(credit: The Wrestling Globe Newsletter)




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