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TMZ.com is reporting that actor Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, who performed in WWE as Zeus and World Championship Wrestling as Z Gangsta, has agreed to plead guilty to a mortgage fraud scheme that cost banks $3.8 million.

The 54-year-old actor entered the plea agreement Friday, the same day prosecutors charged him with conspiring from 2005 to 2007 to purchase homes he could not afford and to withdraw more than $1.1 million cash in home-equity loans that were not repaid.

According to the plea agreeme...

Tony Mamaluke recently talked about Extreme Rising, the Vince Russo era of WCW and more. Check out the highlights:

On Extreme Reunion/Extreme Rising:

"I think people got the misunderstanding of what Extreme Reunion really was about and what Extreme Rising is about. Extreme Reunion was about trying to remember some great moments. Extreme Rising is about creating some new ones. I think a lot of people might from the outskirts of it looking at it subjectively might think it's about a bunch of...

Eve Torres has released a statement on winning NBC's Stars Earn Stripes through her official website.

Here is an excerpt: “What a rollercoaster tonight’s episode was! From thinking that I was going home in the emotional shootout, to winning the whole thing and earning a total of $150,000 for the USO!!! I’m still in disbelief! It just goes to show what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself, and don’t count yourself out too early. I went into this competition knowing I wasn�...

PatriotNewspaper.com has published this article on Kenn Doane, 26, who appeared in WWE as Kenny and Kenny Dykstra from 2006 to 2008. The former Spirit Squad member enrolled in Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts this semester and made their football team as a tight end after not playing the game since he was 18-years-old.

“I have always loved football and I always set goals for myself. My first dream was to get to the WWE and I set that and my second goal after wrestling was to get a ...

CelebrityNetworth.com has published this article listing the richest professional wrestlers in the world, with figures acquired from all publicly available information including salaries, real estate holdings, divorces, record sales, royalties and endorsements. The estimated net worths come from a formula that takes out taxes, manager’s fees, agents' fees, and lifestyle. The list states:

1. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's net worth – $70 million

2. Steve Austin's net worth – $45 million

Dark Angel's (a/k/a Sarita in TNA Wrestling) tenured wrestling career in Mexico appears in doubt following her recent excursion to Japan for all-women's league STARDOM's 5 STAR Grand Prix Tournament. According to RingbellesOnline.com, by way of noted lucha libre expert Steve Sims and Super Luchas magazine, CMLL officials are extremely displeased with the champion grappler for taking it upon herself to work a two-month tour for the Japanese promotion when their official women's wrestling partn...

Lex Luger called into the Wrestle Reaction radio show and talked with hosts Frank Manzo and Joe Omega about a variety of topics. Listen to the entire interview by visiting WrestleReaction.net. Wrestle Reaction airs live every Tuesday night from 7-8 EST. Follow them on Twitter @Wrestle_React.

Lex Luger on the PG rating and how it affects the business: "I think [WWE] draws from a broader audience with the PG versus the edgier style...a lot of parents have always told me, especially if they hav...

highlights from TNA's conference call with Samoa Joe …
 
-The call started at 2:05PM.
 
Thursday's IMPACT will feature the final two matches in the annual Bound For Glory Series! Jeff Hardy will battle Samoa Joe in one featured bout, while Rob Van Dam goes against Bully Ray in other. Also there will be an update on Aces and Eights, as well as Daniels and Kazarian defending the tag titles against mystery opponents.
 
At No Surrender, the semifinals and finals of the Bound For Glory Series. 4 men c...

Hosts Jack E. Jones and One Inch Biceps welcomed former ECW World Tag Team Champion and current member of Extreme Rising Perry Saturn to IYH Wrestling Radio. Highlights from the interview are as follows:
 
What were his memories of Paul Heyman in ECW?
 
“Paul E was really great at putting us all together. He would do everything half-assed, last-minute which would make us all nuts but when it was done it was a good show all the time...Paul E would get us fired up. Paul E’s a great motivator, a...

MMAjunkie recently talked with Paul Heyman and here are the highlights:

On if Lesnar is a UFC Hall of Famer: "Of course he is [a UFC Hall of Famer]. Listen, here's the thing: Look at the three that he lost to, number one. Number two, what if Brock Lesnar did what everyone else did and said, 'Feed me a guy every other month for three years so I'll get six victories a year. I'll be 18-0 before you put me in there with a Frank Mir, a former UFC heavyweight champion, or Randy Couture and the leg...

Professional wrestling has a long history in Montreal.

If you were a kid growing up here in the early 1970s, you probably remember names like Mad Dog Vachon, Edouard Carpentier, Killer Kowalski, Tarzan (The Boot) Tyler, The Hollywood Blondes and Giant Jean Ferré. I still remember going with my Mom to a wrestling card at the Forum during that period when fans greeted Gilles (The Fish) Poisson by throwing real fish into the ring.

But the history of wrestling in Montreal goes back much farthe...

"There Were No Foam Pillows" By Tommy Dreamer

This week, I opened the doors to my own professional wrestling school.

While driving there, I experienced something I haven’t felt in a long time, nerves. It was more of a nervousness associated with anticipation. It was a good feeling — the kind you got when you wanted to go to bed on Christmas Eve and couldn’t wait to see what Santa Claus was going to bring you.

It was a great one-hour drive to my school. I wondered how many students I ...

Jerry "The King" Lawler continues to recover in a hospital in Montreal, Canada, after suffering a heart attack during Raw on Monday night.

Lawler's family are with him, including son Brian Christopher Lawler, who released a statement Tuesday evening concerning his father's condition. The concern now is whether he suffered brain damage following the heart attack.

Brian Lawler:

“Ok, here’s the latest real update. Lauren and I are here at the hospital in Montreal. He does not look good at...

Chris Daniels interview:

Some would dare to say wrestling is fake.

Tell that to Christopher Daniels’ torn ligaments, separated left shoulder and pinched nerves. The wrestling superstar has been in the business for nearly 20 years and is now looking at his 10th year with TNA, or Total Nonstop Action, Wrestling. The group of high-flying, fast-moving athletes who provide pulse-pounding ring action will visit the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza on Sunday evening, bringing with them a chance ...

4-time WWE Champion, 5-time TNA Champion, actor, and winner of an Olympic Gold Medal with a broken freakin’ neck, Kurt Angle has done it all.  Earlier this month at TNA’s BaseBrawl in Bowie, Maryland, Angle sat down with Chad Dukes to discuss his potential MMA future, his movie career, TNA talents, Funny or Die, and some very interesting comments about smaller talent in the heavyweight title picture.

After discussing Angle’s role in the underrated film Warrior as a Fedor-like MMA fight...

WWE Champion CM Punk may have a huge match this weekend against John Cena, but his sights are set on legendary Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.

The Rock tore the house down with Cena at this year’s Wrestlemania, and has already stated that he will challenge the WWE champ, whomever that may be, at next January’s Royal Rumble. Punk is very hopeful that it will be him.

Speaking to exclusively to SunSport, Punk said: “Anybody that doesn’t want to wrestle The Rock is pretty foolish.

"He�...

WrestlingINC.com recently interviewed former ECW and WWE superstar Dawn Marie Psaltis. During the interview, Dawn discussed starting the Wrestler's Rescue charity, recent accusations from Kamala and The Blue Meanie, past controversies, the business today, if wrestlers are better taken care of now than in the past and more. Here are some highlights:

WrestlingINC: When you first started Wrestlers Rescue, where did the idea come from?

Dawn: I left wrestling in 2005 to have my children and my s...

Scott "Steiner" RechSteiner responded to the TNA lawsuit against him on 9/10 in the The Chancery Court of Tennessee in Davidson County, counter-suing TNA and alleging that the company breached their contract with him

Steiner alleged that TNA had failed to properly provide, as they were contractually obligated to do, "an accounting of all Royalty payments" due to him, failed to provide "royalty statements of all merchandise royalties and video royalties" owed to him, and "failed to pay all ro...

The Chancery Court of Tennessee in Davidson County officially ordered an injunction against former TNA and WWE office staffer Brian Wittenstein on 8/20 for Wittenstein's alleged role in the TNA lawsuit against him and WWE.

The order, which was finalized after Wittenstein never responded to the lawsuit (although he did respond to TNA with a signed document giving his version of the situation), ordered Wittenstein to:

*Return all information he downloaded from TNA onto his "flash drive" after...

Rob Feinstein of RF Video, who coordinates wrestler appearances at trade shows, posted a lengthy blog on his Facebook page detailing his recent negotiations for the former Kelly Kelly, Barbie Blank, to appear at next month's "Legends of the Ring" convention in Monroe, New Jersey. The former Diva's agent verbally agreed to a deal six weeks ago, but it fell through Friday after Feinstein was informed that her asking price to appear at independent events had increased to $10,000.

Feinstein writ...

Inside the Ropes this Thursday did an interview with Keith Elliot Greenberg who wrote for WWF/E Magazine for 22 years. Greenberg talked about behind the scenes happenings and how much input writers and wrestlers had on their magazine content:

How did he get his first job at WWF Magazine: When I started out as a writer, I was trying to get some work with Us Weekly. I kept pestering the editor there. He said 'You're 22, what could you possibly write about that people might not know?' I told hi...

In wrestling circles, he’s known simply as Rhino.

I’m not sure any man has ever boasted a more appropriate moniker.

The man behind the so-called manbeast is Terry Gerin; a six-foot-two, 270-pound mountain of a man, who is built just like a, well, rhino.

Rhino’s finishing move, The Gore, resembles a spear, in which he barrels opponents over, his head down, burying his shoulder in their midsection, essentially snapping them in two along the way. Imagine a football tackle, minus the ...

Matt Borne, who portrayed the original Doink the Clown, appeared on Inside The Ropes on Thursday to discuss his time as the character. Highlights from the interview....

How he was offered the Doink gimmick when he came back to the WWF in 1992: "I worked as Matt Borne on TV. I did whatever they asked me to do. On the third night, Vince called me into his office and he asked me about my history in the wrestling business and from that conversation, he came up with the evil clown thing. It took ...

Tommy Dreamer has been kicked, punched, assaulted with everything from kendo sticks to garbage can lids, cut, concussed, thrown through tables ... but all of this physical punishment may pale in comparison to getting his own promotion, House of Hardcore, off the ground. If nothing else, it has certainly prepared him for it.

Just days before the promotion’s inaugural show, Dreamer admits to having butterflies.
“I’m feeling, I guess apprehension ... nervousness,” he said over the phone. �...

"Heyman's Guys" - By Paul Heyman

So, what does it take to be a “Paul Heyman Guy”? Every day, I get calls, emails and tweets from people who want to know how to join the select group of those who can genuinely be called “Paul Heyman Guys.”

Sorry to tell you, but there’s no application. No set criterion. No crash course to take. A “Paul Heyman Guy” is someone on whom I’ve focused all my energies and championed their cause and for whom I’ve fought to the point of my own self-...

Former ROH Owner Cary Silkin recently spoke to Monday Night Mayhem about selling the company and more. Here are the highlights…

The transition from being the owner of Ring of Honor to the company's official ambassador and why, in hindsight, it was better for him to sell ROH to Sinclair Broadcasting: "There is an old expression, you can't save your face and your ass at the same time. It was better for me to sell it (ROH) than not to sell it. With Sinclair, it was a long process just to get ...

WWE champion CM Punk took part in a Q&A Session on 9/29 over the weekend at Wizardworld Ohio.

Punk was asked how far ahead WWE has their current storylines and whether he was going to be facing The Rock. Punk said, "Trust me when I tell you, they have no idea what they are doing" and joked that once it made it online, he would be told he shouldn't say that.

Punk was asked about the championship look changing. Punk said, "I love no idea....they are working on it....I give up." He said that h...

Kayfabe Wrestling Radio
Hosted by Alan Wojcik & Spug

Former WWE, WCW and TNA Legend "Big Sexy" Kevin Nash joined Kayfabe Wrestling Radio Tuesday Night. In a nearly 40 minute interview he talked about his film career and two of his releases coming to DVD soon (Rock of Ages and Magic Mike), the difference between doing a fan-fest as opposed to what it's like with WWE or WCW, his views on the NWO DVD release coming soon, has he been contacted to participate with the WWE Network, what does he thi...

WHY I'M THE PROUDEST "PAUL HEYMAN GUY" OF ALL -  By Joey Styles

These comments were originally supposed to be part of the 10 "Paul Heyman Guys" feature on WWE.com http://www.wwe.com/classics/paul-heyman-guys/ but Paul's interview was so lengthy that we just decided to transcribe the interview and give him the byline.

Regardless, I had put so much thought into why I was a "Paul Heyman Guy" and my professional relationship with Paul that I didn't want my words go to waste.

A few months befor...