Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I’m Oli Davis...
WHAT YEAR IS IT?! ...and a very belated happy birthday to Pat
Patterson for last Friday.
Not that timing matters, as Vince McMahon showed in his birthday wish to his best friend
forever: “Wishing a very happy 80th birthday to my
longtime friend and @WWE’s first Intercontinental Champion, Pat Patterson!”
The problem with McMahon’s well-wish is that Patterson isn’t 80, as WrestleZone’s
Nick Hausman pointed out, quoting Chapter 1’s first line from Pat’s book:
“I was born January 19, 1941…”
Making Patterson 77 years old last Friday.
Which reminds me…
WHAT DAY IS IT?!
...what day is it?
Move aside generic smartphone calendar app!
WWE.com…
Is today Rusev Day?
Yes.
Submit.
WHAT?
23% SAID IT ISN’T?
Don’t you even Rusev Day, bros?
Hopefully Vince wishing 77-year-old Pat a happy 80th birthday was just a rib, and not
a sign of declining mental faculties.
Because you’ll want your wits about you if you’re selling your multi-billion dollar
company and starting your own football league.
Vince McMahon Selling WWE?
It was first reported last month that Vince was planning to relaunch the XFL - his failed
NFL alternative that only ran for one season back in 2001.
It’s considered to be McMahon’s biggest business failure, supposedly costing the company
$70 million.
A WWE spokesperson issued a statement in response, revealing Vince was personally funding a new
company called Alpha Entertainment "to explore investment opportunities across the sports
and entertainment landscapes, including football."
This new company then filed five different trademarks of ‘XFL’, and then Vince reportedly
sold about $100 million worth of WWE shares - which many are speculating is to fund the
revived football league.
In Brad Shepard’s original report breaking the XFL News, he tweeted McMahon “may announce
it on January 25th, 2018.
That is, of course, today.
With an announcement possibly pending, Sports Illustrated are reporting Vince’s WWE future
was a much-talked about topic backstage at Monday’s 25th Anniversary episode of Raw
- and how he might sell the company all together.
Justin Barrasso writes “The Fox Entertainment Group is interested in purchasing WWE, which
should come as no surprise because WWE programming is so valuable.”
Fox owner Rupert Murdoch has a fair bit of spending money after Disney bought the bulk
of 21st Century Fox from him last month for $52.4 billion, and they would possibly be
looking to put WWE programming on their Fox Network channels.
WWE’s TV rights deal with the USA Network expires next year.
Sports Illustrated add that WWE is “adding no new major expenses”, which could mean
they’re positioning themselves for a sale.
HEEL KICK!
Wrestling Movie Out Now The Wrestler, No Holds Barred, Ready To Rumble...and
that’s about it actually.
There aren’t many fiction movies about professional wrestling.
So I’m very happy to announce a new entry to the genre - HEEL KICK!
A mockumentary about two backyard wrestlers trying to become professional ones.
The movie is available now on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play and other VOD platforms, which
you can check out by clicking the links in the video description below.
I personally really enjoyed the movie, but why listen to my words when you can the infinitely
superior...FOOTAGE!
Find out about all the last minute rewrites to the 25th anniversary episode of Raw!
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