Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News! I’m Oli Davis, and I’ll be replying to
as many comments on this video as I can. Just several months after production began
on Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s movie about WWE star Paige, another Hollywood wrestling
biopic is about to be greenlit: a film about the life of Vince McMahon, quite aptly called
Pandemonium. The Hollywood Reporter have revealed that
TriStar Pictures have snapped up the project after Andrew Lazar - the producer behind 2014’s
box office smash American Sniper - acquired the rights. He’s also the man responsible
for Cats & Dogs, Jonah Hex and Mortdecai, but those are in no way as impressive.
The President of WWE Studios Michael Luisi is also producing, and the project is said
to have Vince McMahon’s blessing. Which probably means the movie will have no mention
of Randy Savage, B. A. Star isn’t just a PR exercise, Wrestlemania always breaks attendance
records, WCW never stood a chance, Bret screwed Bret, etc. Comment with who you think should
play Vince in the film, and I’ll read out the best in tomorrow’s news episode. I’ll
kick things off: Nicolas Cage. It’s recently come out that the early Wrestlemania
33 card was meant to have John Cena vs The Undertaker and The Miz vs a debuting Shinsuke
Nakamura, but when Kevin Dunn pitched the Nikki Bella proposal idea, those major matches
were pulled. Another bout that also ended up scrapped was the Big Show taking on former-NBA
megastar Shaquille O’Neal. Big Show recently said on the Sam Roberts
Wrestling Video Podcast that it was because Shaq couldn’t commit to the prep work because
of other commitments. But speaking on his BIG Podcast, Shaq has revealed it’s actually
WWE who are to blame. “They kept playing. First, they said it
was me and Big Show. Then, they said it was going to be 3 and 3. Then, they cancelled
it, so when they cancelled it, I made other arrangements. And then they tried to call
back and tried to get it done, and I just said, “I’m not going to do it”. They
messed it up.” WWE kept changing plans and then tried to
book something last-minute. I’m as surprised as you are.
It’s that type of on-the-fly booking that might be responsible for the huge drop off
in ratings for Raw since Wrestlemania. After some of the highest numbers of the year for
both the Post-Mania and Superstar Shake-Up editions of Raw, this Monday’s episode only
averaged 3 million viewers, dropping almost 350,000 from the week before. And it’s easy
to see why, with a massive 60% of you giving the episode the worst possible rating at Bore,
and 28% thinking it only slightly better at Poor.
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WWE haven’t yet had their annual post-Wrestlemania mass releasing of talent, and it appears as
though the company might be warming up for a Future Endeavours Friday soon. I hate that
holiday. With the recent departures of both Simon Gotch
and Tajiri from WWE, Pro Wrestling Sheet are now reporting that NXT wrestler Chris Atkins
has also been released, and Uproxx claim both Tough Enough 2015 winner Josh Bredl and backstage
interviewer Andrea DiMarco are gone too. Atkins was signed in 2015 after a WWE tryout,
but was rarely used on live events and TV. His last televised match was being squashed
by Eric Young on the 5th January episode of NXT. DiMarco had made a few appearances on
the main roster as a backstage interviewer, and Bredl only ever wrestled on NXT house
shows after winning the one-year, $250,000 contract in Tough Enough’s sixth season
- making him the latest in a long-line of prestigious Tough Enough graduates that didn’t
do much at all. The full indy wrestling event IPW: UK Supershow
8 is up to watch on this very channel right now, including my favourite wrestler in the
world Marty Scurll in action, and watch my review of that terrible episode of Raw by
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I’ve been Oli Davis, and that was wrestling.