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Friday, December 23, 2011

Query on Hunico's bodyguard, Z! TLIS #45, Hogan's game earns "worst of" award, another legend for WWE Network, MidCard Mafia videos marked private, WWE intern talks about experience, Questions on Punk being hypocritical, Divas, and Jesse Neal, Impact Wrestling preview, wrestlers' yearbook photos, Del Rio pulled from next week's shows, Summerslam travel packages, Waltman arrested, and a Punk interview

Talk about timing. Someone asked who accompanied Hunico on WWE Superstars. I haven't seen an official spelling on his name yet, but in FCW he went by the name of Donny Marlow. He's the son of Haku/Meng the Barbarian. Hopefully we get more info on his character soon.

Zack Ryder, the new United States Champion, posted episode #45 of Z! True Long Island Story. Crowning Moment of Heartwarming! Great stuff with the cameos and crowd interactions. The Santa stuff was great as well. I actually used to have a Talkboy. This would be much better on Impact Wrestling each week than Eric Young's skits.

Hulk Hogan's game for the Xbox 360 Kinect earned the Official Xbox Magazine's "Worst Game of the Year" award. That'll go nicely with his "Worst PPV Main Event of the Year" award for his match with Sting.

Dusty Rhodes is the next name to have something filmed for WWE Network.

Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins' MidCard Mafia videos have been marked as private on YouTube. No word on why yet.

A former WWE intern talked about his experience with the company. Good little stories. I like his writing style.

After the break, I go into the rest of the day's news, starting with my take on PWInsider.com's questions. First up, a likely spoiler-related question about a returning superstar.

1. We haven't heard him say anything negative about Jericho potentially returning, so I wouldn't jump to thta conclusion. Jericho hasn't gone off the map for however many years before coming back so I don't think it's the same thing. Good to hear that he could be coming back full-time. Incredibly talented individual.

2. They're making money and being featured, and doing what they love, so I wouldn't think they'd be too broken up about it. If they were, I don't know if they'd stick around as long as they have. Kharma's the only name I know of in the company with around that much experience.

3. There wasn't. I'd personally want to see Beth vs. Natalya after their unit dissolves over jealousy or something. Something like Laycool's split. I don't think that's awfully unrealistic, but wouldn't put odds on it just yet.

There's nothing to add to 4. As for 5, that's all hypothetical. As far as I know, there hasn't been anything suggesting Neal will be picked up by WWE.

The following items have been announced for the next edition of Impact Wrestling:
-Kurt Angle vs. Rob Van Dam
-Gail Kim vs. Mickie James for the TNA Knockouts' Championship
-Anthony Nese vs. Zema Ion to determine who joins Austin Aries, Kid Kash, and Jesse Sorensen in the X-Division Title match at Genesis.
-The semi-finals for the #1 Contendership tournament for the Tag Team Titles: ODB/Young vs. Joe?Magnus and Abyss/Steiner vs. Styles/Kazarian.
Here's the video preview. Not a bad line-up.

Here's an article with some yearbook photos of a number of wrestlers. Fun.

Alberto Del Rio is no longer being advertised for next week's TV and house shows. No further word on his groin injury yet.

Here are details on Summerslam travel packages.

Sean Waltman was arrested on 12/21 for possession of hydrocodone and drug paraphernalia. And that's why he's not going to be on TV anytime soon. It's a shame, really.

Finally, C.M. Punk was interviewed on a number of topics in Philadelphia, following his dangerous match at TLC. Smart/great guy. Glad to hear the full story on the tape thing.

That's all for Friday's news. More to come tomorrow. Thanks for reading!

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