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Classic arcade game WWE WrestleFest will be heading to Android soon

THQ Expands WWE Videogame Portfolio with Release of WWE® WrestleFest™ for iPhone and iPad Iconic Arcade Game Returns to Deliver Classic WWE Action in 2-D Format for Popular Handheld Systems – Available Now on the App Store AGOURA HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 21, 2012– THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced the release of WWE® WrestleFest™, a [...]

This time did Shaq say wrestle?

For the second time, former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal said he will be at WWE WrestleMania 28 Miami, but this time he did not confirm nor deny if he would be wrestling. • In January, WWE denied Shaq’s involvement, stemming from a prior radio show interview he did late last year. That prior radio show was [...]

Wrestling scion joins Disney in the ring in China

By Ronald Grover Wed Feb 22, 2012 5:50pm EST (Reuters) – Shane McMahon, the son of pro-wrestling impresario Vince McMahon, will team up with Walt Disney Co to distribute video-on-demand Disney movies in China. The 42-year-old chief executive officer of YOU On Demand Holdings – a joint venture with government-run network CCTV – had previously [...]

Maria Kanellis Discusses Recent WWE Backstage Visit, Wrestling This Weekend …

Source: Diva-Dirt.com Former WWE Diva turned First Lady of Ring of Honor, Maria Kanellis, joins us to talk about her first wrestling match in two years since her WWE release. This weekend, Kanellis faces fellow former Diva and current TNA star, Tara, in New York on her 30th birthday, no less. Maria talks to us [...]

Ron Simmons Will Be a Worthy WWE Hall of Famer

WWE Hall of Fame Although it is known as the WWE Hall of Fame, this honor has gone to quite an eclectic group of individuals. Besides WWE wrestlers, this Hall of Fame has honored celebrities, ring announcers and wrestlers who never stepped foot in a WWE ring. However, the WWE is honoring one of its [...]

Top 5 Sports Stars Who Should Be Inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame

The day before Wrestlemania XXVIII, Mike Tyson will be inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame. Tyson will join sports stars like Pete Rose and William “The Refrigerator” Perry. In the WWE, Mike Tyson is known for the Wrestlemania XIV storyline involving Stone Cold Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels. Five other [...]

Ten Of The Most Oversold WWE Wrestling Moves

Nothing ruins a WWE match more to me than seeing someone act as if they just got shot by a move that would hurt nobody in a real fight. So today I celebrate these ridiculous moves by counting down the top ten most oversold WWE moves. Yeah I know, the jig is up but it [...]

ONTARIO: WWE brings wrestling live to Inland fans – Press

“Anything can happen in the WWE.” That slogan in professional wrestling hit hard for diva Eve Torres—whose character, in a matter of weeks, went from a fan favorite love interest to a damsel in distress to being jeered by the crowd on a recent episode of the “Raw Super Show.” Come Saturday, the drama and [...]

Chris Brown, CM Punk: Singer and WWE Wrestler Spar on Twitter

Mindy Small, FilmMagic If Chris Brown can find himself a partner, he might consider staging a tag-team wrestling match against Miranda Lambert — the country singer he’s been feuding with lately — and his latest celebrity foe, WWE grappler CM Punk. CM started the drama with a Twitter post last week. Alluding to Brown’s infamous [...]

Retro Wrestling From WWE WrestleFest

The nostalgist in me is convinced that the WWE (or WWF as it was known back then) was at its finest during the 1990s. The days of The Rock, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Undertaker and “Macho Man” Randy Savage made for some fantastic wrestling action. Now, people like me get to relive those days [...]