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Originally Posted by Observer The wrestling world got some sad news Friday morning as it was learned George "The Animal" Steele died Thursday night at the age of 79 years old. Dave Meltzer reported Thursday that Steele (real name Jim Myers) was in hospice care.

Cause of death was revealed to be kidney failure according to the Observer.

Originally Posted by 411Mania WWE Chairman Vince McMahon has updated his Twitter, commenting on the passing of Hall of Famer George “The Animal” Steele, who passed away last night. You can read McMahon’s tribute to Steel below. George Steele was only an animal in the ring. He was one of the truly nice men in the world. #RIP pic.twitter.com/uOvnlztlOs — Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) February 17, 2017

Originally Posted by WrestleInc It was reported yesterday that Nicole Bass had passed away. The news came from her girlfriend, Kristen Marrone. However, Pro Wrestling Sheet is now reporting that Bass has not passed away, but that she will be taken off of life support today. Doctors say that she is brain dead. The site adds that Marrone posted that Bass had passed because she felt as though Bass was already gone. The report of Bass’ death was picked up by several sites last night, and was reported on due to the fact that Bass’ girlfriend Kristen Marrone had announced the news.

Suffered a massive stroke leading to her being hospitalized and then suffered a heart attack causing her to become brain dead.

Originally Posted by Observer Jeff Jarrett and Ed Nordholm, who are running TNA, met with ITV yesterday in the U.K. They were looking at a deal where Anthem would buy into the promotion and have certain roles. The goal is to make the ITV World of Sport show have television outside of the U.K.

Some more details regarding Jarrett and ITV meetings recently.

Originally Posted by Observer All Pro Wrestling will be on iPPV on Fite TV tonight from Daly City, CA with Cody Rhodes vs. Pentagon Jr. and Will Cuevas vs. Zack Sabre Jr. The show starts at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time. Jeff Cobb and Joey Ryan are also on the show. Fite TV also has a show on Sunday which is taped, with Jim Ross announcing and Jerry Lawler vs. Jeff Jarrett and Hardys vs. War Machine as the main events.

Originally Posted by Observer TNA just made a contract offer to bring back Nick "Magnus" Aldis back. The deal hasn't been completed at press time but talks are significant.

Originally Posted by Observer Impact did 325,000 viewers last night, its best number since 12/15 and up 29 percent from the prior week.

Originally Posted by PWI Charles Robinson tweeted earlier today he was getting surgery. Heading into surgery! Very excited for great results. See you soon @WWE @WWEUniverse pic.twitter.com/DckQ7Cm8YW — Charles Robinson (@WWERobinson) February 17, 2017 All done! That to @Lodi1Brad for helping me out! #TrueFriend pic.twitter.com/D7NWx66sEV — Charles Robinson (@WWERobinson) February 17, 2017

Originally Posted by PWI The Rock announced on his Instagram page that former TNA Knockout Thea "Rosita" Trinidad was joining the cast of the WWE Studios film "Fighting with My Family" to portray a Divas champion in the film based on the life of Paige's family in Great Britain:

Originally Posted by PWI Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Starz is close to picking up an eight-episode series order on the hour-long drama "Heels". The show follows two rival brothers on the independent wrestling circuit as they war over their late father’s wrestling promotion, vying for national attention in small-town Georgia is actively is being developed by Paramount TV. The project will be written by Michael Waldron and to be directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. If the series is launched, it would be the second pro-wrestling centric series that is forthcoming, following Netflix ordering a season of GLOW, a new 80s set dramedy based on the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling that has filmed its first season.

Link to the report: http://deadline.com/2017/02/heels-wr...rz-1201914899/

Originally Posted by PWI Why in the blue hell is there a four-man announcer booth on Smackdown? They want Mauro to call wrestling, Tom Phillips to handle the "promotional" pushes, JBL to be the heel and they like Otunga and wanted to give him a role.

From a recent weekly Q&A session that had a question about why Smackdown has 4 announcers.

Originally Posted by Observer Lisa Varon (Victoria) just teased something on Snapchat and since we were told they were calling the women stars of the past for an idea, she would fit in that category.

More signs pointing to WWE doing something with former WWE women wrestlers at Mania this year.

Lots of horrible angles from 99-01 WCW. What's the one that sticks out to you the most that made you embarrassed to be calling it? Well, I'm not so sure where the Yeti came in - I'd have to go back and look, but yeah, that was like the worst. It was a horrible thing to call and the angle was so bad. The fingerpoke of doom was awful as well, I didn't know how to react to that. Also with Russo coming out and bashing Hogan at Bash at the Beach bothered a lot of people, but it didn't bother me at all. I've called a lot of bad Lucha six man tag matches, where they would do good stuff but wouldn't sell any of it, and those were just horrible to call. If I can piggyback, what was the most fun angle to call? Or angle that you were most impressed by? I'd have to imagine the initial Outsiders angle. I had the most fun the night of Hogan and Goldberg at the Georgia Dome. But I go back, not to beat a dead horse, but to my first show at the Garden with Hogan and Bossman. I started out with Crockett and the next thing I know I am in the WWF. I probably had more fun that day than any other day in wrestling. What, do you feel, is truly the greatest night in the history of our sport? Well, I guess for me a lot of it could be pointing out to the final Nitro. Doing Nitro become such a chore and so difficult to do for many reasons, so I was glad it was over. Personally, one of the great nights for me was my first show at the Garden, with Lord Alfred Hayes and Hogan and Bossman in a cage. For me, those are the top two. Was Scott Steiner as insane backstage as he was in the ring? Yes he was. He scared the hell out of us all the time. We never knew what he would do next. Whenever he came out to the set, and I know I can speak for Heenan and Tenay, we were scared. I'm not so sure if he was sincerely like that, or if it was part of his gimmick and he wanted us to believe it, but we believed it! Can you give us some great Dusty or Heenan stories from going down the road? You were the voice of my childhood. Thanks for everything. I love the podcast! Heenan loved to play practical jokes on all of us, and he loved to get us announcers traveling with him laughing. I remember once we were in a convenient store in Maryland and there was a line of people. We had snacks, soda, and Heenan knocked down one of the displays on the counter. He apologized and reached to try and help the lady and knocked another one down. This went on until he'd knocked down five or six things. We laughed so hard at that. For months. Any time there was something on a front desk, he would do something clumsy to knock it down, and that always made us laugh.

Highlights from a recent AMA Tony Schiavone had at r/SquaredCircle: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...ony_schiavone/


Some other sheet news includes:

• Ric Flair's newest podcast show called "Listen to the Man" was announced to be debuting next month.
• Recent episode of The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast show had Gillberg as the guest. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/t...21_00_00-08_00
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, WWE currently spends around $885k per episode of RAW and Smackdown based on their recent financial report released. When including associated costs, it ends up being closer to $1.1 million per episode but WWE gets around $215k back. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...sode_of_rawsd/
• In another "WWE Did You Know" type fact, WWE's restaurant "The World" was such a disaster for the company it helped caused them to generate a net profit loss of $19 million when it had to be shut down in 2002/2003. Link to WWE's business history: http://i.imgur.com/DGeU1fo.png
• Vampiro revealed on Twitter he was recently promoted to be the new director of talent for Mexican promotion AAA. https://twitter.com/apolovaldes/stat...55698450317316