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Dirtsheets sponsored by Classic Rasslin Appreciation Wednesday:

Jonathan Coachman mentioned on an appearance on The Ross Report with Jim Ross that ESPN is currently working on a ” 30 for 30 ” documentary on the XFL. Coach noted that they've been watching all the old XFL tapes, reliving the games and commentary. Coach also mentioned that former WWE star Jesse Ventura made $1 million a game at one point in the XFL.

Originally Posted by Observer Fight Network announced AAA Lucha Libre Worldwide -- the 90-minute weekly English language series -- will keep running on their airwaves every Thursday at 10 PM after officially debuting last week.

Originally Posted by PWI The 5/10 episode of Impact Wrestling on Pop garnered 280,000 viewers, down from last week's 303,000 viewers.

Former WCW/WWE star Marc Mero will be getting heart surgery on 6/16 in Cleveland, Ohio. Diamond Dallas Page is asking his followers to send prayers and positive vibes to Mero. We wish him nothing but the best. In recent years, through his Champion of Choices non-profit, Mero has been teaching kids about the dangers of bullying, the dangers of drugs and helping them empower them to own their own lives. Mero has dealt with several health issues during the last decade. He has a deteriorating spine and has had eight major surgeries for different wrestling-related injuries. He stated in 2007 that the needed to get a heart valve transplant and he almost underwent heart surgery in 2014 but tests showed that his enlarged heart had shrunk. In interviews, he has been open about his use of steroids during his wrestling career.

http://wrestlingnews.co/former-wcwww...heart-surgery/

Originally Posted by 411Mania Stardust posted the new Cody Rhodes teaser pic on Twitter, using lyrics from Oasis’ “Wonderwall” as a caption: ��Back beat, the word was on the street That the fire in your heart is out…�� #RAW pic.twitter.com/sHBCQ0Ch9W — Stardust (@StardustWWE) May 10, 2016

Originally Posted by 411Mania Next week’s Edge & Christian show is the season finale. It airs after Raw on the WWE Network.

"I’d say that to me professional wrestling today has mostly little people in it. I don’t see any real big men anymore. Very few anyway. The ones that are in it aren’t used properly. Like Mark Henry. It just seems to me, and I don’t mean to disrespect anyone in the business. A lot of guys are working really hard. I miss seeing some of the big guys. When you talk about getting rid of a Wade Barrett. Guys like Mark Henry are seeing less and less time on TV." "It seems like the wrestlers they’re all little jumping bean guys. They’re all Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels kind of smaller guys. I was 230 pounds. I think I was bigger, a little bit bigger, in mass than some of these guys today. There’s so many guys that have the same stats. Six feet tall, five-eleven, one hundred and eighty five or ninety pounds. Dolph Ziggler. They do a million high spots. They’re in great, phenomenal shape. They all look the same. They all got rock hard abs. They all look like swimmers." "I miss the guys that would go out there that looked like Nikolai Volkoff. Or somebody that looks like Don Leo Jonathan or Mad Dog Vachon. Where’s the big guys? Where’s the King Kong Bundys? Who’s hiding all the King Kong Bundys in the world? Where did they go?"

Bret Hart's opinion on WWE's new era and the roster in general these days.

More stuff with the WWF as they continue to explode. Now it seems that there’s going to be a Saturday morning cartoon featuring Hulk Hogan and his friends. Now, Dave makes an interesting point here about Wrestlemania, which kind of shoots down the main legend about the show before it even happens. He notes that with the kind of money infusion that the WWF is getting from the one-two punch of deals with both CBS and NBC, even if the house show business tanks they’ll still have so much cash on hand that they can easily survive for years off the network TV deal alone. So the idea that Wrestlemania was going to break the company if it failed is ridiculous, because just two weeks before that show they signed a pair of (likely) million dollar deals with major networks, PLUS the shit that goes down with Crockett at the end of the month was worth another million. They weren’t going anywhere, Wrestlemania or no Wrestlemania ... And finally, Dave finishes with a note that two years ago, Mr. T approached Verne Gagne with an idea very similar to what will happen on that closed circuit show on 3/31, and Verne turned him down because “wrestling doesn’t operate that way.” And there’s your metaphor for the day.

Random Vince/WWE story from back in the day regarding Mania 1 and AWA making another big blunder in hindsight. The link gives a bit more details on the story itself and when the Observer article about it was written. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...re_of_the_1st/





Some other sheet news includes:

• WWE recently released a trailer for the next Table For 3 episode with Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Sean Waltman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NbW7LulaKo
• Recent interview Fight Network had with Tommy Dreamer involved topics such as NXT, memories of Balls Mahoney, and his feeling of chair shots to the head need to be completely removed from wrestling for health reasons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPcznAw6RPg
• Being rumored at the moment the WWE was unsuccessful in their legal attempt to get the Ryback trademark decided in their favor. Supposedly has to do with the commonness of the name filed or how WWE filed the motion to get Ryback's trademark dismissed.
• Mattell recently uploaded a video of the New Day revealing the next line of WWE series action figures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vp76u-md4k
• According to reports, Dana Brooke's promotion to the main roster might only be a temporary thing since Emma and her are currently filling in for Naomi and Tamina (both injured) in regards to what was supposedly planned for post-Mania storylines with Becky.
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, prior to the creation of Stardust, Cody Rhodes was working on the idea of doing a Tony Stark type gimmick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZDD_6-CDc