– Newly signed WWE developmental wrestler Clayton Jack was interviewed by Oregon’s FOX12 this week and spoke about what he is hoping to achieve with the company: “I am just really excited for the opportunity to work with the WWE. As far as goals go, I just want to learn as much as possible. Hopefully if I do well in the three years, maybe I can get an NXT title or move up to the WWE.” – Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown scored a Trendrr.tv social media score of 70,048, down a sharp 17% from the previous week, which featured The Rock’s and Alberto Del Rio winning the World Heavyweight…

Singer Halsey, a self-taught make-up artist, is set to launch her own direct-to-consumer beauty brand, About-Face on January 25.  Described as a “multidimensional colour beauty brand,” About-Face aims to celebrate “the many facets and forms of expression that live in each person”. The beauty brand takes inspiration from music, fashion and art and embodies Halsey’s personal style and love of diverse beauty and will initially launch with three distinct franchises – Light Lock, Matte, and Shadowstick. The debut collection will consist of 10 product categories, inclusive of beauty tools and limited edition cosmetic bags, across a total of 40 SKUs. These will include eye pencils, liquid lipsticks, and eye paints.…

– Several months ago we reported that Hulk Hogan was approached by Mexico’s Multimedios group to wrestle a match for a huge payday. While Hogan originally turned them down, word out of TNA is that Eric Bischoff recently approached the group to restart negotiations. The condition of Hulk Hogan’s back remains the big issue as to whether he can wrestle a full match. Hogan has stated in recent interviews that his latest back surgery fixed his back and he does plan on wrestling again, but it’s more likely that he’ll simply appear at the show and get physical, opposed to working a full match. – TNA’s developmental territory, Ohio Valley…

Via Puroresuspirit.com – Takaaki Kidani announced that he is resigning from his position as chairman of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Kidani wanted to announce this news ahead of time to the public, and nothing will happen until the Shareholders meeting this September. This is not to be taken a negative things as Kidani seems to be wanting to spend more time working with Bushiroad. Kidani stated that he has been met with both positive and negative feedback throughout the last year, and it seems the negative is why he has chosen to take a step back from the position. It seems to mainly come with the recent use of Sakuraba…

Prior to Monday’s RAW from Las Vegas, WWE taped the following matches for this week’s episode of Superstars: * Kofi Kingston defeated Michael McGillicutty. * The Usos defeated Epico and Primo. * WWE Negotiating With MAJOR Star For A Return At WRESTLEMANIA

Future WWE Hall of Fame inductee Mick Foley held a comedy show in Adelaide, Australia over the weekend and spoke to the audience about a few wrestling-related items, including whether we’ll ever see him in the ring again and why his off-air feud with Dean Ambrose ended somewhat abruptly. After feuding with Dean Ambrose on Twitter last year (and having a face-to-face confrontation with him during WrestleMania 28 weekend), Foley there were plans for them to wrestle at SummerSlam. Foley said he pitched the idea for him to wrestle Ambrose as Mankind, with a fake “Dude Love” coming out and attacking Ambrose during his entrance while Mankind would come through…

Live from Nashville, Tennessee this is the Raw Deal for episode #1029. Follow me on Twitter @johnreport. This week’s opening video package focused on The Shield’s issues with John Cena, Sheamus & Ryback. It also focused on The Rock because he’s a big deal, don’t ya know? No music to start the show. No pyro. Paul Heyman was in the ring saying that he had something to say. “Tonight is the last time you’re ever going to see Paul Heyman.” He does lie, of course. He talked about how for seven years he brought us the most hard hitting product in wrestling history and that vision he had was called…

The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, LA reports that WrestleMania 30 has been confirmed to take place on April 6, 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA. “We are proud to have played host to some of the greatest sports and entertainment events in the world over the past two years, and hosting WrestleMania is a great way to continue this unprecedented streak,” said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. “We look forward to hosting WWE and its global fan base as they celebrate this historic milestone at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.” WWE will officially make the announcement at a press conference this afternoon at noon ET. * A Certain…

– Thursday’s edition of Impact Wrestling drew a 1.02 cable rating, with 1,352,000 viewers. Both figures are up from last week’s show on Valentine’s Day, which drew a 1.00 cable rating and 1,300,000 viewers. – Christy Hemme is featured in the “Today’s Girl” section of Maxim.com. – TNA released the following ad promoting its Road To Lockdown Sale on ShopTNA.com. VIDEO – AJ Lee appears in TNA (source: Pro Wrestling Torch)

Bobby Roode was recently a guest on the Wrestle Shark radio show with hosts Simon Cassidy and David Thomson. Here are some highlights of what he said about: His thoughts on the growth of TNA being one of the few remaining “TNA originals”: “Immensely. I mean we have Sting here now, Hulk Hogan, people that have come into this company over the past several years is pretty amazing considering how young our company still is. We’ve grown so much talent wise, television wise, international pay-per-views, our company is only just a little over ten years old and every year we’re getting bigger and bigger. It’s just great to be a…