Kelly Kelly: Loud and clear

"She’s just a pretty face." "She doesn’t have what it takes." "She’s just a model. She’ll never make it in WWE."

As Kelly Kelly hoisted the Divas Championship – her first title ever in WWE - on Raw: Power to the People, a slight sense of vindication ran through her veins. On that Monday night in Baltimore, it wasn’t just the blonde beauty who wanted to bear gold – it was the WWE Universe who wanted to see her get that opportunity.

“The biggest compliment for me was the fans voting for me on Raw, “ Kelly Kelly told WWE.com. “I feel like the fans have really connected with me for five years. I think some might see me as the underdog – always working hard, but just never getting a chance.”

When Kelly got her chance, she capitalized on it – and the Twitter world went wild with excitement and happiness for the fan favorite.

“I must’ve received over 10,000 Tweets of ‘This is a long time coming,’ ‘We’re so proud of you,’ ‘I’m so happy for you’ ... It was awesome,” Kelly explained. “I was told after I won that I had ‘trended’ several times that night.”

The fans weren’t the only ones lined up to congratulate the new champion, however – the respect for Kelly extended to the Divas locker room as she headed up the entrance ramp from Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena.

“The Divas were standing there by the locker room, waiting and clapping for me,” Kelly revealed. “I’ve never been injured. I’ve worked the live events five years straight with no real off weeks. I’ve worked so hard for this, and I think the other Divas recognized that.”

The WWE Universe might also recognize that Kelly Kelly has had one of the best months ever. She was named to the Maxim 100 list of hottest women, got to “Come on down” as a presenter on The Price is Right and now she’s accomplished a dream she's had since first joining WWE.

“My life, everything is just falling into place,” the Jacksonville, Fla., native happily stated. “I feel like it’s a long time coming. I was young when I started and now I’m 24 – I really have grown up in front of everybody.”

As Kelly traveled back home, excited to show her mom and grandmother the butterfly-emblazoned title, she said there are some things she’ll have to get used to. One of them? Taking the title through airport security.

“Oh, we have a champion here!” a TSA agent said as he inspected her bag.

Yes, yes we do. And Kelly Kelly couldn’t be happier.

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Randy Orton Discusses His Legacy, Randy Savage's Death and More

World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton spoke with Roanoke.com this weekend to promote Tuesday's WWE SmackDown tapings in the city. The interviewer noted that before the session, WWE's handler stressed that Orton is a sports entertainer, not a wrestler.
Here are some highlights:
Q: From your perspective, what's the best and worst part of being a WWE superstar?
A: I'd say the best part of being a WWE superstar is traveling the world, meeting new and different people of all walks of life. I love what I do for a living. One of the things people don't think about -- the travel is good, but at the same time it's very tiring, and you don't have an off season like your regular professional football team. I got buddies of mine out swimming with their families in the pool right now. Yesterday they were barbecuing. I was in La Crosse, Wis., you know? I have a wife and a daughter, and I don't get to see them much.
Q: Your act for the past few years has been being a heel (villain). Do you ever want to be a babyface (hero)?
A: I don't think I'm a true babyface. I've made some slight changes, and the more time that goes by the more changes I'll make. But technically, I guess, you can call me a babyface because I'm facing other heels most of the time, of course, except for Christian right now. As a heel, I acted a certain way. I did certain things and I wasn't afraid of getting dirty. But as a babyface, I don't really want to change too much. Last time I turned in '04, I tried to change 180 degrees and it failed miserably. So this time, I'm trying to take what I thought people were into about my character as a heel and really just slowly fine tune things instead of making any drastic changes.
Q: What was your reaction to "Macho Man" Randy Savage's death recently?
A: It was awful. I would hope everyone's reaction would be somewhere along those lines. Awful, in disbelief, saddened, mortified.
Q: What legacy do you hope to leave behind in WWE?
A: I've won every title there is to win, just about, and I think right now my main goal is in the longevity of my career. I've been around 10 years, but that's not really nothing compared to some guys in our business who have been able to stay on top for a long amount of time -- like Triple H, Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair. I want to be one of those handful of guys who are household names, that when people think WWE, or sports entertainment -- whatever the hell they're calling it now -- I want to be at the top of that list. I want to be known worldwide for how good I'm able to perform in that ring.

Kelly Kelly on "Maxim’s" 2011 Hot 100

Maxim’s Hot 100 is known as "the definitive list of the world’s most beautiful women." So it’s no shocker one of WWE’s gorgeous and talented Divas, Kelly Kelly, has made her debut on the prestigious list.

“This has always been a dream of mine,” Kelly Kelly said. “It’s something I wanted to strive to be on. When I got the announcement that I was going to be on it, I thought that this is such an honor and such a dream come true.”

In an exclusive interview with WWE.com, Kelly Kelly revealed she was genuinely surprised to make the list.

“I was so excited. I think I was more shocked than anything. And then I was so happy. It was one of the best days of my life, getting that news!” she said.

The first person Kelly Kelly shared the big news with is one of her biggest supporters – her mother.

“She was so happy. She knew it was something I always strived to be on, that it was a list I always wanted to be a part of. So she was always behind me 100 percent,” the Diva said.

Kelly Kelly joins some of today’s hottest celebrities, such as Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Rihanna and even newlywed Princess Kate Middleton, on Maxim’s 2011 Hot 100.

“Honestly, it’s so crazy to think about the big names that are on there. Getting the honor to be on that list with them is amazing,” Kelly Kelly said.

“I hope this isn’t the last of it. I hope I get on the list again and my number gets lower and lower every year.”

In her Maxim Hot 100 debut, Kelly Kelly ranked at No. 82. She’s hoping to continue her reign on the list for years to come, just as former WWE Diva Stacy Keibler has. Keibler is the only other Diva to ever make the list, and has been on it every year since 2006.

“Just to be on the Hot 100 with Stacy is exciting. She’s somebody I’ve always admired and I’ve always looked up to,” the Diva said.

Kelly Kelly isn’t too worried about jealousy or backlash from the other Divas … except maybe for Kharma, who’s been decimating Divas since her recent debut.

“It’ll probably give her even more ammo to come after me,” Kelly Kelly said, acknowledging how lucky she was to escape during Kharma’s attack on Maryse. (WATCH)

Finally, Kelly Kelly told WWE.com she had to thank the WWE Universe for helping her dream of making Maxim’s Hot 100 come true.

“Thank you for always supporting me and always being there,” she said. “I hope they’re happy and proud of me.”

Maxim’s 2011 Hot 100 hits newsstands May 10. To see Maxim’s 2011 Hot 100 online, visit maxim.com.

Kelly Kelly Reveals Her Dream Goal In WWE, Talks Main Eventing SmackDown

Kelly Kelly commented on main eventing a recent episode ofWWE SmackDown, where she teamed with Edge to defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Dolph Ziggler and Lay-Cool.

“I think the match we just had is one of the first main events the girls have been a part of, probably within the last 10 years,” Kelly told the Miami Herald.

“So it was really cool to do that and finally have a main event match and be at the beginning of the show with [acting WWE SmackDown GM] Vickie [Guerrero]. They put a lot of effort into me and my character lately. It has been great. I hope they continue to spotlight the divas more.”

The Jacksonville native says she has her sights set on winning the Divas Championship upon her return.

“I hope to win a championship because I have never had a title,” Kelly said. “That would be a dream of a lifetime.”

Kelly also discussed her early days with WWE. Though her stunning looks landed her a spot with the organization, her strong work ethic earned her the respect of her peers.

“When I started in ECW, I would have to say Tommy Dreamer and Andrew [Test Martin], who is not alive anymore, have helped me out,” Kelly said.

“On the diva side, I would say Michelle McCool has helped me out a lot as well. They took me under their wings.”

Kelly Kelly Says She’s All Natural

Cleveland.com features a new tongue-in-cheek interview with WWE Diva Kelly Kelly to promote the upcoming show there. The interviewer noted that she learned to refer to WWE as “sports entertainment” and not “wrestling”, and that their performers are “Divas” and “Superstars”, not wrestlers. Here are the highlights:

WWE officials keeping up on her appearance:
“Every week one of my bosses comes up to me and goes, “Lemme see your nails.” He gets so mad if they’re not done! Every week I have to be on it. If I break one, I have to get it fixed. But I keep ‘em short and I keep ‘em real natural, so usually they don’t break. It’s usually me biting ‘em off.”

People saying WWE is fake:
“I just wanna punch people in the face when they say something like that. . . . Luckily, I haven’t been severely injured, but I’ve . . . broken ribs and stuff. It’s not as glamorous as it looks. Still, I love comin’ to work every week.”

Being all natural:
“Oh, it is. I’m not ashamed of it. It’s all real. I love getting that question because I’m like, “Yes they are and I’m so proud.”"

The interviewer then asked Kelly Kelly if other Divas worry about their breast implants exploding in the ring. Kelly didn’t get to answer as the WWE handler who was overseeing the interview ended it abruptly.

WWE's Kelly Kelly Spans Globe to Entertain Troops

Kelly Kelly’s profile is growing quickly in the wrestling fan community, but as she has discovered in the four years since she began wrestling at the age of 19, her popularity is now global.

Kelly has been overseas four times – three times to Iraq and once (just last week) to Afghanistan – and has experienced first-hand how effective the WWE’s efforts to entertain the men and women serving abroad in the military have been.

Her first trip was to Iraq while the country was still being stabilized so the experience left quite an impression on her.

“Being 19 when I started and seeing the troops in Iraq that are the same age as me and they’re doing this on a daily basis, it’s just crazy to think about it,” said Kelly, who will be part of the WWE's eighth annual Tribute to the Troops at Fort Hood, Texas. The program will be televised on Saturday, Dec. 18 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC. “And I never thought that I’d have the opportunity to do this. It’s just been great. [The troops] found out [the wrestlers were visiting] a day or two before we got there and there were 2,000 troops there waiting when we arrived. They were freaking out. They just wanted to take pictures and talk about everything. And to hear their side of things, it was great.”

And to say that the stars of the WWE are well known and well liked at the bases would be an understatement that might be worthy of a smackdown.

“The funny thing is, they don’t get many [TV] shows over there, but they get wrestling and they recognize us over there,” Kelly said. “It makes you want to cry. It’s so great to get that reaction. I know everybody that gets to go appreciates it so much. They beg [WWE President] Vince [McMahon] to go. [The troops] just want to keep talking about everything and it’s great to give them a piece of home. And this time of year is the hardest.”

Accompanied by Big Show and Eve, Kelly’s most recent trip spanned five days in Afghanistan and included lots of pictures and autographs and some hairy moments.

“At one point we almost got hit with a rocket!” Kelly said. “But we were safe and the troops were so awesome. We were in a bunker when we heard an announcement of ‘Stay in your bunker’ so we kind of freaked out but they said to relax and we just heard a boom and that was about it. We were just fine.”

And forget any notion of “celebrity treatment.”

“We don’t stay in a hotel, we go and stay in cement houses and on steel beds and walk to the bathrooms with flashlights and we go what they go through to show them how much we appreciate them.”

Now, it’s the troops turn to show their appreciation for the wrestlers as they fill Sadowski Field at Fort Hood.

“It’s the first year we’ve stayed in the states [for WWE Tribute to the Troops] and the base is just huge. They’re expecting around 100,000 people to come. I can’t wait to perform for them. It’ll be like another WrestleMania. I said ‘How’re we going to fit everyone?’They said ‘We’ll squeeze ‘em in’ so it’ll be loud, for sure.”

Also appearing on the program will be comedian Cedric the Entertainer; recording artists Trace Adkins, P. Diddy’s Diddy Dirty Money and Ariel Winter and Miss USA Rima Fakih. -- By Christian Pelusi

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Recap of Kelly Kelly on Bubba The Love Sponge Show

Bubba The Love Sponge had the chance to conduct a radio interview with WWE Diva Kelly Kelly.  Here's a recap, from Bubba telling that Kelly is the the John Cena of the Divas (Webmiss note:I agree with that) to being moved from RAW to Smackdown and more:


Segment 7 – Barbie Blank AKA Kelly Kelly in Studio
Coming out of commercials, we heard a promo for the show’s Twitter
page (Twitter.com/BtlsRadio). Bubba asked for the guys to bring in
Kelly Kelly, he doesn’t remember her being this hot, Spice said even
Tasha knows that Kelly is hot. Bubba told Brent to give Brett Hart a
microphone, Brett said people confuse him with the Hit man every day.
Spice asked if Brett and Vince squashed their beef, Bubba said no one
stays mad at each other in wrestling, he thinks the people of
Connecticut are idiots for voting for Linda McMahon’s opponent. Kelly
Kelly came in, bubba asked that no one take a picture of her boots, as
he thinks heather will go nuts over them, Spice thinks you couldn’t
wrestle in those boots. Bubba thinks she’s like the John Cena of
divas, Brett said she is, Bubba thinks she’s the most over one, he
then said that he once tried selling Hogan’s boots on EBay. Kelly said
she’ll be in Smackdown, she said she’ll role out with the boots, she
said her eye lashes are half fake. Bubba asked if Kelly fit the Spice
template, he then asked Kelly who she is currently with, Kelly
wondered why bubba is mentioning this, Bubba said he’s like family.
Kelly said that her and Michelle Cools will be wrestling. Bubba asked
her about being on Raw, Kelly said that Beth was the only baby face on
there, someone had to go.


Bubba asked about Jericho, he said the guy
is a great interview subject, Brett said that Iron Maiden is coming to
Tampa, Brent said they’re a stiff band to get back stage. Bubba asked
about the under Taker and Brock Lesnar deal, Brett thinks Bubba knows
more than he does, he thinks they need to call Johnny Ace, Bubba then
goofed on Johnny a little, he then remembered the time when Shane
McMahon hung up on him for calling the fans marks, he then asked about
him, Brett said he’s the ceo of china Broadband. Bubba thinks Kelly is
dating Steve Lonza, he thinks he has her hemmed up, he then asked
about Jackson Andrews, Kelly said he’s dating someone, bubba said that
guy was money. Spice asked if Kelly would say yes to marriage, Bubba
said she’s getting long in the tooth, he thinks her job won’t let her
respond, Kelly said that she’d say yes. Bubba thinks they should call
the guy up, Spice doesn’t’ like the guy’s white boots, he thinks he
looks like a snowman with a tan. Kelly said she moved to Miami, Brent
said it costs a lot of money, Spice thinks she’s not giving full
answers. Kelly said that when she moved she was signal, Brent said
it’s like $100 to park a car, Bubba remembers when Hogan told him
that, Spice said he doesn’t know a place in Tampa where you can valet
for $20. Bubba said he wouldn’t question The Under Taker with stuff
like this, he thinks he would just stair a hole in him, he then said
he misses Test, Brent said he’s still not over it. Bubba said the nice
thing is that the wellness program is fantastic, he said if you’ve
wrestled one day, Vince will pay for it, Spice thinks Vince needs a
nutrition program, he thinks Knobbs needs to mix in an apple, Bubba
thinks that Brian will appear out of nowhere and notice what was going
on, he then asked Kelly about being with her new man, Brent thinks the
guy is afraid of getting jobbed out. Kelly said she’s 23, bubba thinks
she’s ready for marriage, Brent and Spice doesn’t think so. Spice
thinks she wants to have a pre-nup, Bubba said he’ll mention that to
Justin if they get him on. Spice asked who has hit on her, Brent said
that guys have gotten her gifts, Bubba told her to say a name, Kelly
then said Ben Rothlessburger, Brent said that guy is up to no good,
Spice as Vince said some stuff. The guys then recounted sometimes they
had with Test, they then went to commercials a few seconds later.

Source:  BTLS.com

Wade Barrett comments on working with John Cena and Randy Orton

WWE Superstar and The Nexus leader, Wade Barrett, had been interviewed by The Baltimore Sun.Here's the highlight on where he mentions Randy along with John Cena.

How have Cena and Orton – two of the biggest star in the business – been to work with?

They’re two very different people. I’d say Cena is probably a lot more approachable than Randy. He’s probably somebody I was able to connect with a lot sooner than I did with Randy. I think their on-air personas are very similar to what they’re like in real life in that respect. Randy’s a lot colder. But both guys have been great to work with. It’s been an incredible experience working with them and I’ve learned a lot just from working with them. They are two of the very best in the industry I wouldn’t say just now but of all time. For someone like me coming in with obviously my lack of experience at the top level, it’s been great to work with the best from the word go. Obviously the better the guy I’m working with the more I’m going to learn, so I’ve been very lucky in that respect.

The rest of the interview can be found HERE.

Kelly Kelly to be on BTLS radio

Late news:

WWE Diva Kelly Kelly will be on the Bubba The Love Sponge show today.


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Dear Monsters...

Just a reminder that the Killing of All Monsters commences tomorrow.

Also, David was sick last night and I wasn't able to post this, but the second half of our interview with Ian Explosivo went up yesterday. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to discuss Taco Salad, but we did get to talk about why Jason and I decided to make Kill All Monsters! into a webcomic and how that format has affected the way we're telling the story.

Randy Orton Says He Would Never Quit WWE

The latest issue of WWE Magazine, which hits newsstands next Tuesday, features a candid interview with Randy Orton. The interview was formatted for the reigning WWE Champion to finish a variety of open-ended statements. Highlights from the interview are as follows:
The difference between a good match and a great match in WWE is always...
How I leave the live audience and how they respond or react. At this past SummerSlam, Sheamus and I had what I consider to be a very good match—the crowd, however, was just kind of down. It was weird. If we contested that same match a month earlier or a week later, even in the same arena, the reaction might've been 10 times louder. Even though a match is technically good, if it's the last one during a three-hour show...well, sometimes the crowd is spent.
The biggest improvement I have made in the ring since my debut is...
That my confidence level has gone up. I'd have to say that that's one of the most important attributes to have in this business. If you're not confident in yourself and your abilities, as soon as you walk through the curtain, the fans can sense that right away.
The best part about Twitter is...
It lets fans know who Randy Orton really is. There are a lot of fans out there who think I'm an arrogant jerk, or hard to talk to. It's humanized me a little more, which may or may not be a good thing.
At WrestleMania XXVII I want to...
Win. Hopefully I'll still be the champion. I think I'd like to face John Cena. We started in OVW together 10 years ago and came up through the ranks. We have quite the history, of course. I think that the two of us going at it at 'Mania would be epic. We have so many things in common and, at the same time, there's so much contrast between us as well.
If I quit WWE tomorrow, on my last day I would...
That's impossible to answer, on the grounds that I'd never quit under any circumstances.

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Wrestlers tag-team from ring to film

The day after one of the biggest professional wrestling events of the year, Randy Orton, the heavily tattooed, frequently sneering, seven-time World Wrestling Entertainmentchampion, is standing in the bowels of the Staples Centerconfessing a lack of self-confidence. Not about his most recent performance in the ring, where he administered the requisite body slams, clotheslines and backbreakers to his rival, Irish wrestler Sheamus. This is about channeling his inner Humphrey Bogart more than his inner Hulk Hogan.

"I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor," Orton says tentatively, describing his experience as a dramatic performer in the 2011 movie "That's What I Am," a period coming-of-age story with Amy Madigan and Ed Harris in which Orton plays a father caught up in a school controversy. "I thought doing this for 10 years would give me an edge, but it hasn't."

Many a wrestler has attempted the leap from the ring to the silver screen. Mike Mazurki moved to midcentury noir pictures, Jesse Ventura and Rowdy Roddy Piper popped up inaction movies in the 1980s and '90s and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has starred in action movies such as "The Scorpion King" and broad comedies, including "The Tooth Fairy."


Orton's shift is different. It's part of a far larger transformation being orchestrated by WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon that may be either pure marketing genius or simple hubris. The wrestling impresario is taking the personalities from his weekly fight shows — where they can regularly be seen diving off ropes, drop-kicking mouthy opponents and goading a bloodthirsty crowd — and trying to mold them into subtle thespians.

Unlike the usual switch to big action vehicles or broad comedies, he's hoping the stars can pull off roles in gentle comedies, dramas and police procedurals. In other words, he's hoping they can act."When you create global superstars and part of their skill is their acting skills, this is a natural extension," McMahon said.

McMahon has created a film division of WWE, with a slate of more than half a dozen pictures distributed through Samuel Goldwyn Films, that doesn't go for a big concept built around star power. Instead, the movies tell smaller stories with experienced actors such as Harris, Madigan, Patricia Clarkson and Danny Glover, and slot the wrestlers in as part of an ensemble, hoping their acting can carry the day.


Arriving in theaters Friday is "Knucklehead," starring 400-pound Big Show as a gentle giant who has gotten to his mid-30s without having lived outside of a Catholic orphanage. Big Show (real name: Paul Wight) is not new to the big screen; the 38-year-old with a smooth scalp and dark, thick goatee has had bit parts in comedies such as "The Waterboy" and "MacGruber," where he essentially riffed on his in-ring persona.

But this is his first full-fledged role as someone entirely fictional, and as he sits on his private tour bus in the Staples parking lot the night before SummerSlam, he finds himself in a place of gooey introspection that might make Mark Ruffalo proud. "Playing a character outside the ring allowed me to free some things inside me," Show said, clasping his oven-mitt-size hands together nervously. "When you express that much emotional nakedness or vulnerability, it unlocks a lot of change in you."

"Knucklehead" follows September's "Legendary," in which John Cena, the clean-living face of the WWE who previously acted in the blow-'em-up "The Marine," took on his first dramatic role, as an estranged son of a woman played by Oscar nominee Clarkson. (With largely weak reviews and a minuscule $200,000 in box office, it was an unquestionable disappointment, although it's expected to recoup some of its investment on DVD.)

And the long-haired WWE villain Edge (real name: Adam Copeland; claim to fame: the Edgecator, a move in which legs and ankles are twisted and held in painful positions), has been drafted to play a laid-back cop in the comedy-drama "Bending the Rules," a role more in keeping with his real-life surfer-boy personality than his manic in-ring one.

"One of the misconceptions when people meet wrestlers is that they think it's all big hair and underwear and rah-rah. I don't think that anyone believes we might read a book every two days, which I try to do," said Edge, a thoughtful Canadian with a gentle manner. "They don't think that we might possibly be intelligent."

The job of wrangling persuasive performances from men accustomed to spending extensive amounts of time drop-kicking people in spandex falls to Mike Pavone, head of WWE Studios and director of "That's What I Am."

"I know that some people might be skeptical. They say, 'You wouldn't take Brad Pitt and drop him in the middle of a wrestling ring and expect him to do a good job,'" he said. "But I'm not starting at ground zero here. These are natural performers. I'm taking people who are a six or a seven and just trying to get them up a couple of numbers."

To do that, Pavone has leaned on film and television veterans. On "Knucklehead," the actor Mark Feuerstein (star of the NBC medical dramedy "Royal Pains") took Show under his wing.

"I remember coming back to the bus one day after shooting and just chilling, and then all of a sudden I start crying. And I'm not a man who cries easily," Show notes, saying the part of a large, misunderstood man reminded him of his own life. "I thought something was wrong. I called Mark and he came right over and told me that I'd had a breakthrough."

Orton, meanwhile, has flown to Los Angeles several times to take acting lessons with Steven Anderson, who runs the school Actorworks. Orton acknowledges that it's been a difficult education.

"The first few times I was on set I'd hear everyone in the crew saying, 'Shh, shh, quiet, quiet, quiet.' And I thought, 'Why do we have to be so quiet?' I thought it was the audio. Then I realized that the actors were getting into character," Orton adds.

Among the biggest challenges for wrestlers is scaling down their performance from the bombast of a stadium to the intimacy of a film camera. "In the ring you want every one of the 80,000 people in the building to know what you're feeling," Orton says. "On a movie set every expression you make is going to get picked up times 10. They kept having to dial me back."

Show, who tends to pepper his speech with colorful folkisms such as "as happy as a three-legged dog in a hubcap factory," describes the contrast a tad more poetically. "Wrestling is charging onto a battlefield and blowing things up," he said. "Acting is the delicate picking of a lock on a safe."




McMahon believes wrestling and film are logical complements. "I like to think we make a movie every Monday night and every Friday night," he says. "We have an entertaining story and a big finish — the elements of what make a good film."

Many of the wrestlers, however, say that they've been confounded by a number of aspects of moviedom and other rituals of film production. "One time I looked over in the corner and I saw Ed Harris making all these faces, and I didn't know what he was doing," Orton recalls of a time on set. Told that this may have been a preparation technique associated with Method acting, Orton says, "Oh, is that what it's called?"

Show — who calls himself a movie buff; "One of my favorite movies is 'Much to Do About Nothing' [sic] with Denzel Washington" — says he found himself laughing about all the assistants scurrying about. "You don't have to get someone to get me a diet pop," he says, letting loose one of his baritone laughs. "I can go get it myself."

Then again, there are some uncanny similarities between a movie set and the wrestling ring.

Six hours before SummerSlam is set to start, wrestlers gather on the floor of Staples, going over their routines for the coming night, just as actors might consult with a director before shooting a big scene. In the catering room, a communal feeling not unlike the spirit at a movie's craft services table takes hold. Wrestlers drift in and out, mingling with each other and the crew. Chris Jericho and Edge dissect the nuances of the guitarist Slash. The Miz paces nervously outside his dressing room, reciting lines to himself as he gets in character.

Edge sits down in front of a lunch plate carefully divided into carbs and proteins. In a few hours, he'll take the ring in a bout with Cena, Daniel Bryan and others against the well-organized Nexus alliance, the climactic fight of SummerSlam. The next morning, Edge will jet off to New Orleans to begin shooting "Bending the Rules."

It's a routine he will repeat for the next two months — shooting the film all week, then flying on the weekend to that week's WWE Raw location (the show airs 52 weeks a year, usually in different cities), then flying back to the set late Monday night. "It's kind of a 48-hour day from Sunday to Tuesday for the next few months. I'm bracing for it," he says.

Indeed, the Los Angeles-based WWE movie operation is run, probably more than any modern-day Hollywood backlot, like a classic midcentury studio. Wrestlers are slotted into whatever entertainment vehicle is available, and the more vehicles, the better. McMahon, after all, has a lot riding on the development of the WWE's stars and their diversification to other platforms, as competition from mixed-martial arts and other entertainment media intensifies.

Still, for all the work, the wrestlers say they are enthusiastic about their Brando-like turns. It may seem strange that people who are worshiped by millions of Americans for one form of performance are so eager to start over. But they say it's about more than their career. It's about — what else? — art.

"It's easy for people to take me as a big, funny guy. It's easy for people to take me as a big action guy," Show says. "But can someone take me seriously as a father that works hard at his job and has a kid with cancer and his wife has left him?" He pauses. "I want to be a good actor, not a wrestler-turned-actor. If I'm just a wrestler-turned-actor, I think that will be very sad."
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Kurt Angle Mentions Randy Orton

Kurt's "Dream" Final Opponent:

I had a good little run with Randy Orton, but he wasn't as good as he is now. I think [Randy] is the best wrestler up there right now. He carries that company as a character and as a wrestler. I see another guy that's going to step up that I want to wrestle is the Miz. He's really stepped up in recent years. In TNA, I'd love to do more with the X Division guys, let them wrestle their style as I wrestle mine.

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Cowboy Bob Orton praises his son, Randy Orton

Right After Wrestling recently interviewed Cowboy Bob Orton, discussing Randy's success, working WrestleReunion and more. You can check that out here. Here is an excerpt…"I'm very proud of Randy. He doesn't waste any movement and he's just pretty darn good. He pulls his weight. He's just a natural, they come along every once in awhile. He took to everything very quick. He learns and he listens. He's a good kid all around and he always has been and we've always been proud of him."


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