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- The current plan is to have MVP eventually “storyline” quit WWE, before getting enticed back in some fashion for a big match. As previously reported WWE are doing this Angle to test MVP before giving him more of a top tier push. Its a case of “We say jump, you say how high,” to prove that he is loyal, unlike guys like Brock Lesnar, bobby Lashley and even The Rock.

- WWE is cashing in on the past few years of hype for the Iron Sheik, by releasing a biography of the former star. The book is authored by Keith Elliot Greenberg, who has worked on several other WWE biographies. It will be released on 9/8.

- Thanks to Michael Heagle:

With all the hype around Mickey Rourke’s new pic, I thought I should mention the documentary “Jobbers” that is underway in Minneapolis, with appearances by AWA stalwarts Baron Von Rashke, Sheik Adnan AlKaissy, Buck Zumhoff, and more. Interviews with Nick Bockwinkel and Lenny Lane, and a number of familiar faces from Minneapolis wrestling scene. See trailer at :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHoBfujDJxI

and the website at

http://www.jobbersthemovie.com

Press release follows:

In the vein of Darren Aronofsky’s film THE WRESTLER (opening December 17 in select theaters), filmmakers William Borea and Michael Heagle tackle the subject of professional wrestling from the point of view of the aging former grappler. But where Aronofsky sees a classical tragedy, Borea sees comic gold. Thus was born “Jobbers,” a film about the most thankless job in the pro-wrestling circuit: the man whose job it is to lose to another wrestler.

As a former wrestler in Minnesota, a state that has given birth to the likes of Verne Gagne, Baron Von Rashke, etc., Borea has experienced firsthand the trials of working on the independent professional wrestling circuit. Where some of his gym mates went on to careers in the industry (including the film’s co-star, Lenny Lane, who wrestled for the WCW), Borea stayed put and eventually put wrestling behind him to focus on a filmmaking career that included acting and writing. When Michael Heagle, one of his former directors, suggested that his experiences and locker room tales would make a compelling film, Borea was quick to comply, allowing the team access to a host of wrestling competitors both famous and infamous.

Jobbers walks the line between straight documentary and feature film comedy, just as the pro-wrestling industry can be simultaneously seen as “fake” or “real.” Though the story chronicles Borea’s return to the ring in an attempt to secure a “dark match” with the WWE, the story is peppered with real-life recollections of Minnesota’s finest. Featured in the film as both actors and interview subjects are many of the men who made Minnesota the go-to state for much of the industry’s key talent. Eddie Sharkey, trainer of such wrestling heavyweights as Jesse “The Body” Ventura and the Road Warriors appears in the film as Borea’s real-life mentor. Many of the surviving wrestlers from Minnesota’s AWA wrestling promotion in the 1960’s and 70’s are interviewed as well, including Nick Bockwinkel, Kenny “Sodbuster” Jay, “Rock and Roll” Buck Zumhoffe and Baron Von Rashke. Each has a fascinating story to tell, and illustrates wrestling’s rise and fall from the carnival circuit to the big time and back again .

Also featured in the film are rising local talent like Dakota Darsow, son of local wrestling great Barry Darsow, who in the opening of the film is a kid stepping into the ring professionally for his first-ever matches and by the end of the film actually was signed to Vince McMahon’s WWE.