- Japanese legend Kenta Kobashi , 43, and Enka singer Mizuki Mai, 36, announced they are getting married in Tokyo on 10/1. The couple are said to have been dating for about 10 years. Kobashi, considered one of the all-time greats in professional wrestling, has been trying to rebuild his career of late following long term injury set backs and surviving kidney cancer in 2006. He is currently vice-president of Pro Wrestling NOAH , a position he took on last year shortly after the devastating death of Misawa Mitsuharu.
- Bonnie Steamboat, ex-wife of the Dragon, has resurfaced with an audition tape for Oprah's TV show search . Her show concept aims to promote the ideas of young entrepreneurs, and provide them with small investment capital to make their dreams reality. Bonnie is also gearing up to pen her memoirs which she says will be a postive and uplifting book about the wrestling business.
- Jake Roberts wants it known that he's pulled out of Justin Credible's Pro Wrestling Icons convention on 8/15 in Cromwell, CT . He blames people working for Credible who haven't returned his calls, so he's not going to make the trip.
- mtvU is working on a wrestling-themed episode of Dean's List--which gives different college students a chance to host their own 30-minute show.
- TMZ has a video of Roddy Piper "beating someone up" last week at a comedy club .
- Justin Rego, who claimed to wrestle as "Rated-R" in Canada, was booted off ABC's The Bachelorette, because it came out he already had a girlfriend or two back at home.
- Wrestlicious is taping the second season of its TV show TakeDown this week in Tampa .
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