News & Notes: Alexa, Concert Swanton, Cena Wants to Play Vince in Movie

May 13, 2017

Alexa Bliss

Alexa Bliss said on the Talk Is Jericho podcast that she had lots of anxiety when she first turned heel, since her original NXT gimmick was a cheerful cheerleader.

Transcript via Reddit.

“It’s a lot of fun. When I first was told that I was turning heel I had such mad anxiety because the character that I portrayed before that was very bubbly, very princess, completely not relatable whatsoever and when I was told I was turning heel I had mad anxiety over it because I was like ‘oh my gosh, I don’t know how to be mean. I don’t know how to literally just make someone just, like, hate me.’ And I would have anxiety over it. We would do heat drills and stuff in the Performance Center and there was times where I just stopped and started crying. I was like ‘oh my gosh, I don’t know what I’m doing.”

A heat drill, as she would explain, is where you “grab your opponent, put some heat on them, say something mean, and then keep going.”

“Once I got used to it, it just became so much more fun and now I’m having so much more fun than I ever did. … It’s so fun, I love it.”

Check out her original NXT debut below:

Swanton

The musician Wavves did a swanton bomb into the crowd at a concert at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC last night.

hey @JEFFHARDYBRAND hows my form? #swantonbomb pic.twitter.com/Odax3cNPqS

— WAVVES (@WAVVES) May 13, 2017

YEEEAAAAASSSS… DELIGHTFUL.

Although I have now diagnosed you with a SEVERE Spot Monkey ADDICKKTION. https://t.co/ChawsjNkzM

— Matt Hardy (@MATTHARDYBRAND) May 13, 2017

Cena Would Like to Play Vince McMahon

John Cena did an interview with the Hollywood Reporter and said he’d “love to” play Vince McMahon in the Vince biopic, but acknowledges that that is unrealistic.

What are your aspirations as you go forward with acting? Is there a dream role out there?

There is a story out there about the life and times of Vince McMahon. Man, I think it is a wonderful script from word one. But unfortunately, that would be something I’d love to do, but I feel maybe a different actor should do that movie, just because of how powerful the story is, and I would hate for the audience to feel that it is a WWE-produced product. And that’s not in a bad way, it’s just I want them to feel the emotion that I felt reading the script. I can just tell you that it’s out there and that it’s awesome and man, if it were all different, I would certainly love to step into Vince’s shoes.

Top 10 Humiliating Public Betrayals

WWE posted this video:

Humiliating public betrayals: WWE Top 10

Some Superstars show no mercy when they decide to reveal their true colors at the expense of a former friend. Here are the 10 most infamous public betrayals that left one unlucky Superstar feeling humiliated and all alone.

The Rock on The Tonight Show

The Rock will be on The Tonight Show this Thursday, May 18, probably to promote Baywatch, which comes out on May 25.