Various: Andre Doc Director, Bruce Prichard’s WWE Network Podcast, Indies

Andre the Giant Documentary Director on His Early TV Memories of Andre

As part of the lead up to Tuesday’s release of Andre the Giant documentary on HBO, the director of the film was interview by HBO discussing his earliest memories of Andre the Giant.

“I was immediately hooked seeing him as to who the guy was – where he’s from, how big is his bed, what does he eat. Is this a real person? How is a giant walking around amidst these other larger-than-life wrestling characters.”

Bruce Prichard on His New Podcast Show for the WWE Network

As previously reported, a new podcast show featuring Bruce Prichard and Conrad Thompson was announced by WWE to be arriving to the WWE Network in the near future.

In an update to this situation, Bruce Prichard recently revealed several new details and cleared up rumors regarding the new show on his YouTube channel. Prichard stated that it was WWE who came up with the idea for the show and he is not officially working as an employee for the company. He also stated that the format of this new podcast will be similar to his Something Else to Wrestle podcast and will not be focused on the current WWE product.

Prichard said that the debut episode is currently planned to be arriving “in the next few weeks” with Conrad Thompson as the co-host. He said that each episode will be around 60 to 90 minutes long. He also stressed that working on this new podcast for the Network will not interfere with the current work on his regular podcast.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Ring of Honor announced NJPW’s Los Ingobernables de Japon (Tetsuya Naito, EVIL, SANADA, BUSHI, and Hiromu Takahashi) will be appearing on all four shows of next month’s War of the Worlds tour. The tour starts on May 9th with a show in Lowell, Massachusetts followed by a May 11th show in Toronto, a May 12th show in Royal Oak, Michigan, and ends on May 13th with a show in Chicago.

International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom announced their September 23rd show in Kent, England will be a super-show featuring talent from Japan’s Pro Wrestling NOAH.

The newest episode of Being The Elite was recently released on the series official Youtube channel. This is the show’s 100th episode, titled Finale, and focuses on the ending and fallout of the Kenny Omega versus Cody Rhodes match from last Saturday’s ROH Supercard of Honor XII event. The episode also teases a doubtful future for the series.