Various: VICE TV Working on Andy Kaufman Wrestling Project, Kevin Nash on Scott Hall’s Final Days, Indies

Jul 12, 2022

VICE TV Reportedly Working on New Wrestling Project Involving Andy Kaufman

VICE TV reportedly is currently in the process of working on a new wrestling-related series for the network, according to the Wrestling Observer Live.

Bryan Alvarez reported that VICE TV recently issued a casting call asking for someone to portray Andy Kaufman for a new wrestling-based project for the network. Alvarez reported that Dark Side of the Ring’s co-creator Jason Eisener is the director for this upcoming new series.

It is currently not known if this is related to the upcoming new series based on the Territories era of wrestling that is currently in production by Seven Bucks Productions with the Dark Side of the Ring series creators or an entirely different series for the network.

Source: F4WOnline.com

Kevin Nash Comments on the Final Days of Scott Hall’s Life

As noted before, wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall passed away this past March.

A recent episode of the Kliq This podcast featured host Kevin Nash discussing the final days of Hall’s life and his reaction when he was informed that Hall would be pulled off of life support.

“Scott lived in a duplex in Georgia, over by the Braves Stadium. He was getting GrubHub and a Chinese takeout place that would bring him Vodka. He was making some Kool-Aid, he put the plastic pitcher up the refrigerator and ice went into it, but a couple of pieces of ice popped out and landed on the floor. He went over, and stirred it, I’m sure it was Crystal Light because he ate pretty clean, he went back to get something and one of the pieces of ice caught his heel. He did the ‘whoopsie daisy,’ landed, and broke his other hip. He’s in the middle of his kitchen and in so much pain that he can’t move. He tries to move several times, he can’t, and finally, he passes out. He wakes up and now it’s nighttime. He has no idea. His phone is by his recliner and he’s between that and the Kool-Aid. He ends up passing back out, wakes up, and at this point, he’s so dehydrated. He has the pacemaker in his heart and he’s like, ‘I’m gonna croak if I don’t get some fluids.’ He turned, gutted it, got his back to the cabinet and got the pitcher of Kool-Aid and drank it through the spout, sip by sip. He was able to drag himself and called 911. They came and got him and took him to the hospital.
I know Scott didn’t have insurance, but he needed to get the hip fixed. He had other problems and other issues. They did CT scans and he had some kind of perforation in his bowel. I talked to him a couple of times on the phone. I talked to him every day he was in hospital. Dallas [Diamond Dallas Page] was a great friend during this, being there for Scott. When it came time to get Scott out of the hospital, they were going to stay at Dallas’ and recover there. I talked to Dallas on Saturday. I got a call on Sunday morning and it was Paul [Triple H], and he said, ‘Scott had three heart attacks and it didn’t look good.’ I tried to get a flight to Atlanta, couldn’t. Went back to Daytona Beach, couldn’t get a flight out of there. At that point, they said they were going to pull the plug and the doctor said it would be maybe ten minutes that he’d be alive. Before they pulled the plug, all the Kliq guys got on speaker phone, talked to him, cried is basically all we did.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

WrestlePro Alaska recently announced that Orange Cassidy will be making an appearance for the company at their Back With A Bang event on October 1st in Anchorage, Alaska.

During a recent interview with SEScoops, Killer Kelly revealed that she has been under contract with Impact Wrestling for the past two years. Kelly also revealed that the reason she has been absent from Impact programming during that time was due to COVID-19 related travel restrictions issues in her homeland of Portugal.

This past Saturday’s Reality Of Wrestling event in Texas City, Texas featured Booker T making a surprise in-ring return. Booker T teamed up with Mysterious Q, Brian Keith, Blake Cortez, & Gaspar Hernandez in a 10-Man Tag Team match against Gino Medina, Stephen Wolf, Will Elroy, Edge Stone, & Ryan Davidson at the event.

Charlotte Flair announced on Twitter that she has recently partnered with jewelry retailer Rockford for a new line of Ashley X Rockford brand unisex rings at Rockford’s stores.

As noted before, Miyu Yamashita defeated Thunder Rosa in an AEW Women’s World Championship Eliminator match at Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling’s Summer Sun Princess ’22 event this past Saturday in Tokyo, Japan. Yamashita’s win granted her the right to challenge for Rosa’s title the next time she visits the United States. AEW recently announced that a replay of this match will be airing as part of the card of tonight’s episode of AEW Dark on their official YouTube channel.

Adam Scherr (former Braun Strowman in WWE) recently announced on Instagram the full schedule for Control Your Narrative’s tour of events this October to December. This upcoming tour features twenty four events that starts on October 13th in San Antonio, Texas and concludes on December 11th in Des Moines, Iowa.

Warner Bros Discovery recently announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will be the official Master of Ceremonies for this year’s Shark Week festivities on Discovery Channel starting on July 24th.

Coastal Championship Wrestling announced that they have recently signed a television contract with Teleamerica TV to air their programming on the network for the West Coast in the United States.

Impact Wrestling recently announced two new matches for the card of their Derby City Rumble event on July 15th in Louisville, Kentucky: