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Pro Wrestling Sheet is reporting Chyna was drinking heavily before she passed away last year. According to documentary director Erik Angra, who was with Chyna for months before she passed, Chyna had started drinking after she became upset about not being invited to this year’s WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. Angra says this is one of the reasons Chyna backed out of a meet-and-greet at WrestleCon this year, and didn’t end up flying to Dallas for the weekend. Sources told Pro Wrestling Sheet Chyna was hoping the new documentary would help address her WWE Hall of Fame situation, and when she got snubbed for an invite she started drinking more. Angra says Chyna had also been emotional over attempts to reconnect with her family, and the full story regarding the situation will be featured in the documentary, which will still be released in the future. Chyna’s cause of death is still being investigated, and reports have said it is being looked at as a possible overdose, which Angra said crew members saw signs of addiction in Chyna while filming.

Originally Posted by ESPN The brain of former WWE star Chyna has been donated to CTE research following the wrestler's death last week, her manager said Tuesday. Chyna, whose real name was Joan Marie Laurer, was found dead at the age of 46 in her Redondo Beach, California, apartment Wednesday. While there was no indication of foul play, police have yet to determine cause of death, the Los Angeles Times reported, after the Los Angeles County Coronor's office deferred its ruling pending additional investigation. It could be weeks before the results of toxicology tests are known. Her manager, Anthony Anzaldo, told NBC4 in Los Angeles that her brain has been given to researcher Dr. Bennet Omalu to see whether there were any effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Originally Posted by Observer Monday night was bad news ratings-wise for WWE as not only did RAW decline six percent from last week's seasonal modern record low, but the 3.12 million viewers the company garnered for the 4/25 edition of the show were marginally better overall than two fall episodes that suffered due to NFL programming. The drop showed that it was the pattern that is the key issue and not because last week's show was taped. Daylight Savings Time also isn't an excuse as it was the first hour that was the most viewed with a decline throughout the show's final two hours. (The really bad number, based on patterns, was hour two.) ... Raw's three hours were: 8 p.m. 3.26 million viewers 9 p.m. 3.18 million viewers 10 p.m. 2.94 million viewers

Pretty much getting close to hitting a sub-3 million mark a lot sooner than the typical yearly period for the WWE.

Originally Posted by Observer Deadline Hollywood reported on a deal with WWE Studios and Maandi Media DMM, a production company owned by Wesley Snipes, for a multi-film deal. The first movie is "Temple," which is currently being filmed with Snipes, Anne Heche and Seth Rollins as the stars. WWE Studios is partnering both Maandi Media and Gene Simmons (KISS) Erebus Pictures on the movie. Snipes and WWE Studios will be doing a second movie this year. WWE will have the worldwide distribution rights and use all of its platforms to promote these movies.

Originally Posted by Observer Northeast regional indie talent Travis “Air” Gordon was one of the security guards during the Stephanie McMahon segment on RAW.

Originally Posted by Observer Revolution Pro-Wrestling sold out their June 12th show at the 1200-seater York Hall in London today, despite only announcing one match - Zack Sabre Jr versus Kurt Angle.

Originally Posted by Observer Bret Hart said that he's doing Payback to honor Natalya but has no desire to be there and do TV right now. Hart noted he's just had surgeries on his wrist and prostate but said to Total Wrestling Magazine it would be great to put Ric Flair in the sharpshooter.

Originally Posted by Observer Some new names are in TNA. Besides Allysin Kay in as Sienna, there is Laura Dennis as Allie, Pepper Parks as Braxton Sutter, Tom LaRuffa/Sylvester Lefort as Basile Baracca and Mikael Vierge/Marcus Louis as Baron Dax.

Originally Posted by SEScoops In recent weeks, word got out that TNA is in financial ruin and could be forced to “take on an investor” in the immediate future. As reported by the Wrestling Observer, Aroluxe Media has been funding TNA’s recent television tapings and could assume partial control of the company if TNA defaults on their debts ... In the event that SSI [Summit Strategic Investments] does buy into TNA, it’s expected that TNA will continue to outsource their production (and other functions) to Aroluxe, the company that employs Ron and Don Harris

So even with a new and better potential investor, the clause that gives Aroluxe Media partial ownership of TNA likely is going to stay intact for the future.

When I learned when she had passed, the news just shocked me, just stunned me. Just couldn’t believe it. I miss a phone call and get a text message “Hey man, call me ASAP”, so I call this guy ASAP. And he proceeds to tell me that Chyna had indeed past away and he had discovered her in her apartment in Redondo Beach. This was in the evening, but this was hours and hours before this broke on a nation-wide scene or world-wide scene and I was one of the first people to know. When they guy called me, this hit me so hard and I couldn’t believe it, I said to him three times “Dude, you’re shooting me! Chyna’s dead?!” And he said “Steve, I’m shooting with you.” He speaks the language and I said “Dude, this is not a rib, right?” because you don’t, you don’t you just don’t rib like that, it would be a morbid rib. But I knew this guy, a very close acquaintance of Chyna’s, so I knew it was a shoot, but I could not believe it because… Man, I hadn’t seen Chyna in quite some time, but she’s just one of those people… I know she’s had a rough couple of years and I know she had a rough childhood coming up, and I don’t know the specifics of any of that, so I won’t get into any of that. And I thought she was in a place in her life where, I had assumed, she was drug free. I had recently sent here a couple of direct messages and she had sent me a couple back, and we were talking about doing the podcast. And I know she had been talking to Jim [Ross] about doing his podcast as well. And I remember the last time I had sent her a direct message and in return she said “I’m looking forward to talking to you” and I direct messaged her back “I’m looking forward to it, let me know when you’re ready” and I, of course, never heard any thing back. And I was just figuring, me and Chyna or Joanie, we didn’t talk a lot, we were just very good friends from our relationship at WWE ... I hung up my phone, I looked right at my wife, she was in there making dinner. And I said “You ain’t going to believe this” and she said “What?” and I said “Chyna is dead” and she said “Oh my god!” My wife didn’t know Chyna. She didn’t watch wrestling, she didn’t watch wrestling when I was in it, but she knew of her. And I had been speaking to her or direct messaging her and she knew I was working on getting ready to have her on my show. And she could see what kind of impact it had on me, it was just like someone hit me in the head with a baseball bat ... Man, I tell you what, I just stood around and I was in shock. Didn’t know what to do. There was nobody to call, there’s nothing to talk about, it’s just so heavy duty… I remember the first time I met Chyna, it was somewhere up in the Northeast, for some reason I might’ve been sharing a car with Shawn Michaels and Triple H, or I met them at the same hotel at the same time, whatever happened. And Chyna shows up and she’s going to make her debut the next day I believe, and there’s a connection there because Triple H was trained by Killer Kowalski and Chyna had just completed Killer Kowalski’s wrestling school and I guess someone had given off a buzz, “Hey man, there’s this real big chick and she looks pretty bad ass and Killer Kowalski trained her and she’s got a real good look" ... And for a female to come in and basically be a guy’s heater or backup or muscle… Man, she really helped out the Triple H character, they were such a package together, that was money. And her and DX was, obviously, money. Man, I’ll never forget one time working with Triple H in Germany and were working in front of people that just loved Triple H and Chyna. Of course, Stone Cold is going over, I stun Triple H, pin him 1-2-3, Chyna comes in, stun her and then here comes a dude, he starts jumping on me. I thought it was a rib, I thought one of the boys from the back had hit the ring and was pulling a rib on me. Well, it was one of the German fans that was pissed off that I stunned Triple H and Chyna. Triple H gets up and starts beating the hell out of the guy who jumped me ... Chyna, I always called her Chyna, some people call people by their first name, depending on how you know them. Joanie, man, I’ll miss you. I had so much fun with you and enjoyed all of our time we got to spend together and our stupid brand [of] sense of humor. That time I busted my ass at the Houston Summit, right before I was fixing to go out there and wrestle Mick Foley and you were sitting on that anvil case. I was putting my water on and slipped in a pile of water and busted my ass right in front of you, I will remember all them good times and I remember you and wish you were still here.

Part of a recent Stone Cold podcast episode involving him coping with Chyna's passing. Along with several stories from back in the day about him and Chyna while in the WWE. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...th_a_baseball/

* Regarding his career, he's proud of the longevity he's had with more than 20 years in the business. As he moves away from the ring and into the office, he's proud of doing things like going into WrestleMania 32 and breaking the attendance record. He also takes great pride in WWE NXT, which is taking the world by storm and creating the future of the company * Regarding who he wants to get in the ring with, he looks at the current crop of WWE guys and he isn't sure if he'd want to get in the ring with some of them, but he would've during his prime. He named guys like Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Finn Balor, Shinsuke Nakamura and NXT Champion Samoa Joe. Triple H said he's a big fan of what they do and when someone does it extremely well, like the guys he named, he wants to get in the ring with them. He said the future is very bright

Some highlights from a recent Q&A interview Triple H had at a house show panel in France. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...ke-to-wrestle/

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Some other sheet news includes:

• Yesterday was the 16th Anniversary of David Arquette's notorious WCW heavyweight championship victory.
• Chris Jericho's recent book included a heart-breaking photo and message of him and Dean Malenko remaining as the only guys left alive in Jericho's group photos since he started writing books. http://imgur.com/6P4DtuT
• In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is Kane's birthday who turned 49 years old.
• For those that missed it last night, WWE released the tribute video for Chyna on their official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wwe/videos/10153719174741443/