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The next WWE action figure series from Mattel will be a Royal Rumble series, featuring Edge, Beth Phoenix, Triple H, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, and Chris Jericho.   As always, you can order all your action figure needs from our friends at www.ringsidecollectibles.com.  Ringside are also running their annual Valentine's Day sale, so you can buy the person you love a Snitsky doll.

Devin Cutting sent the following follow-up on WWE's May Canadian loop....WWE will be holding two Smackdown house shows on May 16th, 2010. Here are the times and locations:

1 PM - Moncton Coliseum in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
7 PM - Harbour Station in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada

Tickets for the show in Moncton go on sale March 6th, 2010 at 9 AM and tickets for the show in St. John go on sale March 6th, 2010 at 10 AM.

Diff'rent Strokes actor and cast member of Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling Todd Bridges is releasing an autography next month titled "Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted"  There's no word yet as to whether Bridges, who grew up a lifelong professional wrestling fan, will mention CCW or his affinity for the business in the book yet.  Bridges will be doing a signing tour to support the book. Promotional material for the book reads:

The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on Diff’rent Strokes—shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity.

For Todd Bridges early stardom was no protection from painful childhood events that paved the road to his own personal hell. One of the first African-American child actors on shows like Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, and Roots, Bridges burst to the national forefront on the hit sitcom Diff’rent Strokes as the subject of the popular catchphrase, "What’chu Talkin About Willis?" When the show ended, Bridges was overwhelmed by the off-camera traumas he had faced. Turning to drugs as an escape, he soon lost control.

Now, for the first time, Bridges opens up about his life before and after Diff’rent Strokes: the incredible reversals of fortune brought on by fame and the precipitous—and very public—descent that followed; the persecution from police; the drug addiction that nearly consumed him; the criminal charges that almost earned him a life sentence; and his successful legal defense led by Johnnie Cochran. Through it all, Bridges never relented in his quest to fight his way back from the abyss, establish his own identity—separate from Willis Jackson—and offer his ordeal as a positive example for those struggling to overcome similar challenges. His triumphant story of recovery and redemption is recounted here as well.

Todd Bridges has lived a life of remarkable twists and turns—from the greatest heights to the lowest lows imaginable. In this shocking but ultimately hopeful memoir, he proves that what he was really talking about was survival.

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