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The Amsterdam, NY-based Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum issued the following announcement....Please join us on September 19 for the "Meet, Greet and Eat with Wrestling Legends" event at the Regency House Hotel (Rt. 23 North) in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. Attending this year's dinner will be legendary ring announcer Howard Finkel, Domenic Denucci, Angelo Savoldi, Stacey “the Kat” Carter, JJ Dillon, Pete Sanchez, Irish Terry Gunn, Davey O’Hannon, "Doink" Ray Appollo, Hillbilly Cousin Luke, Referees Dick Whoerle and Billy Caputo, Johnny Rodz, and Dawn Marie. Tickets are available for a $60.00 donation by calling Terry Gunn at (973) 897-5033 or John Pantozzi at (516) 859-3179. Doors will open at 6:30, and the eveing will also feature an auction and 50/50 drawing. Stay tuned to www.PWHF.org as we update the list of wrestling stars confirmed to attend. 

The Seattle Times featured a positive review of Jeffrey Leen's "Queen of the Ring' bio on Mildred Burke, which is one of the better wrestling books to come out in some time.  You can read the review by clicking here.  For those of you who subscribe to the PWInsider.com Elite section, online in the Interviews archive is a 45 minute interview with Leen discussing "The Queen of The Ring", what led to him writing the book, Burke's influence on not just female wrestling but all female competitive sports, Burke's relationship with ex-husband and promoter Billy Wolfe, Burke's unpublished autobiography, her shoot match against June Byers, the death of Burke's adopted daughter Janet Boyer Wolfe in the ring, the research that went into the last five years for the book, pitching and getting a publisher for such a niche subject, using the book as a way to tell the story of wrestling, casting who would play Burke and Wolfe in a feature film version of the book, the most surprising things he learned while researching the project, future projects, the Lipstick and Dynamite documentary, Leen's goals for the book and much more.

Bradley sent the following....On this Monday night's episode of VH-1's "Real Chance At Love 2", they will feature a wrestling match called "Stallionaire Slam".  The show airs Monday night at 9PM opposite WWE RAW.