Legendary wrestling broadcaster “Mean” Gene Okerlund joined Inside The Ropes this past Thursday and divulged that the late Randy Savage declined WWE’s multiple invitations to join their Hall of Fame.

When asked why the “Macho Man” isn’t in the Hall, he responded, “Are you telling me that the WWE hadn’t made an overture to Randy about being in the Hall of Fame? That’s BS. They asked him many times and he declined. For whatever reason, that’s what I’m still trying to figure out.”

Okerlund also gave his thoughts on Savage’s rival Ultimate Warrior.

“He did have a look, that’s about as far as it goes. He couldn’t talk, he sure as hell couldn’t work in the ring, that was very marginal. I think one of the worst matches I’ve seen in my life was between Warrior and Papa Shango. What a disaster of monumental proportions,” he said.

Okerlund also explained how WWE’s pay-per-view frequency has changed the promotion.

“I personally think we have way too many pay-per-views,” he says. “I don’t think we get the chance to adequately develop the storylines with the guys and gals between pay per views. I’d like to see us down to about eight pay per views a year.”

In this ninety-minute interview, Okerlund explains the real reason he went to WCW in 1993, his views on “Rowdy” Roddy Piper not being given enough credit for WrestleMania, hating an angle Vince Russo scripted him and more. Visit insidetheropes.podbean.com and check out www.facebook.com/theinsidenetwork for upcoming shows and guests.

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– A TNA Wrestling live event is scheduled for September 7 at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale June 29 at 10:00 a.m.

– Former TNA Knockout Chelsea was in attendance for last night’s Impact.

– Former WWE superstar Luke Gallows wrestled in a dark match prior to Impact. He wrestled as Isiah Cash and lost to Kazarian.

– After Impact went off the air, AJ Styles came back to the ring and continued to beat down Daniels and Kazarian. When Styles left, Daniels and Kazarian talked trash to the fans before heading to the back.

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– WWE has discontinued airing reruns of WCW Monday Nitro on its Classics On Demand service—stopping at September 1998 with Warrior vs. Hollywood Hogan as the center storyline. The program featured an interlude with Matt Striker, who in its last few episodes would often describe Nitro’s storylines in a mocking tone. The show was packaged with Raw as Monday Night Wars; Raw will continue to air as The History of Monday Night Raw.

– WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels is today’s featured Superstar on WWE.com. He is advertised to appear on Raw as part of a D-Generation reunion.

– TNA Impact Wrestling star Tara, formerly known as Victoria in WWE, stated at 8:20 a.m. via Twitter that she is in St. Louis, Missouri—site of tonight’s historic Raw episode celebrating 1000th shows.

“BrookeIMPACT Just landed in St. Louis. Call you from car,” the post reads.

She meant to send the message private to fellow TNA star Miss Tessmacher, but accidentally made it public. The post has since been deleted.

Tara noted last Friday that she would love to be at Raw, but won’t: “For all who’ve asked, yes I’d like to be at #RAW1000. I won’t be there in body, but Monday I’ll be with @WWE in spirit. #GhostOfVictoria.”

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This past Monday night, Ric Flair and his wife Jacqueline Bains Beems were involved in yet another violent altercation at their condo in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police were called to the home and it was determined that Beems assaulted Flair. Nobody was arrested or hospitalized.

The New York Daily News is now reporting that Ric Flair was the person who called the police to get protection from his wife.

Beems was arrested back in 2010 after punching Ric Flair in the face. She was also arrested back in March on charges of DWI and reckless driving.

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– Robert Goldsby, who competed as Rob G. Rock for a number of independent promotions including Ultimate Championship Wrestling and New Era Championship Wrestling, passed away last month at the age of 44.

– The son of Buddy Roberts of Fabulous Freebirds fame, Buddy Roberts Jr., is competing independently in the Chicago area.

– Angel Williams, formerly known as Angelina Love, has been announced to appear for NEO Wrestling’s “A Midsummer’s Nightmare” event on July 28. The event takes places at at Fight Club Canada – 4536 Portage Rd Unit 2 in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

– Sid Vicious, 51, recently competed in a bodybuilding contest. It’s considered remarkable since he has a weak left arm stemming from a torn biceps not to mention that he suffered a severe leg fracture during a wrestling match eleven years ago.

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(source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

In the final part of Billy Gunn’s shoot interview, as part of his weekly “Gunn Show” series, Billy opens up like never before to talk about his troubled past, recovering from it, and the fear (by him and his family) of a relapse if he ever got the chance to go back to the WWE. Billy Gunn also talks about where he ranks the New Age Outlaws in the all-time list of best tag teams. Check out part one and part two on VegasFuelTV (youtube.com/vegasfueltv) and be sure you don’t miss part three! Brought to you by Vegas Fuel energy drink, available nationwide at Rite Aid, “The Gunn Show” airs every Wednesday. Follow “The Gunn Show” on Twitter @GunnShowTV.

Billy Gunn on the “old Billy Gunn”: “The old me…nobody liked, nobody wanted to be around. My wife didn’t want to take me anywhere, my wife didn’t want to be seen with me, my wife LEFT me. My kids didn’t want to be seen with me, they didn’t want to do anything with me, they didn’t want to see me…because I was in a bad place. I’ve got all that back. He said it would come back, I got it back because I stay on track. And I know if I go back to that place, I lose everything. This time, I lose it all. And not only do I lose it all, I probably end up dead.”

On going back to the WWE: “If they ask me to go back, I’d love to go back. I’d love to go back in a training aspect, or helping guys, or getting in the ring and showing them how to do it inside, not just tell you.”

On whether or not the New Age Outlaws are the greatest tag team of all time: “No, I wouldn’t put us as the greatest of all time, I wouldn’t do that. I’d put us right where we’re supposed to be in the top five. I think top five. I mean, that’s pretty much without tooting my own horn. And a lot of credit goes to Brian, a lot of that was him too. It wasn’t just me. He would say that too, just for the record. Brian would say we are top five.We wouldn’t be the best, but we ARE top five.”

Hear Billy also talk about his relationship with Hunter today, and whether or not he feels Hunter has honestly forgiven him. Billy holds nothing back in this powerful finale to “The Gunn Show: Shoot Edition”. Check it out and be sure to follow Billy Gunn on Twitter @RealBillyGunn. Also, promoters interested in booking Gunn for a future event can email [email protected].

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– Via Twitter, former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Goldberg responded to rumors suggesting that he will appear on next Monday’s historic 1000th episode of Raw SuperShow. “It’s not true!!” Goldberg responded.

He continued, “No offense,I don’t just SHOW UP on Raw. As fans I hope you can understand. Now I must Jackhammer this thing sitting next to me on the plane.”

– The July 13, 2012 episode of WWE SmackDown scored a 1.82 cable rating, with 2,501,000 viewers.

The episode was up from 1.70 for the previous week’s live Tuesday broadcast. Friday’s show drew the same rating as the last first-run Friday episode on June 29.

– It would appear that Charlie Sheen’s scheduled endeavor to join WWE as their Celebrity Social Media Ambassador for next week’s historic 1,000th episode of Raw SuperShow is off since no mention was made of the award-winning actor on this week’s show. He was scheduled to tweet his unique 140-character analysis of the action before he deleted his account a few days ago.

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(source: PWInsider.com)