[WWE] Big Coverage Leading Up to Mania

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Some recent mainstream news coverage of WWE leading into Wrestlemania 21:

– Click here for an AP story on WWE going Hollywood, which was picked up in several newspapers around the country.

– Click here for an AP story on Hogan being inducted into the Hall of Fame, also picked up all over the U.S.

– Click here for a column on ESPN.com Page 2’s “Sports Guy’s World” written by Mark “The Birdman” Dursin, about Hogan.

– Click here to find a story in the Baltimore Sun about Batista, where he talks about his wife Angie’s ovarian cancer (she is currently in remission), a failed tryout with WCW, his time at OVW (not the most positive), his thoughts on being Deacon Batista, and Mania.

– Click here for a story on Slam! Sports on Shawn Michaels, including his lack of a desire to get into movies.

– Click here for an Edmonton Sun story on Mania.

– Click here for an Ottawa Sun story on Ric Flair.

– Click here for a story on Wrestlemania in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Randy Orton’s hometown paper.

– Click here for a story on Batista in the Winston-Salem Journal (NC).

– Click here for a story on IGN about renting big-screen TVs for Wrestlemania, and here for a story on wrestlers in the movies.

– Click here for syndicated columnist “Professor Wrestling’s” Mania predictions, which appeared on several outlet’s Web sites.

– Click here for Slam! Sports’ story on Eddie Guerrero wanting another title run.

– Click here for Slam! Sports’ best of Mania’s worst.

– Click here for Dory Funk, Jr.’s Wrestlemania 21 predictions, from the Miami Herald.

– Click here for a story in the Long Beach Press-Telegram on the beating wrestlers’ bodies take.

– Click here for Alex Marvez’ syndicated column (here from the Vero Beach Press-Journal) previewing Wrestlemania 21.

Matthew Michaels is editor emeritus of Pulse Wrestling, and has been since the site launched.