CM Punk Not First Choice For "12 Rounds," Jake Roberts Wants Match On His 60th Birthday, More
- The wrestler who Bull Dempsey squashed on this week's WWE NXT episode is Jesus DeLeon, known as Mr. 450 in Puerto Rico's WWC promotion.
- CM Punk revealed on his first podcast with Colt Cabana that he was up for the lead role in WWE Studios' 12 Rounds Reloaded but Randy Orton ended up getting the role. Punk was actually the second or third choice for the role, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. John Cena may have been the first choice but Chris Jericho was also asked to do the movie well ahead of time but he turned it down.
- WWE Hall of Famer Jake "The Snake" Roberts is looking forward to his 60th birthday in May 2015 and says he wants to wrestle a match that night as well as host another one-man show. He tweeted the following
May 30th I will b 60yrs young. My birthday wish is to wrestle that nite and do my UNSPOKEN WORD for an 1 1/2 hrs. With party after!! Where??
? JakeSnakeDDT (@JakeSnakeDDT) December 17, 2014