As first announced by her grandson Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, wrestling promoter and matriarch of the Anoa’i family, Lia Maivia will be inducted into this year’s WWE Hall of Fame class. She joins Paul Heyman–who will be inducted by Roman Reigns–Bull Nakano, The U.S. Express, Muhammad Ali, and Thunderbolt Patterson in this year’s induction ceremony.
She will be inducted by Johnson, who also inducted his father Rocky Johnson, and grandfather “High Chief” Peter Maivia into the hall in 2008.
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Days before his Netflix action film Red Notice premieres, Dwayne Johnson is looking at how he can change his future productions in light of the tragic death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin film Rust. The actor-producer has pledged to never again use real guns on projects produced by his company Seven Bucks Productions, Variety reports.
“First of all, I was heartbroken,” Johnson said to Variety at the premiere for Red Notice. “We lost a life. My heart goes out to her family and everybody on set. I’ve known Alec, too, for a very long time.
“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can tell you without an absence of clarity here, that any move that we have moving forward with Seven Bucks Productions–any movie, television show, anything we do or produce–we won’t …
Read moreAlthough he stepped down from his position as Chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2019, Shawn Layden hasn’t been shy about sharing his views about the future of the gaming industry. And the former PlayStation boss believes that that the ongoing conflict of rival consoles between Sony and Microsoft should come to a close.
During an interview with Eurogamer, Layden likens the PlayStation and Xbox competition to the format wars between VHS and Sony’s Betamax decades earlier, which was won by the former before both formats became obsolete.
“With Xbox versus PlayStation, the Ali versus Frazier fight… Frankly, we have to start interrogating what the purpose is of a proprietary console, and whether that can continue to be true,” said Layden. “When you have competing for…
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