By ALEX MARVEZ, Scripps Howard News Service

Dean Roll hopes his new pro wrestling persona doesn't jump the shark any time soon.

He enjoyed a storied World Wrestling Entertainment career as Tito Santana.

But to a select group of seventh- and eighth-graders, he is known as someone else: Senor Solis.

Santana's post-wrestling life has led him to the classroom. An educator the past 12 years, Santana (real name Merced Solis) is a Spanish teacher at Eisenhower Middle School in Succasunna, N.J.

In pro wrestling vernacular, Brock Lesnar should approach his next mixed martial arts bout as a loser-leaves-town match.

Lesnar will fight Heath Herring in the co-main event of Saturday night's "UFC 87: Seek and Destroy'' pay-per-view show emanating from Minneapolis. With a victory, Lesnar is guaranteed to remain in a high-profile UFC role.

Frank Trigg remembers when two of pro wrestling's biggest stars were nobodies in the same gym where he trained for mixed martial arts competition.

Now, Trigg is the one hoping to follow in the footsteps of grappling stars John Cena and "Samoa Joe" Seanoa.

Bruno Lauer fancies himself as a loyal, honest and trustworthy World Wrestling Entertainment employee.

Basically, everything that his pro wrestling character wasn't.

The flooding came first, followed by a storm of controversy generated by Bret "The Hitman" Hart.

Mike Chapman never could have envisioned such a tempest in what should have been his final days as executive director of the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum.

Valerie Wyndham couldn't have a more apropos middle name.

Elizabeth.

A recent overhaul has caused the heads of even the most ardent World Wrestling Entertainment fans to spin.

When learning of his 2008 College Football Hall of Fame selection, Ron Simmons could have responded with his World Wrestling Entertainment catchphrase of "Damn!"

Instead, he wanted to use some other spicy language. When first contacted last month by the National Football Foundation, a disbelieving Simmons almost hung up the telephone.

A fairy-tale pro-wrestling career is neatly summarized in Larry Zbyszko's new autobiography.

"Adventures in Larryland" ($19.95; ECW Press) focuses primarily on the feuds and story lines that have helped make Zbyszko one of grappling's most colorful personalities since 1980.