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- Speaking on the latest Battleground Podcast, Rok-C names Ruby Soho and AJ Lee as her potential dream match.
"[AJ Lee has] definitely been on my bucket list ever since I started training to become a wrestler. I actually met her once as a fan. I was like, Oh my gosh, like, I'm going to start training. Do you have advice? And she was Divas Champion at the time. She's like, 'I'll keep this warm for you.' I was always hoping to get in the ring with her. But who knows? It may happen."
"Ruby Soho is one person that I want to wrestle so freakin bad and when I saw that she was on AEW I was like, Oh. I don't know how AEW contracts work and whatnot. But I have seen some AEW people kind of wrestle elsewhere. So who knows?"
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- Wrestlenomics reports that the sixth episode of Heels on Starz was watched live or same-day by 93,000 viewers on Sunday. This marks the first time that the show has seen an increase in viewership week-to-week.
- AEW Rampage just before Full Gear is slated to take over the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fightful select first broke the news about Full Gear heading to Minnesota.
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— J U L I A (@TheJuliaHart) September 21, 2021
- CM Punk is letting the fans choose their preferred gear style for him.
Choose your own adventure…
— player/coach (@CMPunk) September 21, 2021
- Speaking on the Wrestling Winedown podcast, Righteous Reg explains how the Black Wrecellence 500 came to be and details his research process.
I've been watching Wrestling for a long time. I watch wrestling, more wrestling than anybody else on the planet shit. Wrestling is on all day wrestling is on right now as we're having this conversation. Wrestling is just probably when I'm making music, wrestling's in the background. Wrestling is always on. I've been I've been to nine live WrestleManias I've been to more live wrestling shows than I can count, and I've been inside of a wrestling ring. Wrestling has been my entire life for a really long time.
So coming up with initial list that's kind of how I built upon it. I was like, Well can I build this was how many wrestlers how many black wrestlers do I know I knew like 100 just like off my brain. So research for the original 250 took three days. That was just like me -- 100 wrestlers that I knew offhand. Then just going through every other independent wrestler I know like just going through all the means online to try to find these people and so after the initial list every day is a search for black wrestler. I'm searching for black wrestler on Twitter every day. If I see it like it's out there, online, great. If I see something dope, I'm gonna retweet it, so every single day is something for the list but this year it was from like August 1 until it came out that I just like worked on it.
Sat down with names with all these recommendations I've got over the years. So I'm putting out tweets like, 'I'm about to start doing this list. Who do you guys think might be a good fit? Or you know, something that's not not on the radar. So compiling all these different things to get together, probably took a month this year to really get the list to where it needs to be.
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- Netflix has released the official trailer for "Escape The Undertaker," an interactive WWE film that is set to featuring The New Day. It will release on 10/5.
“The Undertaker has set a trap for the decorated tag team The New Day at his mansion. What they don’t know: The Undertaker’s mansion is an extreme Haunted House, packed to the brim with supernatural challenges. It’s up to viewers to decide the fate of these three poor souls trying to survive the wrath of The Undertaker.”
- BetOnline.AG has updated betting odds for AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam.
Kenny Omega (c) vs Bryan Danielson
Kenny Omega -300 (1/3)
Bryan Danielson +200 (2/1)
Dr. Britt Baker (c) vs Ruby Soho
Dr. Britt Baker -500 (1/5)
Ruby Soho +300 (3/1)
Cody Rhodes vs Malakai Black
Cody Rhodes -120 (5/6)
Malakai Black -120 (5/6)
MJF vs Brian Pillman Jr.
MJF -500 (1/5)
Brian Pillman Jr. +300 (3/1)
FTR vs Sting & Darby Allin
FTB -250 (2/5)
Sting & Darby Allin +170 (17/10)
- Mark Henry recently did an interview with Q104.
- Speaking with AP, Tony Khan spoke about the good problem he has regarding having such a happy roster in All Elite Wrestling.
"I think that’s a good problem for any organization to have when you have a deep bench. We have a very deep bench right now. I try to rotate who wrestles on television and give TV time to different wrestlers so we have a lot of people with momentum and can switch out the matches and keep things fresh. I think that serves you well in sports, too, when you can rotate and rest people and give experience to young talent and develop people and also rest your veterans so they don’t have to go out and do it every single week."
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- Speaking with Cageside Seats' Shakiel Mahjouri, EC3 explains life as a "good soldier" in WWE.
“There was I guess a blind allegiance to my corporate employer at the time and there was probably feigning of happiness because I was in theory living my dream, so to speak,” he tells Cageside Seats’ Shakiel Mahjouri. “With Impact, getting the opportunity, becoming the world champion, becoming a mainstay and a top name there. Going to NXT... having fun, having a good run until the eventual hellish landscape callup.”
He added, “There was happiness and I don’t want to say purpose because that’s what I’m going for now, but there was a sense of wellbeing that I was doing the right things. But when you do the right things — this is something I often tell younger talent — when you’re doing the right things, when you’re a good soldier, you’re gonna be the first in line to get shot. So being a good soldier for that company, they had no problem shooting me. Frontlines and that’s fine, that’s okay. As a person, as a character, we all know the best wrestling characters are extensions of their real-life personality.”
- Survivor Series tickets and tickets for the Monday Night Raw following Survivor Series will go on sale this Friday, September 24. The events are scheduled to take place at Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York. Bound for Glory tickets will also go on sale that day.
- Speaking with Dr. Chris Mueller of Bleacher Report, Bryan Danielson explained how his wife, Brie Bella, felt about him going to AEW.
“Brie's great. She literally just wanted me to be happy," Danielson said. "She was always like 'Hey, whatever you decide, I want to 100 percent support you.' So there was never any pressure from her being like 'Hey, this might affect Total Bellas' or anything like that. She never wants to even talk about that. She was like 'I just want you to be happy.' And so I'm a very lucky man to have such a supportive wife."
- When the market closed today, WWE stock was trading at $55.72 per share. This was an increase of 1.72% from the last time the market closed.
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