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Post by srossi on Jan 18, 2023 4:43:37 GMT
In addition to acknowledging Jay Briscoe’s death on-air, the show itself was changed as the news came in. The New Day were booked to have a mock funeral on the show, and Shawn Michaels personally delayed and then re-wrote the segment in real time as he himself first found out about the death just as they were going on the air live.
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Post by srossi on Jan 18, 2023 5:47:45 GMT
While talking about the NXT Anonymous angle (think GTV but on Twitter), Booker went off on an old WWE star: “We had a name for those people back in the day, guys that were going around filming stuff. We called them a Stasiak and trust me, somebody’s gonna find him and they’re going to Stasiak his ass real soon.” I remember Sean Stasiak had heat but someone’s gonna have to remind me what that was about.
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Post by Kriss on Jan 18, 2023 5:57:45 GMT
While talking about the NXT Anonymous angle (think GTV but on Twitter), Booker went off on an old WWE star: “We had a name for those people back in the day, guys that were going around filming stuff. We called them a Stasiak and trust me, somebody’s gonna find him and they’re going to Stasiak his ass real soon.” I remember Sean Stasiak had heat but someone’s gonna have to remind me what that was about. He was recording conversations in the locker room on a dictaphone.
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Post by srossi on Jan 18, 2023 5:59:39 GMT
While talking about the NXT Anonymous angle (think GTV but on Twitter), Booker went off on an old WWE star: “We had a name for those people back in the day, guys that were going around filming stuff. We called them a Stasiak and trust me, somebody’s gonna find him and they’re going to Stasiak his ass real soon.” I remember Sean Stasiak had heat but someone’s gonna have to remind me what that was about. He was recording conversations in the locker room on a dictaphone. Ah, I remember that now. Thanks. Hilarious that Booker is still hot about it all these years later.
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Post by srossi on Jan 18, 2023 6:13:18 GMT
NXT star Amari Miller revealed in a TikTok post that she attempted suicide last week. She said she’s struggling with mental health issues and is working to take care of it. Miller was just on TV as part of the women’s #1 contender battle royal last week at New Year’s Evil, and she had been regularly appearing on Level Up.
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Post by srossi on Jan 26, 2023 0:46:59 GMT
Nikkita Lyons will be missing significant time with a torn ACL/meniscus.
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Post by srossi on Feb 5, 2023 0:26:46 GMT
NXT has announced a working agreement with Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling promotion. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Ivy Nile is the first NXT star announced for a show, and there will be opportunities for Booker’s students to get PC tryouts and NXT jobber spots.
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Post by Kriss on Feb 5, 2023 9:57:25 GMT
NXT has announced a working agreement with Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling promotion. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Ivy Nile is the first NXT star announced for a show, and there will be opportunities for Booker’s students to get PC tryouts and NXT jobber spots. A strange one. The Reality of Wrestling twitter announced the agreement and said more matches would be coming, but the Observer reported this from the after-show press conference last night: "When asked about NXT wrestlers possibly doing independent dates moving forward following the news that Ivy Nile would be working Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling promotion, Michaels said that the booking was just "a one night deal". He said it was just something where they were helping Booker T out with his upcoming show."
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Post by srossi on Feb 5, 2023 17:18:39 GMT
Dijak dislocated his middle finger in his show-stealing match with Wes Lee at Vengeance Day last night. X-rays showed it wasn’t broken and shortly after this picture was taken, it was popped back into place. Attachments:
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Post by benlen on Feb 8, 2023 5:14:26 GMT
Looks like Toxic Attraction had their Rockers moment. Dolin being slammed into the DING DONG doorway and then kicked in the face looked like it hurt.
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Post by srossi on Feb 8, 2023 14:14:01 GMT
Looks like Toxic Attraction had their Rockers moment. Dolin being slammed into the DING DONG doorway and then kicked in the face looked like it hurt. It was silly to break them up already. I don't know if the act could've stayed over without Mandy Rose, but they never really tried. Now they're just 2 more women of very limited wrestling ability on the roster.
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Post by kargol on Feb 9, 2023 0:06:25 GMT
Funny namedrop from Thea Hail suggesting that Dr Shelby is now teaching anger management at Chase U.
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Post by srossi on Feb 10, 2023 16:37:39 GMT
JD McDonagh is out of action with a detached retina.
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Post by srossi on Feb 10, 2023 23:11:32 GMT
WWE has hired Blake Chadwick (who will now be known as Blake Howard) as a new commentator on NXT Lvl Up. He has worked as an announcer for Wrestlecade and a score of small indies, so it’s a different type of hire for WWE, who rarely hires indy commentators.
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Post by Kriss on Feb 11, 2023 8:41:30 GMT
WWE has hired Blake Chadwick (who will now be known as Blake Howard) as a new commentator on NXT Lvl Up. He has worked as an announcer for Wrestlecade and a score of small indies, so it’s a different type of hire for WWE, who rarely hires indy commentators. Have they ever done this before. If you take out ex-wresters who become color commentators, every WWE commentator after Vince and Gorilla came from a legit sports reporting background (or news for Cole) and starts as a backstage interviewer before becoming a commentator. Recently they've taken guys from MMA to varying degrees of success, but they've never taken an indie commentator. And WWE has burned through so many commentators that you can find former WWE commentators everywhere.
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