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** As Dax Harwood was fielding questions for an Instagram Live Q&A, he shared that plans are in motion for what he’ll be doing when his in-ring career is over. The plan is to open a wrestling school with three of his friends and added that there is already a building, equipment and a ring.
So, my plans after being done in the ring are already in motion. I don’t know how much I can tell ya. But I can tell ya that there’s already a ring, there’s already a building, there’s already equipment and the idea is to obviously open a wrestling school with three of my friends. I’ll just leave it at that and you know, hopefully that will allow people to live a 20-year dream just like I did.
Elsewhere during the session, Harwood was asked about CMLL. He said the company can reach out to him and Cash Wheeler because they need another belt.
Well, tell CMLL to give us (FTR) a call. We do need one more belt.
** The debut episode of Huge Pop with Donnie DaSilva and Jimmy Korderas featured an extensive discussion with Mark Henry. As their conversation rolled on, Henry was asked if he thinks he’ll end up having an office role at the WWE Performance Center. Here’s how he responded:
I don’t see it (me working at WWE Performance Center), because usually, you have an inkling about a situation like that and I don’t. I think they realize that what they would have to pay me would — to stop me from doing what I do now and you know, if you’re making $40, $50 grand a month, the last thing they wanna do is have to pay you that much, if you’re not wrestling. I’m sure there’s some people that’s making that kind of money but, you know, didn’t they just clean house? Firing people and stuff. They not just gonna hand out another multi-million-dollar deal. I’m not waiting on it.
Looking back at his in-ring career, Henry told the story of when he saw Vince McMahon fire the late Leon White (Big Van Vader). Henry explained that McMahon did it as a punishment, but he hired White back.
Brother, go back and look at me and Vader. Vader was 417 pounds and they listed him at 450. He felt like he was 450. Brother, that was rough. Moving weight. It’s not a barbell. It was awkward.
No. No (Vader was not helping me out when it came to press slamming him). He didn’t wanna do it, God rest his soul, and… I feel bad because he’s not here to defend himself and I would say this even if he was alive, because I know he would understand. But he didn’t want me to press slam him. So he intentionally dead-assed me, and then Vince (McMahon) told him, ‘We’re gonna do it again tomorrow and if you don’t go up tomorrow, you’re fired,’ and we were in San Diego and I pressed him and then when I put him down, I came to the back, walked through Gorilla, ‘Thank you Mark. Good job. Leon, come here.’ I see him crying. Vince fired him anyway on the spot. Because he sabotaged the show the day before. He just wanted him to come back the next day and do what he wanted him to do. Don’t mess with the old guy… and the thing is I don’t blame him, but he did hire him back. It was a punishment.
** Inside The Ropes rolled out the written version of their chat with Will Ospreay. He recounted a match he had against Drew McIntyre on the U.K. independent scene in 2017. Ospreay said he’d be open to wrestling McIntyre again and he’s kept up with his work.
I remember it super fondly (wrestling Drew McIntyre in 2017). I have nothing but love for Drew and I hope he’s doing well. I haven’t kept in contact with him but I keep up with his work, and hope the same is mutual. If there was ever a chance to throw down, I’d happily do it again. I think it was different as well because I had to work as a bad guy. That’s such a different thing for people because obviously when you see my aerial offense, it is something that you can’t help but cheer. I had to pick those moments very well with those types of matches, and I had to really dictate the pace of that match so that when I did explode in my aerial offense, it was more out of desperation rather than to get a pop from the audience. It wasn’t difficult to put together because we’d wrestled each other beforehand, but I think it was more along the lines of we wanted to tell a bigger story within that building as well… So it was great, I flipping love wrestling with Drew and I’d happily do it any day of the week.
** The newest edition of Developmentally Speaking featured former WWE Performance Center recruit Daniel McArthur. He shared that he ‘shattered’ his hand early on into his time with WWE.
So I had a very different experience during my WWE experience. Within, I think my second month there, I kind of shattered my hand. It was broken about three spots so I had to actually sit out for about four to five months and that kind of set my career back because in that time, it is a company. At the end of the day, I got injured. I was out an extended amount of time. New people came in, we had new people coming into the office and all that. So kind of what was thought and expected of me was then put on the backburner because new people came in and that’s how businesses work, you know? So what was thought and expected from me from, like — I felt from when I first got there versus when I left there was very different.
** ABC News ran a story about Bill Goldberg’s son playing football for the University of Colorado under Deion Sanders. The article covered the friendship between Goldberg and the Pro Football Hall of Famer.
** NXT Champion Ethan Page and WWE Intercontinental Champion Bron Breakker appeared on 9NEWS Denver.
** Jeff Jarrett appeared on Dakota News Now:
** While in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for NWA 76, Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s Candace Cordelia spoke to May Valentine (Mayra Dias Gomes).
** September 3rd birthdays: TJP.
** Adam’s Apple has a brief chat with Rhea Ripley on his YouTube channel.
** McKenzie Mitchell welcomed Chelsea Green onto her Threads show.
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