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** WWE SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis was invited back onto Insight with Chris Van Vliet. He heaped praise onto Chelsea Green and said it’s a night off working with her on-screen. He added that producers in the company enjoy working with Chelsea. Aldis served as a producer prior to taking on the G.M. role.
I mean, it’s a night off (working with Chelsea Green). It’s great. You don’t have to think very hard because she’s just gonna give you endless material. What a great example of maximizing your minutes. What a great example of taking something that a lot of people would have seen that particular opportunity — we’ve had conversations that kind of tiptoe around this actually with each other because Chelsea and I have known each other a long time. We’re around the same age, we’ve sort of been in a lot of the same places. We’ve had quite similar career paths in some respects, and I think for her, there was this thing of like, will I ever get the shot on the main show? And then it comes and I’m sure that this probably isn’t what she first had in mind. I don’t want to speak for her but I would venture to say that what she’s doing, it probably isn’t what she envisioned a long time ago. But man, has she taken this and run with it… She’s one of the producers’ favorite talents to work with; I’ll say that. She is business. She is business.
** There’s an extensive chat with Kofi Kingston on the New York Post website. Kingston opened up about the struggles New Day faced early on in their run. He mentioned that they were fighting back against writers and comments from their peers.
I think we (New Day) didn’t know if the gimmick itself was going to work as it was, but we always knew that we were going to be successful. We always had the utmost confidence that by coming together and people experiencing our chemistry that they were either going to love us or they were going to hate us, but we were going to succeed no matter what. We’ve always had that mentality, but to see where people were booing us out of the building, literally telling us that we sucked after having, like, six to eight months of trying our hardest to form something, to get onto TV. As much as we described it over the years, of how hard and difficult it was to get in front of the camera and to have the red light on to be on TV, like, it doesn’t even do it justice what the actual struggle was. To be fighting against the writers, trying to get in there, to be fighting against our own peers who are looking at us like, why are you guys always hanging out together? Why are you dressing up the same way? We’re trying to do something special. A lot of people didn’t understand what was going on. It was an uphill battle, but we knew, as long as we had each other that we were going to be successful. Winning the WWE Championship was my childhood dream. And if I don’t come across E and Woods, if we don’t cross paths and do what we do then that doesn’t happen. Big E becoming WWE Champion, if we’re all not in sync, lockstep together, building ourselves and being entertaining, that doesn’t happen. Woods, becoming King of the Ring, that’s his lifelong dream. And to me, that’s almost more impressive than becoming WWE Champion, because the Kings of the Ring… that’s a really, really small club, and we don’t have that tournament every year. To be in the tournament is a big deal. To win, it is a huge deal. We’re still out here pushing. We’re still trying to see how we can challenge ourselves, see what threshold we can cross, see what records we can bring.
** As Bret Hart was the focus of a stage show that was hosted by Johnny I Pro Show, he revealed that Curt Hennig (Mr. Perfect) delayed taking time off for a back injury so they could have their Intercontinental Title match at SummerSlam 1991.
Well, the backstory to the match with Curt (Hennig) was that he had hurt his back really badly. That’s why I think they were trying to take the belt off him because his back was really bad and then they told him they were gonna make the decision that they were gonna change the belt at SummerSlam and he was getting his back — at that time, he was gonna get surgery on his back. But when he found out that it was me that he was gonna drop the belt to, he said, ‘I will be there no matter what.’
** Dragongate Japan Pro-Wrestling results (11/19/24) from J: COM Holt Hall Oita in Oita, Japan
– Ben-K, Riiita & Mochizuki Jr. def. Madoka Kikuta, Ryoya Tanaka & Mejio Kid
– Genki Horiguchi & Ho Ho Lun def. Hyo & Punch Tominaga
– King of Gate C Block Match: BIGBOSS Shimizu (2) def. Jason Lee (0)
– KAI, ISHIN & Homare def. Don Fujii, Yasushi Kanda & Skull Reaper A-ji
– King of Gate A Block Match: Luis Mante (5) def. Kota Minoura (4)
– YAMATO, Susumu Yokosuka & Kagetora def. Kzy, Flamita & U-T
– King of Gate C Block: Dragon Dia (2) def. Strong Machine J
** At ComplexCon, Adrian Hernandez chatted with Rey Mysterio.
** A video piece on Chelsea Green via Global News.
** November 19 birthday(s): Elizabeth Hulette (Miss Elizabeth) and Risa Sera.
** A brief chat with The Great Khali.
** Xavier Woods was interviewed by Collider.
** Joining McGuire on Wrestling was Raj Dhesi a.k.a. Jinder Mahal.
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