Daily Update: Dustin Rhodes, new AEW trademark, Lex Luger
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- The Godfather details attending Vince McMahon’s 80th birthday party
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- Ronda Rousey says wrestling is ‘pretty much’ in her rearview mirror
- Josh Alexander reveals his dream opponent ahead of AEW Dynamite
- Matt Riddle responds to allegations he no-showed charity wrestling event
- AEW moves up All Out start time, no longer head-to-head with WWE Wrestlepalooza
- AEW announces details of PPV availability & launch date on HBO Max
- TNA announces Hardys-Dudleys ‘Final Negotiation’
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Wednesday Update
WWE
- WWE uploaded the full segment with DIY returning to NXT last night to confront Trick Williams.
- Ricky Saints posted a brief tweet acknowledging that today is the two-year anniversary of his AEW All Out 2023 strap match against Bryan Danielson: “What day to remember. [dragon emoji]”
- Going Ringside spoke with NXT Champion Oba Femi, who said he would like to see WWE come back to Africa at some point:
- 1000 percent, yeah. I still think the market is very untapped. I don’t know if they know how crazy people go for this company over there, but all they need is one show to make them realize. I’m sure there is [cultural concerns], but it’s not anything that you can’t find out. You can always fix fear of the unknown.
- Denise Salcedo asked Lex Luger if he keeps up with the current product and if he has any favorite wrestlers:
- I don’t sit down like all the time and watch everything, but I definitely want to be up to speed on what’s going on, for sure. I love it.
- Man, there’s so many good ones, obviously. Cody [Rhodes], I love him. My association with his father – and that’s the first thing that pops in my mind. There’s so many great talents.
- What blows my mind now are the women. I mean, what they do in the ring now. A lot of times their matches are way better than the guys. I don’t know if it’s their gymnastics background or their cheerleading – but, man, they do unbelievable stuff. I love watching a lot of their matches now.
- Salcedo also has an interview with Ron Simmons.
Other Wrestling
- Dustin Rhodes gave an update on his recovery from double knee replacement surgery:
- Today marks 2 wks since surgury. Don’t really know how I was doing it these last 5 yrs. Knees were destroyed. Dressing off finally. I look forward to a slow and methodical rehab. Slow and steady. Thank yall for all of your support and prayers. God has it under control.
- AEW filed a trademark for “The Swirl” on September 2. It’s the tag team name of Blake Christian & Lee Johnson.
- Along with the regular Thursday TV episode on Honor Club, ROH will air a special YouTube episode this Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern.
- Lee Moriarty will defend his ROH Pure title against Josh Woods at Action Dean 3 in Philadelphia this Saturday.
- In an interview with The Escapist, Ric Flair named the top three cities that he loved wrestling in:
- Tokyo would be top, then Chicago, and in the old days, Greensboro, North Carolina. Tokyo was insane. I’ve been there 68 times. It’s diluted now, but when it was just All Japan and New Japan. It was unbelievable.
- Flair discussed his in-ring chemistry with Randy Savage:
- No, we had terrible chemistry. He wanted to rehearse and I didn’t rehearse. I only did it for WrestleMania. Instead of having a week off, I had to come to Tampa and wrestle for three hours a day with him to memorize a match. And that just wasn’t my style. You have to feel the crowd.
- A Lightning match (10-minute time limit) between Satoshi Kojima and Mr. Thomas has been booked for the TV taping portion of MLW’s Fightland event in North Richland Hills, Texas on September 13.
- TMZ’s Inside the Ring podcast interviewed Matt Riddle about the controversy where he’s been accused of no-showing a charity event in the United Kingdom.
- Rampage Jackson was on The Ariel Helwani Show today discussing the incident between his son Raja Jackson and Syko Stu.
- Frankie Kazarian spoke with WrestlingNewsCo ahead of TNA’s events in Minneapolis this week.
- Cheeseburger remembered Hana Kimura on what would have been her birthday:
- Happy 28th Birthday Hana-Chan. I miss you everyday! Hug your loved ones close everyday and tell your people you love them before they’re gone!
- It pains me to know that Hana would 100% be wrestling weekly on TV for WWE or AEW right now
