In news that has left us all absolutely devastated, we're extremely sad to announce the passing of
@LarryCsonka411
. Larry was obviously an icon for his writing, but more importantly, he was an amazing husband and father who had a family that loved him dearly.
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@DaxFTR
on
@davemeltzerWON
: "His star ratings, that’s his opinion. The historian Dave Meltzer, I have a lot of respect for. The journalist who puts out a narrative that him and his buddies want to? Little less than top notch respect from me."
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@ShotziWWE
has her first official WWE T-Shirt, and she’s donating her first month of proceeds to help LGBTQ youths for Pride month.
#ShotziBlackheart
#WWE
NXT
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@MiaYim
revealed to
@LilianGarcia
on Shelton Benjamin helping her: "He pretty much offered up his home for me the minute he found out, immediately he was like I’ll get you a plane ticket, you get out of there, I got you."
#MiaYim
#SheltonBenjamin
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@MickieJames
on new WWE Network shows: "I look at all the specials that we are doing and I know that people want Evolution 2, but what I would really love is a female driven product, like a 205 Live for the women."
AEW has popped up in an unexpected place — namely, the crime comedy Queenpins — and Paul Walter Hauser says they were WWE references that he managed to get changed.
#AEW
#Queenpins
#PaulWalterHauser
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@IAmJericho
on the AEW Owen Hart Cup: "We’re not doing this to capitalize on Owen’s name. I pitched the idea at first because I don’t want Owen Hart’s illustrious, amazing, influential, pioneering career to be defined by the last few seconds of his life."
Dear Kenneth. Perhaps it would have been a good idea to go into these details on your weekly television show, or AEW Dark on Tuesday, or that fancy countdown special that this kind of thing was designed for or that second episode of dark. Just an idea – Csonka
Later tonight:
#AEWFullGear
and a match-up with 13 years of history will decide the
#AEW
Women’s Championship. I couldn’t be more excited.
-268 matches
-32 singles matches (6 title matches)
-Overall, Sakura holds 17 single victories, Riho 15
-Title match record 3-3
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@JRsBBQ
on how Jon Moxley compares to Stone Cold: "Moxley is the closest thing I’ve seen in pro wrestling like Stone Cold [Steve Austin] since Stone Cold. Attitudinal, body english, facial expression, and legitimate intensity. Absolutely phenomenal."
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@MATTHARDYBRAND
on Drew McIntyre's Royal Rumble win: "I think he’s a guy that would make a great champion, and he’s a guy the company can build around. I definitely think he’s a cornerstone of any company he’s in.”
#MattHardy
#DrewMcIntyre
#WWE
Larry Csonka's family has set up a GoFundMe to raise money that will go to supporting his daughters. If you can, please consider making a donation as a way to honor Larry's life and work.
Bret Hart calls out Superstars who thank Triple H and Stephanie McMahon for their Hall of Fame speeches. He says it’s “such bulls***” that Superstars don’t thank the wrestlers who made them. Uncensored Bret Hart is fun Bret Hart.
#STARRCASTII
#BretHart
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@AthenaPalmer_FG
spoke after ROH Supercard of Honor on the ROH women's division: "This is a re-emergence, and I think everyone in my division is proving that they belong here and that we’re gonna make you watch what we do."
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@IAmJericho
on his WWF debut promo: "You [
@THEVinceRusso
] and I and Rock rehearsed it, and that’s it. Nobody saw it until we debuted it in front of millions of people, one of the quote unquote classic promos of all time. Nobody saw it but the three of us.”
Lana
@LanaWWE
on the importance of emotion in wrestling matches: "I think we cannot forget, it can’t just be about the moves. We’re storytellers. We have to have emotion."
#WWE
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@WWETheBigShow
on Becky Lynch: “I always talk about Becky Lynch, but Becky Lynch has inspired me a lot [more] in the past 10 years than any other athlete that I’ve worked with."
Bret Hart says the Freebirds were given a free pass into the WWE Hall of Fame “for being drunk all the time” when Demolition was the tag team in WWE but can’t get recognized due to the concussion lawsuit and politics.
#STARRCASTII
#BretHart
Tessa Blanchard will be returning to the ring for the first time in six months this Saturday for Warrior Wrestling's Stadium Series, which will be streaming live on
@FiteTV
.
#TessaBlanchard
#FITETV
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@IAMJericho
on his favorite recent NJPW Match: "Some guys you click with right away, like Tanahashi, I thought our match was incredible...it was my favorite match that I had in New Japan, even more than the Kenny match.”
Team Megan Fox and Nikki Bella win the
@PUBGMOBILE
match Round 3 to take the game. They beat the team with Artem and Brian Austin Green. Taken at the
#Fight4TheAmazon
event.
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@IAmJericho
on AEW building its audience: "It creates a FoMo effect. ‘Did you see AEW?’ ‘No.’ ‘Listen, you have to watch this. It’s great.’ ‘Really?’ ‘Go check it out. It’s on every Wednesday.’ That’s how you build your brand."
#AEW
#AEWDynamite
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@IAmJericho
on nearly having He-Man be his ringname: "And I was like, ‘I can’t be He-Man. Like, what am I gonna do, walk to the ring with a sword to slice my opponents in two? Behead them for the three-count?��"
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@FlyinBrianJr
on the reaction in AEW to his debut on Dark: "The Brian Cage match was never really supposed to happen, that was, more or less, I’d like to say a reward for doing so well in the first match."
#AEW
#BrianPillmanJr
Tyler Bate on not being disappointed to drop the NXT UK Championship: "If you really care about winning and losing, then professional wrestling isn’t for you...In what we do, it is about the bigger picture and the entertainment side of things."
#WWE
#NXT
While Roman Reigns was not a fan of the controversial Hell in a Cell finish either, he still thinks WWE fans need to have more respect for the Superstars who are going out there to wrestle.
#WWE
#RomanReigns
#HellInACell
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@JRsBBQ
on getting Vince McMahon to sign Steve Austin: "To me, if I were in your position, I would do all I could to learn how to communicate with Steve and earn his trust because I think in the long run, it’s gonna pay off dividends."
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@RealKeithLee
on his future in WWE: "I know that a lot of the fans are interested in seeing Keith Lee mix it up with some of the guys on Raw and Smackdown. And I think at the end of the day, I am a competitor. So I want to go where the competition is..."
Bayley wants intergender wrestling to return to WWE: "With things happening like Nia Jax in the Men’s Royal Rumble there’s a possibility there and I would love any part of that."
#Bayley
#WWE
#RAW
#WWEFastlane
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@AJFrancis410
held a food drive this weekend to help benefit homeless children at Sarah's House, and 15 full shopping carts of food were collected to feed homeless children for the entire holiday season.
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@LanceHoyt
on learning from Jake Roberts: "I’m coming up on 21 years in wrestling, so there’s always still something you can learn. Being with somebody like Jake “The Snake” Roberts, it’s been invaluable, to say the least."
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@RealKurtAngle
on Christian Cage: "Christian is one of the most underrated professional wrestlers of all time. He should already be in the Hall of Fame. That’s how good he was. I think someday he will be, but I just think he’s been underappreciated.”
I have already seen tonight's Impact Throwback Throwdown (via media screener), it's as ridiculous as it is amazing, and I mean that in the best way possible - Csonka
Bayley hates seeing all the talent released in the WWE roster cuts this year go, but Tyler Breeze’s release hit her particularly hard.
#Bayley
#TylerBreeze
#WWE
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@JRsBBQ
on the Austin 3:16 promo: "It wasn’t scripted. Austin didn’t do scripts. It was good. It was really good. It was so monumental on so many fronts, but Austin was anointed at that point in time."