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@sam_gradwell

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Striking. Worthy of attention. Remarkable.

Joined December 2015
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
I’ll Stand.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
We have a little girl ❤️
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
And... WWE had absolutely no obligation to look after me through this recovery, (my first contract even expired just as I got a surgery date) but they have, extremely well. I never had to worry about supporting my family while I was laid up, and that debt can never be repaid.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
I was going to pop down to a local wrestling school tonight, but all my WWE and NXTUK clothing is in the wash so there’d be no point
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
Hearing fans chanting “we want tables” at two wrestlers giving their absolute all in the ring just drives home the fact that nothing will ever be enough for some people and we shouldn’t kill ourselves trying to satisfy the unsatisfiable.
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Sam Gradwell
1 year
One promo class at the UK performance centre, William Regal asked Adrian Street if he had “any critique” for the lads. Adrian misheard & replied, “My physique?” and proceeded to give us his waist & chest measurements, followed by an impromptu two hours of stories. Rest in peace
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Inabit yoghurts
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Filming homeless people as you hand them a small lifeline and putting it online for a pat on the back might be the most disgusting trend that social media has birthed.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Mrs Browns Boys won best comedy at the National Television awards. Never EVER try and tell me that the British public was qualified to vote for Brexit.
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
In my day I used to arise from my bed of nails at 2am, cut a promo on my wife, eat a bowl of tarmac, work 12hrs down the mill, do 500 squats whilst cooking egg whites using my hand as the frying pan, set up the ring, wrestle 2hrs and as payment the promoter would set me on fire.
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Sam Gradwell
3 years
I turned up at a WWE tryout in 2014, out of my depth, William Regal pulled me aside & told me he saw something in me. From that day on, he did everything he could to try to help me develop into the man and performer I am today, & I hope that’ll continue regardless of where he is.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Honestly, you should SEE what I’ve become. Abnormal intelligence, maximum testosterone, high bone density. September 23rd, I’m a free agent.
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Sam Gradwell
1 year
In NXTUK @jd_mcdonagh would finish his in-ring session, jump straight into a second one, stay behind to help anybody who wanted it, then hit a weights & cardio session with me at night. He also agented matches on the same shows that he was putting on MOTY candidates. A true bull.
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Sam Gradwell
3 years
Success!!! 🤟🤟🤟 Pretty Deadly, your ass is grass!
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Last episode of NXTUK tonight. From tryouts, tournaments, takeovers, quarantines, empty studios, & everything in between. We worked our bollocks off, pushed each other, kept each other sane & created some of the best wrestling on television. Proud of all of us.
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Sam Gradwell
7 years
A year ago a group of wrestlers brought Wrestling back to Mainstream TV for a night & started a chain reaction leading to the best year British Wrestling has had for decades without them benefitting the way they deserved to. Respect & appreciation to all of them, here's to 2018
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Sam Gradwell
8 months
How often do you get back from your match and a hammered Les Battersby is waiting for you with a beer to congratulate you on your win? “I thought you lads were gonna fuckin kill each other!” Life is a fever dream.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
You are not entitled to destroy somebody.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Sept 23rd onwards. 13 years wrestling, 5 years with WWE working on & off screen. Shows, seminars, marriage counselling/disrupting. I can also tame an unruly ferret, but it’s not an overnight process & it’ll cost you. Book a date with oblivion: samgradwellbookings @gmail .com
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
#NXTUKTakeOver Today is our Christmas
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
❤️
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Why does Hancock look like he’s about to go for an RKO?
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Sam Gradwell
4 months
Started therapy today, and I am also now a clean, sober man. Might be the last time I’ll post about it, but putting things out there into the universe helps and motivates me, so here we are.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
It’s going to be a majestic night in a majestic town. Get on #NXTUKTakeOver in 45 minutes on the WWE NETWORK!
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
There’s a difference between criticism and abuse. Fans who use this forum to critique, review and discuss what they do and don’t like about their chosen entertainment don’t deserve to be tarred with the same brush as bullies, trolls and abusers.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
I hope wrestling hasn’t seen the last of Bodhi Hayward
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@sam_gradwell
Sam Gradwell
5 years
This account 👏
@wweontnt
WWE on TNT Sports
5 years
You know Micheal Jackson isn’t really dead don’t you? It’s in a book. He faked his death to wrestle in Brazil on small Indy shows.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
The sequel. Coming soon.
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Sam Gradwell
4 months
British Wrestling is alive and well
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Catch the ups and downs (I’m in a lift) of #NXTUK at 8pm tonight on the WWE Network.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Untitled female baby manufactured by me ❤️
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Sam Gradwell
6 months
Say what you want, most of it justified, but NXTUK made EVERYONE better.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Royal Rumble 98 is the best rumble.
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Sam Gradwell
3 years
I am evolving, week by week into something the world isn’t NEARLY ready for
@WWE
WWE
3 years
😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 UNBELIEVABLE! @sam_gradwell has just put the entire #NXTUK roster on notice!
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
They said I couldn’t do it. I sure showed them
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Leon Grey
5 years
Congratulations on becoming the new NXT UK Women’s Champ @sam_gradwell ! Proud of you dude!
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
For all the lazy wrestlers who don’t go to the gym using Andy Ruiz’s physique as an excuse
@AustAmpeloquio
AUSTIN AMPELOQUIO
5 years
Andy Ruiz was never unathletic..let’s just make that clear. 260+ and more agile than a lot of middleweights out there.
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Sam Gradwell
7 months
Promoter: Budget is tight can you lower your fee? I know you’re at your day job but can you do a promo by 4pm, retweet this every day, get to the venue by 10am for set-up, are you a team player? Wrestlers: Any chance of the footage or promo shots from the show? Promoter: LOL.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Honestly, if it wasn’t for seeing @KaneWWE on my screen as a kid, I don’t know that I’d ever have ended up getting into wrestling. Same story for so many of my generation. Thank you. Hall of Fame is beyond deserved.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
The day of the first UK Championship tournament, WWE mistakenly tweeted that I was only 17 years old, and based solely on that, there’s a small section of people who think I’m doing really well for my age. They’re the kind of fans I want.
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Sam Gradwell
3 years
RIP Daffney. Reach out, reply to that message, answer that call, don’t let each other be alone.
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
When I was 13, I made and put up posters around my local area for a wrestling show, I didn’t book the venue, a ring, or any wrestlers, I pretty much just forgot about it. Then apparently ten people showed up on the night expecting an extravangza, which confused the venue staff
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
We are officially on the countdown to @NXTUK Takeover Cardiff. This Saturday 7pm on the WWE Network, get on it
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Massive night of #NXTUK here, I’m taking the night off, I’ve still got a moderate headache from being repeatedly elbowed in the noggin during a pathetic paddy from an overgrown baboon-child. But look at all this you’ve got to look forward to you lucky buggers!
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Sam Gradwell
2 months
For the most part lads are getting paid like shit. Decent quality footage & pictures in order to promote themselves are what makes a gig worth it. Give your talent a login to your on demand, give them a link to their promo & live pictures, you’re just another pisspot otherwise
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Stone Cold is the greatest of all time. There’s absolutely no convincing me otherwise, certainly not today #316Day
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
I don’t want to see any TikToks unless they’re of this calibre
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
Knock, knock! Who’s there? It’s #NXTUK 👊🏻
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Amale is the best French/Moroccan person I know ⭐️
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NXT UK
2 years
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
I’m well and truly blessed to have a twitter feed full of folk who know more about my contract than I do. What would I do without you? ❤️
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Tyler Bate Vs Walter can sit at the table with HBK vs Bret, Austin vs The Rock, Flair vs Steamboat and not be out of place. An undeniable, genuine modern day classic. Take an in depth look at this match on this weeks NXTUK.
@NXTUK
NXT UK
5 years
Relive @WalterAUT & @Tyler_Bate 's epic collision at #NXTUKTakeOver : Cardiff 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 THIS WEEK on #NXTUK !
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Sam Gradwell
3 years
Be Kind. * unless it’s someone signed to a major company, someone who’s ever made a decision I disagree with, someone with a blue tick on their profile, someone the world of Twitter has deemed it ok to publicly bash or someone who is disliked by the group I’m trying to impress
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Mental
@WWENetwork
WWE Network
5 years
NEXT WEEK. @UNBESIEGBAR_ZAR ARRIVES. #NXTUK
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Got to have my son watch me wrestle live for the first time tonight ❤️
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
I am in love with the identity that #NXTUK has carved out for itself since moving to BT Sports studios
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Notice he didn’t say yes to the custody papers on a pole suggestion. Can’t be that confident can he?
@NXTUK
NXT UK
4 years
Sounds like the Thunderstorm's ongoing quips landed him in some deep water on #NXTUK ! Are we going to see @UNBESIEGBAR_ZAR vs. @sam_gradwell in a #NoDQMatch ?!
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Sam Gradwell
1 year
TV license people have been sending me letters for two years saying they’re sending someone round. Come on dickheads, I’m getting impatient. I’ve got dry ice and an iPod docking station by the door on standby with Goldberg’s music ready so I can burst out swinging mad combos
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Day 1 of gyms being closed. Not so bad.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Wrestlers who p*ss all over the toilet seat backstage and don’t clean up after themselves should be blacklisted.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Tell you what’s mad, when I started wrestling training 10 years ago, nobody in class even knew British Indy wrestling existed before they came to training. Now, every trainee shows up wearing British wrestlers merch and their ambition is to be British Indy wrestlers. Pretty cool
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
5 years in 2 minutes and 20 seconds, kind of. Nice one, onto the next chapter 🤟
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
You could explain to a non-believer all day about why pro wrestling is so great, or you could just show them this. Nice one @Jordan_Devlin1 ! 🔥
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Two things I made
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
I shared a dressing room with Roman Reigns in Dublin for a WWE Live Event this year, he watched my match and was incredibly generous with his time and advice. He spoke to me with such humility that it was easy to forget that I was talking to one of the biggest stars on the globe.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Absolutely unreal. Stop the earth now. #NXTTakeOverCardiff
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Support mental health. Not only when it’s the popular wandwagon.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
I am playing Ilja Dragunov like a fiddle. His family are likely very embarrassed. They may even leave him during the night. Or just sneak off while he’s shadow boxing.
@NXTUK
NXT UK
4 years
There's a score to be settled between @UNBESIEGBAR_ZAR & @sam_gradwell ... inside the #NXTUK ring!
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
The only difference between you and the refugee you loathe so much is luck. Nothing more. The household on the patch of land that you just so happened to be born into does not give you license to dehumanise anybody.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
When I was 12 or 13 my Dad paid me a tenner to take the rap from his wife for his browser history. He’s had 15 years of silence, now I’m speaking up.
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Giving my Nana & Grandad a penis pump for their 60th wedding anniversary
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Sam Gradwell
1 year
12 months of free agency
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
WWE Network in 15 minutes time 5pm tomorrow on @btsportwwe This is special
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
I urge everyone to watch Prime Target on the WWE Network tonight. When I was growing up in Blackpool dreaming of getting signed by WWE, I had no idea how significant and special my hometown would be in the journey of so many. #NXTUK Takeover Blackpool 2 will be something else
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Sam Gradwell
7 years
At 6:15pm today, my little boy, Teddy Albert Gradwell was born, 7lbs6oz. Quite possibly the best day of my life
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Sam Gradwell
1 year
Not ashamed to say tears have been shed. In the building where this journey started for me, I’m proud as f**k to have main evented the @GrandPro 20th anniversary show against one of the best this country has ever produced & even prouder to be the new GPW heavyweight champion ⛈️
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Sam Gradwell
1 year
❤️
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
If you’ve ever found yourself in @tonistorm_ ‘s message requests, just know that I’ve seen it and have laughed very loudly at you.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Noam Dar vs Ilja Dragunov. If any wrestlers are feeling unmotivated about the idea of wrestling for no live crowd, watch this match 🔥
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Another day closer to @NXTUK Takeover Cardiff. Everyone is excited.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Yeah lads, it’s MY behaviour that’s the concern 🙄
@NXTUK
NXT UK
4 years
NEXT WEEK on #NXTUK @UNBESIEGBAR_ZAR speaks. (Will @sam_gradwell be on his best behavior?)
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Any time I see a tweet start with “Had a lot of people ask” I already know you’re lying
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
Boss Tag team action to kick off #NXTUK , Kenny Williams and Amir Jordan are an infectiously feel-good pair. Marcel and Fabian proper snide with Amir throughout
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
My PIN number is 2336. I challenge anyone to fight me for my bank card
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
They should put this up in spray tan shops as a guide. “On a scale of Bird to Beano, how tanned would you like to be?”
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Sam Gradwell
10 months
Let’s change “Wrestler X should be booked everywhere” to “Wrestler X should be booked and getting paid a wage that’ll cover more than their dinner at a service station on the way home”
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Sam Gradwell
2 years
Just main evented in front of a few thousand people in Pakistan, sound. 🇵🇰
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
1st WWE promo shot and most recent. I may not have been active in-ring this last year, but I defy anyone to try and tell me that the work hasn’t been put in. 2020👊🏻
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
There comes a time in every fathers life where he must test his child’s equilibrium. (Wait for the walk)
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Just picking Ted up from Nursery
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Sam Gradwell
3 years
...... @Ukjamesmason is a terrible coach.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Honestly, if you see somebody being deservedly honoured with an award for genuine great things they’ve done and your response is to rudely reply with who you think should’ve gotten the award instead, I fear that you are so utterly socially inept that there is no hope for you
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Sam Gradwell
6 years
#NXTUK time!!
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Sam Gradwell
1 year
Don’t trust anyone who tells you not to discuss your wage with your peers.
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
#NXTUK is getting underway right now on the WWE Network. These package shows have been nothing short of excellent. Thank you to everyone top to bottom who’s kept our brand alive through these crazy times, this is the last stop before we return next week. Get on it!!
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Sam Gradwell
3 years
Teddy accidentally deleted my completed saved game on Super Mario 3D World and he was devastated about it, I spent a week completing it again for him so he can freely visit every level and he’s gone and deleted it again. If he wants to see Cat Bowser again he can do it himself.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
Halloween shopping 🎃
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Sam Gradwell
4 years
Trust the process. To the untrained eye, I’d let myself go in the first picture, but in reality I’d committed myself to a mass gaining phase to put on muscle that I lacked and felt I needed to have a better chance of success. I’ve no excuse for that hair though.
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Sam Gradwell
5 years
This is Pro Wrestling being done beautifully by some of the best in the world. This is what I fell in love with as a child. It’s mind blowing to see my mates creating these moments for a new generation.
@Lin_Manuel
Lin-Manuel Miranda
5 years
@miss_alaina Whole night was AWESOME. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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