Monthly Archives: July 2022

Lawler On Being on WWE’s ‘No Touch List,’ Being Told He’d Be a Liability If He Wrestled

On the latest Jerry Lawler Show, Lawler discussed his not being allowed to wrestle for WWE due to his heart attack in 2012. Lawler’s on-air heart attack is the stuff of legend at this point, and while he has competed for indy companies since WWE won’t let him be in physical angles or matches.
Lawler said that it was hard for him to not be allowed to do so, but that he understands due to liability concerns. Highlights are below:
On the Authors of Pain down attacking Samoa Joe: “When they come over and confronted him, I just felt like — of course, they’ve got me on what you call the ‘No touch list’ or something like that. I guess they think that I’ll have a — you know, die on the air again or something if I have any kind of physicality with anybody … I wanted to tell those guys, the AOP guys when they were coming over to the table, or when Brock Lesnar was coming over the table. I just wanna say, ‘Guys. I beat death. I’m not afraid of you.’”
On trying to get back to work after his cardiac arrest: “But, yeah, coming back from the heart attack was — I don’t like to say heart attack. Coming back from the cardiac arrest, I mean, it was difficult [because] I just kept trying to convince everybody that I was okay and ready to come back. And still to this day, you know, the people in the WWE still feel like that’s not the case, they worry about me. They keep me on the, you know, ‘No touch list’ and all of that kind of thing.”
On being told that he would be a liability to WWE if he got in the ring: “We’ve talked about this before. You know, the doctors told [his girlfriend] Lauren, ‘Oh, we can’t clear him to go back into the ring, because he’s like a liability to the company.’ Whereas I — and I told Lauren, ‘Well, you gotta understand. Here’s a guy, you know, here I am. I had a cardiac arrest, I died on nationwide network TV. Once I’m back and ready to go again, if they grant my request and they just say, ‘Okay, we’ll let you decide what you think is best,’ and they let me go out there and wrestle again. If something did, God forbid, something did happen again? It would be like a PR disaster for the company. Twitter would blow up. ‘Oh, you know, this company. What a bunch of money-hungry people to put a poor guy that has a heart condition or something back into the ring.’ Even though I’m the one that’s making that decision. Even though I’m the one that wants to do it.”Click Here: New Zealand All Blacks Jerseys

When Matt Hardy’s WWE contract expires

According to PWInsider, Matt Hardy’s current deal with WWE is set to expire on Mar. 1. The reported hurdle between the two sides is not money, but rather how Hardy will be used moving forward. 
Hardy has been releasing “Free The Delete” videos on his YouTube channel, which has chronicled the potential return of Broken Matt Hardy. 
As far as Jeff is concerned, his contract will not expire on that date due to his injuries and legal issues. Jeff has a court date on Jan. 13 for his latest DWI arrest. WWE has pushed Jeff to address his personal health and Jeff has reportedly begun doing so.Click Here: maori all blacks shop

NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool II live today on the WWE Network

NXT UK is back with another Takeover live today on the WWE Network titled Takeover: Blackpool II. The show will take place from the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, England. The full card is as follows:
Walter vs Joe Coffey for the WWE United Kingdom title; Gallus vs Imperium vs Grizzled Young Veterans vs Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster in a fatal 4-way tag team ladder match for the NXT UK Tag Team titles; Kay Lee Ray vs Toni Storm vs Piper Niven in a triple threat match for the NXT UK Women’s title; Trent Seven vs Eddie Dennis; Tyler Bate vs Jordan Devlin.
The show, airing exclusively on the WWE Network, starts at 5PM local time / Noon ET / 9AM PT. A 30-minute pre-show will start at 5:30PM local time. This is the first Takeover airing on a Sunday rather than on a Saturday.Click Here: Leonardo Bonucci Jersey Sale

Wrestlemania updates for AJ Styles and Ronda Rousey

– Dave Meltzer said that Ronda Rousey is not scheduled for this year’s WrestleMania in Tampa, FL. Rousey will be on Corey Graves’ After The Bell podcast Thursday.
– Meltzer also reports that AJ Styles is optimistically four-to-six weeks away from a full recovery. Styles was injured taking a bump off an Edge spear at Sunday’s WWE Royal Rumble, reportedly separating his shoulder in the process.
The current WrestleMania card for both announced and expected matches is as follows:
* WWE Champion Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre
* WWE Universal Champion Bray Wyatt vs. Roman Reigns
* NXT Champion Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair
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Impact Bringing Back Ultimate X For TNA Reunion

IMPACT Wrestling announced the Ultimate X match will be returning at TNA – There’s No Place Like Home. Participants for the match have no been announced. 

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Booker T Shares His Thoughts on the Lesnar/Riddle Incident, Offers Advice to Riddle

During this week’s Booker T Hall of Fame podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T discussed the recent rumors of Matt Riddle having a backstage altercation with WWE World Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble last Sunday.
Below are some highlights.
Booker T on the Matt Riddle/Brock Lesnar situation:
“When you see that kind of stuff, you can say, ‘Man. This kid really got a problem.’ But they did a package on Matt Riddle. Keith Lee was in the package as well, and it was these young guys arriving to the arena, looking at the sight of, ‘Man. This is it. This the Rumble. We gonna be in it!’ And he was asked a question about Brock Lesnar, obviously, and then he answered the question. He said, ‘Yeah, man. I’m gonna be the one to do this. I’m gonna–‘ So, it was before he actually got his hands laid on him. So, they actually made it look like he was rebutting what Brock Lesnar said. So, I say, man. Watch what you say, you know what I mean, first and foremost, Matt because guys out there can really make you look like something that you really aren’t. So, that’s what I’m always talking about with social media and what not, saying stuff and what not. And it looked like he was working, and they made it look like it was a shoot. So, I’m gonna take a right hand on this one.”
Booker T on if there’s a procedure to handle wrestlers calling each other out on social media:
“Well, you got to know somebody first in order to be able to do something like that. This ain’t the UFC, OK? That’s what I want to relate also. This isn’t the UFC, where you see these guys talking so much smack to each other back and forth and what not. Now on the other hand, when the Corey Graves thing started, with him and I, when all of those reports started coming out, I called Corey Graves and said, ‘Man, don’t say nothing. Just let it ride. Let’s see if you get a few clicks out of this. Let’s see if we get a few more followers and what not.’ And it became something, but we both knew what was up. Everybody else thought Corey and I had a lot of heat already, so we was like, ‘OK. They think we have heat. Let’s do something with it.’ They thought Corey Graves took my job, so I thought, let’s do something with it. You know what man? Because that’s the way I am. It’s not about me. Corey, big ups man, this guy’s on the road 52 weeks out of the year.”
Booker T on Matt Riddle tweeting about Lesnar without giving him a heads up:
“Look man, you know, this is not the UFC. If someone don’t want to work with you, and if someone don’t like you, it definitely can become a problem for you. Back in the day when guys had a reputation where someone didn’t like him because of certain reasons, and it started becoming viral and going around, and it wasn’t just one guy saying it. And then it wasn’t just this one guy saying it. And finally, the one guy who meant something, he said something about it. That guy got fired. I’m serious. That’s normally the way [it is]. This is professional wrestling. This is not the UFC to where it’s OK and cool to create controversy in the UFC, especially when it’s real and it’s organic to where the fans are buying in to it. But with professional wrestling, it’s not like that. You don’t come in and go into business for yourself in professional wrestling. So, that’s why I feel like, this deal right here, he was in character one moment, and then the media took the character and made it a shoot because of what happened on Sunday. So, I just feel like, like I say there again, be careful what you say. Even if you’re just messing around, think about what you’re going to say before you say it because people can take it and interpret it, people can take it and switch it around. People can take it and edit it and make it sound like what they want it to sound like. And trust me, that’s what you don’t want.”
Booker T on why it’s not all Riddle’s fault:
“I don’t throw it all on Riddle because from the package that’s in the clip that’s on social media on one of the sites, it actually gives you everything verbatim as far as what he said. But you actually got to click on the video to actually see what it is. And if you don’t click on the video to see what the video was, you don’t really understand all the interpretations that you’re reading. It sounds totally misconstrued.”
Booker T on the lesson Riddle should learn:
“It is a lesson to be learned. It’s definitely a lesson to be learned because I’m sure he probably saw it and went, ‘Aw man. I didn’t say that.’ And then he’s going to look at it and go, ‘I did say it,’ you know what I mean? Exactly, exactly. Don’t work an angle unless you know the guy. It’s bad for business. It’s bad for business. That’s just the way I feel about it.”Click Here: SL Benfica soccer tracksuit