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Triple H, NXT, Charlie Haas, WWE Clips, I. Riccaboni, Fusion, Brown, AIW, Damian Priest, Daniel Bryan - Thursday's News #1


Date: 04/21 11:00 PM
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Written by Stevie J

Wed. #2 is HERE. To help out the site subscribe to Mistah MegaManFan or support us on Patreon. Don't miss AMP w/ Mike Bennett later tonight! With the cheap plugs out of the way here's Thursday's latest wrestling news.

Triple HIn this interview Triple H talks about NXT moving to Tuesdays: "The promotional opportunity for us is much better on a Tuesday and also then not having to have a narrative where it's just constantly about an imaginary war or this imaginary battle. People can say what they want, but the truth of the matter is you compete against everything. If you are creating a television product or content and that is the world we live in is content not television, not internet. It's everything. You're constantly competing for eyeballs and time against everything under the sun, including sleep and time to do other things, and video games, and Tik Tok and everything else that's out there. So having your own space where you don't have to then have an added imaginary battle stacked up against it, it's kind of nice. The bigger fact is having a lead in from a Tuesday into a Wednesday. When we first started, NXT was on Wednesday's for viewers of The Network. The transition to USA and wanting to keep that consistency for those that were watching on The Network so they would know where to find it and not have confusion of SmackDown leaving Tuesday's and people joining in and finding something else. Time has gone by now, and this is a great opportunity for us to have that lead in for Monday Night RAW, get that promotional window for Monday Night RAW, get to Tuesday's and continue to deliver the product. Again, I'm thrilled with it, and I think the opportunity is the same as it was before, which is for talent to get out there live and show everything that they can do, and I'm a big believer that talent will shine through, and they'll get that opportunity and you'll make bigger and bigger stars as time goes by. It's about making stars and them having that opportunity not just the number every single week."

Here Charlie Haas talks about how negative his WWE experience was: "(SWE) let me wrestle the way I want to wrestle. They let me cut my own promos. They don't give me a piece of paper to write what to say, 'We just want you to get this.' Okay, I want to say it the way I want to. 'That's fine. Just do it. Just get it over.' I go out, and I'm not feeling like, 'You didn't work the arm good enough, or the leg or your kick looked terrible.' They never build you up when you're up there. They just kept picking on you, picking on you, picking on you. You're just like, 'Man, did I really suck? Maybe I do.'"

New WWE related videos are available below.

Even though his deal was set to expire this month, ROH announcer Ian Riccaboni and the promotion renewed his deal several months ago without telling anybody. Riccaboni used Twitter to "let the cat out of the bag" so to speak.

The latest episode of MLW Fusion is below.

Want to see a virtual signing with Brickhouse Brown? Then today is your luck day.

The latest AIW Go For Broke results are below. (FF)

* Philly Collins def. Casey Carrington to earn $1,000 Biggins Bucks
* Ethan Wright def. Frankie Flynn to earn $1,000 Biggins Bucks
* Brian Carson def. El Ninja Uno to earn $1,000 Biggins Bucks
* Derek Dillinger def. Megan Meyers to earn $1,000 Biggins Bucks
* The Bitcoin Boyz (Eric Taylor & Mikey Montgomery) & The Duke def. 40 Acres (PB Smooth & Tre Lamar) & Joseline Navarro to earn $500 Biggins Bucks each

Here Damian Priest talks about his change in attitude: "I was actually the opposite, man. I was somebody who was miserable, complained, blamed everybody else for everything that was wrong. Didn't understand why I wasn't given the opportunities. Then, I don't know, just one day - I didn't believe it. To me, the idea of the power of positivity, I thought it was silly. I never believed in it. Then, it was one of those things, I was trying to change my life, and I thought well let's give it a shot. If it doesn't work, I was right all along anyway. Then, unreal, I started being positive. I surrounded myself with good people, good positive people. tried to just look, no matter what the situation is, forget about the bad. Just focus on - even if it's one little thing compared to a hundred, just focus on the one thing. Then, unreal, I started getting opportunities. I started getting jobs. It completely changed me. Mentally, even physically. I just like being happy all the time. It's such a cool feeling compared to all the negativity I was. Now, I wake up every day excited to do something and that's awesome. I would highly recommend it to anybody to live their life really happy. It's awesome."

In this interview Daniel Bryan talks about his WrestleMania 37 match: "I haven't watched it back yet to be honest. I don't know if watching it back would really help figure out why I was so detached. I'm not a big believer in signs. Most people think of me like this hippy-dippy kind of thing because I'm an environmentalist, but I'm really not. I really love science and reality-based things. But maybe it's a sign that it's time to let go of being a full-time wrestler, which is kind of what I've been thinking for a while. When I first started training Shawn Michaels said, 'The second that you don't get nervous right before you go out, that's when you need to retire,' and I don't necessarily believe that because for a long time, I haven't gotten nervous before I go out. I'm excited because it's fun, but the odd detachment was like whoa, maybe it's either I'm gonna die (Bryan laughs) or it's time. Maybe this is just a sign that this isn't the same type of fulfilling that it was before, so it's interesting. I don't know. I just said I'm not hippy-dippy, and I've been trying to meditate on it and talk to my friends that I'm close with to be like, 'Hey, what is that?'"

Yesterday MLW announced they will return to live events with fans in July. In addition Court Bauer announced that MLW premieres on VICE on May 1st.

In this interview Deonna Purrazzo talks about being The Virtuosa for Impact Wrestling: "When I started with IMPACT which is just shy of a year ago now, the presentation of The Virtuosa was 100 percent things I had pitched in NXT. The way we kind of presented her really being two of three steps ahead of her opponent, she's smart, intellectual and a student of the professional wrestling business, being the technical craftsman, it really was how I wanted The Virtuosa to be presented. I wanted her to be larger than life and to tie in all the elements of history, my culture and my ethnicity that I really think The Virtuosa encaptures, which is very broad! I think a lot of wrestling characters get fallen into 'it needs to be straight-forward and everyone needs to understand' but I think The Virtuosa is very nuanced. It's part of my condescension to be like 'I don't really understand' but maybe you're not supposed to understand because you're not a Virtuosa! So I think the character was maybe a little too broad for other people to understand, but the way I wanted it presented when I came in last May, we hit it nail on the head. We've been able to develop the character which is exciting and I'm developing every week in front of everyone's eyes on TV."



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