Date: 01/18	4:00 PM
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Tues. #1 is HERE. To help out the site subscribe to Mistah MegaManFan or support us on Patreon. With the cheap plugs out of the way here's Tuesday's latest wrestling news.

Chris Jericho has applied for an amusing trademark: "GFY." (PWI) I hope I don't have to explain to anyone what G, F, Y stands for... but if you GUESS I guarantee that you're probably right.

In this interview with Renee Paquette, Summer Rae talks about WWE calling her for the Royal Rumble match: "When they called me about Rumble and stuff, at first they were like, 'would you be interested? Would you even consider it?' That was like the second thing that I said, 'Oh, I'm red headed now.' I guess Sasha has every hair color under the world and Naomi, but I think I look extremely different and some people don't even recognize me, especially on socials. John Cone was like, 'Johnny (Ace) and I, will bring it up to Vince.' I remember saying it in front of my sister and she was like, 'Don't use it as an excuse.' 'It's not an excuse. I can't just show up like this and Vince see me and be like who the hell is that?'"

New WWE related videos are available below.

The announced NXT 2.0 lineup for tonight is below. (WWE)

* Roderick Strong vs. WALTER
* Tony D'Angelo's memorial for Pete Dunne's career
* Elektra Lopez plans to unleash on NXT 2.0

In this interview Tom Hannifan (f/k/a Tom Phillips) talks about his favorite WWE moments: "One of my favorite experiences, like, whenever my family would come, you know how it is with WWE. If there are seats open right behind the announce desk, they try to fill that in because it looks better. So my mom, my dad, my sister, and my brother, I think they all came, they were literally like three rows behind me to the point that I could just turn right around and they were right there. My dad is still texting me as the show is going on. And this is where New Day was throwing pancakes a lot. He was like, 'can you grab a pancake from Big E?' I'm like, 'dad, you don't want these pancakes. You don't want them.' He's texting me saying, 'we're right behind you.' 'Dad, I know you're right behind me.' I turn around, there's my dad waving. There's nothing better."

Here Colin Delaney talks about why a full WWE return never worked out: "There was a little bit of talk of maybe bringing me back. But it just never materialized into anything. 205 Live was where I thought I might have an opportunity and a chance. It kind of seemed like that was fading off into its own kind of thing with NXT. The show wasn't a focal point anymore that they would be hiring guys strictly for that. So I don't know. Now when you look at what's going on, I don't think there's opportunities for guys like me there at all any more."

WWE has filed a trademark for the name "Gunther Stark." (PWI)

Here's tonight's lineup for AEW Dark at 7 PM ET on YouTube. (AEW)

* Gunn Club (Austin & Colten Gunn) vs. Bison XL & Larintiz XL
* Leyla Hirsch vs. Katalina Perez
* Lance Archer vs. Liam Cross
* Varsity Blonds (Brian Pillman Jr. & Griff Garrison) vs. Adrian Alanis & Liam Gray
* Brock Anderson and Lee Johnson (w/ Arn Anderson) vs. Waves and Curls
* Bear Country vs. Brandon Bullock & Jameson Ryan
* Skye Blue vs. Robyn Renegade
* Anna Jay vs. Tiffany Nieves
* Red Velvet vs. Vipress
* Orange Cassidy & Wheeler YUTA vs. Peter Avalon & JD Drake
* Anthony Greene vs. Daniel Garcia
* Adam Cole vs. Kaun

Here's a Von Erichs promo before MLW Blood & Thunder this Friday.

And here's an interview with AEW wrestler Ethan Page.

Last night's Raw in Tulsa, OK only had 3,000 paid in attendance -- their lowest turnout since before the pandemic. (WO)

Even though Cody Rhodes is allegedly a "free agent" right now he's already scheduled for a second season of AEW's reality show Rhodes to the Top.

1:00 PM ET. Rhino tells a story about watching Hulk Hogan pound beers: "I get booked, it was a pay per view, it was Macho Man and Ric Flair in the main event, and Macho Man had his dad, Angelo Poffo. So back then you could rest with the boys, right? So I'm sitting next to Angelo Poffo, talking, watching Hogan, and he could see that I was watching him out of the corner of his eye. And he didn't have to work, he was just walking down halfway and then security had to pull him back. I was supposed to wrestle Road Warrior Hawk, just to do a job before the pay-per-view to air on TV, but Hawk didn't show up. So they just go, we might have you dress as security and hold Hogan back. And I thought to myself, 'I'm going to touch him!' And I'm like, 'so they don't use real security.' I'm in the business for like six months before that. All of a sudden he had his own little locker room, there was a cooler, you know outside, where they put the pop in. All of a sudden he reaches in there and pulls out a beer. And I thought to myself, I'm training, I'm learning carbs and all that stuff. He's got abs and I'm like, the kid inside of me took over, he said, 'train, say your prayers and eat your vitamins, he said nothing about beer.' Yeah, he was 44 at the time, so I know he's over 21, he's legally able to drink, he's not wrestling, I'm doing all this in my head, right? And I'm watching the monitor, right, so I, this still live in my head rent-free. So I'm like, 'okay, you know what? One beer, I'll excuse it.' The child inside of me excuses things. Maybe it's a ritual. So then he grabs another one. So I'm like, my dad could drink 18 beers and not get fucked up, so Hogan can have two. Now I'm comparing this. Then he grabs a third one, now I'm concerned right? Not because of him getting out there and doing his job, now I'm concerned because of my childhood image of him is being destroyed. So I'm making more excuses, right? Then he'd drink a fourth one, and then a fifth one and I'm really starting to get upset. Well, by the fourth one, the Big Show comes back because that's when he was sitting in the audience. They would show and then they would walk off, he had the trench coat. Him and the Big Show, The Giant. 'Okay his buddy came back, so he has to have a beer with his buddy'. So that's like the fifth one. So here comes a buddy, have one with them. So he drinks his beer, and I go, you know what, 'I'm fucking done. I'm done. He's not my hero, I wish I never got booked for this.' I still haven't forgiven him, I need an apology from him."

The card for GCW's The WRLD has been updated again. (FITE)

* ROH World Championship Match: Jonathan Gresham vs. Blake Christian
* GCW Tag Team Championship Match: The Briscoe Brothers vs. TBA
* GCW World Championship Match: Jon Moxley vs. Homicide
* Grab the Brass Ring Ladder Match: Tony Deppen vs. PCO vs. Lio Rush vs. Jordan Oliver vs. Jimmy Lloyd
* EFFY vs. Jeff Jarrett
* Gringo Loco, Arez, and Demonic Flamita vs. Bandido, Laredo Kid, and ASF
* Ruby Soho vs. Allie Katch
* Matt Cardona vs. Joey Janela
* Also appearing: Psycho Clown and B-Boy

And here's the NWA Powerrr card tonight at 6:05 ET. (FITE)

* Taryn Terrell attempts to make peace With Jennacide and Paola Blaze
* May Valentine speaks with Kamille and Kiera Hogan
* Mike Knox and Matt Cardona make a statement
* Marshe Rockett & Jordan Clearwater vs. Hawx Aerie (PJ & Luke Hawx)
* Dirty Sexy Boys (Dirty Dango & JTG) vs. Ill Begotten (Captain Yuma & Rush Freeman)
* Madi Wrenkowski vs. Melina
* Allysin Kay vs. Kylie Rae

2:00 PM ET. A new Britt Baker interview is below.

In this interview Matt Cardona takes credit for GCW getting into (and selling out) the Hammerstein Ballroom: "Brett Lauderdale, you're welcome. I'm not saying that I single-handedly sold out the Hammerstein Ballroom, but I am saying If I never came to GCW, they would not have even attempted to run the Hammerstein Ballroom. That's what I'm saying."

The Hardy Boyz will reunite for Big Time Wrestling in March.

Kevin Owens wants to win tag team gold in WWE: "I'd love to be tag team champion just to add that notch to my belt. If it was going to be with anybody, it should be with Sami Zayn, but I think Finn Balor would be a great partner for me, too. Beyond that, I really don't know who I could pick. It doesn't feel like anybody else would necessarily feel right other than either of those two. I think we could tell some great stories."

WWE Raw will be bumped to SyFy on Feb. 7th and 14th to make way for Winter Olympics coverage on USA Network. (PWI)

5:00 PM ET. If you're really interested former WWE executive Canyon Ceman shares his thoughts on his release here.

Scotty 2 Hotty explains his decision to leave WWE: "It wasn't one day, it came over time. Over the last six months, things started to change. At one point, it was the greatest thing I've experienced in my entire 32 years in wrestling. Anybody who was there understands it, it was such a cool culture, it was a genuine culture. That, 'We Are NXT' thing wasn't just a marketing slogan, that was a real thing. There was pride there, I rode with them. Everyone's on the same bus traveling together just having a great time, out there killing it. You know, we'd go to a WrestleMania weekend, or a SummerSlam weekend and do a Takeover, steal the weekend, best show of the weekend hands down. Then over the last six months to a year, some changes, you know and maybe part of it was me starting to change, and seeing outside of WWE starting to change. With not only groups like AEW, but some of these independents were on fire and comic-cons were on fire, these signings were on fire. There was just so much going on outside of WWE, and I'm 48-years-old. So I go, 'hey, if I'm going to do this, where I can actively get in the ring and go, now is the time to do it. I feel like I can still go and I feel like I proved that to everyone and to myself a couple of weeks ago with Joey Janela."

Chase Owens says he tested positive for COVID-19 but he's feeling fine. He'll have to miss a few dates until the infection clears regardless.

Leva Bates says Peter Avalon hasn't left AEW -- he's just taking indie dates now.

Jon Moxley is returning on AEW Dynamite tomorrow night.

WWE better hope he quashes the MLW lawsuit quickly because Jerry McDevitt keeps saying he wants to retire.

Here's an interview where Kel Mitchell talks about working with The New Day and an interview with The Briscoes too.

NXT on Feb. 8th and 15th will also be bumped to SyFy for the Winter Olympics. (PWI)

Here's a new Thunder Rosa interview.

Rampage last Friday did 526,000 viewers, down from 588,000 the week before. The 18-49 was 0.20, also down from 0.24. (Wrestlenomics)

SmackDown was also down last Friday, doing 2.174 million viewers off 2.271 million the week prior. The 18-49 was 0.56 as compared to 0.58 a week prior. (Wrestlenomics)