Date: 02/03	11:00 PM
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Thurs. #2 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 Friday's latest wrestling news.

On his latest podcast Matt Hardy talks about chairshots in pro wrestling: "You almost have to put all of that stuff into one basket if you're going to talk about it. I'm good with not doing them, I think it's great and the business has evolved. Looking back on that, I just realize that's how the business was during that day and age, and it doesn't bother me or make me sick or cringe, or anything like that. It's just a positive thing that we moved past and decided to ban chair shots to the head. If I took one and bumped, I think I can take it as safe as possible. The guys who get murdered with it stand there and try to look tough and no-sell it, that's when it gets murdered. If someone hits you with a chair shot and as soon as it hits the top of your head and you bump and absorb it, and it doesn't blow down through your head and into your brain, it is nowhere near as bad. That's how I would take them back in the day. I would try to snap bump out of them. Nowadays, they're just so taboo, you almost couldn't take it because of the blowback and I'm not encouraging that you do that. As far as it goes, I would probably say no, I don't think anyone would offer to do it but if we were going to do it. I don't think anything beneficial would come out of it, so I would say, 'No,' and say, 'Let's be creative and think of something else to do.'"

Shelton Benjamin wants a reunion with Charlie Haas: "Of course. Charlie is one of my best friends, he's one of my brothers. While he disappeared from the public eye, me and him have always been in contact and have been very, very close. So the desire to be able to work together again, of course, that has never gone away. So if the opportunity presents itself, I would love to team with Charlie again, and you know, wreck shop and be the World's Greatest Tag Team again and take on the world."

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AEW Dynamite and AEW related videos are below.

Speaking of Dynamite this week's show did 954,000 viewers, down from 1.1 million last week. The 18-49 was 0.35, also down from 0.41. (Wrestlenomics)

Mustafa Ali has "well over a year, at least" on his WWE deal if the company doesn't grant his release request before then. (FF)

A new Deonna Purrazzo interview is below.

The lineup for GCW on Friday in Houston is below.

* Tony Deppen vs. Bryan Keith
* Matt Tremont vs. Sadika
* Scramble Match: Grim Reefer vs. Matthew Justice vs. Jimmy Lloyd vs. Allie Katch vs. Jordan Oliver vs. Chris Carter
* Mascara Dorada vs. Gringo Loco vs. Blake Christian vs. ASF
* Atticus Cogar vs. Gino Medina
* Nick Wayne vs. Ninja Mack
* GCW Extreme Champion AJ Gray vs. Mysterious Q and Loko Champion Dante Leon vs. Sam Stackhouse

And here's the card for Saturday in Dallas. (GCW)

* Psycho Clown vs Gringo Loco
* Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Joey Janela
* GCW Extreme Champion AJ Gray vs. Allie Katch
* Laredo Kid vs. Blake Christian, Jordan Oliver & Nick Wayne vs. Dante Leon & Ninja Mack
* Matthew Justice vs. John Wayne Murdoch
* Mike Bailey vs. Jimmy Lloyd

The card for 205 Live tonight is below. (WWE)

* KUSHIDA vs. Damon Kemp
* Brooks Jensen vs. Bodhi Hayward
* Kacy Catanzaro & Kayden Carter vs. Fallon Henley & Lash Legend

Killa Kate has been announced for TERMINUS II.

Cesaro was disappointed to not be in the Royal Rumble: "Yes, I was. A lot of people would have liked to see me in the Rumble, and a lot of people would have liked to see me win. That would have put me on the next path of my journey. I saw Big E say in an interview he'd like to see me win, and that was very nice. I appreciate the support of my colleagues, but unfortunately, that did not happen. I do care, a lot. Maybe almost too much sometimes."

EFFY has filed a trademark for the name "EFFY" and for "EFFY's Big Gay Brunch." (FF)

The highlights of WWE's fourth quarter earnings report are below. (WWE)

WWE REPORTS RECORD 2021 RESULTS AND 2022 BUSINESS OUTLOOK
* Fourth Quarter 2021 Highlights
* Revenue increased 30% to $310.3 million
* Operating income increased 131% to $83.6 million
* Adjusted OIBDA1 increased 90% to $97.2 million
* Returned capital to shareholders totaling $59.0 million, including share repurchases and dividends paid
Full Year 2021 Highlights
* Revenue increased 12% to $1.095 billion, the highest in the Company's history
* Operating income increased 24% to $259.0 million
* Adjusted OIBDA1 increased 14% to a record $327.1 million
* Launched WWE Network content on Peacock, NBCU's streaming service in the U.S., providing a larger audience and increasing viewership for WWE's premium live shows, original series, and vast library
* Announced a new strategy for premium live events, which focuses on staging these events in stadiums rather than arenas, and utilizes targeted dates to maximize WWE's live audience potential
* Completed consumer product deals including partnerships with Blockchain Creative Labs (Fox) to launch an NFT marketplace and with Panini to be the exclusive provider of WWE trading cards
* Created the Next in Line program to recruit the next generation of WWE Superstars, which was initiated with 16 collegiate athletes, including Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson
* Returned capital to shareholders totaling $202.0 million, including share repurchases and dividends paid

An announcement from All Elite Wrestling is below.

AEW and American Heart Association Announce Collaboration to Help Knock Out Heart Disease

Collaboration will Raise Funds, Awareness for Combating Heart Disease

Kicking off American Heart Month, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and the American Heart Association announced a collaboration to help raise awareness and funds benefitting the American Heart Association's "Life Is Why" campaign, and their overall mission of ending heart disease.

The inaugural initiative is a customized "AEW Has Heart" co-branded t-shirt. Now available on ShopAEW.com, $2.00 per t-shirt sold will directly support the AHA's "Life is Why" campaign. "Life is Why" is the American Heart Association's consumer giving campaign that unites corporate supporters, consumers and volunteers in transforming communities by generating additional awareness around heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States.

"We're thrilled to support the American Heart Association, and we look forward to collaborating with this incredible organization to help support their mission during Heart Health Month and to continue the important work year-round," said Brandi Rhodes, Chief Brand Officer at AEW. In addition to the "AEW Has Heart" t-shirt initiative, AEW talent and staff will wear red in support of "National Wear Red Day" during the Feb. 4 episode of AEW: Rampage.

WrestleCon tickets go on sale this weekend.

The latest episode of Before The Impact is below.

And here's MLW's latest episode of Azteca.

On Busted Open Radio this week Renee Paquette gave her thoughts on CM Punk vs. MJF: "What I love so much about this Punk and MJF stuff, I am a fan of both of them obviously. But the story between them has had some bulk to it. I find sometimes in AEW there's not enough bulk and not enough time between like, 'Hey we are going to have a match,' to all of a sudden in two weeks it's happening and then you move on to something else. It's nice to have a quick payoff sometimes. But I do love that there's more bulk to this. And these guys really put on a hell of a match."

Chris Jericho talks about his appearance on Fast Foodies: "At the time I was really going through a Cracker Barrel phase where I was eating breakfast there pretty much on a weekly basis. And I always have what's called Mama's Pancake Breakfast, which is the Cracker Barrel pancakes, which if you know, you know. They're amazing. And then I would combine that with some fried apples on top of it and then the scrambled eggs and then the turkey sausage. So that's kind of what they had to start with and then make their own interpretations of those flavors and foods."

The Usos will defend the titles against The Viking Raiders at the February 19th Elimination Chamber "premium live event." (WWE)

Nathan Frazier vs. Teoman will be on NXT UK next week. (WWE)

Santino Marella says his daughter has signed with WWE. Also here's a new "Wildcat" Chris Harris interview.

Teasers airing on MLW for a "big return" are for Killer Kross. (PWI)

MLW's WrestleMania weekend show is almost sold out, so they've added an Azteca show for April 1st, with tickets going on sale Feb. 10th. (PWI)

MLW Fusion returns next week. (PWI)

Bill Goldberg is set for a WWE return, most likely in Saudi Arabia. (FF)