Date: 02/22	11:00 PM
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Tues. #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 Wednesday's latest wrestling news.

AJ Styles has reportedly signed a new multi-year contract with WWE. (WO)

In this interview Killer Kross talks about his WWE main roster experience: "I had so many people I didn't even know - and I don't like saying it like this - maybe looking up to me or looking at my career as a thing they would want to pursue for themselves. I had people coming to me going, 'If they're going to do this to you, what are they gonna do to me?' This became a cautionary tale to people inside the company and outside the company going, 'We know you. You're not a disruptive person. You're a professional. You do everything you're supposed to do. If this can happen to you, what am I doing here?' I try to be positive. That's a hard thing for me to try to spin to people when I'm talking to them. I can't bullshit them. I really didn't know what to say to them. I had no idea. That's not the way you want your roster and your team to feel. You don't want them to feel like that."

Here Tegan Nox talks about the toll wrestling has taken on her body: "Wrestling for ten years, almost nonstop, even when I was in rehab, I was still working out every day, doing hard stuff. For ten years, my body was like, 'I fucking hate you.' The last 90 days, I've been in the ring like three times. My body has needed to relax and recharge. It's been bloody lovely, but I do miss wrestling. I'm hoping that soon I can figure something out."

NXT 2.0 highlights and other WWE related videos are below.

In this interview Lince Dorado talks about the original concept for Lucha House Party: "The original Lucha House Party concept was actually a little bit harder, a little bit darker. We were supposed to be in suits the whole time. We wanted to have this Lucha Lounge-esque kind of background, where it was totally different. We didn't want to be in our gear, we didn't want to be in our flashy colors. We wanted to be sophisticated men, the only difference is our faces have masks. And we kept telling them that, we kept telling them 'we do everything that every normal person does. We go grocery shopping, sneaker shopping, we go to the mall. We just do it in our mask. We don't do it in our gear, that's silly. We only wrestle in our gear.' When we started that to him, he kind of started to understand more the culture of lucha libre, rather than 'oh these are just guys in masks who do incredible things.' We had told them 'hey, let us wear suits in our promos. Let us cut promos like those old Santo movies, where they're almost like little action movies.' I had pitched for us to be like Charlie's Angels, where we all had a specific personality, but we were all entertaining and doing cool stuff. And when we got to me and Gran Metalik, I was like 'we have a cool dynamic here where we can be like Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan from Rush Hour, where we could have all this incredible action stuff but also put ourselves in cool dynamics. We had all these cool ideas. And for some reason, we were just the Lucha guys. Every promo it was like 'finish with lucha! lucha!' And I was just like 'come on man. Is this really what you've got for us?' I don't know."

Hideki Suzuki talks about coaching at the WWE Performance Center: "I didn't disobey them, but I did kick up a fuss and give them attitude. As you might expect, WWE's a big company, even in NXT alone there are so many people employed, and things change day-by-day, so a lot of things get decided without any contact with you. First and foremost, I did things at my pace. Then I'd train the rookies. Even after the class ended I'd be helping the people who were still in the gym. I didn't go to the coach room, because I didn't see any reason why we should have coach meetings. I'm not gonna go into details about this, but one day one of the coaches asked me 'Why the hell did you not go to the meeting?' He tried explaining to me what he was mad about, but I didn't understand anything of it, and I wasn't convinced. This was happening in front of the wrestlers, so a bunch of them got in between us like 'Calm down, coach!' Afterwards, Bernard told me 'He is really mad at you' and I just said 'So what?' Something had to change. We always kept telling the trainees 'You gotta change, we need to change things up' but at that moment I thought 'It's you guys who really have to change. Wrestlers don't need coaches, but coaches couldn't exist without wrestlers. You've forgotten that.' I won't dive into any further specifics, but I couldn't let that stuff slide. All the coaches I met were nice people, there were a lot of different teaching styles and they were all excellent. I've got nothing but respect for them, but what's wrong is wrong. And I needed to do something to change it."

AEW Rampage last Friday did 471,000 viewers, down 14 percent from 549,000 the week before, although the 18-49 demo actually rose from 0.19 to 0.20. (Wrestlenomics)

The same night SmackDown did 2.173 million viewers, down from 2.231 million the week before. The 18-49 demo also dropped from 0.55 to 0.54. (Wrestlenomics)

The Influence will get a shot at IInspiration and their tag team titles at Impact Sacrifice. (IW)

Hit Row will be appearing at GCW's For The Culture.

Eddie Edwards will "explain himself" on Impact Wrestling this week.

Here's what happened on Level Up last night. (wInc)

* James Drake defeated Xyon Quinn
* Elektra Lopez defeated Sarray
* Harland and Joe Gacy defeated Jacket Time

NXT: Stand & Deliver will take place on April 2nd.

Here's the lineup for NXT next week. (WWE)

* North American Title Match: Carmelo Hayes vs. Pete Dunne
* Gunther vs. Solo Sikoa
* Harland vs. Draco Anthony

Here are the updated women's Dusty Cup brackets. (WWE)

Semfinals
* Io Shirai & Kay Lee Ray vs. Kayden Carter & Kacy Catanzaro

Quarterfinals
* Indi Hartwell & Persia Pirotta vs. Wendy Chu & Dakota Kai
* Cora Jade & Raquel Gonzalez vs. Yulisa Leon & Valentina Feroz

Last night's NWA Powerrr results are below. (FF)

* Jax Dane defeated Eric Jackson
* Two-Out-Of-Three Falls Match: Colby Corino defeated Rhett Titus
* Chelsea Green defeated Kenzie Page
* NWA Women's Championship Match: Kamille defeated Taryn Terrell