Date: 02/26	10:20 PM
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Sat. #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 Sunday's latest wrestling news.

In this interview Shane Strickland says he wants to change the perception of in-ring talent: "I want to feel like I changed the narrative of the value of an in-ring talent. There is a lot of value put behind match quality, which is good, great, amazing. We need to be good at what we do and be top performers, but there is this hierarchy that is set that, you have to meet this to be considered one of the best or top tier, and that's not the case. It's like saying, if you keep the hierarchy like that, centers can't be the best in the world, it's always shooting guards. How we view basketball is, 'the best players in the world are scorers.' Generally, true, but Jokic just won MVP. It's a narrative that is changing, the best scorer isn't necessarily the best in the world. It's the best all-around performer. In the NFL, Tom Brady is the greatest of all-time, right? Odell Beckham Jr. is the most followed. It's not just the stats. It's very subjective. What is a star? Is it the stats? The performance? The appeal? There are so many different elements that go into it."

Moose will defend the Impact World Title against Speedball Mike Bailey at PWR Swerve's House on April 16th.

New WWE related videos are available below.

In addition here are some new AEW videos.

Kayla Sparks managed to be on both WWE SmackDown and AEW Rampage on the same night. She was on the Lothario Kiss Cam on the former and lost Serena Deeb's five minute challenge on the latter. (PWI)

In this interview Dax Harwood opens up about a mental illness he's dealt with: "It was right after high school. I played high school football and was eating whatever because I was a lineman, so I was trying to get big. I got to 285 pounds. I had always been a big kid, but I got really really big and I continued to eat that way as a lineman after high school. Without the extra physical activity, I put on so much weight. I was embarrassed, ashamed, and I had a buddy who moved in with me and my dad, maybe a year before that because he had some family problems at home and he came to live with us. He was overweight too. One day, I caught him doing it, outside. 'What the fuck are you doing?' 'I'm sorry man.' 'Why are you doing it?' 'It helps me lose weight.' 'Does it work?' 'I went from this weight to this weight.' I started doing it too and working out and trying to get into shape for wrestling school. Something that became routine. Addiction has never been a problem for me, so thankfully, I was able to stop. It got really bad to the point where every day, I would go outside so my dad wouldn't hear me, and throw up. It was very scary when I realized I can't go a day without doing this. The body dysmorphia, how I viewed myself and how embarrassed I was of myself. Then I was embarrassed of what I was doing. Then, it would become this cycle. 'If I can get to this weight, I'll stop and not be embarrassed about anything.' I would lose the weight, but the body dysmorphia would never go away because one, you have it stuck in your head. Two, when you're doing that, you're not getting any nutrients in your body, so it's hard not working out, I was never building any muscle mass. I got skinny fat. My body would get, to my opinion, I would look worse than when I was actually heavy. More than physically, it just wrecked me mentally. Right after football (is when I started dealing with body dysmorphia). I gained a lot of weight, so I would wear the same clothes I had, they were super tight, but I was too prideful to buy bigger clothes, so I looked in the mirror and thought, 'What's going on with me?' I'm from a very small town in North Carolina, we're not the most health-conscious. I had no clue about carbs and fats and nutrition, I just ate meat. That's when I started experiencing body dysmorphia. I never had it in high school. I would get called 'fat' in high school, but it never bothered me. Right after high school, it got really bad. That's when I started experiencing the middle body dysmorphia. Now, I've gone from almost 300-pound fat guy, I've lost all this weight, and now I have this excess skin around my belly that I have to have surgery to get rid of, but with our schedule, I can't do that. I get on social media as well, people see in my trunks and they don't know what I've been through or what happened, they just see this and are like 'oh my God, he looks like this, no wonder he's not in the main event.' You read that stuff and no one knows how much they are affecting the person. I can let most of it slide, but some days, waking up every morning, I'm doing this fasting thing, busting my ass in the gym, trying to eat right, working as hard as I can in the ring, trying to be the best wrestler in the world, that's what I want to to do. Sometimes, I think I'm doing that just so you ignore the fact that I don't have the best body. It's a never-ending cycle, especially on social media."

Matt Hardy talks about a WWE angle he refused to do: "There was one thing I was very nervous about doing. It didn't end up happening but I was going to have a deal where I teamed with Mark Henry and there was talk of us working against Booker T and RVD when they were the Tag Champs and winning the Tag Titles. It was right towards the end of my Matt Hardy V1 and the whole story of what was pitched to me from Vince and creative was that I was almost going to go to Mark Henry and him being black had a lot in common with me having Mattitude because we were both oppressed then I would talk like a black person. They knew at this time, like even when John Cena was doing raps, we'd be on international trips and myself and John, we'd be freestyling back there and messing around. They knew I was a big rap fan and I was aware of all that stuff but there was a point where I was almost going to start talking with more black slang and almost tell Mark Henry like 'Mattitude is oppressed too man, we have that in common.' I was very uncomfortable with that then and obviously, Mark got hurt, maybe it was a sign from the Seven Deities and it didn't happen at all. That was something I was a little worried about doing because it was something they wanted me to start and pushing me into."

Here Bryan Danielson talks about what he learned from Vince McMahon: "I try to be very conscious of things because of my respect for Vince and things he would want me to say and things he wouldn't want me to say. One of the things he first taught me, and this was before I was close with him, was the ability to use silence and to not say something if you don't have an answer. If somebody asks you a question, 'well, maybe we could do...' and you put out maybe not even your best answer. You could just say, 'Hmmm, let me think about it.' Sometimes when you talk to him and ask him a question, he'll sit there and not say a word for 30 seconds or longer, which feels like the longest time in history, but he's not going to give you a bad answer. He's not going to give you an off-the-cuff answer. The ability to sit and wait and be patient enough, and even if you don't come up with it, you get, 'okay, let me think about that.' That was one of the earliest lessons I learned from him, but there is no trepidation in the back of my mind that he wouldn't want me to say that."

Here's GCW LA Fights Volume 3.

And here are the GCW results if you don't want to watch the whole thing. (FF)

* Scramble Match: Juicy Finau defeated Keita Murray, Midas Kreed, Jordan Cruz, Lucas Riley and Hunter Freeman
* Ju Dizz defeated D-Rogue
* Jack Cartwheel defeated Brandon Gatson
* Kevin Blackwood defeated Jai Vidal
* Bad Dude Tito defeated Tyler Bateman
* B-Boy & Lil Cholo defeated The Unguided (Damian Drake & Matt Vandagriff)
* Dark Sheik defeated Peter Avalon
* Allie Katch defeated Sandra Moone

Here's the updated card for Impact this week. (IW)

* Knockouts Championship #1 Contender: Tasha Steelz vs. Chelsea Green
* Eddie Edwards vs. Steve Maclin
* Bullet Club vs. Violent by Design & Guerrillas of Destiny
* JONAH vs. Johnny Swinger
* Cassie Lee vs. Madison Rayne

Marina Shafir has been added to Bloodsport 8.

Here are the latest STARDOM results. (FF)

* Mina Shirakawa defeated Rina
* Donna del Mondo (Natsupoi & MIRAI) defeated STARS (Koguma & Hanan)
* Donna del Mondo (Syuri, Maika & Himeka) defeated Unagi Sayaka, Waka Tsukiyama & Tam Nakano
* Momo Kohgo, Mayu Iwatani & Hazuki defeated Donna del Mondo (Mai Sakurai, Giulia & Thekla)
* Oedo-tai (Momo Watanabe, Starlight Kid, Saki Kashima & Ruaka) defeated Queen’s Quest (Utami Hayashishita, Lady C, Saya Kamitani & AZM)

NJPW Strong results are below. (FF)

* Karl Fredericks def. Ethan HD
* El Phantasmo def. Matt Rehwoldt
* Strong Openweight Championship: Tom Lawlor (c) def. Taylor Rust