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Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens, Tyler Breeze, Marc Mero, Sable, Blake & Black, Eddie Kingston, Rev Pro, Jamie - Mon. News #2 (5 ET)

Date: 06/28	4:00 PM
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Written by Stevie J

Mon. #1 is HERE. To help out the site subscribe to Mistah MegaManFan or support us on Patreon. Don't miss all of today's news updates! With the cheap plugs out of the way here's Monday's latest wrestling news.

Here Sami Zayn talks about whether or not the feud with Kevin Owens is over: "To put it mildly, things haven't gone my way. After injustice was being directed my way, it doesn't matter who you are at a certain point you reach the point of despair; I was dangerously close to that. When I needed it most, the universe showed me the way, and I defeated Kevin Owens, and he got everything that he deserved. It's beautiful. I can't say with any certainty that I'm done with Kevin Owens. I can never say with any certainty that it's over for good. At the very best, I can hope that he learned his lesson. I'm hoping that I sent my message loud and clear and that he'll be sitting on the shelf for a little while."

Tyler Breeze isn't sure yet whether or not he'll restart his Twitch channel: "What's the plan for the channel now? That's what we're figuring out. We're ramping back up. I'll be streaming and we have a lot of stuff to figure out. A lot of stuff is still in the works. I'm setting up my cameo again, I'm just waiting for them to approve it. There's a lot of stuff in the air that we're slowly figuring out. You guys will know as I know. We're firing up ideas for Patreon again. Will I continue my wrestling career? I don't know, we'll have to see, I haven't decided yet."

In this interview Marc Mero says Sable posing for Playboy was a horrible idea: "At the time it was a discussion that her and I had that we decided to do that. Horrible decision. You look back on life and you say, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?' But, what's done is done. You move on. You make mistakes in life and hopefully, those mistakes become learning experiences. It was not a good decision to make for our life, our marriage, our family, and everything else. Next thing you know we're at the Playboy parties all the time with Hugh Hefner. We eventually got an apartment right in Hollywood and it was just not a good time in our lives. I don't want to sound like I'm bitter at all because I'm not. All the paths I took in life, good and bad, they led me to where I am today. I couldn't be happier or more content with my life. Obviously when you talk about these things you rehash memories and things you went through at that time. But all those different paths I took, making mistakes - and thank God they became learning experiences in my life. I feel I'm a better person because of those decisions and choices I made back then that I've learned from and grown from, and can maybe help or steer other people in the right direction."

Wesley Blake talks about getting praise from Aleister Black (Tommy End): "It's great. I love Tommy. When he first got into NXT, I actually, I want to say one of the first live events, got to wrestle him, and it's just really cool to me. The great thing about being in NXT for so long is I got to work with a lot of great talents, from all different sides of the world, and so when he came in, obviously, he helped elevate NXT, the brand itself, but it's just cool to see his style, his take on wrestling and stuff like that. We could sit there for hours just spitballing ideas, just talking wrestling and life, and so that was a really cool experience when I got to wrestle on these live events and stuff like that. I got to wrestle him at the finals in the Dusty Classic with Steve Maclin and myself, which was by far one of my favorite tag matches to date."

Here Eddie Kingston talks about going back to Ring of Honor: "What happened was, we went through the audience like we were supposed to and a couple of audience members decided to throw beer on us. We should have kept our cool and been more professional, I won't say that we were incident. Things got hairy, we hit people and threw things at them. We were suspended, came back, and were let go. We were never under contract, so it wasn't like they had to keep us there. We didn't want to sign contracts anyway at that time. I have nothing but love for Ring of Honor. When I broke in, it was the place to be. I'm happy for them now. Homicide is back there. It's all about a forbidden door, if I could, I would go back over there and help Homicide out."

Rev Pro has vacated the British Women's Title held by Jamie Hayter due to her accepting a NXT UK tryout.

Vince McMahon attended a Dave Chappelle & Friends comedy show over the weekend.

2:00 PM ET. New WWE related videos are available below.

Here's more from Eddie Kingston on how rap lyrics influences his promos: "I used to talk a lot of shit on the street and you have to be quick-witted on the streets when you're talking shit, before you knuckle up. It is reality-based, but I try to make sure I bring it back around to wrestling. You can go too far on reality where it doesn't come to wrestling and has nothing to do with wrestling. Lyrics from some of my favorite artists help me out a lot like AFI, 2Pac, DMX. I'm into a group called The Builders and The Butchers. Their lyrics speak to me. When I hear a certain lyric, I'll take that lyric and run with it and figure out how I can put it in wrestling. Music has a lot to do with it. Movies as well. I put reality in, but make sure I put pro wrestling because the people are there for pro wrestling."

The current lineup for Raw tonight is below. (WWE)

* Money in the Bank Qualifying Match: Randy Orton vs. Drew McIntyre vs. AJ Styles
* Strap Match: Jaxson Ryker vs. Elias
* Rhea Ripley, Mandy Rose & Dana Brooke vs. Charlotte Flair, Natalya & Tamina
* MVP and Kofi Kingston go face-to-face

King Mo, Bu Ku Dao and Alex Kane have been added to MLW Battle Riot III.

Here are the latest Kizuna Road results. (FF)

* Ryusuke Taguchi & Tiger Mask def. Yota Tsuji & Yuya Uemura
* BULLET CLUB (El Phantasmo, Jado & Taiji Ishimori) def. Suzuki-gun (DOUKI, Taichi & Zack Sabre Jr.)
* BULLET CLUB (Dick Togo, EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi) def. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano & YOH)
* CHAOS (Hirooki Goto, SHO, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI) def. TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima), Master Wato & Yuji Nagata
* Great Bash Heel (Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma), Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi def. Los Ingobernables de Japon (BUSHI, SANADA, Shingo Takagi & Tetsuya Naito)

Tony Khan says he doesn't want to be a regular on AEW television. Also the AEW taping at Agganis Arena in Boston, MA has been moved to October 27th. (AEW)

The July 12th Raw from the ThunderDom will be pre-taped. The final live WWE event at Yuengling Center will be SmackDown three days earlier. (WWE)

John Morrison thinks last week's Raw was one of the strongest in a while. Well, that's his opinion.

Matt Hardy says Vince McMahon didn't understand Broken Matt: "Vince probably didn't have any idea about Broken Matt Hardy. Whenever we signed up for WrestleMania 33, we spoke with Vince but Triple H was the guy who did the majority of our negotiations. Thats who kind of worked out the deal with, when it was all set and done. It was very on the down low, only a handful of people knew about it and that was a part of the magic and what helped us coming back. Triple H was great the whole while, it was great working with him, it was great negotiating with him at the time. One of the reasons I think we were asked to comeback is because Vince kept saying 'Why do these people keep saying delete? What is this delete shit? Why do people keep going delete?' Eventually, we spoke to him and that's how we ended up back there. We came back, we were the Hardy Boyz and once Jeff got hurt, I was going to do a Woken Matt Hardy run. I remember pulling up to the building one time and I had no idea. Bray Wyatt, who we were buddies before that and we really bonded and gelled as friends, but I remember pulling up to television that day and Bray Wyatt pulled up and he said 'Hey man, are you excited about tonight?' I was like 'Why, what's tonight?' He's like 'You haven't heard? We're starting the whole Bray Wyatt, Broken Matt Hardy thing.' I was like 'We are?' Then I remember walking in and Michael Hayes said 'Hey, Vince needs to talk to you, he's got 30 minutes chiseled out for you and he wants you to explain the whole Broken Matt Hardy lure and how'd you come up with this and tell me about the character and what's going on.' That was definitely one of the most interesting 30 minutes I ever had, especially telling him the whole idea of the essence of Broken Matt Hardy going from one body or vessel to another body over time. Explaining that to Vince McMahon was one of my favorite memories of all time. I remember there was a lot of 'Hmmm, okay,' and I know in his mind he's going, this son of bitch is crazy. I had to sound like a mad man to him, an absolute madman. It was cool, it was fun and Vince really did stay open minded. He let me do Broken Matt on WWE T.V. and on top of that they had said we're going to get some sort of compound deletion fight. He stayed true to his word, we really had to fight and work hard to do it. Really, Vince is such a great talker. 30 minutes, it was probably 26 minutes of me talking and four minutes of him. He really was, he had an open mind to it. From what I understand, the Broken Matt Hardy craze is what ended up bringing us back to WWE so he knew there was interest there. Also it's very different because WWE is such a more massive global deal. When we were doing it on IMPACT, it was viral online and on the internet and it did really well on the IMPACT shows but that's also a much smaller audience as opposed to WWE. Vince gave it a shot and for that I commend him and thank him. I have nothing but love and a lot of respect for Vince McMahon."

Here's a new Nick Khan interview.