The 3 Rs: The Right, The wRong, and The Ridiculous of NXT, AEW Dynamite, and WWE Smackdown May 11, 2021 | Posted by Tony Acero
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Hello everyone! Welcome to a late edition of The Rs! My trusty colleagues did their part while I was partying it up in Vegas, so I owe it to them to post this! Enjoy!
By Tony Acero
By Harry Broadhurst
Harry coming back at ya with week two here on the NXT R’s and I want to thank everyone for checking it out. Not that anyone cares, but I try to watch all the weekly shows I can and am looking forward to MLW coming back this summer with the return of one of the best out of the ring characters in modern wrestling history. There’s so much to enjoy in current wrestling. It’s just up to us as fans to find it.
Renee Young Defends Adnan Virk s Performance as WWE Raw Commentator
Raw s play-by-play commentator, and his performance has already received some criticism from certain parts of the WWE fanbase. Renee Paquette (formerly Renee Young) has spoken numerous times about the year she spent as Raw s second color commentator alongside Michael Cole and Corey Graves and, in a new interview with
Wrestling Inc., she told fans to not be so critical of Virk given the difficulty of that role. It really messes with you because it s not like I went in there being like, I know what I m doing. I didn t know what I was doing, Paquette said. They asked me to come in and commentate on Monday Night Raw, so, what am I gonna say? No? No, of course I m going to go do my best and try to figure it out, and I will give credit to WWE big time here is that they let me stay in. Everything that I had done in WWE at that point, people have been so gracious to me, and the fans have been really really cool to
Bayley Takes Shots at Eva Marie Over Her Super Role Model Promo on WWE Raw
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Monday Night Raw talked about her being a super role model, which instantly got a reaction from The Role Model Bayley. The former SmackDown Women s Champion retweeted the initial video and wrote, This is why I hate you idiots. She then directly retweeted Marie by calling her super dumb. This prompted a response from All Red Everything.
Silly ,DING-DONG , Don’t be upset that the student has become the master.
Who s side are you on in this? Let us know in the comments below!
Dave Meltzer reported on the latest
SummerSlam 2021 event have been popping up over the past few weeks. Days after
WrestleMania 37 brought tens of thousands of live fans to Tampa s Raymond James Stadium,
PWInsider then reported on Monday that the date had been finalized for Aug. 22, though the location still had not been determined.
Dave Meltzer followed that up on the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, stating that the company was considering Madison Square Garden in New York City as the possible location. WWE and MSG have a history that stretches back decades, though it has not hosted a
SummerSlam event since 1998 (featuring the famous Steve Austin vs. The Undertaker WWF Championship main event).
Rey Mysterio Talks Pressure To Be First Father-Son WWE Tag Champs
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In less than a week, Rey and Dominik Mysterio could make history by becoming the first father-son duo in SmackDown history to become the tag team champions.
Their opportunity will come next Sunday at
WrestleMania Backlashwhen they face The Dirty Dawgs (Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode) for the titles. With this being Dominik’s second championship opportunity since entering the company last summer, Rey couldn’t be any prouder of his son and his fighting efforts.
“I’m extremely proud of what he [Dominik] has accomplished in such a short amount of time,” Mysterio stated during his interview on this week’s