Jim Ross Reveals How Vince McMahon Reacted to First Seeing Brock Lesnar
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Between his two WWE runs, Brock Lesnar has utterly dominated WWE s main event scene with multiple WrestleMania main events and 1,440 combined days as world champion across eight reigns with the WWE and WWE Universal Championships. It should come as no surprise then that when Vince McMahon first met The Beast after he d won the NCAA Division I Heavyweight Championship as a collegiate wrestler, he immediately knew he d be a star. Gerry Brisco and I brought Brock Lesnar to a TV taping in Minneapolis because he went to college there, Jim Ross told
Why is AEW Moving to TBS?
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AEW Rampage, on Friday nights in August, and that both
AEW Dynamite will be moving from TNT to TBS beginning in January 2022. Brett Weitz, general manager of TNT, TBS and truTV, hosted a media conference call on Wednesday and was asked what prompted the move, as AEW had called TNT home since it first arrived on television in October 2019. Weitz confirmed that Turner Sports new deal with the National Hockey League played a factor in the decision. .More wrestling is a good thing, especially for the consumer. So we couldn t be more excited about having more wrestling on TBS, Weitz said. As Tony Khan said in his quote, both TBS and TNT have an incredibly storied past with wrestling, so the idea of us being able to put more AEW onto TBS was a natural fit. The obvious idea for me to able to program these networks as a portfolio gives me the latitude to put them where it makes the most sense for the consumer.
Will AEW Rampage Conflict With WWE SmackDown on Friday Nights?
AEW Rampage, the long-awaited third hour of AEW weekly programming, will arrive on Friday, Aug. 13 on TNT. But as wrestling fans are already well aware, Friday nights are currently dominated by
Friday Night SmackDown over on the FOX network. However, barring any massive overruns from the Blue Brand, Rampage will not have to run up against WWE s highest-rated show as the one-hour program doesn t start until 10 p.m. ET each week.
TNT, TBS and truTV general manager Brett Weitz confirmed in a conference call on Wednesday that Rampage s date and timeslot post-TBS jump have not been determined. Dynamite, on the other hand, will remain on Wednesday nights.
AEW s Chris Jericho Throws Shade at WWE Over the WrestleMania Backlash Zombies
WrestleMania Backlash event had a surprise crossover with Zack Synder s
Zombies.ZOMBIES? Wow that just set wrestling back 30 years. Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) May 17, 2021
Wtf you telling me?!! You think I booked a bunch of fucking zombies. I’m on a damn plane! Shouldn’t you be tweeting Vince?! ♂️ https://t.co/Eb8wNdijRI The Artist Formerly Known as Super Duper Dave (@DaveBautista) May 17, 2021 Blood & Guts is a little bit different, Jericho said when comparing it to WarGames. Even just in the way that it s constructed. You ll see that on Wednesday. I ve been in a lot of first matches before. The first Elimination Chamber, the first Money in the Bank, the first Stadium Stampede, so I m no stranger to that.
The Mat Men Podcast host Andrew Zarian has dropped a number of major WWE reports in recent months. In the last week alone he reported WWE was planning on bringing live fans back beginning with the July 16 episode of Friday Night SmackDown, followed by the news that WWE bumped up Hell in a Cell to [.]