CM Punk: "The Rumble didn’t go the way I would have booked it. Since we’re just peeling back the curtain so much here, I would have had me and Cena as the last two guys. I would’ve had Cena throw my ass over the top rope, you know?"
Henry on Jacob Fatu/Strowman/Reed: “Have a battle of the big meat slapping meat match. Put those big son of a guns in the ring and draw some money. I’m talking about the green backs, crypto, diamonds, gold, silver, whatever you want to do, as long as it equal dollar signs, put it in the ring.”
Netflix Co-CEO: “Our 1st week, we drew about 5,000,000 views, which is about 2 times the audience that Monday Night Raw was getting a linear television, pretty consistent with how we modeled it, how we’d hoped to build the audience for the league.”
Will Friedle (Eric Matthews from “Boy Meets World”) on attending Raw for the first time: “Everyone with belts and signs, every age, every color, every gender, everything is represented. It is the most beautiful hodgepodge of people you’ve ever seen in your life.“
Karrion Kross reveals Moxley gave him Triple H’s phone number: “He said ‘I just have a feeling if you call him, things are going to be good for you.’ And I’m like, ‘What do you mean, just call Triple H? What do you mean?’”
Chioda on Rey/Samoa Joe being cut short at WM35: “The match went down from 15 to 12, and then 12 to like 9 or 8. And when I got in the ring, and Mysterio was just about on his entrance, they said you gotta go home. As soon as Rey and Joe get in the ring, you gotta go home. You have two minutes.”
Chioda on Tony Chimel: “He announced for many years, working tirelessly as part of the ring crew for an incredible 38 years. I thought my 35 years were a long time, but Chimel’s 38 are just amazing. He did so much for the company, in so many ways.”
Matt Hardy on Styles backstage at TNA Final Resolution: “We saw AJ. He was backstage. It’s great to catch up with him. I’ve loved AJ since I first met him, and he’s always been a great guy. He’s one of the guys that’s never changed.”
Kevin Nash on his latest injury: “My fucking deltoids are so big and so dominant, that my rotator cuffs can be torn off the fucking bone, and the only thing that happens is I’ll do a movement and I’ll fucking feel my humerus pop out of the fucking joint because it’s not fucking tethered down right.”
DDP on Orton: “Randy, a lot of people have heard me talk about him. One of my favorites, one of my favorites of all time. I think the most underrated guy maybe ever in our business.”
Ricochet on Samantha Irving leaving WWE: “People were like, ‘Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That’s not how it works. You’re supposed to be for 20 years. What are you talking about? You’re not supposed to leave right now. Ricochet must have convinced you to leave because he left.'”
Undertaker: “I like Bron Breakker. I like him. I think he’s gonna be really good. Jey Uso is doing a great job, I like him. Gunther…the other kid there too that reminds me of The Rock, LA Knight. If The Rock and Stone Cold had a child it would be LA Knight.”
Ricky Starks on not being used by AEW: “Would I love to know the exact reason? For sure. Do I have speculations about why? Absolutely, but that does nothing to speak on things that I speculate, does nothing for the situation. So I think it’s just a matter of, ‘It sucks.’”
Jey Uso on the World title: “I’m gonna get the big one. No one believes that, just like that doubted me the whole time. It’s all good. I’m used to that. It’s just fuel to the fire. But I’m gonna get that, I’m gonna get it. I’m putting it out there right now. “
Kofi on Odyssey Jones: “One of the main lessons that I’ve learned is that you never know what tomorrow is going to bring with WWE. You always have to be ready to adjust at the drop of a hat.”
DDP: “Cody had the vision. He saw it. People who say, ’I’ll see it when I believe it,’ they don’t see shit. The people who say, ‘I believe it because I see it,’ they’re the visionaries. I think of 10 years ago when Cody was seeing a vision of himself holding that world title. Cody is a visionary.”
Austin Theory on not having past plans for him: “Like a lot of things, even when I had the US title the first time [shrugs], Money in the Bank [shrugs], second time US Title [shrugs], you know, it’s just kind of seeing what rolls.”
Dutch Mantell dealing with serious health issues, GoFundMe set up. Both him and his wife have required extended hospital stays to keep them alive.
Lashley confirms idea to get in fight with Kross: “I was like, ‘Let’s just go and start slugging it out,’ and if people break it up, it’s gonna help out our feud and I think it brings a lot more attention to it because they were putting us together in this feud right before WrestleMania”
Nash on HHH/Vince: “I think at that point if it wouldn’t have went the way it did, I think Paul would have walked. Steph already had. I mean, we never had the conversation, but I know Paul.”
Matt Hardy on TNA Hall of Fame: “Monty Brown was someone that was up for consideration, but it seemed like they were having a hard time getting a hold of Monty Brown. He’s kind of off the grid, it seems like, but he would have been a really killer candidate, too, considering it’s in Detroit.”
Booker T on Je’Von Evans’ botched RKO: “All the haters online that’s giving this kid hate, they wish they were as talented as this kid. They wish they could do what this young man could do and go out there and do it on a nightly basis.”
Kurt Angle: “I just felt that my second time in WWE, I wasn’t so much appreciated. I think it has a lot to do with me leaving the company high and dry in 2006 and going straight to TNA.”
Bronson Reed on telling Rollins how many Tsunamis he was giving: “As it’s happening. So it’s one of those things like, yeah, he has to be willing to be there and I have to be willing to be able to do more.”
Bryan Danielson: “I had a lifetime job at WWE, and I chose to come here because there were the best wrestlers in the world. The best fans in the world. And this is the best wrestling company in the world.”
