Bray Wyatt & Terry Funk Tributes On SmackDown, Brian Myers On Training The Rock For WM29
WWE paid tribute to Bray Wyatt and Terry Funk on Friday’s episode of SmackDown, and videos of the tributes as well as words from Adam Pearce, Top Dolla & others are online.
You can check out the latest reactions below:
#ThankYouBray 🙏❤️ pic.twitter.com/OWYhtWjjFm
— Adam Pearce (@ScrapDaddyAP) August 26, 2023
Thank You Bray… I love you. 🔝💵#RIPBrayWyatt #RIPBray #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/sxHOxihQP1
— Top Dolla 🔝💵 (@AJFrancis410) August 26, 2023
More messages from around the WWE Universe remembering Bray Wyatt 🙏#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/So9jy7fLzP
— WWE on FOX (@WWEonFOX) August 26, 2023
The Fireflies are shining extra bright tonight.
Thank you, Bray Wyatt. #SmackDown pic.twitter.com/F2GQwY3byy
— WWE (@WWE) August 26, 2023
That Bray Wyatt tribute just fucked me up a bit… 36 years old and had reinvented himself effortlessly thru his career. Beloved by everybody.. us as fans and everybody behind the scenes
Rest Easy Mr Windham Rotunda.. You DONE GOOD. pic.twitter.com/NQTikJln9X
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) August 26, 2023
— Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) August 25, 2023
The Allstate Arena is saddened to learn that Bray Wyatt, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 24, at age 36.
We would like to extend our condolences to his family, friends, and fans. pic.twitter.com/XezbrckfuF— Allstate Arena (@AllstateArena) August 25, 2023
Brian Myers helped Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson get rid of the ring rust ahead of his 2013 match against John Cena at WrestleMania 29, and he recently recalled how John Laurinaitis called him and asked him to work with The Great One. He said,
“I was on the train to go on a date with now wife and Johnny Ace was calling me and I’m like, ‘Oh no, this can’t be good’ because I’m like jabrone Curt Hawkins doing nothing. He’s like, ‘Hey, hold on, they’re patching in Joe Henning’ and I’m going, ‘What on earth could be going on now’ and then he explained to us that Hunter decided that we would be the best candidates to be his training guys.”
“It was pretty crazy, we were like his Secret agent crash test dummies. The travel agent would just call you at the drop of the hat and be like, ‘Dwayne wants to train tomorrow, he’s in New Orleans, here’s a 7AM there and a 7PM home.’ You’d just go and there’d be a ring set up in a warehouse. On the flip side, The Rock couldn’t have been cooler. [He was] the coolest dude ever. You’re around somebody and you [realize] why he’s one of the most successful dudes ever on earth because of the way he carries himself and the way he handles his business and stuff. Me and Joe were just complete jabrones and he was so cool to us.”
The Rock has had one pseudo-match since then which was his quick victory over Erick Rowan in just six seconds at WrestleMania 32 in 2016.
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