Lots Of News – Cody Rhodes, Elon Musk, Ricochet, Chris Jericho, Being The Elite
In a recent interview with Fightful, Cody Rhodes explained why he stopped appearing on ‘Being the Elite’ and teased a potential return to the digital series in the future.
Since ‘Being the Elite’ is owned by The Young Bucks, and not AEW, it wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility for Cody to return. Rhodes said,
“I don’t even remember. I think the workload for me was a problem. I was really proud of the Exorcism of Cody Rhodes and pretty much everything I had done on there, but I treated that the same way I treated SummerSlam. I was very committed, very all in, and with the job that I had and the other job I had, I think I fell out of the normal cast. Plus, the cast changed. I want to say my last appearance was the drone funeral. I loved that. I thought that was a good way to go out. You never know, that’s a show that’s everywhere. I could make a cameo, I could make a return. There is a lot of fun that was had there, for sure.”
Silicon Valley billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were recently engaged in verbal warfare with UFC President Dana White confirming that the two men are “dead serious” about battling each other inside a cage.
While the fight hasn’t happened (yet), it seems Musk is still keen on fighting. Taking to Twitter/X, Musk wrote,
“Am going with @WWE as my fighting style.”
Am going with @WWE as my fighting style https://t.co/CggZ7HhrPQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 7, 2023
On a recent edition of the “Stay Busy” podcast, Ricochet revealed which wrestler he would like to fight again, noting that he has yet to score a definitive win over AJ Styles. Ricochet said,
“For me, there’s nobody better than AJ Styles and I’m still yet to get that definitive win over AJ Styles. So until I can get that definitive win, I can barely even say that, but like it doesn’t get any better than AJ Styles.”
Ricochet and Styles previously fought at WWE Extreme Rules 2019, where Styles won the United States Title from the high-flying athlete.
On a recent edition of the “Talk is Jericho” podcast, Marc Maron thanked Chris Jericho for helping him become a fan of professional wrestling. While Maron was a part of the Netflix series GLOW, he actually wasn’t into wrestling until later. He said,
“I was a very young kid, probably in fourth or fifth grade, I would walk down to the drug store from my house in Albuquerque. Okay. And there was those wrestling magazines. They were always on the rack. I knew nothing about it, but I just knew it was like, bloody guys and unitards. And I was just sort of like, what the f*** is going on? And they’re always, like, next to the true detective magazines. So it was just like guys covered in blood and then bodies. So when I got the part on GLOW, I was like, I don’t know anything about wrestling. They were like, neither does your character, he’s a film director. That’s kind of down on his luck. And he’s been given this opportunity.’ I’m like, ‘Great, then I can learn that.’ So really, my experience with wrestling and I met a few guys who did the show. Chavo [Guerrero Jr.] was there, and I kind of got some lessons and some history. But it wasn’t until I went with Brendan to see you guys that I had no experience of it.”
Impact Wrestling has announced a singles match between Jody Threat and Alisha Edwards for Thursday’s episode on AXS TV.
You can check out the updated lineup for Thursday’s show below:
* IMPACT Tag Team Championship #1 Contenders Tournament: Ace Austin & Chris Bey vs. Sami Callihan & Rich Swann
* Bully Ray, Moose, & Brian Myers vs. Samuray Del Sol, Black Taurus, & Laredo Kid
* KUSHIDA vs. Mike Bailey
* Alisha Edwards vs. Jody Threat
THURSDAY at 8/7c on #IMPACTonAXSTV!@MrsAIPAlisha aims to defeat the newcomer, @JodyThreat!#IMPACTWRESTLING pic.twitter.com/urmnuZhtiQ
— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) August 7, 2023
And finally, the latest episode of Being the Elite, titled “Renewal”, is online on YouTube:
“The Elite talk about why they renewed their AEW contracts. Dynamite 200. Brandon goes to Gen Con.”
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