AEW Pays Tribute To Antonio Inoki, AEW WrestleDream Hype, NXT No Mercy Highlights | Fight Size
Here’s your fight size update prior to AEW WrestleDream on Sunday, October 1, 2023.
– AEW WrestleDream is in honor of NJPW Founder Antonio Inoki. AEW released an Inoki tribute video, which is embedded above.
– Ahead of tonight’s event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET, AEW has released several videos hyping the show. Embedded below, you can see a timeline of events leading to tonight’s main event, Christian Cage vs. Darby Allin in a 2-out-of-3 Falls match for the AEW TNT Title.
– Fans can also view the full Countdown to AEW WrestleDream here.
– Prince Nana has appeared in the latest Swerve Strickland music video.
– Mick shares his experience working and feuding with “The Viper” Randy Orton.
– ICYMI: Jim Ross expects Bryan Danielson to set the bar tonight in his match with Zack Sabre Jr. Read more here.
– Speaking with Rick Ucchino of Cageside Seats, Julia Hart provided some insights on the characters that have inspired her current role in AEW.
Wednesday was a big one for me. I loved Wednesday. Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the Netflix series. How she’s sassy and she’s a little witch. Kill Bill, Uma Thurman’s character. I love the confidence and the badass she [is]. And then Stevie Nicks, of course, with American Horror Story season three.
– Check out the top 10 moments from last night’s NXT No Mercy, as presented by WWE.
– ICYMI: Ariane Andrew is starting a new promotion called Pound Town Wrestling. Find more information about the upcoming promotion in West Hollywood at this link.
– Isiah Kassidy has uploaded his latest vlog.
– After Noam Dar’s impressive win over Butch to defend the NXT Heritage Cup, the Meta-Four say they run NXT.
– Fightful’s Iridian Fierro recently did an unboxing of the AEW World Trios Championship belt for her Wrestfriend’s YouTube channel.
– Matt Bloom was very proud of the NXT roster following last night’s NXT No Mercy event.
Write all the cliches you want, but tonight was hard ass work on display. What you see on TV is a small fraction of the hard work these men & women put in daily. I am constantly motivated by the determination of the @WWENXT Superstars striving to always be better. #wearenxt
— Matt Bloom (@NXTMattBloom) October 1, 2023
– With speculation running rampant that Edge could soon end up in AEW, Fightful Select has the latest information regarding facets of the Edge presentation and what could be carried over into AEW should Adam Copeland make the jump.
– Maven recently spoke with WrestleZone about a multitude of topics, including the success of his YouTube channel, his personal favorite wrestler to come from WWE Tough Enough, and more.
– Ahead of AEW WrestleDream, AEW personality (despite never getting a graphic) RJ City was stressed in Seattle as he made coffee in his underwear.
– Eric Bischoff On The Real Reason The AWA Closed Down
– Not that there was much doubt but MJF has once again enforced that tonight’s Handicap Match for the Ring of Honor World Tag Team Championship against Vincent and Dutch, The Righteous, is dedicated to Adam Cole.
Tonights For @AdamColePro pic.twitter.com/nnVwd6FJiK
— Maxwell Jacob Friedman (@The_MJF) October 1, 2023
– Watch: Ted DiBiase on The Rock
– ICYMI: MJF gave his thoughts on AEW potentially landing a streaming deal with WBD’s streaming service, Max. Read more here.
– Lee Moriarty is hoping to hit a cool pose with Mercedes Martinez and Diamante tonight during their 8-Person Mixed Tag Match.
— pose u say???!!!
–….let me think about it.— Mercedes Martinez –️—— (@RealMMartinez) October 1, 2023
– That match will also be featuring Keith Lee, and once his match is over, his wife “Michin” Mia Yim plans to be streaming on Twitch.
Streaming tonight after @RealKeithLee match. Starting FNAF Security Breach again, hopefully we can finish it before the movie comes out later this month. https://t.co/cpUnGMcw0U
— Deebo (@MiaYim) October 1, 2023
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– Catch all the highlights from NXT No Mercy 2023 with a history-making NXT Championship Match between Hayes and Dragunov, and an out-of-this-world show of barbarity in the Extreme Rules Match involving NXT Women’s Champion Lynch and Stratton.
