Kyle O’Reilly Talks AEW Crowds, Corey And Carmella Episode 3, More | Fight Size
Here is your fight size update for Tuesday, March 1, 2022:
– Appearing on The Zaslow Show, Kyle O’Reilly compared every AEW crowd to the crowd he would get to perform in front of at sporadic NXT TakeOver special events:
Well, you mentioned that and, you know, we would have the luxury of a TakeOver crowd, maybe every three months or so, if that. Here with AEW, it’s just this rabid fan base week after week after week, and just everybody’s having such a great time. It translates to the locker room too, it makes all the guys and girls with the company just want to work extra hard and just throw down and then go out on their shield, because the fans are just loving every moment of it. That really makes for such a cool environment as a wrestler and as a wrestling fan.
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– Kevin Owens has made no bones about it. He doesn’t like Texas. While everyone is expecting a certain legend to put him in his place at WrestleMania, Booker T is now stepping up to tell Kevin Owens “Don’t Mess with Texas.”
Hey @FightOwensFight I got a little message for you. #DontMessWithTexas #WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/i0dh0KwdAV
— Booker T. Huffman (@BookerT5x) March 1, 2022
– Speaking with Steve Muehlhausen of DAZN, Corey Graves noted when he realized his relationship with Carmella was serious.
I think I’ve known for a long time. The genesis of our relationship was not put in a glowing light, and it was covered on Total Divas back then. Once the dust settled and everything had gotten back to peachy keen, then I realized, ‘Wow, she’s still here’. That to me, just counted for a lot that she went through all the turmoil with me and was my partner through all of it. That was when I was like, ‘Oh ok, this is real. This isn’t just some fun thing. This is the genuine article.
I don’t think anyone wants the relationship to start out the way ours did. It was a fallacy. The facts have come out since then. It was an angry reaction and heat of the moment. Social media doing what it does. Luckily, that’s all been debunked by this point. But to start any relationship at literally the worst possible scenario. Talk about fighting from the ground up. That to me, like I said from the early goings, the fact that she didn’t run screaming into the hills, which she would have had every right to do going I don’t need this headache. I don’t need this drama. I’m the most beautiful woman in all of WWE. I can have any guy I want. But for some reason, she stuck with me, and from that point forward, I realized it’s a cliche that she’s a ride or die, but I was like this is this is my person, and I’ve gone over and above since then to protect and continue to grow this relationship from for that very reason.
– Harry Smith, the son of the legendary British Bulldog, has joined the Crockett Cup tournament. He’s going to team with Doug Williams
– Corey eavesdrops on Carmella’s tense phone call: Corey & Carmella – Episode
– Rhea Ripley, Austin Theory and Lindsey Jacobellis will be featured on WWE’s The Bump tomorrow, March 2, 2022
– AEW SVP Chris Harrington talks wrestling business ahead of Revolution, with Brandon Thurston
– “Cowboy Vlog” – Sammy’s Vlog 362
– Per People Magazine, Daffney Unger’s brain has been sent to Boston to determine if she had the degenerative brain disorder which is caused by repeated concussions
– Mickie James recently reflected on the significance of entering #20 at the Royal Rumble on The Angle Podcast.
“To be number 20, which was kind of ironic because we’re celebrating 20 years of IMPACT. I went out there I wanted to represent IMPACT, I wanted to represent Mickie James, I wanted to represent Hardcore Country. It was awesome, it was so awesome! It was a real good night.”
– When the market close, WWE stock was trading at $59.35 per share
– Thunder Rosa and Alexis Amore eating Tacos.
– AXS TV Presents Fresh Episodes Of World-Class New Japan Pro-Wrestling Action This March, Starting With A Battle For The Never Openweight Championship On March 3
LOS ANGELES (February 28, 2022) – AXS TV, a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment, Inc., celebrates the return of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) to the Network’s lineup this March with five all-new episodes showcasing the top matches from NJPW’s 2022 New Years Golden Series—airing every Thursday at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT, starting March 3.
The series puts the spotlight on world-class New Japan Pro-Wrestling action each week, delivering one hour of exclusive content compiling the absolute best moments from the iconic promotion’s most recent broadcasts. Additionally, the new episodes will feature fast-paced commentary from NJPW’s English-language broadcast team, with Kevin Kelly handling play-by-play duties for the March 3 premiere before being joined by Chris Charlton for every episode after.
AXS TV’s complete NJPW March Programming Lineup is as follows:
March 3—New Years Golden Series, filmed live from Osaka, Japan on 2/13/22
-Highlights include a dream tag-team match pitting World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada and US Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi against Los Ingobernables de Japón members Tetsuya Naito and SANADA in an epic showdown that sets the stage for Tanahashi and SANADA’s upcoming battle for the US Heavyweight Belt, and Okada and Naito’s monumental matchup for the World Heavyweight Championship.
-Bullet Club brawler EVIL defends his NEVER Openweight Championship against Tomohiro Ishii, who seeks to avenge his controversial loss to EVIL at Wrestle Kingdom 16 and reclaim the NEVER Openweight belt for the seventh time in this special lumberjack match.
March 10—New Years Golden Series, filmed live from Sapporo, Japan on 2/19/22
-Two tag-team championships are on the line tonight, starting with a massive eight-man bout for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team titles as defending champions Tiger Mask and Robbie Eagles face their toughest challenge yet against the teams of El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori, Master Wato and Ryusuke Taguchi, and El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
-Then, Bullet Club seeks to add to their ever-growing accolades as members EVIL and Yujiro Takahashi step into the ring against CHAOS duo Hirooki Goto and YOSHI-HASHI for the IWGP Tag Team Championships.
March 17—New Years Golden Series, filmed live from Sapporo, Japan on 2/19/22
-IWGP US Heavyweight Champion Hiroshi Tanahashi makes his first title defense against Los Ingobernables de Japón’s own SANADA, who Tanahashi personally called out to be his first challenger after reclaiming the belt at Wrestle Kingdom.
March 24—New Years Golden Series, filmed live from Sapporo, Japan on 2/20/22
-Minoru Suzuki and Toru Yano are unleashed in a rabid Dog Cage Match, where the winner must lock his opponent inside a canine kennel for the right to be crowned KOPW 2022 Champion.
-CHAOS reignites their rivalry with Bullet Club, as Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI and YOH defend the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team titles against EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi and SHO.
March 31—New Years Golden Series, filmed live from Sapporo, Japan on 2/20/22
-The 2022 New Years Golden Series comes to a close, as IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kazuchika Okada defends NJPW’s most coveted prize against Los Ingobernables de Japón figurehead—and longtime rival—Tetsuya Naito in this hotly-anticipated main event.
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– Celebrate the Men & Women of AEW with a Celebration of Excellence ‘Who We Are’ Vol. 1, 3/1/22
