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GFW President Ed Nordholm recently spoke with The Ottawa Citizen to promote the upcoming Bound For Glory pay-per-view in the area. Below are some of the highlights from the interview.

On how GFW differs from WWE: “Our tagline is ‘Less Talk More Action.’ It’s a style of wrestling that focuses more on the action in the ring than in the storylines. Not to take anything away from WWE, that is their product and they obviously do a spectacular job. But we have a very good show with talented wrestlers, athletic wrestlers.”

On choosing Ottawa as the location for this year’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view: “It’s the nation’s capital, it’s a good place to make a statement in our inaugural effort to bring our premier event outside of its traditional home in Orlando. No slight to Toronto … we’ll get there, too, I’m sure, sometime along the way.”

Check out the complete Ed Nordholm interview at OttawaCitizen.com.

On WWE’s official YouTube channel, video was released of a Roman Reigns locker room interview from last night’s WWE No Mercy pay-per-view in Los Angeles, California.

Reigns spoke about his “Born to Reign” line and that it’s not him being arrogant, but instead is simply how he feels and how he takes himself into battle and putting his body on the line every night because he feels he was meant to do something big.

“This company, this business runs through my veins so if I ever choose to do something else, I didn’t hold this place hostage, this really was my home,” said Reigns in the video, which you can watch above. “I gave some of my childhood. I mean, my father was a wrestler, my uncle was a wrestler, countless cousins. Do you know how often I saw my dad? I’ve made sacrifices since day one in this business and I continue to do it, and I’m not gonna stop even if somebody like John Cena doesn’t want me to be here or doesn’t think I deserve it or wants to keep me down and try to bury me.”

Reigns continued, “It’s just not going to happen. There’s not a man on Earth that can stop me from doing what I have to do to take care of mine.”

Chris Jericho recently appeared as a guest on Ring Rust Radio to promote his new book, “No Is A Four Letter Word.” Below are some of the highlights from the interview.

On his new book, “No Is A Four Letter Word” and why now was a good time for him to write it: “It’s pretty philosophical, man. Like there is some kind of otherworldly design behind it. What happened was I’ve already written three autobiographies in the course of seven years. I love to write and I have lots to write about. A fourth autobiography at this stage in my life might be a little pretentious, like does the world really need another Jericho autobiography? I’m not exactly Jack Kerouac or whatever. So, I thought I would answer a question that gets asked quite often in how you did all these things you do. How did you make it in wrestling? How did you make it in music? How do you continue to do all these things? So, I sat down I came up with 20 principles of things I learned over the years from celebrities, family members, people that I know, fictional characters, and put them all down. Twenty principles like I said, the David Bowie principle of always reinvent yourself; The Vince McMahon principle of work hard then work harder; the Steve Austin principle, always be a little bit of an asshole. All these little things that helped me get these goals accomplished that I wanted to accomplish. It became almost like a motivational book or self-help book and it never really intended to be that way but that’s the kind of way it morphed. Now that it’s out, it’s really cool to see people’s reactions and how people are gaining a lot of advice from things that I’ve learned and applying it to their own life. It is a pretty cool feeling.”

On how this book is different from his previous books: “It’s a little bit different because it’s more of a self-help motivational thing, but it’s still filled with ridiculous stories and things about my life and what’s happened and fun stuff and all those sorts of things. It’s pretty much in the vein of the other books just more of a theme and focus behind it. A book is a book, it’s hard to write. It’s never easy to write a book and I write all my books by myself from cover to cover so it’s a lot of edits and rewrites, a lot of time spent. I think for my second book I divided the amount of hours that I worked on the book by the amount of money I got for it and it came out to $2.14 an hour. It was hundreds of hours of work for a big chunk of change. You have to put the time in and it’s like anything else that’s worth it. Whether it’s writing a book or making an album or doing a podcast or putting together a wrestling match or whatever it may be; the more time spent on it, the better it’s going to be. You can’t do anything half-ass or its going to come off that way and I refuse to have anything I do not be 1000 percent completely all my effort put into it.”

On KISS front man Paul Stanley writing the foreword to the book: “The whole book kind of started from this quote that Paul said in 1987 in a movie I saw where he said, “The only people that tell you can’t do something are the ones that have failed. I’m not going to tell you that you can’t do it because I did it. You can do it.” When he said you can do it, I really felt like he was looking right at me, Paul Stanley telling me you can do it. So, it’s kind of how I live my life and focus my career on wanting to be a wrestler and be in a rock ‘n roll band. Well Paul Stanley said I could do it so I don’t care what anybody else thinks. So, the last few years we met through a cool set of circumstances and became pretty cool friends with Paul and now he is just a dude and a good friend of mine. So who better to do the forward of the book than the guy who basically kicked it all off with a cool thing he said 30 years ago that I’ll never forget? He probably doesn’t even remember saying it. I just called him up and asked him. He said how long should it be and I said as long as you want it to be and he came back with a really cool original foreword. I happened to see Gene Simmons last week while we were on the same trail of book tours. You go to the same interview places and talk shows and that sort of thing and we crossed paths a couple of times. He knew all about the Gene Simmons principle because nowadays you do something or say something and everyone is going to tweet you about it. He thought that was pretty cool and the Gene Simmons principle is always dress like a star. So little things like that you can learn and take with you for the rest your life.”

On playing Clint Bobski in Southpaw Regional Wrestling and if there will be future episodes: “It’s something I heard about a while back when they came up with the idea and asked if I wanted to be involved. I said yeah I want to be the backstage interviewer Clint Bobski. That’s the name that I used in college when I went to do creative communications, television classes, and radio classes. Whenever we were doing box sports casts or mock radio on sports, I was always Clint Bobski. I love that name and I don’t know why. I used it again for Southpaw and it was a lot of fun because I used to watch wrestling like that. Stampede Wrestling and local wrestling in Winnipeg it was called the FWA. They were filmed in the exact same type of cheap gritty videotapes and the backstage announcers were over the top and cheesy. They were playing backstage announcers saying things like, “Oh my goodness, look at what we have here! I have never seen such a thing!” It was a lot of fun to do and people were very confused early this summer when I came back for Smackdown for one night only and they thought that I was back. I wasn’t back. I was there because I was filming the second season of Southpaw Wrestling and asked if I could do a match and thought might as well while I am here. I would love to see a few more but I don’t know if the series took off virally like they thought it would and I am not sure what the numbers are on that but it was a lot of fun while we did it and hopefully get to do more. I think a lot of times the initial one is always the best because it’s such a surprise and nobody really knows what they’re getting into. Where with the second one everybody wanted to get involved and some of the characters weren’t as strong. I think Miz’s guy was terrible in it whatever he was called. I just thought it was terrible and it wasn’t funny. I thought the Butcher Boys weren’t funny. The first one was really funny because no one was really trying. They were just being whatever they wanted to be. It’s like a sequel to a movie where you stumble onto something and it’s never as good as the original. If they do more Clint Bobski will be there and if they don’t it was fun while it lasted.”

Check out the complete episode of Ring Rust Radio featuring the Chris Jericho interview at BlogTalkRadio.com.

The October 3rd, 2017 edition of WWE SmackDown Live took place at the Pepsi Center in Denver, CO.

– This week’s SmackDown broadcast opens up with the entire roster on the stage for a moment of silence for the victims of the shooting in Las Vegas, NV.

– Renee Young is in the ring to welcome everyone to SmackDown, then she introduces her guest Shinsuke Nakamura, who will be challenging for Jinder Mahal’s WWE Championship at Hell In A Cell on Sunday. Renee asks Nakamura what he thinks of Jinder Mahal making fun of him, and he says sticks and stones will break his bones but words will never hurt him. Renee says they’ve never seen anyone in WWE like him, and Nakamura adds that he’ll take the WWE Title from Jinder Mahal on Sunday. The Singh Brothers come out to the stage and say they’re sorry for interrupting Shinsuke’s thrilling interview, but they have to introduce Jinder Mahal. They do their usual introduction, but instead of coming out from behind the curtain, Jinder Mahal hits the ring out of nowhere and attacks Nakamura from behind. Nakamura starts to fight back, but the Singh Brothers hit the ring too and the numbers are too much for him. Jinder boots Nakamura in the face, then gives him the cobra clutch slam. Jinder holds his WWE Title belt in the air while Nakamura is down in the ring.

– Tom Phillips and Corey Graves tell us that Shane McMahon will stand face to face with Kevin Owens later tonight.

– We see footage from earlier today of Women’s Champion Natalya confronting Carmella & James Ellsworth and warning her not to try cashing in her Money In The Bank contract tonight.

– Natalya & Carmella def. Charlotte & Becky Lynch: Ellsworth is chained up at ringside in Carmella and Natalya’s corner. Charlotte and Becky dump Natalya and Carmella out to ringside early on, and they follow up with baseball slide kicks to the outside. Back in the ring, Natalya squares off against Becky and drops her with a clothesline. Nattie takes Becky back into her corner and stomps a mudhole in her. Natalya keeps Becky grounded with some elbow shows and then a snap suplex. Becky breaks free from Natalya and gets the hot tag to Charlotte. Charlotte cleans house then lays into Natalya with a series of chops to the chest. Charlotte hits a T-bone suplex on Natalya for a two count. Carmella and Becky both run in and then brawl out to ringside. Charlotte spears down Natalya and goes for the Figure Four, but Natalya escapes. Meanwhile at ringside, Carmella nails Becky with the Money In The Bank briefcase. Charlotte sees the briefcase shot, and Natalya takes advantage of the distraction by dropping Charlotte from behind. Natalya follows up with a Sharpshooter for the win via submission.

– We see a special look back at the history between Kevin Owens and Shane McMahon, including Owens’ attack on Vince.

– Bobby Roode is shown backstage heading towards the gorilla position.

– Bobby Roode def. Mike Kanellis: Roode backs up Mike into the corner to start off, but Kanellis fires back with kicks and right hands. Roode ducks a punch and answers with a spinebuster. Roode waits for Kanellis to get to his feet, then he hits the Glorious DDT for the win via pinfall after a very short match.

– After the match, Dolph Ziggler comes out to the stage and says Roode’s entrance is quite a production. Ziggler says he’s been working on ideas for his entrance for their match at Hell In A Cell on Sunday. First Ziggler plays a siren, then he goes behind the curtain and comes out with a big drum. He drops the drum and sets off some noisemakers and an air horn. Ziggler uses the air horn all the way down to the ring, then he steps in. He asks if he fans all like him now, and tells Roode that he thinks his entrance is everything. Ziggler says Roode finally weaseled his way into WWE after all these years, but on Sunday Ziggler will show us an entrance like we’ve never seen before. Ziggler says when the bell rings on Sunday he’ll expose Roode for what he is – nothing more than a fancy entrance. Ziggler drops the mic and walks off, but Roode picks up the mic and stops him. Roode says he thinks Ziggler’s entrances are horrible, then leads the crowd in a “glorious” chant before his music starts.

– The Usos come out to the ring next to cut a promo on The New Day. They say on Sunday they’ll take the New Day to the Uso Penitentiary, and they make comparisons between the Hell In A Cell cage and a jail. Before they can finish, Tag Team Champions the New Day come down the ramp to interrupt. The New Day promotes their new underwear on WWEShop, then they get into talking about Hell In A Cell. They say that on Sunday, The Usos will find themselves face first in a pile of their own “day one ish.” The New Day steps into the ring, and The Usos back off. The Usos head up the ramp to the back while the Tag Champs taunt them from the ring.

– WWE Champ Jinder Mahal is backstage cutting a promo in his language for his people. He then switches to English and shows us a clip of him beating down Nakamura earlier. Jinder says that he’s going to do the same thing to Nakamura on Sunday at Hell In A Cell, and is confident that he’ll be standing tall with his WWE Title at the end of the night.

– It’s announced that The Hype Bros will take on Chad Gable & Shelton Benjamin on the Hell In a Cell Kickoff Show on Sunday.

– Tye Dillinger def. Baron Corbin: Corbin backs Dillinger into the corner with strikes right off the opening bell. Corbin throws Dillinger outside, but Dillinger runs right back in the ring and starts laying into Corbin with punches. Dillinger fires up and hits a superkick on Corbin that sends Corbin rolling out to ringside to recover. AJ Styles is shown watching on a monitor backstage as Corbin comes back with an elbow. Corbin pushes Dillinger off the apron into the ring steps, then he follows him outside. Corbin hangs Tye upside down on the ropes outside the ring, then punches him in the midsection. Corbin throws Tye back in the ring and struts over to him like he knows he’s got this match in the bag. Corbin goes to pick up Tye, but Tye snatches Corbin and rolls him up in a small package pin for the win out of nowhere. Tye rolls out of the ring and retreats up the ramp as Corbin freaks out in the ring.

– As Tye makes his way backstage, AJ Styles appears on the big screen and cuts a promo on Corbin. Styles taunts Corbin for his recent losses, and says Corbin needs to stop throwing temper tantrums all the time. Styles says Corbin keeps getting in the way of his U.S. Title reign, so on Sunday he’s taking him out.

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– Aiden English and Rusev are in the ring. Rusev gets on the mic, and points out that Randy Orton ruined “Rusev Day” last week. Rusev begins talking about his plans for Orton at Hell In a Cell on Sunday, but then Orton’s music hits and we have a match.

– Randy Orton def. Aiden English: English gets some offense in early on and takes control of the match with a dropkick to the face. Orton ducks a clothesline and English runs off the ropes. Orton throws English up into the air and hits an RKO on him on the way down. Orton rolls up English for the win after a short match.

– Rusev looks like he’s about to hop in the ring, but Orton sees him and gets right in his face. Rusev backs down and slowly retreats up the ramp, talking trash to Orton who is still in the ring.

– Sami Zayn approaches Shane McMahon backstage with a warning about Owens. Zayn says that Shane has only gotten a glimpse of what Owens can do when he snaps, and that Owens is in a very bad state of mind. Shane brushes off Zayn and tells him to worry about himself, and Shane will worry about Shane.

– SmackDown commissioner Shane McMahon makes his way out to the ring next. Shane calls out Owens, and also announces that their Hell In A Cell match on Sunday will be under Falls Count Anywhere rules. We hear Owens on a mic somewhere, but he’s not on the stage. Owens emerges from the crowd, and says that he’s really the money in WWE. Owens walks towards the ring, but then says that he’s spent enough time in Denver as-is and he’s going to leave. As Owens starts walking away, Shane calls him out from the ring and calls him a coward. Shane says that since Owens won’t come to him, he’s going to go to Owens. Shane hops the fan barricade and runs up the steps through the crowd. Shane steps into the arena hallways and gets ambushed by Owens. There are some fans in the hallway cheering on the fight. Owens and Shane brawl all over the arena’s concession stand area until Owens grabs hold of Shane and powerbombs him through a WWE merch table. Owens leaves Shane laying and he starts walking back towards the ring. Owens walks back through the crowd and steps into the ring with a mic. He says if Shane thinks this is bad, he hasn’t seen anything yet. Owens says he’s glad their match will be a falls count anywhere match, because he wants to be able to beat Shane inside or outside the cell. He says he’ll grind Shane’s face across the cage until the flesh is ripped off, and he’ll powerbomb him over and over until he forgets his kids’ names. Owens says Shane can forget about jumping off the cell, because on Sunday he’s throwing Shane off the cell, and there’s no getting up this time. As Owens is talking, Shane stumbles back down the steps through the crowd towards the ring. Owens gets out of the ring and hops the guard rail to meet Shane in the crowd and they start brawling again. Shane throws Owens over the fan barricade then hops up on it for a flying clothesline on Owens. They continue to brawl at ringside until Owens throws Shane over the announce table. Owens gets back in the ring, then Shane slowly follows him in. Owens and Shane start fighting in the ring back and forth now. Owens drops Shane with a superkick then steps outside the ring. Owens sees Shane getting up, so Owens gets back in the ring and grabs him. Shane starts fighting back, but Owens drops him again, this time with a head butt. As referees check on Shane, Owens grabs him again and this time he hits the Pop Up Powerbomb. Owens’ theme music hits and he walks to the back as referees check on Shane in the ring.

– Featured above is an interview with WWE Champion Jinder Mahal and The Singh Brothers following his successful title defense over Shinsuke Nakamura at Sunday night’s WWE Hell In A Cell pay-per-view in Detroit, Michigan. Mahal touted becoming the champion, holding onto the title and putting Nakamura in the rear view mirror. He questions who his next foe will be.

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– Former NXT World Champion Bobby Roode was successful in his WWE main roster pay-per-view debut on Sunday night, defeating Dolph Ziggler in one-on-one action during the show. Featured below is footage from the Roode-Ziggler match last night, courtesy of WWE’s official Twitter page.

No more elaborate entrances, no more spectacles. @HEELZiggler is at @WWE #HIAC to COMPETE! @REALBobbyRoode @WWENetwork pic.twitter.com/GbHb7bc26F

— WWE (@WWE) October 9, 2017

Following Monday night’s episode of WWE RAW in Indianapolis, Indiana, a special dark match took place with championships on the line.

The RAW post-show dark match main event this week saw Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose successfully defend the WWE RAW Tag-Team Championships against the team of Sheamus and Cesaro.

As noted, this week’s RAW saw Rollins and Ambrose realign themselves with Roman Reigns, with The Shield now scheduled to compete against The Miz, Braun Strowman, Sheamus and Cesaro in a three-on-four handicap match at the WWE TLC pay-per-view later this month.

WWE TLC 2017 is scheduled to go down at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Sunday, October 22nd, airing live via pay-per-view and the WWE Network. Join us here on 10/22 for live play-by-play results coverage of the show.

– Featured above, former NXT World Champion Bobby Roode is asked which WWE Superstar, past-or-present, he would like to perform the entrance of in the new WWE 2K18 video game. As seen in the video above, “The Glorious One” went with The Undertaker’s entrance.

– INFLUX Pictures announced that Saturday was the first day of filming for their new documentary on former ECW Original and former WWE/WCW Superstar Perry Saturn. For more information, click here.

– WWE continues to play up the losing streak held by Curt Hawkins. Hawkins, who is currently up to loss number 120 on his streak, came up short again this weekend against Goldust at a WWE live event. Prior to the event, Hawkins claimed he could smell it in the air that he was going to pick up a win and break the streak, however after losing, he switched his remark to, “No comment!”

Did @TheCurtHawkins pick up a win at #WWESaskatoon, or did he suffer loss number 120? pic.twitter.com/JS68DnmyxG

— WWE (@WWE) October 14, 2017

– Former WWE U.K. Championship tournament semifinalist and former Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW) World Heavyweight Champion Wolfgang (Scottish pro wrestler Barry Young) recently spoke with Solomonster for an installment of “Sound Off Extra.” In the interview, which you can watch above, Wolfgang talks about his year with WWE, his history in the ICW promotion and more.

– WWE Hall Of Famer Diamond Dallas Page (DDP) will be releasing a new book, “Own Your Life: How to Make Yourself Positively Unstoppable,” next summer.

– Longtime WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia sang the national anthem at the NFL game between the New England Patriots and the New York Jets on Sunday afternoon.

RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss recently spoke with The Bleacher Report to promote her title defense against Mickie James at Sunday night’s WWE TLC pay-per-view. Below are some of the highlights from the interview.

On improving in the ring: “I’m still working on my in-ring ability. I know I’m not the best in [the] ring. I try to get better with every match. I go to the [WWE Performance Center] and try to refresh my skills and learn new ones and bring that into my matches.”

On getting drafted to the main roster: “Opportunities, you have to make the most of them. You have to run with it. And I know I was one of the most underwhelming draft picks because I hadn’t done much on NXT. I hadn’t had a TakeOver match. I hadn’t won the title. I had valeted the majority of my career. And I knew I just had to just kick down the door.”

On being involved in Triple H’s WrestleMania 30 entrance along with Sasha Banks and Charlotte Flair: “That was one of the best moments ever. I remember walking out and just hearing 80,000 people, and Triple H turned to all of us and told us, ‘This is just the beginning for you guys.’ Eighty-thousand people are here to see this match, to watch this show. To have that moment, it was definitely very motivating. I want that moment. I want to work my way up and have a match where that many people are cheering for me. It was really eye-opening.”

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Check out the complete Alexa Bliss interview at BleacherReport.com.

As noted, former Justin Gabriel (PJ Black) recently appeared as a guest on the Pancakes & Powerslams podcast for an interview.

In addition to the highlights we posted earlier this week, with Gabriel talking about WWE filming his break-up with JoJo Offerman for an episode of Total Divas, the former WWE Superstar also discussed Vince McMahon taking his trademark 450-splash finishing move.

“[I was] a little bit nervous,” Gabriel admitted. “I’ve done [the move] a million times. It was one of the first moves I learned, [and] I’ve been doing it for so long that I don’t even think about it.”

Gabriel continued, “That day, standing up there, I kind of thought about it a little bit. People don’t understand how big Vince is, he’s very wide. That age, you can tell he’s a bodybuilder and he’s worked out his whole life. I never really messed that move up except for once in my life. This day, I didn’t mess it up, but I got winded so bad because he’s so thick, I didn’t realize. And he was fine.”

So what did the WWE Chairman think of the spectacular move? Gabriel also recalled McMahon’s reaction after taking the 450-splash.

“He thanked me afterwards,” said Gabriel. “And he was like, ‘That was great.'”

Check out the complete Justin Gabriel interview from the Pancakes & Powerslams podcast at BlogTalkRadio.com.

Month: November 2020

Ed Nordholm Talks About How GFW Differs From WWE, Bound For Glory 2017

Roman Reigns Locker Room Interview: Making Sacrifices, John Cena & More (Video)

Chris Jericho On His New Book, Southpaw Regional Wrestling, Paul Stanley & More

WWE SmackDown Results (10/3)

Jinder Mahal Questions Who Is Next (Video), Bobby Roode Wins WWE PPV Debut

What Happened After This Week's RAW Ended: Post-Show Championship Match

Curt Hawkins Comments On Losing Streak, Perry Saturn Documentary, Roode

DDP Releasing New Book, Lilian Garcia Sings At NFL Game, Wolfgang Interview

Alexa Bliss On HHH's WM30 Entrance, Going From NXT To WWE & More

Justin Gabriel Recalls Vince McMahon's Reaction To Taking The 450-Splash