Friday, August 13, 2021
Reality of Wrestling TV: Episode 313
Reality of Wrestling) is a wrestling promotion owned by Booker T that runs out of Houston, Texas showcasing the top unsigned talent from around the world in a weekly episodic series. TV TITLE MATCH: Sage Scott vs Edge Stone (c) SINGLES MATCH: Blake Cortez vs Johnathan Vega Booker T / Will Allday / Cameron Cole MAIN EVENT: Warren Johnson vs Ryan Davidson
AEW Star Jake Hager gets "Checked" By Gable Steveson (And Put In His place With, A Quickness I Might Add)
Better have that $20,000 ready there, Jake. I have a fgeeling you'll be giving it to Gabe, sand deep down inside? You know it too.
Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson has been making a lot of media appearances lately, as he continues to weigh his future options between professional wrestling, MMA and football.
On Thursday, AEW star Jake Hager appeared to throw down the gauntlet at Steveson and Gable quickly 'checked' Jake with this.
DDAAMMN, talk about getting 'treated'. How'd that feel Jakeyboy? Feel the burn because you definitely, got burned.
Bellator President Steve Coker chimed in, encouraging the two fight inside a cage. Hager then offered Steveson a choice of three cities where they can have their fight and again, Jake got "checked" when gable handed Jake his ass with this.
BOOM! Talk about being put in your place. Jake clearly got 'owned' here.
Maybe Jake should either back down from this because if Gable DOES take him down? it'll be the easiest twenty grand he ever made. Plus it'll be a real embarrassment to AEW to see 'one of their own' get owned and 'chumped' in a public display like that.
Jake, just quietly send gable the twenty grand and stick to the bad booking and horrible product that Tony Khan pays you to be a part of. That is probably, your best bet.
Trevor Murdoch Interview Where He Says He Believes Disagreement With AEW Star Cost Him TNA Job
In an interview with Metro UK, NWA star Trevor Murdoch talked about his brief time working with Impact Wrestling, back when they were branded TNA. Murdoch worked a total of eleven matches for the promotion in 2009, and he believes his stint was cut short due to a disagreement with an agent, who is now a performer in AEW.
“I’m pretty sure the reason why TNA stopped using me at the time was I didn’t have a deal and I was wrestling Rhino,” Murdoch recalled. “Taz had just come in as a producer, it was his first few matches as producer. We’re putting our match together and Taz asks me ‘Trevor, what’s your finishing move?’ I go ‘well I do a top-rope bulldog’. He goes ‘oh wow! That’s very impressive for a guy your size!” F**k yeah it is, that’s why I used it as a finisher! He goes ‘well, this match tonight, can you hit Rhino with your finisher, cover, he kicks out at two. Then pick him up, shoot him off, ducks your clothesline and gores you, one-two-three.’
“I’m pretty stubborn and I was like “Taz, if there’s anything else you want off the top rope, I’ll do a beautiful high crossbody, s--t, whatever you want me to do.’ But I don’t have a contract here. I said ‘legitimately, that’s one of two moves that when people see me they go, he might do this! And I don’t wanna throw that away, nor do I wanna waste it.
According to Murdoch, Taz initially seemed fine with Murdoch’s request. But soon after Murdoch was called into a meeting and it was clear things weren’t all square.
“Taz is in there with Terry, and I proceed to get my ass chewed by Terry Taylor because I’m not a company guy and I’m being difficult,” Murdoch said. “I just, I don’t know, WWE let me go so there really wasn’t much anybody business-wise could scare me or intimidate me with. I just laid it out. I said ‘Terry, I’m not trying to be rude or disrespectful by any means! But I’ve been here for the last seven weeks and you guys haven’t given me a deal. The only thing that I’ve got is my bulldog, and I don’t see why that’s a big deal for me not to do that.’
"I said ‘I told him that I’d do anything else you wanted, but that.’ They proceeded to s**t on me and tell me I wasn’t a team player. I had a few choice words, one of them was ‘kiss my ass’, and I walked out the door. I went and had the match with Rhino, we did great business, never got a phone call again from them.”
So Taz snitched, and because Taz snitched Murdoch never got a deal. pretty on Taz to be snitching.
But Good for Murdoch to stand up for himself. In the end it's worked out better because he's gained way greater success with Billy Corgan's NWA. So proof again that the major federation s do have a long habit of dropping the ball when it comes to having good talent on their roster. TNA (Now known as Impact) has had that long pattern of failing with flying colors just like WWE.
THIS, is just another example, of that.