Here's your fight size update for Thursday, January 27, 2022:
- Taking to Twitter, Billy Gunn reacted to Danhausen being signed by AEW saying that soon, his sons will embrace the ass.
- Becky Lynch tells Metro in the UK she wants to face Beth Phoenix
‘I’ve been tweeting that frickin’ Beth Phoenix trying to get her to fight me for years,’ she said. ‘She keeps saying no, she keeps dodging it. I think she’s scared. Yes. Yes I would love to fight Beth Phoenix.’
- The wrestling match rating mobile app GRAPPL has launched its third annual GRAPPL 100. GRAPPL enables users to easily log match ratings and it calculates an average match rating based on user entries, and this year surpassed 1 million ratings on the app since its launch in 2018.
The GRAPPL 100 ranks the top 100 matches of 2021 based on average ratings entered by users of the GRAPPL app.
Here's the top 10:
1st The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) vs. The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo
2nd Will Ospreay vs. Shingo Takagi Wrestling Dontaku 2021 (Day 2)
3rd Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny Omega Dynamite: Grand Slam (23rd Sept 2021)
4th WALTER vs. Ilja Dragunov NXT TakeOver: 36
5th Hangman Page vs. Bryan Danielson Dynamite: Winter Is Coming (15th Dec 2021)
6th Syuri vs. Utami Hayashishita Tokyo Dream Cinderella Special Edition 2021 STARDOM
7th Syuri vs. Utami Hayashishita Ryogouku Dream Queendom 2021
8th Shingo Takagi vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi New Beginning In Nagoya 2021
9th Shingo Takagi vs. Jeff Cobb Wrestle Kingdom 15 (Day 2)
10th Kazuchika Okada vs. Will Ospreay Wrestle Kingdom 15 (Day 1)
- Christian Slater Joins John Cena, Alison Brie & Juan Pablo Raba In Action-Comedy ‘Freelance’ (via Deadline)
Freelance follows a special forces operator (Cena) who decides to retire from the Army and start a family back in the states. After several years of mortgage payments, school drop offs, backyard barbecues and trying to conform to life in suburbia, he decides to come out of retirement to take a gig providing security for a female journalist (Brie) as she interviews a cruel dictator who may or may not have ordered the attack on him and his men. When a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, the three are forced to escape into the jungle where they must survive the elements, the military and one another.
- Jake Something vs. Chris Bey will kick off tonight's edition of IMPACT Wrestling on AXS TV.
- James Gunn Eyeing Second ‘Suicide Squad’ Spinoff Series For HBO Max, Says ‘Peacemaker’ Has “Really Good Chance” For Season 2 (via Deadline)
“I wasn’t happy about Suicide Squad going to TV day and date, we also happened to come out at the absolute peak of Delta, so it was a difficult decision,” he added.
“For the sake of Peacemaker, I’m really glad: It got more subscribers for HBO, billions of people saw it on HBO; for Peacemaker it worked out really well,” said Gunn.
- Every Royal Rumble Match number’s greatest performance
- Santana & Ortiz Talk AEW & Career In New Web is Jericho Interview
On Working in the Inner Circle
Ortiz: “It’s been awesome. He definitely has his way of looking at wrestling, and it’s great. And going back to Christopher Daniels, they all have different lenses and their vision, and it’s been awesome working with Jericho. When we were working at Borders, we both read Chris’ book, ‘A Lion’s Tale.’ I read it first, and I was like, ‘Oh my god. This book is how I want to become a wrestler.’ Especially in the beginning, I love seeing how things are made or how things get the way they are. Reading his book, I was hooked, and up to that point, I probably hadn’t read a book in a really long time (Laughs). Even when we were forced to in school, I would skip ahead and not read.”
Santana: “Mind you, we worked at a book store (Laughs).”
Ortiz: “I read Chris’ book in like two days. Same thing happened with Santana. He read the book, and we were like, ‘We need to be journeymen,’ because Chris was a journeyman. Early on, he was a huge inspiration to us. He wasn’t that 6-foot-5, 350 pound behemoth, but he was someone like our size, and he had a lot of charisma and was athletic. We definitely identified with that. When we heard we were gonna be with Chris, we were just like, ‘Come on man. This is the coolest thing ever.’ And it’s awesome, because we’re just big kids, and we’re getting to work with one of our idols. He’s been dope since day 1. There’s a lot of egos involved in the Inner Circle. We all have our own egos, and it’s great, because he’s very good at being a conductor of the group and keeping it all together.”
- Kofi Kingston spoke with Shakiel Mahjouri of CBS Sports about teaming with Harry Smith in WWE developmental
"They told me I was going to be tagging with Harry Smith. This is the son of British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith. I was like, 'Oh, this is awesome. This is crazy, man. I get to tag with the British Bulldog's son.' But then I started to think, 'Well, why are we tagging? Do we have any kind of connection? We definitely don't," Kingston said. "Harry Smith's uncle is Bret Hart and I found this out like afterwards. Harry didn't want to tag with me because he was already kind of an established star. He'd wrestled in Japan and had done big things over there. Bret was like, 'Why is he tagging with this Kofi Kingston? What do they have in common?' The common thread was that since I at the time was from Jamaica and he was from Britain, it was the Commonwealth.
"You are supposed to work as a team when you're in a tag team, but it was like always two singles matches. I would go in and do my thing and tag Harry. He would do his thing and match over. We're great friends now, but at the time we were both just like, 'What are we doing? Like, why are you guys booking us together?'"
"What I learned from that was just to be prepared, right? Like that was so early in my career," Kingston said. "Yes, there was no sense behind why we were tagging together, but I looked at it as an opportunity to be able to learn from somebody who had travelled the world at the time. He'd been to so many more countries and wrestled in front of so many more people than I had. I learned so much from Harry. He's so amazing amazingly technical and obviously a powerhouse too.
"So a lot of the moves that he did, I couldn't do because I can't lift up people that big. I'm not as strong as he is. A lot of those guys from the dungeon -- Harry, Tyson Kidd or TJ Wilson, Naddie Neidhart -- they are so incredibly technical that you can't help but learn when you're in the ring with them. So I got a front-row seat to watching Harry Smith and just learning a new style. I appreciate the fact that they did put us together because I was able to learn from it and take what I learned and applied it to the rest of my career."
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- Today, WWE stock closed at $48.83 per share.
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