Former WCW Announcer on JR Podcast
Former WCW announcer Tony Schiavone will be the guest on the next edition of Jim Ross’ “Ross Report” podcast. The show will be available at 9pm EST Tuesday night via PodcastOne.com.
New Day Talks the Origin of Their Gimmick
WWE trio The New Day appeared on “Talk is Jericho” this past week, and Xavier Woods had the following to say on the origin of the New Day group:
“So I’m working on that character, trying to get something going and then I’m kind of realizing that, ‘oh, [Big] E’s not doing anything, he’s kind of coming off his I.C. title run and starting to float, so, you know what? I like E, he’s one of my good friends, lets see if we can merge him into this.’ So we kind of start working on something, literally weeks at a time, and we’re going into pre-tapes, filming things, pitching ideas and then we’re thinking, ‘something is missing from this, like, we need one more thing.’
“That’s when we kind of thought, ‘maybe Kofi’, but it was kind of a heel thing. We’re thinking, ‘Kofi has never been a heel – I don’t know if [WWE] would let him turn heel’. After talking about it for a while, we kind of approached them with what we wanted to do and rather than being this group that everyone thought it was going to be, like three angry black guys, it’s like, ‘no, it’s three guys who come up from kind of the same background, that just want more from life, more from their jobs, more from their friends, more from everything around them’. So we tried to take that mentality and get it across TV as best we could and we did.”
Vince Praises Cena and Roman Reigns
Vince McMahon Tweeted the following:
I’m proud of @JohnCena and @WWERomanReigns for using their voices for social causes. #AthletesGoneGood http://t.co/HBCvZyRP7a
— Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) August 14, 2015
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
