During a recent appearance on the “Unlikely with Adrian Hernandez” podcast, WWE Women’s Champion Nia Jax lavished praise on Becky Lynch, saying she will go down as one of the greatest ever in the professional wrestling business. She said,
“Becky Lynch is going to go down as one of the greatest in our business. She has put in a lot of work and she has earned her time off. I do take a little bit of credit for being able to give her another punch to the face and squashing the sh*t out of her. I hope one day, when she does come back, we get to have another face off. I don’t think we’re done with our business. We’ll see.”
During a recent appearance on the “Insight With Chris Van Vliet” podcast, actor Stephen Amell commented on becoming a wrestling fan, seeing Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On becoming a wrestling fan: “I first fell in love with wrestling, we’re looking at 1987 or something like that. I was six years old and someone got me the VHS tape of WrestleMania 3. Then, of course, I went back and I watched WrestleMania 1, I watched WrestleMania 2. Wrestling became my obsession. I will never forget getting in trouble in third grade [because] some kid accused me of throwing a booger on him, and I don’t think I did, but my punishment was I had my wrestling magazines taken away from me for two weeks. I wasn’t allowed to watch wrestling on Saturday morning. That was devastating.”
On seeing Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VI: “I’m like crying in front of all these different 10, 11-year-old boys. My dad’s like ‘Hey bud, just get it together.’ [I said] ‘Sorry, Hulk lost.’ I didn’t think that him losing was conceivable.”
On competing at SummerSlam 2015: “I wouldn’t recommend to anybody to have their first match at a premium live event in f**king Brooklyn. I was so nervous that I forgot to get in the ring.”
On being nervous at the start of the match: “We decided we were going to start the match off with Cody springboarding into the ring and then my springboarding as well. I was terrified of messing up the springboard … I even said to him right before the match, ‘Do we have to start with the springboard?’”
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