During a recent appearance on the “Ring the Belle” podcast, Ronda Rousey lavished praise on Mercedes Mone for helping her during the WWE Royal Rumble 2019 pay-per-view event.
At the time, Rousey was the RAW Women’s Champion and admitted that she didn’t know what she was doing. She said,
“I basically told her: ‘I don’t know what I’m doing, you make this match! I’ll do whatever you want!’ I flew out to meet her in New York, with her friend, Red. So, I put all that trust into her, and it was like ‘you make the match and I will do it.’ Her coming out afterward was an unscripted moment, we didn’t plan that out or anything like that. It really just spoke volumes to the differences between us, and where we’re coming from and how people felt about this world.”
In a “Digital Exclusive” following Friday night’s TNA Emergence pay-per-view event, Zachary Wentz commented on winning the X-Division title in the Ultimate X match.
The new champion will be facing off against Wes Lee at Sunday night’s WWE NXT: No Mercy pay-per-view event.
Wentz said, “This is crazy. This is insane. It was a different story two years ago. I never thought I was gonna wrestle again. I made mistakes. But this is redemption. This goes to show to anybody, if you are a good human being and you fight hard enough, you’ll be back. You’ll be doing crazy stuff. Just look at those names. Look at the names that have held this, legends. Look at the match I was in to get it. It’s the most iconic match in TNA Wrestling, and now I get to etch my name, Zachary fucking Wentz. I couldn’t be happier, dude. Especially on my best friend’s birthday. This is redemption, this is it. But the tears, all this, it’s done. Anybody who wants it, step up and grab it. This is the face of the X-Division. I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, and I got all of them. Sick, dude.”
EXCLUSIVE: @ZacharyWentz is the NEW X Division Champion!
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