During a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Bully Ray commented on his belief that WWE and Triple H are bringing back elements from decades ago with the new WWE ID program. He said,
“Whether it’s with NXT, whether it’s with WWE ID, [and] now the partnership with TNA, it’s kind of like a territory system. AAA [baseball] is NXT. Maybe the WWE ID system — maybe that’s like picking kids out of high school and bringing them into single-A ball. Maybe TNA can be looked at as AA ball.”
The Undertaker has reflected on sharing a moment with Rhea Ripley during the debut episode of WWE Monday Night RAW on Netflix.
During the January 6th episode of WWE RAW on Netflix, Rhea Ripley defeated Liv Morgan to capture the Women’s World Championship. Following the bout, The Undertaker came out on his motorcycle and stopped to congratulate “Mami.”
During the latest edition of his “Six Feet Under” podcast, The Undertaker reflected on the moment and revealed the original plans for the segment. He said,
“Originally, I was going to do an entrance and an interview. Which would have been fine. They had somebody that was going to interview me, and then they just thought that that would make that, that whole thing, even bigger for her. When they told me at first, I was like, ‘I don’t think so. Dude, that’s her moment. I don’t want to take away, I don’t want to step on any part of that.’ I mean, this is the payoff to a very long storyline. I said, ‘I sure don’t want to come out and step on her moment.’ They basically explained, ‘She’s gonna have a moment in the ring. She’s gonna have this moment where you two will cross paths.’ I was like, ‘Okay, well, now, if it’s like that, it’s pretty cool.’ Not that our characters are similar, but they are a little bit, and, it was just like me dabbing her up there a little bit, and good job, and giving her that OG rub.”
When ‘Taker was asked if he would consider doing more with Rhea Ripley on camera, he stated,
“I don’t know how that helps anybody. I mean, it would have to be a really, really good story. It would have to be a really strong story.”
“I mean, if there was something really, really good, I would consider it. “Again, there needs to be less of there needs to be less of me moving forward and more focus on the talent roster that we have. That’s the way I look at I think that was perfect, what we did. That was a nice rub, but the less you see of my generation, the better. I mean, some people are gonna look both ways at that. ‘Like, dude, you’ve been around for 30-plus years. It’s only gonna help.’ Well, yeah, it helps, but it’s also a distraction sometimes. I think it’s time. There’s always gonna be that moment, that special moment. I just don’t want them to be too often, so that reaction that we got the other night is always there.
“I had that kind of a little bit of a little conversation with Paul [Triple H] about that. I don’t want to do this too many times,” he continued. “For me, too, I don’t want to be that old-timer. Again, that moment was so cool, but it’s almost at that point now, there’s no one really left in that era that I work with. Roman and maybe CM Punk… [these appearances would be better if they were only] every so often. You know how they used to do those shows sometimes and there’d be old-timers backstage doing shit? I never want to be in that deal. So it needs to be, in my opinion, every couple of years, if that, and there’s only a couple of those left, probably, that would make sense to do.”
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