Various: Paige on Becoming SmackDown GM, Reigns on Crowds, Indies

Paige Comments on Becoming the New General Manager for SmackDown

E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness had Paige as the guest and one of the topics discussed involved Paige revealing when she found out she was going to replace Daniel Bryan as SmackDown’s new General Manager.

“It’s all secrecy. They didn’t want it to spoil it. They didn’t even tell me. They told me that I was going to SmackDown Live the next night. I had asked why, but they didn’t tell me. At that point, I had been touring a lot. Did a lot for WrestleMania week, so I was exhausted physically and mentally where I just wanted to go home so I was curious as to what was going on. I got to SmackDown the next day, Road Dogg, along with my writing team surround me and I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, am I about to be beat up. Do I owe you money?’ It was then they told me I was going to be the SmackDown general manager, but don’t tell anyone. We don’t even have the script yet,” she said. “I go through this thing where when I do something big I tend to lose my voice. When I re-debuted I lost my voice. When I did commentary at WrestleMania I lost my voice, it’s like, oh my God. What is wrong with me? Fix your voice! They told me that they had to check my voice because today was a very big day. By then I had already drank a bunch of tea and cough drops. Once I got out there the crowd was great, and received a bigger reception than my retirement speech the night previous. I was like, ‘Wow, this is super cool. You still want me around.'”

Roman Reigns Comments on His Issues with Crowd Response

The Sun held a recent interview with Roman Reigns and one of the topics discussed involved Reigns’ issues with generating positive crowd response. Reigns stated he does not care about the type of reception he gets but instead that crowds are making noise and are coming to see him for shows.

“As long as fans are showing up and as long as they’re making noise, I’ve done my job. I’ve done what I’m supposed to do and that’s draw people into the building.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Major League Wrestling announced the card for their June 7th MLW Fusion tapings in Orlando, Florida features a singles match of Rich Swann versus ACH.

Revolution Pro Wrestling announced the card of their May 29th event in Portsmouth, England features a singles match of Cody versus Phantasmo.

Standalone Wrestling announced Cody, The Young Bucks, Marty Scurll, “Hangman” Adam Page, and Brandi Rhodes will all be appearing at their Boardwalk Beatdown event on August 25th in Atlantic City, New Jersey.