Various: Matt Jackson on Elite’s “Space Jam” Entrance, Tyler Breeze on Jushin Liger Match, Indies

Aug 4, 2021

Matt Jackson Comments on The Elite’s “Space Jam” Entrance at Last Week’s AEW Dynamite

This past Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite featured a 10-man tag team match of Hangman Adam Page & The Dark Order vs. Kenny Omega & The Elite. The Elite came out in a special themed entrance that was inspired by the recently released Space Jam: A New Legacy film.

During this past Monday’s episode of Being The Elite, Matt Jackson revealed that AEW had paid around $50,000 to license the Space Jam theme song of “Ya’ll Ready For This?” for last week’s 10-man tag team match on AEW Dynamite.

Jackson also revealed that this was done as a birthday present for Nick Jackson, who celebrated his 32rd birthday this past Wednesday.

Tyler Breeze Comments on His Famous Match with Jushin Thunder Liger in NXT

A recent episode of the Straight Shooting podcast had Matt Clement, former Tyler Breeze in WWE, as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Breeze’s thoughts on his famous match against Jushin Thunder Liger at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn in 2015.

“Liger is very different. I was kind of running out of people to work and I went, ‘Who am I working on the next TakeOver?’ Nobody would tell. Finn actually came up and was like, ‘Hey man, you’re working Liger.’ I was like, ‘What? He doesn’t even work for the company. How do you know? Are you kidding?’ He goes, ‘No, Liger trained me and they had me reach out to Liger to see if he would be interested in coming over.’ I went, ‘Oh my God, really? He’s doing it?’ I knew before anybody else, but they didn’t tell me until like the day of the show. They were like, ‘You’re gonna have a quick enhancement match then Regal is gonna announce who you’re against, we’ll put a graphic on the screen, and it’ll be Liger. I went, ‘Cool.’ It was very last minute. Literally, day of the announcement (is when I found out).
I never met him until Brooklyn when I met him in catering. I saw some guy who is not normally there and I went, ‘Hey man. is it me and you tonight?’ He goes, ‘Yes, yes, yes. Please, put the whole match together, I don’t know this style.’ I put the whole match together, I think we ran over the whole thing and that was a tilt-a-whirl. He was awesome. He’s the chillest guy ever.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

As noted before, Disney is currently producing a new superhero comedy series featuring Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler Blue Demon Jr. and be based around the legendary Blue Demon character. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that Blue Demon Jr. recently left the production of this new series and Disney recently hired a new actor to portray the role of Blue Demon in the series. Johnson reported that the reason for Blue Demon Jr.’s departure from the project is currently not known.

Financial technology company Ideanomics recently announced that they have promoted WWE executive Shane McMahon as their new Executive Chairman of the Board. McMahon founded the company under its original name of China Broadband Inc. in 2004 and had been affiliated with the company since 2010.

Following his release earlier this week from WWE, the National Wrestling Alliance announced on Twitter that they have invited Ric Flair to appear at their 73rd Anniversary event on August 29th in St. Louis, Missouri.

Former NWA wrestler “The Assassin” Jody Hamilton passed away this past Tuesday at the age of 82. Hamilton’s active career in wrestling spanned from 1955 to 1988 and was known the most for being one half of the legendary The Assassins tag team. Following his retirement from active wrestling, Hamilton worked as a manager in WCW until its closure in 2001 and as a trainer during the 1990s and 2000s.

Japanese indies and AEW talent Ryo Mizunami announced on Twitter that she has been recently discharged from a hospital in Japan following her bout with COVID-19 and pneumonia.

New Japan Pro Wrestling announced a new card for their Resurgence event on August 14th in Los Angeles, California:

Tomohiro Ishii vs. Moose