Weekend Roundup: Bray Wyatt, AEW All In 2 Announced for 2024, All In Attendance, Calvin Tankman Leaving MLW, El Desperado, Indies

WWE

• WWE announced two new matches for the card of their Superstar Spectacle 2023 house show event on September 8th in Hyderabad, India. These are a tag team match of John Cena & Seth Rollins vs. Imperium (Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci) and a Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match of Indus Sher (Veer Mahaan & Sanga) vs. Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn.
• English soccer club Arsenal FC paid tribute to the late Bray Wyatt by playing his entrance theme during halftime of their English Premiere League game against Fulham FC on Saturday in London, England.
• Hardcore punk band Code Orange reflected on Twitter about Bray Wyatt’s passing this past Thursday. The band stated “Rest In Power buddy. You helped make our childhood dreams come true. You rode for us at every single turn and truly believed in us. More than people even know. Thank you for letting us be a small part of your story. See you on the other side.” The band produced the entrance song for Wyatt’s Fiend character titled “Let Me In.”
• This past Friday’s SmackDown show in Louisville, Kentucky featured WWE airing several tribute video clips to the late Bray Wyatt featuring QR codes. These codes when activated lead to the following videos on WWE’s official YouTube channel: Debut of Bray Wyatt, debut of Wyatt’s alter-ego The Fiend, Wyatt’s WWE Championship victory at Elimination Chamber 2017, debut of the Firefly Fun House, Wyatt’s WWE return at Extreme Rules 2022, and Wyatt’s first promo on SmackDown following his return to WWE this past October.
• WWE recently released a behind-the-scenes vlog featuring Edge’s 25th Anniversary of his official WWE debut on the August 18th SmackDown show in Toronto, Canada.
• As noted before, former NWA and Impact Wrestling talent Nick Aldis is currently working under a producer tryout for WWE since earlier this month. In a recent interview with MuscleManMalcolm, Aldis’ wife Mickie James confirmed that Aldis has been recently working as a producer on a tryout level for WWE. James stated “He’s been shadowing there, but he’s never produced me. I do think that he’s going to be an incredible producer if that works out and they love that and he loves that. I also believe in my husband in anything he does, and I think he’s an incredible wrestler, an incredible champion, an incredible artist with everything he does. He’s a professional, an incredible businessman with legacy supplements. An incredible dad, an incredible husband. I’m always going to toot his horn, but I feel it comes off as very biased when I say it. I’m really grateful he has this opportunity, and if he takes it, I hope it’s because he loves it and they love him. If they don’t and he doesn’t, I just know the wonderful things he’s going to do.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent episode of the Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard podcast, co-host and WWE Executive Director Bruce Prichard stated that besides a developmental system for talent, WWE also has a secret developmental system for their creative team. Prichard stated “There is, and you don’t hear about it.” Prichard also gave his thoughts on the evolution of WWE’s Gorilla Position backstage at shows. Prichard stated “Well, it’s gotten bigger, it’s gotten more sophisticated. When Gorilla [Monsoon] did Gorilla, it was a table at the entrance with a monitor and a headset. Gorilla told talent when to go and told them what they did wrong on the way back and gave time cues, and that was it. Nowadays, Gorilla is a place where it’s the last bastion before anybody goes through the curtain. It’s a place where everyone can congregate, get together, and go over last-minute details. It’s a place for producers to sit. It’s a place for the show producers, like Paul and myself, to sit and be able to interact with the truck and everything in production. You have trainers, you have doctors, and everything right there. So it’s just a more sophisticated area. Now, you can talk to everybody anywhere from Gorilla and communicate. It’s our command center.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent Q&A session on Instagram, former WWE SmackDown commentator Pat McAfee gave his thoughts about if he misses working for WWE. McAfee stated “This is going to sound like pandering or a cheap pop. It’s not. Every day. Literally. When I was in the NFL, I was envious of people who could do indie wrestling because I wasn’t allowed under my NFL contract and I couldn’t jeopardize what was paying for my me, family and friends to have a much better life. I get an opportunity to wrestle and do the WWE life, an it was an honor and a dream, and I had the time of my fucking life in there. Loved it, every single moment, but now my business has got to a point where I’m very lucky for this and fortunate for this. We’ve worked our ass off, but I’m incredibly busy, and we’ve got fifteen employees over here that are having babies and building houses. It’s a tough thing to deal with mentally because emotionally, I want to be there, but I just can’t timing wise. We will figure it out.” McAfee last appeared for WWE at this past April’s WrestleMania 39 event in Los Angeles, California. McAfee has only made one other appearance for WWE since September of 2022 due to his commitments with ESPN and other family and legal-related issues at the time. (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that many WWE employees currently have a general mood of “doom and gloom” in regards to the future of their jobs in the company. Johnson reported that many WWE employees currently are concerned that their will be a number of layoffs within the company once their sale to Endeavor if officially finalized next month. Johnson also reported that the current feeling is that several departments within WWE, such as travel, accounting, and other office roles not directly associated with production or handling of talent will likely be cut by Endeavor. The number of layoffs expected to be made is currently not known but many WWE employees reportedly have been quietly looking for work elsewhere.
• In a recent interview with the Breakfast Television show, LA Knight gave his thoughts about his rapid rise in stardom in WWE. Knight stated “I don’t want to toot my own, but toot toot. I’ll go ahead and say that is probably the quickest climb in the history of the business. Maybe I’m off base if someone on Twitter wants to correct me. Just looking at the way things have moved, only being on the SmackDown roster since October and having this explosive growth like this. it’s been huge, it’s been enormous, I didn’t plan on it. How could you plan for it? At the same time, I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing because, obviously, that’s working one way or another. whether they want to boo me or cheer me, doesn’t make a difference to me. I’m going to go out there, do my thing and keep pushing and I’m going to get myself to the top … Never before, again, I don’t want to blow smoke, but I have to be honest. I wasn’t positioned to be there. I wasn’t positioned for this to happen. For it to happen that quickly, that strong, and with none of that extra push or support, and now we’re making that happen. It’s a whole other level. With that, the people have jumped on the gravy train, yeah, and we’re going to ride it all the way to the top.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent episode of the Not Sam Wrestling podcast, Gunther gave his thoughts about his current record chasing title reign as Intercontinental Champion. Gunther stated “It makes me very proud. It was the same with the NXT UK Title before. It was something where, okay, when I’m able to win a title, I’m going to make it the best run I possibly can make it. The one thing I believe in is that the title doesn’t make the man, it’s the man that makes the title. I really believe in that. Obviously, it makes me very proud because, like I said, when I was a child I watched Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart, and whoever being the Intercontinental Champion. That I can be on some sort of list of whatever they have going on with the longest reigns and something with those guys. That’s absolutely crazy, and I’m doing it my way. That’s the fact that makes me the most proud. I adapted, I learned, I evolved, but I never changed what I think was right for me to do. That’s the thing that makes me proud.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

AEW & ROH

• Following the conclusion of Sunday’s AEW All In event at Wembley Stadium in London, England, AEW announced that they will be returning to Wembley Stadium on August 25, 2024 for their All In: London II event.
• During Sunday’s AEW All In event in London, AEW announced that their event had an official attendance of 81,035, which they claimed was “a new worldwide record for a pro wrestling event” in regards to a paid event.
• Sunday’s AEW All In event in London also featured Grado making a surprise appearance. During the Zero Hour Pre-show, Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, and Karen Jarrett, gave a promo segment involving Jarrett trying to take all the credit for AEW’s All In event being a huge success for the company. Jarrett also claimed that America and American promoters were the sole reason for the success of wrestling. This led to Paul Wight, Anthony Ogogo, and Grado confronting Jarrett and his group which resulted in a huge brawl breaking out. This brawl ended with Wight, Ogogo, and Grado standing tall after they took out Jarrett’s team and Grado smashed a guitar over Jarrett’s head.
• As noted before, this past Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite Fyter Fest 2023 show in Duluth, Georgia featured AR Fox being kicked out of the Mogul Embassy and also being replaced by Christian Cage for Swerve Strickland’s Coffin match against Darby Allin & Sting at AEW All In. Bryan Alvarez reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio that his sources stated that the reason for Fox’s removal from AEW’s All In event is due to him currently dealing with backstage heat within the company. Alvarez reported that while details regarding this situation are currently sparse, Fox is believed to have generated backstage heat with AEW officials over them only finding out at the last minute that he would not be able to travel to London for All In. This reportedly was the reason why Fox was also removed from the Mogul Embassy as punishment. Alvarez stated “No AR Fox. I don’t know everything that happened but he cannot make it to the show and the impression I was given was that they were not happy with that because they found out at the very last minute. And so not only was he removed from the match but he was removed from Swerve Strickland’s group.” (Transcript h/t: Cultaholic.com)
• In a recent interview with GQ, Bryan Danielson gave his thoughts about how his wrestling training habits have changed as he has gotten older and why he does not need to be as big or bulkier as he was in WWE for his career in AEW. Danielson stated “How my training has changed? More stability stuff, more making sure everything’s in alignment, and moving through proper motion. And getting strong. For example, the paraspinal muscles. When you’re 27, you’re not even worried about it, right? At 42, I am. So I’m like, contracting my paraspinals, making sure everything like that strong. I recently tore my labrum on my right shoulder, so it’s like when stuff like that happens, rehab comes first before doing any sort of pressing movements. Before the MJF Iron Man match, I could probably do well over 100 push-ups in a row. After the MJF Iron Man match, I couldn’t do one push up. You go through these things where you’ll have physical setbacks. Before, I might have made myself do push-ups or made myself do pressing stuff, I don’t do that anymore if my body can’t do it. It’s like: Focus on things that are going to improve stability. Focus on things that are going to get me to the point where I can do five push-ups without pain, then ten push-ups without pain, then 20 push-ups without pain. So that’s the difference in how I work out now.“
• Danielson continued stating “Because AEW is a smaller roster—not everybody is a giant like it was in WWE—I don’t feel the need to be as big. And that’s so much better for my body, because for years and years and years, I was always trying to be big. For somebody who’s not naturally big, lifting heavy weights all the time is really hard on your body. And now I still lift heavy weights, but I cycle in and out of it. So I’ll progressively get heavier on my deadlift. Take a week off from deadlifting, or two weeks off, or even three weeks off from deadlifting, go back at a lighter weight, and then start cycling kind of back up again. So just a smarter training regimen and not being afraid to take a day off from what would be considered intense training and do something lighter, like yoga. And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten more into the yoga and that sort of thing than I was earlier in my career.“
• In a recent interview with Inside The Ropes, Paul Wight gave his thoughts on his feeling of how WWE’s Vince McMahon is likely pissed that another company besides his own is creating history in regards to AEW’s record breaking ticket sales success for All In. Wight stated “Oh, well, I think he’s pissed. I think he’s absolutely pissed, but he’s pissed in a good way. He’s the type that likes competition. He likes that challenge. Vince [has] very much animal, jungle-type mentality. Vince is a guy that thrives on competition or thrives on doing new things, thrives on being the best in his mind at what he does, so when you know competition steps up, that fires Vince up more than anything. The worst thing that can happen to Vince McMahon is to be bored, monotonous, you know? If he’s got competition, it fires him up to be better, which is a win for the fans because they’ll get a better product, and it’s good for us because we produce a better product, too.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent interview with TV Insider, Saraya gave her thoughts about AEW’s storytelling efforts for their Women’s Division. Saraya stated “Everyone loves a good story. It’s like going to a movie. You don’t want to see an hour-and-a-half constant fight scene. You want that break to tell a story. Men or women, I feel like it’s important to get that storytelling in there. I feel Tony does a good job. With the guys, you have Adam Cole and MJF. Every single week they have something great and entertaining. MJF is great with writing all his stuff out. Britt is the same way. She’ll have pitches upon pitches. Every girl is ready with pitches. There is only a certain amount of time we can do things, but I’m grateful as a female to be the main eventing Dynamite and Rampage and getting this opportunity to be on Wembley. I feel we can get some good storytelling in the next week or so. There is a little story going on where people are trying to read between the lines with Toni and Saraya in the same match and wondering how that is going to pan out. Everyone has their opinion on how the women’s division should be run, but at the end of the day, we’re grateful to get that time on TV.” Saraya also gave her thoughts on what she wants to see moving forward for the division in AEW. Saraya stated “People have to realize AEW has only been in the business for four years. It’s very much a baby. We have so much time to let things grow and evolve. I’m sure going down the line there will be more situations for the women, more new faces that will come in. I’ll be there with open arms. I personally have never gotten to do stipulated matches in WWE. I want to do cage matches and ladder matches. Personally, I would love to be part of it. I know Tony trusts the girls 100 percent to do things like that. Just more of that kind of stuff. I want us to continue to main event here and there. I’m not saying all the time, but it’s nice to have that spot. New faces coming in, and I welcome everyone. AEW is so wonderful about hiring new people. I feel like in WWE I have to be a certain kind of way where AEW is friendly for everybody. It’s so inclusive. Just awesome. I feel very privileged of being part of such a wonderful company that is such a baby. You never would think at four years a company would be selling out Wembley Stadium. It’s incredible. I’m super thankful.“
• In a recent interview with Fightful, Nigel McGuinness gave his thoughts about the differences in commentary between WWE and AEW. McGuinness stated “If you’re under the WWE umbrella, there are certain things you talk about and don’t talk about. There is more leeway, more freedom in AEW and you can talk about anything. In some ways that’s a good thing, in some ways it’s not. Two different flavors of ice cream. I feel a little more artistically able here. Certainly, I’m more able to talk about my history in terms of matches I’ve had and being a wrestler. There was always a weird dichotomy when I was in WWE because I could vaguely talk about ‘I wrestled this guy,’ but not where. At the same time, it forced me to lean more heavily into strategy and story, which has helped me out greatly long term as well. I love the lack of a govern here. I love the freedom to just go out there and try different things.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• QT Marshall filed a trademark for “QT Marshall” for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes on August 18th to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
• Brody King filed a trademark for “Brody King” for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes on August 16th to the USPTO. King also filed a trademark for “#1 In Violence” for similar purposes on August 17th to the USPTO.
• AEW recently announced that they will be holding two new Collision shows on October 28th at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut and on November 4th at the Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas. It was also announced that tickets for these upcoming events will officially go on sale starting on September 1st.
• In a recent interview with the Daily Mail, Chris Jericho gave his thoughts about how AEW’s locker room became stronger after the infamous All Out 2022 backstage brawl incident and being “painted with an unfair brush by the media … like ‘it’s a dumpster fire.” Jericho stated “We just let people know that everything’s gonna be OK. We are a great locker room with great people and a lot of momentum for our company that’s still very young and things happen sometimes. There was a lot of uncertainty. We’ve got a lot of young guys and girls on our roster who have never been through stuff like this before, but it’s a part of the business, it happens. We were really getting painted with an unfair brush by the media in a lot of ways like ‘it’s a dumpster fire in the locker room’ and that wasn’t the case. And I don’t want people to believe what they’re reading and think that it’s real, because it wasn’t. You go through things like that, fights and that sort of thing, I’ve been in them myself with locker room brawls You’ve got to continue forward and Mox, Danielson and I just really wanted to grab the horse by the reins before it got out of control and just let people know that if you have concerns let’s discuss them, if you have issues let’s discuss them but let’s get through them together and come through stronger on the back end.I think we really came together well which was great for the locker room and for the fans because the fans too want to know that everything is going to continue moving forward. And I think we did a really good job of righting the ship and most importantly letting people know that it’s going to be OK. It’s not the end of the world. These things happen and we deal with them and we become stronger as a result, which we have.“
• In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, AEW CEO Tony Khan gave his thoughts about him trying to handle the backstage tensions and issues within AEW’s locker room. Khan stated “The most important thing to me as the CEO is the wrestling fans. I’m a huge wrestling fan, and I try to think like a wrestling fan. I want the best wrestlers here in AEW. I want the best roster. And there may be some of them that don’t get along with each other backstage or on TV. It’s not ideal, but it’s a reality, and I can’t make everyone get along. I’m not sure it’s necessarily even in the best interest of pro wrestling for everybody t get along. But ideally, everybody is going to be able to focus on their matches and putting on the best shows for the fans. And I think that’s what we’ve been doing. We’ve had really strong ratings. So even though … wrestlers backstage hate each other and don’t want to be friends with each other, I think we all agree this is a really exciting time for the company. And it’s a really exciting time for the wrestling business and for the wrestling fans. There are a lot of people around here who think they’re the best. And I think a lot of them have a valid claim that they’re the best. And what I’m trying to do is to create an environment where everybody can go out and prove it multiple times per week and create a platform where the fans can decide who the best wrestlers are, what the best rivalries are, what the best matches are. As long as I can keep the top talent in AEW, we will have the best matches and the best big events. The lineup of wrestlers competing on AEW All In is the strongest group of talent we’ve ever assembled on one show, it features some of the biggest matches in the history of this company, and I think it’s going to be one of the greatest days ever in pro wrestling this Sunday.“
• As noted before, AEW is believed to have been paid around $100,000 for their sponsored Texas Chainsaw Massacre Deathmatch at their August 16th AEW Dynamite Fight For The Fallen 2023 show that was donated to the Maui Food Bank. In a recent episode of the My World with Jeff Jarrett podcast, co-host Jeff Jarrett revealed that AEW was actually paid a lot more money and later donated than has been reported for their sponsored match. Jarrett stated “Just to let you in on this, the number that’s being reported online, that’s why I haven’t commented on it, it’s way low. It blew me away.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent interview with the Busted Open Radio podcast, MJF gave his thoughts about the issues of tribalism among wrestling fans. MJF stated “I call it emotional puppeteering. I definitely feel I’m the best, but I’m not gonna sit here and pretend I’m the only one. There’s this weird thing going on now in professional wrestling where I’ll see fans online, the way they communicate with each other, it’s like all-out war. Just so you guys know, that’s not what’s going on with the wrestlers. We’re all rooting each other on because realistically, the better the two companies are doing, the more money we’re gonna make. So stop arguing. We’re all freaking having a blast. I’m watching LA Knight and Cody Rhodes every week, and I’m having a blast, just like I know everybody else is having a blast, just like I know that there are fans out there watching Better Than You Bay-Bay having a blast every single week. There’s so much great professional wrestling going on, and there’s more than enough room for it, clearly. Because AEW is about to have the biggest crowd, this is not hyperbole, the biggest crowd ever in the history of the sport, and I’m headlining it. When I think about that, it’s so insane to me. I think another reason why people can’t get enough MJF is, I’m really similar to a lot of the people that watch every week, besides the fact that I’m a freak athlete and I’m way more handsome than everybody, and a prodigy. I grew up loving this sport. I had a John Cena fathead in my bedroom. I woke up to that man staring at me. That’s insane. I had posters of CM Punk and Roddy Piper and Greg Valentine and Jerry Lynn and Buddy Rogers. I lived for this shit, and now I get to look dead into that camera and say that I’m the headliner for the biggest show ever, and it’s not hyperbole. I think that the reason people are behind me is because people see themselves in me. I’m a part of that dream, and I’m proud to be a part of that dream.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Impact, NJPW, Indies, & Misc. Wrestling

• Saturday’s NWA 75 event for the National Wrestling Alliance featured four new champions crowned. Max The Impailer defeated Kenzie Paige to become the new NWA World Women’s Television Champion. “Thrillbilly” Silas Mason defeated Kratos and Odinson to become the new NWA National Heavyweight Champion. Colby Corino defeated Kerry Morton to become the new NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion. Blunt Force Trauma (Damage & Carnage) defeated La Rebelion (Mecha Wolf & Bestia 666) to become the new NWA World Tag Team Champions.
• The NWA announced a new match for the card of their NWA 75 Night 2 event tonight in St. Louis, Missouri. This is a Grudge match of Kerry Morton vs. Matt Cardona.
• Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Major League Wrestling talent Calvin Tankman’s contract with the company is currently set to expire on September 1st and is expected to be leaving the company. It was reported that several of their sources within MLW stated that Tankman’s contract might have already expired. Prior to his departure, Tankman had been with MLW since June of 2020.
• MLW officials currently are working on plans for Alex Hammerstone to turn heel and go on a big heel run this Fall for the company, according to Fightful Select.
• PROGRESS Wrestling recently announced that Eddie Kingston will be making an appearance for the company at their Chapter 158: The Long Halloween event on October 22nd in London, England.
• PROGRESS also recently announced a new match for the card of their Chapter 157: Hungry Like The Wolf event on September 24th in London. This is a GCW Championship match of mystery opponent vs. Blake Christian (c).
• Hyperfocus Games recently released a new trailer for their upcoming Ultra Pro Wrestling video game featuring alpha gameplay footage and Matt Cardona, Arn Anderson, Bull Nakano, Glacier, Hayabusa, Chris Candido, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, and Jake “The Snake” Roberts being among the list of real-life wrestlers as DLC packs for the game.
• Sunday’s Royal Road Tournament 2023 Finals event for All Japan Pro Wrestling in Nagoya, Japan featured Satoshi Kojima defeating Ryuki Honda to be crowned the winner of this year’s tournament. AJPW also held a tribute to the late Terry Funk at the event.
• In a recent episode of the K100 with Konnan and Disco podcast, co-host and Lucha Libre AAA head booker Konnan gave his thoughts about the online criticisms over AAA booking QT Marshall to become the new AAA Latin American Champion at their Triplemania XXXI: Mexico City event earlier this month. Konnan stated “Oh, you took the belts off Fenix,’ the guy didn’t defend them for a year. Should I leave them on him forever to when him and Tony [Tony Khan] decide…I had to take it off of him. That’s a dumb remark. I thought the QT match was really good, and I’ll tell you why. It’s very rare that my boss comes up to me and says ‘hey, I want that guy back.’ He came back right after the match and he goes, ‘can we have QT back?’ He looked really good. [People] go, ‘Oh, he’s a jobber.’ He’s not a jobber here. If you’re a jobber there, you have to be a jobber here? Do you know how many people know who QT Marshall is in Mexico? Only the hardcore fans. Right now, every casual fan is like, ‘this is the guy who just won the Latin American Title and beat Pentagon, and he got heat on his first match.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• In a recent interview with New Japan Pro Wrestling’s official website, El Desperado clarified the status of his current contract with NJPW. El Desperado stated “Dave Meltzer wrote something like ‘Desperado is a freelancer so he can take all these outside bookings’, which was absolute BS. When you have NJPW wrestlers go out to these other companies, there’s some cross promotion involved there, there’s an acknowledgement and a little bit of publicity on NJPW’s end. To an extent, from a promoter’s standpoint, that publicity is part of my payoff, that they’re able to book ‘NJPW star El Desperado’. NJPW’s name value there is as, or more, important than my own, so to go about and take that branding away from me for no reason stank.“
• In a recent with MuscleManMalcolm, Deonna Purrazzo gave her thoughts on who would be her choices for the next selections for Impact Wrestling’s Hall of Fame. Purrazzo stated “A few people came to mind at first. I think Tara would be an amazing option. We saw her come back to IMPACT and have a couple matches, and I love Lisa. I think what she’s done, and she was so ahead of her time. I don’t necessarily know that she gets all the credit for it, so I would love to see her inducted into the Hall of Fame. I think Mickie is always going to be a contender. She’s kind of still on her hiatus from IMPACT right now. We don’t know what’s happening. But if she decided to maybe step away from in-ring competition and do something else, I feel like she would definitely be the next woman to be inducted, for sure.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)
• Prestige Wrestling recently announced a new match for the card of their Roseland 6 event on September 1st in Portland, Oregon.
• As noted before, former WCW wrestler Steve “Mongo” McMichael has been battling ALS since being diagnosed with the disease in April of 2021. The Pro Football Hall of Fame recently announced that McMichael is one of the Senior finalists for the official ballot for this year’s Hall of Fame voting. In regards to the criteria for enshrinement, McMhichael will need at least 80% of the vote from the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s 50-person Selection Committee in order to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
• As noted before, wrestling legend Terry Funk passed away this past Wednesday at the age of 79. PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that a Terry Funk Celebration of Life memorial service will be held on August 31st in Canyon and September 1st in Amarillo, Texas.