WWE: Jaida Parker on Being Motivated by Competition in NXT’s Women’s Division, Liv Morgan on How Shoulder Injury in 2023 Helped Improve Her WWE Career, More News

Jaida Parker Comments on Being Motivated by Competition in NXT’s Women’s Division

A recent episode of the WWE – Die Woche show featured WWE NXT talent Jaida Parker as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Parker’s thoughts about her Hardcore match against Lola Vice that featured ECW legend Dawn Marie as the special guest referee on the November 6th NXT show at the 2033 Arena.

“It was amazing (competing at NXT 2300). It was so amazing. I asked my coaches — the ones like Steve Corino who came from ECW — I was like, ‘How was it?’ He was like, ‘The fans are gonna love it.’ Especially because I’m in it from my Street Fight with Michin and everything so they’re like, ‘You’ve built this up so you have to deliver’ and I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m gonna deliver.’ But when I saw the matches that ECW used to put on, those Hardcore matches, I said, ‘Oh, I have to show out. I have to show out’ so, it was one of the best experiences of my life because I fed off of the crowd. They were amazing. I would love to go back. Philly is amazing.”

Parker also gave her thoughts about how the competition within NXT’s Women’s division has kept her motivated for her career in WWE.

“Oh, it motivates me every day because I know — to me, they’re (NXT women’s division) not competition because it’s me against me. But I know I don’t want them getting in my way. I see how well they’re doing. I’m like, okay, let me top you off with this because you won’t outwork me, you won’t outhustle me, you won’t out grind me and I make sure of that every single day. So I love the competition because it’s like a fire for me. But, at the same time, you gonna get what’s coming to you if you get in my way.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Liv Morgan Comments on How Her Shoulder Injury in 2023 Helped Improve Her Mental Health & WWE Career

A recent episode of The Pat McAfee Show featured Liv Morgan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Morgan’s thoughts about how her suffering a shoulder injury in 2023 ended up helping improve her mental health issues and her wrestling career in WWE.

“I feel like my whole career, up until after my injury — I didn’t come from entertainment, I don’t have a wrestling family, I’m not a division-one athlete. And so I think I almost had like imposter syndrome for a very long time. Not feeling like I deserved to be here or that I earned to be here, but I loved it so much. I grew up a fan of WWE since I was five years old. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. But I think I struggled for a long time just feeling like I don’t fit the bill.

And it wasn’t until I had my time off during my injury that I got to just really sit with myself for the first time in the last 10 years of my life. I’ve been with WWE since I was 20 years old. And so, to just have no schedule and to just really like sit with myself — I feel like it did wonders for my mental health, my confidence. And so when I came back, I felt so different. And I just knew I was ready now.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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WWE News & Notes

ESPN’s College GameDay recently announced that Cody Rhodes will be making an appearance as the guest picker at this Saturday’s show in Athens, Georgia.

As noted before, John Cena announced this past July that he will be holding a retirement tour in WWE for his in-ring wrestling career in 2025. WWE recently released a video promoting tickets for next year’s Royal Rumble event officially going on sale on Friday. In the video, Cena confirmed that he will be competing at next year’s event and this will be the final Royal Rumble event for his in-ring career.

Cody Rhodes recently revealed on Twitter that John Cena visited his co-owned Nightmare Factory wrestling school on Thursday.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources confirmed that WWE will be holding two double sets of television tapings for their RAW and SmackDown shows this December. Johnson reported that WWE will be holding a double set of SmackDown tapings on December 13th in Hartford, Connecticut for the December 13th and 20th episodes. WWE reportedly will also be holding a double set of RAW tapings on December 16th in Boston, Massachusetts for the December 16th and 23rd episodes.

F4WOnline’s Josh Nason reported that former TKO and WWE Executive Chairman Vince McMahon currently owns just 8,021,405 shares of TKO as of September 30th based on a recent SEC 13G filing by TKO. In regards to breakdowns, Nason reported that McMahon currently owns 9.88% of class A stock but his total ownership sale of TKO remains under 5% and does not hold any voting rights.

USA Today’s Adam Stites reported that his sources stated that former Miami Dolphins cornerback Trill Williams recently signed an official contract with WWE for their NXT developmental brand. Stites also confirmed that Williams was seen in the background during a segment at this past Tuesday’s NXT show.

Deadline reported that Paradigm Talent Agency recently launched a new division called The Sports Group that will be “a dedicated, all-encompassing division established to represent a roster of elite athletes and iconic teams.” In regards to WWE, Paradigm currently represents several WWE talents including Damian Priest, Tiffany Stratton, CM Punk, Drew McIntyre, and Liv Morgan for outside entertainment projects.

As noted before, a lawsuit was filed against Cody Rhodes, WWE, and Fanatics was filed this past September by punk rock band American Nightmare’s lead singer Wesley Eisold over allegations of trademark infringement and breach of contract. The Boston Herald reported that Eisold filed an amended lawsuit on November 11th before United States District Court, Central Districy of California. In his amended filing, Eisold claimed that he owns the rights to “American Nightmare” trademark and Rhodes had violated the terms of their agreement over his usage of the term for merchandise-related products using the name. It was reported that Eisold is currently seeking $900,000 in damages to be awarded to him by the court. It was also reported that Rhodes had yet to file a response to Eisold’s lawsuit as of November 9th and has until Friday, November 15th to do so.

WWE recently released three new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Story of Team Austin vs. Team Bischoff at Survivor Series 2003.” The second new video was a WWF Championship match of Sycho Sid vs. “Heart Break Kid” Shawn Michaels from WWE Survivor Series 1996. The third new video was a singles match of John Cena vs. Heath Slater from the December 29, 2012 episode of WWE Saturday Morning Slam.

In a recent interview with the 1 Of A Kind podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Bret “The Hitman” Hart gave his thoughts about his claims that Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Shawn Michaels tried to get Ken Shamrock fired from WWE solely due to them not liking Shamrock. Hart stated “When I met him (Ken Shamrock), he said, ‘I broke my wrist and I gotta let my wrist heal so I can go back,’ and he goes, ‘I can’t go back until my wrist heals,’ and I said, ‘Why don’t you do pro wrestling for New York while your wrist heals? Let’s go make some money,’ and next thing you know, he says, ‘Alright, I’m in,’ and then I talked Vince (McMahon) into it and Vince signed him and it’s funny, when they signed him, Triple H and Shawn (Michaels) tried to get him fired. For no reason other than he was just — they didn’t like him, and I just remember Vince called me into his office and he goes, ‘I’m thinking about letting Shamrock go,’ and I’m like, ‘Why?’ He goes, ‘Some of the guys think he’s real stiff’ and this and that and he didn’t even have any reason. He goes, ‘What do you think? What’s your honest opinion?’ And I said, ‘I would keep him. He’s doing alright, he’s doing great,’ and then like two weeks, a couple weeks later, he’s refereeing my match with Steve Austin and they kept him on and then he had his whole career there.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)