Former WWE star Reggie (Sidney Akeem) says that Vince McMahon wanted to add him to the Bianca Belair vs. Sasha Banks main event at WrestleMania 37:
"I almost main evented WrestleMania. If I would have been in this match, I'd have had so much heat from everyone because this was a huge match. Think about a match that happened during my Reggie time, with two women, that was a big match. A singles for the title. Vince wanted a Triple Threat between Sasha, Bianca and myself.
"I was with Carmella, and Carmella was feuding with Sasha, then Bianca came into the picture and Vince was saying something like 'hey, I want you to play the room, like you are in love with Sasha, so you're gonna buy her a puppy, and she's gonna love the puppy'.
"This is basically me getting away from Carmella because Sasha had beaten Carmella so many times and I just got enamoured with Sasha so Carmella fired me, and I was supposed to fall in love with Sasha.
"So Vince calls all of us in the office; me, Sasha and Bianca. We have some producers and writers there. He says 'this is what I'm thinking, Reggie buys her a dog, she loves you, and you're playing in the middle every week, but you have an endgame. You will come out and announce that this is a Triple Threat'.
"When he said that, Sasha had a look on her face, and Bianca had the same look on her face, and I'm just like 'I don't know what the hell is happening, I'm not gonna look at anyone or say anything'. Vince said 'Sasha and Reggie, you guys have great chemistry', and Sasha kept asking Vince 'what makes us have this chemistry'. We didn't get an answer, it was just 'chemistry'.
"Lo and behold they came to their sense, that would have been stupid to throw me in that match, and they went on to have a match that's gonna live in WWE history for a long time. Can you imagine?"
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Cancelled Theme File: "The Beautiful People"
Debuted on the 3/10/97 Raw is War
Was used only two more times, before the shift to "Thorn in Your Eye"
(incidentally, The Beautiful People was the Smackdown theme from 2001-03)
Right; this is coming from a big WCW fan.
WCW moments: 1st Nitro, NWO invasion, Hogan heel turn, crow Sting, the rise of DDP & Goldberg, Luger beats Hogan.
AEW: All In, Cody v Dustin, the rise of MJF/Darby/Swerve/Toni Storm, Sting retires, Moxley/Punk/Cole/Danielson arrival.
@WrestlerHauser 🤦🏻♂️ All In had nothing to do with AEW. That was Cody&Bucks.
And the rest of your AEW mentions are laughable. Nothing you listed changed anything like WCW did.
Nitro first live weekly show, regular competitive matches
nWo changed alot. A big angle that lasted years.
@GPWProductions Nothing to do with fake heart attacks or suicides but this article is fascinating about a wrestler faking his death in the Jonestown massacre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Bal…
@GPWProductions Nothing to do with fake heart attacks or suicides but this article is fascinating about a wrestler faking his death in the Jonestown massacre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Bal…
One day, someone should write a book on the absolutely insane things carny indie wrestling promoters do
I need to hear some good ones right now cause the current one I’m watching in real time is just annoying as fuck
Im judt curious, why did YOU stop watching AEW?!
6 YEARS ago, AEW had 950k-1.2m watching their shows
In 2026, its down to 590k.
AEW has lost 500k viewers in 6 years
So what was YOUR reason to stop watching??
Im curious
#AEWDynamite