Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News - I’m Oli Davis.
Happy 50th, Eddie Guerrero Yesterday would’ve been the 50th birthday
of former WWE Champion Eddie Guerrero, who passed away in 2005 aged only 38.
Which not only gives us a chance to remember Latino Heat, it also provides some top notch
wrestling family trivia.
In an oft-forgotten relation, Smackdown wrestler and solo recording artist Aiden English is
actually Eddie’s posthumous son-in-law, marrying his daughter Raquel Diaz in January
last year.
And The Drama King reminded everyone Guerrero’s accomplishments extend outside professional
wrestling.
“Today everybody is celebrating your birthday sharing pics and videos from matches and television
segments - things I'll too remember forever as a fan...but it's THIS that I'll never have
enough words to truly describe the amazing gift you've given me.
Everyday I'm reminded of your kindness, love, and sense of family because I see it in her
eyes.
I'll never get a chance to say it too you but I'll say it all the same...thank you and
Happy Birthday.”
And those weren’t the only feels being posted on Instagram.
Best Friends Forever (Again) Following Sami Zayn’s shock heel turn at
Sunday’s Hell in a Cell main event, pulling Kevin Owens away from a Shane McMahon flying
elbow, KO posted a captionless image of the two former best friends embracing in their
pre-WWE days.
Well, it could be of Sami, or it could be of Kevin’s other long-time tag partner El
Generico - who are completely different people.
Owens and Zayn have come a long way since their Ring of Honor days, both now right at
the top of Smackdown’s main event scene.
Other wrestlers, though, prefer life outside WWE.
Wrestlers that Roman Reigns thinks are nerds!
Roman Reigns Shoots On Bullet Club Two weeks ago, Bullet Club members Cody Rhodes,
Marty Scurll, The Young Bucks and Hangman Page staged an ‘invasion’ outside Monday
Night Raw - where they led fans in anti-WWE chants, tried to rescue former Bullet Club
members Finn Balor, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, and mocked Raw’s low ticket sales.
Despite doing something incredibly similar almost 20 years ago, with DX’s ‘invasion’
of WCW Monday Nitro, WWE decided imitation isn’t the sincerest form of flattery - it’s
the most copyright infringing.
Just two days after the ‘invasion’, The Young Bucks were reportedly sent Cease and
Desist letters over them using the ‘Too Sweet’ hand gesture on their merchandise.
WWE claim to own the signal and phrase - and, presumably because the company’s legal department
is so large, the Young Bucks chose not to fight it.
Now, in a clip from yesterday’s WWE Conference Call posted on Inside the Ropes (check them
out, they’re really good), Roman Reigns appears to shoot on the Bullet Club and their
Raw invasion when talking about the current day wrestling business:
“No offence to any of these guys, but we don’t need guys running around doing ‘Too
Sweets’.
We don’t need guys acting like they’re DX from 15 years ago.
We need original characters.”
Guys, it’s OK - Roman said ‘no offence’ before he said the mean part.
That means he can say whatever he wants afterwards.
So with all due respect, here’s the Young Bucks reply:
“You expect old-timers/shock jocks to bury you, but not current, young, top-guys that
you respect.
Disappointing.
#usVSthem” The Bullet Club weren’t the only target
of Roman’s remarks.
When talking about how Braun Strowman is a “certified star”, he took a jab at the
wrestler he once threw off a WWE tour bus.
“Not to quote a little monster we have running round the locker room, but you can’t teach
that.
You can’t teach a guy to be damn near 7 foot tall and 400 pounds.”
Speaking of Enzo Amore… ...watch my review of his title loss on last
night’s Raw!
And might we see The Rock vs Triple H at WrestleMania?!
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