![]() The WWE (and the WCW, which we won’t discuss in this piece) would either send you to bed elated or miserable. It was like a real life cartoon: oversized men, colorful costumes, clear cut good guys, clear cut bad guys (who sometimes turned good guys) and clear resolution week after week. She did NOT understand the appeal, although it was obvious. She thought it was a violent and unsophisticated thing to expose my gullible little brain to. My mom hated that I loved pro wrestling so much. As a result, millions of young boys (self-inclued) grew up watching angry, oversized oiled up men having pretend arguments with one another every Monday evening. In my formative years, wrestling went from a local attraction to a worldwide cultural phenomenon mostly because of Vince McMahon’s nefarious plans for world wrestling domination. I was born 1982 and religiously followed pro wrestling from 1988 to 2002, age where I left for college and stopped having access to cable television. This phenomenon is very specific to my generation, though. That works like a charm every fucking time. ![]() No topic will turn middle aged men into friends quicker than pro wrestling, though. The recollection Ken Oberkfell and Hensley Meulens will pry a smile out of any stranger with a beating heart. For some reason, name dropping old school baseball players is really fun too if your interlocutor was once a card collector. Memories that predate the commercialisation of internet like landlines, old school video games or 301 shoes might earn you a nostalgic nod of approval. There are very few topics I can address with almost any male between thirty-five to forty-five years old (I’m thirty-eight) that I know will elicit an immediate positive response. ET on April 1 in Los Angeles as part of WWE’s WrestleMania weekend festivities.* Follow me on: Facebook - Twitter - Instagram * The show will air live on Peacock starting at 1 p.m. In the main event of Stand & Deliver, Bron Breakker will defend the NXT championship against Carmelo Hayes. NXT is WWE’s developmental brand where wrestlers get experience before being called up to the main roster. She suffered a setback in September 2020 when she was forced to undergo knee surgery for the third time.ĭwayne Johnson told Entertainment Tonight in 2022 that he’s “very, very proud” of Simone for starting her wrestling career. Johnson signed with WWE in February 2020 and began training at the company’s Performance Center. Her great-grandmother Lia Maivia was also a trailblazer in pro wrestling, serving as one of the first female promoters in history. She was introduced as an on-screen character last October but hasn’t wrestled until now.įollowing in the footsteps of her legendary father, grandfather (Rocky Johnson), and great-grandfather (Peter Maivia), Johnson has already made history by becoming WWE’s first fourth-generation wrestler. Johnson goes by the name Ava Raine in NXT. She will be teaming with her Schism faction (Joe Gacy, Rip Fowler, and Jagger Reid) against Thea Hail, Andre Chase, Duke Hudson, and Tyler Bate in an eight-person tag team match. ![]() The 21-year-old daughter of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will make her WWE in-ring debut at NXT Stand & Deliver on April 1. Simone Johnson is set for her first-ever professional wrestling match.
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