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• WWE Legends JBL and Ron Simmons Back Lex Luger for Hall of Fame Induction
One Big Thing WWE Hall of Famers JBL and Ron Simmons have joined the growing chorus of wrestling legends calling for Lex Luger’s induction into the WWE Hall of Fame, stating their support during the For the Love of Wrestling convention. Why It Matters Luger’s absence from the WWE Hall of Fame represents one of […] The post WWE Legends JBL and Ron Simmons Back Lex Luger for Hall o...2025
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• Darius Carter Reveals What Ron Simmons Said To Him And Darius Lockhart After ASÉ Match
Darius Carter recalls getting praise from Ron Simmons. Before the February 20 episode of ASE Wrestling TV, Darius Carter took to social media to hype up his match with Darius Lockhart, teasing that Ron Simmons has special words for them after the bout. While chatting with Jeremy Lambert and SP3 of Fightful's In The Weeds podcast for a new interview, Carter chatted about the tweet and said that Sim...2025
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• JBL & Ron Simmons Push For Lex Luger’s WWE Hall Of Fame Induction
During a recent appearance at Monopoly Events’ For The Love of Wrestling convention, JBL and Ron Simmons declared that Lex Luger deserves to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. JBL said, “Lex Luger. I think Lex should be in the Hall of Fame, there’s no doubt about it, and I don’t know why […] The post JBL & Ron Simmons Push For Lex Luger’s WWE Hall Of Fame Induction appeared first o...2025
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• APA's JBL & Ron Simmons Agree This Star Is Past Due For WWE Hall Of Fame Honors

JBL and Ron Simmons believe that a former WCW World Heavyweight Champion deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame and should've been inducted a long time ago....2025
• Darius Carter Talks Ron Simmons Feedback, Wrestling Christopher Daniels, More
Darius Carter joined In The Weeds to discuss wrestling Christopher Daniels, feedback from Ron Simmons, and more....2025
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• Ron Simmons and His Forgettably Terrible WCW Championship Reign

Griffin Kaye In August 1992, Ron Simmons made history by winning the World Championship Wrestling title, becoming the first acknowledged African-American world champion. Although undoubtedly a historic feat, it is perhaps best we remember the accolade rather than the title reign which can only be considered utterly underwhelming. Stilted Win? To start on the positives, […]...2025

• WCW Clash of the Champions XXII Review (1993)

January 13, 1993The Mecca in Milwaukee, WisconsinWCW Clash of the Champions XII arrived at the start of a brand new year that brought more than a few changes for World Championship Wrestling. Bill Watts was on his way out and Eric Bischoff was on his way in as WCW's new Executive Producer. Also on the horizon was the imminent return of Nature Boy Ric Flair, who would come up short in a 'Loser...2024
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• WCW Starrcade 1992 Review

December 28, 1992The Omni, Atlanta, Georgia.WCW Starrcade 1992 was the tenth installment of the company’s longest-running marquee event. It was also the last World Championship Wrestling Pay Per View with Cowboy Bill Watts in charge. Watts' 1992 run as Executive Vice President had delivered one ill-received decision after another, whether it was banning moves off the top rope or pushing ...2024
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• PPV REVIEW: WCW Halloween Havoc 1992

October 25, 1992Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaIt was time for Sting and Jake 'The Snake' Roberts to spin the wheel and make the deal as WCW Halloween Havoc 1992 came to Philly.Roberts' arrival in World Championship Wrestling had been a big deal, such a big deal in fact, that the company had spent goodness knows how much promoting his first major PPV main event against ...2023
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• Matt Hardy Says Ron Simmons Has An Under-Appreciated Wrestling Mind
Matt Hardy praises Ron Simmons. Ron Simmons is one of the most respected veterans in wrestling, transitioning from football to become WCW World Heavyweight Champion and having a successful tag team run with Bradshaw (JBL) in WWE. Matt Hardy worked with Simmons throughout the Attitude Era, and he was asked about Simmons being under-appreciated for his wrestling mind on the latest episode of The X...2023
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• Trinity Heading To The UK, New NWA Tapings Announced, Sami Callihan Taking New Bookings | Fight Size
Here's your fight size update for Thursday, September 28, 2023. - As part of their upcoming tour of the United Kingdom, IMPACT Wrestling has announced that Trinity, formerly known as Naomi in WWE, will be returning to the UK. BREAKING: As first revealed by @dailystar, Knockouts World Champion @TheTrinity_Fatu is coming to the UK as part of the UK Invasion Tour from October 26 to 29 in Glasgow, Ne...2023
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• EVENT REVIEW: WCW Clash of the Champions XX - 20th Anniversary

September 2, 1992Center Stage Theater, Atlanta, GeorgiaClash of the Champions XX was a big deal for World Championship Wrestling.Not only was it the 20th installment of the Clash series, it also happened to coincide with the 20-year anniversary of pro wrestling on TBS. To celebrate, the company had brought in numerous legends, including a crutch-assisted Andre The Giant in w...2023
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• The Best Of Nia Jax, AEW Heads To Montreal, John Cena Hypes SmackDown Appearance | Fight Size Update
Here is your fight size update for Thursday, September 14, 2023. - Following her return to WWE on this past week's Monday Night Raw, WWE has uploaded of compilation of Nia Jax's top moments. Check it out above. - AEW has announced that they will be heading to Montreal Canada to host two nights of Life television on December 5 and 6. - John Cena returns to WWE Friday Night SmackDown tomorrow to ...2023
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• EVENT REVIEW: ECW Double Tables 1995

February 4th, 1994ECW Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania It was a brand new year in the Land of Extreme as ECW presented their first supercard of 1995, Double Tables. Named after the main event, which saw The Public Enemy defending the tag team titles against Taz and Sabu in a double tables match, the show also saw the first appearance on an ECW supercard of notabl...2023
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• PPV REVIEW: WCW Beach Blast 1992

June 20, 1992 Mobile Civic Center, Mobile, AlabamaOne thing I love about events like Beach Blast 1992 is that it follows the tried-and-trusted formula for naming wrestling shows:Take a word, any word, it doesn’t really matter, and add another word next to it that sounds powerful and exciting. Bonus points if you can use alliteration.Royal Rumble, Summerslam, Halloween Havoc, Christmas ...2023
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• Baszler explains why SummerSlam feud allowed her & Rousey to shine [Exclusive]

To paraphrase a quote from the great Albert Einstein, do not judge a fish solely off its ability to climb a tree. For certain talent to perform to the best of their capabilities, it really can be as simple as finding a way to put them in their element. That’s exactly what WWE did with Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey in the lead up to SummerSlam. These two longtime friends and training partners, t...2023
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"Griffin Kaye In August 1992, Ron Simmons made history by winning the World Championship Wrestling title, becoming the first acknowledged African-American world champion."

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"Vickie Guerrero, Teddy Long, Ron Simmons, and other legends were also shown in the crowd."

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"The APA consisted of Farooq (Ron Simmons) and John Bradshaw."

• Double standards are always going to exist in wrestling

WWE.com Welcome to the weekly Rumor Look Back, where we look at the rumors from six months ago and see which played out as originally stated. Let’s jump right to it. March 15, 2024 Wrestling Observer Radio’s Dave Meltzer heard from people in WWE who think Triple H didn’t realize how charismatic Will Ospreay is, and that’s one of the reasons why WWE offered Ospreay “a lot less money” to si...2024
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• WWE Raw September 9 And Smackdown September 13 Backstage News, Producers, Writers and More
WWE Raw Producers September 9 Wyatt Sicks vs. American Made: Jason Jordan Finn Balor and Damian Priest: Abyss Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill vs. Unholy Union: Kenny Dykstra & Molly Holly Gunther and Bret Hart promo with Sami Zayn: Adam Pearce Dragon Lee vs. Dominik Mysterio: Shawn Daivari Natalya, Lyra Valkyria & Zelina vs. Pure Fusion Collective: TJ Wilson Rey Mysterio vs. Finn Balor: Abyss IC Titl...2024
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• Ratings skyrocket for WWE Raw After WrestleMania

Getty Images via WWE.com We’re used to the Raw After WrestleMania popping a number, but as WWE Hall of Famer Ron Simmons would say... DAMN! According to Wrestlenomics, this year’s ‘Mania fallout show averaged 2,362,000 viewers per hour on April 8. That’s the biggest audience the show’s had since February 2020. You have to go back to September 2019 to find a Raw with a better rating in the ...2024
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• Rumor Roundup: Triple H misses on Ospreay, Mercedes Moné debut, Punk at NXT, more!

WWE.com Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill. Important reminder: Rumors are just that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as fact, it’s just circulating around the pro wrest...2024
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• Shelton Benjamin On Beating Triple H: They Wanted To Create A Black Superstar
Shelton Benjamin recalls working with Triple H. In 2004, Shelton Benjamin was split from Charlie Haas when he was drafted to WWE Raw. In his first singles matches on Raw after the draft, Benjamin scored a victory over Triple H. Speaking to Kurt Angle on the Kurt Angle Show, Benjamin was asked about the win and the plans for him at the time. "Basically to fast track me. I don’t think, I don’t kn...2024
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• WCW Starrcade 1992 Review
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• EVENT REVIEW: WCW Clash of the Champions XXI

November 18, 1992 Macon Coliseum in Macon, Georgia.By the time WCW Clash of the Champions XXI rolled around, Bill Watts' tenure in charge of the company was rapidly going south. After producing an excellent string of shows in the early part of 1992, The Cowboy since made a string of questionable decisions, not least of which included thrusting his son, Erik, into the limelig...2023
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• ECW Three Way Dance 1995 Review

April 8, 1995ECW Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In the weeks leading up to it, ECW Three Way Dance 1995 had been promoted as the biggest event in Extreme Championship Wrestling history.The company went all out to make the event's namesake main event -a three-way tag team title match pitting tag team champions Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko against The Public Enemy and t...2023
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• PPV REVIEW: WCW Halloween Havoc 1992
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• Worst PPV Main Events

Hi Scott, Your Great American Bash 00 inspired me. Worst PPV main event or world title defense of the following: Ron Simmons vs. The Barbarian Diesel vs. Mabel Brock Lesnar vs. Bob Holly Any of your own where the challenger was clearly out of the champion’s league and the result was a foregone conclusion? Bob […]...2024
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• The Best Of Nia Jax, AEW Heads To Montreal, John Cena Hypes SmackDown Appearance | Fight Size Update
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• Baszler explains why SummerSlam feud allowed her & Rousey to shine [Exclusive]
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WWE.com Welcome to the weekly Rumor Look Back, where we look at the rumors from six months ago and see which played out as originally stated. Let’s jump right to it. January 23, 2023 Even though there is a lot of speculation that Vince McMahon will make a television appearance on RAW XXX, multiple outlets indicate this is unlikely to occur. That did not happen. (1/1) PW Insider says Lita ...2023
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• Pat McAfee Pokes Fun At Hulk Hogan Getting Booed On WWE Raw With Fake Press Conference
Hulk Hogan made an appearance on Monday's WWE Raw on Netflix premiere and did not receive a warm welcome. The Los Angeles crowd booed Hogan as he cut his promo hyping WWE on Netflix. On Tuesday's Pat McAfee Show, WWE Raw announcer McAfee and his crew poked fun at Hogan by staging a mock press conference where "Hogan" claimed the crowd were cheering "Hulk Hooooooooogan" and that the boos were act...2025
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• MVP: Triple H Avoided The Conversation About Hurt Business Reunion, 'The Old Man' Wanted To Turn Us Into NOD 2.0
MVP comments on The Hurt Business not getting back together and shares a nixed idea. MVP has been open about his frustration regarding the Hurt Business, as he has made it clear that he wanted the group to get back together in WWE, but Vince McMahon and later Triple H did not book their reunion. MVP and Bobby Lashley then left WWE and signed with AEW; MVP debuted in September, and Lashley arrived ...2024
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• Trinity Heading To The UK, New NWA Tapings Announced, Sami Callihan Taking New Bookings | Fight Size
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• Ron Simmons To Receive Lou Thesz Lifetime Achievement Award

Ron Simmons was already a College Football All-American and WWE Hall of Famer. Now, he is the latest recipient of the Lou Thesz Lifetime Achievement Award....2023
• Rob Van Dam Had One-Day Notice For WWE SmackDown Appearance, Says He Filmed Some Interviews

Rob Van Dam did not have much notice for his appearance on WWE SmackDown. WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam was shown in the crowd on the September 13 episode, which was the season premiere. Vickie Guerrero, Teddy Long, Ron Simmons, and other legends were also shown in the crowd. Rob Van Dam detailed […] The post Rob Van Dam Had One-Day Notice For WWE SmackDown Appearance, Says He Filmed Some In...2024
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• Rob Van Dam Says He Found Out About WWE SmackDown Appearance On Wednesday, Filmed Some Interviews
Rob Van Dam was among the many WWE Hall of Famers who attended the September 13th episode of WWE SmackDown. RVD was shown on the screen sitting next to his partner Katie Forbes. Speaking on his 1 Of A Kind podcast, RVD discussed how the appearance came together. "How about that. RVD just pops up wherever he feels like. It's part of being the Whole F'n Show. It was an invite that happened, not w...2024
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• CM Punk Spotted Talking To JBL & Ron Simmons Amidst AEW Suspension
CM Punk is one of the biggest names on the AEW roster, but many people are simply tired of his ego. He got himself involved in drama once again after ......2023
• APA: 10 Backstage Stories About Bradshaw & Ron Simmons We Can't Believe

The APA were a vital part of the WWE Attitude Era. Here are some backstage stories from The APA that every wrestling fan should know....2023
• John Bradshaw Layfield Loved ‘JBL’, But He Would’ve Happily Been In APA Until His Retirement

Self-proclaimed Wrestling God John Bradshaw Layfield has had a successful career in WWE. At one point in time, he was the longest-reigning WWE Champion. Before he found success in the singles division, JBL was part of one of the most successful tag teams in WWE with Ron Simmons. The duo called themselves APA. Recently, John […] The post John Bradshaw Layfield Loved ‘JBL’, But He Would’...2024
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• Trinity Heading To The UK, New NWA Tapings Announced, Sami Callihan Taking New Bookings | Fight Size
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• MVP: Triple H Avoided The Conversation About Hurt Business Reunion, 'The Old Man' Wanted To Turn Us Into NOD 2.0
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• Rumor Roundup: Triple H misses on Ospreay, Mercedes Moné debut, Punk at NXT, more!
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• Swerve shouts out Kofi Kingston during Black History world title promo in AEW

Swerve Strickland and Hangman Page will square off in a match on next week’s (Feb. 7) Dynamite, with the winner moving on to challenge AEW World Champion Samoa Joe on March 3 at the Revolution pay-per-view. On tonight’s (Feb. 3) episode of AEW Collision, Swerve acknowledged that it’s Black History Month, and he showed respect to Black world champions who paved the way for him to be in this spot, i...2024
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• WCW Starrcade 1992 Review
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• WWE’s SmackDown Return to USA Network: Legends in the Mix?

One big thing WWE is considering bringing in wrestling legends for tonight’s SmackDown return to USA Network, potentially including Rob Van Dam, Teddy Long, Booker T, and Ron Simmons. Why it matters • This marks the beginning of WWE’s new five-year deal with USA Network. • Bringing in legends could boost viewership and create buzz […] The post WWE’s SmackDown Return...2024
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