“I’m heading over to Vegas to watch the champ Roman Reigns do his thing,” says Steveson, the 21-year-old sensation who captured the gold last week, becoming the first U.S.
When I was losing, I reminded myself I didn’t come that far to be second.
Following his historic last-second takedown, Steveson heard from Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar, who have been positive influences in his life since he was in high school.
“If I ever go to WWE, I’d be a ‘Paul Heyman Guy,’ ” says Steveson, whose older brother Bobby—who, like Gable, starred for the wrestling team at Minnesota—reports next week to train at the WWE Performance Center.
Steveson took the toughest route imaginable to winning the gold, defeating defending Olympic champion Taha Akgül, 2019 U23 world medalist Mönkhtöriin Lkhagvagerel and Geno Petriashvili, the three-time and reigning world champion in men’s freestyle wrestling.
Already the reigning NCAA Division I national champion, Steveson has become even more heavily sought after since winning the gold.
So have people from UFC, like Daniel Cormier, Jon Jones and Henry Cejudo, who have also sent me congratulations.
The Olympic gold medal is helping me see the world, so my next step is going to be a big decision.
We’re going to have a memorabilia can with my gold medal signature on it, and we’re going to have fun with it.
It didn’t come off for like three days, until I got home and my mom put it on.
“I’m so grateful to represent the greatest country on earth, and I hope I made everybody proud.
WWE made more than a dozen releases from the NXT roster Friday.
The list of people cut is long and distinguished, including Mercedes Martinez, who is extremely talented and always presented herself as a major piece of the women’s division.
Clearly, McMahon does not see stardom in the future for his released collection of talent, which is inevitably going to be a decision that backfires.
AEW soundly won the ratings battle when they squared off head-to-head on Wednesdays, which is more of a credit to AEW and its innovative, creative approach to putting on an entertaining show and continually generating buzz.
McMahon and his team of associates, which includes Bruce Prichard, have no problem cutting talent and changing the business model of NXT.
Last week’s NXT releases continue to make me think of Raw.
PBR sponsors Matt Cardona and Brian Myers’s Major Wrestling Figure Podcast, and the commercial was filmed at Cardona’s pool in June.
“We’d planned on running it on the internet, then we saw this opening and opportunity to run it on TNT,” Smale says.
PBR originally had a three-month partnership with the Major Wrestling Figure Podcast, which was extended through the end of the year.
“Matt Cardona embodies the PBR brand, which is bet on yourself, and prove yourself and your fans right,” Smale says.