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WON NEWSLETTER: September 20, 2021 Observer Newsletter: Big E wins WWE Championship, WWE at MSG

Big E cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on the 9/13 Raw to win the WWE championship from Bobby Lashley, signifying his switching brands and reuniting The New Day.

Born Ettore Ewen, the 35-year-old Tampa product was a state heavyweight champion wrestler at Wharton High School and football player, who went to the University of Iowa, and after college, became a powerlifter.

A mutual friend contacted Jim Ross, and he was given a WWE tryout in 2009 and WWE signed him to a deal at that time. He started as Big E Langston in Florida Championship Wrestling, which was shortened to Big E. He was popular due to his personality and those in developmental thought he could be a groundbreaking performer with his leaping ability and agility and power combination.

In 2012, he was brought up to the main roster, and on November 18, 2013, won the IC title from Curtis Axel. But his career took off in 2014 as part of the New Day tag team. The idea started out silly but ended up being tweaked by the three guys in it and the group held the Raw tag team titles twice and Smackdown version of the titles six times.

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TUESDAY NEWS UPDATE

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  • New NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa spoke to PWInsider about new talent being added to NXT 2.0. “I think that, to me, is the part that’s so exciting. I’m hoping that people pick up on that more and more as the weeks turned into months. This is very exciting. We’re going to see some fresh faces and new match-ups and this is awesome. You know what I’m saying?  People got super invested in that NXT, that NXT developing talents and getting their first TakeOvers and stuff. It’s the same thing. Because even then, we had a core group of guys to help lead that push. It’s the same exact thing that’s happening right now. It might take people just a little bit to catch on to that because it’s not exactly what NXT has been presented as over the last, maybe say two or three years. But man, when this thing starts to fire on all cylinders, it’s going to be hard to stop.”
  • Ciampa also spoke to Sports Illustrated on the new, revamped version of NXT.
  • PWInsider reported that casting is underway for season 2 of Young Rock and they are looking for people to play Jerry Lawler, Tommy Rich, Bam Bam Bigelow, Haystacks Calhoun, Gene Okerlund, Big John Studd, Freddie Blassie, Mr. Fuji, and The Great Kabuki. They are also looking to recast several wrestlers from the first season, including Roddy Piper.
  • Drew McIntyre spoke to GiveMeSport and expressed interest in moving to SmackDown and feuding with Roman Reigns. “I mean, something with Roman [Reigns] is always going to interest me,” he said. He’s on top of WWE right now doing the best work of his career… I think for Roman and I, it’s a case of giving it more time. I just want to keep rolling and keep building that momentum and basically catch up to the momentum that he’s got right now and make it a big big match.”
  • Eva Marie spoke to the Out of Character podcast about her relationship with Vince McMahon that led her to a WWE return. “When I left, I was always in contact with Vince with the projects I was doing,” she said (h/t WrestleTalk). “He always seeing whether it was movies, TV, or new endeavor business-wise and things of that nature, we were always in conversation. I was always checking in and saying what’s up and things of that nature. The conversation kind of sparked last year and it was one of those things that, I always said I wanted to come back when the time was right and I always let him know that. That way, at any moment at any time, there was never a thought of ‘she would never’ or ‘there’s no possibility for her to come back’.
  • Matches added to WWE’s YouTube page today include Kevin Owens vs. Finn Balor from WWE Beast in the East 2015 and Rob Van Dam vs. King Booker from the September 19, 2006 edition of ECW.
  • Bianca Belair was interviewed by Knox County mayor Glen Jacobs (Kane) on his YouTube channel.

Other Wrestling

  • Rob Van Dam went to Twitter to clarify comments he made regarding Ric Flair during last week’s Dark Side of the Ring documentary on the Plane Ride From Hell. “I haven’t seen Ric Flair’s d***,” he said. “My comment about fans shouldn’t see him doing the helicopter was a response to DSOTR telling me that’s what they were told. They shouldn’t. I don’t want to see it either. 2) I said “trying to make her touch him” referring to his body crowding her space and her backing up like bad breath was in her face.I thought maybe they were playing(from seeing a similar scene at the hotel bar) but I wasn’t interested in naked Ric. Still ain’t. I tried to sleep.” Later, when asked if he saw Flair grab flight attendant Heidi Doyle’s hand and forced her to touch his genitals, Van Dam replied “I can confirm I didn’t see that and I didn’t say that. Creative editing will have people hearing it different ways.”
  • Bryan Danielson talked to Bleacher Report, expressing interest in a G1 Climax run. “There are things I want to do, but I don’t ever think of them as goals,” Danielson said. “Oh man, I’d love to do the G1. But if I never do the G1 and all I ever do is wrestle in front of 19,000 people at Arthur Ashe Stadium, I think I’m going to be OK, I’m sure. So it’s weird as far that kind of stuff goes because there are so many things you can’t control. I would love to do the G1, but until we get COVID under control, that’s not even possible for me to go quarantine for two weeks.”
  • PWInsider reported that Sami Callihan underwent surgery for a broken ankle and broken tibia and fibia bones in Nashville and was released from the hospital today.
  • CMLL has posted the official card order for this Friday’s Aniversario show. The main event, pitting Lluiva and La Jarochita against Dark Silueta and Reina Isis, will be the first women’s main event in Aniversario history. 
  • AEW is advising those that are going to Grand Slam in Queens, New York tomorrow to take mass transit and arrive early. Gates open at 5:30 pm local time. More info can be found here.
  • Heels last night ticked up to 93,000 viewers, up from last week’s 79,000.
  • AJPW has announced the brackets for their upcoming 2021 Real World Tag League tournament that begins on November 28, with the finals taking place on December 5 at Korakuen Hall. 
    Block A has Suama & Shotaro Ashino, Jake Lee & Hokuto Omori, Abdullah Kobayashi & Drew Parker, and Jun Saito & Rei Saito.
    Block B has Kento Miyahara & Yuma Aoyagi, Tajiri & Super Crazy, T-Hawk & El Lindaman, and Inzanagi & UTAMARO.
    Block C has Shuji Ishikawa & Kohei Sato, Yoshitatsu & Seigo Tachibana, Mitsuya Nagai & LEONA, and Kengo Mashimo & Kazma Sakamoto.
    Block D has Zeus & Shighiro Irie, Takao Omori & Yuko Miyamoto, Koji Iwamoto & Ryuki Honda, and Koji Doi & Kumaarashi.
  • Denise Salcedo interviewed The Bollywood Boyz on their release from WWE and their upcoming return to pro wrestling.
  • TMZ reported that Shannon ‘Daffney’ Spruill’s death certificate confirms her death was via suicide following a gunshot wound to the chest.
  • Sammy Guevara’s latest vlog, which features content not seen on AEW Dynamite.
  • Chris Dickinson spoke to Monthly Puroresu about his experiences in Japan and New Japan Strong.
  • Session Moth Martina wrote a column on Independent.ie about live wrestling returning to Dublin next month.
  • Sonny Kiss’ new AEW music.
  • No Way Jose recently welcomed a son to the world.
  • The Tampa Bay Times has an article on Stu Schwartz, a referee from Tampa who has passed away at the age of 90.

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