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WANT TO TALK TO THE AEW EVPS? AND MORE AEW NOTES

The Young Bucks and Cody have set up phone numbers that allow fans to text them via Community.  We are told that the messages coming back from the AEW EVPs are legitimately from them and that for fans who sign up for the content, they not have their data utilized in any other way beyond direct communication from the AEW personalities:

We are told you can expect more of this type of engagement from AEW in the future and that Cody spent well over 90 minutes today personally responding to fan messages.

In an update from something I wrote last night, the word internally is that AEW Dynamite will indeed move forward with the Blood and Guts match ASAP.  There were rumblings it would be pushed back last night after the taping last night but we are hearing now that it will be happening soon as AEW feels its important to have the match take place as advertised since fans are expecting that storyline to climax.

For those who have asked, we are told everyone who entered AEW's taping last night was examined and checked out by the company's medical staff (headed by Dr. Sampson, the doctor who saved Jerry Lawler's life several years ago) before they were allowed to enter the facility.  As noted last night, everyone who appeared did so voluntarily after being told they could skip the taping and still be paid.  Those who did not make the taping (or who miss future tapings) will not have it held against them and will be paid as if they appear.

Jim Ross' second autobiography Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond will be released on 3/31.  Promotional material for the book notes:

From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross comes a candid, colorful memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises he weathered at the height of his career.  Jim Ross has been the beloved voice of the WWE—and now All-Elite Wrestling—for decades, but there is so much more to the man than fans know. In this follow-up to his 2017 memoir Slobberknocker, Ross shares the story of professional wrestling’s rise from a quirky sideshow to a multi-billion-dollar industry in the 1990s and 2000s.  Under the Black Hat is packed with stories from the height of WWE madness, including Ross’s nurturing of global talents like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and John Cena. It traces the fracture of Ross’s relationship with Vince McMahon, his triumphant return to Wrestlemania 32, and the heartbreaking challenges he suffered behind the scenes, include multiple debilitating bouts of facial paralysis and the sudden, tragic death of his wife, Jan.   For all its larger-than life characters, Ross’s story is endearingly human in scale, turning a gruff but gentle eye to themes of professional ennui, ageism, disability and grief. Told with heart, humor, and unfailing honesty, Under the Black Hat is a gift not only for his many lifelong fans, but the new ones he’s sure to find.

 

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