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Whatever happened to Tay Conti?
She is still under contract to AEW and could be back anytime AEW wants, I suppose! She worked that Tokyo Dome show in January and looked good there and based on social media, she looks to be in fighting shape and has a new hair color, so my guess is she's back when creative directs her to be back.
Do you think there's heat on Kyle Fletcher for that evil powerbomb on Adam Cole?
If there isn't, I'd be shocked. That never should have happened the way it did and Fletcher would have been the one in control, so the heat has to come down on him.
Do you think WWE would sign Zilla Fatu?
I'd be shocked if he wasn't in their system within the next year. I can't imagine they wouldn't give him a shot given his family background!
Where is Bryan Danielson?
Right now, my guess is making his kids breakfast, like a good dad on a Saturday morning.
I've been doing YouTube dives into different themed restaurants. I know WWF/WWE had one years ago. Did you ever go? Why do you think it didn't work out? Could it ever return? Did you go to the WCW Nitro Grill?
Living in New York City and working in Manhattan at the time, I absolutely went to it over its lifetime and actually passed the restaurant every day for years going to and from my old office in the entertainment world in my former life. Looking back, I don't think it any identity outside of being a wrestling-themed restaurant and even at the height of the Attitude era, that left you a very small scope of patrons who would go there only because of wrestling. Unless WWE was hosting a signing or special TV show broadcast or a PPV viewing there, the place never really had a lot of foot traffic. I never saw it packed except for PPV nights.
There were dozens of times I'd walk past and see no one in the store during the early evening as I left work at the time.
Later, they turned it into a club at nights and that only split the branding and identity even more, so it was confusing to know what the place was supposed to be.
Plus, for a wrestling restaurant, it was pretty sad-sack in that it held relatively few pieces of memorabilia. It's now a Hard Rock Cafe and in comparison there's countless artifacts in there. When WWE owned it, there was pretty much nothing in there that a wrestling fan would want to check out. I've been to smaller lucha-themed restaurants in other cities that had far more.
As it got later in its lifespan, there were cutbacks on staff and the logistical management was a mess for a number of events that took place there. I could, however, see it coming back, as today's WWE ownership is happy to license things to third-parties if it will make them money. If a big restaurant company came to them looking to do a chain, for the right price, I could see TKO biting. I don't see them running their own place ever again.
I never visited the Nitro Grill in Las Vegas and before anyone asks, I never went to Hulk Hogan's Pastamania, either!
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