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NO DANHAUSEN AT THE KNICKS PARADE, WWE EVOLVE BOTCH?, MATT SYDAL AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2026-06-19 10:00:00

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Last week, there were online reports WWE was filming a Danhausen documentary about him being at the New York Knicks parade and then he wasn't there, so what happened?

I don't know anything about an alleged documentary.  That wasn't anything I heard about and we certainly did not report.   Danhausen was in NYC on Wednesday to film content with ESPN.  He was not in NYC on Thursday, the day of the parade, so for some reason he wasnt there.  Why that decision was made, I don't know.  It does absolutely seem like an absolute missed opportunity on the surface.  Maybe he just needed a day off, I don't know!

Why would WWE EVOLVE air that horrible botch with Anya Rune on their TV and not edit it out?

It wasn't a botch.  It was a spot to explain why the turnbuckle came off, which set up the finish.  I thought it was actually pretty clever.

Whatever happened to Matt Sydal?

Sydal took time off to finally have a much needed foot surgery stemming from a motorcycle wreck years ago that greatly hampered his work in the ring and led to constant pain.  We are told there's been talk of late about him returning to the AEW ring in the near future.

If Tommy Dreamer's exit from TNA was a mutual decision, why was he crying on the SiriusXM show?

Dreamer is a pretty emotional guy but my gut is that his reaction was that while it was presented as a mutual decision, it probably wasn't.  

Where is Keith Lee?

To the best of my knowledge, he's just waiting to return to the ring.  I haven't heard anything that leads me to believe his health is currently an issue.  There's been buzz from time to time about his AEW return, but it hasn't happened yet.

If possible, could you name the best live show you ever attended for each of WWF/E, ECW, AEW, ROH, and WCW?

This is off the top of my head.

WWE would be Wrestlemania 17, ECW One Night Stand and I have a soft spot in my heart for the first-ever WWE live event I ever attended, a December 1986 Madison Square Garden House show.

For ECW, there's Barely Legal, Heatwave '98 and I can pretty much point to any ECW Arena show from May 1994 to April 1997 as being "the best" for different reasons.  

For AEW, I was at the first All Out, Revolution 2020 in Chicago and the 2026 All Out and those would be my three picks.

For ROH, the first-ever show and the Madison Square Garden event are my personal favorites.

I don't think I can think of a WCW show that I would consider the best I've attended.  Most of their best shows were events in Baltimore I didn't attend.   

What was the most miserable live pro wrestling experience you've ever had?

I've seen a lot of good and bad pro wrestling.  I saw some really awful independent events, but I knew going in they weren't going to be Wrestlemania.  You have to grade such things on the curve.  I used to go to an indy promotion where the shows ran for 6-7 hours, and a lot of it was pretty bad, but you couldn't argue you got a lot for your $20.  I don't think I can consider any of the shows miserable, because at the end of the day, I was either there with friends or there for work.  I can't think of one event that was so bad I was regretting going beyond a King of the Ring in Philly where the hope was Shawn Michaels would work multiple matches and the final was instead Mabel vs. Savio Vega, so we can go with that, I guess?

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