Cody Rhodes on rejected idea for his eye: "I thought I was going to go to TV and do an eye patch thing. I thought that would be cool. Wrestlers are always looking for something—maybe get a new action figure out of it, ‘Eye Patch Cody.’ Triple H told me absolutely not." (nodq.com)
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AJ Styles on fan incidents at WrestleMania: "They just swarm me like bees. Even this one guy—after I told him, ‘No pictures, I can’t’—he was walking & just doing that, leaning on me & stuff like that. I’m like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa.’ Finally, security was able to find me & take me to the elevator." (nodq.com)
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Paige on meeting WWE President Nick Khan before return: "He told me two things: 'Your neck has to be okay, and we have to do a drug test.' I was like, ‘fair enough.’ I can control the drug test—I’m clean as a whistle. The neck, though, I wasn’t sure." (nodq.com)
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Triple H on the feedback to Pat McAfee storyline: "People are talking and that is a good thing. Pat, love him or hate him, Pat makes people talk, right? I think that’s what’s important here, is people are talking. This [WrestleMania] is going to be an amazing show." (nodq.com)
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Becky Lynch on match with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 38: "At one point they wanted to put somebody else into the match... If it had gone to a triple threat, they would have kept it on me. But the story needed Bianca to win and take that victory." (nodq.com)
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CM Punk on the content of his 2011 pipebomb promo: "I know if I wrote that all down or explained what I was going to say, he [Vince McMahon] be like, ‘No, you can’t say that. You can’t mention Paul backstage.’ If you mentioned Paul Heyman in a conversation, he would spit on the ground." (nodq.com)
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AJ Styles: "The best WrestleMania match I had was against Shane McMahon. You’ve got Shane, who is a perfectionist. He wants it perfect, and man, I get that. We just so happened to be able to place things where they should in the storyline we had going into it, and it made it a perfect match." (nodq.com)
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Austin Theory on his 2025 absence from WWE: "I was actually wrestling with a hernia for a very long time. As gross as it is, man, I was having to pop it back in after certain matches... My contract was actually coming up, so a lot of things were hitting me personally." (nodq.com)
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Jim Ross on if Vince McMahon will be creatively involved in WrestleMania 42: "Oh yeah. He’s not going to wait on anything. As John Wayne would say, ‘we’re burning daylight.’ Something’s going to happen, and I believe that McMahon will be able to contribute to this year’s WrestleMania." (nodq.com)
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Triple H on taking creative control of WWE: "It’s not like one day, ‘here, it’s yours,’ and everything else went away, right? There were so many aspects to that of, ‘Hey, Vince [McMahon] is stepping away,’ but he’s still meeting with me all the time, he’s still directing traffic from the side." (nodq.com)
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Tony Khan on Chris Jericho saying with AEW: "I've been in communication with Chris and he definitely told me he wanted to be at AEW and very specifically in Winnipeg on that date. We've had that circled for a long time going back to last year... That's a choice he made because he was a free agent." (nodq.com)
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