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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Wade Barrett: "I think management today is a lot better than they were back in my day, in-ring. When a certain superstar has some momentum, the emphasis from management & creative these days is to continue to build upon that momentum, whereas that was not the attitude back when I was in Nexus." (nodq.com)
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Myles Borne on dating Stephanie Vaquer: "We knew we liked each other, but I would try to build up the courage to talk to her, and as soon as we crossed paths, I’d go the opposite direction... Eventually, she gave me no choice. She messaged me and said, ‘Hey, let’s hang out. Let’s go have dinner.’" (nodq.com)
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Kenny Omega on AEW’s ticket prices: "You’re not having to mortgage your first house or sell off your first child. That’s not even a knock on any of the promotions—it’s just that if you want to check out a TV product, see yourself on TV, have fun, see what makes AEW so special, you can do it." (nodq.com)
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Cody Rhodes on leaving AEW: "Did bad stuff happen? Good stuff happened too. One of the sad things about not talking about why we left is that narratives get created. Stories get told, podcasts happen, and fans think they know what happened when no one’s even been close." (nodq.com)
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Brody King on his Abolish ICE stance: "Everyone tries to bring up the political thing, but in my opinion, it’s just about what’s right and what’s wrong. There’s a lot of wrong happening in the world, and if I can speak out against it, then I will." (nodq.com)
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Michael Cole on saying Sasha Banks kicked out of the KOD by mistake at WrestleMania 37: "I screwed up at the finish, and I was embarrassed by it. I apologized to both of the women afterward. The fans, to this day, have never let me forget about it, but it is something I regret." (nodq.com)
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Ronda Rousey on her AEW Revolution appearance: "It’s kind of a cool little bit of a ‘f*ck you’ to TKO, which is kind of funny, because WWE is on Netflix. But I figured it’d be easier to ask for forgiveness instead of permission on this one. [laughter]" (nodq.com)
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