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Ex-WWE Writer Road Dogg And AEW’s Billy Gunn Comment On Celebrities In Wrestling

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From the perspective of Brian James, the subject of celebrities in wrestling comes with a mix of downsides and upsides. “Look, the negative immediately is it takes away from somebody that’s been working hard all year doing their things,” he said. “It’s a two-part question. Is it bad for the business or is it bad for business? Because is it bad for business? Hell no. It’s cross culturing, you know what I mean? It’s all of the above and good [for business]. Look, Jelly Roll is committed. He lives down there at the [WWE] PC working. So you kind of meet him and you go, ‘Oh, yeah, I don’t hate this guy doing what I do.’ And he’s probably better than I was anyway.”

In his in-ring career, James found success in WWE and TNA, with the former company recognizing him as a Hall of Famer (as a member of DX) in 2019. In both promotions, James notably enjoyed runs with tag team championship gold.

As James alluded to, Jelly Roll burst on the WWE scene with a serious drive to his sharpen in-ring training. This included an extended stay at the Performance Center, where the award-winning singer conditioned himself with the help of WWE coaches and talents. In August 2025, Jelly made his official in-ring debut in a tag bout alongside WWE veteran Randy Orton at SummerSlam. Seven months later, he scored his first singles win on “SmackDown.” Looking ahead, he’s now reportedly set for a tag bout opposite Orton at WWE Backlash 2026.

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JBL Comments On 2026 WWE Hall Of Fame Class, Praises Legacy Inductee Sid Eudy

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Bill "Ax" Eadie and Barry "Smash" Darsow wearing face paint

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Alongside Eudy, McMahon, Styles, and Demolition (Bill “Ax” Eadie and Barry “Smash” Darsow), WWE has announced Dennis Rodman, Bad News Brown, and Hogan vs. Andre as members of its 2026 Hall of Fame class. For JBL, the inclusion of Demolition, former WWE World Tag Team Champions, is particularly exciting.

“It’s a heck of a class,” JBL said. “And I see those Demolition guys a lot. I knew Barry a little bit when I first started. Barry Darsow when I started. Didn’t know Bill [Eadie] except for I met him in the last few years. Really good guys, and I’m very happy for those guys. Those are good dudes. They deserve to be in there. You know, there’s a little animosity going on with some lawsuits that have gone back and forth. Now that’s kind of water on the bridge, so I’m glad they’re going in.”

Hogan vs. Andre from WrestleMania 3 serves as this year’s “Immortal Moment,” especially given Hogan’s aforementioned slam to Andre in the match. Elsewhere, Rodman will enter the celebrity wing of the Hall of Fame, while Bad News Brown will receive a posthumous induction like Eudy. Styles’ respective honor comes just months after he retired from in-ring competition at the 2026 Royal Rumble. McMahon, in addition to her in-ring contributions, is known as the former WWE Chairwoman and Co-CEO.

The 2026 Hall of Fame ceremony will emanate from Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas on Friday, April 17 at 9pm PT. The WrestleMania 42 go-home episode of “WWE SmackDown” will precede it.

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WWE’s Triple H Reveals His Reaction To Cody Rhodes’ Throne-Smashing Entrance In AEW

Posted by admin on April 12th, 2026

At the first-ever AEW Double or Nothing in 2019, Cody Rhodes had a standout match with his brother Dustin, but something Cody did before getting in the ring had people talking just as much as the bell-to-bell action. Making a clear reference to WWE’s Triple H, Rhodes used a sledgehammer to smash a throne bearing iconography associated with “The Game,” and many fans took it as an opening shot in a promotional war between AEW and WWE.

Sitting down with Rhodes on “What Do You Want To Talk About?,” Paul “Triple H” Levesque revealed his reaction to the moment. “I saw it as your hammer, because it was smaller than mine,” Levesque said, laughing when Rhodes referred to breaking the throne with “his” hammer.

“I remember when people brought it to me and showed it to me. I was like, ‘F**k yeah, alright, good for him,'” Levesque said. “That’s the kind of s**t you do. You’re trying to make a name for yourself, you’re trying to get out there, you’re trying to do some cool s**t, you’re trying to do some different stuff.”

Levesque stated that he didn’t believe there was any real malice in the overture, and if he had believed that, he would’ve called Rhodes to sort it out with a conversation. The WWE executive stated that he had a close connection with Cody’s father, Dusty, and in turn he feels closely connected to Cody. At the time Rhodes left WWE in 2016, Levesque didn’t feel he could openly encourage him to leave, but he felt it was the right move.

“It was difficult for me when you left, because I couldn’t say … ‘Dude, get the f**k out of here, go out there and make a name for yourself, and make yourself … desirable, and we’ll f**king come chasing after you and bring you back.'”

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Steph De Lander Recalls Her Favorite WWE Memory

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Steph De Lander, the former Persia Pirotta in WWE, poses ringside during a match on "WWE NXT."

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Steph De Lander may be best known for her time in TNA, the company that she recently departed, but she was previously part of WWE, where she competed on “WWE NXT” alongside real-life best friend Indi Hartwell. De Lander joined the company in March 2021, and she made her first appearance for Hartwell’s storyline wedding to Dexter Lumis.

She recently sat down with “Scott’s Scoop” to talk about everything from her WrestleMania week bookings post-TNA, to her time in WWE. She recalled her favorite moment from her time on the developmental brand, a match where she and Hartwell teamed against Io Shirai and Zoey Stark and Toxic Attraction.

“I would say my ladder match, the ladder match at Halloween Havoc, was probably one of my favorite moments,” she said. “It was a really cool moment and I mean, it’s one of those things you don’t really think about like, a lot of wrestlers go their entire careers without getting to do a ladder match. Especially on Halloween Havoc, ‘NXT.’ That was a really cool bucket list moment that I wasn’t expecting. That was like my third match on TV. That was pretty cool, I would say that was probably my favorite moment from my ‘NXT’ time.”

De Lander said that when she looks back on her time in “NXT,” she wishes that she and Hartwell would have stopped to enjoy the moment a bit more. She explained that they were in the company at a stressful time where people were getting fired “every single week,” in her words. De Lander departed “NXT” in April 2022, and she joined TNA in the following months.

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Triple H Heaps Praise On WWE Producers Bobby Roode, Michael Hayes

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Robert Roode hits his "glorious" pose on the stage before heading down the ramp for a match on WWE programming.

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Paul “Triple H” Levesque may be head of WWE creative, but he has plenty of help behind the scenes, thanks to a team of producers helping matches and stories flow as best as possible. The producers work with talent, including Cody Rhodes, who talked about the team alongside Levesque on an episode of “What Do You Want to Talk About?” Levesque lauded the work of former NXT Champion Bobby Roode, as well as veteran producer Michael Hayes. Levesque said Roode had much to learn coming in from TNA, but when he did, he absorbed everything.

“I would see him picking everybody’s brain and just for his own stuff,” Levesque said. “When his career started to wind down, at that time, I remember thinking to myself, ‘When he wants to be done taking bumps, he’s a good guy for this…’ He’s not a kid just looking to get another paycheck. He understands the difference between business and being one of the boys and all that stuff. Grown up, gets it, and just has a great demeanor for it and is just a sponge for it.”

Levesque said that Hayes is still “the guy” after learning the ropes from WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson. He said he couldn’t say enough good about Hayes, and he believes that Roode is learning from Hayes at an incredible rate.

“There’s a certain passion for the business that I think you begin to see it shift in the way that people look at it differently,” Levesque explained. “It’s not just about ‘me and what I do next,’ it’s about ‘the product and what the product does next…’ I saw that with Bobby.”

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