Most of the wrestlers who worked with Eddie Guerrero have stories to share about their time with the late WWE Hall of Famer, often highlighting his generational charisma or his mind for the industry. Matt Hardy is among those who wrestled Guerrero, and appearing on “The Ariel Helwani Show,” Hardy revealed some surprising yet important advice that “Latino Heat” once passed down to him.

The two were given the task of working together through a series of live events despite the fact that both men were heels at the time. Guerrero advised that the two of them just start wrestling to see who the crowd naturally gets behind, and then they would set up the match so that individual was the babyface.

During one of the matches, Guerrero brought Hardy down to the mat with a submission hold. When the crowd didn’t immediately respond and instead grew quiet, Hardy tried to move to another spot, but Guerrero told him to stay put.

“I start [saying], ‘Do we need to come up, Eddie? Don’t you think we need to come up? Because I don’t want the crowd to get bored,'” Hardy said. “He said, ‘No, just stay here.'”

After the match, they got to the back and Hardy thanked Guerrero for the guidance, noting that he was still getting used to the heel role and what it entailed. According to Hardy, the key piece of advice he received from Guerrero was regarding Hardy’s fear of the crowd getting antsy.

“This is one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten. He said you have to bore the crowd, to a degree,” Hardy continued. “You’ve got to stop, you’ve got to let them breathe, you’ve got to let them reset. Because the crowd can’t maintain that pace, and you see a lot of that in today’s day and age of wrestling.”

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With Oba Femi becoming one of the most powerful stars in WWE today, being on the receiving end of the moves in his arsenal can’t be easy. Femi’s Fall From Grace and One-Handed Backbreaker are nothing short of devastating, but a current “WWE NXT” star claims that he never looks forward to another move that “The Ruler” performs.

Speaking on “The Rich Eisen Show,” NXT North American Champion Myles Borne reflected on taking a Pizza Toss from Femi, stating that it was one of the most painful signature moves he’s ever endured.

“Oba hit me with the Pizza Toss, and you know I’ll take pretty much anything,” he said. “Once we’re live I’m game, but when he picked me up for that Pizza Toss, I got no choice. I’m in the air. There’s nothing I can do. And he just lets you go … that bump right there, it’ll knock the breath out of you. I took it once and I remember I hit and I just immediately I lost my breath and I just rolled out. I just rolled from the live show. I don’t even know where we were, but we were on a we were on a tour and I just rolled out and I said, I’m done, that’s it.”

The Pizza Toss is similar to Brock Lesnar’s F-5, with the main difference being the height of the high-impact shoulder toss. At NXT Heatwave 2024, Femi famously delivered a Pizza Toss to former WWE star Wes Lee, who went viral due to how high he was thrown in the air.

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AEW presented a three-hour block of television, complete with two hours of “AEW Dynamite,” followed by an hour of “AEW Collision,” on Wednesday, and despite a slight decrease in viewership for “Dynamite,” the show still ranked ninth on cable for the night, according to new reports.

According to Wrestlenomics, with data from Programming Insider, the “Dynamite” portion of the night, which saw AEW World Champion Darby Allin successfully defend his title against Kevin Knight, drew 590,000 viewers, down just one percent from the previous week’s 596,000. The show earned a 0.10 rating in the ever-important ages 18-49 demographic, up 25 percent from the 0.08 rating earned by the April 29 edition of the show.

As for “Collision,” which usually airs on Saturdays on TNT rather than TBS, where it aired Wednesday, the show drew 429,000 viewers and earned a 0.07 in the ratings. According to Wrestlenomics, the show was #16 for the night on cable. “Collision” viewership was up 24 percent from the previous week’s 347,000 viewers, when it aired in its usual timeslot on Saturday, and up 17 percent from the previous episode’s 0.06 rating.

The night saw former AEW World Champion MJF finally get his rematch awarded to him by Allin at Double or Nothing, with MJF’s hair on the line. MJF stormed down to the ring following Allin’s victory over Knight, and earlier on the show, Kazuchika Okada told Allin that he’d be seeing him in the ring for the gold on next week’s edition of “Dynamite.” In the main event of “Collision,” The Young Bucks and the Bang Bang Gang defeated the Death Riders and The Dogs in 10-man tag action.