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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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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As mentioned earlier, Jack Perry took the AEW National Championship from Ricochet at Revolution in his hometown of Los Angeles, California. On the Zero Hour pre-show before Dynasty gets underway, Perry will make his first defense of the AEW National Championship when he faces “Dunkzilla” Mark Davis, who is turning his attention to singles gold after all of his tag team partners keep getting injured.

Divine Dominion will also be defending their AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championships on Zero Hour as they face off with Maya World and Hyan. Megan Bayne and Lena Kross have been undefeated since dethroning The Babes of Wrath at Revolution, and have even defended their titles against the former champions on “Collision.” Now they are facing off with a young team in World and Hyan who have put together an undefeated streak of their own in Ring of Honor, and want to turn that streak into championship glory.

Completing the entire Dynasty card will be a straight singles match between Marina Shafir of the Death Riders, and the current NJPW STRONG Women’s Champion Alex Windsor. Both women have been at each other’s throats thanks to Jon Moxley and Will Ospreay going after each other, forcing them into proximity with each other. However, things might be a bit different when they finally meet for the first time in a sanctioned singles match.

For two years, Pretty Deadly’s Elton Prince and Kit Wilson had been featured on “WWE SmackDown” in the tag team division, but once Prince suffered a severe injury this past summer, his partner struggled to get himself booked on television. However, late last year, Wilson debuted his “Toxic” persona, which quickly became popular with the WWE Universe and has earned him a spot on the show nearly every week thanks to a former writer for the company. 

Speaking in a “Signed By Superstars” stream on FaceBook, ex-WWE writer Road Dogg (Brian James) shared that he heavily advocated for Wilson backstage and played a major role in his “Toxic” character getting on TV.

“Love him. I will gladly say that I fought to get him on … we had to get him on “Main Event” a few times so that we could show everybody that it was fun and catchy,” he explained. “Pretty Deadly. Two British guys, blonde and brunette. Good looking guys, swell lookers. The one kid got injured and the other was just sitting there.”

Road Dogg also claimed that Wilson is going to be one of WWE’s viral upcoming stars as well as a top merchandise seller this year. Last month, the WWE Hall Of Famer resigned from his duties as a writer because of the business “moving too fast” for him, as he felt like he was missing out on quality time with his family due to his role on the creative team.

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