Years later, when Nemeth was getting ready to make his AEW debut during the COVID-19 pandemic, he would have new wrestling gear made. He revealed he was encouraged to put the word “Hunk” on his trunks after a discussion with several of his old friends, and that a discussion with AEW owner Tony Khan took care of the rest.

“I remember after that first match was on ‘Dynamite’ against ‘Hangman’ Adam Page, it was really late in the night, the show had wrapped up, it was in Jacksonville, and I was kind of heading to the hotel,” Nemeth said. “And the owner, Tony Khan, goes ‘Ryan. Hey, you’re the hunk, but what kind of hunk are you?’ And I just looked at him and go ‘Hollywood.’

“And he took out his phone and goes ‘Hollywood Hunk, got it.’ And he starts texting, and I don’t know who he was texting, but I imagine some of the production team because when that episode aired, it said ‘Hollywood Hunk, Ryan Nemeth.’ And I thought it was so funny. From that point on, I kind of embraced it.”

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