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Hangman Page:

“He cared about everyone so much. And I am going to miss him. Thank you, Ben. Goodbye.”

Cash Wheeler:

“I’m going to miss his smile.”

Cash spoke about missing Ben as a person, not just PAC the wrestler, and remembered the kind of person he was outside the ring.

Jay White:

“Ben, if anybody was ever in a league of their own, it was you.”

“The most complete professional, and the greatest man.”

Jay talked about how much PAC influenced him as a wrestler and how he had watched PAC’s matches and tried to emulate him. He also spoke about how much Ben meant to the AEW locker room.

Ricochet:

“I love you, Ben. And I know all of us are going to miss you so bad.”

Ricochet talked about his long friendship with Ben, going back to their time together in Dragon Gate. He described PAC as being almost like a brother to him and reflected on everything they experienced together in wrestling.

Will Ospreay:

“I’m gonna miss you, I love you, and thank you for everything you’ve done for me and so many other people.”

Ospreay talked about looking up to PAC when he was a young wrestler and how much Ben influenced his own career. He also reflected on finally getting the chance to wrestle PAC after years of being inspired by him.

Swerve Strickland:

“He was a perfectionist.”

“Everything he did was calculated.”

Swerve talked about PAC’s attention to detail and how seriously he took his craft. He also remembered Ben as a quiet person who didn't need to say much, but whose words carried weight when he did speak.

Darby Allin:

“Whether we were fighting on a golf course, or him throwing me through a flaming table…”

Darby remembered some of the unusual and memorable experiences he shared with PAC, including their golf-course match. He talked about Ben’s willingness to create unique moments while still having a genuine love for professional wrestling.

"The f'n ill I feel seeing this shit. I hate it so much. It feels like romanticizing this shit. Worst part is always end up tagged like I'm gonna be like 'I love it so much, thank you for your creativity and doing this' UGH

Especially when Ben actively HATED AI. And I know for a fact my husband would have too. He believed in art. He consistently paid friends for their art.

When he passed I had people offer to send me their art and I paid for multiple pieces because it felt like it dishonored his memory for not supporting artists.

I'm not trying to make this about myself but losing my friend Ben has been tough enough but to see this trash on my timeline only stings more."

- Amanda Huber On Fans Creating AI Graphics Of PAC, Brodie Lee, & The Butcher

Swerve Strickland shared an interesting perspective on WWE x AAA Worlds Collide and AEW All Out taking place in Chicago on the same night.

While a lot of the conversation surrounding the two shows has focused on the companies going head-to-head, Swerve looked at it from the perspective of the fans who got to experience live wrestling in the city.

He wrote:

“Over 20k folks in the city of Chicago enjoyed live pro wrestling on a Saturday night.”

He ended the post with “#win” and “#thankyou.”

WWE has had plenty of wrestlers who had the talent, charisma, or potential to become much bigger stars, but for one reason or another, WWE never fully capitalized on them.

Mr. Kennedy, Samoa Joe, Cesaro, and Shelton Benjamin are four names that immediately come to mind for me. Kennedy had the charisma and character, Joe was already an established name before coming to WWE, Cesaro was an incredible in-ring talent who never got a sustained main-event singles run, and Shelton had all the athletic ability to become a bigger star.

Who do you think was WWE’s biggest wasted opportunity?

Kurt Angle has to be one of the easiest wrestlers to put in the GOAT conversation.

The crazy thing about Angle is that he wasn't just a great wrestler. He could do pretty much everything. Technical matches, intense matches, comedy, promos, character work — he was good at all of it.

And then you look at some of the people he was having matches with. Shawn Michaels, Brock Lesnar, Chris Benoit, The Rock, Steve Austin, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, The Undertaker... the list just keeps going.

His career is already ridiculous when you look at what he accomplished, but I think the actual wrestling is what makes the argument so strong.

There are very few wrestlers where you can look at their career and struggle to find something they weren't good at.

Obviously everyone is going to have their own pick for the greatest ever, but Kurt Angle has a pretty damn good case.

Is Kurt Angle the best wrestler to ever do it?

Back in 2020, Big E spoke about Kofi Kingston’s WWE Championship loss to Brock Lesnar and what happened to Kofi afterward.

“Kofi is far too humble, far too do-the-right-thing to mention this, but I'm gonna say this because it's never been said publicly — Kofi is a guy who had his legs cut out from underneath him. To see what happened in the match between him and Brock and to see no title opportunity after that and he just goes back into tag teams, that's disrespectful.”

Big E clearly felt Kofi deserved more after losing the WWE Championship, especially after waiting so long for his opportunity in the first place.

Kevin Nash has revealed that he was the one who booked Rey Mysterio’s infamous unmasking in WCW.

Speaking on Kliq This, Nash explained that WCW was planning a major advertising campaign and wanted Rey’s face rather than his mask featured in the promotion:

“I booked that. WCW was doing a huge ad campaign... the ad people had seen Rey without his mask on and they wanted, like, you’re not going to be in Times Square with a luchador mask on in an ad.”

Nash also acknowledged that losing the mask could hurt Rey’s merchandise business, but said he viewed getting Rey’s face in front of a wider audience as the priority.

Jimmy Wang Yang recently opened up about Chris Benoit and his reaction to the events of 2007.

Yang was in WWE at the time and said he felt uncomfortable when WWE announced plans for a tribute to Benoit.

As more details about the situation began coming out, Yang decided not to participate and no-showed SmackDown because he didn't want to be associated with the tribute.

When asked about Benoit's wrestling legacy years later, Yang was very clear about how he feels:

“Usually I say no comment to this person, you know, like I don’t care anything about his wrestling ability now. Like, what he did disqualifies him to me as a wrestler.”

He later added:

“So, personally, I don’t give a sh*t what wrestling match he did or all this other stuff. I don’t care. The last thing he did—that’s what sticks with me.”

Bret Hart talked about how he tried to help Goldberg early on in his career and teach him how to properly work in the ring. Bret said he thought Goldberg could become a much bigger star if someone taught him how wrestling actually worked.

He said:

“I liked Bill, and I was trying to help him. And I thought he was a guy that, um, could be a good, um, like a big star in the business, and it would be beneficial to everyone if someone could teach him how to wrestle and somehow explain to him that it’s not real. But he was too stupid.”

Bret was explaining why he was so frustrated with Goldberg and why he had tried to give him advice from the beginning.

Penta’s been getting a lot of momentum since coming to WWE, and now there are reports that WWE officials see him as a “long-term money maker” for the company. After the reaction he got in Mexico City, it’s easy to see why they’d be high on him. Could Penta eventually become one of WWE’s bigger stars?