In this episode Ryan chats candidly with WrestleZone Daily’s Nick Hausman & Bin Hamin (aka Ben Duerr) about The Young Bucks new deal with Ring of Honor, Linda Hogan’s recent lawsuit being thrown out with her ex-boyfriend Charlie and TNA’s Andrew Everett’s ACL injury.
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You can listen to Ryan’s appearance starting at the 26:47 minute mark in the embedded audio player below. Some of his quotes have been transcribed below it:
RS: I had been getting so many conflicting tips. Some people were hitting me up saying that they heard that The Bucks were going to NXT. Some people were hitting me up saying that The Bucks had signed with Lucha Underground. I was assuming it was going to be one of those two just based on the amount of tips and people that have been trying to reach out to me. Trying to give me that story. At the end of the day, if they were able to use those rumors to play ROH off against all the other companies to get a better deal through ROH… that’s pretty smart of them. We literally just posted this news right before I got on this phone call. The deal that The Young Bucks signed has them with Ring of Honor for just a little over a year. I couldn’t get the exact amount. I do know that this exclusive deal… what they are calling an “exclusive”… has locked them down in Ring of Honor for over a year. What I found interesting is that besides just Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and New Japan Pro Wrestling, which they are still allowed to work for, they’re also allowed to accept other overseas bookings. As long as it doesn’t interfere with an ROH show. Really they just signed exclusive deals to the United States but then not really because they’re still in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla.
On Linda Hogan’s legal issues with her ex-byfriend Charlie:
RS: I broke this story last year when I was still working for TMZ about this lawsuit between the two. I remember it was one of my favorite lawsuits at the time because it was just so ridiculous. Charlie basically said that Linda had treated him like a day laborer the whole time during their relationship. He was forced to wax their yacht, dig a creek, fertilizer acres of avocado trees… honestly, there was even a longer list of things that he claims he was forced to do. At the same time I remember when I was working on that story he kind of played things up a little bit. Saying, “he was forced to wax their yacht,” when apparently he was trying to get his boating license. She was paying for him to go to school to get his boating license. So, waxing the yacht wasn’t like a thing he was forced to do it was because he was using the yacht. You know? Actually, all these details of things he said he wasn’t supposed to say. He had signed a settlement agreement saying that he wouldn’t talk to the media about their relationship when they broke up. He got paid money for it. When he came out and said all these things Linda took that to the court and said, “Look, we have a settlement agreement. He’s not supposed to say any of these things and he signed paperwork saying that he wouldn’t sue me afterwards.” When the court saw that they instantly dismissed his suit.
On Andrew Everett’s recent ACL injury:
RS: I feel so bad for Andrew Everett. I personally watch him more in PWG because I go to all those shows. He hurt his ACL I want to say last year and he was out for like six to eight months? Something like that I want to say. At the time he was a pretty hot, young prospect and was starting to get a lot of eyes. He was getting noticed in PWG and that ACL really messed things up. Then he came back in with a vengeance. Won the PWG Tag Titles with Trevor Lee. Then he made his debut in TNA and things were going so well for him again. Right now he is in England and he told me that he had heard some “clicking” in his ACL but he didn’t really give it much thought. On Sunday it just completely buckled beneath him. He started freaking out and being very worried about it. The next day it just fully gave out on him and he wasn’t even really able to walk on it. So, he had to forfeit a title out there that he had won recently and now he has to get an MRI done to locate what it is. He thinks it’s the ACL but he’s hoping it’s just the meniscus or something like that.
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