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Sean Legacy points to his biggest influences in wrestling. Sean Legacy is one of several WWE ID talent who has begun to become established on both EVOLVE and NXT television in recent weeks. Legacy is currently also the number one contender for the WWE NXT North American Championship. While speaking on A Bite Size Chat, Sean was asked about his biggest influences in pro wrestling, naming Rey Mysterio and John Cena for different reasons. "So the first person, which is kind of like me, is John Cena. He always preaches the thing. He always wears the shirt saying, never give up. So John Cena is the first one, he really got me really hooked to wrestling. I watched wrestling when I was really little. My dad watched it, and he introduced me to it, and the first wrestler I saw was Rey Mysterio, and I liked him. The only thing I could relate to him, though, was because I didn't understand wrestling, but he was tiny. So I was like, oh, okay, so small people can make it in wrestling. I was like, I like him. I like him. But as I got older and as I started getting it, it went straight into John Cena, cause I like John Cena a lot, but yeah, man, just what John Cena's message is in his promos about never giving up and giving it your all. I like that kind of stuff." Legacy is set for his NXT North American Championship bout on this week's edition of WWE NXT. You can read more about that here. Elsewhere in the same interview, Legacy detailed how the WWE ID system benefits talent. You can read more about that here. If the quote in this article is used, please credit the original source with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.

Before she was got in the ring as a wrestler, Cora Jade (Elayna Black on the independent scene) competed in a muay thai fight. Speaking to Ariel Helwani on The Ariel Helwani Show, Cora recalled her experience while discussing CM Punk competing in the UFC. "I did," Cora said when asked if she watched Punk in the UFC. "I was doing MMA at the time myself. It was right before I started wrestling training because no other place would train me. I was too young. 'I'll just do MMA for now instead.' I did Muay Thai for a little bit. It was at the time he was doing (MMA). I don't say I did it long enough to actually say I did it, but I did it for a little bit and he was doing it." Asked if she tried combat sports because Punk was doing MMA, Cora replied, "I don't remember. I feel like I was going to do something like that in general, but him being in the UFC definitely pushed me to want to do it even more. I remember watching his fight and I took it so personal when he lost. I'm crying. Why am I crying on the couch? I thought it was cool because I also did a Muay Thai bout, and I lost too." Cora noted it was an amateur bout and she lost by TKO. "[Punk and I] talked about it maybe a few months ago. 'Hey, did you know I did a MMA fight too right after you and we both lost?' He's like, 'Hell yeah," she said. Punk lost his first UFC fight by submission to Mickey Gall. Elsewhere during the interview, Cora gave further insight into her friendship with Punk. You can find her full comments here. If you use any of the quotes above, please credit and link to the original source with a h/t and link back to Fightful for the transcription.

Sean Legacy speaks on the benefits of being a WWE ID talent. Sean Legacy is a WWE ID talent, a program that signs talent to ID contracts that leaves them with several benefits from the company, but are not officially signed to WWE and can leave the program if they wish to do so. While speaking to Bite Size Chats in a recent interview, Sean Legacy was asked about what being a WWE ID talent entails, with Legacy listing off the benefits. "WWE ID is new. It's basically them supporting you and helping you branch your name out even more around the entire world on the indies. Whenever I get paid X amount of money, they say, hey, Here you go. We want to help you with your travel. We want to help you with like a hotel or something like that. Because, man, that's the thing with wrestling, especially indie wrestling. The only way to get known is you've got to branch yourself out there. So that's what WWE ID is mainly about. But also, man, we get to go to the Performance Center in Orlando and get to train there and we get to learn their ways. When we learn their ways, we're allowed to bring it back on the indies and show the indie wrestlers that maybe their dream is to be in WWE. Like, hey, they're looking for this. Get away from this. Start doing this. You know, this is the stuff they're looking at." Legacy continued, telling his story of how he was recruited to WWE ID from a Pro Wrestling NOAH tryout. "So just in case if you get an opportunity like I did, how I got picked for the WWE ID was two years ago. I did a Pro Wrestling NOAH tryout. It's a company in Japan. It was in San Jose, California. It was $500 to do this tryout. Not only was it $500 to do this tryout, but I had to pay for my plane ticket to get to San Jose. That was $900 something. Then I had to get a hotel, which was like $300 something. Then I had to buy a rental. I almost spent like two grand on this tryout. There's a wrestler up there named (Naomichi) Marufuji, and he was one of the judges. Well, Gabe Sapolsky, who kind of runs the WWE ID program, but we didn't know back then. But he was there, and he was just scouting out talent. I did a tryout, and I got picked out of 40 people, and then Gabe was like, hey, let me have your email and stuff like that, and just send me some of your matches, and we'll just keep in touch. Well, that's what I did. Then a couple months later, he gave me a call, and I was – I was actually in Germany. Yeah, I was actually in Germany at the time when he called me and told me about everything, about the ID stuff, and I was like, yeah, let's do it. So then it got announced when I was in Germany and, man, it's crazy. I feel like it got announced like a year ago, but it's only been like five or six months." Legacy is currently scheduled to challenge for the NXT North American Championship on this week's edition of WWE NXT. You can read more about that here. If the quote in this article is used, please credit the original source with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.

Viewership information and lineup for the June 10, 2025 episode of WWE NXT. WWE NXT (June 10, 2025) Venue: WWE Performance Center City: Orlando, FL Time: 8pm ET How To Watch: CW Network (US), Netflix (International) Lineup WWE NXT Championship: Oba Femi (c) vs. Jasper Troy WWE NXT North American Championship: Ethan Page (c) vs. Sean Leacy Tony D'Angelo & Luca Crusifino vs. Tyson Dupont & Tyriek Igwe Shawn Spears & Niko Vance in tag team action Fightful will have live coverage of NXT beginning at 8 p.m. ET on Tuesday followed by a post-show podcast on our YouTube channel. Fans can watch the show commercial-free on Netflix by using NordVPN.com/Fightful.

The new World Heavyweight Champion is GUNTHER. Headlining the post-Money in the Bank edition of Monday Night Raw was Jey Uso defending the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against GUNTHER. In what was a 22-minute bout, it was GUNTHER choking Uso out to become a two-time World Heavyweight Champion. After his title win, GUNTHER joined Sam Roberts and Megan Morant on the Raw Recap podcast. He addressed the perception of his match against Jey and some thinking it would be a 'nothing match' or just another WrestleMania rematch. He then mocked those who thought Goldberg would show up or Seth Rollins was going to cash-in his Money in the Bank contract. “Thank you (for congratulating me on becoming WWE World Heavyweight Champion). Of course I am. You said it caught everybody by surprise. I don’t know what’s surprising about that. I guess going in, it got perceived as a little bit, like, of a nothing match, just a ‘Mania rematch and everybody was speculating like, Seth Rollins is gonna do something with his briefcase, Goldberg is gonna show up to finally kick my ass. The reality is when I was World Heavyweight Champion the first time, all those big names, they stayed away from me, and for a very good reason. Because ever since I arrived in this company, I’ve been the most dominant guy around here, and yes, I lost at WrestleMania and yes, I lost to Jey Uso and you know what? Give him credit for that. But this is a marathon, not a sprint and in that case, nobody matches me. Nobody’s got the mental ability, nobody’s got the confidence, nobody’s got the stamina to last that long. It’s only me. I’m competing in my own class.” Jey Uso's title reign clocked out at 52 days. After his loss, he spoke to the live crowd in Phoenix, Arizona and to read his comments, click here. If the quote in this article is used, please credit Raw Recap with Sam Roberts and Megan Morant with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.

Joel & SP3 (and travelling Jeremy) chat RAW and other wrestling happenings. - John Cena challenges CM Punk to title match in Saudi Arabia - GUNTHER recaptures the World Heavyweight Title - King & Queen of the Ring kicks off, surprise entrant teased from RAW - Nikki Bella returns, sets up her WWE Evolution II story - The Banger Bros. story via Fightful Select - WWE NXT Preview & MORE!

Kanellis feels anything can be done if you're creative enough. The latest guest to join K & S WrestleFest for a virtual signing was Maria Kanellis. The persona she had during her first WWE run was reflected on. Kanellis shared that she hoped to reprise that character while in AEW. She had the idea in mind to continuously call Adam Copeland by the name he used in WWE, Edge. “That’s one of the things I wanted to play again (Kanellis said when it was mentioned that she played the ‘ditz’ role well). I really wish I got to do it one more time. I think you could (go back to that). I think if you’re creative enough, you can do anything. I had a whole way of doing it. That was one thing I wanted to do in AEW. I’d continue trying to call Edge ‘Edge’ and him being like, no, no, no! It’s Adam Copeland.” Kanellis is no longer with AEW as her contract expired. Her husband Mike Bennett is still signed to the company. He wrestles alongside Matt Taven as The Kingdom on ROH. If the quote in this article is used, please credit K & S WrestleFest with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.

That instance made Goto lean into his faith. Coming up for New Japan Pro-Wrestling is their Dominion event. Headlining that show will be Hirooki Goto defending the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against Shingo Takagi. Going into the event, NJPW1972.com rolled out an interview with Goto. As the conversation was ongoing, he opened up about his religious beliefs. Goto was asked what led him to his faith and he shared that there was an instance when he was possessed and had to have an exorcism performed. “Well, I was actually possessed by a spirit and I had an exorcism… It was back when, before I debuted, I'd injured my shoulder and I left NJPW for a while. Then through connections with a friend of mine in Nagoya, I had this purification done. That's when I started believing.” As of this writing, here is the updated match card for Dominion on June 15th: * IWGP World Heavyweight Championship: Hirooki Goto (c) vs. Shingo Takagi * IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship: Yota Tsuji (c) vs. Gabe Kidd * Dog Collar Chain Deathmatch: David Finlay vs. EVIL * NEVER Openweight Championship: Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Oleg Boltin * IWGP Tag Team Championships: United Empire (Great-O-Khan & Callum Newman) (c) def. Tomohiro Ishii & Taichi * IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships: YOH & Master Wato (c) vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) * Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Yuya Uemura * El Phantasmo & Shota Umino vs. T.M.D.K. (Zack Sabre Jr. & Ryohei Oiwa) * BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Drilla Moloney, Clark Connors, Chase Owens & Taiji Ishimori) vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (SANADA, Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi & TBA) * Kickoff Show: Katsuya Murashima & Shoma Kato vs. Daiki Nagai & Masatora Yasuda

His tryout was postponed so Krügger decided to move forward with MLW. The newest interview that Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling conducted was with Mads Krügger a.k.a. Krule. Krügger is working with Major League Wrestling. Around the time when he first began communications with MLW, WWE reached out to him about a tryout opportunity. Krügger shared that he informed MLW about it and they were supportive. The call from WWE came two weeks after MLW reached out. He said, "Everybody knows everything that’s going on whether they’re supposed to or not." WWE wanted to postpone Krügger's tryout but MLW did not want to wait long. He then spoke to a friend of his who advised him to roll with MLW instead of waiting on WWE. “They (WWE) did reach out, right after -- it was so funny. Right after MLW contacted me, it was two weeks later that I got a call from William Regal. My youngest son had just been born and I was walking through a Kroger grocery store and the phone rang and I look down and it says WWE and I remember I was just staring at the phone and I didn’t know what to do. I was like, ‘What the --’ and I look up and the buggie's just kind of moving up towards the aisle and my baby’s sitting in the -- I was like, ‘Oh sh*t…’ I answered the phone. But, they were offering me the tryout. They wanted me to come down. I was like, what is happening? Where is all this coming from? But, I’ve learned now, later, now that I’m kind of deeper into this that everybody knows everything that’s going on whether they’re supposed to or not (he laughed). Nobody’s not clued in on what’s happening. But they offer me a tryout. I told ‘em that I was talking to MLW. They kind of asked me, ‘Well, when do they want you to sign by?’ And I told them, I said, ‘I think they wanna try to get it done pretty quick,’ and I told MLW… They said, ‘Hey, go do it. Did they ask when they wanna do it?’ And I said, ‘They said they wanna do it as quick as they can’ and he said, ‘Well, let us know when they can get you in and then, do that and we’ll decide, you know, if you wanna sign with us or not.’ So I let ‘em know. They set up a date for a tryout and then called me back and moved the tryout to the following spring and MLW absolutely did not wanna wait that long. So I kind of just said, ‘Hey --’ I talked to some people that I knew and were kind of friends with and they said, ‘Look man, chances are you go do a tryout, nobody really knows who you are. They’re probably not gonna sign you that day unless it’s just, they have something for you right then.’ He said, ‘Just go get the TV experience and do the three years with them and you’ll be okay,’ and then it actually worked out because there would have never been a tryout because there were not tryouts in the spring and there were a lot of changes in the WWE… So I made the best decisions I possibly could…” The 39-year-old Krügger was last in action for MLW at their War Chamber event. He was involved in a Chicago Street Fight. If the quote in this article is used, please credit Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.

Neko is sidelined for the foreseeable future. Haruna Neko was last in action at Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling's May 24th event. She suffered a knee injury and after further examinations, TJPW provided an update on her status. Neko suffered a torn ACL and will be out of action following surgery and rehabilitation. Despite the injury, Neko is going to appear at the promotion's June 21st event which is in her hometown area. She'll also participate in a special event that day. She is set to undergo surgery after the 21st. Neko was scheduled to compete in a Tokyo Princess Cup preliminary qualifier. She was going to face Pom Harajuku but due to the injury, Harajuku is advancing. In 2024, Neko returned from a torn ACL injury. She had previously been out of action since September 2023.