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During his recent appearance on
The Wrestling Inc. Daily, two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair recalled the time in 1988 when two of his Four Horsemen stablemates, Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, jumped ship from NWA’s Jim Crockett Promotions / WCW to the WWF.
Upon joining WWF, Anderson and Blanchard were introduced as “Brain Busters” and were managed by Bobby Heenan. They quickly rose through the tag team ranks and eventually defeated Demolition for the WWF Tag Team Championship, ending Demolition’s historic reign of 478 days.
Flair was asked if he was tempted to follow suit and join WWF in 1988.
Labor lawyer Lucas Middlebrook recently joined Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman on
The Wrestling Inc. Daily to discuss unionizing in the professional fighting world. Middlebrook has worked with numerous leagues to help their talent unionize, specifically referees in the NBA and MLS.
“I serve as counsel to the National Basketball Referees Association, which is the union that represents the NBA referees,” Middlebrook said. “My firm has been representing them for a little over ten years. I also represent the Professional Soccer Referees Association, or PSRA, which is the union that represents the Major League Soccer officials. That one is actually very interesting because in the 2012, 2013 time period, that group did not have a union, and they were treated as independent contractors.
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On today’s episode of
The Wrestling Inc. Daily, WWE veteran referee Jimmy Korderas returned to the podcast to discuss some recent topics in the wrestling world. At one point, Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman brought up The Undertaker’s controversial comments where he called today’s WWE product “soft”. Korderas worked with Undertaker for over two decades, and he gave his thoughts on what The Dead Man had to say.
“I’m an Undertaker guy,” Korderas stated. “I fully respect The Undertaker and his opinion. I can’t speak to it because I’m not there now. I’m not in the locker room. I don’t see it anymore. So I don’t know what the changes are from back when I was there. Basically, like ‘Taker said, back in the day, you had to, at times, put up or shut up. It’s just the way it was, again talking old school mentality. How it is nowadays? I couldn’t speak to that. I honestly couldn’t.”
During a recent appearance on
The Wrestling Inc. Daily, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Carlito opened about the reasons for his departure from WWE in 2010.
“The rigors of traveling all the time [took their toll] on my family life,” he recalled. “It just felt like I needed an escape. I needed to get away, I needed a break from everything.”
Carlito was released in May 2010 due to a violation of the WWE Wellness Program and refusal to attend a rehabilitation facility for a reported addiction to pain killers. Looking back on those days, Carlito admitted he was “in a dark place” especially since he was constantly traveling.