Kevin Owens gave a shoutout to Rebel
“There’s somebody called Tanea Brooks, who’s known to wrestling fans as Rebel. She has not wrestled here, but some things are bigger than wrestling. She’s currently battling ALS, and the way she’s doing it is so incredible. I looked at her and what she was going through, and the way she powered through it, and it was truly inspirational.”
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Kevin Owens thanks all the people that helped him through his process of recovering from neck surgery, and said he looked at Tanea Brooks (Rebel) as inspiration when things weren’t looking great —
“There’s somebody called Tanea Brooks, who’s known to wrestling fans as ‘Rebel.’ She has not wrestled here, but some things are bigger than wrestling.
She’s currently battling ALS, and the way she’s doing it is so incredible. I looked at her and what she was going through, and the way she powered through it, and it was truly inspirational.”
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I can honestly say with my whole heart that I don't give a damn that Billy Gunn is tired of hearing about D-Generation X impersonated the Nation of Domination lmao. You did it, there are people who DIDN'T LIKE IT (then and maybe now), and you will own it Mr. Ass 🤷🏾♂️ oops your bad.
Billy Gunn has said he's "so tired of hearing about" D-Generation X impersonating the Nation of Domination during the WWE Attitude era, claiming it was a different time and no one that was imitated had a problem with it.
"I guess the one we've been talking about here lately because for some reason it seems to be a thing is when we dressed up as the Nation. So that seems to be the big controversial thing that nobody understands that I'm so tired of hearing about. But it wasn't outlandish. Now you couldn't do it. Now, not a chance in hell could you ever get away with it. Back then it was a different time.
"We were asked to do it. Nobody that we imitated had a problem with it because everybody that we imitated had a hand in helping us dress up like them. People have to understand that. It was a different time. If at any time, if any one of them would have had a problem with it, we wouldn’t have done it, but nobody did because it was just all done in fun and like a sense of humour. But nowadays, no, I wouldn't touch that."
Mark Henry, then a member of the Nation of Domination, has previously gone on record with Inside The Ropes that The Rock did have an issue with it, but other faction members weren't as concerned.
"We knew and Dwayne didn’t like it from the beginning. He was like, ‘I don’t like it. I don’t like people dressing up like us. I don’t like people putting blackface on.’ He didn’t like it. At that time, I was like, ‘We’re in entertainment, man. It ain’t bothering me.’ He was like, ‘If ya’ll wanna do it, then we’ll do it, but I just don’t like it. I’m just letting you know.’ Dwayne never liked it. I didn’t care because I just looked at it as part of the work because I knew the people and I knew they weren’t racist.
"Like X-Pac, he didn’t know until probably like a month or two after, they started taking heat. Like, ‘Man, ya’ll dressed up like Black people. You put makeup on to look like that.’ He was like, ‘What is the big deal? We’re playing. We were acting like our guys.’ They were like, ‘You ever heard of a minstrel show?’ He was like, “I don’t even know what that is.’ I explained to him what people used to do after the slavery times, dress up and put black on and make big red lips and act like the characterisation of what they thought a Black person is. He cried. He had no idea about that history because America don’t teach the nasty history. They just sweep it under the rug.
"Then this guy finds out that what he did was like some of the worst sh*t you can do to people. It hurt him. I told him, I said, ‘Man, look. I know who you were…I didn’t say you were racist. I said that that situation was deemed racist.’ They gonna fight that for the rest of their careers, for their lives, because it was a little bit distasteful.
"It took for people that I know outside of wrestling to say, ‘Man, you shouldn’t have done that. You shouldn’t have let them do that.’ I was like, ‘What was I supposed to do? Just say I’m not gonna go to work?’ So it was complicated and we all learned a valuable lesson from it on both sides.'"
(Source: @_denisesalcedo)
@L2kgames@CornellGunter_ We'd PROBABLY get Sable and MAYBE Dawn Marie before Tori lol. And personally, I would love Terri but with Perry Saturn and ofc Goldust.
CRUZ MONTANA
A name I put together as a tribute to honor my late father. Who I’ve always made sure to keep as close as possible to my journey.
Losing him 6 years ago, is what sent me on the spiral that I’d eventually rise from, to become the man you see today. And today, that man ADDICTED TO GREATNESS.
Here’s to this next chapter.
LETS GET IT! 👑🇵🇷
AEW REBEL HEART JUST ANNOUNCED. ❤️
SEPTEMBER 9, 2026. ATHENS, GEORGIA.
This special Dynamite TV special episode will be dedicated to Rebel and honoring her who was diagnosed with ALS earlier this year.
THIS IS SO, SO INCREDIBLE.