#RaiderNation has a reputation for being...rough around the edges. #1 draft pick Fernando Mendoza's rep is quite the opposite. #Raiders Lead Color Analyst @kirkmorrison shares his thoughts on how Mendoza's personality may reshape the culture. #NFL
For the past 16 years, WWE has been my home. It’s where I grew up, found myself, failed, learned, and got to live out things the younger version of me could only dream about.
When I first walked into FCW, I just wanted a chance to prove I belonged and to bring something different to professional wrestling. That chance became a life full of moments I’ll carry with me forever — WrestleMania, championships, King of the Ring, arenas around the world, and the gift of connecting with all of you by being myself.
The New Day gave me a bond with @TrueKofi and @WWEBigE that I’ll cherish for life. You believed in us, even when our ideas were wild, and because of that, we got to show people that being unapologetically yourself is a strength.
UpUpDownDown became another piece of that same mission: a place for joy, friendship, and humanity. I’m so thankful to everyone, past and present, who helped build it brick by brick.
To the locker room, producers, trainers, crew, camera teams, ring crew, everyone behind the scenes, and the props department - thank you. WWE has the most special and hardest working props department that youll ever find. Love you guys and none of this happens without you.
And to everyone who has been part of this ride: thank you for believing in me. Thank you for letting me be Xavier Woods. Thank you for giving me the confidence… to walk away as Austin Creed.
Bully Ray says that he would have never got rid of Bo Dallas after the Wyatt Sicks' WWE release, and that it would have been 'the right thing to do':
"Am I shocked that the Wyatt Sicks are no longer here? No I'm not shocked. However, I would have never got rid of Bo Dallas. Bo Dallas is the link to Bray. I would have kept Bo Dallas around.
"I would have kept Bo Dallas around and I would have kept the character doing something. Even if Uncle Howdy, for the rest of his WWE career, was always trying to find a way to talk to Bray Wyatt, to The Fiend, one more time, and that was his entire story, and his entire quest, because the last time we saw the Fiend was in the WWE, so Uncle Howdy was always searching the WWE for the door, for the stargate to find The Fiend, and we always saw him, and as we move along in his story, someone is always trying to stop him.
"I would have kept Bo Dallas around. This goes way beyond business, it goes beyond a bottom line and dollars and cents, to me keeping Bo Dallas around would have been the right thing to do."
(Busted Open Radio)