• “What if you go to AEW and become World Champ?” – Vince McMahon To WWE Veteran
Dolph Ziggler aka Nic Nemeth revealed on Insight with Chris Van Vliet that Vince McMahon once personally stopped him from leaving WWE in 2019.
At the time, Ziggler was preparing to exit after his matches against Goldberg at SummerSlam and The Miz on RAW. It was all part of a handshake agreement with Vince – he would finish those matches and then be allowed to leave.
However, when the time came, Vince changed his mind. Ziggler recalled that McMahon told him he couldn’t grant the release because of fear that he might join All Elite Wrestling and become their World Champion.
Vince said, “What if you go to AEW and become World Champ?” Ziggler replied, “Yeah, wouldn’t you look stupid?”
Nemeth felt betrayed because he had honored his side of the agreement, only to have it revoked. He still finished his contract professionally but admitted that moment changed how he viewed loyalty in wrestling.
Even so, he said he understood that it was business. Vince made decisions to protect WWE’s image. Still, Nemeth used that experience as motivation to later prove he could be a top name anywhere, including in TNA.
• Omos’ New Business Is Outselling Celebrities
In his TMZ Sports interview, WWE Superstar Omos opened up about his surprising new business venture – a fragrance line that’s already outselling other celebrity brands.
The Nigerian Giant has released his debut cologne, “Eber”, created in collaboration with renowned fragrance designer George Zaharoff. The scent’s name comes from Omos’ Yoruba heritage, meaning “the beginning.”
Zaharoff revealed that Omos sold more bottles in four days than any other celebrity line did in six months, describing it as a “global fragrance that works anywhere in the world.”
Omos said he spent nearly a year developing the ambery, woody fragrance, inspired by a 2021 WWE trip to Saudi Arabia where he discovered oud incense, a scent that “put him in a trance” and sparked his passion for perfumery.
“I’ve always been into fragrances. My father collected them when I was young. After that Saudi trip, I fell in love with the craft,” Omos explained.
He credited his wife for helping refine the final product. “She hates 80% of my collection, so her input mattered,” he laughed.
The product’s early success has stunned even Omos, who said, “It’s a dream come true. To have a piece of me in a bottle that people love means everything.”
• WWE Hall Of Famer Says The Buried Alive Match Was A Horrible Idea: “I was so freaking blown up”
This month marked the 29th anniversary of the first-ever Buried Alive match between The Undertaker and Mankind, which took place at the WWF In Your House pay-per-view on October 20, 1996. The unique match, which ended with The Undertaker being buried under a pile of dirt, has remained one of WWF/E’s most talked-about gimmick matches for decades.
Speaking on Something To Wrestle, JBL, who was part of the show that night and appeared at the end to help Mankind, looked back on the match and didn’t hold back on his thoughts.
Here’s what the WWE Hall of Famer said:
“I mean, this was a horrible idea. The whole thing was freaking preposterous. No, it’s the power of The Undertaker 100%. It worked because of The Undertaker. I mean, the burial guy alive, and you see that hand coming up at the end, that place went crazy.
I was there, and you think, okay, no one’s going to believe you’re actually burying a guy alive. The fans were in shock and horror about this. They thought we were burying him alive. As crazy as that sounds, they thought we were putting a human being in the dirt and burying him alive. I was worried a fan might try to jump the rail.
The worst thing was we tried to bury them with f**king shovels. I mean, watch the tape – we didn’t get a foot of dirt in that grave. Crush is so blown up at one point, he’s standing on his shovel and yelling at the crowd. We had no chance of filling up that grave. We didn’t even get enough dirt in there to hardly cover up the casket or whatever the hell it was.
After this, they used a backhoe to fill the grave because they realized trying to get a bunch of old wrestlers to fill up a grave in a few minutes at the end of a pay-per-view just wasn’t happening. It was a horrible idea. I was so freaking blown up.”
