During a recent appearance on the “MuscleMan Memory” podcast, Nixon Newell (Tegan Nox) discussed her feud with Dakota Kai, highlighting Kai’s betrayal and their Street Fight at NXT TakeOver: Portland.
Newell was released by WWE last November and is currently a free agent. WWE released Kai in early May.
You possibly can try some highlights from the podcast below:
On Dakota Kai’s heel turn: “Oh, I felt it. I felt each slam, crack, slap, every little thing. Nevertheless it was just… I don’t know. Like whenever you’re friends with someone, you’ll be able to hit them harder. I feel that helped with our entire situation. We were a bit sad at first that we weren’t actually going to get into War Games, and we did try to finagle the system and be like, what if we did it this manner? They’re like, ‘nope.’ We’re like, all right. But in honesty, they did it perfectly. Like, I don’t think it might have gotten the response that it did if we had entered that match.”
On the response to the turn: “But yeah, It was just so incredible to see that take Dakota to the subsequent level. Like that was when people went, oh no, she’s really good. When it’s like, no, she’s been really good. Among the best female wrestlers on this planet for near a decade. Now, now you’re just seeing her in your level. Cause that is all that you simply guys watch. Like she has been this person for a really very long time. Now you’re about to see her do that, but 10 times even higher. Cause now she’s finding her feet. It was incredible to be an element of that after which to have that whole storyline together with her and do the Portland street fight and stuff. Like, that’s certainly one of my favorite matches of all time.”
On her match with Kai at NXT TakeOver: Portland: “Dude, it was certainly one of my favorite matches I’ve ever done. Like, I’ve done a variety of matches, but that one is up there in, like, top three, 100%. Like, just, like I said, it’s just improbable. Fun doing it with your mates. You possibly can trust them more and so they trust you. Dude, it was just such a fond, very, very fond memory of mine.”
During a recent appearance on the “Insight” podcast, former WWE Superstar Steve Blackman shared his version of the infamous airport fight with WWE Hall of Famer JBL.
This incident occurred through the same weekend as WWE Over the Edge 1999, when Owen Hart tragically passed away following a failed entrance stunt.
You possibly can try some highlights from the podcast below:
On his fight with JBL: “Well, I’ve seen a couple of of the blokes’ versions (of my fight with JBL), just coincidentally popping up once I’m watching stuff on my phone at night. Oh, he (JBL) laughs about it now too. He doesn’t care. That guy’s great. Back then, I used to be pissed at him but, a pair days later, we laugh about it, no one cares anymore. That’s the way in which you have got to be. But a number of the accounts were somewhat accurate. We were on the plane — JBL and certainly one of the opposite guys — kept throwing stuff up a couple of rows up and hit me in the top. Well, I’m attempting to sleep. We don’t get a complete lot of sleep whenever you go to bed at midnight or 1 AM and also you’re getting up at 5 AM for an early flight, a pair hours sleep on the plane. I walk back after he did it a couple of times. I said, ‘Look guys, I’m attempting to get some sleep. I’ve had enough, okay?’ I walk back and sit down, and so they do it again. So, a couple of more minutes goes by, I walk back, I’m like, ‘Guys, I had enough,’ and the one reason I didn’t start swinging right there’s because I knew there’d be 20 Air Marshals waiting for me after we landed. So I’m like, let me return and sit down. They did it a few more times and I’m just fuming and I’m like, I wanna sprint back this aisle and just go now, and I gotta hold it, hold it.”
On the fight with JBL in baggage claim: “We get to the bags claim in St. Louis. I walk up and Bradshaw comes up and stands right beside me. Comes up and bumps me, right up against me. I took my sunglasses off, handed it to certainly one of the blokes. I got here with a backhand from the ground. I backhanded him. I didn’t hit him as hard as I could because I didn’t want him to separate his head open on the ground. But I cracked him. He flew. I turned around, I went, one, two, uppercut, bombed him. He went flat on his back at baggage claim and there have been 500 people there, and just as I hit him the last time, my foot went through a duffle bag on the ground. It was like a puzzle. My foot must’ve went all through a certain way. There’s this big duffle bag and I couldn’t get it off my leg. I’m kicking, pulling — well, I don’t know the time. Somewhat little bit of time goes by. Well, he’s awake and back to his feet. I turn around, I’m like, aw, I can’t get this thing off my leg. I don’t know, 40-pound bag, 50-pound bag, and he comes back swinging. I see the punch coming, I slip. He throws one other one, I slip, slip. After that, a complete bunch of men grabbed everybody and pulled us apart and well, naturally, it was so many individuals at baggage claim, it was a pay-per-view day. So a number of the guys from the office had already told Vince (McMahon) and stuff.”
On what happened after he arrived at the sector: ‘We get to the sector. Well, Vince must’ve beelined right for me. I’m walking down the hallway, he comes up and Vince, obviously, he will be cynical. He comes straight as much as me, he’s like, ‘Steve, Sunday morning within the airport? That’s great. That’s great,’ and I’m like, ‘Vince, I’m sorry it happened within the airport. I can’t say it won’t ever occur again but I can promise you it won’t occur within the airport.’ So we go walking back. I am going put my shoes on and I said, ‘Go tell Bradshaw to lace up…’ And he comes up, he goes, ‘Steve, should you put me on the spot on the market,’ he goes, ‘I’m gonna must fight.’ I said, ‘Well, I expect you too!’ He goes, ‘Well, what do I actually have to do?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m gonna let you know what –’ I said, ‘You possibly can apologize in front of everyone within the cafeteria for being a whole as*hole.’ I said, ‘Or we’re gonna go again right there’ and I said, ‘I’m gonna hit a complete lot harder this time.’ So he walks in, he was in his sneakers and gym shorts. He was ready. I mean, he’s no punk. He goes, ‘I apologize for being an as*hole,’ whatever, blah, blah and we let it go.”
On how he and JBL laugh about it now: “We laugh about it now… I hit him 4 times in a second (he laughed). Because I remember the sequence. Because I turned and it was like, I went, one, two, uppercut after which bomb. It was a pop, pop, pop, pop. He dropped flat on his back. But, anyway, it’s what it’s and when it happened, some guy, some elderly guy, must’ve gotten elbowed by certainly one of us or knocked backward and I don’t know, he was an older man. His son, who was somewhat elderly, comes up and goes, ‘Considered one of you guys hit my father and he had blood coming out of his ear,’ and I’m like, I looked over on the guy, I said, ‘Sorry. I’m really sorry about that.’ He let it go after which the son said something else. I said, ‘Dude, I said I’m sorry twice, okay?’ And his father’s standing there and he looks okay now or whatever. The guy said something a 3rd time. I said, ‘I’ve had enough.’ I said, ‘Christ, I said I used to be sorry now!’ (Steve) Austin heard me say that. I look over and he’s standing there cracking up… They kept me and Bradshaw off TV for like a month — as a punishment — fined each of us, and it’s unlucky, however the only reason heat was taken off of us because that’s the night Owen (Hart) fell from the ceiling. Because when that happened, there was nothing else on anybody’s mind but Owen…”