Special Fightful Awards ELECTION, MJF, Billie Starkz
Added 2024-12-18 17:47:48 +0000 UTCThe Hump is at a special start time of 1 PM ET today due to the WWE HQ event at 2. Fightful were invited, but unable to attend. We will be at the MSG house show on December 26.
Grapsody will be interviewing Lee Moriarty today.
We're told that MJF has finally fully wrapped on his most recent film project.
For those asking, Ricky Starks is not expected at this weekend's Hammerstein shows and isn't in the country.
We have reached out to WWE on the Lee Fitting story, and AEW on the Jaime Hawn (BJ Whitmer's victim) story, respectively. We were told that WWE had no comment on the Fitting situation.
The Fightful Awards has a special election for some very close categories, as well as adding Mercedes Mone vs. Hazuki to other top three vote getters for Women's Match of the Year. You can vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfK2u4CrOGiKpUpFsTNiuY9U2RTHaqYICbr0bZBXaBW9f_KFA/viewform?usp=header
Billie Starkz
Billie Starkz spoke with Fightful today ahead of this weekend's ROH Final Battle match with Athena.
She said she wasn't sure if they were main eventing, but it would mean a lot to her, and she's excited to wrestle in Hammerstein. She admitted she's pushed heavily for Aliens Exist by Blink 182 as a theme, directly to Tony Khan. She isn't sure if it's happening and said she probably wouldn't know until she got to the building. She said that Tom DeLonge reached out to her last year and encouraged her to keep pushing for it.
With the Athena partnership, it wasn't originally supposed to last very long, and came about when she had a concussion and Tony Khan encouraged Athena to care for her and mentor her. From there it became a success.
The full interview releases Thursday and is up for tier 2 members of Select as early access: https://youtu.be/meTf-ZvkCZo
