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Select Portions: Ospreay, Miro, Raw creative, Hammerstone

Added 2023-03-20 17:33:53 +0000 UTC

- Miro had been in Bulgaria recently. His wife CJ Perry spent some time over there, as well.

- NJPW and IMPACT have a backup plan in order in the event that Will Ospreay can't work WrestleMania weekend.

- WWE brought in a bunch of extras to serve as security guards for the Impaulsive TV segment.

- Creative plans called for Otis to get a manicure and other spa treatments on the show, so that sounds awesome.

- MVP, Omos, Angelo Dawkins, Maximum Male Models were all set for the show despite not being advertised.

Fightful Select spoke to Alex Hammerstone for a new interview.

He said that hardly anyone knows the exact specifics of his contract with MLW, because he hasn't opened up about a lot of it. He said there's a lot of things to consider and weigh when signing the deals. Hammerstone said that MLW couldn't offer him the world in 2018 when they first brought him in, but thinks there would be several people in AEW that would like to have the deal that he has right now.

He spoke about Richard Holliday, and said that when Holliday showed up for their match, he didn't look like himself and struggled to get through it. For a while they thought maybe his nutrition was off, and things had been bothering him for months. He said that Holliday got "a little banged up" during their match, and a couple of weeks later Holliday was getting tests done that determined he had Hodgkins Lymphoma. He said that Holliday maintained incredible composure during the whole situation and it was incredible to hear him so positive about everything. He believes Holliday will be returning soon.