Former TNA Television Champion Gunner aka Jaxson Ryker who is also a former TNA World Tag Team Champion recently looked back at making a controversial treat that got him into real trouble and how he spoke to big WWE stars about it.
Jaxson Ryker started his professional wrestling career way back in 2001 on the independent circuit. He had been a tremendously talented wrestler who was signed by TNA Wrestling back in 2010. He spent a total of five years in the promotion and had been pretty successful.
Jaxson Ryker Recalls Tweet That Got Him In Trouble
He won a number of championships and other achievements in TNA Wrestling where the he was famously known as Gunner. In 2015 he left TNA Wrestling. After only two year time he got his biggest break as he got to sign for WWE where he had been renamed as Jaxson Ryker.
He spent a number of years on the NXT before making his main roster debut. For most of the time in the main roster he worked as a jobber. Just when it seemed like that he was going to get a decent mid card push, WWE went to their release spree during the covid-19 pandemic and he was one of the victims of it.
Jaxson Ryker who is also a former TNA World Tag Team Champion recently spoke to the Wrestling With Faith podcast where he looked back at making a controversial treat that got him into real trouble and how he spoke to big WWE stars about it. He said;
“Well, I’ll go ahead and say it because I don’t really care but, when it all happened (fallout from Ryker’s pro-Donald Trump tweet), one of the guys who came out and just kind of blasted was Kevin Owens and and I instantly knew that (Westin) Blake and Kevin were close, they had talked and stuff like that.
“I texted Blake, I said, ‘Hey dude, do me a favor, ask Kevin if I can have his number.’ So, lo and behold, Kevin said, ‘Yeah, sure’ so Kevin and I actually talked one night right after this happened for probably 30 minutes. Basically agreed to disagree. But Kevin even came out and said, ‘Dude, I’ve said crazy stuff in my career.’ So, he was one of ‘em and we had already talked.
“But the only other one that really came up and talked to me was (Mustafa) Ali because Ali I think had said something about the tweet when it had all happened and he had come up to me that night at the arena and respectfully man, ‘Hey dude, we all got our own opinions and I just wanna apologize that I had said anything on Twitter about it.
“I should have just come to you man-to-man.’ I was like, ‘Dude, that’s completely okay.’ I was like, ‘I don’t hold beef or grudges’ and you know, another one was — he and i had talked on the phone was Xavier Woods because we’ve known each other since, gosh, 2006 and just, you know, put it under the table and kind of ironed things.”
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