During a recent appearance on the “AEW Unrestricted” podcast, Lance Archer opined that AEW should potentially launch a meat division for heavyweight and superheavyweight wrestlers. He said,
“I think it’s awesome because I think it gives us kind of our own platform. We’re always considered like the super heavyweights or whatever you want to call them, but giving it the name like Meat, something that the fans can really dig their teeth into, to say the least. When they start chanting Meat, Meat, Meat every time we’re crashing into each other. It kind of really started to come about when Sting had his retirement show and we were supposed to have the Meat Madness match, but ultimately it turned into the All-Star scramble, but then there was still that moment where you had like Brian Cage before he and I were together, Will Hobbs, Wardlow, myself, and we all just started running into each other as hard as we could, and the crowd was just there for it. They were chanting, meat, meat, meat, and I think they wanted more meat. Obviously we had a lot more guys in the match and things got moved around and we got going in different directions. But I think it’s one of those things that I think our fan base really enjoys the big, bad dudes running into each other as hard as we can, punching each other in the face as hard as we can, and just kind of hearing that meat hit each other in the face.”
Matt Riddle wrestled Rob Van Dam at MLW Battle Riot VII, where RVD was the final entrant in the Battle Riot match.
During a recent appearance on the “Rewind, Recap, Relive” podcast, Riddle reflected on this experience, noting that he grew up watching the WWE Hall of Famer. He said,
“Me and Rob, we’re bros. We really are, and growing up, I was always a huge RVD fan. I never like to say I was a super fan of anybody, but I loved really good, hard-hitting wrestling. And I felt like Rob brought that, but also wasn’t like, you know, brother. He had nothing wrong with that. It’s a different character. Rob was cool, laid back, but his in-ring ability, his athleticism, all that showed you that, like, yo, this guy can go and then to wrestle him at MLW, which, dream come true, he was the final entrant into the Battle Riot, so it was, you know, like, I wish i had more energy. But it was the end of the match, but we got to mix it up and so cool. It was a moment in time.”
