Trent Beretta has been dealing with neck issues throughout his career, and he underwent fusion surgery in 2021.
On a recent edition of the “Talk is Jericho” podcast, Beretta explained that his neck problems date back to the time he did motion capture work for a WWE video game. Beretta said,
“It was on a crash pad … It didn’t even have to be the move it was. We needed four moves where the guy on top slips behind, started from like a fireman’s carry, [and] the guy on top slips behind. We need four different moves as reversals … [and] we’ll use whatever, and somebody said, ‘Dragon suplex.’ Luckily it was on a crash pad, but the guy, I don’t think, was a guy who did Dragon suplexes. And he threw it how you would throw a German [suplex] with a high arc, but he had my neck instead of my waist, so I just landed right on top of my head on a crash pad. And it wasn’t like, ‘Oh, no, I can’t wrestle.’ It was just slowly, for over five or six years, whatever it was, like it started getting worse and worse.”
During a recent appearance on Hey! EW, Jack Perry revealed how his father Luke Perry felt about his wrestling career and advised him to get a real job. He said,
“He actually asked me not to [wrestle]. He wanted me to get a real job, like be an actor or something, and I don’t know. Somehow I ended up here. You never know, I got a long time left to go. I think there have been less talented people who have done that, so we’ll see.”
And finally, on a recent edition of the “Should I Keep This?” podcast, AEW referee Bryce Remsburg discussed how AEW differentiates itself from WWE by embracing pro wrestling’s “nerd culture.”
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On AEW being more focused on hardcore fans: “AEW is wrestling for nerds. AEW has embraced the nerd culture of wrestling. It’s about star-ratings and matches because our owner and CEO and boss is a self-admitted wrestling nerd.”
On WWE engaging fans more regularly: “WWE has arguably very much improved in that regard, but AEW is doing it harder and more prevalently… If the Pepsi label looked like the Coke label, that would be confusing. So AEW has to be the things that WWE wasn’t.”
