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Multiple wrestling promotions have special shows dedicated to interviews alone. One of the popular interview shows in AEW is Hey! (EW) hosted by AEW’s RJ City. Prior to his time in All Elite Wrestling, City did a special program for WWE called WrestleMania After Dark. It was a comedy special that aired during WrestleMania 37.
During an appearance on Highspots for a Sign-it-Live session, RJ City opened up about the WWE’s comedy special he worked in, WrestleMania After Dark. He shared that the WWE management enjoyed and loved the show. He also mentioned that there was a plan to do a SummerSlam After Dark in the same year. But a couple of weeks before they began production, the whole WWE Digital Department was fired.
“We did a wonderful thing called WrestleMania After Dark. It was a comedy special. It’s on YouTube, it’s on Peacock for I don’t know how long, between night one and two of WrestleMania. The WrestleMania that rained and they all stalled. So, it aired then, they loved it. They’re like, ‘This is fantastic,’ and they said, ‘Let’s do another one.’ So we had planned and we had written SummerSlam After Dark and two weeks before we were going to begin production on it, they gutted the whole digital department.
“So these (notes R.J. drafted) are all the bits that were planned and submitted for SummerSlam After Dark, including a phone call with James Adomian as Jesse Ventura. I was gonna have Tugboat on the show. See what you missed out on? I was gonna have Shayna Baszler on. I was gonna have Asuka on the show and play my favorite game, ‘Is André the Giant hot?’ We just bring up a photo and we discuss,” RJ City said. [H/T POST Wrestling]
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