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Getting Over: Wrestling Podcast

WWE: Building to Backlash, Rhea Ripley joins the show

Getting Over: Wrestling Podcast

Adam Silverstein

Professional Wrestling, After Shows, Wwe Raw, Sports, Aew, Wrestling, Wwe Nxt, Aew Dynamite, News, Smackdown, Wwe, Pro Wrestling, Nxt, All Elite Wrestling, Wrestlemania, Raw, Njpw, Wwe Smackdown, Wwe Wrestlemania, Sports News, Tv & Film

4.8544 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Former NXT and NXT UK women's champion Rhea Ripley stops by ahead of her big match with Io Shirai to discuss her beginnings in pro wrestling and how she has vaulted herself into superstardom within WWE.

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0:00.0

Some tough news to open today's show as former WWB superstar Shag Gaspard, a member of Crime Time, is presumed dead after saving his son in Venice Beach on Sunday night, swept away by Riptide Currents.

0:16.1

They had a major search for him, the Los Angeles Police Department and Coast Guard that has now been

0:21.4

called off. Gaspar had a very interesting track to WWE. His father, you know, worked in the

0:29.6

street legitimately. He began his, I guess, career, you can call it, his work life as a bodyguard

0:36.7

for numerous well-known

0:37.9

celebrities. And he was actually recruited to WWE by Dr. Tom Pritchard. And he had a relatively

0:43.3

quick rise coming out of Ohio Valley Wrestling into WWE. Obviously, most people know him

0:48.9

for crime time, the tag team he was in with JTG, which at this point is probably better in my memory

0:58.3

than perhaps they were in actuality. The tag team division was extremely bad in WWE when

1:04.7

they were there for their first initial run. They eventually came back, I believe, in around

1:08.6

2008, and were in the main event picture,

1:12.6

strangely, all of a sudden with John Sina, working in a semi-faction called Crime Time Cination,

1:18.6

and they got over really big and people loved them.

1:22.2

But ultimately, it didn't work out in that second run either.

1:25.1

After about two years in WWE. They were split up.

1:28.6

And then very soon after they were split up, which happens to a lot of tag teams in

1:32.6

WWE, they were both let go.

1:34.6

By all accounts, though, Shag Gasparter was a really good guy and a good father.

1:39.5

Certainly his last act being one of heroism. And it's not the only one that he committed, though,

1:47.1

because back in 2016, he also stopped an armed robbery at a gas station, really just out of nowhere.

1:53.8

I don't think he was related or had any relation to anyone that was involved in that incident.

1:59.2

But nevertheless, a guy who is being remembered now by

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