Matt Riddle became the new BRCW Heavyweight Champion at Summer Smash. The event was held on August 16 at The Studio at Mizner Park in Boca Raton, Florida.
Riddle won the title in a Fatal Four-Way against Fulton, Matt Taven, and Stallion Rogers, kicking off his first reign after the belt had been vacant since August 5.
The show also saw Lacey Lane defeat Shayna Baszler for the Women’s Championship and Chris Farrow win the Cha Cha Championship.
Riddle now heads into BRCW’s November 6 event as the reigning champion.
David Arquette still wants to bring back his cult wrestling comedy Ready To Rumble, but making a sequel happen is not as simple as fans might hope.
The original film hit theaters in April 2000, starring Arquette and Scott Caan as WCW fans trying to help a fallen wrestling star reclaim his glory.
During a recent Reddit AMA promoting Scream‘s 30th anniversary, a fan asked Arquette the question many wrestling fans have wondered for years, and he admitted he would love to make a second movie. However, he explained that the biggest hurdle is money, since studios rarely greenlight sequels for films that underperformed at the box office the first time around. He replied,
“I wish we would make a sequel to Ready To Rumble. It’s difficult because if as film doesn’t make a lot of money when it first comes out, its hard to drum up the interest for a sequel. But someone could always start a campaign and write Warner Brothers!”
The original movie only earned about $12.5 million, which was not enough to convince Warner Bros. to fast-track a sequel. Even so, the film became a fan favorite thanks to its wild plot and appearances from real WCW stars like Goldberg, Sting, and Diamond Dallas Page. Arquette even won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in real life as part of the promotion, that too on the same day as his wife Christina’s birthday.
Arquette also opened up about his infamous fall through the stage during a WCW Thunder episode back in May 2000, admitting nobody told him exactly where the trapdoor was located. He said staff only told him to “go to the right,” and he ended up falling through instead of Jeff Jarrett or Diamond Dallas Page as planned. He added,
“They forgot to tell me specifically where the area was. They just told me go out and go to the right. The long story is they didn’t want me wrestling in Memphis given Andy Kaufman history and the hatred of me being the champion at the time.”
“So I had the day off, I went to Graceland, and showed up right before I had to go out. They said “Just go out there and go to the right,” and I fell through the stage. I looked up looking at them looking down at me, their faces said WHAT A MORON and I rolled out of the way!!!”
