Renee Paquette and Jon Moxley (real name Jonathan Good) have welcomed their first child into the world.
“Baby girl is officially here, so I’m checking out and becoming a mom. (She’s absolutely incredible!!),” Paquette announced on Tuesday. Paquette added that she has a bunch of guest hosts lined up for her Oral Sessions podcast, with Moxley hosting today’s episode.
Paquette’s pregnancy was first announced by Moxley during a promo on AEW Dynamite last November. In December, Paquette and Moxley revealed that the baby was going to be a girl.
On her podcast last month, Paquette revealed that the baby’s name would be Nora Murphy Good. The baby’s first name is a tribute Paquette’s late maternal grandmother Eleanor. Paquette said that no one called her grandmother Nora, but the name Nora seemed like a good homage to her without fully naming the baby Eleanor.
WWE posted a tweet congratulating Paquette on the baby’s birth: “A big CONGRATULATIONS to the one and only @ReneePaquette on the birth of her baby girl!” Paquette (formerly known as Renee Young) departed WWE in August of last year but has made a couple of appearances on WWE-related programming on Fox since then, most recently hosting a Royal Rumble preview special edition of WWE Backstage on FS1 this January.
“Mox” will be released on November 2, 2021. The 272-page book was made available for pre-order today on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Mox will be published by Permuted Press, the same company that published Renee Paquette’s Messy in the Kitchen cookbook. Messy in the Kitchen will officially be released tomorrow.
The pre-order page describes the book as “A vivid trip through the mind of the top professional wrestler in the business—a nobody from nowhere who achieved his ambitions and walked away with the gold and the girl of his dreams.”
The book description continues:
“Ride alongside Jon Moxley as he retraces some of the highways traveled on his remarkable journey. Revel in the never-before-told stories about his early life in Cincinnati, Ohio; the gritty independent wrestling scene where he cut his teeth; the complicated corporate landscape of the WWE where he bucked against authority; and the rebellious upstart AEW, where he won the championship in 2020 and was finally free to achieve the vision of the wrestler he’d always wanted to be.
With plenty of pitstops and revelatory insights, including grizzly ultraviolent encounters, crazy characters who became lifelong friends, and his unforgettable matches in Japan, MOX is the riveting account of the life of a brawler. It is a tale written in blood and soaked in debauchery, with a good dose of wisdom accumulated along the way.
More than a backstage pass into the arena, MOX is a ticket into the ring. Once inside, you’ll never look at pro wrestling the same again.”
Moxley is a former AEW World Champion and the current IWGP United States Champion. He successfully defended the US title against Yuji Nagata on last week’s AEW Dynamite. On the same show, Moxley and Eddie Kingston were challenged by The Young Bucks to a tag team match for the Sunday, May 30 AEW Double or Nothing PPV.
Paquette’s podcast Oral Sessions will be part of The Volume where she will interview various personalities in pro wrestling, MMA and pop culture. Her first podcast under Cowherd’s new venture will launch Thursday with UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic.
As part of the deal, Paquette will be a guest on Cowherd’s podcast around major WWE, AEW and UFC shows. The two have known each other dating back to 2012 when she auditioned for ESPN SportsNation which Cowherd was a co-host on.
WWE Backstage is returning for a Royal Rumble special.
Fox Sports announced today that a special Royal Rumble preview edition of WWE Backstage will air on FS1 at 8 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, January 30. That’s the night before this year’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view.
The special edition of WWE Backstage will be hosted by Renee Paquette, Booker T, and Paige. Paquette (formerly known as Renee Young in WWE) departed WWE in August 2020. She also made an appearance on Fox’s pre-show for SmackDown’s season premiere episode in October.
Weekly production of WWE Backstage was ended in June of last year, but it was noted at the time that the studio show could return with occasional episodes surrounding major WWE events. It was announced in October that WWE Backstage would be returning for a special episode in conjunction with SmackDown making a one-week move to FS1 due to the World Series, but that was changed from WWE Backstage to an episode of Talking Smack.
WWE Backstage’s Royal Rumble preview will re-air on FS1 at midnight Eastern time the night of the episode and at 5 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, January 31.
The most detailed look at the life and career of Pat Patterson, from his childhood in Montreal, through his being Vince McMahon’s assistant, and everything in between, is the lead story in the current issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
This will likely go down as one of the best issues in history, with the stories on Patterson and Bobby Lee, the guy you never heard of who set box office records in the summer of 1978.
We look at Patterson’s career highlights, comments from some of the biggest names in the history of the business, where he got the name from, finding out he wa gay, his start in Boston, how Mad Dog Vachon made his career, the days in San Francisco, the greatest tag team of the era, being in the middle of the Cow Palace vs. HIC feud, his first encounter with Mae Young, Pretty Boy Patrick Patterson, the different stages that led to the Texas Battle Royal, the Cow Palace Battle Royal and the Royal Rumble.
We look at the character of Roy Shire, matches with the likes of Ray Stevens, Bob Backund and Sgt.Slaughter, the birth of the Intercontinental title, tours of Japan, the Quebec Dream, and WWE honoring him in Montreal.
Also in this issue:
Kenny Omega winning the AEW title, Sting coming, Don Callis and Impact Wrestling, and full coverage of AEW’s Winter is Coming.
The life and career of Bobby Lee, who made himself a legend in two months, and then how it all ended.
Agovernmental rule now protecting talent from having to adhere to the rules the rest of us go by, notes on Tribute to the Troops, notes on new WWE signings including one of the highest level athletes they’ve ever signed, update on a lawsuit against the company and how they are trying to get out of it, Talking mack, Slammy Awards, foreign ratings, how WWE & AEW are doing in the sports ratings, Broken Skull Sessions, Undertaker talks about ling to Shawn Michaels, top Exec makes more than $1 million in stock sale, and the most-watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network.
A feature on Jimmy Rave as his career comes to an end.
This year’s TripleMania show as well as a look back at the main events of every show to date.
Saturday’s UFC show with match-by-match coverage, business notes and ramifications of the key matches.
Television business, looking at stats not available elsewhere to get the deepest read into how shows are doing, what categories are doing well and how shows compare with previous weeks and one year ago.
Results of all the major pro wrestling events around the world over the past week.
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WEDNESDAY NEWS UPDATE
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Drew McIntyre, Goldberg, Johnny Gargano, Mojo Rawley, and actor Joe Manganiello were on The Bump this week. Kevin Owens and Ric Flair will be on next week’s show.
Reigns responded on Twitter after Goldberg called him out on The Bump: “I never wait in line. I am the attraction and I choose who’s next. And that’s Kevin Owens.“
A NXT TakeOver dark match, pitting Legado del Fantasma vs. Curt Stallion, Ashante ‘Thee’ Adonis, and August Grey has been uploaded to NXT’s Facebook account.
PWInsider reported that a “all hands on deck” meeting was held this past Tuesday. The meeting was mostly to introduce new President and Chief Revenue Officer Nick Khan. Employees were also told that the new WWE HQ was moving along slowly, but surely.
Renee Paquette on The Bella Twins’ podcast talked about her leaving WWE (h/t WrestlingNews.Co): “It’s good now. I think as soon as I came to terms, I realized it is time to go. I’ve done everything that I could possibly do here. I had a great run. It was awesome. But for the other things I wanted to do in my career, I didn’t really see it happening there. Just with everything the way it lined up with the Covid stuff happening, me getting sick, not that had to do anything with my decision, but it was just like everything was weird for a while.”
Thecubsfan has translated a Mas Lucha interview with Dorian Roldan where he talked about leaving Twitch. He said that their deal with Twitch ended at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and feels they will reach more people with YouTube. He also said he expected to talk to the heads of AEW soon, and when asked about the AEW/Impact deal, he said to ask him again in a month.
Killer Khan has been accused of a hit and run on a bicycle. Khan has been accused of striking a woman in her twenties on his bike and fleeing the scene. The woman suffered a broken tooth among other injuries.
PWInsider is reporting that Joseph R. Meehan’s (Joey Ryan) attorneys have been given until December 29 to file pleadings to convince the court as to why the lawsuits, which have had little movement since being filed, should continue.
CM Punk talked to Renee Paquette regarding a variety of wrestling subjects, including unionization, Twitch, and a possible return to the ring.
Punk talked to Paquette on the latest episode of her podcast, Oral Sessions. When asked about potentially returning to the ring, Punk stressed that it was about finding the right scenario.
“Without wanting to insult anybody on any either side of the fence, any WWE talent or any AEW talent, it would take – above all – an interesting scenario. A story that would be fun to tell,” he told Paquette (H/T Cageside Seats). “Also, just the stupidest amount of money. But they could just save themselves a whole lot of money if they just presented, like, a fun storyline.”
He also expressed interest in an AEW run as opposed to a WWE one, citing the desire to wrestle new faces.
“I think there’s more interesting people on the AEW side of things for me to wrestle, but that’s just because I’ve never wrestled them before. Young Bucks, Kenny Omega. Talking about your husband. I look at that and I go, ‘Well, I wrestled him already.’ So it’s just less interesting than something new. And on the WWE side of things, I don’t know that there’s anybody there currently that I haven’t wrestled that I would be interested in wrestling.”
When asked about wrestlers potentially forming a union, Punk expressed doubt that it would ever happen. “No, and just because there’s no such thing as ‘the boys’”, he responded. “It’s a trope. ‘Oh, we’re on the road, and these people are our family,’ and like I said, once you’re out of the bubble, you don’t hear from anybody anymore. Those people don’t pay your bills. There’s always gonna be a handful of people that will undercut everybody else just to get ahead a little bit. There seems to be a lot of people that not only by nature, are bootlickers – they just love the taste.”
When it came to Twitch, Punk compared the situation between Zelina Vega’s release for keeping her Twitch account and Xavier Woods becoming a host for the G4 Network’s upcoming revival with WWE’s blessing.
“I don’t know what’s going on with his Twitch channel so I don’t want to speak out of turn on that,” he said. “I just saw he was petitioning to get a job with G4. Why is it ok for him to do that but Zelina Vega can’t have a Twitch?”
Punk and Paquette were co-hosts on WWE Backstage, a studio talk show. The show was cancelled in June.
Paquette’s pregnancy was first announced publicly during a promo by Moxley on the November 18 episode of AEW Dynamite.
In an interview with People last month, Paquette said her maternal instinct was telling her the baby would be a girl: “We don’t even know if it’s a boy or a girl yet, but we have options for both scenarios! My maternal instinct is telling me it’s a girl. We’ll see if I’m right! Naming a person is crazy; it’s a lot of pressure to get it right. But I think we’ll probably lean towards something classic and timeless!”
Paquette told People that she and Moxley had a few names in mind for the baby but hadn’t decided on anything yet.
This will be Paquette and Moxley’s first child. The couple got married in 2017.
Paquette launched a new podcast called “Oral Sessions” last month. Her cookbook “Messy In The Kitchen: My Guide to Eating Deliciously, Hosting Fabulously and Sipping Copiously” is set to be released on May 18, 2021.
Moxley lost the AEW World Championship to Kenny Omega on last Wednesday’s Winter is Coming episode of Dynamite.
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer is back today with tons to talk about including two sad deaths to talk about, a pregnancy, Raw ratings, Dave has some stuff to say about Jim Cornette, full AEW and NXT reviews from Wednesday night, and tons more!
A packed show as always so check it out~!
Timestamps:
Start: Sonjay Dutt’s father, Sylvano Sousa passes away
5:56: Renee Young, Jon Moxley expecting child
8:58: Raw, SmackDown ratings
18:50: Jim Cornette
37:29: AEW
1:01:12: NXT
1:20:53: This weekend
Former WWE personality Renee Paquette and AEW World Champion Jon Moxley are expecting their first child, announced by Moxley during a promo on Wednesday’s edition of Dynamite.
The two began dating in 2013 when both worked for WWE, getting married in April 2017.
Just this week, Paquette announced that her new podcast, Oral Sessions, will debut on November 24th. She also has a forthcoming cookbook, Messy In The Kitchen, that drops this May.
Paquette made her on-screen WWE debut in November 2012 and worked for the company until August of this year with her last official appearance coming on the SummerSlam pre-show. She did return to host the Fox Sports pre-show for the SmackDown season premiere on October 16th.
In addition to working for WWE, Paquette hosted WWE Backstage for Fox Sports.
Moxley signed a WWE developmental contract in 2011 and worked for the company until April 2019. He debuted for AEW on May 25, 2019, at Double or Nothing, winning the World title at February’s Revolution.
Renee Paquette, formerly known as WWE’s Renee Young, announced a release date for her forthcoming cookbook today.
“Messy In The Kitchen: My Guide to Eating Deliciously, Hosting Fabulously, and Drinking Copiously” will be available on May 18, 2021. It was made available for pre-order today on Amazon.
Paquette took to her Instagram account today and shared some of the process of bringing the book to life:
“The love, attention, focus, and butter that went into making this cookbook was such an insane experience,” she wrote.
“As a first time author, and merely a home cook, I respect the hell out of the process of making a book. This is the first project in a VERY long time that’s MINE. My writing, my ideas, my recipes. This project comes from my heart, and it means so much to me! I can’t wait to see it in your homes and see you guys cooking up all of these delicious recipes (yes, poutine) or hey- you might even just enjoy the sassy, swear word filled pages, the wine consumed, or just the photos. Thanks anyone that adds to cart. Hopefully we can all get together soon in person and celebrate!”
Messy In The Kitchen will contain more than 60 recipes for meals and cocktails. The pre-order page describes the book as “A cookbook for quirky home cooks looking to impress friends and family with a fancy meal, delicious cocktails, and intoxicating conversation.”
“Holy shit!!! I can’t even believe this is a real thing. I legit have tears in my eyes… So much love and work and endless cooking and re-testing of recipes, but the pre-order is available for my cookbook Messy In The Kitchen. Follow your dreams, y’all”
Paquette revealed on her Instagram account on July 1 that she had handed off the manuscript for the then-untitled cookbook to her publisher. On an appearance on WWE’s The Bump on August 26, Paquette announced the book’s name and a likely Spring 2021 release date.
After a six year stint with the company, Paquette departed WWE in August. She made an appearance on Fox’s pre-show for the season premiere of SmackDown on October 16.
Though she departed the company in August, Renee Paquette (formerly known as Renee Young in WWE) will be making an appearance on WWE-related programming this month.
Fox Sports announced today that Paquette and Booker T will host a pre-show for the Friday, October 16 episode of SmackDown. The special pre-show will be 30 minutes long and will air on Fox starting at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.
The pre-show ties in with the October 16 episode of SmackDown being called the start of the second season of SmackDown on Fox. It will also be the first episode of SmackDown following this year’s WWE Draft.
“In celebration of the second season of FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN on FOX, FOX Sports’ WWE personalities come together for a special FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN KICKOFF SHOW on Friday, Oct. 16,” Fox Sports announced. “Longtime broadcaster Renee Paquette and WWE Hall of Famer Booker T host a bevy of WWE Superstars and special guests live from the brand new ‘WWE ThunderDome’ in Orlando.
“The FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN KICKOFF SHOW begins at 7:30 PM ET/PT and 6:30 PM CT/MT, leading into the season premiere of FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN on FOX at 8:00 PM ET/PT and 7:00 PM CT/MT.”
This year’s WWE Draft will begin on SmackDown this Friday and conclude on Monday’s episode of Raw.
Fox Sports has also announced that a WWE’s Best Moments of 2020 special will air on Fox this Sunday (October 11). The special “airs adjacent to Sunday’s regional NFL broadcasts airing in-market at 1:00 PM ET and 4:05 PM ET. Viewers with an NFL matchup airing at 1:00 PM ET can watch WWE: THE BEST MOMENTS OF 2020 at 4:30 PM ET; viewers with an NFL matchup airing at 4:05 PM ET can watch the special at 3:00 PM ET.”
