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#3 Malakai Black praised Cody ahead of their match on AEW Dynamite

Malakai Black and Cody Rhodes are set to face off for the third time on this week's AEW Dynamite. Black spoke to the Orlando Sentinel ahead of tonight's match and took some time to praise his opponent, calling Rhodes the "biggest diamond" in the promotion:

"If I’m going to do something, I might as well do it with the biggest diamond of the company. As a wrestler, I can’t say I have anything but respect for him. But to get ahead, you have to cut off the head of the dragon, and he was one of the biggest dragons," Black said.

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#2 Chris Jericho hit back at Eric Bischoff's comments

Chris Jericho chimed in on Eric Bischoff and Tony Khan's back and forth, commenting on Twitter, and hitting back at the former WCW executive's "cosplay competition" comments.

Jericho explained that AEW has already decreased WWE's market share before adding that SmackDown lost the demo in the half an hour that the two shows went head to head last Friday:

"Not sure what a 'cosplay competition' is Eric, but WWE market share has definitely been decreased by AEW. To the point whenever they forced themselves into “real head to head competition” [with] us (most recently last [Friday]) they lost. I’m gonna shut up now & keep wrestling," Chris Jericho tweeted.

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