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Answers: Steve Blackman, Kota Ibushi, Samantha Irvin

Added 2025-06-27 16:00:13 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Kota Ibushi Update?

He is back.

But seriously, I know that his injuries and the quick spiral in-ring are well documented, but few know the lengths he went through over the last number of years. It's impressive that he can maintain being in that kind of shape, much less wrestling.

Will Samantha Irvin ever return to wrestling?

I find it hard to believe she wouldn't. She is well liked in the industry, and I've always been told that she's a welcome presence at AEW. Originally, AEW was anticipating doing more work with JoJo Offerman, but that didn't happen for some reason.

What the deal with R-Truth's ring name? Is he going to be Ron Killings or not as it seems they are still calling him R-Truth quite regularly.

They are largely interchangeable for WWE. Ron Killings made it clear upon being brought back to WWE that he wanted to use his own name and have a more serious run.

What’s Steve Blackman been up these days? Any chance he gets involved in wrestling business again?

He's actually fairly sought out on the convention and indie scene, but doesn't seem to do a lot. He will be appearing at 90s Wrestling Con in New Jersey in September, though. He lives in Pennsylvania, and has been backstage at WWE events in the past and maintains a good relationship with them. He's still in great shape and could probably work a match even in his 60s. WWE had him film for the Vault channel last year.