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More Than A Blip On WWE's Radar: 6'8" Josh Briggs Will Soon Outgrow EVOLVE

lay on the canvas, his thoughts lay elsewhere. He wasn’t thinking about the pre-match attack he had just suffered, or the fact that his scheduled opponent, EVOLVE champion Austin Theory, was about to walk out of the building without even defending the title. Briggs was thinking back to eight months before—to the same ring, in the same building—when he was carried out of a match with a dislocated hip. What followed had been a grueling journey of rehabilitation that culminated in him becoming the number-one contender to the title. Briggs was determined that he would not be carried out of an EVOLVE ring for a second time

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