On Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw, JBL said he wanted to make a TNA Aces & Eights reference during the poker invitational on Raw earlier this month: When we're dealing the cards and we're doing the last thing, it occurred to me. I wanted to have Luke Gallows have aces and eights for his hand and not say anything about it. Just throw it down.
I didn't have a chance to clear [it with WWE]. I don't know if that would've been a problem or not, but I just thought about that as soon as we're doing the last scene. I thought, 'Damn it, I missed something there.'