Rockstar Spud "Impact Wrestling", Spud "un-quit" and returned as Aron Rex's manservant, and was featured in a promo with Rex, who is now portraying a "Liberace"-esque character. On 19 January 2017 episode of Impact, Aron Rex and Spud defeated the team composed by Robbie E and Swoggle. Spud was abruptly taken out of the partnership with Rex due to the company's new management and Rex no longer being contracted with Impact Wrestling and was made the new ring announcer for "Impact Wrestling". On the Impact broadcast aired on April 27, Spud was viciously attacked with a hammer by Swoggle, who accidentally has
Rhyming slang and truncated to "Aris". Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a linguist and revivalist, has proposed a distinction between rhyming slang based on sound only, and phono-semantic rhyming slang, which includes a semantic link between the slang expression and its referent (the thing it refers to). An example of rhyming slang based only on sound is the Cockney "tea leaf" (thief). An example of phono-semantic rhyming slang is the Cockney "sorrowful tale" ((three months in) jail), in which case the person coining the slang term sees a semantic link, sometimes jocular, between the Cockney expression and its referent. The use of rhyming slang has