Month: December 2020

The following matches were taped on Monday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California for tonight’s WrestleMania 31 “go-home” edition of WWE SmackDown. – Cesaro vs. Jimmy Uso vs. Big E vs. Fernando in a four-way match – AJ Lee promo – Roman Reigns, John Cena, Daniel Bryan, and Mark Henry vs. BrayRead moreRead more

WWE revealed the main event for this year’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view at the SmackDown TV tapings on Tuesday. Headlining this year’s Extreme Rules show will be Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. For complete SmackDown spoilers for this week, click here. BACKSTAGE NEWS: Find Out EXACTLY What RONDA ROUSEY IsRead moreRead more

This week’s WWE.com sit-down interview features Bad News Barrett speaking to Byron Saxton, who filled in for the “injured” Michael Cole. Here are some highlights of what Barrett said: – Barrett said he exercised his rematch clause against IC Champion Daniel Bryan at Extreme Rules because Bryan never beat him. He called Bryan a “paperRead moreRead more

The following is a preview for tonight’s episode of NXT on the WWE Network: – Sami Zayn vs. Rhyno – Solomon Crowe vs. CJ Parker – Baron Corbin vs. Steve Cutler – Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady vs. Shoot Nation – Blue Pants vs. Dana Brooke Also appearing are NXT Tag Team Champions Blake &Read moreRead more

While original plans called for Tyson Kidd and Cesaro to defend the WWE Tag-Team Championships against The Lucha Dragons at Sunday’s WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view, that no longer appears to be the case. Kidd and Cesaro reportedly got over with the fans so well at many of the WWE European tour live events last weekRead moreRead more

The following are highlights of a new Jesse Ventura interview: On Verne Gagne’s creation of “The Body” nickname: “You have to remember both Hulk (Hogan) and I wrestled in other places before we came to the AWA. I had been wrestling five years, I wrestled in Portland, Oregon for three years, Hawaii and so let’sRead moreRead more

– A new Bruno Sammartino documentary called “Bruno Sammartino: La Mia Mama” debuts on Sunday, May 10th from 4-6pm on the local CBS affiliate KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The special will replay again from 8-10pm on the local CW station. – NXT Diva Lina, who is a cousin to The Rock, made her NXT liveRead moreRead more

– WWE Superstar Curtis Axel inducted his father — “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig — into the Pro Wrestling Hall Of Fame at their 14th annual induction ceremony in New York this weekend. Others included at the ceremony were Rick Martel, Michael Hayes and more. Slam! Wrestling has a recap of the ceremony, which you canRead moreRead more

– The specifics of Rusev’s injury are still unclear, although it is either a broken foot or a broken ankle that he is suffering from, and the injury occured when he took a bump over the top rope during his 5/26 SmackDown match against Ryback. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter speculates that thereRead moreRead more

– Stephen Amell of the show “Arrow” has expressed interest in guest hosting RAW and possibly even wrestling in the past. Amell shot a quick angle with Stardust while attending RAW this past Monday night and now we can confirm that WWE is looking at doing a program of sorts between Amell and Stardust. –Read moreRead more