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Current Royal Rumble 2021 Betting Odds

Men's Royal Rumble Winner

Daniel Bryan                             5/4

Keith Lee             ...

News On Matt Riddle/Seth Rollins heat

You may have noticed in the past that Seth Rollins and Matt Riddle had a bit of heat, especially considering Rollins said on a WWE Draft special that he had no interest in working with Riddle. We spoke to numerous people who were backstage at WWE Survivor Series, who said that it seemed as if the two had squashed the issue be...

Does Snoop Dogg have heat with WWE?

Can't believe this is something I am reporting on, but based on WWE sources, there's absolutely no heat on Snoop Dogg in WWE. Most we heard from said they expected him to do something promotional with AEW considering that he likes wrestling and since 2021-01-07 20:20:12 +0000 UTC View Post

SRS Q&A January 7, 2021: Goldberg, Scurll, Sonya, More

- WWE Women's tag team titles

- Marty Scurll

- Wrestlers leaving companies

- Royal Rumble thoughts

- Goldberg plans

- Switchblade

- NJPW notes

- Sonya Deville

Kyle O'Reilly Update

Both during the commercials, and immediately after his match with Finn Balor, trainers and doctors were checking on Kyle O'Reilly. He managed to finish the match, and we'll have more of an update as we getit.

News on Ethan Page-IMPACT

Ethan Page is advertised for an IMPACT PPV match against "Karate Man", but he's already gone from the company and his contract is in fact up. Page won't actually be at the PPV, and we were told that the match was actually filmed two months ahead of time when at the November tapings. Most of the show will be filmed in January ...

The List Goes On (1/6): Piper, Waltman, Sonya, Lacey/Peyton

- Roddy Piper

- Sonya Deville

- Sean Waltman

- Peyton Royce, Lacey Evans

Video: https://youtu.be/F6FXOVW2meg

NXT Callup Planned

Today, Wrestlevotes noted that they'd heard of a potential NXT call-up that was set for this week to participate in the Kevin Owens-Roman Reigns storyline. We can't speak to his participation in the storyline, but Fightful has learned that Damian Priest was being planned for a call up as of earlier this week.

Goldberg & Drew McIntyre Angle Hampered By Timing Issues, What Didn't Happen

If you thought the way that Goldberg and Drew McIntyre ended things on WWE Raw was off, there's a good reason for it. The show fell behind early in the night after scripts were already late for the show, and had the two stars pressed for time in the Raw main event segment. There was supposed to be supplemental actions and lin...

SRS Q&A Questions

3 questions per subscriber

- No top 5, favorites, are you a fan of, fantasy booking questions!

SRS Reviews NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15

- Ibushi wins!
- What's next for Switchblade?
- Ospreay vs. Okada
- GREAT O KHAN!?
- Evil vs. Sanada
- Switchblade vs. Ibushi
- Lots more!

Alex's SOUR GRAPS: Raw 1/4--Old Timers' Day

Last night was Legends Night, which means that Ric Flair got to play senile, Randy got to threaten to beat up a man who couldn't walk, and Hulk Hogan got to put over the literal whitest dude on the roster.

Also Tatanka was there. In full Native headdress. For some reason.

There was also some wrestling apparently, ...

MLW hopes to get on Thursday primetime eventually

In what I promise is the last MLW scoop of the evening, Court Bauer confirmed to me that MLW is hoping that they can eventually get Fusion on Thursday nights on primetime. Many suspected that MLW was trying to "ride the wave" of NXT and AEW by moving from Saturdays to Wednesdays, but as it turns out they just wanted weeknight...

What happened with Cody Hall and MLW?

Word had dropped last month that Cody Hall had signed and promptly left Major League Wrestling. Court Bauer confirmed that did happen, but that Cody Hall said that he couldn't move forward with it and they granted him his release. MLW had their eye on Cody Hall as far back as 2018 for a spot in the Dynasty, but it didn't end ...

MLW Speaking With Two "Tier 1" Networks About Joining

Major League Wrestling continues to make moves throughout the broadcast world. MLW founder Court Bauer confirmed to Fightful Tuesday afternoon that the company is speaking to two networks that they consider "tier 1" networks about the potential of joining. When asked for more information, Bauer indicated that if the deals cam...

OVW Sells Majority Interest To Kentucky Media Name

Fightful has learned that Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio and Craig Greenberg have helped lead an effort and has purchased a majority stake in Ohio Valley Wrestling. Al Snow will be remaining with the company, and a reinvigoration of the brand will be led, with a heavy emphasis on the training school aspect of the acquisi...

SRS' Live Blog, Match Ratings For Wrestle Kingdom 15 Night 2

KOPW
Toru Yano defeated Chase Owens, Bad Luck Fale & Bushi
4.5/10

Bullet Club tried the Fingerpoke of Doom almost 22 years to the date that it happened. I wish it was three members of Bullet Club fighting to turn on each other throughout this. A dick punch gets the win for Toru Yano.

2021-01-05 07:56:41 +0000 UTC View Post

At least one advertised name not appearing on Raw

Fightful has learned that some things "fell behind schedule" for tonight's episode of Raw from a production standpoint. Beyond that, we're told that WWE isn't expecting Candice Michelle to be able to make it to tonight's show, but we haven't heard a reason as to why. 

We're told there are also issues preventing C...

AEW Dark News

Fightful spoke to  Danny Limelight recently, who said he was brought in to AEW Dark by contacting Christopher Daniels and then getting booked by QT Marshall. He made it pretty clear that after appearing for several promotions throughout late 2020, that he's hoping to land full-time with All Elite Wrestling, though he's o...

SRS' NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 15 Live Blog and Match Ratings

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmRqhfeXkYc

NEW JAPAN RAMBO
4.5/10

I'm a sucker for battle royals, and this one isn't a throw away for those involved because they have a featured match tomorrow. I just do...

Fightful Weekender (1/3): MLW, GCW, 205 LIVE, ROH, IMPACT

STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new episode of the WEEKENDER!

Topics:

- Shows to watch on IWTV - Brodie Lee Shoot Interview (2012) 

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Notes on ROH Contracts during pandemic

We've had a lot of people curious as to how contracts are affected by the pandemic and the lack of shows. We can't necessarily speak to WWE outside of the releases and recent pay cuts, but we've had a lot of people within Ring of Honor specify to us that in addition to Ring of Honor treating them exceptionally well, that they...

Sean Ross Sapp's Backstage Report (1/3): Eva Marie, Free Agents, More

- Eva Marie

- Matt Riddle

- Zicky Dice, Ethan Page are free agents

- ROH contracts

- WWE wrestlers haven't re-signed yet

- NJPW news

- Contract updates, injury updates

Alex's SOUR GRAPS: SmackDown 1/1--New Year, Same WWE

Sometimes the New Year represents a time of change. A time to throw off the shackles of monotony and move in a new direction. Or not.

Yeah, so SmackDown wasn't necessarily BAD.  It was just a re-run. 

That's right, it's more of the same for SmackDown in the New Year.  

So while 2020 might be ...

Shibata-NJPW Dojo News

Katsuyori Shibata can't wrestle anymore, but he's still heavily involved in New Japan Pro Wrestling as a trainer at the LA Dojo. We spoke to Danny Limelight about Shibata's training method, who said the respected veteran is a perfectionist who hands out tough love and very stern training. Shibata is not cleared to wrestle, an...

Roster Reaction To Vince McMahon not meeting with Zelina

Fightful spoke to several wrestlers in the weeks following Zelina's release bout the fact that she wasn't granted an “exit” meeting with Vince McMahon. Most everyone that we heard from were not surprised by the fact this happened, and we got stories from virtually everyone we asked about planned meeting being delayed week...

Eva Marie Update

After weeks of speculation, we finally have an update on Eva Marie. At one point she was internally scheduled for Legends Night WWE Raw, but Fightful can confirm that Eva Marie was backstage at the December 14 WWE Raw dressed to do promos. She was brought back to the company this fall and hasn't made her debut yet.

Several WWE wrestlers pass on new contracts -- for now

Several new contracts were offered in mid-late 2020 that were said to be "disappointing" in comparison to those handed out last year. In 2019, WWE was handing out huge money contracts in an effort to retain talent with all of the money being spent in wrestling. Since the pandemic started, many within WWE have told us the comp...

IMPACT Wrestler Now A Free Agent, More Details

Ethan Page has finished up with IMPACT Wrestling, as his contract officially expired at midnight. He'll be moving on to free agency, and seemed open to working in a variety of companies when we last spoke. IMPACT and Page had been in ongoing contract negotiations, but weren't able to come to terms. There is content yet to air...

SRS Q&A: First of 2021! Over 100 questions!

- Sonya Deville

- Eva Marie

- Royal Rumble

- Twitch and WWE

- Brodie Lee

- Sting AEW

- Bruce Mitchell

- Cesaro

- NJPW plans

- Legends night!

- 2020 awards