Our interview drops today, but I spoke with Kenny Omega about a new project, as well as his move to heavyweight and tag team wrestling. He said he felt like he was going against his body and against the grain to remain a Junior Heavyweight, and was keeping a pretty rough NJPW schedule. He admitted that his schedule these days...
2020-11-26 20:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs of the last word, WWE will get to Tropicana Field this Saturday and run through December 10. The company is expecting a much longer setup than they had for the Amway Center -- possibly even twice as long. Though Amway's contract with WWE was originally up this week, we're told the current plan is to run shows from the Thun...
2020-11-26 16:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostNote to aggregators: please do not use this transcript until the article posts publicly Friday.
Brandon Cutler: When I watched the match between Brandon [Cutler] and Peter [Avalon] on Dark, it was such a great matchup to watch on a program that doesn't go on our TV. I thought it was a matchup of the highest caliber tha...
I just spoke to Kenny Omega ahead of the drop of his new project and asked him about stepping into the entrepreneurial side of things as he gets older. He said there was a point in 2015 where he feared he'd have to call it quits due to a neck herniation and actually started to wind things down. He called being able to decide ...
2020-11-25 22:52:39 +0000 UTC View Post
- Big E, New DAY
- Taz's son
- Omega/Moxley
- NWA Shockwave
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/P5vUjYmypBo
2020-11-25 21:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostSpeaking of Alex Gracia, she spoke highly of the late Hana Kimura. When Gracia was in Japan, she says that Kimura took care of her and went out of her way to check on her and wanted the wrestlers to speak English to her to help practice. Gracia said Kimura was working hard to learn several languages and made the process of co...
2020-11-25 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe latest subject of our Brass Ring series saw members of the NXT roster putting over Candice LeRae as a helpful veteran, regardless of the experience level of those that she's working with.
"Candice LeRae falls into the same category in NXT as Deonna Purrazzo, if she has a switch you're going to see even more out of h...
2020-11-25 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A SUPER SIZE episode of SOUR GRAPS, talking about not only Raw, where some idiotic storyline & booking decisions and the ubiquity of Lana threatened to overshadow some very fine in-ring work, but also about Survivor Series, where ... you know, same.
Everything sucks. Let's talk about it.
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2020-11-25 03:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostYou know whats up. Ask away
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Not that it's any surprise that AJ Styles isn't heading back to IMPACT Wrestling, but the teases from Karl Anderson and Gallows about "the Phenomenal One" returning are for none other than Hornswoggle. Hornswoggle will appear in full AJ Styles gear and actually wrestle matches in a satire gimmick as a part of Good Brothers' f...
2020-11-24 16:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostThere's an ongoing storyline with Rohit Raju and TJP in IMPACT, where he accuses the former Manik/Suicide of being under the mask again. That will come to a head tonight, but TJP is not under the mask. Based on those we spoke to, Caleb Konley is still portraying the role, as he has on and off for years. He's also serving as a...
2020-11-24 16:30:26 +0000 UTC View Post
STEPHEN JENSEN is back with another edition of the WEEKENDER!
Topics:
- Show to watch on IWTV - ACTION: "Friday The 13th"
- MLW: "Fusion" (11/18) results
- IMPACT (11/17) results
- 205 LIVE (11/20) results
- NXT UK (11/19) results
- ROH (11/16) results
- UWN: "Primetime Live" (1...
2020-11-23 19:56:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe issues around WWE, gaming, streaming and the like have been very contentious in recent months, but we got a good bit of news on that front. Dakota Kai, Jessamyn Duke, Mia Yim and Shayna Baszler were shown on screen as "Co-Commissioners" of UpUpDownDown. While many suspected this was a bit for the channel, we're told that ...
2020-11-23 19:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post
- Chelsea Green's new name
- Vince's lack of meeting with Zelina
- Vince's meeting with someone else
- NIDIA!
- Impact tapings
- Jade Cargill
- Arturo Ruas plans
- Injury, contract updates
2020-11-23 16:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe tapings wrapped up on Saturday after what was called a "grueling" four days. Most of the talent left the tapings on Saturday, after arriving Monday. We're told that the tapings go all the way up until Hard to Kill weekend, which is January 12. Impact has flexibility as to whether or not they want to tape their television ...
2020-11-23 16:22:52 +0000 UTC View PostWWE 24/7 Title
Fightful has learned a little more about Jade Cargill in the past couple of weeks. We've heard that she's been training in Atlanta, which will help her progression now that she's signed with AEW. WWE had interest in her in the past and brought her in for a tryout. There were some tweets indicating she was Shaq's girlfriend, w...
2020-11-22 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs of this weekend, the plan for WWE Survivor Series was for the Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre to main event and close the show, with the Men's Survivor Series elimination match set to open the PPV portion of the program. There was a brief discussion about whether or not Undertaker's farewell would close things, but that did...
2020-11-22 19:32:44 +0000 UTC View Post
On this episode of SOUR GRAPS, Buddy is now free to have relations with his teenage girlfriend in peace, Roman takes Drew to Top Guy School, and Daniel got a new haircut.
Also, NOTHING MAKES SENSE AND I THINK MY BRAIN MIGHT BE BROKEN, HOW ****DARE**** YOU DO THIS TO BIG E, AND WHO DIED AND MADE SCRAP DADDY ADAM P...
2020-11-22 02:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostThough we've not heard that Zelina Vega was escorted from the arena following her firing, we were told that she was denied an opportunity to speak with Vince McMahon. One of the stories Fightful heard about from a wrestler was that Zelina had asked to speak to Vince McMahon to tell him goodbye, and the offer to do so was decl...
2020-11-21 18:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostMany were speculating that Rhea Ripley could be headed to Team Smackdown after losing an NXT Women's Title match this past week. If she is to be added, it doesn't look like that will be tonight, as tentative plans called for Bayley and Natalya to be added to the Survivor Series teams for Sunday.
In addition, we've learn...
2020-11-20 19:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostFightful has learned that Arturo Ruas sustained an arm injury on this week's episode of NXT in his match with Kushida. Ruas filmed some additional content for WWE digital, but it didn't end up making air. When we asked about his status on Raw, we're told that the company sidelining Raw Underground set the stage for his NXT re...
2020-11-19 22:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostBig E had at least been planned as an addition to Team Smackdown. The decision was made weeks ago to add him to the team. There was a plan for his qualifying match to air on the November 13 episode of Smackdown before it was pulled due to time constraints. Much of the decision making Survivor Series teams was done weeks ahead...
2020-11-19 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe have our big feature with Nidia dropping this weekend, and in case you were curious, she has no desire to return to the ring or wrestle again. In our interview, Nidia closed the door and said she's moved on to a life of motherhood and isn't interested in getting banged up again. She clarified that no companies really reach...
2020-11-19 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWWE is moving Thunderdome to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. This wasn't a surprise to much of the talent we've heard from, as they were given a heads up if they asked as much, and were specifically told St. Petersburg.
The Tampa Bay Rays are back in the stadium at the end of March, and there had been talk of using ...
- Melina, RVD, Nia Jax, FTR, Scorpio Sky, Scott Hall
- Women's tag titles
- Drew McIntyre vs. Roman Reigns
- NXT/Twitch
- Starting in wrestling media
- AJ to IMPACT!?
- Fightful Select plans
- New WWE signings
2020-11-19 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post- The Inner Circle Las Vegas skits were filmed Friday and Saturday, obviously on location.
- Finn Balor's update was played close to the vest this week, and specifics were not listed on many internal rundowns.
- There will be some characters returning to NXT TV soon as soon as tonight on social channels if all g...
Fightful Select reached out to FTR on being named PWI's Top tag team of the year.
Cash stated "It’s a huge honor and one of our proudest moments to be the inaugural number one team in the Tag Team Top 50. We put a lot of time and effort into being the best tag team to ever do this. We know we have a long way to go, b...
- Shelton & Cedric tag praise
- Bray and Alexa
- Lana's booking
- Undertaker and Survivor Series
- Rascalz
- CARDONA
Video: https://youtu.be/_rDk49FQ7VE
2020-11-18 21:42:01 +0000 UTC View Post
