This will be announced imminently on the main website, but wanted to give you all the heads up:
IMPACT Wrestling is planning their next special event, but it won't be on pay-per-view.
Fightful has learned that IMPACT Wrestling Emergence will air over two nights on AXS TV, on Tuesday, August 18, and Tuesday August 25. This is ...
2020-08-04 12:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs of midnight EST, WWE were still filming content for next week's WWE Raw Underground. We're told that there were other hosts besides Shane McMahon suggested, and the "Underground" name had been thrown around for other projects in the past years. Much of the main roster had no idea what was even being filmed today.
In an update on t...
2020-08-04 04:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
- WWE Draft
- Edge, Randy Orton
- FTR
- Gallows, Anderson, Rocky Romero
- Failed TNA Talks with Good Brothers in 2015
- TalknShop
- Kairi Sane
- Ricky Starks
- AEW Crowds
- Raw/Smackdown rivalry
- Leon Ruff
- Contracts, Injuries, Stats
2020-08-03 20:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostIn following up on the Paul Heyman-Bruce Prichard shakeup, we learned that Paul Heyman especially was known to take the idea of a Raw vs. Smackdown rivalry seriously, and applied it to his work and the mentality of the show. Heyman was said to have been very proud of the likes of Apollo Crews, Austin Theory, Angel Garza, and many of the wr...
2020-08-03 19:59:27 +0000 UTC View Post
All Elite Wrestling duo FTR are out of WWE, but stayed on good terms with their friend Randy Orton. Dax and Cash told Fightful that Orton actually flew to Asheville and worked with them on the Greatest Wrestling Match Ever. It's worth noting that Edge lives in Asheville as well. FTR said that Orton wanted to sharpen up his technical...
2020-08-03 15:26:30 +0000 UTC View Post
STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new edition of the WEEKENDER!
Topics:
- Show to watch on IWTV - BEYOND: "Two Weeks Notice"
- Free YouTube match - ROH: AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe vs. Chris Sabin vs. Jay Briscoe (Beating The Odds 2003)
- "Talk 'N Shop A Mania" results
- IMPACT (7/28) results
- 205 LIVE (7/31) results...
2020-08-02 19:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post
In this new episode of SOUR GRAPS, Booker T is at it again, AJ is good at wrestling, the Naomi and Lacey feud needs to be canceled before someone gets hurt, Shorty G turns Shorty Hee(L), Bayley Bayleys, SONYA DEVILLE SONYA DEVILLES, Jeff is grateful, Sheamus is delusional, and Bray Wyatt should be put in charge of creative.
There I said it...
2020-08-02 03:19:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Fightful has learned that a planned WWE Draft has changed several times.
In June, Fightful learned of plans for WWE to attempt to run live shows with limited fans in attendance in July, which were later scrapped. However, other plans have been repeatedly scrapped as well, including a WWE draft.
Fightful learned tha...
2020-08-01 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Sean Ross Sapp and Zachary Schemmel talk Undertaker's streak!
- Early days
- Monster slaying
- The Streak
- Who should have broken it
- Triple H & HBK
- CM Punk
- Breaking the Streak
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/sMsNcxiPgzY<...
2020-07-31 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn following up on the Paul Heyman-Bruce Prichard shakeup, we learned that Paul Heyman especially was known to take the idea of a Raw vs. Smackdown rivalry seriously, and applied it to his work and the mentality of the show. Heyman was said to have been very proud of the likes of Apollo Crews, Austin Theory, Angel Garza, and many of the wr...
2020-07-31 15:17:57 +0000 UTC View PostRicky Starks told Jeremy Lambert that the AEW crowds aren't really given any direction as to what they could or should be doing. He said that he doesn't think that would work out very well, and he wouldn't want direction in that manner. Others that we've spoken to have said that they've actually been encouraged to just have fun and d...
2020-07-30 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWWE has signed Leon Ruff to an NXT deal, and Fightful has learned that wasn't the only EVOLVE name we're going to see land with the company. Leon has appeared on Raw, Main Event and NXT, getting rave reviews from his peers. One wrestler on the WWE main roster compared Ruff to an early Jeff Hardy as a name that everyone wanted to work with, even ...
2020-07-30 14:33:49 +0000 UTC View Post
- Demon Balor vs. Fiend
- Sasha and Bayley plans
- Double champions galore
- EC3 Status
- Fight Pit
- Shane McMahon, Randy Orton, Bianca Belair
- Otis and briefcase
- OVER 120 QUESTIONS!
2020-07-30 13:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
- WARHORSE
- Zack Ryder/Matt Cardona on AEW
- TNT Title
- Tag Team Title
- MJF next for Moxley
- Women's tag tourney
- Qualifying match on NXT
- Mercedes
- Tag champs are back
- Undisputed Era
2020-07-30 03:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post
- Shayna and Nia
- The Hurt Business
- Factions
- Big E singles run
- Summerslam
- Randy Orton vs. Drew McIntyre
- Joey Janela
- Impact viewership
- Enzo Amore
- NWA
- Why SRS has a new chair!!
VIDEO: http...
2020-07-29 19:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostIn another update on Kairi Sane, we're told that even though rumors of her departure have been swirling for months, this was the original end date for her. As mentioned, WWE wanted to keep her on board in some capacity, but Kairi let it be known months ago that she wanted to return to Japan to be with her husband. We're told there were no ...
2020-07-29 16:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of SOUR GRAPS, we talk about Raw, and ask how they could possibly be so bad at this. At everything.
They gave away the ending of the WWE Title Match, as well as telegraphing the post match angle.
They did this to themselves.
They put all the women's titles on two people, sacrificing the rest of the women in the ...
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2020-07-28 23:24:46 +0000 UTC View Post- Eddie Edwards vs. Trey
- XXXL, Taya, Swinger, Tommy Dreamer, Rosemark, John Bravo, Susie, The Deaners, Kylie Rae and tons more on WrestleHouse
- Acey Romero vs. Crazzy Steve
- Cody Deaner vs. Cousin Jake
- Interviews with Ace Austin, The North, Moose
- Kimber Lee vs. Deonna Purr...
2020-07-28 23:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Ricky Starks noted to Jeremy Lambert that his AEW debut came together so quickly, that he didn't actually ever hear his theme music until he came out. Mikey Ruckus put the song together, but it's not one that he worked together with Starks on.
He said he wasn't nervous to have his match with Cody, because he worked hard ...
2020-07-28 16:06:17 +0000 UTC View PostMany forget that Gallows, Anderson and AJ Styles has talks with TNA Wrestling in late 2015 that never quite came to fruition. The trio met with Dixie Carter and John Gaburick at Dixie Carter's house. Anderson said that he wasn't feeling the offer, and they were happy in New Japan, but the schedule was getting tough for them to handle and t...
2020-07-28 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe'll have more today, and in the Weekly next week, but Gallows and Anderson told us today that their relationship with the Young Bucks was still okay after deciding to re-sign with WWE. They kept in touch with the Bucks all along the way after that, and Karl Anderson said that he instantly clicked with them when they met . Karl noted that he kn...
2020-07-27 17:50:08 +0000 UTC View Post
- Insane 2007 kiboshed storyline
- IMPACT Wrestling free agents
- Bully Ray
- Taylor Wilde
- Kairi Sane
- Tessa Blanchard
- Tracey Smothers
- Kevin Dunn flips out
- NXT Star apologizes
- Injuries, contracts, stats
2020-07-27 16:13:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I did a Q&A with the makers of RetroMania, which has been pushed back. I asked a lot of questions, which included them specifying that the ownership of Demolition is disputed, and they didn't want to risk legal recourse in including them. They also got in touch with Cody Rhodes' reps, but that was before AEW. Mike Archer had a r...
2020-07-27 15:41:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe'd mentioned IMPACT Wrestling had been extremely active in the free agent market recently, but they were active in contacting free agents well before that. They had contacted several names from the past for their TNA vs. IMPACT Wrestling storylines, including Taylor Wilde. Wilde told us that she's now unretired after being out of action ...
2020-07-27 15:29:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe dropped an interview that Tracey Smothers had done a run-in on days after his cancer diagnosis. Due to our Youtube issues, it got delayed heavily, and had some people asking about it. He fondly recalled Pitbull #2 and New Jack trying to take each other out in the ring, but the next night the two were side-by-side to take up for Mikey Wh...
2020-07-26 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most random stories I've come across was that of a pitched Cruiserweight Title switch from 2007. When speaking to Taylor Wilde, I asked her about a series of house shows she competed on in WWE in January of that year. She worked under a body suit and a mask as a ninja, facing men. The idea -- put forth by Dean Malenko and...
2020-07-26 20:22:04 +0000 UTC View Post
STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new episode of the WEEKENDER!
Topics:
- Show to watch on IWTV - PARADIGM: "Heavy Hitters 2"
- Free YouTube match - ROH: Keith Lee & Shane Taylor vs. War Machine (Survival of the Fittest 2016)
- IMPACT: "Slammiversary" & (7/21) results
- GCW: "Homecoming Night One" results
...
2020-07-26 17:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode of SmackDown, we'll talk about Bayley trying to break up BlissCross AppleSauce, Baron's Bounty on the Bodacious Barefoot Bro, a great 4-Way that makes no sense, WWE totally missing the point about the Naomi hashtag, and a fight in a bar featuring a member of The Bar and a man who apparently actually IS a bar.
Everything suc...
2020-07-26 02:17:12 +0000 UTC View Post