The website Squared Circle Sirens is reporting that WWE has offered a developmental deal to Canadian Olympic weightlifter Isabel Lahela, a deal that was accepted. Lahela, still only 22 years of age, is a Toronto native and won the 48kg weightlifting Junior Ontario Championship competition in 2014. She had a tryout back in September of last year...
Chris Jericho made an appearance at last night’s non-televised live event in Regensburg, Germany and was then attacked by Universal champion Kevin Owens. While standing in the middle of the ring on two crutches addressing the fans, Owens ran in and attacked him from behind, beating him up with the crutches. He then removed his neck brace and hit...
Adult film company Brazzers is currently filming a parody of WWE’s Montreal screwjob titled The F*ck Job. The porn parody features Johnny Castle as Vince McMahon, Romi Rain as Bret Hart, and Mia Malkova as Shawn Michaels. Filming started earlier this week and all the individuals who are starring in this parody already posted some photos in full...
Smackdown commentator Tom Phillips might be in hot water after an Instagram user published his dirty messages for the whole world to read. Phillips sent this user who goes by the name of ‘missythetattooedgirl’ a selfie from his airplane seat and a message that reads, “I’m in my seat with a massive erection. And a 4 hours flight ahead...
During an appearance on Conversations with Maria Menounos, former WWE Superstar Kelly Kelly confirmed that she will be at WrestleMania and at the Hall of Fame this year as well as Axxess doing some autograph signings. “I don’t know if I’m gonna be wrestling, per se. But I will be at Mania. I will be at Mania. I will be at the Hall of Fame...
NXT Women’s champion Asuka will be making her Madison Square Garden debut next month on March 12 with the Smackdown brand as part of an eight-woman tag match. Asuka will be teaming up with Nikki Bella, Becky Lynch, and Tamina to take on Alexa Bliss, Mickie James, Natalya, and Carmella. She’s taking the place of Naomi, who is currently...
One of the matches expected to happen at WrestleMania is The Big Show vs former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal. However, the lack of commitment from Shaq’s part has his opponent worried. “I mean, here’s the thing. We shot this off at the ESPY Awards, Shaq said he’s in, I thought this would be a good match for fans to see two giants go at it...
Impact did 275,000 viewers yesterday, a drop of 50,000 viewers from last week’s show. This was the second lowest-rated episode of 2017 so far. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
The WWE Network turned 3 years old today, now boasting 1.5 million paying subscribers and over 7,000 hours of footage. The Network launched in the United States on February 24, 2014 and the day after WrestleMania XXX, WWE announced that it had just over 600,000 subscribers. A few months later, the service started streaming in Australia, New...
The list of what’s being added on Netflix in March has been released and it’s a win for wrestling fans as Lucha Underground season 1 and 2 will be arriving on March 15. Season 1 aired on El Rey Network in the United States from October 29, 2014 through August 5, 2015. Season 2 aired from January 27, 2016 to July 20, 2016. Season 3 is currently...
WWE is sending former Smackdown Women’s champion Becky Lynch and Hall of Fame inductee Kurt Angle to appear at the Wizard World Comic Con Cleveland. Both Superstars will greet fans, pose for photo ops, sign autographs and conduct separate interactive Q&A sessions during their visits. Becky Lynch will attend between 5:30PM and 8:30PM on...
Former Smackdown Women’s champion Naomi has a good chance of missing WrestleMania as her knee injury, while not seriously bad, still needs several weeks of treatment before she gets cleared for an in-ring return. Naomi won the title at the Elimination Chamber but had to surrender it just over a week later without one title defense. She suffered...
WWE announced that competitors from the United Kingdom Championship Tournament are scheduled to appear at select WWE non-televised live events in the UK and Ireland as part of the upcoming European tour in May. WWE UK champion Tyler Bate will be appearing along with Trent Seven, Wolfgang, Joseph Conners, Tyson T-Bone, Mark Andrews, James Drake...
Smackdown this week drew 2,792,000, the second-best number of 2017. The show was headlined by the 10-man battle royal to determine the number one contender for the WWE title. It was up 166,000 viewers from last week and it was good enough to place #2 on the top 50 cable chart in the 18-49 demographic.
Finn Balor appeared at the NXT television tapings yesterday which were held at the CFE Arena, located on the campus of the University of Central Florida. The segment, which was the final one for the night, was only for the live crowd and will not be part of NXT TV when the show eventually airs. Balor came out after Bobby Roode was talking down on...
Monday Night Raw this week drew a total of 3,215,000 viewers, up 128,000 viewers from last week. Hour one started with 3,259,000 viewers, followed by a tiny increase to 3,261,000 viewers in the second hour, before falling off to 3,127,000 in the third and final hour with a main event of Big Show vs Braun Strowman. Raw was #2, #3, and #4 in the top...
Kevin Sullivan, the former producer at WWE and TNA, announced on Twitter that he is back working for TNA. “I’m excited to be back on the @IMPACTWRESTLING team. It was great catching up and seeing everyone in the studio today,” wrote Sullivan on Twitter. Sullivan leads his own production and creative company, KSTV out of Nashville, and...
WWE Superstars from the Raw brand are currently in Germany for a four-day tour across four cities. The Road to WrestleMania German tour kicks off tonight in Dusseldorf with a show at the ISS Dome. Tomorrow it’s off to Nurnberg for an event at the Arena Nurnberger Versicherungen. On Friday it’s Hannover’s time with a show at the TUI Arena and...
Commenting on Twitter about calling CM Punk on the phone after Raw went off the air, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said that he works off instinct and always listens to the people to try and give them something special. The Rock said that what he did had “huge positive feedback” from the WWE fans, however, WWE management weren’t thrilled...
WrestleMania will be playing host to a tag team match featuring two of the most famous couples on the WWE roster. Yesterday during Smackdown, the seeds for the angle that will lead to The Miz and Maryse taking on John Cena and Nikki Bella were planted after the heels got the upper hand. First it was Nikki Bella who suffered an attack from Maryse...
