Chris Jericho has landed a role in the upcoming Dexter: Resurrection second season.
Jericho will be appearing as a villain in the new season which is currently filming in New York. He was spotted filming late last night with the lead actor, Michael C. Hall, with photos from the set published by Getty Images.
In the photos, Hall is seen sedating Jericho’s character with a syringe, a typical Dexter way of subduing his serial killers, and then dragging him away. The scenes were filmed in Brooklyn, yesterday, hence why Jericho was absent from Dynamite.
Production for season two of Dexter: Resurrection started several days ago.
SportsNet TV host Emily Agard announced on her Instagram that he has joined WWE and will be working with NXT as a reporter and announcer.
“Dreams do come true! SO excited and beyond grateful to be joining the @wwe broadcast team,” she wrote along with a photo in front of the huge WWE Championship title at WWE Headquarters in downtown Stamford.
“If you know me, you know this has been a huge goal of mine and an absolute dream. I love wrestling. Cannot wait to dive right in. Let’s get to work,” she continued.
Agard is a huge wrestling fan and in 2023 acted as the social media ambassador for WWE’s Elimination Chamber front Toronto. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Radio and Television Arts from Ryerson University.
Ric Flair has asked fans to “let Ric Flair be Ric Flair” amidst several incorrect statements and retractions over the past several weeks.
Flair has been getting some flack over social media for saying things during interviews and then doing a 180, often offering apologies to those who he targeted.
The latest one was Ludwig Kaiser, who Flair blamed for banning him from attending WrestleMania.
Flair admitted that he has apologized, retracted statements, and made assumptions that are incorrect, but he acknowledges everything that he has said.
“Can we just wake up tomorrow & let Ric Flair be Ric Flair. I am 77 with a heart condition and nothing is ever guaranteed,” Flair wrote on X. “Let’s just all be at peace!”
Flair added that looking at social media, people love to attack celebrities while hiding behind fake names.
“I’m Ric Flair. Take me for who I am. The people who know me know how hard I’ve worked my entire life to achieve my level of success,” he continued. “That is not up for debate. Thank you for everything!”
Admitting he’s always going to be a “cowboy,” the Nature Boy said he wishes he wakes up and opens his social media to only positive comments.
WWE announced the newest rookie class at the WWE Performance Center, consisting of Alyssa Daniele, Garrett Beck, Nicholas Panicali, and Zoe Hines.
Daniele is a fashion model and an avid snowboarder while Beck is a lacrosse player. Panicali, a former volleyball player, is a fitness instructor, while Hines, is a softball player who also happens to be the niece of Robert Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The recruitment of Hines has already raised several eyebrows, with some insiders saying that her hiring was almost a given after she participated in the tryout considering who her uncle is and WWE’s ties to the Trump administration.
The four will be training at the WWE Performance Center for the next several months in hopes of making it on television.
Appearing on Busted Open Radio, TNA President Carlos Silva defended his decision to pull TNA talent from scheduled matches against AEW stars during WrestleMania weekend.
Two big matches pulled were Nic Nemeth vs MJF and Leon Slater vs Ricochet, and Silva was asked what went behind the decision and how hard was it to cancel all the booked plans.
“It was super tough. And look, all these business decisions are tough and I don’t like being called a little bitch on social any more than anyone does,” Silva said, referring to MJF calling him that on X after the matches were canceled.
“You do take the goods with the bads and you got to make some hard decisions. My job sometimes is to make hard decisions. And for the fans and for all of you and for Mike and our locker room, we’re going to make decisions that are good for TNA,” Silva continued, quoting an Under Armour ad which used to say, “You got to protect the house.”
Silva said that he had some “folks” “move into our nights,” talking about Collision moving to Thursdays sometimes and alluded that they’ve been blocked from certain arenas and venues.
“It’s okay because everyone’s got to make the decisions for their business. But we’re also just not going to lie down and not make decisions that are good for our business. And unfortunately, sometimes those decisions are tough and we’re very thoughtful about them and we try to do the best to make good when we have to make those decisions,” he continued.
Silva took full responsibility for the decisions, saying it was him who pulled the plug.
It was also reported that TNA compensated all the talent that were pulled from advertised matches.
Swerve Strickland, who has not appeared on AEW television since the March 25 episode of Dynamite, was part of a vignette on Dynamite last night and looks like to be entering in a feud with Bandido.
The vignette, filmed like it’s in the Wild West, showed a Most Wanted sign featuring Bandido and the camera pans to a bar where people are frantically leaving. One guy flies through the door and then someone walks out to assess the damage. The camera keeps filming from behind and below the waist, until the person stops on a Most Wanted flyer and it’s revealed to be Strickland.
Strickland picks up the poster and Price Nana enters the frame, who hands him a lighter, and Strickland lights it up on fire.
The former AEW World champion was last in the ring against Kenny Omega.
Combo tickets for SummerSlam 2026 went on pre-sale today on Ticketmaster.com using the code ALLWWE.
The two-night event, taking place on Saturday, August 1 and Sunday, August 2 live from the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has half the stadium closed off for now. It’s usually the case for non-WrestleMania stadium shows to have only one side of the stadium open, unless it’s a major surprise success like last year’s Royal Rumble in Indianapolis where the whole stadium ended up being opened.
The cheapest tickets in the 300 level are priced $152.10, those in the 200 level start from $257.90, and 100 level seats start from $390.15. Floor seats start from $681.05 while ringside seats start from $8,268.75. These prices are for both nights and definitely less expensive than previous events.
The U.S. Bank Stadium, the home of the Minnesota Vikings, is a huge property with a capacity of 73,000 seats for a football game.
Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, Trick Williams, Liv Morgan, Seth Rollins, CM Punk, Becky Lynch, Rhea Ripley, Penta, and Oba Femi are on the poster.
WrestleMania 42 Sunday did not chart in the Netflix top 10 global chart but still found itself in the top 10 chart of 24 different countries.
That is down from WrestleMania 42 Saturday, which a day earlier hit the top 10 chart in 33 different countries.
The countries where WrestleMania charted were Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Egypt, Germany, Italy, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Maldives, Malaysia, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.
The 2025 Royal Rumble remains the only WWE premium live event to have cracked the Netflix top 10 global chart without U.S. viewership.
A larger crowd than usual is expected at Dynamite tonight with nearly 4,500 people already having tickets for the show at the Eaglebank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia.
Five matches have already been announced, four of which are for the titles!
Darby Allin vs Brody King for the AEW World title
Kevin Knight vs MJF for the TNT title
Megan Bayne and Lena Kross vs Kris Statlander and Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women’s Tag Team titles
Kazuchika Okada vs Ace Austin for the AEW International title
Adam Copeland and Christian Cage vs. Trent Beretta and Rocky Romero
Plus, AEW is also advertising matches for Rush and the tag team of Jamie Hayter and Alex Windsor.
All this and more tonight live on TBS starting at 8PM ET and streaming also on HBO Max.
The Hulk Hogan: Real American docuseries on Netflix made its debut in the #5 spot on the top 10 global chart with 3,000,000 global views and 12,300,000 viewing hours.
The docuseries has four episodes in total, The Rise which is 45 minutes, Hulkmania which is 56 minutes, Hollywood Hogan which is 1 hour and 6 minutes, and Hulk vs Terry which is 1 hour and 17 minutes.
It charted in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. It’s interesting to note that countries such as Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden never chart for Raw.
Kairi Sane broke her silence on social media, commenting for the first time since her WWE release this past Friday.
There has been a lot of speculation regarding her departure, speculation that Sane also admitted to. One particular industry insider suggested that it was Sane who showed interest in returning to Japan and actually wanted to go back home.
“What I can say is I know there’s been a lot of speculation, but I truly love this work, my teammates, and my fans,” Sane wrote in a post on X. “I’ve never walked away, and I’ve given my all in everything I do.”
When Sane decided to leave WWE several years ago, it was her decision to go back home to be with her family.
The Pirate Princess has been on WWE television weekly in an angle with Asuka which made her release even more baffling than the others.
The Raw After Mania got the best viewership of 2026 so far on Netflix, getting a total of 3,300,000 global views, up 400,000 from the prior week. This was the best viewing since last year’s Raw After Mania which drew 3,600,000 viewers.
The show placed #4 on the Netflix top 10 global chart with 6,600,000 viewing hours, up by 1 million viewing hours from last week, for an episode edited to 1 hour and 59 minutes.
Raw placed in the top 10 in 22 different countries for the week, charting in Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, and United States.
Apart from their agreement with ESPN, The CW today also announced a partnership with The Roku Channel, where next-day streaming of CW shows will be made available for those who have Roku devices.
New episodes of WWE NXT will be made available to stream on The Roku Channel every Wednesday following its live Tuesday night broadcast on The CW, and now also on the ESPN Unlimited app.
“Partnering with Roku supercharges the reach and accessibility of The CW’s premium entertainment content,” said Brad Schwartz, President, The CW Network. “By combining The Roku Channel’s expansive audience with The CW’s nationwide linear footprint, we’re bringing together the best of broadcast with the best of streaming to unlock unprecedented scale for our content, our audience, and our advertisers.”
In addition to the fresh next-day premium broadcast content, The CW hub on The Roku Channel will also feature over 800 hours of CW library content. This agreement will kick in come Fall 2026.
AJ Lee wrote a thank you post on Instagram and ended with “see you soon,” although it’s not clear if that means back in a WWE ring or not.
Lee thanked Becky Lynch for being selfless, hilarious, and pure joy to spar with as well as referee Jessika Carr for being a partner in their matches and always calming her anxiety.
Lee also thanked Lyra Valkyria, Roxanne Perez, and Bayley, mentioning them by their real names of Aoife, Carla, and Pam.
“I’m so proud to be a teeny part of your journey. You’re way cooler and more talented than I ever was. But I still have to kick your asses one day,” she said referring to Perez and Valkyria.
“Pam, you’re the undisputed GOAT. Thank you for going out of your way to help me train, to make every show so f’ing fun, and for healing my jaded heart,” Lee said when addressing Bayley.
“To all the women in the locker room, I admire and respect you so damn much. You are my wildest dreams for women’s wrestling come true. Thank you for making me feel so welcome and supported and dealing with my obnoxiously loud laugh,” she continued.
Lee also thanked her fans, saying that her Mania entrance was a love letter to them and to every girl who one day will become their own superhero.
“Thank you for supporting me for two decades, selling out my merchandise, giving me record-setting views, and making Converse a small fortune with your AJ cosplay. Your passion kept me coming back. Stay weird, see you soon,” she concluded.
Collision on Saturday drew 397,000 viewers, down 76,000 viewers from the prior episode which aired on a Thursday. The show went head-to-head with NBA and NHL playoffs which left a dent in the viewership. Collision had a 0.05 rating in 18-49, down 0.03 from the prior week. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
ESPN today announced it is teaming up with The CW Network to make the ESPN App the exclusive streaming home for all CW Sports live events.
With this new agreement, fans who subscribe to or get the ESPN Unlimited plan will be able to see all the CW sports events, including WWE NXT.
The shows will be simulcast on both The CW and the ESPN app, so in this case, NXT remains free, and the service is expected to launch in Summer 2026.
“Joining forces with ESPN is a monumental next step in the evolution of CW Sports,” said Brad Schwartz, President, The CW Network. “The CW now offers more than 800 hours of premium live sports per year. This agreement extends the reach of CW Sports and enables us to capture audiences across the best of broadcast and the best of streaming, ensuring fans can access live CW Sports wherever they are and on whatever device they prefer. This new partnership will allow us to connect seamlessly with our audiences everywhere—from football and basketball to motorsports, professional wrestling, bowling, bull riding, and much more to come as CW Sports continues its exciting march forward.”
WWE and The CW yesterday announced that The CW is now the home of all NXT premium live events starting with The Great American Bash and will run 20 NXT PLEs over the next several years which will be live and free over-the-air.
The partnership means that ESPN Unlimited subscribers will also get NXT and NXT PLEs in addition to the WWE PLEs as part of their subscription.
The Smackdown After Mania drew 1,267,000 viewers, down 313,000 from last week’s 2026 record high. The show faced stiff competition from the NFL Draft, NBA, and NHL playoffs. The show had a 0.32 rating in 18-49, down 0.10 from the previous week and was #2 on the top 50 cable chart for the night and #3 in all of television behind NFL. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Shawn Michaels, Matt Bloom, and Robert Stone promised some fresh faces on NXT last night and by the time the show was over, six were prominently featured.
“Mr. England” Tristan Angels was the first one to show up, interrupting Myles Borne. He has been doing NXT non-televised live events and also appeared on WWE EVOLVE last month. He is part of the third season of WWE LFG.
Kam Hendrix also made his debut in the same segment. Hendrix is Anthony Luke and was part of the first two seasons of LFG under his real name and is part of the third season under his current name. He is the husband of WWE Superstar Maxxine Dupri.
Will Kroos showed up and delivered a top rope moonsault on Tony D’Angelo after he was attacked by the returning Tavion Heights. The 29-year-old Brit is a former Progress Atlas Champion with PROGRESS Wrestling. He has been wrestling lately for Pro Wrestling NOAH in Japan.
Tate Wilder saved Sean Legacy and EK Prosper from an attack by Birthright. Wilder has been wrestling on EVOLVE and also doing non-televised NXT live events. He is also part of season three of WWE LFG. He previously appeared on the first season of WWE LFG in a match under his name Case Hatch.
Lizzy Rain, who impressed with her finisher, made her NXT debut as well. Formerly known as Rayne Leverkusen, the third British star who debuted on NXT this week, signed with WWE recently and was the MVP of the WWE tryouts at SummerSlam last year.
All these are in addition to EVIL, who also made his debut by confronting NXT champion Tony D’Angelo.
These changes were necessary after several NXT stars were called up to the main roster following WrestleMania 42.
Former IWGP Heavyweight champion EVIL made his WWE debut yesterday on NXT, confronting NXT champion Tony D’Angelo.
D’Angelo, who received a box last week with a Japanese symbol on it, quickly found out who was the sender, as during his in-ring segment, he was interrupted by a person wearing a hooded jacket.
The champ was handed a rolled-up banner with the same symbol from the box and the hooded man then unveiled himself as EVIL.
“Holy hell, Booker! The rumors are true. That is the former IWGP Heavyweight champion,” Vic Joseph said on commentary.
EVIL was not referred to by his New Japan Pro-Wrestling name but several “evil” references were made, including WWE’s YouTube clip which referred to him as Tony D’Angelo’s “evil new challenger.”
Former WWE Superstar Dakota Kai sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Las Vegas to discuss being released from WWE, her first match in over a year against Kris Statlander at Pro Wrestling EVE in London, being a part of the Damage CTRL faction with IYO SKY and Bayley, Wrestling Trish Stratus, Lita and Becky Lynch at WrestleMania, training with Stephanie McMahon for her match with Ronda Rousey, what’s next for her in wrestling, dream opponents, and more!
You just had your first match in a year last month. How are you feeling about that?
“I took almost a year off. I don’t know, I think after leaving WWE, I didn’t want to necessarily rush back into anything. I wanted to get back into wrestling on my terms and just find that passion and that love for it and just do it for fun. Basically, I wanted to do it for fun, and it was just a matter of the perfect time. Then when Will Ospreay hit me up. He’s basically like, we’d love to have you on the show, here’s what it is. When I found out I’m wrestling Kris Statlander I’m like, oh my god, perfect. She’s been on my bucket list for years, literal years. So it just worked out. It was weird, because during that time off, the longer I was away from wrestling, which was needed for me, personally, just mentally and emotionally, it was like the thought of wrestling again was looming over me. I have very severe performance anxiety, so the longer I was away, the more anxious I got about it. But then she made it so easy, she’s the best.”
Did you have an idea of how long you wanted to be away, because it was almost a year from your last match in WWE to your first indie match?
“There was no real time limit of I want to be away for this amount. It was just more of a feeling, I guess. As soon as the opportunity came up that it was going to be there at that show on the big Wrestle Queendom show against Kris, I was like, Ah, this was meant to be. Yeah, it was cool. I mean, I just really needed to take a step back for me in terms of just finding the passion and the love for it again. I didn’t mean for it to be a year. I know everyone was like, ‘Why did you take a year off?’ I’m like, I didn’t mean to, and for that to be that amount of time, I just kind of took the time I needed. Then when the opportunity came up to be against Kris, it was perfect.”
Are you looking at some point to maybe get signed somewhere again?
“If that happens and everything works out that would be awesome. But I think at the moment my path right now is just indie bookings here and there, just have fun and wrestle.”
I feel like you’d be a great fit in AEW or TNA. Have you had conversations?
“Not necessarily on that level. Yeah, nothing too crazy. But also, I took the time off. So I think getting back into it, they might happen, who knows. But at the moment, I just want to, like, focus on me and just, do you know, fun matches and shows here and there. Yeah, have fun with it.”
Do you have any dream opponents on the indies?
“I have dream opponents, just in general. I would love to wrestle Willow Nightingale. I know she’s all over the place right now, but there’s a bunch. Obviously, I’d love to run it back with Shotzi too. And there’s a lot of newer girls coming up too, that I just want to be able to wrestle and, not show them the ropes, but help them get to a point where they can have more matches and things like that. So, yeah, I don’t know, it’s so weird. I’ve got a list on my notes app of girlies I want to wrestle. Steph DeLander, another one that I’d love to wrestle again. We kind of had some matches in NXT, but not many. But I would love a singles match with her too, because she’s another one that’s insanely strong and just, I love being able to be rag-dolled around, kind of my thing. But yeah, I don’t know, just having fun with my opponents and just looking at that perspective.”
Stephanie McMahon had some very nice things to say about you on her podcast. Recently, she talked about how you helped her prepare for her WrestleMania 34 match against Ronda Rousey.
“Yeah, that’s so weird. I mean, she’s the sweetest person in the world and always said hello to me, but the fact that she remembers that is insane to me. Because I don’t know, again, I don’t look at myself in that light, you know what I mean? But she’s honestly one of the most sweetest people ever, and I was just grateful to be able to be in the ring with [her], training with her and Ronda and Kurt and Hunter as well. She got to DDT me. I was like, yes! Beat me up, Stephanie. This is so freaking cool. But she’s the nicest person. I think that was our first ever time meeting. Every time after that, backstage or wherever, she would always make a point to come up to me and be like, ‘Dakota!’ I’m like, Oh my God, you know me.”
How did you get chosen for this?
“I think I just got told. I think coach Sarah just pulled me aside one day and was like, hey, you’re going to be flown up to Connecticut to train with Ronda. It was very hush-hush, obviously, because it was their first match. So yeah, just kind of got told that I was getting flown up there to train with them. So that was cool.”
