Even before the first episode of the second half of season one airs tonight, Deadline.com is reporting that USA Network has picked up Miz & Mrs for season two, set to premiere in 2020 with another 20-episode order. The second half of season one will consist of 14 more episodes in addition to the six already aired.
Miz & Mrs was the network’s top unscripted launch in more than seven years so it’s not a complete surprise that USA Network opted to renew it. With the network losing Smackdown come October, it made sense for a renewal and keep another wrestling hit on their network.
Gil Goldschein, Farnaz Farjam-Chazan and Russell Jay will serve as executive producers for Bunim/Murray Productions, and Kevin Dunn serves as executive producer for WWE. The Miz and Maryse are also executive producers.
Perhaps because it’s WrestleMania week, Apple’s iTunes has a few WWE Studios movies on sale this week starting today.
Legendary featuring John Cena, The Chaperone with Triple H, Bending The Rules with Edge, Knucklehead with The Big Show, The Reunion with John Cena, and Inside Out with Triple H are all on sale for just $4.99. The classic No Holds Barred movie featuring Hulk Hogan and Zeus is also up for sale for just $4.99.
All movies are in HD and not 4K and are available now through iTunes on desktop, iOS or Apple TV.
Season one of Miz & Mrs resumes on USA Network tonight starting at 10PM immediately following Smackdown. This will be episode seven of the series, titled Baby’s First SummerSlam.
The small synopsis for tonight’s broadcast reads, “Mike and Maryse take Monroe to Summerslam and Mike gets an embarrassing tan.”
USA Network picked up the reality TV show for a continuation of season one in February. Miz & Mrs was a ratings hit for USA Network with the show averaging 1,260,000 viewers over its initial six-episode run, beating out Total Divas and Total Bellas in terms of viewership by quite a distance.
WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle has been added to the star-studded Starrcast II event which will take place during the AEW Double or Nothing weekend in Las Vegas.
Angle is the latest name announced for the show and he joins the likes of The Undertaker, Ric Flair, Sting, Bret Hart, Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, Lita, Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and dozens and dozens of other current and former wrestling stars.
The announcement was made today by AEW Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes in a post on Twitter. “It’s true. it’s damn true. Kurt Angle is coming to Starrcast II,” the tweet said.
Angle will be wrestling his last match for WWE at WrestleMania this Sunday against Baron Corbin.
Starrcast II takes place between May 23 and 26 at Caesars Palace and Tuscany Suites & Casino.
This year’s WrestleMania is the first WrestleMania since WrestleMania 16 which does not have an officially-advertised match for The Undertaker.
Last year, The Undertaker did not even appear once for his build-up against John Cena and while Cena called out Taker every week, Taker was nowhere to be seen. The match was teased up until during the show and eventually it did happen although it was a very quick one.
However, this year, Taker’s name was not even brought up once during the build for WrestleMania 35 and it remains unclear if he will even make an appearance. It was in 2000 that Taker last missed a WrestleMania and that was due to an injury.
The Undertaker holds the record for the most WrestleMania appearances and wins, with a record of 24-2, with the two losses coming against Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns.
2K announced that the WWE 2K19 Million Dollar Challenge will take place during WrestleMania week, with four finalists from around the world competing to earn an opportunity to wrestle for $1 million.
Kofi Kingston and Big E, Paige, Ember Moon, and The Miz will serve as the four coaches for the four competitors with the winner taking on AJ Styles in the final. If they manage to beat Styles in a one-on-one match in WWE 2K19, they will win $1 million.
The four finalists are Gregory Davis from Jacksonville, Florida, Stephan T. Benson from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, David Hoey from Sydney, Australia, and Roman Droßard from Pfalzfeld, Germany.
All WWE 2K19 Million Dollar Challenge activities will be hosted throughout the day on Friday at WrestleMania Axxess with the semifinals taking place on Saturday at 1PM.
The final against AJ Styles will take place during the NXT Takeover: New York pre-show at 6:30PM ET and will air live on FOX Sports digital platforms, including FOXSports.com, FOX Sports App, Caffeine TV, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, WWE Network and WWE on YouTube, WWE 2K on Facebook and Twitter, and on-demand on USANetwork.com.
“As WrestleMania approaches, we can’t wait to watch our four finalists compete – with the help of their WWE coaches – for incredible bragging rights and a potential match against AJ Styles on a massive worldwide stage,” said Chris Snyder, Vice President of Marketing for 2K. “The WWE 2K19 Million Dollar Challenge is sure to deliver an authentic and action-packed experience; get ready for the ultimate showdown in person or through our offerings with Fox Sports, NBCUniversal, WWE and 2K-owned channels!”
Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, and Becky Lynch brought back some Attitude Era memories with a memorable backstage brawl that saw the three women fighting each other in handcuffs, attacking police officers, smashing police cars, smashing car widows, and everything in between!
The three history-making Superstars had a six-woman tag team match where they were not allowed to betray each other otherwise they would lose their spot at WrestleMania. But as soon as Ronda Rousey made Liv Morgan tap out, all hell broke lose.
Ronda attacked Charlotte after the bell rang, and then Becky joined the fray. All three beat up the security guards and eventually police officers entered the picture. First Ronda was handcuffed and Becky attacked her, leading her to get cuffed as well. Then Flair, who was outside the ring, attacked Rousey and police handcuffed Flair as well. The three were escorted backstage as they still tried to tackle the multiple police officers.
Once they reached backstage, it got even worse! Rousey and Lynch were thrown in the same police car and the two started kicking each other before Rousey smashed the window. Lynch got taken out of the car and then as she was going to be thrown in the other car with Flair, Flair exited the vehicle and attacked Lynch again. That prompted Rousey to somehow get in the front of her squad car, and drive the car into the other car while still in the cuffs!
Chaos continued as police officers put Ronda in the back seat again but the Raw Women’s champion continued to run her mouth through the busted window, and Charlotte threw a sick knee to Ronda’s face as Ronda wobbled back to her seat.
It was an incredible brawl and you can see it below.
Stephanie McMahon announced that at WrestleMania, both the Raw and Smackdown Women’s titles will be on the line in a winner take all match.
That means that whoever gets the pin or submission will walk out of the MetLife Stadium with both titles, guaranteeing at least one title change. It was not mentioned that the titles will be unified so at least for now, these will remain separate titles.
To start off the show, McMahon said that the WrestleMania main event will be even bigger when she adds a fourth competitor to the match…herself! That got a lot of boos from the crowd but Steph quickly told them it’s April’s Fools Day!
Speaking of boos, both the mentions of Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair got showered with boos while when Steph mentioned Becky Lynch, the crowd erupted.
WWE has responded to John Oliver’s 23-minute rant from his Last Week Tonight show on HBO and invited the 41-year-old British comedian to WrestleMania to “learn more” about the company.
In a statement to the press regarding the segment that aired yesterday, WWE said, “John Oliver is clearly a clever and humorous entertainer. However, the subject matter covered in his WWE segment is no laughing matter. Prior to airing, WWE responded to his producers refuting every point in his one-sided presentation. John Oliver simply ignored the facts.”
The statement continued, “The health and wellness of our performers is the single most important aspect of our business, and we have a comprehensive, longstanding Talent Wellness program. We invite John Oliver to attend WrestleMania this Sunday to learn more about our company.”
CM Punk, whose audio clip was also featured on the show when Oliver was discussing how WWE treats its employees, tweeted “I love you” after he encouraged fans to retweet @LastWeekTonight, @IamJohnOliver and the clip.
Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake was announced as the last member of the 2019 WWE Hall of Fame today.
The 61-year-old Florida native made his wrestling debut in 1977 and was one of the most popular wrestlers in the WWE in the late 80s and early 90s.
Beefcake, real name Ed Leslie, started his wrestling career with Hulk Hogan, with the two teaming up together throughout the years before moving their separate ways. In 1984, Beefcake joined the WWF as a heel and was managed by Johnny Valiant. He was soon paired up with Greg Valentine and assumed the name of The Dream Team, winning the WWF Tag Team titles and defended them for eight months.
In 1987, Beefcake went solo after The Dream Team broke up at WrestleMania III and after Roddy Piper defeated Adrian Adonis, he came out to shave his head. Brutus went on to have feuds with Honky Tonk Man, Ron Bass, Randy Savage, and many others before in 1989 he found himself in the main event of SummerSlam with Hulk Hogan taking on Macho Man and Zeus.
In 1990, Beefcake suffered a serious parasailing accident where he broke his face, requiring over 100 metal plates to piece it back together. He was out of action for two years until he returned as the host of The Barber Shop, the segment mostly known for Shawn Michaels super kicking Marty Jannetty and throwing him through the glass window.
In 1993, Beefcake teamed up with Hulk Hogan again as the two feuded with Money Inc, the team of Ted DiBiase and IRS. They had a match at WrestleMania IX for the titles but lost via DQ. It was his final wrestling match on WWE television and later that year, Beefcake left WWE to join WCW.
In WCW, Beefcake wrestled under quite a few different names including Brother Bruti, The Butcher, The Man with No Name, The Zodiac, The Booty Man, and The Disciple…all in the span of five years. He was mainly in mid-card territory in WCW except for one WCW title match against Hogan at Starrcade.
Beefcake had a big fallout with Hulk Hogan over the past few years over a book where he said he was going to expose Hogan. Eventually, the two hashed it out and are now back as friends, with Brutus appearing regularly at Hogan’s Beach Shop in Clearwater for pictures and autographs.
Stephanie McMahon will be appearing on Monday Night Raw tonight to make an announcement regarding the main event of WrestleMania 35.
The expected announcement is rumored to be that the triple threat match will have both titles up for grabs depending who pins who. The idea seems to be that if whoever takes down Charlotte, they will win the Smackdown Women’s title while whoever beats Rousey in the match gets the Raw Women’s title. If Becky ends up doing the job, then everything stays the same and if Becky defeats either Rousey or Charlotte, she will only get the title of whoever she beats. If Rousey or Flair defeat each other, they get to be double champions.
There’s also another rumor floating around that it might be a title unification match where whoever wins will get both the Raw and Smackdown Women’s titles.
WWE got ripped to pieces by John Oliver in a 23-minute rant during yesterday’s Last Week Tonight on HBO.
The first three minutes of the rant were positive, where Oliver even proclaims that he’s a big wrestling fan, but the 20 minutes that followed were…not very flattering for WWE.
Oliver touched subjects such as deaths in professional wrestling and how former WWE Superstars die at a young age, the whole independent contractor status that WWE puts on all their performers even though in reality they are full-time employees, how they take care of their Superstars, and more. The video already has over 1.1 million views on YouTube.
This is not the first time that Oliver picked on WWE. Late last year, Oliver blasted WWE for going to Saudi Arabia for Crown Jewel just weeks after Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
Tonight’s Monday Night Raw is going to be a packed show as the final build towards WrestleMania from the red brand continues in Washington, D.C.
Four matches have already been announced for tonight’s broadcast including a title match. The Revival will be defending the titles against Ricochet and Aleister Black and the NXT duo can go into NXT Takeover: New York as the Raw Tag Team champions while they also wrestle for the NXT Tag Team titles that night.
The competitors of the Women’s Tag Team title match at WrestleMania team up tonight as well with Sasha Banks, Bayley, Natalya, and Beth Phoenix take on Nia Jax, Tamina, Peyton Royce, and Billie Kay.
A six-women tag match is also set with Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair, and Becky Lynch taking on The Riott Squad with the stipulation being that if Rousey, Flair, or Lynch betray their team, they will be taken out of the WrestleMania main event.
The Kurt Angle farewell tour continues with Angle taking on Smackdown’s Rey Mysterio while Brock Lesnar and Batista will also be on the show for the final Mania push.
A contract signing segment for the WWE title will headline Smackdown this coming Tuesday, live from the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.
Contract signings typically always end up in chaos and probably the one on Tuesday will be no different. Kofi Kingston wrote on Twitter, “Since a certain someone has made it impossible to trust him at his word, I’m gonna need to see something in writing. No more games.” He is obviously referring to Vince McMahon and the many obstacles he put in Kofi’s road to WrestleMania over the past few weeks on the show.
If Kofi manages to win the title at WrestleMania, he will be the only second black WWE champion after The Rock, and the first African WWE champion. Kofi was originally born in Kumasi, Ghana.
Ronda Rousey became the longest-reigning Raw Women’s champion this weekend, with 224 consecutive days and counting.
Rousey, who won the title at SummerSlam, beat Alexa Bliss’ record which was at 223 days during her second stint with the title. Bliss’ record went from August to April while Rousey looks like it will have the same path, but just a bit longer.
There have been 14 reigns with the Raw Women’s title with six different champions – Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Alexa Bliss, Nia Jax, and Ronda Rousey.
Both Charlotte Flair and Sasha Banks held the title on four different occasions and the two traded the belt to each other for the first seven reigns.
While Rousey holds the record for the longest reign, she’s not in the #1 spot when it comes to combined reigns. Alexa Bliss holds that record with 396 days over three reigns and Charlotte Flair is second with 242 days over four reigns.
Shane McMahon will be appearing on tonight’s episode of the popular NCIS: Los Angeles television show on CBS.
McMahon will be playing the role of Agent Evans and is seen in the preview sharing the screen with Daniela Ruah, who plays the role of NCIS Special Agent Kensi Blye.
In a behind-the-scenes clip, Ruah said that Shane didn’t require a stunt double considering what he does every day and called him fearless. Kyle Harimoto, the NCIS: LA co-executive producer and writer added that Shane brought some authenticity with him as he works very hard in his day job and transferred that work ethic to filming. LL Cool J, who recorded the opening of WrestleMania 31, continued saying that they knew Shane can handle it in the ring so they thought it would be cool to get him on the show.
McMahon concluded saying that he would love to return to NCIS: Los Angeles as Agent Evans. You can see the preview below.
In an interview with Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, Sasha Banks detailed the great lengths she and Bayley went to get the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles created. Their secret? Constantly annoying the boss, Vince McMahon.
“It felt like the whole of last year we were asking, like we would be knocking on the door of Vince’s office every week,” she told Sky Sports.
Banks said that Vince changed his mind very often, with sometimes turning down the idea quick, and sometimes telling them yes, until one fine day the titles were actually there.
“So that just proves that you should never give up on your dreams. If you’re annoying enough you can make things happen and that’s probably what happened, he just got annoyed with us. I hope he understands how important this is to us and we’re going to make it really special,” Banks continued.
The multi-time Raw Women’s champion said that Vince is like that every week as in you never know in what mood he will be in and all you have to do is keep on trying and trying.
Batista will be appearing on the WrestleMania go-home episode of Monday Night Raw which takes place from his hometown of Washington, D.C.
Last week, the former World Heavyweight champion requested that Triple H puts his career on the line in their no holds barred match at WrestleMania and Triple H accepted. HHH has never defeated Batista in a one-on-one match and the Hollywood actor already has a win over Triple H on the biggest stage of them all which came at WrestleMania 21.
The last Raw before WrestleMania will be action-packed as WWE ties up all the loose ends before the big show.
Former Smackdown Tag Team title holder Luke Harper will be returning to the ring next week at the Worlds Collide special at Axxess, his first match since September 2018.
In a post on Twitter, the 39-year-old Harper wrote that he’s been cleared since February 6 but was not brought to any television tapings. He commented about the several highs he had over the past years and said “full circle” when mentioning that on Thursday, he will be wrestling Donovan Dijak at Axxess.
He said that to many, this is just a throwaway math, but for him, it is much more than that. “This is test. No one has to be happy with the results except me. That’s the true test. Do I still have it? Can I compete with a young, up and coming, incredibly talented, NXT prospect? Am I too old,” he wrote.
Harper added that he still has a lot to offer to this industry and believes he will be champion one day. “I have so much to prove to myself, to WWE, to the industry of professional wrestling, to my wife and it is my responsibility to show my kids how to handle adversity.”
Linda McMahon’s departure from the Small Business Administration was made official yesterday by President Donald Trump, but McMahon’s journey with Trump is not over. Far from it.
McMahon will be the chair of the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action to help him get re-elected in 2020. Calling her a “superstar,” Trump said, “The fact is that I’ve known her for a long time. I knew she was good but I didn’t know she was that good. She has been one of our all-time favorites.” Trump made these comments to the press as he sat alongside McMahon from Mar-a-Lago in Florida according to CNN.
“She’ll be leaving. She’s going to go help us with a very, very important year and a half we have coming up,” he said. “The re-election as they call it.” Her last day as the Administrator of the SBA is April 12.
Linda is one of the highest-ranking women in government and forms part of Trump’s cabinet. She is one of the few cabinet members who largely stayed out of the limelight and scandals and sources say that the President loves working with her. Due to her close relationship with Trump, she was chosen to take the senior role at America First, helping with fundraising efforts.
