Impact Wrestling finally launched a brand new website to replace their old, dated website that was rarely updated.
The blue, black, and green-themed website features five main sections – roster, live events, latest videos, news, and an online shop. The website is also customizable if you create an account, allowing you to choose your interests, save your history, reading lists, and track comments and replies you get.
You can visit at impactwrestling.com.
Former WWE Tag Team title holder Xavier Woods co-hosted the 2017 Gaming Awards last night in Austin, Texas along with popular gaming broadcaster OMGitsfirefoxx.
The Awards show, held at the Hilton Hotel, was part of the SXSW weekend and that was the reason why Woods did not appear at the WWE non-televised live event in Allentown, Pennsylvania yesterday. There were some rumors online that Woods was facing disciplinary actions over the leaked sex tape involving Paige, former star Brad Maddox, and himself, but these rumors were completely false.
Despite the leaks, Woods seemed to be in high spirits during the show and as the two hosts were telling viewers to sit back and enjoy the show, Woods also told them to “delete their Twitter,” a line which got a few laughs from the crowd who seemed to know what was going on. The line was probably a dig at Maddox, who deleted his Twitter account and gave up his ‘BradMaddoxisWWE’ Twitter name after the videos were leaked.
Reby Hardy, the wife of Matt Hardy, continued her trashing of Impact Wrestling on Twitter although now it seems that they have legal counsel and wrote that there will be someone else speaking on their behalf about the whole situation from now on and it won’t be on Twitter.
Reby said that their son Maxel was never “legally cleared to work/appear on camera” although Dixie Carter and Universal made their utmost to keep him 100% safe. She also said that they had no choice given the circumstances to use Maxel on the show. And as far as her father goes, who portrays Señor Benjamin, she said he never signed a piece of paper giving TNA rights to use, broadcast or profit from his image or likeness.
She added that the new management wanted a cut from their personally-run Hardy store, a store that Reby has been running for over 5 years by herself with her own designs. She also said that the theme song that they used for the Broken characters was composed and recorded by herself and TNA were allowed to use it for free when they ran against licensing issues with other music, and now they are claiming that they own that music too.
The group of hackers behind the Paige leaks over at 4Chan have posted a photo, censored for now, of former WWE Diva Kaitlyn, who is nude and taking a picture in front of a mirror.
4chan is an image-based bulletin board that had its fair share of legal trouble over the years due to the questionable content that users – and hackers – post when it comes to celebrities.
Kaitlyn – real name Celeste Bonin – wrestled for the WWE between 2010 and 2014, winning the NXT Season 3 and the Divas title once. When she left in 2014, she focused on her leggings business which is titled Celestial Bodiez, and got married to bodybuilder PJ Braun. Last month she announced that she’s splitting from her husband after three years of marriage.
Last year she posed nude for Bodybuilding.com’s Bodies of Work Volume 4 although all her private parts were artistically hidden.
UPDATE: Over a dozen nude Kaitlyn photos leaked
There are only 161 tickets remaining officially for WrestleMania 33 on Ticketmaster.com.
The prices for these tickets range from $160 all the way up to $3,075 for platinum seats which are in 11th row. Additional seats are likely to be added once production is exactly figured out over the next several days.
The stadium is configured to hold around 60,000 fans as seating capacity was reduced following the multi-million dollar renovation the stadium underwent. Temporary bleachers can be added in the Plaza level in place of the Party Deck to increase the capacity by another 5,000 seats.
For WrestleMania 24, WWE had an announced attendance of 74,635 fans, although that number is, like all other WrestleMania attendance numbers, inflated.
John “Bradshaw” Layfield and Ron Simmons will be inducting Teddy Long into the WWE Hall of Fame in a few weeks time.
The duo, who formed the APA tag team in the WWE, have a long history with the ex referee and Smackdown General Manager, being travel buddies along with The Godfather during their time in WWE.
For Simmons, his relationship with Teddy Long goes even way back to the WCW days. Long was the manager of Ron Simmons and Butch Reed, who together were known as Doom. Long also managed Simmons occasionally after he won the WCW title from Vader in 1992.
Saraya Knight, the mother of former WWE Divas champion Paige, commented publicly about the leak of her daughter’s private photos and videos.
“People get hacked, unfortunately my daughter had pics and video shared from years ago, my husband and I support her 100% no fault of her own,” she wrote on Twitter last night.
Apart from Paige, she is the only one who has so far spoke about the hack. Alberto El Patron, Paige’s boyfriend, didn’t say anything yet and neither did Brad Maddox and Xavier Woods. WWE also has remained silent so far about the whole ordeal.
There are rumors that leaks of at least two more WWE Superstars will be released this weekend and certain screenshots have already been made available of an Alexa Bliss sex tape. Bliss is currently the WWE Smackdown Women’s champion.
The big leak of photos and videos of WWE Superstar Paige rocked the Internet Wrestling Community yesterday, with x-rated material that looks like it was done during her NXT days. A new picture that emerged last night clearly shows Paige holding the NXT Women’s title that was part of an act. The Paige leak also indirectly exposed former WWE Superstar Brad Maddox and current New Day member Xavier Woods, both of who were part of the Paige sex adventures.
Apart from the short statement Paige released on Twitter yesterday, she also posted a music video of the song Human by Rag’N’Bone which contains the lyrics, “But I’m only human after all, don’t put your blame on me.”
With the photos and videos came the unavoidable memes and jokes from wrestling fans who saw the funny side of the story. A photo of Brad Maddox being the next inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame is going around online and one user commented that it was “good to see that Xavier Woods and Brad Maddox were on the same Paige!”
Impact Wrestling did 344,000 viewers this week, a good increase of 52,000 viewers from last week’s episode. This was the best number of 2017 so far. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
WWE announced today that platinum-selling singer, songwriter, producer and entertainer Tinashe will perform America the Beautiful to start WrestleMania 33.
“I’m excited to perform America the Beautiful at this year’s WrestleMania,” Tinashe said. “Being part of WWE’s biggest event of the year is an honor, and I look forward to seeing everyone in Orlando.”
“Tinashe joins the likes of renowned artists Ray Charles, John Legend, Aretha Franklin, Nicole Scherzinger, and most recently Fifth Harmony, who have opened WWE’s annual pop-culture extravaganza,” said Neil Lawi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, WWE Music Group. “Tinashe will continue this great tradition and we look forward to her performance at this year’s WrestleMania.”
A ton of other photos and videos of Paige in compromising positions were published after the initial batch, with the former Divas champion now in serious jeopardy of losing her job.
All the photos and videos were put online on the WrestleWithThePlot Reddit forum, and one video in particular shows Paige having sex with The New Day member Xavier Woods while former WWE Superstar Brad Maddox films the whole thing. This video generated a lot of memes and funny comments regarding the content and Woods’ YouTube video game channel aptly named Up Up Down Down.
Paige, on her Twitter, issued a small statement regarding the adult content. “Personal and private photos of mine were stolen and unfortunately they were shared publicly without my consent,” she wrote. None of the others involved in the videos have so far commented publicly.
Former WWE Divas champion Paige can’t seem to catch a break as after two consecutive Wellness Program suspensions and neck surgery, she has another problem to deal with: someone leaked her nude photos.
Two photos have so far been published by the popular @WWEPPorn Twitter account, which boasts 180,000 followers.
The first photo shows – allegedly – Paige with her butt towards the camera and with no underwear wearing only a title around her waist. We say allegedly because you cannot see the face in the photo. In the picture it’s not clear if it’s the NXT Women’s title or the Divas title. The second photo has Paige taking a photo in a bathroom facing a mirror exposing one of her breasts and doing the “duck face.”
We cannot independently confirm the authenticity of these photos.
The timing of these photos are not the best considering WWE is teaming up with Dwayne Johnson’s production studio to film Fighting With My Family, a movie based on her family.
The The Latin American Xchange faction, or better known as LAX, returned to Impact last night with their manager Konnan and attacked Decay.
Konnan put Impact on notice as he said LAX is back and they’re “serious as a late period!”
The group has not been on TNA television since 2010 and this time around LAX consists of Homicide, Angel Ortiz, Mike Draztik, Santana and Angel Rose. Previous members of the group include Apolo, Machete, Hector Guerrero, Salinas, and Chavo Guerrero Jr. The group was originally formed in 2005 with Konnan, Apolo and Homicide.
Their arrival is part of the new direction under the new regime running Impact Wrestling, headed by Ed Nordholm and Jeff Jarrett.
Smackdown drew 2,628,000 viewers this week, down 110,000 viewers from last week’s show. It was good enough for the #2 spot on the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced on his Instagram today that he will be hosting the season 42 finale of Saturday Night Live on May 20.
“I started my career 20 years ago in NYC and from that very first night, the city embraced me as a son. This SNL is special. I’m coming home to make history and have a KILLER show with the brilliant SNL cast and production team,” Johnson wrote. Joining The Rock will be Jimmy Fallon, Melissa McCarthy, and Chris Pine.
This will be Johnson’s fifth time hosting SNL and he is the second WWE Superstar to host SNL this season, following John Cena in December. He previously hosted episode 15 of season 25 in 2000, episode 17 of season 27 in 2002, episode 17 of season 35 in 2009, and episode 16 of season 40 in 2015, just a day before WrestleMania 31.
Monday Night Raw this week drew a total of 3,232,000 viewers, an increase of just 16,000 viewers from last week’s episode.
Hour one started with 3,176,000 viewers, followed by 3,323,000 in the second hour, and then 3,197,000 viewers in the third and final hour.
The number was good enough for Raw to be #2, #3, and #4 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
16-time World champion John Cena will be inducting Kurt Angle into the WWE Hall of Fame in two weeks time. Cena was on the shortlist for Kurt Angle, along with Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Undertaker.
Last month, Angle described Cena as the greatest of all time in an interview and now he will be doing the honors for the Olympic gold medalist.
Cena’s first match on WWE television was against Kurt Angle, when Cena answered Angle’s open challenge to kick start the Ruthless Aggression era. Angle came out victorious that day although Cena came very close to a victory.
Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat is the only other person announced so far for the ceremony and he will be inducting “Ravishing” Rick Rude.
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer is reporting that Io Shirai, one of the most gifted women wrestlers in the world today, is currently in Orlando at the WWE Performance Center having a tryout.
Meltzer says that this tryout is different in the way that she’s not part of a class that do the routine workouts in hopes to impress the coaches and land a deal, but rather it was her invitation to come over and check out the place, see the area and how things work and hopefully sign a WWE deal.
The 26-year-old Japanese sensation currently works for World Wonder Ring Stardom, a women-only wrestling promotion in Japan. Earlier this month, she was featured in the Japan Playboy magazine.
The first two seasons of Lucha Underground were uploaded on Netflix and are available on the streaming service starting today.
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 on the air. There are 39 episodes in season 1 and 26 episodes in season 2.
The show is only available on the U.S., Canadian and Latin American versions of Netflix.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson announced on his Twitter that he will be featured in a new movie titled Skyscraper from Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures, with filming set to start this August in China.
The story focuses on the world’s largest skyscraper that is on fire almost a mile into the sky, and Johnson’s character along with his wife and kids are trapped on the top floor.
“My character is a disabled US War Vet and former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader. This character is inspired by the thousands of disabled US veterans and war heroes I’ve had the honor of shaking hands with over the years,” Johnson wrote in a post on Instagram.
“Research for this film has been a real education for me, from meeting with the world’s top skyscraper architects to spending amazing time with our US combat and disabled vets. Good thing I’m not afraid of heights. But at 4,000ft it’s a different story,” he added.
Skyscraper will be released in theaters nationwide on July 13, 2018.
