In an interview with Chris Van Vliet, WWE Superstar Joe Hendry revealed that he recorded a music album with the company, an album which is expected to drop this Summer.
“We recorded most of that in New York at the WWE Studios. So what I’ve done now is the microphones that we have there, I have basically replicated the set up back home now,” Hendry said. “So, I don’t need to fly to New York to do it. I can send stuff in and we can work on it back and forth.”
Hendry mentioned how they did the Logan Paul song in a week, a song which is now being sung at arenas to fire the Maverick!
The Scotsman said that all the songs recorded are original songs.
PWInsider.com is reporting that former TNA President Dixie Carter refused to participate in the upcoming three-part episode on TNA and Jeff Jarrett on Dark Side of the Ring.
It is unclear why Carter refused to participate as Jarrett himself is featured extensively in the episodes, and so are others who worked closely with him during his TNA years.
Carter spent the better part of 15 years as President of TNA Wrestling and was featured as an on-screen character as well.
Season seven of Dark Side of the Ring will kick off with this multi-episode on TNA and Jarrett on July 7 on Vice TV.
Turki Alalshikh, the Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia and the man behind bringing WWE to the Kingdom, wrote on X that Night of Champions is officially sold out.
Alalshikh shared the poster of the show, featuring Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns front and center along with Becky Lynch, Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley, Oba Femi, and Trick Williams, with a big red ‘sold out’ stamp on it.
The show will take place on Saturday, June 27 live from the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. The stadium was the host of Night of Champions last year as well.
Tickets went on sale in late April with prices at $16 for Silver, $80 for Platinum, $187 for VVIP and $333 for a VIP box.
The main event for Double or Nothing 2026 was made official last night on Dynamite.
AEW World champion Darby Allin will defend his title against former champion MJF in a title vs hair match, where if MJF loses the match, he has to shave his hair.
The contract was signed last night after Allin successfully defended the gold against Konosuke Takeshita. After both signed the contract, MJF attacked Allin and then knocked him out with the Dynamite Diamond Ring.
MJF was about to hit a tombstone piledriver from the second rope but Kevin Knight came out to save Allin from further damage as MJF bolted.
MJF lost the title to Allin in an episode of Dynamite in April during WrestleMania week, a squash match which was super quick.
Piper Niven wrote on social media that she underwent anterior discectomy surgery in California.
The surgical procedure is performed to relieve pain, numbness, or weakness in the neck and arms caused by a herniated or degenerative disc.
“I went to California and all I got was this lousy anterior discectomy. I have so much I want to say about the past 8 months but we can get to that later,” Niven wrote.
“For now, I just want to express my endless love and gratitude for every single soul that has helped me and cared for me during this difficult and really scary time,” she continued. “Pain and heartbreak are incredible teachers and the lessons I have learned from this will stay with me forever.”
She added that she feels grateful to wake up from surgery already feeling better and knows she is coming out the other side of this stronger from the experience.
Niven has not wrestled since the August 22, 2025 episode of Smackdown, defeating Charlotte Flair. She disappeared from television after that due to a serious injury.
The Ronda Rousey vs Gina Carano fight, set for this Saturday, will have a familiar wrestling voice calling the action as MVP Promotions and Netflix yesterday announced that Mauro Ranallo will be handling the play-by-play of the fight.
Netflix’s lead anchor Elle Duncan, MMA champion Tyron Woodley, and journalist Ariel Helwani will be the hosts of the show and guests will also include former MMA champions Jon Jones, Cain Velasquez, and Cat Zingano.
Ranallo will be joined by former MMA fighter Kenny Florian during the broadcast while Sibley Scoles will serve as reporter, providing updates from backstage and the crowd alongside Helwani.
Rousey has said that this will be her last MMA fight, a fight which was originally pitched to TKO and the UFC. Rousey took the fight to MVP after the UFC were unable to provide a fair pay for her and her opponent following their move from a pay-per-view model to Paramount+.
The event will be held at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California and streams live on Netflix.
The Stadium Stampede match at Double or Nothing will now be a seven on seven match, with two more names joining Jericho’s team while Ricochet revealed his full team last night on Dynamite.
Jericho now has Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin of The Hurt Business, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, and Jack Perry on his side while Ricochet is joined by Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona, Mark Davis, Clark Conners and David Finlay, and Andrade El Idolo.
This is the first seven on seven Stadium Stampede match as all previous three matches under that name were five on five. Last year’s Anarchy In The Arena, which is basically the same match but inside an arena, was six on six.
With Double or Nothing nearly sold out, AEW opened more seats at the Louis Armstrong Stadium, making available for purchase the last few rows of a few sections.
These tickets are being sold starting from $37.15, a fantastic price for still a good view despite being in the top rows.
Double or Nothing, which takes place in 10 days, already has over 13,000 tickets distributed and has a chance of surpassing the 2022 Double or Nothing from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas which drew 14,459 fans.
The women’s Owen Hart Cup tournament brackets were also announced on Dynamite last night.
The left side features Persephone taking on Hazuki from Stardom and Willow Nightingale vs Alex Windsor, a match which will take place at Double or Nothing.
The right side of the bracket has Mina Shirakawa taking on ROH Women’s champion Athena and Skye Blue vs Sareee, also from Stardom.
The tournament final will be held at the Forbidden Door pay-per-view on Sunday, June 28.
Last year it was Mercedes Mone who won the tournament.
AEW was briefly – and quickly – featured in the WBD Upfront yesterday during the hourlong presentation at Madison Square Garden.
A graphic for Dynamite featuring MJF, Kenny Omega, Will Ospreay, Jon Moxley, and Willow Nightingale was shown on screen along other properties such as 90 Day Fiancé, Shark Week, Love & Marriage, and many others which form part of Warner Bros. Discovery.
There was no physical presence of AEW at the event apart from that graphic.
The media conglomerate is currently in the process of merging with Paramount Skydance and the group opened the event by paying tribute to Ted Turner, who passed away last week at the age of 87.
What happens to the future of AEW once the merger kicks in remains to be seen.
Brian Cage returned to AEW television after more than a year out of action.
Cage answered the Kevin Knight’s TNT title open challenge and came out with Lance Archer and RPG Vice by his side. Unfortunately for him, his first match back ended in a loss, with Knight retaining the title.
Cage suffered a serious knee injury last year wrestling Chris Masters at an indie show and required surgery and a long time on the sidelines for rehabilitation.
His last match for AEW prior to last night was on March 19, 2025, joining Konosuke Takeshita and Lance Archer in defeating Powerhouse Hobbs, Mark Briscoe, Rocky Romero in a trios match.
The men’s Owen Hart Cup tournament brackets were revealed first on Dynamite last night.
The left bracket has Samoa Joe taking on Will Ospreay and that match will take place at Double or Nothing. The other match has Mark Davis vs “Jungle” Jack Perry.
The right bracket has Swerve Strickland vs Bandido in a match which also is part of the Double or Nothing card and the other match has Claudio Castagnoli taking on Brody King.
The tournament final will be held at the Forbidden Door pay-per-view on Sunday, June 28.
Last year it was “Hangman” Adam Page who won the tournament.
Dynamite returns live from the Harrah’s Cherokee Center in Asheville, North Carolina tonight, airing on TBS and live streaming on HBO Max as well.
A couple of matches and segments were announced:
Darby Allin vs Konosuke Takeshita for the AEW World title
Adam Copeland, Christian Cage, Orange Cassidy, Matt Jackson, and Nick Jackson vs Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler, Tommaso Ciampa, David Finlay, and Clark Connors in a 10-man tag team match
Will Ospreay vs Ace Austin
Triangle of Madness vs Brawling Birds and Hikaru Shida in a trios match
Kevin Knight defends the TNT title in the open challenge
Plus, the men’s and women’s brackets for the Owen Hart Tournament will be revealed and MJF addresses the hair vs title challenge by Darby Allin at the Double or Nothing.
WWE champion Cody Rhodes represented WWE at the 2026 Disney Upfront at Jacob Javitz Center yesterday in New York City.
The champ, sporting a gold Rolex and the WWE Championship, was photographed with ESPN Chairman James Pitaro and then participated in a College GameDay panel alongside Pat McAfee and others.
WWE Superstars Bayley, Grayson Waller, and Intercontinental champion Penta will be touring with NXT this weekend for three non-televised live events in the North East.
The three stars will be at the live events in Buffalo on Friday, May 15, Canton on Saturday, May 16, and Johnstown on Sunday, May 17.
In a post on social media, Nattie wrote that after John Cena announced the John Cena Classic, she’s going to use this opportunity to go and scout the talent.
Tickets for all shows are available at Ticketpeak and Ticketmaster.
The one-hour Fairway to Hell themed episode of Collision on Saturday night drew 342,000 viewers, down 87,000 viewers from the Wednesday show which followed Dynamite and just 5,000 viewers down from the prior week. The show had a 0.05 rating in 18-49, down 0.02 from Wednesday and 0.01 from last week. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Former WWE star Jimmy Wang Yang sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Indianapolis, Indiana to discuss how meeting DDP on Halloween led to the start of his pro wrestling journey, Vince McMahon forgetting he had fired him, how he was pitched the Jimmy Wang Yang character, wrestling as a flying Elvis in TNA, running a party bus company, his daughter Jazzy Yang now wrestling, and more!
Could you kind of see that the end was near for WCW? Could you tell that things were going downhill there?
“Not at all. That’s the thing, I grew up on WCW. No more WCW? That was never in my mind. But it was crazy, but I’m 18 years old. I don’t know what’s normal. I went from that bar wrestling and seeing New Jack stab somebody in the parking lot. Seriously, that’s the first time I met him. But then, yeah, going to WCW, and seeing some of the guys and seeing the environment, like I said, Oh, this is just pro wrestling, this is crazy life, the wild wild west. But I just knew I was very young, and didn’t know any better. I had about five different bosses during those two years. I’m like, this doesn’t sound right, but I didn’t think WCW would ever end. That’s a stake with my life.”
Why didn’t your time in WWE at that time last very long after you got picked up?
“So what I think, because they bought WCW, they had bought our contracts, they just bought ECW, and then they had the WWE roster. At the time, they didn’t have the separate brands; they had just one show doing Raw and SmackDown. So I just think the roster was overloaded at that first time in WWE. I don’t know how many people were on the roster, but you can only have so many matches on Monday, you can only have so many matches on Friday, and then whatever else. But that first run, I think it was just so many people and they couldn’t find me a spot.”
Did you have any idea for what this gimmick would be for you?
“No. So all I was told was you’re being an Asian redneck coming to SmackDown. I was like, cool. When they pitched the character to me at that time, I was like, sweet, I’m gonna be the new Doink the Clown, comedy character kind of thing. That will be cool to have. As a Korean kid in Georgia, I got my material a lot from the people I knew, and I just made it as ridiculous as possible. So then the debut, and then having a match, all of a sudden it was this switch of being kind of like a celebrity, I didn’t know how that would take off so well. Because I just remember after debuting, and then I’m going to the airport and wear my goofy ass cowboy hat, I get mobbed by everybody. I’m like, holy crap, this really took off. I was kind of surprised how well that took off.”
So what did you think when you heard your theme song for the first time?
“I know people love that theme song, but I hated it. I hated it as a wrestling theme because I couldn’t get fired up to some bluegrass. I was like how am I supposed to get fired up to this song? I need to get fired up for this match that we’re about to have. But it is a good song when you’re sitting on the porch and all that kind of stuff.
But as wrestling music, it was kind of too slow for me.”
You got vignettes, and not everybody gets a vignette. That sets the character up so that by the time you do debut, people know exactly what to expect. When you were reading these vignettes, were you like, ‘You want me to say what?’
“Yeah, that’s really because they didn’t know how the audience was gonna react to me. But it was different times. When I see it, I kind of am ashamed of some of the stuff that they wanted me to say, because it is like, ‘Oh it’s funny when you say it because you’re half Korean. I couldn’t say it, but you can say it because you’re Korean.’ No, it’s gonna be funny to you guys. I understand what’s going on. I say this is funny to you guys. But for my culture and my people, it is offensive.”
What was the most offensive thing?
“The most offensive thing is me wearing the Confederate flag on my back. They said, ‘Hey, we want you to be an Asian redneck.’ Okay, what do you think of? I think of rodeos. I think of NASCAR. I think of Dukes of Hazard and General Lee. I’m like, Oh yeah, I’m an Asian redneck, so I gotta wear the Confederate flag on the back of my vest and go out there. But if anybody knows what that symbolizes, it’s God-awful, and it’s horrible. I wish I hadn’t done that. Undertaker is the one that told me. He saw me wearing it, ‘Jimmy, take that f*cking sh*t off!’ I said I’m playing a character, an Asian redneck. ‘That sh*t means some horrible sh*t. Take it off.’ All right. Then I take off, and they said, ‘Hey, where’s your jacket at?’ [I replied] ‘Undertaker told me to take it off.’ ‘Okay.'”
Rogelio Reyes, the ex-boyfriend of WWE Superstar Stephanie Vaquer, was sentenced to 12 years and eight months in prison after he was found guilty of domestic violence and attempted femicide.
RECORD Mexico reporter El Planchitas wrote that Reyes, who wrestled under the name of El Cuatrero in AAA, already served two years in prison, so technically he has 10 years left and could do much less if he’s on good behavior.
Vaquer’s legal team is already planning an appeal to force a harsher sentence.
The incident took place in 2023 when Vaquer was wrestling for CMLL and Reyes for AAA. He was arrested following an AAA event a few days after Vaquer’s police report.
Smackdown this past Friday drew 1,279,000 viewers, up 126,000 viewers compared to the prior week. The show had a 0.29 rating in 18-49, up 0.04 from the previous episode and was #2 in the top 50 cable chart and in all of television for the night behind the NHL Playoffs. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
