Former TNA star Rhaka Khan, real name Trenesha Biggers, was arrested this past Saturday after she allegedly violated an eviction order at her Midtown apartment according to the NY Post.
The 43-year-old remained in her apartment without permission even though tenants served her with an eviction notice. Cops arrived on scene and booked her at the NYPD’s 17th Precinct.
This is not her first brush with the law. In 2009, she was dating Kurt Angle and filed a protection from abuse order against him, resulting in police officers removing Angle from his own house. The order was later dropped after Biggers voluntarily withdrew it.
10 years later, she was placed on El Paso’s most wanted fugitive’s list for the week of August 25 on a charge of interference with child custody, although that was also dropped after her ex-husband admitted to making a false report.
Before signing with TNA in 2008, Biggers appeared on WWE Diva Search in 2005 and was signed to a developmental contract. She was released in May 2006.
Bianca Belair sat down with Chris Van Vliet at West Coast Creative Studio in Los Angeles, CA to discuss her journey to WWE after being discovered by Mark Henry, becoming the EST of NXT and then WWE, the origin of the hair whip attack, her WrestleMania matches against Sasha Banks in 2021 and against Rhea Ripley and IYO SKY in 2025, the Scary Movie fight with Alexa Bliss, and more!
On her broken finger:
“It looks more like a real finger now. So I have to wear my ring finger on my right hand now because my ring doesn’t fit. It’s healed, it won’t fully straighten. I broke it in two or three different spots. I broke it up here in the middle and then down in the joint.”
On when the broken finger happened:
“So it was when we were doing the triple German spot, when IYO was on the top rope, and then it was Rhea, then it was me, I came in German suplexed both of them off, and my hand got stuck underneath Rhea. Also I went to the wrong side of Rhea, but my hand, I thought she was gonna go further over me, but we kind of just collapsed together. So when my hand went back, it got stuck under her, and she literally crashed on my hand. I knew immediately it was broken, because usually in a match, something happens, and you don’t feel it until after the match, your adrenaline wears off, and you’re like, Ow, my finger. But in the moment, I thought I broke all my fingers. So the ref, you can see the ref if you watch back, the ref comes to me. He’s like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘I just broke all of my fingers!’ You just see me rolling around on the ground, and it took Rhea to snap me out of the moment, because I was just rolling around on the ground. She’s like, ‘Bianca, Bianca!’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ Oh, we have to finish this match.”
On the hair braid becoming part of her character:
“So I was, again, I was trying to figure out what do I want to look like? I want to have a unique look, and I was looking at all the girls that were there. They would wear their hair down. It was beautiful. I want to wear my hair down, I want to feel beautiful and I just loved how all the girls were glamorous. But I wore a braid one time, and my husband, he was like, ‘That’s your thing. You have to stick with it.’ He’s like, ‘You have to keep the braid.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know. I feel like sometimes I feel I look better with the long hair.’ He’s like, ‘But everybody does that. The best way to stand out here is to do something that nobody else is doing. Look at what everybody else is doing, and if that works for them, go the complete opposite way. The first time somebody comes to a show, they might not remember your name for the first time, but they’ll remember the girl with the braid.’ And I was like, All right, I’m the girl with the braid.”
On the hair whip:
“Yeah, a lot of people think that production adds a special effect to it, no [there’s no sound effect]. And every time that I do it, it’s loud. I thought Sasha was the loudest, and then when I hit Becky, it surprises me. I’m like, Oh, that sounds like that hurt. Sorry. You know, every time it gets louder and louder. [The welt it leaves is crazy]. So that’s why I don’t do it a lot too. For one, I don’t want the audience to get used to it, and two, I don’t want to just mark up people.”
On how to get the noise:
“It’s a special way that I braid it, and I can whip it in the air. This is my appearance one, it’s not braided so it won’t make a noise. So when I braid a certain way, if I can hear the way that it goes in the wind, I can tell if it’s a hair whip braid. I’m like, Yep, that’s it. We’re good.”
On being in the Elimination Chamber pod when Jade Cargill attacked Naomi:
“I just try to pull from just experiences that we had as Tag Team Champions, even with Naomi. Naomi and I, we were always friends before we were in a tag team. But when we got into a tag team, I feel like I just got so much more closer to her, I’ve learned so much from her inside and outside the ring. So it’s like in my heart, that’s my best friend. Then me and Jade, we were able to be a tag team, and we’re able to be Tag Team Champions, and put the division on the map, and do the things that we wanted to do. And just being in this position, I just try to see it as I’m literally watching my best friend get beat up. Then I just try to just hone into that and like this is awful. You have your two best friends fighting each other, and I’d really just try to, I don’t know, just tap into that and just pull the realism out of it.”
The original WrestleMania 41 card which was discussed for weeks during the WWE: Unreal docuseries had 14 matches but out of the 14 that were being worked on, only two ended up being on the final card.
The show did end up having 14 matches at the end of the day – seven on each show – but the card looked totally different than the one the WWE creative team were shooting for.
Injuries, unexpected reactions, and just general change of direction altered the majority of the card. Only Cody Rhodes vs John Cena and Logan Paul vs AJ Styles ended up going from the whiteboard to the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
The other 12 matches which were proposed included Gunther vs CM Punk for the WWE World Heavyweight title, Rhea Ripley vs Bianca Belair for the WWE Women’s World title, Jade Cargill vs Nia Jax for the WWE Women’s title, Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair vs Iyo Sky and Asuka for the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles, Jey Uso vs Damian Priest vs Sheamus vs Sami Zayn vs Bronson Reed vs Ludwig Kaiser in a ladder match for the Intercontinental title, LA Knight vs Jimmy Uso vs Andrade vs Santos Escobar vs Solo Sikoa vs Carmelo Hayes vs Shinsuke Nakamura in a ladder match for the United States title, Roman Reigns vs Seth Rollins, Randy Orton vs Kevin Owens, The Wyatt Sicks vs Judgment Day in a 10-person mixed tag match, Bad Bunny vs Dominik Mysterio, and Bron Breakker vs Drew McIntyre with Steve Austin as special guest referee, Rey Mysterio vs Chad Gable.
All the five episodes of WWE: Unreal dropped on Netflix today, with every country which gets the streaming service having access to the show.
WWE: Unreal features 50-minute episodes titled New Era, Push, Worth The Wait, Heel Turn, and WrestleMania and involves WWE Superstars such as Triple H, Cody Rhodes, John Cena, Rhea Ripley, CM Punk, Jey Uso, Bianca Belair, Chelsea Green, Charlotte Flair, Xavier Woods, and others.
The whole filming started from the Raw Netflix debut on January 6 up until WrestleMania 41.
The show lifts the curtain on the WWE creative room as they discuss storylines and finishes, putting a spotlight on the writers which bring you WWE television every week. It also has a lot of never-seen-before behind the scenes footage.
The series is produced by Omaha Productions, NFL Films, Skydance Sports, and WWE. Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ross Ketover, Keith Cossrow, Ken Rodgers, Jessica Boddy, Lee Fitting, Ben Houser, and Marc Pomarico are listed as executive producers, with Chris Weaver as director and Erik Powers as show runner.
Friday’s Smackdown, which featured the Hulk Hogan tribute, drew 1,707,000 viewers, up 161,000 viewers from the previous week. This was the most-watched episode of Smackdown since the April 18 edition. The show had a 0.48 rating in 18-49, up 0.03 from last week and placed #1 on cable and #1 in all of television by a wide margin. (Ratings credit: Programmign Insider)
WWE is returning to the Land of the Rising Sun in October for two back-to-back shows in Tokyo.
The company announced today that it will be running two non-televised live events from the Ryogoku Kokugikan on Friday, October 17 and Saturday, October 18.
Tickets and Superstar meet & greet packages will go on sale starting Saturday, August 30 at 10AM local time via https://l-tike.com/sports/wwe2025/.
Advertised for the shows are Rhea Ripley, Iyo Sky, Jey Uso, The New Day, Sami Zayn, AJ Styles, Finn Balor, Gunther, and others.
These will be the only two shows in Japan for 2025.
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Nick Hogan, his wife, and Eric Bischoff attended the Hulk Hogan tribute on Raw, the second one which the company has done since Hulk passed away on Thursday morning following a cardiac arrest.
Bischoff was unable to make it to the first tribute on Friday but was front row for the 10-bell salute in Detroit. Some officials from Real American Beer were also present.
With Triple H absent, Bruce Prichard took the front and center role, flanked by CM Punk and Nick.
After the 10-bell salute, a new tribute video remembering Hogan to the song Ordinary by Alex Warren played.
Notable absentees from the 10-bell salute were Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman, both of whom were present at Raw but did not join the rest of the roster on the stage.
The red brand’s final stop before SummerSlam will take place tonight in Detroit at the Little Caesars Arena live on Netflix.
Three matches have been announced so far including an eight-woman tag match with Rhea Ripley, Iyo Sky, Stephanie Vaquer, and Nikki Bella vs Naomi, Chelsea Green, and The Secret Hervice, plus the WWE World Tag Team titles will be on the line as Finn Balor and JD McDonagh defend against Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro, plus Jey Uso takes on Bronson Reed.
Plus, Gunther has a message for CM Punk and Roman Reigns will be in the house as well.
The Countdown to SummerSlam events on Saturday and Sunday will start at 3PM ET, and with the main card starting at 6PM ET, it means that each night will have a three-hour countdown show.
This is the most that they have done for a pre-show ever, as usually they run for two hours. The premium live event is expected to run between three and a half to four hours, so it will be a long night for the WWE production crew.
No matches are scheduled to be part of the shows so it will be a lot of talking, videos, and commercials.
The Countdown to SummerSlam airs for free on WWE’s social media properties as well as on Peacock.
Speaking on the latest episode of The Nikki & Brie Show, Brie said that she feels she has not returned to WWE because of one roadblock: her husband.
“I know my roadblock is the fact that my husband is with the rival company and you know, for some people, it makes them uncomfortable at WWE thinking I would be there when my husband’s with AEW and you know what? That’s okay,” Brie said in this solo episode.
She said that if that makes them feel uncomfortable, then it is what is, but it also bums her out at times.
“Does it bum me out at times that I wish their feelings were different? Absolutely, but it doesn’t make me angry, and it doesn’t make me bitter. It makes me be like that right there is a sign that I’m supposed to be staying in my soft girl era,” she continued.
The full transcript addressing her rumors of returning to WWE is below.
Brie Garcia: As of late, there’s been what I can kind of consider a roadblock, but it’s also a good sign and that’s where I make a joke because when I’ve been on red carpets or in interviews, there’s one question I constantly get asked and it is, “When will we see you back in the ring?” as if I have that power and I always make a joke because when I’m in interviews, I don’t want to ever answer something serious because usually it’s a quick question and they need a quick answer, so I have constantly made the joke, “Oh, waiting on the call,” which in some ways can be true and in some ways I’m just saying something cheeky and sweet so I can get on to the next question, but what I wanted to bring up because I feel like, okay. Something that’s important in these solo episodes is to really open up to all of you what I’m going through so it can help some of you, but when I look at that, I know my roadblock is the fact that my husband is with the rival company and you know, for some people, it makes them uncomfortable at WWE thinking I would be there when my husband’s with AEW and you know what? That’s okay. I’ve kind of looked at that roadblock as people have the right to feel. If people feel uncomfortable, they’re uncomfortable and that’s okay. They have that right. Does it bum me out at times that I wish their feelings were different? Absolutely, but it doesn’t make me angry, and it doesn’t make me bitter. It makes me be like that right there is a sign that I’m supposed to be staying in my soft girl era. That when I was thinking about my summer, all I wanted was to have July off. It’s like I manifested. It’s like the angels heard and they gave it to me, and I look at these signs and I know I’m living my purpose because I’m so open to what my purpose is and needs to be.
Brie Garcia: And so, when constantly people are like, “When’s Brie coming back? When’s Brie coming back to wrestling?” You know, guys, it might not be in my era right now and, you know, that is okay, because I feel like we in life have to look at our roadblocks and we can be quick to think like, “Oh man,” and the negativity of it, but there might be a beauty to it and we have to look at those and really, and this is why I love journaling, because I write things down like what I feel and then I sit on it, and I’m like, “You know what? It’s actually not meant to be and that is okay,” because how I’m living now and where I’m at, this is where I’ve wanted to be. I just think I have fun and make jokes and interviews, because I get asked the same questions, so I’m just the type of person to just throw out kind of the same answer and disregard it, but then it gets blown up into something bigger and I’m like, “Okay, I don’t think that’s the identity I want right now. I don’t think it’s the era I’m in.”
The Nikki & Brie Show hosted by Nikki & Brie Garcia is available anytime on the SiriusXM app. New episodes are out every Monday and Thursday and you can listen to the full episode here.
WWE moved just over 4,000 tickets in a week for this weekend’s SummerSlam, with each night doing 2,077 and 2,090 in sales respectively according to @WrestleTix.
SummerSlam Saturday is now at 42,357 tickets out while Sunday is a 44,997. The massive MetLife Stadium is set up for 45,604 seats on Saturday and 47,738 on Sunday.
That is obviously way less than what the stadium actually holds as the total seats on the map amount to 85,381. Large sections on the hard cam will be tarped off, a regular occurrence for non-WrestleMania shows at large stadiums.
Last year’s SummerSlam drew 56,523 at the Cleveland Browns Stadium so it’s going to be a bit difficult to surpass that each night, although the total number of tickets sold for both nights will be over 90,000 by the weekend.
Chad Gable, who is currently out injured, was interviewed in the stands on Twins.TV during a Minnesota Twins baseball game yesterday.
Gable was sporting a sling and said that the injury was a rotator cuff problem.
“What it did do was buy me some time off the road to be home with my family and do stuff like this, go to a baseball game on a Sunday which I never get to do. So find the bright side, right?” Gable said.
He mentioned that his crowning moment of his WWE career so far is having a singles match at WrestleMania this past April which he did under the mask of El Grande Americano against Fenix. The match was supposed to be against Rey Mysterio but Mysterio suffered an injury on Smackdown 24 hours before the show.
Gable was written off TV after Penta snapped his arm last month on an episode of Raw. The El Grande Americano gimmick lives on though, with Ludwig Kaiser taking over.
In a video recorded from a field and posted on his social media accounts, Drew McIntyre revealed that he is stuck in England after he was denied boarding a plane that was going to take him back to the United States with his wife.
McIntyre attended the wedding of a friend but did not have the U.S. passport with him. The gate agent, who he said recognized him and is aware that he lives in the United States, did not let him board despite showing them the Global Entry and photos of his U.S. passport.
His wife boarded the plane and left to the United States while McIntyre is still across the pond waiting for a resolution, something which WWE is actively working on.
McIntyre blamed Jelly Roll for all this, saying that Jelly is trying to screw with his SummerSlam training.
“Why am I in a field? I don’t know why I’m in a field but I can tell you one thing, when this is over I’m gonna get back, I’m gonna drop you Jelly, I’m gonna make you pay and you’re going to gain all that weight back and you’re going to look like one of these f*ckers,” McIntyre said as he turned his camera around to point it at cows.
McIntyre said that he might miss SummerSlam due to this, although there are still several days before the show and still time to find a way to get back Stateside.
He teams with Logan Paul to take on Randy Orton and Jelly Roll on the show.
Why am I stranded?
Why am I cutting a promo with cows?
Mercedes Mone won two more titles this weekend while on a wrestling trip in Poland.
The TBS champion defeated Diana Strong to win the inaugural Prime Time Wrestling women’s title for a promotion based in Poland and the inaugural BestYa Wrestling women’s title, a promotion based in Italy.
Both titles were on the line in the same match.
Mone now holds eights titles across different promotions in six different countries: United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, Italy, and Mexico.
She came up short at All In: Texas where she failed to defeat Toni Storm for the AEW Women’s title. It was her first loss in AEW.
Alberto El Patron is reportedly gone from AAA after he lost a match against Mesias during Friday’s television tapings with the stipulation that if he lost, he would have to leave AAA.
The internet wrestling community was up in arms when WWE announced that it was taking over AAA and some of its stars had signed a new deal with WWE, with some outlets reporting that El Patron was one of those who signed a new deal.
El Patron has a shady history and was fired from WWE in 2014 for unprofessional conduct. There was also the situation with his former girlfriend Saraya, where several allegations against him came out.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful is reporting that Friday’s loss wasn’t just a storyline, but El Patron is out completely from AAA and WWE has no plans to use him in any way, shape or form anymore moving forward.
The former champion returned to AAA in 2023 and was heavily involved with the promotion.
Nick Hogan, the son of the late Hulk Hogan, issued a statement on social media, his first since his father passed away on Thursday morning.
His sister, Brooke, did not have a relationship with her father lately and it was Nick who informed his brother-in-law that their dad had passed. Steven Olesky, the former NHL player who is now married to Brooke, was the one who shared the news with his wife.
It’s reported that Brooke and Hulk had not spoken since 2023 and Hulk never saw his two grandchildren after Brooke gave birth to twins in January.
Brooke has not issued any statement regarding her father’s death and nor did their mother Linda. Linda is not very active on social media, but last week posted a photo of her and Hulk together with the tag “The good old days!”
Nick’s full statement is below.
“Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me and comforted me over the last few days. It truly means a lot. I’m sorry to everyone I have not responded to yet. This has been overwhelming and extremely difficult.
Hearing so many kind words and stories about my dad’s life, interactions and experiences with everyone has been incredible and comforting.
My dad was the most incredible person I’ve ever known and will always be my hero. He was the most kind, loving and amazing father anybody could ask for. I feel so blessed to have had the greatest dad in the world. He was not only the best dad but also my mentor and my best friend. He always has been my best friend and I love him and miss him more than I could ever explain. I thanked him for everything he has ever done for me and told him how much I loved him and hugged him every chance I got. 1 spent a lot of time with him the past few years after moving back to Florida to be closer to him and I am so grateful for those memories. They are the best moments in my life.
I would do anything to have him back but I know now that he will always be watching over me. I will always remember the lessons and advice he gave me and carry on in a way that I know would make him proud.
Thank you for being the best dad in the world and thank you for being my best friend. I love you so much Big Dog and I will miss you forever.”
In an interview with PEOPLE, Jimmy Hart revealed that he had a phone call with Hulk Hogan’s assistant who assured him that Hulk has been doing great. The phone call was on Wednesday night, just hours before Hulk passed away.
Hart last saw his best friend a month ago before Hulk went in for surgery. After surgery, Hogan never recovered and was in bed the whole time fighting for his life.
The Hall of Famer said he spent a lot of days with Hogan prior to his passing, watching a lot of wrestling together on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, and teamed with Nick Hogan on Monday nights to do karaoke at the Hogan’s Hangout bar.
“It just hits so fast,” Hart said. “It was like, ‘Oh my God.’ We thought he was doing so well, you know? We didn’t go to see him at the house and didn’t go to see him at the hospital, because we wanted to make sure that he didn’t get any infections or anything else, like if anybody had a cold or brought anything in. So, that’s what we all did.”
Their last appearance for WWE together was on the January 6 episode of Raw, where Hart carried an American flag accompanying Hogan to the Intuit Dome.
Hart was flown in to Cleveland on Friday to be part of the 10-bell salute for Hogan before Smackdown started.
WWE will take over the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey during SummerSlam weekend with many WWE Superstars appearing for photo ops and autograph opportunities.
Over 40 current and former Superstars will be on hand to meet fans during the weekend, with scheduled appearances set between August 1 and 3.
Set to appear so far are Bayley, Bret Hart, Bron Breakker, Jade Cargill, Kairi Sane, Street Profits, Tiffany Stratton, Aleister Black, Bronson Reed, Bubba Ray Dudley, Charlotte Flair, Chelsea Green, D’Von Dudley, Damian Priest, DIY, Dominik Mysterio, Drew McIntyre, El Grande Americano, Giulia, Hornswoggle, Iyo Sky, Joe Hendry, Karrion Kross and Scarlett, Kofi Kingston, Kurt Angle, Lyra Valkyria, Mark Henry, Michael Hayes, Mick Foley, Nikki Bella, Penta, Rey Fenix, Ron Killings, Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez, The Dudley Boyz (as a team), Natalya and Maxxine Dupri, Undertaker, Xavier Woods, and Zelina Vega.
Prices differ for each star and so far only Rhea Ripley is sold out for both her photo and autograph sessions.
The WWE Superstore for the weekend will also be at the same location.
