After Tiffany Stratton addressed the train wreck segment between her and Charlotte Flair on a recent podcast, Flair took to social media to also – somewhat – give her own version of events.
It is believed that Flair was the first one to veer off script after making fun of Stratton’s voice, something that the Chicago crowd did not appreciate.
“After being blindsided by my personal trauma on live television, my character said something on-air that was not true, and I’d like to take this opportunity to clear the air,” Flair wrote. “I should have NEVER called the Chicago fans smart. I sincerely apologize.”
The fans inside the Allstate Arena rattled the self-proclaimed queen during the in-ring segment, booing her out of the building, forcing Flair to stop mid-sentences.
Flair took the last shot asking Tiff why her boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser was in her DMs, but by that time, Stratton was already out of the ring holding her title above her shoulder.
The comment didn’t go over very well with those backstage but it looks like both escaped any real consequences, for now.
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Tickets for the August 31 Clash In Paris premium live event will go on general sale on Friday, April 25 at 10AM CET at Ticketmaster.fr.
A pre-sale will take place a few days earlier on Wednesday, April 23 also at 10AM CET and fans can register at https://www.wwe.com/wweparis-presale to get pre-sale information and code.
The tickets will be combo and will also include WWE Raw on Netflix for the following day in the same arena. Individual tickets will go on sale at a later time.
The show will take place from the La Defense Arena, a 30,000-seater indoor arena which is expected to be packed.
Additionally, Clash in Paris Priority Pass ticket packages will soon be available from On Location, offering fans the chance to be ringside for every exhilarating moment including premium seating, pre-show hospitality with WWE Superstar appearances, ringside photo opportunities and more. Starting today, fans can place a deposit to secure access ahead of the general public. To learn more about Priority Passes or to place a deposit, please visit https://onlocationexp.com/wwe/paris.
Kevin Owens recently appeared on the Insight With Chris Van Vliet podcast where he discussed a variety of subjects including wrestling “Stone Cold” Steve Austin at WrestleMania 38, the post-show angle at Bad Blood, headbutting Vince McMahon, and more.
On wrestling Steve Austin at WrestleMania 38:
So I would have to admit tying back to how he came back, when I asked him to use the Stone Cold Stunner yes, I wanted a new finishing move and yes, I think it’s the greatest finish of all time. But there was a big part of me who thought in the unlikely event, which won’t happen, but if he ever were to come back for a match, it’s going to be against the guy who was doing his finishing move, and that’s exactly what happened. So I don’t think that played a part in it. I think Vince wanted him to be on the WrestleMania in Dallas and he wasn’t sure in what capacity. I’m not sure how. I think they talked. He said no at first from what I understand. Then they went back to him and he’s like, Okay, who would it be with? And I think that’s when they said me, which I think he was good with. Then somehow, was it going to be a talking segment? Was it going to be a match? Was it going to be a stunner? Literally up until the day of the show we had no idea. Me and Steve had talked, I would talk to Steve, ask him, ‘What are we going to do?’ And he goes, ‘I don’t know, depends on Vince.’ So I talked to Vince, and Vince goes, ‘Depends on Steve.’ And I’m like can’t you guys talk to each other for f*ck sake? But yeah, up until that day we really didn’t know for sure what it was going to be, turned out to be what it was and it was pretty great. I’m very lucky to have been a part of it. To this day the craziest thing that I’ll ever have done in my career, and I don’t think anything will top it.”
On whether Austin stiffed him in the match:
“Yeah. Actually the night of the match, when I go back to my hotel my earlobe was swollen like this big from his punches. I went [squeezes] and it just splattered against the mirror. He kept saying, ‘You didn’t give me any receipts.’ What am I gonna do? But honestly in that moment I felt the punches but they weren’t any worse than anything I felt before. But to him, that shows how much of a pro he is. Bret has always prided himself on how he’s never hurt anyone. You could barely feel him in the ring and stuff, and that’s amazing. I think Steve was the same way, so he prided himself on not killing people and that night he knew he was killing me. But to me it was not any worse than other guys.”
On the offscreen angle with Cody Rhodes at Bad Blood:
“It wasn’t me. That was Triple H. That was his idea. He felt confident in doing it that way. I was not sure. I’m like I don’t know, is there even going to be enough people there? It turns out he was completely right, there was and yeah, it’s just a different way of telling the stories and he’s got a different mentality than Vince had. It’s really interesting and people really responded to it. The same thing with Randy, the way I ended up ultimately turning on Randy. It was on TV, but it was done differently. It was something that was released later as well and you just kind of caught the tail end of it on TV, but then they did the security footage after. He wants to tell stories differently, he’s willing to try stuff out and see what sticks and I think that makes the show way more interesting. It doesn’t mean it’s always gonna work, there might be sometimes it doesn’t land, but we’re trying different things and new things, and I think that’s so important in wrestling. When it gets monotonous and repetitive, no matter how good the matches are and the promos are. If you feel like you’ve seen it before, and it’s ok that you’ve seen it before, if you see a rematch once or twice, great. But there were times over I’d say in 2008-2009, and I was an avid fan. I would never miss any WWE shows, even when I was an independent wrestler traveling the world, but I started paying a lot less attention in 08-09 because I felt like this is literally the same thing every single week. There were times where even when I was here, like 2016-2017 I felt like we just did this two weeks ago and now we’re doing it again. To me, when it gets like that it’s just not the way we need to do things. I think we need different things. There’s new things. We need to try stuff, and it has to feel unpredictable and exciting.”
On attacking Vince McMahon:
“He just talked all kinds of sh*t. He’s shaking my hand and just saying, I don’t remember what he said, but he was really trying to provoke me because he wanted to make sure I was going to lay in that headbutt. Little did he know I was already planning on laying it in because I had worked for him for two years at that point, I wasn’t going to miss that chance. So I did and yeah, it was a pretty insane moment. When he came up with the blood and everything I was like whoa, here we go. But my favorite part of that whole thing was after, it’s a moment that was only seen. I don’t think it was on TV, maybe only caught by digital. As everybody’s tending to Vince I’m walking in the back and I turn around to look at the ring. I’m just looking at the ring, and I hear kind of like a rumble in the crowd. I go to turn, and as I turn Stephanie’s right there in my face. She looks furious. She just looks at me and goes, ‘Get the f*ck to the back!’ And I go, okay, and I turn around. Look, I really like Stephanie a lot. She’s been great, just been so supportive of not just me, but everybody. When Hunter was running NXT and we all got there at the same time, my crop of NXT guys me, Sami, Finn, Bayley, Becky, Charlotte… Stephanie would be at the NXT shows quite a bit and she was just always so supportive and so just proud of us. And yeah, it was great. It’s like that whole generation of NXT was so special, not just because of the talent there, but the support we had from all the trainers to Dusty, Hunter and Stephanie. They really felt like we were to a degree kind of their kids and they were trying to get us out into the world. That was really special to be around that kind of energy.”
Week eight of WWE Superstar Sunday on A&E continued with three new episodes of LFG, Rivals, and Greatest Moments.
LFG started the night with 159,000 viewers, up 8,000 viewers from the prior week and a 0.04 rating in 18-49, the same as the previous episode.
Rivals, which took a look at the rivalry between The Undertaker and Triple H, did 183,000 viewers, down 4,000 viewers from the previous episode. It had the same 0.05 rating in 18-49 as the previous week.
Greatest Moments featured CM Punk and it did 158,000 viewers, down 3,000 viewers from the previous week and a 0.03 rating in 18-49, the same number of episode seven. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Chris Jericho will be off AEW television for a bit as his band Fozzy will start touring this month.
In an in-ring segment which aired last night on Dynamite, Jericho was all pissed off with Big Bill and Bryan Keith for not winning the AEW Tag Team titles, never mind he also lost the ROH World title to Bandido.
After some dissension between Bill and Keith against Jericho, Jericho said he’s just disappointed in the two of them and smashed the television screen with a baseball bat.
Jericho said that until things change, it’s best that he leaves. Fans then sang Jericho out with the typical “hey hey hey, goodbye” song.
Fozzy will start their month-long tour on April 17 in Springfield, Missouri and it will end on May 12 in Wyandotte, Michigan.
Appearing on The Babyfaces podcast, WWE Women’s champion Tiffany Stratton addressed the in-ring segment which she had with Charlotte Flair last week on Smackdown, a segment which raised several eyebrows after it went personal.
Both Stratton and Flair said things that shouldn’t have been said on live television, but it looks like both have escaped any real consequences, at least for now.
“I think being so new to this business, being so new as champion, I don’t think she really expected me to stand up to her,” Stratton said after Flair was the first one to veer off script. “And I don’t think she expected me to…I guess, almost clap back.”
Stratton said that it was live TV and now more people want to see their match and they did a very good job getting them interested in it and invested in their story. She said she holds the title and wants to keep the title and will pull out every stop that she can to remain champion after WrestleMania.
“Now I’m ready to put on the best women’s match ever, and I’m ready to go to war,” she continued.
Meanwhile, her boyfriend Ludwig Kaiser wrote in a post on Instagram that he was flooded with notifications after the segment aired.
“Me waking up in Europe last Saturday to 1566273 notifications on my phone,” he wrote, adding a photo of himself with the eyebrows raised.
Tiff also posted a video in a gym on her Instagram, with Kaiser responding “Check your DM’s” along with a wink and fire emojis.
Several WWE Superstars will be appearing at the upcoming Fanatics Fest NYC in New York which will be held between June 20-22 at the Javits Center.
Among all the NFL, MLB, and NBA players appearing, the WWE Superstars are the only ones who have sold out of all their photo and autograph sessions.
These include Cody Rhodes, Charlotte Flair, Chelsea Green, Damian Priest, Jacob Fatu, Jey Uso, Kevin Owens, Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley, The Undertaker, Tiffany Stratton, and Trish Stratus.
A total of 65 athletes are appearing during the convention including stars such as Cal Ripken Jr., Dennis Rodman, Dwayne Wade, Dwight Howard, Eli Manning, Joe Montana, Odell Beckham Jr., and many more.
Pat McAfee hosted his first-ever Big Night AHT event last night at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where over 12,000 fans showed up.
The event did have a lot of WWE-feel to it and Raw ring announcer Alicia Taylor, Raw commentator Michael Cole, and Jey Uso all helped by showing up during the event.
Cole said that he has been best friends with McAfee for over the past decade and said that he made a lot of his dreams come true, including one that he was fulfilling right there.
Cole mentioned how his dream was always to drink Jack Daniels in front of thousands of people like a proper rock ‘n’ roll star and thanks to McAfee, he gets to do it. Cole drank some JD from the bottle and handed it over to McAfee. McAfee called him “the greatest of all time” before Cole helped commentate a sumo match.
Alicia Taylor did the introduction for the sumo match and earlier in the night, Pittsburgh fans yeeted with Jey Uso who came out to his WWE theme through the crowd and helped McAfee give away thousands of dollars.
The event featured tons of celebrities including Jelly Roll, Oz Pearlman, Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Pittsburgh Steelers football players, Ben Roethlisberger, and many more.
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NXT this week drew 683,000 viewers, up 33,000 viewers from the prior week. The show had a 0.17 rating in 18-49, up 0.02 from the previous episode so this week’s audience skewed much younger. The number is still below the average of what the show has been doing so far in 2025. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Appearing on The Ariel Helwani Show yesterday, current WWE World Heavyweight champion Gunther confirmed that he signed a brand-new WWE contract at the end of last year.
Asked by Helwani if he considered going anywhere else before he signed, the Austrian replied with a no.
“Nothing else is really…no,” Gunther said. “How could I? Like, I think I saw that statistic recently like since I signed in 2019, I’ve been champion 85 or 90%, or something like that. So, obviously, they always saw me in a certain way and give me that trust. And I enjoy that.”
The champ also revealed that as part of his new contract, he now gets his own tour bus as well, saying that he made a request for it and it was approved.
Quite a few WWE Superstars, including the likes of Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, and Seth Rollins, have their own bus.
Kris Statlander advanced to the next round of the Owen Hart Cup tournament after she defeated Thunder Rosa in the quarter final last night on Dynamite.
Statlander will now face the winner of the Jamie Hayter vs Billie Starkz match in the semi final.
Three Owen Hart Cup tournament matches will take place this coming Saturday on Collision, with Athena vs Harley Cameron, Hayter vs Starkz, and Konosuke Takeshita vs Brody King.
The winners of the two tournaments each receive an AEW title shot at All In: Texas.
The match between Swerve Strickland and Pac from last night’s Dynamite ended prematurely after an apparent injury by Pac.
The injury came after Strickland hit a buckle bomb on Pac in the corner and somehow, the British star injured his right foot. He immediately grabbed the ankle after landing and the referee then went to check on him after a couple of more moves.
Pac eventually rolled out of the ring and was immediately checked by AEW’s ringside physician Dr. Sampson, with cameras avoiding him and staying on Strickland in the ring.
The match went to a quick finish, with Sampson helping Pac back in the ring where he received a super kick and a Swerve Stomp.
The Sports Business Journal is reporting that WWE and Minute Maid have signed a new deal which will see the brand serve as the official juice partner of WWE.
Minute Maid will receive on-screen integrations at WrestleMania 41, SummerSlam 2025, and weekly WWE television broadcasts as well as custom broadcast integrations and branding on Raw on Netflix.
A custom commercial featuring Cody Rhodes, Bianca Belair, and Jey Uso will debut during the April 14 episode of Raw.
The deal also includes limited-time Minute Maid packaging featuring WWE Superstars branding, including lemonade, fruit punch and blue raspberry, among other flavors.
No official press release has been published as of yet.
TNA Wrestling announced that it will be holding television tapings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this coming June.
The tapings, held at the UPMC Events Center, will take place on Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21. The 4,000-seater arena is on the grounds of the Robert Morris University.
Pre-sale for these tapings start at 2PM ET on Wednesday, April 16 and they go on general sale on Friday, April 18 at 10AM ET.
TNA will also hold meet and greet events at the shows.
Tammy “Sunny” Sytch has been slapped with a $5 million judgment by Volusia County Circuit Judge Mary G. Jolley which she has to pay to the estate of Julian Lasseter, the 75-year-old man she killed during a car accident a few years ago.
Sytch is current incarcerated at the Lowell Correctional Institution until 2039 for her actions after she was sentenced to 18 years in prison. This was a civil lawsuit that Lasseter’s family initiated against the WWE Hall of Famer.
The artist formerly known as Sunny killed Lasseter on March 25, 2022 after ramming her car into the victim’s, killing him on the spot. She was found to be intoxicated, and was 3.5 times over the legal limit. She originally blamed a “light heart attack” for what happened but investigators had different findings.
She was bailed out of jail in May 2022 after someone posted a $227,000 surety bond but a judge revoked her bail, sending her back to jail just after a week.
WWE announced that Kamala, Dory Funk Sr., and Ivan Koloff will be entering the WWE Hall of Fame as Legacy inductees.
The Legacy wing was introduced in 2016 where inductees come from different eras of wrestling history, not necessarily just WWE. This is also a way to honor certain individuals without “fully” give them a Hall of Fame induction.
There are currently 46 WWE Hall of Fame Legacy inductees and there has not been an entry since 2021.
Kamala’s name was rumored for a few months and his estate just recently signed a WWE Legends deal.
The NXT Tag Team and North American titles will be defended at the Stand & Deliver premium live event in Las Vegas but the opponents for the respective champions will be determined next week on NXT.
A gauntlet match will see who will go on to face Fraxiom for the NXT Tag Team titles, with Hank Walker and Tank Ledger, Josh Briggs and Yoshiki Inamura, Myles Borne and Tavion Heights, Brooks Jensen and Niko Vance, and Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe all participating.
Meanwhile, a fatal four-way match will determine who will take on Ricky Starks for the NXT North American title. The four participants are Eddy Thorpe, Lexis King, Wes Lee, and Ethan Page.
These two NXT title matches now brings the Stand & Deliver card to a total of five bouts, all title matches.
Collision last week drew 335,000 viewers, down 4,000 viewers from the previous episode and the lowest since March 1. The show faced heavy competition from the NCAA tournament. In 18-49, Collision had a 0.08 rating, down 0.01 from last week. (Ratings credit: Wrestlenomics)
Two more women have qualified for the ladder match to crown the new NXT Women’s North American champion at Stand & Deliver.
Sol Ruca advanced to the match after she defeated Jazmyn Nyx in the first qualifier and then Izzy Dame defeated Wren Sinclair in the other qualifier to advance.
The two join Kelani Jordan and Zaria in the match, with two more participants set to join.
The remaining two qualifying matches will take place on next week’s episode of NXT.
