Five of the biggest WWE Superstars will be at the WWE World for an exclusive meet and greet during WrestleMania 40 week.
Cody Rhodes will be appearing at WWE World on Thursday, April 4, followed by Seth Rollins on Friday, April 5, Charlotte Flair will be there on Saturday, April 6, while CM Punk will drop by on Sunday, April 7. Bianca Belair will wrap up the week on Monday, April 8.
VIP Superstars add-ons will be available for pre-sale on Tuesday, March 12 at 10AM ET. A pre-sale code will be sent to those who already got their ticket for WWE World on Monday along with a link for purchase.
Tickets for each Superstar are priced $200 plus taxes and fees.
The VIP Superstar add-ons include a professional photo op with both a printed and digital copy of the photo, pre-signed item, and guaranteed seating at the Main Stage panel for the Superstar you select.
VIP add-ons for each Superstar are very limited, and the purchase of a GA ticket does not guarantee availability.
Former WWE Superstars Emma and Riddick Moss, real names Tenille Dashwood and Mike Rallis, got married in Hawaii at the world-renowned Kualoa Ranch.
The two got engaged in June of last year during a trip to Melbourne, Australia, the hometown of Dashwood.
“It took a while to get there, but once we started dating it didn’t take long to know I’d found the one,” Rallis told PEOPLE.COM, who got the exclusive images and details of the wedding ceremony.
Both stars were released from their WWE contract in September of last year.
The first match for AEW’s newest pay-per-view Dynasty was made official last night on Collision and it’s a dream match for many wrestling, especially AEW, fans.
For the first time ever, newcomer Will Ospreay will be taking on Bryan Danielson in a battle of who is the best in the world.
After his match on Collision, Danielson said he heard for years Ospreay saying he’s the best and now he’s going to give him a chance to prove it.
Fans started a “Yes” chant after Danielson challenged Ospreay in the ring and Ospreay responded with a “Yes, bruv” with both of them shaking hands.
Collision too now has the tunnels, just Tony and Nigel this week after Kevin Kelly was let go. Very strange situation there.
Bryan Danielson vs Shane Taylor
Backstory: NONE
Danielson came out to a loud ‘yes!’ chant and a great response.
Before we got going, the announcers brought up Danielson confronting Will Ospreay. Taylor sent him flying back to the corner, back to a lockup, Danielson pushed back to the corner again then bealed out.
Crowd are enthusiastic but clearly very small. Last I heard there were like 1500 tickets sold.
Lockup once more, Danielson trying to move the bigger man but being forced to his knees, trying to sweep the leg, settling for elbows to the head before Taylor shoved him clear and we were back to cagey circling, Danielson throwing kicks to keep Taylor at bay.
Taylor caught him with a big left, Danielson slumped in the corner then took a big open hand to the chest. A second. Which reverberated around the arena. But only pissed the Dragon off, flurry of kicks to the chest, the two fighting back and forth now, chops and kicks as Danielson targeted high then low to keep the big man off balance.
Then used the ropes to target the legs before continuing to kick away before using the ropes once more. Breaking at four of course. A running dropkick to the joint before Taylor recovered to fire gut shots until Danielson ducked and went after the legs again. Taylor was ready, blocked it, big slug, knee strike, Danielson crumpling out through the ropes as Nigel channeled Smokey from Friday, sans the swear.
Ads. This is really good. The realism of Danielson’s matches is another level.
Back to Danielson down in the ring, head protruding onto the apron, Taylor working the crowd before nailing a legdrop. Count of two. (Taylor keeps yelling at Danielson for stomping Lee Moriarty unnecessarily two years ago.)
Then teed off with another massive gunshot of an open hand. Danielson flipped off the buckle, low dropkick, Taylor limping – missing a splash, Danielson using the ring post to continue his attack on the knee (he and Nigel had a little stare down while he was out there).
Shotgun off the top which didn’t properly connect, more kicks to the quad, Taylor finally down to one knee (great selling here) where the Dragon teed off with kicks to the chest, roundhouse to the head, Taylor crumbling but kicking out at one. With authority.
That’s a bit much.
Danielson regrouped, pair of running leg lariats in the corner but Taylor nailed a lariat as he attempted a third, near fall.
Taylor talked more trash and Danielson nailed him with several shots until taking a headbutt, Rock bottom, splash, another near fall. Taylor missed a cannonball in the corner but caught BD mid-busaiku though Danielson slipped behind, three kicks to the head, Danielson ducking and dodging lariats, into the busaiku, 1, 2, 3.
This was wonderful. Loved this. Danielson made Taylor seem big and difficult to beat without selling too much or being dominated.
Winner: Bryan Danielson
‘Elevated’ hit. And here comes Ospreay to return the favor. Big smile, big pop. He leisurely strolled down the ramp – ‘I could get used to this’ he said to the cam with a big smile. He grabbed a mic. He asked the fans how they were doing. He asked for a second mic so he could ‘have a chat’ (he was just so easy and casual here, sounded like a real person just talking). He asked the fans to give the match a round of applause.
He said it’s incredible watching Danielson and he’s still performing at the highest level. An ‘Ospreay’ chant (to the tune of ole, ole, ole, ole) interrupted. He said the fans were too kind. The thing he’s noticed since he’s been here is that people look at Danielson as ‘the bar.’ He inspires everyone, including Ospreay. Danielson’s done so much for the business and is owed so much, ‘thank you so much for everything that you’ve done.’ Crowd chanted ‘yes!’
‘Mmmmmm but…’ he interrupted Ospreay after his main event. Ospreay thinks just maybe Danielson has something he wants to ask him. Danielson said he was half right. But first he said ‘welcome to AEW,’ crowd cheered and chanted ‘AE-dub’.
Secondly, he said he saw the match vs Takeshita. Not only did Ospreay win, it was one of the best matches Danielson’s ever seen. He also heard Ospreay say in the scrum that for years he’s been the best wrestler in the world.
Danielson wants to give him a chance to prove it:
‘What do you say? Bryan Danielson vs Will Ospreay. At AEW Dynasty. What do you say?’
Crowd chanted ‘yes!’ wildly. Ospreay paused then said ‘Yes bruv,’ and extended his hand. They shook.
Killer opening segment. Tons of respect and recognition with just a little bit of ‘Oh you think you’re better?’
The Elite vs Somebody, Atlantis & Liam Gray
Backstory: the Bucks booted Omega from the group Wednesday and replaced him with his greatest rival
I failed to appreciate the other day how brilliantly this sets up Omega/Okada with the roles reversed.
The Bucks came out wearing Okada-like robes, as they did last Sunday, which should’ve been a clue. They have mental pyro now. Matt chucked a coin in the air and Okada’s music hit as it landed. Big cheer for his music and entrance, this will definitely be a battle.
Fans loudly chanting ‘O-ka-da’ as he shook with the Bucks. The Bucks did their pose either side of Okada’s. Their opponents are already in the ring.
Nick was going to start but tagged Okada to a big cheer. He threatened a chop, patted the guy on the head, flapjack before launching the guy into his own corner so he could tag. Atlantis came in, fired a few shots and ran into that very special dropkick. Another big cheer.
He dumped Atlantis into the corner too so he could tag out. Liam Gray came in and tried to fire up but was nailed with a Rainmaker. Done. Very effective.
They did their group pose again, Eddie Kingston ran in and was immediately beaten down three-on-one. Until Penta hit the scene, slingblades for all, except Okada who ducked and hit his behind-the-back neckbreaker. Fans chanted for him again.
Elite vs Eddie and the Bros? Yes please!
Maybe not. Pac’s back! That’ll do nicely too.
He walloped the Bucks then went face-to-face with Okada – ‘Take my money, take my money!’ yelled Nigel as the crowd chanted ‘Holy shit.’ Exchange of forearms, Okada got the better till Pac switched to feet, rebound German as Okada came off the ropes, the Bucks pulled him to safety.
Is this the same company!? Is this the same show!? Big stars, angles…
Pac grabbed a mic and said he’s back. And promised he’s looking for trouble so if the Elite want it they’re ‘barking up the correct tree. You want some? I’ll give it ya.’
Kingston yelled ‘Big Business, Boston, six man tag!’
Good god yes!!!
Winner: The Elite
Recap of Darby Allin and Jay White from Weds, which was certainly worth a recap – strong segment and this package was good in highlighting that match. This could be the best Dynamite in ages.
Mariah May vs Trish Adora
Backstory: NONE
Either they actually used an old picture of Toni in the graphic or they did one hell of a job making Mariah look exactly like her. Nice touch to the story. She came out to Storm’s previous AEW theme, which I’m not a massive fan of.
Nigel was fawning over her again – he has to take beta blockers to watch her matches (pills that slow your heartrate and reduce blood pressure). Adora took her down by the arm, hip-check takedown, another, schoolgirl, two.
Crowd very quiet.
May hit a nice headscissors, shotgun dropkick, she posed like Storm used to.
Ads. That shotgun is up there with anyone in the company.
Adora hit lariats and a pumpkick, senton splash, two only. May kick to the gut and takedown using the hair, lining up Adora who avoided a boot, hit a bridging German from her knees for another near fall. May slugged her, wicked knee strike, Mayday, win.
Would like Mariah to look a bit stronger considering she’s facing enhancement talent every week. But this story’s moving along nicely and May looks good in her brief flurries.
Winner: Mariah May
Toni Storm came out to the stage with a mic on a stand in front of her to give out a ‘Toni Award’. She spoke all formally and introduced herself, again insisting the award was ‘Toni with an i so we don’t get sued’. It’s for performance in a wrestling event – she read the nominees:
First up – Mariah May for her performance as Toni Storm at Revolution.
She was the only nominee.
Toni took a while opening the envelope to ‘build the tension’ then announced May had won. Deonna Purazzo then attacked from behind with a shoe and was booed. Toni had been cheered the whole time. May rushed to help and gave Deonna a ddt on the ramp.
Storm then handed her her award. ‘You deserve it!’ chanted the crowd – that’s funny, such an overused chant. Nice to see Storm actually being nice to May so there’s something there when one of them turns.
*****
Package pushing the Willow/Riho match and recapping Riho/Stat from Weds.
This fifty minutes has absolutely flown by.
Ads.
Christian Cage came out along with the gang.
Nick Wayne vs Adam Priest
Backstory: NONE
Wayne hit a fisherman ddt, choked Priest in the ropes, Wayne’s World, win.
Cage snatched a sign away from a fan in the front row wearing a lucha mask. The fan attacked, eventually revealing himself to be Copeland. Big cheer for the reveal.
He headed to the ring, took the TNT Title, grabbing a case from underneath the ring as the Patriarchy surrounded him. Until Copeland revealed what was in the box (only Cage could see but he was shook). He bailed and the crew left with him.
Copeland grabed a mic: ‘Get your stupid little mouth ready to say two words – you know ‘em (he said to the crowd) – ‘I…’ (the crowd yelled – ‘quit’).
Winner: Nick Wayne
They legged it backstage to Mark Briscoe and the wastes of oxygen. Jarrett said everyone wondered whether he could trust Briscoe or vice-versa. Jarrett insisted Briscoe could trust him. Lethal said he trusted them both and hoped they trusted him. Briscoe called Jarrett a ‘dog’ but seemed to be saying this in a good way for some reason. He fired up and they left.
Guess the show couldn’t be perfect. That’s a weak ass main event.
Chris Jericho vs Titan
Backstory: Jericho challenged Weds
Jericho’s randomly ‘Lionheart’ again. AEW keep saying ‘The CMLL.’ ‘The Libre?’ – makes no sense. Crowd couldn’t have cared less about Titan as he came out (pronounced Tee-tan).
A weak ‘lucha libre’ chant played over essentially silence. Jericho took him down into a bow and arrow, Titan slipped out into a cover but didn’t get a one count.
A chop battle commenced, Jericho smacking the smaller man back to the corner, Titan elevated over and did a bunch of flips for no reason. He then did some springboards while maintaining an armwringer, into a nice hurracanrana which sent Jericho outside where Titan nailed a tope.
They fought outside until Titan sent Jericho to the steps.
Jericho cut him off upstairs, they jostled for a while until Jericho hit an avalanche facecrusher/bulldog.
Ads. Bjork wrote a song about this atmosphere.
Titan did more flipping for no reason then hit a kick from his back (imagine a fish hitting a kick in its death throes). Jericho went old school with an underhook backbreaker for two.
Then hit a DVD into a scoop slam, missed a lionsault, caught Titan coming off the ropes but took a springboard tornado ddt, out at two. Titan took his pads off and headed upstairs, big diving stomp – looked great, Jericho kicked out at nearly three. Titan got a bridging deathlock – crowd chanted ‘tap’ – Jericho reversed it into the Tamer, Titan rolled him up for two.
Please end.
Jericho caught a springboard into a sloppy codebreaker. Another kickout. Titan ducked an obviously telegraphed Judas Effect then hit a spinning DVD, Jericho kicked out again. Piss-weak kicks and strikes from Titan, he did the same needless springboarding looking for another rana but was caught into the Tamer for the tap.
Serves him right.
Too long, too slow, too much springing for no reason. Jericho was not over here.
The Gates of Agony attacked after the bell. Hook then came out with a kendo stick. Didn’t get much of a reaction either. He nailed Leona across the back with the stick, though Leona had to be pulled away, as if it didn’t hurt him.
This feud is up there for least interesting.
Winner: Chris Jericho
FTR came to the ring to talk to Tony. Schiavone said this is the team that comes to mind when you think about the tag belts. That tournament starts next Saturday.
Cash said Sunday didn’t go to plan. He said that happens sometimes. All they can do is get up, dust themselves off and keep moving forward. They’ve been together ten years now. And they’ve been doing that for ten years.
They’re officially in the tournament.
Dax said Collision was built on tag wrestling – he listed their matches last year vs BCG, BtyBB etc. He said it’d be easy to promise they’d win the tournament. But he’s not a liar. He can’t say they’re firing on all cylinders atm. They have a little self-doubt. He’s not even sure they should be in the tournament. But he promised to give everything till they can’t get back up.
And hopefully become the first ever three-time AEW champs.
Someone called The Infantry came out. No-one told us anything about them. They introduced themselves – Shawn Dean and Somebody. They played to the crowd a bit. They said they nearly hadn’t come ‘cause it was 50% off at a strip club. Sparking a ‘Magic City’ chant.
The other one said they respected FTR and offered a handshake – ‘may the best team win.’ They said they were coming for FTR’s spots, so they could give the tag division what it’s been needing – ‘A revival’.
Dax said ‘The Revival’s dead… and if we meet you in the tournament, you will be too’.
Nice final line. Bit strange otherwise unless they actually have plans for the Infantry. Not the strongest foot forward for the tournament.
*****
Big Business package.
Mistico vs Angelico
Backstory: NONE
Mistico’s music has bells at the start so I thought it was the BCG theme at first ☹. Nigel really put him over.
Lockup, immediate break, Mistico went for the arm, Angelico freed himself and went after Mistico’s, they exchanged holds, trips and escapes. Crowd are as into this as anything since Copeland appeared.
Angelico took him down, Mistico popped up, pair of armdrags, pause for applause. Springboard back elbow popped the crowd.
Ads.
Mistico hit a tejeiras, 619, springboard dropkick, crowd clapping, tope to Serpentico outside, dropkick as Angelico tried to come back in, crowd still clapping, plancha into a rana outside.
Very nice.
Kick to the spine, Angelico sent back in, out-to-in slingshot senton for two. Senton atomico from the top for the same. Angelico moved on a moonsault but Mistico landed on his feet, Angelico got a magistral for a near fall, argued with the ref and was rolled up as Mistico got two.
Angelico lariat in the corner, Mistico returned the favor, they exchanged kicks and each collapsed. Mistico springboard cross body, right back up into a spinning rollup for two, La Mistica (headscissors into an armbreaker) for the tap.
Clearly is a big deal in Mexico, fans here were into Mistico. Angelico offered a handshake, he and Serpentico raised Mistico’s arms to a cheer. Decent match: not an unnecessary springboard in sight.
Winner: Mistico
House of Black vs Mark Briscoe, Jay Lethal & Jeff Jarrett (Atlanta Street Fight)
Backstory: the HOB tried to murder Briscoe so Briscoe tried to murder them back, Jay Lethal offered to help, Mark said to keep Jarrett away but then he was just in the match
They all immediately split into brawling around ringside. The crowd cheered because a table came out, wood breaking seemingly rivals the Undertaker for length of popularity. Brody sat Lethal on a chair and prepared to squash him against the barricade, Lethal countered via drop toe hold.
Captain Cash for Gold then fired chair shots to the back of King. Lethal sprang off a chair but took an anti-air punch then was cross-bodied through a table against the barricade. Nigel asked ‘Who could forget Briscoe tried to set Buddy on fire?’
Erm, AEW? All week.
Those two were brawling atop the buckle, King intervened and launched Briscoe off. He was (maybe?) supposed to go through a table but missed it and landed on a pile of chairs at ringside. Nasty landing.
Ads.
Buddy bullied Sonjay Dutt up the ramp, Julia Hart stopped him fleeing, Buddy poured lighter fluid on him and Julia stood over him with a lighter. Clearly with no intention of actually setting him on fire since Karen Jarrett was late coming out and Dutt remained unburned. Yes they actually built to one of the most annoying people in wrestling playing babyface as she nailed Buddy with a low blow then helped Sonjay knock him off the ramp. Julia then misted her.
Lethal tried to fling Brody through a table off the apron, King countered then did his sleeper where he drops you off the apron. Jarrett then nailed Brody with a guitar and he fell through the table. Malakai hit Jarrett with The End (if only).
No-one has yet actually tried to win the match.
Instead, Malakai tried to murder Briscoe again with the spike. Briscoe countered and hit a Jay Driller. Julia grabbed his ankle, Briscoe sent Malakai outside and sprang off a chair into a senton but was caught by Buddy and Malakai. Curiously enough, there was a table setup there too, which hadn’t been there only minutes ago.
How did they know?
Julia lit the table on fire, they powerbombed him through it, Malakai then pinned him.
You could easily convince a viewer that the start and end of this show were different companies. One featuring top tier talents in hot pro-wrestling angles, the other featuring garbage brawling between six guys who did not appear on the ppv. Amid a ridiculous sports entertainment angle where guys are trying to set each other on fire.
This all reeks of Jarrett and Dutt’s booking. If this is the sort of stuff the HOB actually want to do, by all means let them go back to WWE.
Star power galore and strong angles right from the jump, setting up killer matches
Good use of Okada – he dominated three guys by himself to establish him as a force, but did have to bail at the hands of a babyface to try to maintain him as a heel
Danielson vs Taylor
No messing around in announcing Ospreay/Danielson for the ppv, that’s probably 140,000 buys by itself
Copeland/Cage angle was effective – love a whodunnit (or in this case whatisit)
Two announcers is infinitely better than three
*****
Very weak second hour – lacking star power, matches with any intrigue and featuring a very weak main event which stunk of TNA between the people in it and garbage brawling (though admittedly I couldn’t be more out on the HOB and despise Jarrett et al – it’s so weird them being featured again)
Prolly could’ve used some of that second hour to hear from Wardlow or he and Cole to push the title match
Appreciate you reading. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Tonight’s episode of Collision is not live as it was taped this past Thursday in Duluth, Georgia and it will feature Kazuchika Okada’s first match as a full-time AEW employee.
Matches taped include Okada teaming up with The Young Bucks as The Elite take on Liam Gray, Adrian Alonis, and Jon Cruz in a trios match. House of Black are also featured in a trios match against Jeff Jarrett, Mark Briscoe, and Jay Lethal in an Atlanta street fight, Mistico takes on Angelico, Bryan Danielson wrestles Shane Taylor, Mariah May vs Trish Adora, Nick Wayne vs Adam Priest, and Chris Jericho takes on CMLL’s Titan.
This Collision was a back-to-back taping at the Gas South Arena the night after Dynamite.
Before taking center stage at WrestleMania 40, Dwayne Johnson will rock another stage tomorrow at the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
The Rock has been chosen as one of the presenters at the 2024 Oscars ceremony along with another WWE collaborator, Bad Bunny.
The duo join several A-list celebrities such as Michael Keaton, Chris Hemsworth, Brendan Fraser, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zandaya, Jennifer Lawrence, Al Pacino, and others as presenters of the coveted golden statue.
The 2024 Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, airs tomorrow at 7PM ET live on ABC.
During a Minnesota House of Representatives meeting, a major hint was thrown at the city of Minneapolis holding WrestleMania next year.
Minneapolis has been the front runner to host WrestleMania 41 for several months now and it looks like the announcement is about to happen.
Wendy Blackshaw, the CEO and President of Minnesota Sports and Events, said that they are on the verge of announcing a big event which “will provide an economic impact second to only the Super Bowl” and they hope they’ll be able to announce it in the next weeks.
When WrestleMania goes to Minneapolis, the U.S. Bank Stadium will be playing host to the show. It’s a 73,000-seater stadium, home of the Minnesota Vikings NFL team, which was opened in 2016. The NFL hosted the Super Bowl at the U.S. Bank Stadium in 2018 and Blackshaw also served as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales on the Minnesota Super Bowl host committee.
This is the third time that the city of Minneapolis has bid to host WrestleMania.
On the latest episode of his podcast The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, the former tag team champion has confirmed a Fightful Select report that his AEW contract will expire this month.
“We’ve spoke about it, we’ve talked about it and I guess we’ll see what happens,” Hardy said. “Yes, it is coming up in March, if you listen to the podcast just give me your feedback, tell me what you think I should do next. I’m a person of the people, I listen to the people.”
Hardy has been with the company since 2020 when he made his debut on an episode of Dynamite in an empty Daily’s Place during the height of the pandemic. He has not wrestled much lately on television and despite his brother Jeff joining him in 2022, it has been a rocky road for the brothers since then.
“I love AEW. I’m cool with staying with AEW. I really enjoy the locker room there, I enjoy the vibe there, but if that’s not what happens then that’s not what happens and life goes on. It’s all good,” Hardy continued.
Matt recently complained about the lack of creative he and Jeff have in AEW.
Production assistants and cameramen were seen frantically waving their hands to tell The Rock and Cody Rhodes to “take it home” as they were going to get off the air without the slap airing on television.
A production assistant at ringside kept waving his hands and clapping to get the attention of those in the ring while a cameraman outside the ring went into line of sight of The Rock and told him to wrap it up as the segment literally went down to the wire.
After The Rock called Cody a “mistake,” Cody thought about his next action for a second as the same production assistant at ringside kept moving to hit his cue. The credits rolled before Cody actually hit his slap and the broadcast went off the air just mere seconds after Cody slapped The Rock.
WWE has signed its first spirits sponsorship with Wheatley Vodka, putting the brand as the Official Vodka of WrestleMania 40.
According to the Sports Business Journal, the deal includes live-event brand integrations on both nights of WrestleMania, inclusion in the event’s Kickoff Show, social/digital media executions and a sweepstakes promo.
As part of the deal, Wheatley will also be the sponsor of an upcoming six-part series on WWE digital channels featuring Cody Rhodes and a Wheately-branded tour bus will be in the series.
“Our strategy now at TKO is to open up new categories and sign bigger, broader deals,” said Grant Norris-Jones, EVP and Head of Global Partnerships at TKO. “We’re out in the market looking hard for an official beer partner [for WWE].”
Here are the results from last night’s TNA Sacrifice streaming exclusive event which took place from the St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The show aired on TNA+.
Crazzy Steve defeated Joe Hendry to retain the TNA Digital Media title in the pre-show; Mike Bailey and Trent Seven defeated Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz in the pre-show; Nic Nemeth defeated Steve Maclin; Eddie Edwards and Brian Myers defeated Chris Bey and Ace Austin to become the new TNA World Tag Team champions; PCO defeated Kon in a no disqualification match; Dani Luna and Jody Threat defeated Killer Kelly and Masha Slamovich to become the new TNA Knockouts World Tag Team champions; Hammerstone defeated Josh Alexander; Mustafa Ali, Zack Gibson, and James Drake defeated Chris Sabin, Kushida and Alex Shelley in a six-man tag team match; Jordynne Grace defeated Tasha Steelz and Xia Brookside in a three-way match to retain the TNA Knockouts title; Moose defeated Eric Young to retain the TNA World title.
WWE and PRIME struck a record-setting global partnership that will see PRIME Hydration become the exclusive Official Hydration Drink Partner of WWE and the first partner to ever appear on the center of the WWE ring.
As WWE’s exclusive Official Hydration Drink Partner, PRIME Hydration will receive unprecedented exposure and integration within key WWE assets, highlighted by never-before-seen center mat branding at Premium Live Events (PLEs) such as WrestleMania and Money In The Bank. Further, PRIME Hydration will earn key brand placement within WWE events including WrestleMania XL and Survivor Series, match sponsorships, co-presenter designations at future PLEs, product activations at live events, social support from WWE Superstars across retail and digital activations, and more.
Additionally, PRIME Hydration will be the first official partner to activate across both TKO companies. In January 2023, UFC struck an exclusive global partnership with PRIME Hydration that features a number of branded integrations and entitlements, including the Official Hydration Drink of UFC and Official Partner of the UFC Performance Institute. Earlier this year, TKO brought together the global partnerships teams at UFC and WWE to form a singular global partnerships unit with a unified sponsorship strategy.
“What Logan and his team have built in a short time is phenomenal and we’re excited to help showcase PRIME Hydration across our biggest events,” said WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque.
“Combining two of my greatest achievements into one knockout partnership is a dream come true,” said PRIME Co-Founder Logan Paul. “We’ve worked incredibly hard at PRIME to build a brand that disrupts the beverage industry and it’s time to join forces with the global leader in sports entertainment. Thank you to everyone on both sides who have played an important role in bringing PRIME Hydration to the ring.”
Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins accepted The Rock’s and Roman Reigns’ challenge for WrestleMania and the foursome will now headline night one of the biggest WrestleMania ever.
The Rock recapped the stipulations for Cody and Seth before they gave their answer, saying that if Cody and Seth win, then the Bloodline are barred from ringside the next day. But if Rock and Roman win, then it’s Bloodline Rules for the Undisputed WWE Universal title and Rock said he will do everything in his power not to let Cody win the title. He also said that if he loses, the story is finished for him and he would make sure that Cody never wrestles for the WWE championship and Seth’s title goes away.
Seth Rollins, who got a laugh after the Texas crowd chanted “Diarrhea” to The Rock, accepted the match and Reigns asked if Cody was stupid and from Texas because he let another man decide his fate.
The show ended when The Rock called Cody a Dusty mistake and Cody then slapped The Rock in payback from the WrestleMania Kickoff show last month.
The Rock and Roman Reigns are both shown arriving to the Center. Then Seth and Cody are quickly met by Nick Aldis.
Out to the ring first is the WWE United States champion Logan Paul. Paul said he is a conqueror and he didn’t join the WWE to take part, he joined to take over. Paul said the WWE is in its Prime and he had a surprise, and a logo of his Prime drink was shown on the mat, and he announced they have partnered with WWE and introduced his partner KSI.
As they posed for a picture Randy Orton’s music came on. As Logan laughed off Randy not coming out, Randy snuck behind him and went for an RKO, but Logan ran out of the ring and Randy his KSI with an RKO. Randy then tried a Prime drink and said this if very good then poured the drink on KSI.
Randy Orton & Kevin Owens VS. Grayson Waller & Austin Theory
As Theory and Waller attempted to double team Randy, Owens comes in and hits Waller with a stunner and then Theory came running at Owens who tosses him up for the pop up powerbomb but moves and Randy hits an RKO.
Winners: Randy Orton & Kevin Owens
After the match, Owens and Randy are celebrating. Logan Paul comes in and attacked both. Paul put the brass knuckles on and as he went to hit Randy, Randy grabbed him and pulled the knuckles off Paul and went to hit Paul who moved and dives out of the ring and Randy was able to get his momentum stopped right before he would have hit Kevin. Owens and Randy fist bump as Paul, Theory and Waller run to the back.
A video package of Damage Control and Bayley is shown. Bayley was then interviewed by Kayla Braxton. Bayley said she built Damage Control with all her heart and will do everything she can to destroy it.
Bianca came over to Naomi who was watching Bayley. Bianca tells her Bayley is getting what she deserves. Naomi says she feels bad for her.
Bobby Lashley VS. Karrion Kross
AOP come in and attack Lashley.
Winner by DQ: Bobby Lashley
The Street Profits come out to help Lashley. Lashley then goes for the Hurt Lock on Kross, but Scarlett comes in and B-Fab slaps her and chases her to the back and Lashley locked in the Hurt Lock then the AOP come back in and beat down Lashley as Kross hits the final prayer on Lashley and the Final Testament leave Lashley lying in the ring and the Street Profits lying on the outside.
Dragon Lee is shown walking backstage and Elektra Lopez stopped him. Legado Del Fantasma tells Lee he is nothing and Rey Mysterio is in the past a shoving match left Lee on the floor and Legado Del Fantasma walk away and tell Lee they would see him out there.
Tiffany Straton VS. Michin
Tiffany hits the prettiest moonsault ever to get the win.
Winner: Tiffany Straton
AJ Styles talks about why he did what he did, and he said he watched LA Knight walk around like he owned the place and Knight doesn’t deserve to be in the same locker room with AJ Styles. AJ says he is going to humble Knight and Knight is shown smashing a TV and called AJ a boring one and challenged AJ to show up next week.
Tyler Bate is playing the 2K24 video game and talking to Pete Dunne and Bate says he is going to talk to Nick Aldis and after he leaves Dunne starts playing the game.
Angel VS. Dragon Lee
Angel went for a pop up powerbomb, but Lee countered into a hurricanrana pin attempt and got the victory.
Winner: Dragon Lee
The rest of Legado Del Fantasma attacked Lee immediately after the match.
Damage Control was shown talking about Bayley.
Nick Aldis was shown knocking on Cody Rhodes’ and Seth Rollins’ locker room and went in and they were not in there and Nick got worried and asked security where they were, but no one knew.
The Bloodline comes to the ring, The Rock then comes to the ring. Roman says acknowledge us and Cody’s music came on. Cody comes in from the crowd. Seth Rollins is standing in another section of the crowd.
Cody asked the Rock if he had the authority to make that kind of stipulation after acknowledging Roman as his Tribal Chief. The Rock says he acknowledged him because that is what family does. As the Rock was talking, Seth said will you shut the hell up and listen to me Mr. mid-life crisis. You had your time, you can’t have ours, we accept your challenge.
The Rock says he is a member of the board, and he is their boss and if Cody does not win, he will make sure he will never get another shot at the title. The Rock then talked about Cody’s family and why Cody is so much younger than his siblings because Cody was a mistake and Cody slapped The Rock across the face as the show ends.
Undisputed WWE Universal champion Roman Reigns, The Rock, WWE World Heavyweight champion Seth Rollins, and Cody Rhodes are on a collision course tonight live on Smackdown from a sold-out American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
Not much has been announced for tonight’s broadcast yet apart from the fact that Cody and Seth will be answering Rock’s challenge from last week where he suggested a tag team match for WrestleMania Saturday.
United States champion Logan Paul will also be in the house as his plans for WrestleMania become more clear.
The only matches advertised so far is Bobby Lashley vs Karrion Kross and a tag team match between Austin Theory and Grayson Waller versus Kevin Owens and Randy Orton.
It was a rough night for AEW on Wednesday night especially for newcomer Will Ospreay who was thrown into the main event slot of the new season of Dynamite.
Ospreay’s main event match against Kyle Fletcher did the lowest viewership for the two-hour broadcast, with 654,000 viewers tuning in. The eighth quarter hour dropped 93,000 viewers from the prior quarter and the seven-minute overrun only improved things slightly by doing 676,000 viewers.
While no one is denying Ospreay’s wrestling ability, throwing him into the main event in his second Dynamite appearance as a full time AEW star didn’t do the British star any justice.
This week’s Dynamite was the least-watched since October of last year and was a pretty-loaded show with the likes of The Young Bucks, Chris Jericho, Kazuchika Okada, Adam Copeland, Samoa Joe, Swerve Strickland and other heavy hitters appearing.
WWE has become the first sports channel on YouTube to reach a whopping 100 million subscribers, making it the 10th largest YouTube channel ever.
With more than 100 million subscribers and 81 billion lifetime views, WWE’s subscriber total is more than the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL combined.
WWE has credited the return of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson which has helped “supercharge” the subscriber total in recent months and noted that the WrestleMania Kickoff show in Las Vegas last month saw an addition of over 100,000 subscribers in one day.
WWE has been on YouTube since 2007 and the platform is very important for the company, hosting several live events and exclusive footage as well as highlights from every shows and full episodes of Raw, Smackdown, and NXT in places where there is no TV deal.
WWE announced that The Undertaker will be having his 1 deadMAN SHOW at The Fillmore in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 4 as part of WrestleMania weekend.
Taker’s show joins the many events which are scheduled to take place between Thursday and Monday in Philly as the wrestling world descends upon Philly for WrestleMania 40.
Tickets for this Taker show will go on pre-sale this coming Tuesday, March 12 at 10AM ET and a general public sale will follow the next day, March 13, also at 10AM ET.
A week before she debuts for All Elite Wrestling at Dynamite: Big Business, Mercedes Mone has already plans for the future: a return to WWE.
Speaking with Evan Mack on the Kick Rocks Wrestling Podcast which was recorded in Los Angeles, the former Raw and Smackdown Women’s champion said, “I know I’m gonna be back one day okay, so it’s not over! Like I said, I have a lot of unfinished business in wrestling, in a lot of places.”
That comment sparked a “Let’s go!” reply from Mack, who he himself is a former WWE employee and host of The Bump.
Mone got emotional discussing how WWE gave her all her fans and dreams and said she has amazing things to say about WWE.
The post-Revolution episode of Dynamite with the debut of Kazuchika Okada drew 779,000 viewers, down 42,000 viewers from the last episode. This show was also marketed as the new season. It was the least-watched episode of Dynamite since October 25, 2023. Dynamite did a 0.27 rating in 18-49, down 0.02 from the prior week and was #3 on the top 50 cable chart for the night. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)
