The newest AEW video game, titled AEW Elite General Manager, will be released in two days on July 15 for mobile devices and will be available for both iOS and Android devices.
Features for the game include the ability to manage and book a constantly-evolving, ever-expanding roster of over 90 AEW wrestlers; challenge your friends or take on rival GMs around the world in casual and ranked online play. Earn your bragging rights by ruling the leaderboards; prove your GM abilities by completing daily missions and taking on a series of unique challenges to earn achievements and special rewards; and customize your chosen wrestlers with a massive variety of available gimmicks which provide various abilities and powerful effects that will influence the outcome of your matches and improve your chances of running a successful show.
This is the second game for AEW after the universally-panned AEW Casino game which was just a random casino game branded with the AEW logo.
The commercial for the game features Kenny Omega and Orange Cassidy and you can see some of the gameplay below.
Everyone thinks they can run the show. Now you get to prove it.
WWE fans will see the WWE ThunderDome for the last time ever – hopefully – tonight as an end of era that seemed to last like a lifetime comes to a close with the final broadcast of Monday Night Raw.
While the last live taping was held on Friday for Smackdown, tonight’s Raw was taped this past Tuesday and WWE has already took down the structure inside the Yuengling Center.
The assembly and technology of the ThunderDome and the overhaul of the WWE PC as the Capitol Wrestling Center cost WWE over $20 million but it was a necessary cost to pay following months of dreadful shows inside a dull Performance Center. WWE trucks arrived at the Amway Arena on August 14 to start the makeover of the arena and WWE held its first show inside the ThunderDome on August 21.
The Amway Arena, Tropicana Field, and the Yuengling Center all played their part over the past 10 months to host around 100 television and pay-per-view tapings, making the WWE product somewhat more watchable by bringing in technology, lights, pyro, and virtual fans.
But thankfully, starting this Friday, WWE hits the road again with Smackdown live from Houston, Texas as some sense of normalcy returns for the promotion.
WWE Hall of Famer Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff has passed away at the age of 71. His death was announced by his son Travis in a post on Instagram.
“It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my father, Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr. He is better known as “Mr. #1derful” Paul Orndorff. Most of you will remember him for his physique. Many will remember his intensity. But if I could only get you to understand and see his heart. He will always be Pop, Paw Paw, and Daddy at home. And as much as many of you hated him as a wrestler, he absolutely loved you for it. He was an amazing father that showed me more love than I ever deserved. I love you Daddy,” the post read.
Orndorff was in really rough shape lately and suffered from dementia. His son posted a heartbreaking video a couple of months ago that showed his frail father confused, a video which we did not re-publish.
Mr. Wonderful made his pro wrestling debut in 1976 and wrestled for the NWA, Georgia Championship Wrestling and other regional promotions before landing in the WWE in 1983. His popularity in the company led him to be part of the main event of the first-ever WrestleMania, teaming with Roddy Piper to take on Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. His run in WWE ended in 1988 after several high-profile feuds and in 1990 he moved to WCW where he only lasted a couple of months.
In 1992, Orndorff returned to WCW and this time he stayed until 1995, then making occasional appearances for the promotion and ultimately taking over the WCW Power Plant.
Ondorff was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 by Bobby “The Brain” Heenan.
In 2011, he was diagnosed with cancer but beat the disease several months later. He was one of the many who sued WWE over brain injuries but that lawsuit was ultimately dismissed by a judge.
Former WWE champion Brock Lesnar was trending on Twitter today after photos of his new look surfaced online!
Lesnar, who visited Seth and Scott Perkins of the Bearded Butchers for some YouTube filming, was sporting a new look including a goatee…and a ponytail. Yes, Brock Lesnar now has a ponytail.
In a tweet on their Twitter account, the Bearded Butcher Brothers of Whitefeather Meats in Creston, Ohio, said that Lesnar joined them for a few days “honing his butchering skills” while they showed their techniques and tricks for the “viking.” The full video will be coming soon to their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/BeardedButchers.
Brock has not appeared on WWE television since WrestleMania 36 last year, losing to Drew McIntyre in the main event of night two of the event. He is a free agent and has been out of contract for quite a while now.
In the meantime, you can check out Brock’s new look below.
Brock Lesnar joins the Bearded Butchers! The bonds of butchering are what brought the Beast to spend a few days honing his butchering skills as we showcased techniques and tricks for this Viking. Full video coming to YouTube so stay tuned!!! @HeymanHustle#brocklesnar#ufc#wwepic.twitter.com/A485mPXcC1
— BeardedButcherBlend (@_Beardedbutcher) July 12, 2021
Former WWE Superstar Chelsea Green, who was released from the company in April, showed up at Ring of Honor during their Best in the World pay-per-view yesterday live from Baltimore, Maryland.
Green’s 90-day no-compete clause was set to expire on July 14 but it looks like she got out of it a few days earlier, enabling her to appear yesterday. She will now be participating in the ROH Women’s title tournament starting on the July 31 episode of ROH.
The former NXT star is also heavily rumored for this week’s Slammiversary pay-per-view. Deonna Purrazzo will be defending her Knockouts title against a mystery opponent, so that is adding more fuel to the fire that the mystery opponent is Green. Green was used in the commercial for the pay-per-view using older footage from when she used the Laurel Van Ness gimmick.
Green admitted last month that she did seek WWE’s help to rehab her arm – an injury she suffered in a WWE ring – and was visiting the WWE Performance Center regularly for physiotherapy because she could not afford it due to the high cost of the U.S. healthcare system.
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The Steve Austin Broken Skull Sessions episode with Kevin Nash which was supposed to wrap up nWo Week did not air and was pulled from the schedule as well.
This follows the removal of the WWE Icons: Lex Luger original documentary which was also pulled from its premiere last Sunday.
WWE pushed the Broken Skull Sessions episode on social media all week with Steve Austin also posting and retweeting about the show. Austin did not comment publicly about the show being removed, nor did Kevin Nash. Just like with the Luger doc, WWE has also chose not to discuss the reasons behind the removal.
With less than a week to go to return touring in front of fans, WWE Chief Brand Office Stephanie McMahon talked with Variety about the plans the company has when crowds finally return.
McMahon said that they cannot wait to get back together with their fans and come back “home” where they belong. She said that even though they never missed a television taping and continued producing shows, there was still a huge component missing without having fans physically in attendance.
Stephanie also discussed how WWE will switch things up with the first Smackdown on Friday live in Houston in front of a packed audience.
“In the ThunderDome, we were able to experiment with different types of technology. And we needed to over-deliver for our partners and our fans watching at home. But now we have the ability to apply all of those learnings to the live event experience with our fans,” McMahon told Variety. “So from a production and storytelling standpoint, it will look and feel different. We’re going to have a new set design, a new presentation of our talents, different locations, and arena setups.”
There will also be the utilization of augmented reality even more in a way that they’ve never done before. “We experimented with it a lot during ThunderDome, but it is now going to be incorporated into our talent entrances. There’s also going to be animated graphics. It’s going to be so exciting and so different than anything we’ve done before.”
WWE’s ticket sales have been a mixed bag so far with some markets doing good and other markets doing worse than pre-COVID.
WWE announced 11 more live events for the month of September including the location of the Extreme Rules pay-per-view.
Monday Night Raw on September 13, 20, and 27 will take place in Boston, Raleigh, and Cincinnati respectively. The TD Garden will host the September 13 show, PNC Arena will welcome the September 20 show, and the Heritage Bank Center will host the September 27 Raw.
The September 17 and 24 Friday Night Smackdown broadcasts will be live from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta and Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia respectively.
Extreme Rules on September 26 will be taking place from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus.
WWE also announced five non-televised live events. On September 11 there will be a show at the Capital One Arena in Washington, on September 12 it’s a live event at the Times Union Center in Albany, North Charleston hosts the September 18 show from the North Charleston Coliseum, the James Brown Arena in Augusta will have the September 19 show, and the last one is September 25 at the Giant Center in Hershey.
Tickets for all the mentioned shows go on sale on Friday, July 16 at 10AM local time in each market.
The Sasha Banks vs Bianca Belair match at WrestleMania 37 won the WWE Best Moment of the Year and the two were present at the ESPYS Awards yesterday to receive the award in person during the ABC broadcast.
Both Banks and Belair looked absolutely stunning with dresses that scream Superstars as they took the stage. Belair, who won the title in that match, carried her Smackdown Women’s title with her as well.
The two made history by becoming the first African American females to main event at WrestleMania.
WWE fans had to vote for the award with the final four also including Belair’s Royal Rumble win, Edge’s Royal Rumble win, and Bad Bunny wrestling at WrestleMania.
Smackdown on FOX this week drew an overnight rating of 1,880,000 viewers, up 140,000 viewers from last week’s overnight. Last week’s show ended up doing 1,862,000 in the final number so this week is already ahead.
The first hour started with 1,956,000 viewers and then dropped to 1,805,000 for the second hour. The show also drew a 0.45 rating in the 18-49 demo, beating everything else on network TV for the #1 spot. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV.com)
Jim Cornette, an avid critic of All Elite Wrestling, addressed the guy who tried to storm the ring during the Chris Jericho and MJF segment.
The man, who identifies himself as “Fat Bastard” on Twitter, tweeted to Cornette asking him if he loved his AEW debut this week. But Cornette was not impressed and tore the guy a new one.
“Got news for you dipsh!t, the ring is sacred ground for US, and even if you and a lot of others THINK you can kick the sh!t out of the Young Bucks, I would have turned you into a tennis racket popsicle, & you’re lucky someone there didn’t gut you like a fish,” Cornette wrote back, adding the news that he blocked him as well.
Chris Jericho also addressed “Fat Bastard” on Twitter before Cornette even replied. “Do you really think @TheJimCornette would condone this you f*ckin loser? Jimmy would’ve shoved a tennis racket up your ass and smashed your car windows,” he wrote.
Cornette has a habit of bashing AEW on his podcast and is not a fan of Tony Khan or what he presents on television every week.
President Biden has asked the Federal Trade Commission to ban or limit non-compete contracts which would allow anyone to work immediately right after leaving a job or after getting terminated.
Non-compete clauses are part of WWE contracts, usually 90 days for main roster talent and 30 days for others at the WWE PC and NXT. AEW also has something similar but no one has jumped ship yet. The Biden Administration says that such contracts drive down the wages and makes it harder for employees to switch companies for better-paying jobs or conditions.
A sweeping ban of non-compete clauses would enable anyone to jump ship from one company to another without having to wait to show up at another workplace. Non-compete clauses are used mainly in the private sectors and the White House says that roughly half of the businesses use them.
Banning such clauses will be a tough task to accomplish though and will see quite a few resistance from businesses lobbies.
If you watch Talking Smack every week on the WWE Network, you might have realized that Paul Heyman has been absent from last week’s show and even today’s episode.
Heyman has been permanently replaced on Talking Smack and will no longer be appearing as a co-host according to multiple insiders. The decision seems a bit of a weird one as Heyman had great chemistry with Kayla Braxton and often resulted in great segments with visiting Superstars.
The former WWE Executive Director had been co-hosting the show since November of last year and his interactions were a hit among viewers. Last week he was replaced by Pat McAfee although it’s unclear if McAfee will continue in this position in a permanent role.
Talking Smack is taped right after Smackdown but airs the next day on the WWE Network.
Former WWE President and Trump cabinet member Linda McMahon accompanied her former boss, Donald Trump, to the press conference where he announced class-action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, Google, and their CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pichai.
The former President was banned from social media completely and was often censored during his later stages of his presidency. McMahon’s appearance was confirmed by Axios.com in a story covering Trump’s press conference.
Trump appointed his long-time friend Linda McMahon as the Administrator of the Small Business Administration when he took office but resigned her position in late March 2019 to take a senior position as the chair of the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action to help him get re-elected.
Shotzi Blackheart and Tegan Nox made their Smackdown debut yesterday and started off big by defeating the current WWE Women’s Tag Team champions in a non-title match.
The two NXT stars were referred to simply as Shotzi and Nox and with the women’s division lacking a little bit right now, it looks like the company will be raiding NXT for female competitors. The two had dark matches prior to television tapings over the last several days so their main roster arrival is not a surprise.
Speaking of NXT, the former NXT UK Women’s champion Toni Storm is also moving to Smackdown. A vignette hyping her arrival “soon” aired last night. Unlike Shotzi and Nox, Storm looks like she kept her full name.
With Bayley suffering an injury and out for the next nine months, Carmella will be taking her place in the Smackdown Women’s title match.
But the match against Bianca Belair will not be happening at the Money In The Bank pay-per-view, but rather on Smackdown next Friday live from Houston. The original match was set to be an I Quit match although this one is a regular one-on-one match.
Sonya Deville announced Carmella as Bayley’s replacement but Liv Morgan interrupted and was not too pleased. Morgan was told that with Carmella getting the title shot, she would be taking Carmella’s place in the MITB ladder match instead.
The men’s Money In The Bank ladder match is now complete with all eight competitors announced.
On Smackdown last night, Shinsuke Nakamura and Seth Rollins joined the fray after they beat Baron Corbin and Cesaro respectively in qualifying matches.
Nakamura and Rollins now join Big E, Kevin Owens, Drew McIntyre, John Morrison, Riddle, and Ricochet in the match where the winner gets the briefcase and a title shot any time during the year.
Meanwhile, Liv Morgan was added to the women’s Money In The Bank ladder match but she replaces Carmella who gets a title shot next week. Asuka, Naomi, Nikki Cross, Alexa Bliss, and Zelina Vega are the other ones in the match with two more two go.
AEW’s newest arrival, Malakai Black, address his surprise debut on Dynamite during a live Twitch broadcast.
Black said that apart from his wife and a few AEW higher ups, nobody knew that he would be making his debut on Wednesday night and arrived in Miami late afternoon to minimize exposure as much as possible.
He said security were alerted about him before the segment started and he had not seen the arena before so it was a bit of a hassle to navigate his way out there in the dark.
The former NXT champion called his debut as one of his top three moments in his professional career and couldn’t sleep after the show because the adrenaline was still pumping.
Admitting he was nervous, Black said he ultimately thinks that moving to AEW was the right for him, his career, and his family. He put over Tony Khan as someone who loves wrestling, the crew, the fellow wrestlers in the back, and was super excited to be part of AEW.
WWE will have its last live television tapings inside the ThunderDome today, with next week’s Smackdown taking place in front of fans in Houston at the Toyota Center.
Monday’s Raw will be also from the ThunderDome but that episode has already been taped on Tuesday afternoon so the company will start dismantling their equipment inside the Yuengling Center following tonight’s broadcast.
The Yuengling Center on the campus of the University of Florida is the third location to host the WWE ThunderDome following the Amway Center and Tropicana Field. Originally, WWE’s contract ran through the beginning of August but they are vacating the premises earlier to hit the road.
The ThunderDome concept started on the Smackdown before SummerSlam last year following months of tapings inside the much-smaller WWE Performance Center. The WWE PC is now the home of NXT and was renamed the Capitol Wrestling Center.
