Ronda Rousey described her appearance at AEW Revolution as “like little bit of a ‘f*ck you’ to the TKO group” in a vlog she posted on YouTube documenting her surprise on the pay-per-view.
Rousey said she was brought in a wheelchair with a tarp over her to keep the surprise after she thought it was going to be more chill, “but they’re acting like it’s freaking Royal Rumble super secret.”
She admitted it was a “little bit weird” but also familiar as she has many friends there. She described the vibe backstage as more laid back than WWE but she had never been to a proper AEW show and said it was a “less restrictive, more adult version of WWE.”
Rousey, who is in a war with the UFC and TKO over fighter pay after they passed on her return fight against Gina Carano, added, “It’s kind of a cool little bit of a…like little bit of a ‘f*ck you’ to the TKO group, which is kind of funny because WWE is on Netflix, but I kind of figured it’d be easier to ask for forgiveness instead of permission on this one.”
She said regardless, it should “be fine” as they didn’t advertise her appearance and “it’s not like we boosted the ratings.”
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The Role Of Features In Online Slot Games
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Why Features Matter In Gameplay
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Common Features That Make Slots More Interesting
Many online deposit 5k slot games include similar types of features. These are easy to recognize and simple to understand once you see them a few times.
Popular Slot Features You Will Notice
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Free spins give extra chances to play without using your balance.
Multipliers increase the value of winning combinations.
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How Bonus Rounds Add More Fun
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What Happens During Bonus Rounds
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How Visual Design Supports Gameplay
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The Impact Of Graphics And Animation
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Feature
Purpose In Gameplay
Wild Symbol
Helps complete combinations
Scatter Symbol
Triggers bonus events
Free Spins
Offers extra rounds
Multiplier
Increases rewards
Bonus Round
Adds variety to gameplay
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How Auto Play Makes Things Comfortable
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Why Players Like Auto Play
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What You Can Adjust
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How Themes Make Gameplay More Enjoyable
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How Players Get Comfortable Quickly
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Final Thoughts
Online slot games use different features to make gameplay enjoyable, simple, and interactive. From wild symbols to bonus rounds, each element adds something special to the experience. The combination of visuals, sound, and easy controls creates a smooth flow that feels natural and comfortable. Once you get familiar with these features, every spin becomes more enjoyable and easier to follow.
Kenny Omega became the number one contender for the AEW World title last night on Dynamite after he defeated Swerve Strickland on the show.
Omega, who won with his One Winged Angel finisher clean, also retained his EVP status, which was on the line versus Swerve’s number one contendership.
Omega later met champion MJF later in the show and challenged him for the title at the upcoming Dynasty pay-per-view. MJF accepted but did not want to shake Omega’s hand.
Strickland had main evented the previous two Dynasty pay-per-views, both title matches against Samoa Joe and Jon Moxley respectively, but the third one in a row was not meant to be.
Omega has not had a run with the AEW World title since 2021, winning it in December 2020 and keeping it for 346 days until he ultimately lost it to Adam Page in November at Full Gear.
The Spring BreakThru themed episode of Dynamite and a new Playoff Palooza themed episode of Collision will be part of AEW programming next month.
HBO Max, in its monthly release schedule, revealed that the Spring BreakThru Dynamite will happen on Wednesday, April 15 while Collision that week will take place the following day on Thursday, April 16. Both episodes will be taped on the same day from Kent, Washington so Collision will not be a live broadcast.
And after some WWE mocking over the use of the term WrestlePalooza last year, AEW will be doing the Collision Playoff Palooza on Saturday, April 25. The NHL playoffs will be happening during that time frame so the name plays off off of that. This particular episode of Collision is set for an 8:30PM ET start time, 30 minutes later than usual.
These episodes will air on TBS and TNT respectively and of course stream live on HBO Max and also on MyAEW streaming service.
The March 16 episode of Raw on Netflix drew 3,000,000 global viewers, up 200,000 from the prior week and it’s now the seventh week in a row where the show has made it in the top 10 chart.
Raw was #8 on the Netflix global top 10 chart and the edited episode of 1 hour and 56 minutes had a total of 5,900,000 global viewing hours, up 900,000 from the previous week and the second-highest of 2026 so far.
Raw placed in the top 10 chart in 19 different countries including Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, and United States.
Former WCW and WWE star Marc Mero sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Atlanta, Georgia to discuss how Dusty Rhodes created his Johnny B Badd persona, his other gimmicks like Marvelous Marc Mero and Wildman Marc Mero, jumping to WWE and being asked by Vince McMahon if he could do a Tarzan yell, negotiating the first ever guaranteed WWE contract, having his wife Sable as his valet, Steve Austin refusing to work with him, his work today as a motivational speaker, and more!
So when you became Wild Man Marc Mero, Vince McMahon asked you if you could do a Tarzan yell?
“Yes. Okay, well what happened was, I think they were thinking they would get kind of a knockoff of Johnny B Badd, something similar like they do with some of the characters. But because the lawsuits were really going back and forth. Now, remember, guys are jumping ship. You’ll see one guy on Raw one week, and next week he’s on Nitro or something. So it wasn’t going to happen. So they had to completely change my character. Of course, I’m trusting them. Whatever they’re going to come up with is going to be great. I mean, they made The Undertaker, they made all these great characters, right? I remember they flew me in to talk about what they’re going to have me do. We sit around a table, and Vince looks at me and goes, ‘Marc, what do you think of Wild Man Marc Mero?’ I go, ‘What’s a wild man?’ He goes, ‘Can you do a Tarzan yell?’ I thought they know what they’re doing. I go, ‘Vince, I don’t have a very strong voice, and I cannot do a Tarzan yell.’ He goes, ‘All right, we’re gonna go with Wild Man Marc Mero.’ And I go, okay, am I from the jungle? What am I? I’m doing this Tutti Frutti character in WCW, coming out now, where am I from? So it was very hard for me to relate to, which the audience doesn’t relate to. So it was very hard. And not only that, they hired my wife, Sable is my valet, and now you got this beautiful woman going to the ring with you and who they’re going to cheer for. So it was very difficult right off the bat, but they really wanted to push me and give me some momentum. So they have me enter this Intercontinental tournament where I had to beat Owen Hart, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ron Simmons. I mean, these are some top guys that you’re they’re putting you over to win the Intercontinental title. So I was thinking now they’re really going to start giving me that push I always dreamed about, why I went to the WWF or WWE. The next thing you know, I’m wrestling the fake Diesel, the fake Razor, TL Hopper, The Goon. Wonderful guys and good workers, but they’re not the guys that is going to take you up the ladder in the WWF.”
What shifted?
“That’s the thing, maybe it’s a great question for Vince. I don’t know, maybe my confidence wasn’t there. I thought it was very hard for me to work with guys. First of all, this is really kind of hard to talk about in the sense that I wasn’t well-liked. My whole life, I had a lot of friends. I was always popular in sports, captain on my teams, and then you go into this new organization where you’re not very well liked, and you didn’t really understand why. Well, come to find out later, I got this guaranteed contract, I have my wife flying everywhere I’m flying, so I’m not hanging out with the guys, not going to the bars. I’m not staying up and doing things with those guys, or hanging out with guys. I’m with my wife all the time. And then I start realizing that no one really wants to work with me, you’re kind of an outcast, and it’s the worst feeling in the world.”
Is it jealousy?
“You know, part of it is. I guess, when you think about Stone Cold Steve Austin and Mick Foley just came in months before me for an opportunity. Next thing you know, I’m the first guy that gets this, not only a guaranteed contract, a big signing bonus, on top of it.”
You wrote in your book that you think Sable should be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
“Oh, absolutely. The woman’s division, they didn’t really have a woman’s division so much back then at all. But she brought eyes to the channels. The ratings and everything were very high because of her.”
Do you think you’ve had a Hall of Fame career?
“You know what? If you want to look at my WWF stint, no. But if you want to look at things I’ve done with WCW as Johnny B Badd, they were very entertaining.”
I feel like you’d be the perfect recipient for the Warrior Award:
“Something like that would be wonderful. If I ever did, DDP would be the guy to induct me.”
Frank and Gunnar Eudy, the two sons of soon-to-be WWE Hall of Famer Sid Vicious, were interviewed by Bill Apter to discuss how they got to find out about their father’s induction.
Frank, the older of the two, said WWE reached out to their mother and let them know last week what the plan was and asked if they would be interested in it and their thoughts.
“Obviously, any time that the fans get to celebrate dad, we like that concept. Dad always liked to make the fans happy and put on a good show…it was what it was all about for him,” Frank said.
He added that the family saw a lot of positive feedback online about the news and thinks a lot of fans wanted this to happen for a long time.
“I remember when dad passed, we got so many positive words sent to us online through social media, people we don’t know, people we do know,” he continued. “And, today, I feel like it was even more so. Getting to see all the fans out there really get a day to feel happy for dad, it makes us happy too.”
The 18-minute video interview can be seen on YouTube.
Collision had two one-hour episodes during the weekend, with Slam Dunk Saturday and Slam Dunk Sunday airing immediately following the conclusion of the NCAA basketball on TNT.
The Saturday show drew 470,000 viewers and had a 0.10 rating in 18-49 and that was followed by 616,000 viewers on Sunday and a 0.12 rating in 18-49. The Sunday show had the most viewers since December 2024. Both nights had the advantage of the huge lead-in from the NCAA. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
PWInsider.com is reporting that there are no plans to have Ronda Rousey appear on AEW television in the future, with her appearance at the Revolution pay-per-view described as a one-time thing to promote her return to MMA and help her friend Marina Shafir.
It was previously confirmed that Rousey was not under any deal with AEW and showing up at Revolution was also a way to stick it to TKO for not going through with her return fight against Gina Carano. Rousey has been very critical of the UFC and TKO in general, especially when it comes to fighter pay.
Rousey confronted Toni Storm on the pay-per-view after Storm defeated Shafir. The two had a face off which was broken up by tons of officials and security. The angle was not followed up on after Storm was taken out on Wednesday night before Dynamite and the Kiwi star is now not expected to be back for a long time either.
The former WWE Raw and Smackdown Women’s champion will have her first MMA fight since December 2016 when she takes on Carano on May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. The fight, airing live on Netflix, is promoted by Jake Paul’s MVP.
Paul Bearer’s last son, Daniel, passed away at 39 years old, effectively ending the whole Moody family who have now all sadly passed away.
Daniel’s passing was announced yesterday by Steve Stasiak of Book Pro Wrestlers and confirmed by Coastal Wrestling Alliance, where Daniel wrestled as DJ Pringle.
His father passed away in 2013 and his brother, Michael, passed away in 2014, just a few months after the two brothers appeared at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony on behalf of their late father. The mother, Dianna, had passed away in 2009.
Smackdown last Friday night drew 1,439,000 viewers, up 20,000 viewers from the previous week and the second most-watched episode of 2026 so far. The show had heavy competition from the NCAA and had a 0.32 rating in 18-49, the same as last week. It placed #6 on the top 50 cable chart behind NCAA related programming on TBS and TNT. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Johnny Gargano was a surprise entrant in a gauntlet eliminator match to determine the number one contender for the NXT North American title last night on the NXT on The CW.
The first two in the match had Shiloh Hill vs Jackson Drake and then Dion Lennox and Charlie Dempsey followed as entrants. The fifth and final entrant was the former NXT champion, who got a big pop from the WWE PC crowd.
And thanks to a “push” from his wife Candice LeRae, it was Gargano who came out on top in the match, defeating Hill to become the number one contender.
Gargano will now be facing Myles Borne for the title at the NXT Stand & Deliver premium live event.
The Netflix series WWE: Unreal received three nominations in the upcoming Sports Emmys.
Now in its second season, WWE: Unreal will be fighting for a win in the Outstanding Sports Documentary Series: Serialized, Outstanding Sports Editing: Long Form, and Outstanding Sports Graphic Design: Specialty categories.
In the Serialized category, Unreal is against Built in Birmingham: Brady & the Blues, The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox, Formula 1: Drive to Survive, Full Court Press, and Quarterback.
American Thunder: NASCAR at Le Mans, America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, Butterfly in a Blizzard, Celtics City, Saquon, and We Beat the Dream Team are its challengers in the Long Form category.
In the Speciality category, it has Believers: Boston Red Sox, MLB Now Open, NFL on CBS: The Evolution of the Big Head – Merging Human Artistry with AI Innovation, and NFL Slimetime as competition.
“WWE: Unreal’s nomination for three Sports Emmys is a testament to the work and dedication of every single individual @WWE whose work makes us run,” wrote Triple H on X. “Also, a massive thank you to our partners who helped bring this show to life and congratulations to all involved in the show and its production. @netflix @OmahaProd @NFLFilms & @Skydance Sports.”
Season two was released this past January and another season will drop later in 2026.
The 47th annual Sports Emmy Awards will be held at the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York on Tuesday, May 26.
The NXT title will be on the line in a fatal four-way match at the upcoming Stand & Deliver premium live event next month.
The match, featuring Joe Hendry defending the NXT title against Ricky Starks, Ethan Page, and Tony D’Angelo, was announced last night by Robert Stone after the main event had a melee between all four.
A match between former friends, Sol Ruca and Zaria, was also announced for the event, which currently has five matches.
Stand & Deliver was removed from the WrestleMania weekend and for the first time will be a stand alone event taking place on Saturday, April 4 in St. Louis.
In a rare interview on the Barstool Sports podcast Spittin’ Chiclets, former WWE champion Brock Lesnar said he returned to WWE for a short time so he could feed his kids.
“You guys should see my grocery bill. I had left the company years ago, and I’m grateful that I’m back for a short time here so…I’m really grateful for all the opportunities that I’ve had in my life,” Lesnar said.
There were rumors flying around that Lesnar would be retiring from in-ring action in the Summer, coinciding with the SummerSlam premium live event in his old stomping grounds of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Lesnar also said the none of his championships or accolades mean anything to him as his three kids are his legacy.
“My kids are my legacy. I mean, in today’s dark-ass world that we’re living in, if you can come out and have good kids, I take a lot of pride in that,” Brock said. “When parents come to me and say, ‘Man, your boys are really respectful.’ That pumps my tires, you know?”
Brock has four children, two from his previous partner, Nicole, named Mya and Luke, and two from his current wife Rena, named Turk and Duke.
All his three sons play ice hockey while his daughter is a track and field athlete. She is a 2025 NCAA Division I champion in shot put.
In a video posted on social media, Seth Rollins and his wife Becky Lynch announced the launch of their new passion project – AMO Coffee – which will debut next month in April.
“The other day we dropped a little teaser online saying we were going to announce something new and something big and here it is,” Rollins said. “We are launching our very own coffee brand called AMO. For the past seven years, we’ve been traveling the world together trying different coffees in different countries and different continents, different cities all over the world and we’ve fallen in love with coffee and AMO is our way of bringing that love to you.”
Rollins said that in the next few weeks, they will be announcing some events related to their coffee brand and fans should stay tuned for more information.
On Facebook, Rollins wrote that their worlds collided in the ring, and their love was solidified over expertly-made cups of joe.
“AMO is a symbol of our journey and that love. It’s what makes us tick — day in and day out — literally and figuratively,” he continued.
Tickets to experience WrestleMania 42 in theaters are now available on Fandango.com.
Both nights of WrestleMania 42 will be airing in theaters across the United States with tickets priced at $20.85 each.
Fandango is also offering a ticket bundle which includes an exclusive WrestleMania 42 t-shirt and also another offer which includes unlock codes for the WWEChampions.com online game.
Visit Fandango.com the check which theater near you will be screening the two-night event.
While Pat McAfee is no longer part of the WWE commentary team, he remains a good friend of the company and will welcome WWE champion Cody Rhodes to his Pat McAfee Show tomorrow afternoon.
Rhodes will join McAfee and his team at the Thunderdome starting at 1:05PM on ESPN for Rhodes’ first interview since getting attacked by Randy Orton.
In a recent social media video, McAfee stated that WWE is in a good spot without him and does not anticipate returning in his old position of teaming with Michael Cole on commentary.
