This year’s Double or Nothing has surpassed last year’s attendance already and is inching closer to 10,000 tickets distributed according to @WrestleTix.
The show is only around 1,000 tickets away from reaching its current capacity although the Louis Armstrong Stadium in Flushing can accommodate up to 15,000 seats and if sales continue as they are, a sell out is pretty much guaranteed.
The 2022 Double or Nothing is currently the most-attended of the series, with 14,459 packing the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Last year’s event in Glendale, Arizona drew 8,200.
The Slam Dunk themed episode of Collision airs tonight on TNT starting at 11PM ET right after the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. This will be a one-hour episode followed by another hour tomorrow night.
Scheduled matches include:
Dralistico, Rush, and The Beast Mortos vs. Alpha Zo, Lucas Raleigh, and Don Kubrick
Death Riders vs Kommander and Mascara Dorada
Sisters of Sin vs The Brawling Birds
Kyle Fletcher vs Robbie Eagles for the TNT title
The show is expected to get a huge lead-in from the NCAA game which will affect the weekend ratings in a positive way.
Mercedes Mone is two title belts lighter after she lost the Bodyslam Women’s title and the Discovery Women’s title in a double title match at the RevPro High Stakes event today in Wolverhampton, England.
The former TBS champion lost to Alexxis Falcon clean and then received a standing ovation from the crowd. Mone won the Discovery Women’s title in August 2025 and the Bodyslam Women’s title in October 2025.
This loss leaves her with just three indie titles, and is highly likely losing her Winnipeg Pro Wrestling Women’s title later this month.
Mone has been on a European tour losing the titles she won last year before her return to AEW.
Former WWE Superstar Ted DiBiase Jr., who had been undergoing a trial for several charges at the Thad Cochran Federal Courthouse, was found not guilty by a Mississippi jury.
The verdict was delivered yesterday after four hours of deliberation.
DiBiase Jr was facing one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, six counts of wire fraud, two counts of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and four counts of money laundering.
His worst case scenario saw him spending a maximum 45 years in prison and pay $1,000,000 in fines.
The charges were filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in April 2023, accusing the former WWE Tag Team champion with misappropriating millions of dollars in federal safety-net funds intended for needy families and low-income individuals in Mississippi.
WWE has announced that Nickelback’s song Bones For The Crows will serve as one of the official songs for WrestleMania 42.
This is a just-released new single by the Canadian band.
“They’ve rocked with us for over 20 years, and their new song will soundtrack the Grandest Stage of Them All,” wrote Triple H on X. “@Nickelback’s ‘Bones For The Crows’ is an official #WrestleMania theme song.”
This is not the first time that Nickelback has worked with WWE for a theme song. Their song Burn It To The Ground was used as the theme for Raw years ago.
Aerosmith’s Back In The Saddle is also being used as an official WrestleMania 42 theme. It remains to be seen if The Weeknd will return to the show as he holds the record of for the most consecutive Mania theme songs with six in a row so far.
Dennis Condrey, one of the founding members of The Midnight Express, passed away yesterday at the age of 74.
The Alabama native formed The Midnight Express in 1980 with Randy Rose and they were later joined by Norvell Austin until 1983, when he departed Continental Wrestling Association and formed the new version of The Midnight Express with Bobby Eaton in Mid-South Wrestling.
He was eventually replaced in the team by Stan Lane after he abruptly left Jim Crockett Promotions in 1987.
During his career, Condrey wrestled for multiple promotions and held several tag team titles with all his former Midnight Express partners.
He also had a short stint with WWE as a trainer in 2010, helping developing talent at Florida Championship Wrestling and NXT.
Ticket tracking service @WrestleTix is reporting that All In 2026 had moved nearly 20,000 tickets in its first week during pre-sales and the first day of general on-sale which was yesterday.
The first count number of the last All In at Wembley Stadium in 2024 stood at almost 34,000 and ultimately had a final number of tickets distributed of 53,922, with a reported turnstile attendance of 46,476.
The current configuration of Wembley Stadium is of 37,396 seats but obviously that will expand depending on how much tickets AEW can sell. Wembley has a total of 93,556 seats on the map.
Jelly Roll will step back in the ring for his second match next week on Smackdown as he takes on Kit Wilson.
The two had an in-ring segment yesterday on the show where Wilson continuously insulted Roll in “slam poetry,” mainly about his weight loss, even congratulating him on losing 300 pounds so he can see finally see his “little willy.”
Roll responded that he doesn’t have to see his willy, because Kit Wilson’s mother sees it for him and that followed by a few more mom jokes, before Wilson had enough and attacked Jelly, finishing him off with a flying corkscrew elbow.
In a segment later, Jelly Roll requested a match against Kit Wilson and it was made official for next week.
Roll is expected to be at WrestleMania in some capacity and might even lace up his boots for a match on the grandest stage of them all.
This will be Jelly Roll’s first singles match as his previous one he was in a tag team at SummerSlam.
Just days after signing a contract with CMLL to make it a dual one along with the AEW contract, Claudio Castagnoli lost the CMLL World Heavyweight title yesterday night against Hechicero.
Castagnoli won the title from Gran Guerrero in November 2025 and remained champion for a total of 112 days. It was his first time with the championship in CMLL.
Hechicero, another one under those dual CMLL/AEW contracts, previously held the CMLL World Heavyweight title for 409 days and it’s his second run with the title.
The post-Revolution Dynamite drew 730,000 viewers this past Wednesday, up big by 111,000 viewers compared to the previous week. This was the most-watched Dynamite of 2026 so far and their best number since June 18, 2025. Dynamite had a 0.13 rating in 18-49, up 0.04 from last week and placed #8 on the top 50 cable chart for the night. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Jade Cargill has engaged the services of two of her former opponents, forming a faction on Smackdown with B-Fab and Michin.
The WWE Women’s champion had a face-to-face with her WrestleMania opponent Rhea Ripley on Smackdown last night and Ripley wanted a fight, something which Cargill didn’t want.
Cargill started walking to the back but she was blocked by B-Fab and Michin, who quickly aligned with Cargill and surrounded Ripley. The three of them then beat Ripley down, with Wade Barrett calling them the Tormentors, maybe the new name of the faction.
Both B-Fab and Michin had matches against Cargill over the past few months so this group came out of nowhere.
Smackdown rolls into the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina tonight and it will be another big crowd for WWE, with over 12,500 fans expected in the building.
Four matches and two segments have so far been announced for tonight’s broadcast which airs at 8PM ET live on USA Network and on Netflix everywhere else.
The MFTs vs Damian Priest and R-Truth for the WWE Tag Team titles
The Irresistible Forces vs The Bella Twins for the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles
Motor City Machine Guns vs Fraxiom
Drew McIntyre vs Jacob Fatu
Plus, Randy Orton will explain why he turned on Cody Rhodes, and Kit Wilson calls out Grammy Award winning artist Jelly Roll.
Candice Michelle sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Austin, Texas to discuss her journey to WWE via the Diva Search and becoming the first Diva Search contestant to win the Women’s Championship, her match with Beth Phoenix that had a terrifying ending, life after wrestling, what her current role is in TNA, Melina having real heat with her, the story behind her magic wand and more!
I had seen the word online that you were working with TNA.
“Yeah, Tommy Dreamer called me and he offered me a spot as an agent.”
So did that just start this year?
“It did. It started in January, which was my first show, and he was so funny. He’s like, come and shadow me the first weekend, and the next weekend you’ll be an agent. All I can think about is that it’s wrestling, you know, we’re gonna see if you’re going to survive or not, and if you can do it or not and throw them to the wolves. I was like, Okay, let’s go.”
So is this just a backstage role, or are we going to see Candice Michelle making an appearance on TV?
“I think that this initial call was my hope spot, and I think it’s going to lead into my comeback.”
Are you open to wrestling another match?
“I was at WrestleCon, and I was doing an appearance, my promoter had Dustin [Rhodes] on, and somebody said, ‘Go up to him and tell him how you want to wrestle again.’ I’m just listening to this voice, like, really? Maybe it’s because I’m at WrestleCon, you know, you see all the wrestlers, you kind of get the itch, you’re kind of in it a little bit. I was going to the Hall of Fame that year to watch Michelle [McCool] be inducted. I go over to him, I was like, ‘Hey, I know you have a school in Texas, and I think I have the itch.’ He’s like, what? I don’t know if she really does. Then to come to December and get this call from Tommy Dreamer, I was like, I just feel it coming. I don’t know when it’s coming, but it’s coming.”
So this match with Beth Phoenix. What happens?
“Well, we were overseas, and we were putting together this match, and this is when Arn Anderson and Ricky Steamboat started to really train me. So you see how really towards the end of my wrestling career is when I really felt like I was getting the knowledge. It was the first time I understood that there’s a philosophy to the match. I literally had no idea. I was never taught it or anything. There was something in me and Beth that resonated with Ricky and Arn Anderson, and they really stepped up to the plate, and they said, This is how you got to start working this. The fans were really getting behind us, and overseas, we’re having these great matches, and we had this move where it was supposed to be, you know how you open your legs on the top rope and fall in. I guess I’m not that flexible. I think about it to this day. I just saw somebody on TNA do this move, and I was like, yeah, that’s not for me. So I was like, I’ll do my knees instead. That’s a little less flexible. And overseas, I did it one time, and I came back, and all the boys were worried because I landed on my neck. I didn’t feel it. It didn’t phase me. I was not injured. I wasn’t hurt, and so I didn’t really think much of it. But we’re on like a 7 to 10 day tour over there, not much sleep. We fly back to Nebraska. We’re going to kind of do this match again, and my boot catches that rope, and I wasn’t allocated that little extra space, and I landed on my head.”
Did you get knocked out?
“I was knocked out. I don’t remember it. The first thing I remember is being on the stretcher, and Stephanie McMahon was leaning over me, and they’re going into Gorilla, and she goes, ‘Don’t worry, we’re flying your husband out.’ I was like, they don’t fly your husband out [unless it’s serious]. So instantly, I was worried. I had a concussion and I broke my collarbone. It came at a time where we weren’t really educated with that kind of injury, and so being dragged to the center of the ring after that happened, if that was my neck, it would have paralyzed me.”
The WrestleMania 42 stage tickets are now available for purchase on Ticketmaster.com for both nights.
There are only 197 seats on the stage, with the right side having 94 tickets and the left side having 101 seats. The first row of the right stage is reserved for handicap seating.
Each ticket costs $651.55 plus fees for each night, so a total of $1,303 plus fees will get you a once in a lifetime experience sitting on the actual stage of WrestleMania.
No combo seats are available for stage tickets so they have to be bought separately.
WWE paid tribute to actor Chuck Norris, who sadly passed away at the age of 86 today.
The very popular pop culture icon had a WWE connection, albeit a very short one a long time ago as Norris had served as the special enforcer for The Undertaker vs Yokozuna casket match at Survivor Series 1994, even getting physical by flattening Jeff Jarrett with a roundhouse kick to help Taker win the match.
Norris, whose memes are all over the Internet, was mostly known for his role in Walker Texas Ranger and other action movies such as Delta Force.
The Oklahoma native was rushed to a hospital while in Hawaii where he passed away.
WWE is selling a Cody Rhodes Exclusive Experience bus tour through OnLocation which is being offered to select number of fans.
The tour, priced at a whopping $9,950 per person, gets you a ride on the famous Cody tour bus as it’s driven to “1-2 iconic Las Vegas landmark” accompanied by a professional Las Vegas tour guide for commentary.
A screenshot of the offer says that it will take place on the day that Cody is not wrestling at WrestleMania, in this case it would be a Sunday.
This is the second Cody Rhodes-related package with OnLocation as they are already selling a seat for his podcast taping with Liv Morgan for $550 each.
NXT this week drew 588,000 viewers, up 47,000 viewers from last week’s record low. This was the second least-watched episode of NXT of 2026 so far. In 18-49, NXT had a 0.07 rating, down 0.01, and the lowest number so far. The show went up head-to-head with the World Baseball Classic, NCAA, and NBA, which dented its viewership pretty badly. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
Ricochet’s wife, former WWE ring announcer Samantha Irvin, has posted several death threats she received on her social media in the fallout from Ricochet’s post on X where he told a fan that he’s glad she got MS.
While Ricochet has since deleted the post and apologized for his remarks, fans continued to harass both individuals.
“I will kill you and kill your stupid husband,” one threat read, followed by another which reads, “He’s getting f*cking killed he’s f*cking dead that’s written.”
Another post issued a warning what’s going to happen to her husband.
“Good morning just wanted to briefly let you kno the comments that came from baldy something bad is going to happen respectfully tell him watch his back,” the threat said. “Your to beautiful looking to be with some moron like baldy.”
Another death threat said that they will cut her body into pieces and throw it in the river “because your husband is a vile racist.”
“See you soon, you whore. I will cut off your damned head,” the same message continued.
ESPN’s Senior NBA insider Shams Charania is reporting that basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame class of 2026 next month as part of the WrestleMania 42 weekend.
Rodman, a legend in the NBA and one of the Chicago Bulls’ most popular players, worked extensively with WCW between 1997 and 1999, joining the nWo. He wrestled multiple times for the promotion and even helped Hulk Hogan win the WCW title.
Perhaps the most infamous match was when he was teaming with Hulk Hogan to take on Diamond Dallas Page and fellow basketball star Karl Malone, a match which generated headlines for all the wrong reasons. He was also fined by the Chicago Bulls for missing practice during the 1998 NBA Finals to continue his wrestling duties.
The last time Rodman appeared on a wrestling television show was for AEW, accompanying The Acclaimed and Billy Gunn to the ring at All Out in 2023.
The 64-year-old joins Stephanie McMahon, AJ Styles, and Demolition as part of this year’s class.
The WWE Hall of Fame takes place on Friday, April 17 from the Dolby Theater in Las Vegas.
