Former WWE Superstar Sarah Logan and one half of the Viking Raiders, Erik, welcomed their first child, a baby boy they named Raymond.
“After 44hrs of labor both mama and baby are happy and safe,” Erik wrote on Twitter, noting that he was born weighing 8lbs 11oz and 21.75″ long. “He’s perfect,” the new proud dad added.
The 27-year-old Logan was released from her WWE contract in April due to coronavirus cost-cutting measures and announced she was pregnant in July.
Congratulations to the duo!
Raymond Cash Rowe 8lbs 11oz 21.75”
After 44hrs of labor both mama and baby are happy and safe.
Two title matches were added to the 2021 Elimination Chamber pay-per-view card yesterday, joining the WWE title match which will take place inside the steel structure.
Raw Women’s champion Asuka gets a new challenger in the form of Lacey Evans after Evans defeated Charlotte Flair by disqualification on Raw. Flair got herself DQed after she pushed the referee and continued to attack Lacey when she was in the corner.
The other match announced is for the United States title and this will be a triple threat one as Bobby Lashley defends his gold against the returning Keith Lee and Riddle. Lee had been absent from WWE television since the beginning of January and even missed the Royal Rumble. His partner, Mia Yim, had tested positive the day before the Rumble.
The Elimination Chamber will take place on Sunday, February 21 from the WWE ThunderDome inside Tropicana Field.
The first Elimination Chamber match for the 2021 edition was announced on Monday Night Raw and it will be WWE champion Drew McIntyre who will have the odds against him, putting the title on the line against five other Superstars inside the steel structure.
The five Superstars who will be in the match with McIntyre are all former WWE champions themselves and these are Jeff Hardy, Randy Orton, Sheamus, AJ Styles, and Money In The Bank briefcase holder The Miz.
The match was announced by Shane McMahon, who returned on Raw. He has not been seen on the show ever since the Raw Underground concept was scrapped mid last year.
A women’s Elimination Chamber match is also expected to take place on the show.
Rapper Bow Wow has written in a post on Twitter that after he drops his last album, he will focus on television and film…and joining WWE!
“It’s been a life long childhood dream to wrestle in the WWE,” the 33-year-old whose real name is Shad Moss said. Noting that it might sound crazy, Bow Wow added that he would like to team up with Rey Mysterio and take on whoever is holding the Tag Team titles!
Bow Wow would certainly not be the first – or the last – artist to express his wish to step inside a WWE ring. WWE is currently working with Bad Bunny for a possible match at WrestleMania.
Bow Wow was discovered by Snoop Dogg, who himself is a WWE Hall of Famer and cousin of Smackdown Women’s champion Sasha Banks.
There are 72,8 million followers of the official WWE YouTube channel. No wonder the organization is wealthy and spread a huge influence on the entertaining world. No wonder the biggest WWE superstars get paid pretty well and collected impressive assets.
Who are the top 5 richest wrestlers?
Number one is definitely Vince McMahon who is a prominent athlete in the past but still around like a big boss. Vince McMahon owns around 57% of WWE’s A Common stocks which tripled their value in this year. His luxury mansion worth around $40 million. It’s located in Greenwich which is the wealthiest town in Connecticut. The highest asking price for a property in town was the Copper Beach Estate at $190 million. Greenwich is peaceful, green and rural area no wonder there many celebrities has settled down. Vince McMahon is definitely deserve staying there due to a huge list of his achievements. Among them even star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is a commentator, promoter, shareholder and film producer with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion. No need to mention that he is Chairman and CEO of WWE. He has embarked on a number of WWE-related ventures. He is known for his throaty exclamation of ‘You’re fired!’. He claimed as a pioneer of sports entertainment and reality TV. During his career he had many rivals with big characters and even with Donald Trump. The former president also appreciated him like a man with unique vision and impact on American society.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Jonson is the second member on our list with net worth $400 million. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He was featured among the most watched episodes of WWE and no wonder he became a prominent movie actor. Dwayne Jonson’s first leading film role was in The Scorpio King and he has since starred in numerous impressive movies like Jumanji, Hobbs & Shaw, Fast & Furious franchise, and many more. Johnson produced and starred in the HBO series Ballers which ran for five seasons and was ranked as one of the most viewed comedy of the decade on HBO. Time also put him on a list of 100 most influential people among the most prominent personalities of business, sport, policy, art and science. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is one of the most charismatic TV personality, a self-made guy who influences people in every part of the globe.
Triple H is placed 3rd with net worth $150 million. During his spectacular career he has earned many titles and is one of the most decorated Superstars in the history of WWE. After putting his wrestling boots on the side, he was appointed as the Executive Vice President of Talent with a salary around $2.8 millions.
John Cena is definitely on the list as one of the most notorious and richest WWE wrestlers. He is a big fitness enthusiast, but first of all he is one of the faces of WWE. He was involved in the biggest feuds such as Randy Orton, Edge, The Undertaker, Triple H, and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Jonson. Vince McMahon said he regarded him as the biggest Superstar.
Surprisingly Hulk Hogan is the last in our list of top 5 richest WWE wrestlers of all the time. Regarded as one of the most famous wrestler, like a regular guy he was wrecked by a divorce and lost around 70% of his assets. Nevertheless he rejoined the WWE as a host of WrestleMania. Today his assets estimated around $25 million…so still not bad.
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Shaul Guerrero, the daughter of Eddie and Vickie Guerrero, announced on her social media that she is pulling out of all upcoming wrestling appearances after a scary mental illness crisis.
She wrote that on the advice by professionals and her loved ones, she was told not to participate in high-stress events for now.
“I deeply apologize to the fans who have been respectful and supportive of me and who continue to do so,” she wrote. “I will be using this time to seek the help I need, reestablish my eating disorder treatment, and hopefully get answers and solutions to reach a healthy mental state.”
Guerrero had been battling an eating disorder for years and WWE even sent her to rehab while she was wrestling in NXT at the time. She eventually left the company in 2014 due to her disorder.
The 30-year-old appeared as a ring announcer for All Elite Wrestling during the AEW Women’s Tag Team Cup tournament in August.
Guerrero is married to former WWE Superstar Aiden English.
16-time champion John Cena appeared in two Super Bowl commercials last night, one for Mountain Dew and one for the F9: The Fast Saga movie.
The Mountain Dew commercial also had the marketing machine of WWE behind it as several WWE Superstars tweeted about it as they were also involved in Dew’s new campaign. In the commercial, Cena asks fans to count how many number of Major Melon Mountain Dew bottles are in the spot for a chance to win $1 million.
And for F9, Cena joined the cast in the latest movie where he plays the brother of Vin Diesel in the mega popular movie franchise. The movie is set to be released in theaters across the United States on May 28, 2021, barring any unforeseen pandemic circumstances.
Meanwhile, another WWE star, Batista, was also in a Super Bowl commercial for Rocket Mortgage along with Tracy Morgan and Liza Koshy.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who won the Super Bowl LV yesterday in their own home at Raymond James Stadium, are receiving a custom WWE title belt replica with their logo to celebrate the victory.
Triple H quickly sent his congrats to the team and Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski for their win, along with a photo of the customized Buccaneers WWE title replica.
“Congratulations to @TomBrady and the @Buccaneers on an incredible performance in the #SuperBowl. From the #WWEThunderDome to @RJStadium, enjoy this @WWE custom title … @RobGronkowski will know what to do with it,” Triple H tweeted.
Gronkowski signed a WWE deal last year but eventually left quickly to resume his NFL career with Tampa Bay, but not before he hosted WrestleMania 36 and even winning the 24/7 title on the show.
The NFL hosted the Super Bowl with nearly 25,000 fans in attendance and thousands of other cut-out boards in the stands.
WWE has signed a deal with a major sports league in the United States to create custom WWE championship titles for the teams.
The sports league in question has not been revealed yet but this will add on to the tradition which WWE started several years ago where they send a custom WWE title replica with logos of those win the league of their respective sport.
WWE President Nick Khan discussed the deal during the conference call with reporters earlier this week, saying that in some cases, their title belts are even more popular than the team’s own trophy.
“You may have seen Lebron James hold up a WWE championship title belt after winning the NBA title. The Golden State Warriors have done the same as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers and many other teams,” Khan said. “This led us to close a deal with a major sports league, where you will be seeing WWE championship title belts that will be made using the team logos of some of the most prominent pro sports franchises. It’s a real testament to the power of our brand,” he continued.
The sales of replica WWE titles have greatly increased in 2020 and their popularity are at an all-time high. Seeing their success, WWE continues to produce different titles in their Signature Series with custom belts for different WWE Superstars of past and present.
WWE is not expecting to be affected by the closure of NBC Sports Network at the end of the year and major sports programming – such as NASCAR, NHL, and golf – moving to USA Network and Peacock.
There were rumors that NXT might be a casualty on Wednesday nights once the sports currently airing on NBCSN moves to USA, particularly NHL which also plays on Wednesday nights. The NHL gets more viewership than NXT and advertising rates during NHL games go for far more money as well.
“We believe it has no impact on us,” WWE President Nick Khan said this week. “We think what you’re seeing in the cable universe is going to be further consolidation. So we know that the bundle has now sort of been unbundled or a little exposed. So the networks that were propped up, and not as strong cable networks that were propped up by the stronger cable networks, like USA, but not as strong ones probably cease to exist across the board. So look for more content migration onto the stronger cable platforms and that there’ll be no effect on Raw or NXT.”
Khan also revealed that WWE has signed on to produce a multi-episode unscripted series created by and voiced by John Cena, which will air on an NBCUniversal channel and also closed a deal for WWE Studios to join the NBC show Young Rock.
Nick Khan’s sister, Nahnatchka Khan, is a writer and executive producer on Young Rock, a show which premieres on Tuesday, February 16, on NBC.
The 24/7 title changed hands twice yesterday during the Celebrity Sweat Flag Football Challenge which aired on ESPN News and the ESPN app.
It was Doug Flutie, the former NFL quarterback, who rolled up R-Truth from behind to win the title during a halftime interview. Titus O’Neil, The Miz, and Cesaro were there along with Truth when all of a sudden a WWE referee showed up to ask Truth how he’s doing. Flutie attacked from behind and pinned him on the sandy beach.
Later in the broadcast, Truth got his revenge though and with yet another roll-up, pinned Flutie for his 49th 24/7 title win. Yes, 49!
The post-Rumble Smackdown on FOX did a total of 2,126,000 viewers in the overnight ratings, a decrease of 110,000 viewers from last week’s overnight. Last week’s show ended with 2,304,000 viewers once the final numbers came in on Monday.
Smackdown did 2,144,000 viewers in the first hour and 2,108,000 viewers in the second hour so the audience largely stayed there but the return of first-run network programming obviously affected the number. Smackdown was #2 in the 18-34, #2 in the 18-49, and #3 in the 25-54 with 0.3, 0.6, and 0.8 ratings respectively. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
WWE’s association with Bad Bunny is not over and the plan is to get the 26-year-old in a wrestling match at WrestleMania 37, possibly in a tag team match.
Bunny performed his song Booker T at the Royal Rumble and then got involved during the men’s Rumble match, hitting a crossbody from the top rope to the floor on The Miz and Morrison. He also showed up the next night on Monday Night Raw as a guest of Miz TV and paired up with Damian Priest who was making his Raw debut.
“We know each other,” Priest told BT Sport in an interview. “Where he was born and raised, I was raised in the island of Puerto Rico, and it’s not a good area. We both had that struggle upbringing of trying to just make it through the day in the neighborhoods that we’re from…it’s not a forced thing. It’s not fake. I’ve been in the ring with him helping him out because he loves wrestling.”
Bad Bunny has also been spotted at the WWE Performance Center where he is getting trained for his eventual WWE in-ring debut.
2020 was a great year for Bad Bunny as his third album, El Último Tour Del Mundo, became the first all-Spanish language album to top the US Billboard 200 and he also became the first non-English language act to be Spotify’s most streamed artist of the year.
Maybe in 2021 he will also add a WrestleMania performance to his already-impressive list of accolades.
Gabbi Tuft, the former WWE Superstar Tyler Reks who recently transitioned to a woman, appeared on Extra TV yesterday for her post-transition interview with Billy Bush.
Tuft said that when she was 10 years old and her parents were not home, she would sneak in her mom’s closet and try out her clothes. “But I suppressed it my whole life, just because of society, knowing that people didn’t accept it. So I pushed it down as far as I could,” Tuft said.
With her wife Priscilla by her side, Gabbi told Bush that their intimate life has now changed “quite a bit” and they’re “active in that way right now” although they did discover a whole different part of their relationship. “We actually don’t have partners outside of the relationship at all,” Priscilla added. “I was a virgin when we got married 18 and a half years ago — we had never kissed. Our first kiss was on our wedding day.”
Gabbi said that transitioning to a woman has been anything but easy, saying there were a lot of very difficult and traumatic emotions in trying to figure out how to present herself to the world but credited her wife for her support.
The two also have a nine-year-old daughter together and Gabbi described how the discussion with her daughter went. “I told her, ‘Sweetheart, I’m not going to go out in public right now and go outside,’ and she goes, ‘Why, daddy?’ ‘I’m afraid that people might make fun of me and it might affect you,’ and she leans over gives me the biggest hug and she says, ‘Daddy, I will never make fun of you.'”
According to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer, Cesaro is staying put with WWE and has agreed to a new deal.
News came out last week that Cesaro’s contract with the promotion is expiring right after WrestleMania but the Swiss Cyborg has finally made up his mind and is sticking around. With now All Elite Wrestling also in the mix, WWE is offering better deals to its stars in hopes of not going to their competition.
Cesaro has been working with WWE since 2011, starting with Florida Championship Wrestling and then transitioning to the main roster in 2012. Considered one of the best wrestlers in the promotion, the 40-year-old Cesaro has not won any major singles titles in WWE except for one run with the United States title. He has, however, won the Tag Team titles on seven different occasions with three different partners.
WWE stocks took a dive on Friday after the release of the Q4 2020 and full year earning results, ending the week 12% down.
WWE had lower revenue in Q4 due to higher costs of television tapings at the WWE ThunderDome and the lack of the Saudi Arabia event compared to the previous year. But the company had a record 2020 year when it comes to revenue with a total of $974.2 million and a record $208.6 million in operating income.
Still, those numbers were not enough to please Wall Street, with WWE stocks finishing trading in after-market hours at $49.50. On Tuesday, stocks were trading at nearly $58.
Former WWE and WCW wrestler “The Natural” Butch Reed passed away earlier today at the age of 66 due to heart complications.
“Today we lost a great man. Due to heart complications, Bruce “Butch” Reed passed away. Butch is in heaven now with the wrestling gods,” a post on his Instagram said. Reed suffered a couple of heart attacks last month and things were not looking good for him.
After playing for the Kansas City Chiefs, Reed decided to try professional wrestling and made his debut in 1978, spending his early years wrestling for Florida Championship Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling. Following a three year stint with Mid-South Wrestling, Reed joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1986 where he was managed by Slick. After just two years, Reed moved to WCW and tag teamed with Ron Simmons as Doom. Reed spent four years in WCW and worked the indie circuit after that. He last wrestled in November 2011.
Reed last made a TV appearance for WWE on an episode of Smackdown in September 2007, appearing in a backstage segment with Teddy Long, who managed Doom back in WCW.
While he won no titles in WWE, he managed to get the World Tag Team titles in WCW with his Doom partner Ron Simmons.
The #1 contender for the IWGP United States title, KENTA, will make his AEW in-ring debut on next week’s Dynamite.
KENTA will be teaming up with AEW World champion Kenny Omega to face Jon Moxley and Lance Archer in a falls count anywhere, anything goes match. This is a continuation of the storyline from the closing moment of this week’s Dynamite where KENTA made a surprise appearance and attacked Jon Moxley.
Moxley will be defending his IWGP United States title against KENTA on the February 26 episode of NJPW Strong, streaming on the NJPW World service. The match has already been recorded late last year.
It seems that AEW and NJPW will be moving forward with another working relationship for the time being which might lead to stars from both promotions appearing on different programming leading to exciting match-ups.
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer is reporting that Parker Boudreaux, the former football player from the University of Central Florida, has signed a developmental deal with WWE.
The 23-year-old, who many compare to Brock Lesnar, received a nice endorsement from Paul Heyman several weeks ago, with Heyman retweeting a Boudreaux post where he said that 2021 was going to be special.
“His tweet is not a prediction. It’s a spoiler. Save this #HustleTweet for future historical reference,” Heyman wrote.
Boudreaux visited the WWE Performance Center and was backstage at the January 20 NXT television tapings and during the Royal Rumble, he posted a photo with Eva Marie saying that they’re having a Rumble watch party.
The 6’4″ athlete, who was heavily sought-after, left the football team he was playing for to embark on his new wrestling career. The UCF Knights’ 2021 football roster was published and his name was not on the list and several football sites reported that he was no longer part of the team.
NXT had a disappointing night on Wednesday and despite an appearance from Royal Rumble winner Edge, the show pulled in just 610,000 viewers, down 110,000 viewers from last week’s show. NXT did a 0.15 in the 18-49 demographic and was #51 on the cable chart, missing out again on the top #50. The difference between NXT and Dynamite this week was of 210,000 viewers, up from last week’s 14,000. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
