Fightful has heard a lot of buzz coming out of the most recent IMPACT tapings for an X-Division match that impressed many who watched it. We're told that an hour long X-Division Title match was filmed over that weekend, but weren't given the names of the participants.
UPDATE: In an update w...
2021-05-23 22:15:03 +0000 UTC View Post
STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new episode of the WEEKENDER!
Topics:
- Shows to watch on IWTV - ACTION: "Boogie Nights" & "To The Moon"
- IMPACT (5/20) results
- NXT UK (5/20) results
- 205 LIVE (5/21) results
- ROH (5/16) results
- NWA: "Powerrr...
2021-05-23 19:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
On SmackDown, almost literally nothing happened. There was a savage beatdown, and a new debut, and a big return, and a Fatal 4-Way Intercontinental Title Match, but almost nothing really HAPPENED. And the thing that DID happen, sucked.
So maybe we'll review the 2021-05-23 02:20:30 +0000 UTC View Post
To clear up any confusion, we're Juice Robinson and Dave Finlay were not at the most recent set of IMPACT Wrestling tapings, and are not immediately figured into the company's creative plans. There is still a positive working relationship with NJPW and we're likely to see a stream of wrestlers po...
2021-05-22 22:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostChelsea Green noted last week that she'd had surgery to remove the plate in her arm from her first break years ago. We're told that the recovery time is only about six weeks, and she'll be healthy and cleared ahead of her free agency period on July 15 if all goes well. Her actual bone was swellin...
2021-05-22 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFightful has learned of names from this week's WWE male tryouts, headlined by John Skyler, Jason Cade, Wheeler Yuta, Alexander James and others.
Tyson Maddux- 34 years old. Were specifically told he has a fantastic dropkick. Worked AEW Dark, teaming with Shawn Dean
- Velveteen Dream
- Fenix, Nick Gage, Edge
- IWGP title vacated
- NJPW/Impact
- NXT
- Stardom
- Summerslam
- Togas
- AEW roster, cuts?
- Triple H's least favorite questions
- NXT call ups
2021-05-20 23:19:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis will be put out publicly soon, but wanted to give our subscribers the jump on more details on Velveteen Dream's WWE release. Dream hadn't been at many NXT tapings of late and hadn't wrestled in 2020. He had been coming to open ring, and there was growing concern in the company he was being s...
2021-05-20 21:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Q&A time
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2021-05-20 18:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostFightful has confirmed that Don Callis is no longer an executive in any capacity with IMPACT Wrestling and Anthem Sports & Entertainment. As noted earlier this week, Callis is expected to remain in an on-screen role with Kenny Omega wherever he goes. The two were only at the first day of IMPA...
2021-05-20 18:40:22 +0000 UTC View PostDrake Wuertz is gone from WWE, and the NXT roster were not short on words about his behavior.
In the wake of Drake Wuertz's backstage NXT county commission video and news that he wasn't allowed in the CWC for weeks, more people that had spoken about him off the record were more willing to g...
2021-05-19 21:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-05-19 19:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostFightful has confirmed some location and date plans for AEW Full Gear. The current plan is for AEW to run Rampage live Friday night before the AEW Full Gear pay-per-view, which will air on a Saturday. We've been able to confirm that both shows are set to take place in St. Louis with AEW officials...
2021-05-19 17:33:36 +0000 UTC View PostWe spoke to Allysin Kay about her career and how things are working out for her. She's said that she spoke to multiple companies since leaving the NWA, and the nature of the pandemic was one of the reasons she ended up leaving the National Wrestling Alliance. She wanted to make money on the indie...
2021-05-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWe noted this weekend that talent told us that they were under the impression that Don Callis would likely not be in a position of power any longer in IMPACT Wrestling, and he was removed as a VP from Anthem Sports & Entertainment's site. In an update, Fightful was informed that Callis was on...
2021-05-19 16:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post
WrestleBackManiaLash had some great matches. It also had Zombies.
Raw has great performers, and absolutely terrible creative. And last night proves that they are entirely making this stuff up as they go along. Plans being scrapped and new ones being thrown together at the last minute....
2021-05-19 03:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe ran a report yesterday about Jinder Mahal's return to television and Indus Sher subsequently being split. We've been told that at the moment, Saurav Gurjar is actually back home in India and has been for quite a while. We've heard of no plans for him to return to television imminently.
2021-05-18 17:19:47 +0000 UTC View PostDave Meltzer reported that The Miz sustained a torn ACL this past weekend at WrestleMania Backlash. When we spoke with talent and staff Tuesday morning, they said that watching the monitors during the match, they could tell something was wrong, but didn't think it was as severe as a torn ACL and ...
2021-05-18 15:40:36 +0000 UTC View PostJinder Mahal was back in action on Raw this week after appearing on Main Event last week. We're told that Jinder Mahal has been ready for a television return for months. One half of Indus Sher, Rinku Singh, joined him along with Dilser Shanky. We were told that the other half of Indus Sher, Saura...
2021-05-17 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSome notes from the Johnny Gargano interview (note to aggregators: we have full articles going up imminently)
- He says the old In Your House house is now a Taco Bell.
- Michael Hayes did not know about the Dok Hendrix portrait on In Your House until it happened.
- He found ...
2021-05-17 15:37:38 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you were wondering who some of the WWE zombies were, we've learned some of the identities. Many were WWE Performance Center wrestlers, including Joe Gacy, a former CZW star. Others included Daniel Vidot and Cal Bloom, son of Beverly Brothers' Wayne Bloom. We've heard that Jiro Kuroshio an...
2021-05-17 00:30:48 +0000 UTC View Post
- Zelina Vega
- Bray Wyatt TV update
- Orange Cassidy
- AEW notes
- New role for AEW signing
- Mia Yim
- Summerslam
- BUSHWACKER...
2021-05-16 23:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostNote: this is now open to all subscribers! My bad!
WWE United States Championship
Sheamus (c) defeated Ricochet to retain
6.5/10
Ricochet answers the open challenge. That's cool. He is wearing slacks, is billed as 217 pounds and is as good as ever. Sheamus fish ...
2021-05-16 22:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post
STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new episode of the WEEKENDER!
Topics:
- Show to watch on IWTV - PARADIGM: "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See"
- IMPACT: "Under Siege" results
- 205 LIVE (5/14) results
- NXT UK (5/13) results
- ROH (5/7) results
- GCW: "Dr...
2021-05-16 19:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs noted by the TNAIW Channel (@TNAIWChannel) chat, Don Callis is no longer listed on the Anthem Sports & Entertainment website as an IMPACT Wrestling VP. Speculation among talent that Fightful has spoken with is that Don Callis' role within Anthem has changed or is significantly changi...
2021-05-16 18:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post
WWE has become addicted to their own cliches. So much so, that they ruin their good stuff with bad tropes.
Either that, or they put the tag titles on Nattie & Tamina.
Everything sucks.
Let's talk about it.
IMPACT Wrestling returns to tapings this week, doing a monster four day taping schedule. So far, IMPACT has filmed every month in 2021, a big change from the pandemic era 2020 tapings. However, we're told as of now, they'll have June off, and come back for the week of Slammiversary to do a new se...
2021-05-15 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn regards to rumors circulating about why Bray Wyatt has been off of WWE television of late, we won't speculate on personal issues, but talent said that they were not aware of such a situation of Vince pulling him from TV. We had multiple talent on the WWE roster saying that they've seen him a h...
2021-05-14 17:32:48 +0000 UTC View PostSmackdown was short-handed all around last week. Adam Pearce didn't appear on the episode of the show, and we're told he was actually not there. There were several other names who weren't at the show, and some late changes that were made.
2021-05-14 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
- AEW trios titles
- Bray Wyatt
- Zelina Vega
- Free agents
- Jonathan Gresham, KiLynn King
- Weird interview moments
- 70+ questions answered!
2021-05-13 22:28:31 +0000 UTC View Post