Former WWE and TNA star “The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero (Elijah Burke) is apparently returning to TNA at the May Impact Wrestling tapings in Orlando. He had the following exchange on Twitter with Robbie E this week:
TNA will debut a new set at tonight’s Impact Wrestling tapings in Orlando at Universal Studios.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
Last Man Standing Match: Eric Young VS Bobby Roode
TNA Tag Team Championship – Ultimate X Match: (C) The Wolves VS The Revolution VS The BroMans
TNA Knockouts Championship – Triple Threat: (C) Taryn Terrell VS Awesome Kong VS Gail Kim
Hair VS Hair Match: EC3 VS Rockstar Spud
Battle of the Exes: Robbie E VS Brooke
Magnus & Mickie James will call out Bram.
Drew Galloway will call out MVP.
WWE has hired a local casting agency in the Bay Area of San Francisco and they are casting males to work as “marching Russian soldiers” at WrestleMania 31.
It appears Lana and Rusev will be getting a special entrance as Rusev defends the WWE United States Title against John Cena.
How will The Viper justify the slaughter of Rollins?
Both Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan are scheduled to address the WWE Universe.
AJ Lee & Paige VS Summer Rae & Cameron: Can the “frenemies” coexist?
Whose next to challenge for the Intercontinental Championship?
How will Rusev respond to John Cena’s attack?
There has been a lot of talk as of late that WWE may be interested in Ring of Honor stars The Briscoes (Jay & Mark).
TNA’s John Gaburick announced that Tyrus & Rockstar Spud have re-signed with TNA.
According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Jeff Jarrett has reportedly been unable to secure a paid TV deal for Global Force Wrestling to air a weekly show.
TV industry sources report that Jarrett proposed a concept to at least one network, said to be a channel without full national clearance and probably other networks. Jarrett also was unable to secure a deal for this concept. Jarrett’s idea is to do a test-run live special that would feature talents from the indies, New Japan Pro-Wrestling and AAA under the GFW banner.
It was noted earlier that PWInsider reported that Jarrett was expected to announce GFW TV tapings for Las Vegas soon.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
NXT Tag Team Championship #1 Contenders Match: Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady def. The Lucha Dragons (Sin Cara & Kalisto)
Alexa Bliss def. Carmella
Alex Riley def. CJ Parker: After the match, Kevin Owens came out & said he will end Riley’s in-ring career & then put an end to the rise of Finn Balor.
Tyler Breeze def. Hideo Itami
It is being reported via wrestlinginc.com that word within WWE is that the direction of NXT has changed as of late. HHH loves the praise he gets on NXT and he’s looking to capitalize on that.
Originally NXT was meant for “rookies” to learn and eventually establish themselves as stars to be called up to the big leagues known as Raw and SmackDown. However that tune has changed as of late. Now what HHH wants to do is take well established indie wrestlers (more specifically the ones in ROH) wait till their contracts expire and then call them up to NXT. Right now the feeling is NXT is a brand within itself and if you have experimented wrestlers your bound to get great matches.
Now as far as well known faces of NXT there has been no talks of NXT champion Kevin Owens or former champion Sami Zayn being called up to the main roster just yet. There has been talks though of calling NXT women’s champion Sasha Banks up to the main roster along with Adrian Neville and possibly Charlotte. Word is that if these calls up happen it’ll be sometime after WrestleMania.
That doesn’t surprise me especially if one of those 3 debut on Raw the next night. The raw after mania is always a highly rated Raw and further more last year when Paige debuted is proof that there’s no better way to do it.
How do you guys feel about these reports? Does it make you excited and hopeful for the future? I know it does for me. Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)
PWInside Elite reports that WWE Talent Relations Executive Mark Carrano has gained considerable amount of power within WWE lately. It is believed that he is now pretty much the head of Talent Relations, although he hasn’t been officially given the title yet.
This news comes after the recent departure of Janes Geddes. Her departure has been confirmed by multiple sources to PWInsider.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
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