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Bobby Fish Injured, Possible NXT Tag Team Title Plans

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New details have made their way online in regard to Bobby Fish’s status, as well as plans for the NXT Tag Team Championships. Fish suffered a knee injury at the Sunday NXT house show in Indianapolis, Indiana and per PWInsider, Fish is on crutches at tonight’s NXT taping in Orlando.

According to the site, the word is that Fish will have surgery on his knee later this week in Birmingham, Alabama. The current plan is to strip NXT Tag Team Championships from the Undisputed Era and use the Dusty Tag Team Classic to crown new championships.

Source: 411Mania

Man Shot At The WWE Performance Center In 2015 Causes A Scene Outside Of Last Night’s WWE NXT Tapings

Armando Alejandro Montalvo, the WWE fan who was shot outside of the WWE Performance Center on August 31st, 2015, appeared outside of last night’s WWE NXT TV tapings at Full Sail University and caused a scene.

According to fans waiting outside of the venue before doors were opened, Montalvo was ranting about WWE, DX and about how Vince McMahon will have to shoot him again to stop him. Security was called but Montalvo jumped into a waiting car and drove away before they could catch up to him.

Montalvo had been on WWE’s radar before the shooting after a history of bizarre behavior outside of the Performance Center. He had also posted several videos to social media, ranting on how he was obsessed with several female WWE Superstars, including AJ Lee and WWE Hall of Famer Lita. Some of Montalvo’s videos had him spreading urine and feces on photos of WWE talents and on the outside of WWE buildings. Montalvo was shot by police who responded to a disturbance call at the Performance Center that day. Montalvo reportedly charged at one of the officers with a handful of rocks after a confrontation. He survived the shooting and has been wrapped up in the legal process since then, even as recent as January of this year. He was charged with trespassing, resisting arrest and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer for the incident at the Performance Center. Montalvo has had numerous run-ins with law enforcement since that incident and still makes daily references to WWE on social media, accusing Vince of being out to get him. Montalvo often posts videos of what he calls “wrestling promos” that mention WWE, Vince and numerous wrestlers.

Below are a few of Montalvo’s Instagram posts from yesterday, filming outside of his home in the Orlando area. He apparently makes a reference to “crashing” tonight’s tapings. The last video was taken at Full Sail.

Source: WrestlingINC

Matt Hardy Teases Becoming Broken in WWE

“Woken” Matt Hardy posted the following on Twitter, again in what appears to be a tease that he’s about to go from “Woken” to “Broken”:

Billy Corgan’s Company Acquires Trademark For NWA

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PWInsider reports that Billy Corgan’s company Lightning One Inc, which owns everything related to the NWA after Corgan bought it last year, now has the trademark as well. The National Wrestling Alliance trademark was officially registered to Lightning One.

Corgan and NWA Vice President Dave Lagana have been trying to create an audience and restore credibility to the NWA title with their “Ten Pounds of Gold” Youtube series. It has featured current champion Nick Aldis, former champion Tim Storm, Austin Idol and Josephus. It blends the history of the title and character-building while setting up in-ring matches. Aldis is currently on a “crusade” to defend the belt twenty times in sixty days. His next defense is against Tommy Dreamer at the House of Hardcore event on March 24 in Philadelphia.

Lightning One also filed a copyright for The Dumont Network, which once was a rival to ABC and CBS and was the first channel to air pro wrestling. It will likely be used to distribute the NWA online at some point.

Source: 411Mania

Rich Swann Says He’s Retiring

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Back in December, Rich Swann was arrested after a domestic altercation with his wife, wrestler Su Yung. Days later, the couple reconciled, and were reportedly doing well. In late January, the charges were dropped by the prosecutor’s office due to “insufficient evidence.” Many were wondering if he was primed to return to WWE (he was suspended while the case was pending), but on February 15th, WWE.com announced that the two sides had parted ways.

While Swann has picked up post-WWE bookings, it appears that he is looking to call it a career; Swann posted the following on Twitter, noting that when he finishes up his current bookings that he will retire…

Source: 411Mania

Update on Drew McIntyre’s Injury Status

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Drew McIntyre is reportedly getting close to a return after his time off due to injury. PWInsider reports that McIntyre, who has been out since having arm surgery due to an injury at November’s NXT Takeover: WarGames, has been working in the ring at the WWE Performance Center.

The original reports said that McIntyre’s return was expected to come in April.

Source: 411Mania

Rey Mysterio Injury Update, He’s Still Scheduled to Meet With WWE

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According to Pwinsider.com, the belief is that Rey Mysterio suffered a partially torn bicep working for Northeast Wrestling this past Friday in Connecticut. The severity of the tear has yet to be confirmed, but Mysterio was examined by a doctor earlier this week, and is able to move his arm in ways he wouldn’t if it had been a complete tear, which is a positive. The site also adds that the injury has not hurt the progress of his discussions with WWE as the two sides are scheduled to try and negotiate a deal shortly.

Mysterio is scheduled to wrestle Jushin Liger on March 25th at the NJPW Strong Style Evolved event.

Source: 411Mania

The Young Bucks Respond To Sheamus’ WrestleMania 34 Open Invite

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The Young Bucks have responded to the open invitation from RAW Tag Team Champion Sheamus for a match at WrestleMania 34 against The Bar. As noted, word going around at RAW was that The Bar will be challenged by two Superstars that are not currently a tag team.

Nick Jackson of The Bucks tweeted the following in response to Sheamus’ open invite:

Source: WrestlingINC

Bray Wyatt Accepts Matt Hardy’s Ultimate Deletion Challenge

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Bray Wyatt has accepted Matt Hardy’s challenge for The Ultimate Deletion at The Hardy Compound in North Carolina, as seen in the tweet below. We noted before that the current plan is for the match to air before WrestleMania 34. The Hardy Compound footage used on this week’s RAW in the segment with Matt was filmed last week by Reby Hardy.

On a related note, it looks like all the characters from the original storyline in TNA will be used as Hardy called on Queen Rebecca, Senor Benjamin, Vanguard 1, son King Maxel, younger son Lord Wolfgang and “the dilapidated boat” Skarsgard. Below are recent tweets from Matt and Benjamin:

Source: WrestlingINC