Category: WWE

Pat McAfee Details Backstage Blowup At WrestleMania 35 Over His Shorts

Moments before the WrestleMania 35 pre-show was set to begin, Pat McAfee says he was on the verge of walking out due to Michael Cole yelling at him for wearing shorts.

McAfee detailed the tense backstage moment on his show this week and said it began with him being told not to wear jorts to WrestleMania. Pat obliged by making tuxedo pants into tuxedo shorts.

However, when Michael Cole saw him wearing them backstage before the kickoff show, he got angry in front of everyone who was around … saying Pat looked unprofessional and sloppy.

“He was like yelling. Real. This wasn’t like a rib, or like a gimmick, you could tell there was actual panic,” McAfee explained. He then walked to the room where the WrestleMania watch-a-long was going to film and began packing his things. When the digital person in charge of the stream asked what was going on, Pat said, “You can tell Michael Cole to go f*ck himself, I am leaving. I am not getting punked and yelled at like a child in front of everybody like that.”

The WWE employee then said he’d go talk to Vince McMahon and asked Pat to hold tight.

He returned moments later with Michael Cole and the two explained how they showed Vince a picture of Lebron James wearing suit shorts. Vince apparently told them “yeah, I’m hip. I’ve seen it” and said he loved the idea of Pat wearing them.

Cole then apologized for yelling at him and said he was worried the shorts would ruin his chances in WWE, because this was the first time he was being seen on TV by Vince McMahon.

Watch Pat explain how it all went down HERE.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

WWE NXT Preview 4/10/19

NXT, tonight at 8pm ET on WWE Network.

* Street Profits prepare to bring the smoke to Marcel Barthel & Fabian Aichner

* Candice LeRae looks to make an example out of Aliyah

* Danny Burch aims for retribution against Jaxson Ryker

* What will be the fallout from NXT TakeOver: New York?

WWE NXT UK Preview 4/10/19

NXT UK, today at 3 ET / 8 GMT on WWE Network.

* Toni Storm takes on Jinny in an NXT UK Women’s Championship Match

* Kassius Ohno vs. Travis Banks

* Piper Niven will step into the squared circle in her highly anticipated NXT UK debut.

WWE Giving EC3 A Manager?

It looks like Drake Maverick may be adding to his stable on WWE’s main roster.

Maverick, who is still the WWE 205 Live General Manager, was the manager for EC3’s dark match against Harper before tonight’s post-WrestleMania 35 edition of WWE SmackDown from Brooklyn. The two had worked together in TNA both as allies and rivals.

That dark match saw Harper get the win over EC3 via pinfall. It was noted that both Superstars were over with the crowd.

Maverick has been away from RAW since The Authors of Pain were taken off TV due to the leg injury that Akam suffered back in January. It was reported that he would be out of action for a few months. Rezar has worked some WWE Main Event singles matches since then.

There’s no word yet on if WWE plans on using Maverick with EC3 on WWE TV.

Below are photos and videos of EC3 with Maverick at tonight’s SmackDown from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn:

https://twitter.com/TaffMaster/status/1115764374134820864

Source: Wrestling Inc.

Hardy Boyz Win Smackdown Tag Titles, then Attacked By Lars Sullivan

Last night on SmackDown Live The Hardy Boyz (Matt & Jeff Hardy) defeated The Usos to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship. After the match, Lars Sullivan came down and attacked the Hardy’s leaving them laying.

Wrestling News Blog Podcast Episode 6 – WrestleMania 35, WWE HOF, NXT TakeOver, RAW After Mania

Wrestling News Blog Podcast Episode 6 – WrestleMania 35 Podcast Special

Wrestling News Blog Podcast is available on all major podcast apps such as Apple Podcast, Google Podcasts and Stitcher.

Segment One – WrestleMania 35

Segment Two – 2019 WWE Hall of Fame

Segment Three – NXT TakeOver: New York

Segment Four – RAW After Mania

Segment Five – Length of Mania

Segment Six – Final Thoughts on Mania

Sasha Banks Pulls Out Of TV Appearance Due To Personal Reasons, Posts Cryptic Message

Sasha Banks was scheduled to appear on The Wendy Williams Show today, however her appearance was cancelled. Banks took to Twitter to explain that her appearance was nixed due to “personal reasons” while using #IfYouOnlyKnew.

“Due to personal reasons, I had to pull out of my appearance today on @WendyWilliams,” Banks wrote. “Sorry to everyone who was looking forward to it. Hopefully the opportunity will be there again later. #IfYouOnlyKnew”

Banks and Bayley, the inaugural WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, lost their titles to the IIConics at WrestleMania 35 this past Sunday. It was announced on Monday that Alexa Bliss would be wrestling her first match since January on RAW later that evening against either Banks or Bayley. Bliss ended up facing and defeating Bayley, while Banks never appeared on the show. During the show, Banks posted this cryptic message on Twitter:

There is something about the way life happens today that makes it hard to look ahead. There are things that make it difficult to laugh; difficult to live the way you want. There are things that make it almost impossible to trust where you are, or to believe in where you want to be. You look around and life is happening way too fast. Sometimes it feels like the moments are gone. Everything happens all at once and right away. We’re marching towards a destiny we cannot understand, towards the kingdom of convenient. Then one day you look up and you can’t find the meaning. Your crisis of purpose and passion is acting up, but they tell you that that’s suppose to be normal. Well… I don’t want normal, I want magic; cause that’s the place that feels like home to me. That’s the place where I remember what dreams look like, where meaning is effortless, and purpose is simple. That’s the place where love still matters. I want that feeling of coming home again. I want to feel like myself…. I want that magic

According to the promo in the video above, Williams said Sasha would be appearing on the show today to discuss why “she’s the boss of the wrestling world.”

Below is the description of today’s show from the official website of The Wendy Williams Show:

WWE’s Sasha Banks makes her ‘Wendy’ debut to talk about WrestleMania.Then, Mercedes Sanchez stops by to share the hottest spring shoes!

Plus, Wendy weighs in on the latest Hot Topics!

You can check out Sasha’s tweets below:

https://twitter.com/SashaBanksWWE/status/1115431410062508032

https://twitter.com/SashaBanksWWE/status/1115618756313714688

Source: Wrestling Inc.

WWE SmackDown Live Preview 4/9/19

The post-WrestleMania 35 edition of WWE SmackDown Live will take place tonight from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

* The New Day celebrate Kofi Kingston’s WWE Championship win at WrestleMania

* The Usos and The Hardy Boyz square off for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles

* How will The Miz bounce back after crushing loss to Shane McMahon?

* Will the target on Becky Lynch’s back get even bigger?

* How IIconic will SmackDown LIVE be?

Backstage News On WWE Wanting To Do A Big WrestleMania 35 Rematch

Multiple sources have confirmed to Sports Illustrated that the finish of the “Winner Takes All” WrestleMania 35 main event with Charlotte Flair, Ronda Rousey and SmackDown & RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch went off as planned.

As previously reported, the match was scheduled to end with Lynch pinning Rousey. According to SI, the finish with Lynch pinning Rousey while Rousey got her shoulder up was designed to protect Rousey and keep her character strong. The controversial finish allows Rousey to say Lynch did not legitimately defeat her.

SI also reported that WWE officials reportedly have Rousey tentatively planned to face Lynch in a singles rematch at WrestleMania 36 on April 5, 2020 from Tampa. Dave Meltzer added on Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE officials do want to do the rematch, but there’s no date for her return yet and there’s no date or plans confirmed for the rematch.

Rousey is expected to step away from WWE for now. She has stated in media interviews in the past that she wants to have children with husband Travis Browne, which throws out any timetable for a return if they plan to do so during her break. She will also need to recover from the broken hand that she suffered during the match while throwing punches.

Source: Wrestling Inc.