Univision website link listed Lucha Underground as returning for a second season on October 28.
Lucha Underground has filmed all it’s episodes for the first season including a big season finale for August.
There’s a double main event on tonight’s episode of Lucha Underground on the El Rey Network.
Death Match: Fenix VS Mil Muertes
Lucha Underground Championship: (C) Prince Puma w/Konnan VS Hernandez
Johnny Mundo VS Aerostar
Vampiro takes time to sit down with Sexy Star.
A correspondent for WrestlingINC.com at last night’s WWE SmackDown tapings noted that Rusev may have injured his foot or ankle in his match against Ryback.
Rusev was helped to the back by trainers after the match abruptly ended. A fan posted a picture on Twitter of Rusev in a wheelchair at the airport:
Source: WrestlingINC.com
James Storm was recently interview by the v2 Wrestling Podcast and he talked about the recent reports that Destination America is canceling TNA Impact Wrestling.
“I’ve been told by the higher-ups that there’s nothing to worry about,” Storm said. “TNA is owned by a billion dollar company, Panda Energy, so the money is going to be there. They talk about the network saying this and that. Every network wants great ratings, but the problem is that it takes time for the casual wrestling fans and viewers to find Destination America. A lot of people don’t have the channel, or it’s a premium channel and they have to pay for it. My mom actually couldn’t find it until like a month ago. So it’s just taking people a little longer to find the Destination America channel.”
“Nobody really knows except for the network and Dixie Carter, that’s how I look at it. Dixie cares about the wrestlers like they’re her own kids. If something’s going to go down, she’s going to have a meeting and talk about it with all the guys, so that’s how I look at it.”
You can listen to the podcast interview at this link – http://v2wrestling.com/5/post/2015/05/the-big-v2-interview-james-storm.html
PWInsider reports that Christy Hemme has given notice to TNA and will be leaving soon. She will reportedly be working a great job outside of pro wrestling. There was some speculation that she may still work a role at TV tapings but that’s not confirmed and most believe she’s leaving altogether. Hemme has been with TNA since 2006.
Source: WrestlingINC.com
WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash tweeted about wanting a WWE retirement match. Nash said he’d like to do a buildup for the match on the WWE Network like the 24/7 programs HBO does for boxing. He also asked for WWE to put him out of his misery.
Ring of Honor announced that Samoa Joe will return next month on June 20, the night after ROH’s “Best In The World” pay-per-view. Joe will team up with AJ Styles to take on The Addiction (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian). ROH describes the tag match as a DREAM MATCH.
Samoa Joe’s WWE contract has been described as the first of it’s kind to allow unprecedented freedom for him as a performer. It appears that Joe’s contract will keep him off TV for other promotions outside of NXT, but will allow him to continue to work for ROH and others.
Joe’s contract is somewhat like the one Rhyno has with WWE but for a lot more money and Joe has also has a merchandise deal.
Joe talked about his deal on Twitter:
TNA announcer Josh Mathews, who used to work for WWE, blasted WWE for their “hypocrisy” after Samoa Joe made his NXT debut Wednesday at NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable. Mathews tweeted:
https://twitter.com/realjoshmathews/status/601629711563755521
Wrestling News Blog’s Vanessa and Trevor are leading a movement to make sure that Busted Open Radio discuss the NXT Women’s Championship match from Wednesday’s NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable between (C) Sasha Banks & Becky Lynch. Busted Open Radio airs on SiriusXM Radio today at 2-4 pm ET.
Vanessa stated on Facebook that she fears that the show will focus mainly on the WWE debut of Samoa Joe and leave a match like Banks VS Lynch for little discussion or possibly none at all.
Wrestling News Blog ask that fans tweet @BustedOpenRadio and ask them to discuss Banks VS Lynch with the passion it deserves.
Vanessa tweeted this yesterday:
Busted Open Radio tweeted today:
Source: WrestlingINC.com
TNA Wrestling issued a statement regarding the rumors that Destination America is planning to cancel Impact Wrestling:
“It has come to our attention that several internet news sources have falsely attributed statements to TNA, its executives and broadcasting partner. These false statements constitute defamation and if necessary we will seek all legal remedies available to us.”
Wednesday, Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that Destination America planned to cancel TNA Impact Wrestling, with the source being an internal e-mail among employees at the channel. On Wrestling Observer Live yesterday, Bryan Alvarez said the e-mail was dated several days prior to Destination America announcing Impact would be moving to Wednesday nights, and Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer noted that this was very much an ongoing situation.
Former ECW star Lou “Sign Guy Dudley” D’Angeli went on twitter to address fans celebrating the news and Billy Corgan responded to him indicating that Dave Meltzer was being worked by “a sloppy angle”:
