Steve Austin Addresses WWE Rumors

Steve Austin addressed rumors about his status with WWE on his latest episode of The Steve Austin Show on PODCASTONE. You can listen to the podcast at this link:

http://podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program/episode.jsp?programID=542&pid=497717

Regarding him not being at WrestleMania 31, Austin said he didn’t turn anything down, he simply wasn’t there and was never scheduled to be there.

Regarding rumors of him turning down Tough Enough. Austin said he didn’t turn it down, Tough Enough was suppose to film in February-March but now it’s April and it still hasn’t happened. Austin said he can’t do it now because of his commitments to CMT’s Broken Skull Challenge.

Austin spoke about his podcast not being on WWE Network. Austin said there was a deal that could have been made but it wasn’t. Austin said Vince McMahon not being happy with some of the questions for Triple H isn’t true.

Austin said he guesses there is no animosity towards him from WWE’s point o view and said he has no heat with them.

WrestlingNewsBlog teams up with Stephanie “the scrapper” Skinner

Skinner MMAAre you a fan of WMMA? Will you be watching InvictaFC 12? Are you a fan of Stephanie the scrapper Skinner? Do you like winning prizes? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions you’re going to love this announcement.

Thanks to the awesome people at Sangre Mgmt & Lubmma this is being made possible. The people who paid $25 to have their Twitter handle on Stephanie’s banner will be entered into a raffle. The person selected during the raffle will win Stephanie’s fight banner signed by the scrapper herself.

Now here’s the catch. The winner will be announced right here exclusively on WrestlingNewsBlog so you’ll have to be following us on Twitter @WrestleNewsBlog. The announcement will be made the night of invictaFC 12 on April 24th, 2015

Stephanie Skinner who is (4-5) will be making her InvictaFC debut against Cassie Rodish (5-4) in an atomweight bout.

InvictaFC 12 will take place live from unicipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. InvictaFC will be available for viewing live on UFC fight pass.

The full InvictaFC 12 fight card is as follows 

Strawweight Title: Katja Kankaanpää (10-1-1) vs. Livia Renata Souza (7-0)
Flyweight: Roxanne Modafferi (17-11) vs. Vanessa Porto (17-6)
Featherweight: Amanda Bell (3-2) vs. Faith Van Duin (4-1)
Bantamweight: Ediane Gomes (10-3) vs. Raquel Pa’aluhi (4-4)
Featherweight: Peggy Morgan (3-2) vs. Latoya Walker (4-0)
Strawweight: Lacey Schuckman (10-8) vs. Jenny Liou (3-1)
Atomweight: Cassie Rodish (5-4) vs. Stephanie Skinner (4-5)
Strawweight: Delaney Owen (3-1) vs. Sharon Jacobson (2-1)
Flyweight: Shannon Sinn (1-2) vs. Maureen Riordon (0-1)
Flyweight: Roma Pawelek (1-0) vs. Sijara Eubanks (0-0)

We here at WrestlingNewsBlog are extramlu excited about this

Partnership. We would also like to take a moment to thank Juan Lanza for coming together with us and allowing us to use the site as a platform for this contest.

 

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Lucha Underground Pays Tribute To Perro Aguayo Jr. (Video)

El Rey Network released this video of Lucha Underground paying tribute to the late Perro Aguayo Jr., who died on March 2, 2015, at a CRASH Wrestling event in Tijuana, Mexico of what was later confirmed to be cardiac arrest related to cervical spine trauma.

Michael Cole Storyline Update

Michael Cole is expected to be back on RAW tonight and there is speculation that he might be in a neck brace to sell the neck injury angle from last week’s F5 from Brock Lesnar. Cole may also threaten legal action against Lesnar. WWE wrote the following teaser in their RAW 5-Point Preview:

“While The Beast Incarnate has already been suspended indefinitely by Stephanie McMahon, reports are surfacing that Cole is threatening legal action against the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion. As a result, one has to wonder whether there will be additional fallout over the incident? Will The Authority chose, for instance, to take Paul Heyman to task for any instigation that he may have caused as Brock’s advocate? Will extra precautions be taken to assure that this type of carnage will does not happen again? Or, will it just be getting back on track, with Extreme Rules only weeks away?”

RAW Preview: 4/6/15

Can Seth Rollins survive Monday Night RAW? Who will be gunning for WWE World Heavyweight Champion Rollins?

Has John Cena sparked an international incident? Will Cena continue the U.S. Championship open challenge?

A Celtic fire threatens to burn down the Intercontinental Title picture. Who will Sheamus be looking to give the boot to tonight on RAW?

What will be the fallout from Brock Lesnar’s Chaos?

Is Funk (Naomi) ‘rolling’ her way to a Divas Title Match?

Source: WWE.com

NJPW Invasion Attack Results

The Bullet Club lost 2 championships, The Young Bucks loss the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship to Roppongi Vice (Trent Baretta & Rocky Romero and Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson loss the IWGP Tag Team Championship to The Kingdom ( Matt Taven & Michael Bennett).

Time Splitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA), Captain New Japan, Yohei Komatsu & Yuji Nagata def. Manabu Nakanishi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Ryusuke Taguchi, Sho Tanaka & Tiger Mask

TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) & Tomoaki Honma def. The Bullet Club ( Tama Tonga, Yujiro Takahashi & Cody Hall)

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship Tag Team Championship: Roppongi Vice (Trent Beretta & Rocky Romero) def. (C) The Young Bucks to become the new IWGP Jr Tag Team Champions

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship: (C) Kenny Omega def. Mascarta Dorada

IWGP Tag Team Championship: The Kingdom (Matt Taven & Michael Bennett) def. (C) The Bullet Club (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson) to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions

Hirooki Goto, Tetsuya Naito & Togi Makabe def. CHAOS (Shinsuke Nakamura, Tomohiro Ishii & YOSHI-HASHI)

Kazushi Sakuraba & Yoru Yano def. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Katsuyori Shibata

Kazuchika Okada def. Bad Luck Fale w/Tama Tonga

IWGP Heavyweight Championship : (C) AJ Styles w/ Kenny Omega de. Kota Ibushi

AJ Lee retires 

This is not a late April Fool’s joke. The WWE just sent out word that April Jenette Brooks better known as AJ Lee has decided to retire from professional Wrestling. The WWE wishes AJ well and so do we here at WrestlingNewsBlog.

AJ was on the very first all female version of the completion show “NXT”. She made it to the final 3, AJ Lee is also a former GM of Raw, main eventef Raw multiple times and is a 3 time divas champion and not to mention the longest reigning divas champ of all time.

One of AJ’s most iconic moments was when she dropped her “pipebombshell” on the cast of total divas in 2014. One of my personal favorite AJ moments is the ongoing feud she had with real life best friend Kaitlyn (Celeste Braun)

I know today is a sad day for many fans but I honestly can’t say I didn’t see this one coming. With her husband CM Punk No longer a worker for WWE it was only a matter of time before we saw AJ Lee leave as well.

You can’t blame her for wanting to live a normal life with her husband but one thing is Forsure the black widow crazy chick has left her mark on the WWE and will be forever remembered.

Feel free to share your favorite AJ moments with us in the comments or you can tweet us @WrestleNewsBlog

 

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Marina Shafir signs with Invicta

April 1st is a day where people play pranks on each other all around the world, so when I heard the news of the supernova from Meldova signing with Invicta fighting Championship I was hesitant to get excited. That is until Marina made the official announcement on the MMA roasted podcast yesterday.

If I wasn’t out and about all day yesterday I would’ve  posted about this much sooner. Nonetheless this is a HUGE signing for invictaFC. Shafir will be a competing at 145lbs placing her in an already stacked featherweight division. Shafir has an overall fight record of (5-1) and professionally she stands at (1-1) 

Her last fight took place in August of last year where she suffered a first round TKO lost against Amanda Bell.

Shafir is still very young in the fight game and shows tons of potential. It would be great to see her get a rematch against Bell (Bell also recently signed with invicta) or maybe somewhere down the line we can see a Shafir vs Cyborg match up (that’s if cyborg stays at 145) 

Only time will tell but one thing is Forsure the supernova from Meldova  is sure to shake up the featherweight  divison and make a giant impact on InvictaFC.

I know as a fan myself I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Marina. As someone who had the honor of seeing her fight live and meeting her I know she’s a force to be reckon with.

How do you guys feel about invicta’s newest athlete. Let us know in the comments below.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

The Raw crowd gets vocal 

This past Monday WWE Monday Night Raw took place from San Jose California. The Raw following WrestleMania always has one of the craziest crowds and this Monday was no exception.

The crowd was on fire all night long but one of the most notable chants was during the divas match. More specifically the chants directed at the Bella Twins. The chants were you suck Cena and you suck Bryan.

Both Trevor and I agree that although we may not agree with those chants as a fan when you buy a ticket you have the right to cheer what you want. Not to mention as said before its a post mania crowd so it’s to be expected.

The Bella’s took to their Twitter to respond to the chants and I have to say I absolutely love the smart ass reply

So what did you guys think about the chants? Were you offended? Did you find them humerous? Sound off in the comments below.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

The fans do matter

At WrestleMania 31 we saw two matches on the post show. Those two matches were the Fatal 4 way for the Tag titles and The Andre The giant memorial battle royal. However there were talks of moving even more matches to the pre show. One of those matches was the Divas Tag match. 

It is being said that the reason why it was kept on the main stage is because WWE feared of the backlash they would receive from the fans, especially with the outgoing usage of #GiveDivasAChance

So there you have it folks the powers that be are finally listening to us. WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. Let’s hope this monement only continues to grow and flourish.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Source: WrestlingInc.com