Wrestling News Blog Podcast Episode 6 – WrestleMania 35 Podcast Special
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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 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.
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?
Japanese wrestler, Hikaru Shida, has been added to the AEW women’s division. Debuting back in 2008, Shida has worked for multiple promotions included Oz Academy, Ice Ribbon, and Pro Wrestling Wave.
Here is what the current AEW women’s division looks like: Aja Kong, Allie, Bea Priestley, Brandi Rhodes, Britt Baker, Hiraku Shida, Kylie Rae, Nyla Rose, Penelope Ford, Sadie Gibbs, and Yuka Sakazaki.
https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1115610303780335616
Below is the trailer for the upcoming AEW / CEO Fighting Game Championship event at the Dayton Beach Ocean Center on June 29. The show is being called “Fyter Fest” and is billed as “The most luxurious gaming and wrestling festival of all-time.” Tickets for the upcoming event will go on sale in early May.
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.
AJ Styles reportedly suffered an injury during his win over Randy Orton at WrestleMania 35 Sunday night.
There’s no word yet on details of the injury but PWInsider reports that AJ was pulled from yesterday’s Axxess VIP meet & greet appearance due to the injury.
Fans who had tickets to meet AJ today were told that he was removed from the signing due to an injury. They were offered full refunds and the promise of a Styles 8×10 photo that would be mailed to them, or the chance to meet new WWE Champion Kofi Kingston today.
Styles is scheduled to miss tomorrow’s WWE SmackDown from Brooklyn, according to Dave Meltzer of F4Wonline.com. A fan spotted Styles at the airport and said he was moving slowly.
According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, Styles has a hip injury. The severity of the injury is not known.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
It looks like WWE may have some really drastic character changes planned for Bray Wyatt.
As seen above, WWE began airing new vignettes on this week’s post-WrestleMania 35 RAW for a new character. It looks like they used some sort of laughing buzzard character in the promo.
WWE’s description on the YouTube video says, “What is this unusual creature, and why is it laughing?”
Speculation is that this new promo is for the return of Wyatt, but that has not been confirmed.
It was reported over WrestleMania 35 weekend that WWE was scheduled to start airing vignettes soon for Wyatt’s upcoming return. It was also noted that there will be big changes to Wyatt’s character when he does return, changes that have been in the works for a while.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
Last night’s post-WrestleMania 35 edition of WWE RAW saw Dean Ambrose brawl with Bobby Lashley. This was supposed to be a singles match, which WWE billed as Ambrose’s last match with the company.
It’s been reported that Ambrose is leaving WWE later this month when his contract expires due to how he’s unhappy with the way he’s been used. Ambrose reportedly informed WWE officials that he would not be renewing his deal months ago.
Ambrose is still advertised for live events and RAW TV events this month, but there’s no word yet on if they will keep him off TV until his contract has expired. As noted, Ambrose was left off the WrestleMania 35 card on Sunday.
Below are photos and videos from tonight’s angle with Ambrose and Lashley, which ended with Ambrose getting put through the announce table. Renee Young played up the seriousness of the situation as fans did a “thank you Ambrose!” chant to give it the farewell feel.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
Below in this moment you did not see on TV, Universal Champion Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns bid farewell to their Shield brother, Dean Ambrose.
The Undertaker made his return to WWE TV on tonight’s post-WrestleMania 35 edition of WWE RAW from Brooklyn.
Taker made his return during a performance by Elias, who was still upset over John Cena interrupting his WrestleMania 35 performance with the “Dr. of Thuganomics” rap. Elias made a comment on the next person to interrupt him, whether it was a Legend of a Hall of Famer, they would be a “dead man” because he was tired of the interruptions. That’s when Taker returned and did his grand entrance. He faced off with Elias, blocked off an attack and then left Elias laying after a chokeslam and a Tombstone piledriver.
This was The Dead Man’s first WWE TV appearance since Crown Jewel back in November, where he teamed with Kane for a loss to WWE Hall of Famers Triple H and Shawn Michaels. Taker did not work WrestleMania 35 on Sunday, but he is expected to wrestle during WWE’s return to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in early May.
It looks like new SmackDown Women’s and RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch could be feuding with Lacey Evans next.
After Lynch came to the ring to cut a promo on her WrestleMania 35 main event win over Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair during tonight’s post-WrestleMania RAW episode, Evans interrupted and walked the ramp like she’s been doing for several weeks on WWE TV. They met at the bottom of the ramp and stared each other down until Evans rocked Lynch in the mouth. Evans then turned to walk back up the ramp but Becky attacked her from behind. The two brawled up the ramp and to the stage. The segment ended with Evans standing tall and taunting Lynch while officials held The Man back.
