WWE Greatest Royal Rumble Results 4/27/18

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John Cena vs. Triple H – Winner: John Cena

WWE Cruiserweight Championship: (C) Cedric Alexander vs. Kalisto – Winner: Cedric Alexander

RAW Tag Team Championship: “Woken” Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt vs. The Bar (Sheamus & Cesaro) – Winners and new RAW Tag Team Champions: “Woken” Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt

United States Championship: (C) Jeff Hardy vs. Jinder Mahal – Winner: Jeff Hardy

SmackDown Tag Team Championship: (C) The Bludgeon Brothers vs. The Usos – Winners: The Bludgeon Brothers

Intercontinental Championship – Ladder Match: (C) Seth Rollins vs. The Miz vs. Finn Balor vs. Samoa Joe – Winner: Seth Rollins

We get a video package on the WWE tryouts held in Jeddah this past week Mike Rome is in the ring now with 4 standout prospects from the tryouts – Nassar, Hussein, Monsoour and Fisal. They get pops from the crowd and two of them cut brief promos, which are pretty good. The music interrupts and out comes former WWE Superstar Shawn Daivari making his return. His brother is with him, WWE 205 Live Superstar Ariya Daivari. They’re carrying the Iranian flag and most fans boo them. Ariya takes the mic first and runs down each prospect, saying they’re not real athletes. Real athletes, like The Daivari Brothers, come from the strongest nation in the world – Iran. More boos. Shawn talks trash on the mic now. Ariya gets in the face of Monsoour and shoves him. Monsoour drops him. Fizal drops Shawn with a kick. Hussein with a big slam to Shawn next. Nassar grabs Shawn next and tosses him out of the ring in front of his brother. The prospects stand tall and get pops from the crowd before standing tall together. (Transcript from WrestlingINC)

WWE Championship: (C) AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura – Double Count Out

Casket Match: The Undertaker vs. Rusev – Winner: The Undertaker – Taker put Rusev and Aiden English in the casket

Universal Championship -Steel Cage Match: (C) Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns – Winner: Brock Lesnar – Reigns speared Lesnar through the cage. Refs ruled Brock hit the ground first.

50-Man Greatest Royal Rumble Match:

1.) Daniel Bryan

2.) Dolph Ziggler

3.) Sin Cara

4.) Curtis Axel

5.) Mark Henry

6.) Mike Kanellis

7.) Hiroki Sumi

8.) Viktor

9.) Kofi Kingston

10.) Tony Nese

11.) Dash Wilder

12.) Hornswoggle

13.) Primo Colon

14.) Xavier Woods

15.) Bo Dallas

16.) Kurt Angle

17.) Scott Dawson

18.) Goldust

19.) Konnor

20.) Elias

21.) Luke Gallows

22.) Rhyno

23.) Drew Gulak

24.) Tucker Night

25.) Bobby Roode

26.) Fandago

27.) Chad Gable

28.) Rey Mysterio

29.) Mojo Rawley

30.) Tyler Breeze

31.) Big E

32.) Karl Anderson

33.) Apollo Crews

34.) Roderick Strong

35.) Randy Orton

36.) Heath Slater

37.) Babatunde

38.) Baron Corbin

39.) Titus O’Neil

40.) Dan Martha

41.) Braun Strowman

42.) Tye Dillinger

43.) Curt Hawkins

44.) Bobby Lashley

45.) The Great Khali

46.) Kevin Owens

47.) Shane McMahon

48.) Shelton Benjamin

49.) Big Cass

50.) Chris Jericho

Winner: Braun Strowman

Daniel Bryan set a new Royal Rumble record, lasting 1 hour 16 minutes and 5 seconds. Bryan entered #1 and was in the final 3 with Strowman and Big Cass.

ROH Bound By Honor 4/27/18

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* Dalton Castle vs. Flip Gordon (Non-Title – Proving Ground Match)
* The Briscoes vs. Motor City Machine Guns (ROH World Tag Team Championship)
* Cody vs. Punishment Martinez
* Scorpio Sky vs. Jay Lethal
* The Kingdom vs. Adam Page and The Young Bucks
* The Dawgs vs. Coast 2 Coast vs. The Addiction vs. Silas Young and Beer City Bruiser (Four Corner Tag Team Survival)
* Kelly Klein vs. Deonna Purrazzo
* Kenny King vs. Marty Scurll

Tony Schiavone Signs Multi-Year Deal With MLW

Tony Schiavone signs with MLW

Just a month after signing a new television deal, Major League Wrestling announced on their website Thursday they have signed former NWA, WCW and WWE play-by-play announcer Tony Schiavone to a multi-year contract as the primary voice of the company.

Schiavone began his broadcasting career at Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984 before moving to Turner Broadcasting starting in 1984 until where he hosted World Championship Wrestling broadcasts along side David Crockett on TBS. In April of 1989 Schiavone left Turner Broadcasting after signing a one year deal with then the WWF. He would later return to WCW in 1990 as the lead announcer for WCW Saturday Night and was the main voice for WCW Monday Nitro and Thunder until the company was purchased by WWE in March 2001.

MLW CEO Court Bauer had the following to say about the signing:

“For three decades, Tony has been one of the most prominent voices calling the action. His work is the soundtrack that fans grew up listening to and today we are thrilled to know he will continue in this high visibility role for years to come. Tony’s standards, historical knowledge of the sport and enthusiasm for sharing the backstories of the wrestlers who enter the ring enriches the broadcast experience for the MLW and beIN SPORTS audience.”

You can read the full press release at MLW’s website.

Source: WrestleView

Braxton Sutter Announces Departure From Impact Wrestling

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Braxton Sutter announced his departure from Impact Wrestling last night on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/BraxtonSutter/status/989648808849141762

Sutter aka Pepper Parks signed with Impact in 2016 and the following year became part of a popular storyline involving his real-life wife Allie, Mike Bennett, Maria Kanellis and Laurel Van Ness.

WWE Greatest Royal Rumble 4/27/18

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50-Man Greatest Royal Rumble Match: Shane McMahon, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Daniel Bryan, Braun Strowman, Big Show, Kurt Angle, Elias, Baron Corbin, Rey Mysterio, Mark Henry, Big E, Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, Apollo Crews, Titus O’Neil, Shelton Benjamin, Chad Gable, Sin Cara, Goldust, Mojo Rawley, Dolph Ziggler, Chris Jericho, The Great Khali, TBA

Universal Championship -Steel Cage Match: (C) Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns

WWE Championship: (C) AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

Casket Match: The Undertaker vs. Rusev

John Cena vs. Triple H

United States Championship: (C) Jeff Hardy vs. Jinder Mahal

RAW Tag Team Championship: “Woken” Matt Hardy & Bray Wyatt vs. The Bar (Sheamus & Cesaro)

Intercontinental Championship – Ladder Match: (C) Seth Rollins vs. The Miz vs. Finn Balor vs. Samoa Joe

SmackDown Tag Team Championship: (C) The Bludgeon Brothers vs. The Usos

WWE Cruiserweight Championship: (C) Cedric Alexander vs. Kalisto

Impact Wrestling Preview 4/26/18

* The fallout from Redemption

* Impact Knockouts Championship: (C) Allie vs. Taya Valkyrie

* New Impact World Champion Pentagon Jr. – The era of zero fear begins

* Austin Aries Town Hall Meeting

* Impact Tag Team Championship: (C) Eli Drake & Scott Steiner vs. LAX

* Update on Alisha Edwards

* Moose vs. Braxton Sutter

* Tessa Blanchard

Triple H On Creating NXT Brands Around The World

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During WWE’s annual Business Partner Summit over WrestleMania 34 weekend, Paul “Triple H” Levesque revealed in a presentation about coming up with the term “Global Localization” and how the company wants to create NXT brands around the world.

Triple H described this plan as a global territorial system, something WWE had been considering over a decade ago and never fully committed to.

WWE has posted the full summit on the company’s corporate website.

https://twitter.com/iamjohnpollock/status/989225600706490368

Source: WrestleView

Aerostar Injured At Last Night’s Impact Wrestling Tapings

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Aerostar suffered an injury at last night’s Impact Wrestling Tapings in Orlando.

 Aerostar was teaming with Andrew Everett & DJZ, which ended with Everett hitting Aerostar with a 630 to win the match. Aerostar was apparently hurt taking the move, and the referee made the X sign. A medic, Sonjay Dutt, Taya Valkyrie and Scott D’Amore all hit the ring to check on Aerostar.

Aerostar was on the mat for a while, but eventually sat up and walked to the back with the assistance of referees.

Aerostar posted the tweet below this morning noting that he was headed back to Mexico City, but that he hopes to be back for Impact Wrestling soon:

https://twitter.com/aaaerostar1/status/989476556085968896

Source: WrestlingINC

Jim Ross Says Ronda Rousey Had The Most Impactful Pro Wrestling Debut Ever

Throughout his over 40 years of being in the pro wrestling business, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross has seen thousands of names make an indelible mark, as well as the same amount flounder and never make a successful career out of it. Throughout the infancy of Raw, and lasting nearly 15 years, J.R. was instrumental in adding a much-needed emotional element in matches that not only assisted with the storyline and kept the fan interest, but also successfully win the Monday Night War against their WCW rival. In addition, J.R. has called numerous memorable WrestleMania matches, adding an extra level of fondness to them.

Despite all the legendary names who J.R. has seen debut, there is one on the top of that list. That person is Ronda Rousey.

During a recent interview with MMA Junkie Radio, Ross elaborated on his thoughts of Rousey’s pro wrestling debut at WrestleMania.

“I thought that Ronda’s debut was the most impactful pro wrestling debut that I have seen in my 40-plus year career. If you look at her skill set, experience-wise, from this genre in pro wrestling, it was almost non-existent,” said Ross. “But she had so much pressure on her. The hype was amazing. The expectations were mixed. Some die-hard wrestling fans don’t even like her being there, which is absolutely insane. They are [sic] and goofy, no doubt about that. So, I was absolutely blown away by what she did and how she executed. She looked like an athlete; we knew she is an athlete. She’s a winner.”

J.R. also had a message for those who use Rousey’s two straight UFC losses as leverage to prove a point.

“Now look, some say, well, she lost her last two fights. Kiss my a**,” said Ross. “How’s that? C’mon. She won a lot of fights, guys. You know what I mean? She’s a winner. She goes to the Olympics and medals. She’s a winner. So I knew that she was not going to drop the ball.”

Despite the circumstances and criticisms, Ross felt that Rousey was very impressive at WrestleMania 34, and handled the pressure of having over 70 thousand fans at the stadium, and millions more at home, watch her compete in a WWE ring for the very first time.

“It’s WrestleMania, guys. If you’re an MMA fan, then you say, ‘Well, what does it matter? It’s still pro wrestling.’ There was almost 80,000 people there,” Ross said. “She had so much pressure at this massive event, it would’ve been very easy for her to slip the bit and not have a great outing. If she continues to train as diligently and as ferociously as she has been, the sky’s the limit for her. She can be really, really good.”

Source: MMA Junkie via WrestlingINC

Zack Ryder Got Good News On Injury, Doesn’t Need Surgery

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Zack Ryder suffered a knee injury during Monday’s WWE main event match against Mike Kanellis before RAW in St. Louis. Ryder flew back to Orlando to undergo an MRI instead of flying to Saudi Arabia for Friday’s Greatest Royal Rumble event. Ryder revealed on Twitter yesterday that he’s just suffering from MCL/ACL and calf muscle sprains, not a complete tear. Ryder will not need surgery and should be at next Monday’s RAW in Montreal. Ryder tweeted:

https://twitter.com/ZackRyder/status/989226517468196865