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2024 WWE Draft Night 2 Results

Round 1:

  1. RAW – Imperium (GUNTHER, Ludwig Kaiser)
  2. SmackDown – Jade Cargill
  3. RAW – Damage CTRL (Iyo Sky, Dakota Kai, Asuka, Kairi Sane)
  4. SmackDown – Kevin Owens

Round 2:

  1. RAW – CM Punk
  2. SmackDown – The Pride (Bobby Lashley, Montez Ford, Angelo Dawkins, B-Fab)
  3. RAW – Braun Strowman
  4. SmackDown – Tiffany Stratton

Round 3:

  1. RAW – LWO (Rey Mysterio, Dragon Lee, Cruz Del Toro, Joaquin Wilde, Zelina Vega, Carlito)
  2. SmackDown – Legado del Fantasma (Santos Escobar, Angel, Berto, Elektra Lopez)
  3. RAW – Drew McIntyre
  4. SmackDown – Shinsuke Nakamura

Round 4:

  1. RAW – The Judgment Day (Finn Balor, Dominik Mysterio, JD McDonagh)
  2. SmackDown – Naomi
  3. RAW – Ilja Dragunov from NXT
  4. SmackDown – Chelsea Green & Piper Niven

Round 5:

  1. RAW – The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods)
  2. SmackDown – Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince, Kit Wilson)
  3. RAW – Lyra Valkyria from NXT
  4. SmackDown – Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell

Round 6:

  1. RAW – The Final Testament (Karrion Kross, Scarlett, AOP[Akam and Rezar], Paul Ellering)
  2. SmackDown – #DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa)
  3. RAW – Bronson Reed
  4. SmackDown – Blair Davenport from NXT

No different than the first night of the 2024 WWE Draft, there was a pool of wrestlers still remaining from those eligible to be selected on night two who were not chosen on television. This time around, the promotion made clear those picks would be coming via social media after Monday Night Raw.

RAW:

  • The Creed Brothers (Julius & Brutus Creed) and Ivy Nile
  • New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate)
  • Dijak from NXT
  • Kayden Carter and Katana Chance
  • Natalya
  • Odyssey Jones from NXT

SmackDown:

  • Giovanni Vinci
  • Tegan Nox
  • Apollo Crews

WWE Raw Preview – WWE Draft Night Two 4/29/2024

  • WWE Raw will air live tonight on the USA Network from the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • Night two of the 2024 WWE Draft
  • The Judgement Day (Damian Priest, Finn Balor & JD McDonagh) vs. Jey Uso, Andrade & Ricochet 
  • United States Champion Logan Paul appears

2024 WWE Draft Night 1 Results, CM Punk Addressed The Fans After SmackDown

Current champions will remain on their brands (with the exception of Women’s Tag Team Champions Asuka and Kairi Sane)

Paul Heyman announced that Reigns has voluntarily withdrawn his name from the eligible pool of talent from the WWE Draft because he will not be returning in the immediate future.

Round 1:

  1. SmackDown – Bianca Belair
  2. RAW – Jey Uso
  3. SmackDown – Carmelo Hayes from NXT
  4. RAW – Seth Rollins

Round 2:

  1. SmackDown – Randy Orton
  2. RAW – Bron Breakker
  3. SmackDown – Nia Jax
  4. RAW – Liv Morgan 

Round 3:

  1. SmackDown – LA Knight
  2. RAW – Ricochet
  3. SmackDown – The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga and Paul Heyman)
  4. RAW – Sheamus

Round 4:

  1. SmackDown – AJ Styles 
  2. RAW – Alpha Academy (Chad Gable, Otis, Akira Tozawa, and Maxxine Dupri)
  3. SmackDown – Andrade
  4. RAW – Kiana James from NXT

Some additional WWE Draft picks took place on the “SmackDown LowDown” after Smackdown went off the air.

Round 5:

SmackDown:

  • The OC (Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, and Michin)
  • Ashante “Thee” Adonis and Cedric Alexander
  • Baron Corbin

RAW:

  • Ivar
  • Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre
  • Zoey Stark
  • Shayna Baszler

Following this week’s episode of WWE SmackDown, CM Punk came out to address the fans at the Heritage Bank Center in Cincinnati, OH.

During his post-show promo, Punk revealed that while his triceps injury isn’t healed just yet, he said he’d be back “soon” to compete with all “the big tough badasses backstage.” He also went on to say that Pete Rose belongs in the MLB Hall of Fame.

Chad Gable and Alpha Academy interrupted the promo, with Gable calling Pete Rose a cheater/fraud.

You can check out some highlights from the post-show promo below:

CM Punk on his thank you to the fans and his injury update: “Big things going on here in the WWE. The Draft was today. The Draft continues Monday. I felt compelled to come out here and speak to my friends in Cincinnati. I have missed you. And take a moment to look around at this place. Y’all packed this house. We couldn’t do this without each and every single one of you, so on behalf of everybody backstage, in front of and behind the camera, we humbly thank you very, very much. I want to give a little update. My tricep is not 100% yet, but I am on track, and I promise, soon, I will be back, and I will be competing with all of the big, tough badasses backstage.”

On Pete Rose belonging in the Baseball Hall of Fame: “For me, it’s fun watching a lot of the young superstars mixing with the Hall of Famers out here to announce draft picks, but ladies and gentlemen, I am in Cincinnati. If we’re gonna talk about the Hall of Fame in Cincinnati, we’re gonna talk about Pete Rose! I’m going to use my platform to stump this. It’s not really a hot take. Pete Rose belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame!”

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WWE SmackDown – WWE Draft Preview 4/26/2024

WWE SmackDown airs live tonight on FOX from the Heritage Bank Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  • 2024 WWE Draft begins.
  • Contract signing between Cody Rhodes and AJ Styles contract signing for their Undisputed WWE Universal Championship Match at Backlash on May 4.

Valhalla & The Viking Raiders’ Erik Expecting A Baby

Congratulations are in order for Valhalla and The Viking Raiders’ Erik.

In a joint statement via Instagram, Valhalla (Sarah Rowe) and Erik announced that they are expecting their second child together. Valhalla is pregnant with their second son, with the child set to enter the world in November.

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Update On WWE Star Dominik Mysterio’s Injury Status

WWE star Dominik Mysterio has been the subject of much discussion as of late, after he appeared on the April 22 “WWE Raw” wearing a sling, implying that he had sustained an injury. Fightful Select recently reported that Mysterio’s injury was serious enough to take him off the company’s recent European tour, where he was replaced by Ricochet, but there was no word on how injured Mysterio was at the time. However, there has now been an update.

According to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Mysterio suffered an elbow injury during his match with Andrade on the April 15 “Raw,” in what was described to Meltzer as a freak accident. While Mysterio did appear on TV the following week, it is believed that he will have to undergo ‘Tommy John’ surgery, a procedure which is typically used on baseball players.

Meltzer noted that baseball players who have the surgery are usually out of action for around nine months, but given that Mysterio isn’t going to be throwing fastballs anytime soon, his recovery time could be a little shorter. However, Meltzer was unable to confirm an official timeframe on how long Mysterio will be on the shelf, or when he will be going under the knife. Despite the injury, WWE are reportedly planning on keeping Mysterio on TV as a character to accompany The Judgment Day while not working any matches, something that has become common in WWE over the past few months with stars like Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre both remaining on TV despite having serious injuries.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

Cameron Grimes Announces His Release From WWE

Following the recent string of releases from WWE, Cameron Grimes has taken to social media to confirm that he has been let go from the company.

Grimes shared his thoughts in response to the news, talking about how much he loved working for the company and thanking everyone who helped him along the way.

The former NXT North American Champion started with the company in 2019, with a featured run on NXT in a storyline that involved the Million Dollar Championship.

Grimes moved to the main roster in the 2023 WWE Draft, but largely competed at live events in his final months with the company before his last match against Bron Breakker on the 4/12 edition of SmackDown.

Source: eWn

Ex-WWE Chairman Vince McMahon Files Motion To Force Janel Grant Lawsuit Into Arbitration

As Janel Grant’s lawsuit against WWE, Vince McMahon and others continues, McMahon’s counsel has filed a motion to take the matter out of the public court.

According to a new filing, McMahon’s attorneys have cited a section of Grant’s Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that states any grievances the two parties have should be settled in private arbitration, as opposed to public court. McMahon’s team also categorically denies Grant’s accusations, alleging that she couldn’t have been grieving the death of her parents in 2019, as they died much earlier, and also stating that Grant and her then-fiance’s ability to live in the same building as McMahon without incident, despite the sordid nature of the alleged affair, called Grant’s accusations and description of her relationship with McMahon into question.

According to Wrestlenomics’s Brandon Thurston, Grant’s attorney Ann Callis had the following to say: “Vince McMahon has never known a storyline that he doesn’t twist to fit his own shameful narrative. Her father was in in-home hospice during his final days where Janel continued to care for him around the clock. Prior to his death, she had been caring for her blind, wheelchair-bound mother. Using the grief of someone who lost both of her parents is an all new level of disgusting.”

Grant has accused McMahon, John Laurinaitis, and WWE of sexual harassment, abuse, and sex trafficking during her time as an assistant for McMahon between 2019 and 2022. The suit also mentioned various unnamed “Corporate Officers” as well as a “Former UFC World Champion” who was later revealed to be Brock Lesnar.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

WWE NXT Spring Breakin’ Night 1 (4/23/2024)

Tonight is Night 1 of WWE NXT’s 2 week special Spring Breakin’ in Orlando, Florida at the Performance Center on the USA Network:

  • NXT Championship: Ilja Dragunov (c) vs. Trick Williams (If Williams loses, he leaves NXT)
  • NXT Women’s Championship: Roxanne Perez (c) vs. Lyra Valkyriavs. Tatum Paxley
  • No Quarter Catch Crew’s Charlie Dempsey, Damon Kemp & Myles Borne vs. The Family’s Tony D’Angelo, Stacks & Luca Crusifino
  • Beach Brawl: Sol Ruca vs. Blair Davenport
  • Natalya & Lola Vice contract signing

Dominik Mysterio Is Injured

Dominik Mysterio is reportedly dealing with an injury.

“Dirty Dom” was pulled from last week’s European tour and wound up being replaced by Ricochet.

On this week’s episode of RAW, Dominik appeared with his arm in a sling and he announced that he was banged up. Due to this, Santos Escobar would be taking his place in teaming with JD McDonagh.

According to a report from Fightful Select, Mysterio’s injury is legitimate. As of this writing, there is no word on the nature of the injury or how long he’ll be out of action.

Source: eWn