Maxim has a story here about 25 year-old Arbab Khizer Hayat, a 960-pound Pakistani weightlifter who is eyeing a WWE career. Known as the Pakistani Hulk, Hayat consumes 10,000 calories a day with a diet including 36 eggs, seven pounds of meat and five liters of milk, as seen in the video above.
“I want to represent Pakistan at WWE,” Hayat said. “God willing I’ll appear in 2017.”
Source: WrestlingINC
Recently on Conversation With The Big Guy, former WWE Superstar Ryback talked about John Cena and the 15-time world champion’s alleged negative impact on the professional wrestling industry.
According to Ryback, Cena was always “a piece of s–t” to ‘The Big Guy’ and people will “lose their s–t” when former WWE Superstar Alex Riley comes forward about his issues with Cena, as ‘The Face That Runs The Place’ would “bury” Riley to everyone in the backstage area.
“John’s blocked on my Twitter. I blocked him, he’s legit [blocked], I blocked him a long time [ago]. He [has] been a piece of s–t to me since Day One. And people, the guy, I was nothing but nice and respectful to him and I know Alex Riley just came out and [admitted he had issues with Cena] and when people hear what really happened with that, they’re going to lose their s–t. Like, and I know, I have a pretty good idea of what happened with that and the guys in WWE. And, one, it’s f–king hilarious. And, two, it’s hilarious what people will find out about John. So he used to s–t talk me when I was in the ring. I remember I was in there against Mark Henry. You’ve got to remember, I came up with all these guys in developmental and I know everyone who’s sitting backstage. No, John [used to talk trash], I used to be back there for John when Riley was in the ring, when the company was f–king with him because John was hot at him because of what happened and all this.”
Ryback added, “but John would sit back there and bury Riley in front of everybody for no reason and Alex Riley is f–king money and he was money from Day One. Busted his ass, had awesome theme music, worked his ass off, went out there and got a reaction from the people, but because of John Cena and I swear to God, I swear to f–king God, because of John Cena, his career is over in the WWE for no f–king reason outside of John and his personal issues. Unbelievable.”
In Ryback’s view, Cena has been “poison” to the professional wrestling industry insofar as he would hold others back. Ryback theorized that Triple H’s promotion of NXT may be a way to prevent Cena from interfering in the careers of up-and-coming stars.
“John comes from that [mentality of], ‘well, we’re going to push one guy down your f–king throats.’ No, you push who the crowd is behind.” Ryback added, “he has been poison to the [professional] wrestling industry. I told [podcast co-host Pat Buck] this before. We talked about this before. And again, this is my opinion, but I think I’m pretty accurate on this is I think he [has] done so much harm for so long to new talent to getting [over], breaking out, over there.
“I had my experiences, and other talents up there have their experiences, that I think Hunter finally had to say, ‘what the f–k do I need to do?’ And I think he started with the NXT thing and bring up all these NXT guys and protecting the f–k out of them. There [are] so many guys now that John just can’t f–king pick his battle with one guy because there are nine other guys that are hot on his [heels]. Do you know what I mean? And he [has] been surpassed now and so Hunter’s brilliant if that’s what he did to get rid of the f–king Cena problem.”
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Sources: WrestlingINC – Conversation With The Big Guy
John Cena vs. The Undertaker is no longer in the works for WrestleMania 33, according to a new report by Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The match was nixed after Vince McMahon changed his mind.
There’s been speculation on The Undertaker challenging for a title at WrestleMania but as of this week, he is not scheduled to challenge for the WWE Title or the WWE Universal Title. There’s also been speculation on Taker vs. Braun Strowman but that match is not in the works, at least as of this week.
It was also noted by The Observer that there will be six or seven major main event level singles matches on the show this year, not including the women’s or cruiserweight matches. Kevin Owens vs. WWE United States Champion Chris Jericho looks like it’s happening but top Superstars without singles matches include Cena, current WWE Champion AJ Styles, Roman Reigns, current WWE Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose and the returning Finn Balor. No word yet on plans for Ambrose and the Intercontinental Title but he could end up defending in another multi-man match, perhaps a ladder match.
Regarding the RAW Women’s Title, the match has not been decided on but Charlotte defending against Nia Jax, Sasha Banks and Bayley in a Fatal 4 Way is in the works. Bayley vs. Charlotte in a singles match has been expected but the Fatal 4 Way is the current proposed match.
The WrestleMania 33 card is not finalized but the key locked-in matches remain – Big Show vs. Shaquille O’Neal, Triple H vs. Seth Rollins and Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg, which The Observer speculates will be the main event.
Source: WrestlingINC
Word now is that WWE NXT General Manager William Regal will get the nod for this years WWE Hall of Fame.
Other names considered for the 2017 class are WWE’s 12th Grand Slam Champion Christian, current agent and former WWE Tag Team Champion Mike Rotunda (Irwin R. Schyster) and former WWE Tag Team Champions The Natural Disasters – John Tenta (Earthquake) and Fred Ottman (Typhoon), according to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Radio. Tenta would be inducted posthumously as he passed away in 2006.
As noted, we also know that former World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page and former Intercontinental Champion Rick Rude will be going in this year.
The 2017 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony takes place on Saturday, April 1st from the Amway Center in Orlando during WrestleMania 33 weekend. WWE may announce the headliner next week as tickets for the event officially go on sale.
Source: WrestlingINC
NXT Tag Team Championship: (C) #DIY vs The Revival
Billie Kay & Peyton Royce vs Sara Bridges & Macey Estrella
Elias Samson vs Jonathan Cruz
Andrade Cien Almas vs Oney Lorcan
WWE has hired announcer Vic Travagliante, according to PWInsider. He will reportedly use the name Vic Joseph. Vic has been the voice of House of Hardcore. Travagliante has previously worked for the Cleveland Browns Network and CBS Cleveland.
Source: WrestlingINC
Former WWE and WCW star Timothy Smith, known by the ring names Rex King and Timothy Well, passed on Monday due to complications from kidney failure. He was 55 years old.
Smith is known to WWE fans for his Well Dunn tag team with Steve Doll. He last worked for WWE in 1995. Smith was named as one of the wrestlers in the class-action lawsuit filed by lawyer Konstantine Kyros back in July of 2016, alleging that WWE concealed the risks of traumatic brain injuries.
Source: WrestlingINC
Below are some videos from Smith’s career:
Tonight 205 live is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
WWE Cruiserweight Champion Rich Swann vs. Tony Nese
Cedric Alexander vs. Noam Dar
A Parley with Jack Gallagher and Ariya Daivari
Tonight SmackDown Live is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baron Corbin vs. John Cena, Natalya vs. Nikki Bella and The Wyatt Family vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions American Alpha for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles
Will Corbin wreak havoc on the Cenation?
The Wyatt Family look to take back the SmackDown Tag Team Titles
Nikki Bella stands ready to play with the Queen of Harts
Beware of an angry Ziggler
Who is the mysterious La Luchadora?
As noted, Kyle O’Reilly lost the ROH Championship to Adam Cole at Wrestle Kingdom 11 last week. O’Reilly’s contract with ROH had expired before the show, and Dave Meltzer reported in the latest issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that ROH officials expect him to leave for WWE. They also expect Ray Rowe to be heading to WWE.
We noted last week that Jay Lethal revealed in an interview with ComicBook.com that he signed a new two-year deal with ROH. Meltzer noted that Bobby Fish, Hangman Page and Christopher Daniels also signed new contracts with ROH. Fish had an offer from WWE, but decided to stay with ROH.
Meltzer also wrote that ROH Champion Adam Cole is believed to be heading to WWE in May, however cannot negotiate with them until May 1st.
Source: WrestlingINC
