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Since WWE missed the boat with Otis’ revenge on Gable, do you ...
2025-10-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Sean Ross Sapp covers all the exclusives from Fightful this week, in addition to answering your questions.
Andrade situation
Chris Jericho
NXTNA pay
Swerve update
Shinsuke Nakamura
Mustafa Ali
Debunkathon!
SRS Q&A: Vince's last show, Chris Jericho, Braun Strowman, Shinsuke Nakamura, Okada/Takeshita, Who Roman should face at Mania, Mercedes bookings, Samantha Irvin, Sonya...
2025-10-26 15:00:13 +0000 UTC
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TNA Wrestlers are regularly showing up on NXT, and many have wondered how the pay works.
This is especially interesting for a number of talent that are appearing on NXT after being recently released by WWE. There has been plenty of discussion and cynicism regarding WWE simply using talent at a reduced rate now that they’re gone from the company.
Fightful Select inquired about the payout structure, even if there is one for TNA wrestlers in NXT. We were told that the talent that a...
2025-10-26 00:22:02 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Do you know will Steve Maclin re-sign with TNA or leave the comp...
2025-10-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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SmackDown is in a terrible place.
Cody has lost his mind, lashing out in violence, leveling baseless allegations to cover for his own self-perceived shortcomings.
Jacob Fatu is out injured.
The new US champ wins via distraction as the top midcard non-title feud that ended two weeks ago continues for no reason.
The only options for competition for Tffany are apparently the current US Women's Champion or Jade Cargill, a women that Tiffany has been feuding with for months alre...
2025-10-25 01:45:36 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the Fightful Friday tradition -- the DEBUNKATHON. In addition to debunking a number of lame rumors, Fightful gives subscribers a robust news update.
In this edition we cover:
- Liv Morgan update - WWE's stance on Andrade - WWE Japan - Rhea Ripley - Jey Uso youtube dislikes - AEW extras - Nattie Neidhart - Shawne Merriman - TJ Charles - Addressing rumors on Edge/WWE, Cena/AEW, Moxley/WWE, AJ Lee's status, Bayley/AEW, Andrade and D-Von!!
Ashley D’Amboise...
2025-10-24 21:35:07 +0000 UTC
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One per subscriber please!
2025-10-24 20:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
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What do expect for legends who's retiring possiblyin the next fe...
2025-10-24 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Chris Jericho has been absent from AEW TV for the longest period of his run, but there’s still plenty of speculation about him.
As of now, Chris Jericho’s contract is scheduled to conclude at the end of 2025, barring the possibility of an extension or that his deal is frozen. We’ve not heard of him being brought up creatively in AEW, but his creative typically is discussed directly with Tony Khan. Khan himself made it clear he wants to see Chris Jericho back. It was claimed in AEW...
2025-10-24 03:04:54 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Is that just you on fb doing the lords work? You share fake news...
2025-10-23 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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A top AEW star has a timetable for a potential return.
This summer, Fightful Select reported that former AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland would be sidelined for months, as he needed meniscus surgery. Swerve had been working with an injured meniscus since his WWE days, and finally needed it fixed. The time off had been planned for quite some time.
Sources that Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp spoke to said that as of this past weekend, the optimistic hope was that Swerve Stri...
2025-10-23 00:04:53 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Any indication that Kofi or Woods were seriously considering lea...
2025-10-22 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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A top TNA talent is among the many who see their contracts expiring soon.
Fightful Select has learned of a number of TNA talent who will see their contracts expire at the end of the year. Among those, Sean Ross Sapp has confirmed, is that of Mustafa Ali. Ali is the leader of Order 4 and has become a dependable star for TNA, heavily featured in the NXTNA crossover.
Mustafa Ali confirmed (and confirmed again!) his contract signing to Jon Alba of Sports Illustrated early this year. ...
2025-10-22 00:17:32 +0000 UTC
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NXT Deadline is less than two months away, but doesn't have a date or location set publicly as of yet.
Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp has confirmed that the NXT Deadline show is set for Saturday, December 6 in San Antonio, Texas, as per internal documents. We've since confirmed Tech Port Arena as the venue.
Previously, NXT Deadline has taken place in Minneapolis, Bridgeport, and Orlando. Traditionally it includes an Iron Survivor Match.
2025-10-21 18:26:07 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Was it always the intention to eventually bring The Acclaimed ba...
2025-10-21 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The World Title has been vacated, and CM Punk will fight some guy for it at Saturday Night's Main Event.
That "Some Guy" is being determined right now in a Battle Royal that features literally no one who is in a position to be world champ.
Fantastic.
At least The Judgment Day aren't tag champs any more.
Everything else definitely Sucks. Let's talk about it, with a puppet.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/9gr...
2025-10-21 02:29:29 +0000 UTC
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A former IWGP World Champion and Royal Rumble winner has been heavily discussed in multiple wrestling companies of late.
Fightful Select learned recently that Shinsuke Nakamura’s name was discussed internally in New Japan Pro Wrestling as a possibility to face Hiroshi Tanahashi in his retirement match. However, based on what we heard, that was floated more as a pipe dream than anything else. We can confirm that it was brought up, though.
When we spoke to people within New Japan ...
2025-10-21 00:20:11 +0000 UTC
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WWE is facing some changes for their World Heavyweight Championship.
Seth Rollins sustained an injury, which will likely see him vacate the world title on tonight's episode of WWE Raw. He's not been seen at the show as of yet.
Today at WWE Raw, a battle royal was being discussed to put the winner in the title picture for the World Heavyweight title. That was t...
2025-10-20 20:16:28 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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What is Manda Huber’s official job title in aew? What does she...
2025-10-20 16:00:21 +0000 UTC
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We’ve gained a lot of context regarding the rumors of AI creative within WWE.
Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp learned that there have actually been AI tools at the disposal of the creative team for years. However, it’s mostly been used as a glorified creative assistant to look up things like “the last time two wrestlers had a match.” One source familiar with the process said that it would be more of a “not starting with a blank page” approach than “write the show ...
2025-10-19 23:43:11 +0000 UTC
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Sean Ross Sapp wraps up the week in wrestling news and answers all your questions'
Andrade
AEW WrestleDream Scoops
Seth Rollins
IShowSpeed
Ridge Holland departure
AEW Training Center
WWE AI Writing?
IInspiration
Jamie Hayter
Smackdown News
Debunkathon!
Jay White
WWE AI
Steve Austin Podca...
2025-10-19 20:29:07 +0000 UTC
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Backstage Notes from AEW WrestleDream
AEW had Tony Khan, Samoa Joe, Darby Allin, Jamie Hayter, Kris Statlander all doing media ahead of AEW WrestleDream.
To clarify, we're told that Andrade's situation affected creative plans heading in to WrestleDream, but not that he was supposed to work on WrestleDream.
Mercedes' opponent was listed as "TBD" internally, while the Frat House weren't exactly hidden.
As hinted, Toni Storm and Mina S...
2025-10-19 18:44:24 +0000 UTC
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Who are on the current writing teams for WWE and AEW, at least f...
2025-10-19 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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AEW WrestleDream featured over five hours of great in-ring action, undoubtedly, but were the right booking decisions made?
Did Statlander lose her title? Or did Toni Storm experience the perfect murder?
Did the Ultimone Dragon add one more belt to her hoard of gold?
Were Takeshita and Okada able to actually co-exist and both become double champs?
Did Hangman turn back the challenge of Samoa Joe and prove that he is a deserving champion?
Did Darby make Jon Moxley say "I quit...
2025-10-19 03:35:31 +0000 UTC
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Andrade is still facing issues as it appears he's under WWE contract after his firing in a very confusing situation.
One of the bookings that Andrade scheduled before his legal situation with WWE started was WWC in Puerto Rico. Fightful Select can confirm that Andrade is in fact in Puerto Rico at the show, but isn't working the scheduled match for the WWC Universal Title. We're told that he was doing whatever else he could to make good for the booking.
We've made this post free t...
2025-10-19 01:14:22 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Fightful's AEW WrestleDream SCOOPS THREAD. We'll be updating this all throughout the day and night. You can subscribe to get access to this and our other great features, or buy this post individually!
In this post we have backstage news from WWE Smackdown, as well as a ton of Wrestledream scoops and BETTING TIPS
WWE News
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hey Sean, thanks for all the work you do! any idea why Wes Lee w...
2025-10-18 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Jacob Fatu is injured. WWE has known he is injured for a while now.
They lied all night and said he was healthy. Not only healthy, but scheduled for a match against Drew McIntyre for the #1 Contendership to Cody Rhodes's WWE Title. Every time they told the fans that match was going to happen, they knew they were lying. But they did it anyway.
At least Ilja Dragunov is back. And now he's the US Champ.
So at least that's one thing that doesn't suck.
BUT EVERYTHING ELSE ...
2025-10-18 02:34:08 +0000 UTC
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BODYSLAM.net reported that Ilja Dragunov is set to return tonight. Sources at the show claim he's backstage and "absolutely jacked with a neck tattoo"
It is expected that he will have a match.
There are additional surprises on the show tonight. Including NXT talent.
Jacob Fa...
2025-10-17 21:27:50 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Fightful Select's Friday tradition: the news roundup and RUMOR DEBUNKATHON.
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The blurred face in the TNA backstage photo congratulating Mike Santana was Delirious, aka Hunter Johnston.
When we asked WWE sources about BodySlam.net's report of Def Rebel being on their "final contract," a WWE rep on background s...
2025-10-17 20:42:32 +0000 UTC
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