It's the first AEW Retro Review on Fightful Select! We just had to go with Double or Nothing 2019
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Vince McMahon is at WWE Raw in Hartford.
Throughout the afternoon, there were rumblings among talent that Vince McMahon would be at the show. As of about 6:00 PM ET, many of the talent and staff hadn't seen McMahon, but did see a room being prepared for someone to work out of. That ended up being an office for McMahon.
PWInsider reported shortly after 6:30 ET that Vince McMahon was backstage at Raw. Most of the staff and talent in attendance were not surprised by thi...
WW- Fightful has been told that Kayden Carter and Katana Chance should be factored in creatively soon.
- We will have an adjusted lineup for the post-Raw, post-AEW Dynamite, and List & Ya Boy this week. It will return to normal next week.
- WWE is planning a media junket for WWE Money in the Bank in the UK.We haven’t heard if there is a press conference.
- Fightful will be in attendance at the WWE Smackdown show on June 16.
- We are releasing our long-form featur...
2023-06-05 18:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostAndrade is heading back to AEW, but it hasn’t been without some speed bumps.
Fightful Select can confirm that Andrade was at the May 10 AEW Dynamite tapings. Originally, Andrade was set to appear in a segment similar to that of Miro and Thunder Rosa where he’d walk into Tony Khan’s office, teasing the impending announcement of AEW Collision. However, we’re told that he didn't want to do that segment, but weren't told why. He was at the May 17 episode of Dynamite and filmed a bac...
2023-06-05 16:35:10 +0000 UTC View PostRing of Honor is getting a new authority figure.
Recently, Stokely Hathaway posted an ominous video of him in Tony Khan’s office, replacing the photos and memorabilia in the room with things near and dear to his heart. When we poked around about the video, we were told that Stokely has been pushing for a new role that looks like it will be taking shape shortly. He was introduced as one of the "board of directors" at the ROH tapings. Jerry Lynn will serve as the babyface authority figu...
2023-06-04 20:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostBy Mike Lano from FightfulSelect.com Magazine 4
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These Bay City, Michigan natives won 11 World Tag Team Titles across numerous promotions, the U.S. Tag Team Championships several times and, to this day, remain one of the greatest tag teams in wrestling history. They were masters at mixing amateur finesse with power, speed and creativity. Today, both continue putting education first while giving back to their communities in their adopted state of Georgia. Let...
2023-06-04 19:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's Wrestling Perspective Podcast had two guests this week! IMPACT Wrestling's Jody Threat and Ace Steel! Yes, that Ace Steel! Ace will join the show for his segment "10 Minutes with Ace!"
Ace started the show by discussing how he has not been around NXT since 2021. Then, he mentioned before he left the WWE, he was at one of the last tryouts; Ace said that tryout featured a 19-year-old Thea Hail, who still needed to finish High School. He mentioned remembering seeing Tiffany Str...
2023-06-04 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new edition of the WEEKENDER!
Topics:
- GCW: "Tournament Of Survival 8" results
- KENTA wins DEFY World Championship
- Lita appears at HOODSLAM
- NWA: "Crockett Cup" Night 1 results
- FSW: "Go For Broke" results
- JCW: "After Hours 3" results
- BLP: "Fancy Wrestling 2" results
- NXT Level Up (6/2) results
- MLW: "Fusion" (6/1) results
2023-06-04 17:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostJody Threat Notes
This week's Wrestling Perspective Podcast had two guests this week! IMPACT Wrestling's Jody Threat and Ace Steel! Yes, that Ace Steel! Ace will join the show for his segment "10 Minutes with Ace!" So, sit back, and listen to Ace chat with a few friends.
Jody spoke about the backyard wrestling matches she was involved in during the beginning of COVID. She said because of COVID, Canada was locked down more than other places. Jody said the idea came from Vaughn Vert...
2023-06-04 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post- Fightful Select will have some more AEW Fight Forever behind the scenes news and notes coming this week.
2023-06-04 03:17:39 +0000 UTC
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The AEW Double or Nothing International Title Blackjack Battle Royal received tons of positive reviews, and we've learned some more about it.
Fightful Select was told by many in and surrounding the match that Tony Khan was integral in helping lay out the match and putting things together. We've heard that Khan helps put together or has a hand in almost every battle royal AEW does, and that he's developed a knack for how they work.
We've learned that the match finish was determined...
2023-06-04 03:03:43 +0000 UTC View Post(STARTS ABOUT 9:05pmEST)
They did like a half-hour six-man to see Austin Theory score another cheap pinfall victory.
Zelina Vega and LA Knight won MITB qualifying matches, Hit Row continues to get booked into the GRAVE, and Lacey Evans has a new hat.
Oh, and I guess there's some deal with Roman Reigns or something?
But who cares about all that, on Rampage, we get to watch Willow, Zack Sabre Jr, and frigging SHIBATA defend their titles, as well as a tri...
2023-06-03 01:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostCM Punk is headed back to All Elite Wrestling after being out for over nine months.
Immediately after AEW All Out, there were numerous wrestlers that said that they would have left the company if Punk was back. Most of those were tied to his words at the scrum as opposed to the brawl itself, of which we’ve heard that Punk would apologize for the former. Since it became abundantly clear that Punk was coming back, we haven’t heard that there are any walkouts planned. Things have absol...
2023-06-02 23:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post- CM Punk
- Collision
- Omega/NJPW
- Asuka/Bianca
- Billie Starkz, Serena,
- Cena and Theory
- Enzo
- WWE ticketing
- WWE women's tag team division
- All In
- Bray Wyatt
- Drew McIntyre
2023-06-02 23:09:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Fightful's Rob Wilkins speaks with Jon Lajoie(Taco from FX's The League) about his new Music Video "Hulk Hogan Slammed Andre The Giant"
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/WY5kg0CG5Y0
2023-06-02 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Q&A time
Guidelines
- I will try to answer the questions I know. Your question isn't wasted if I don't. It shows me what I need to ask around about.
- 1 question per subscriber
- No "are you a fan of?" "fantasy book this" "top 5" or "favorite" questions please! We try to keep these as newsworthy as possible
If you're a new subscriber, comment your question below. I'll delete the field after I'm done recording.
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2023-06-02 16:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post- For some reason, MMA fighter Dillon Danis dropped in Fightful's DMs and said "I want MJF."
- As mentioned on the Fightful AEW post show, Acclaimed have long been excellent merch sellers within the company.
- We've heard some positive traction on both Santana and PAC's returns to the ring after injury. PAC had nose surgery
- McKenzie Mitchell is scheduled to be in town at the Smackdown tapings.
- Some early spoilers for Smackdown this week. They have an office ar...
A new championship belt could be unveiled soon in WWE.
While it hasn't been announced yet, and is subject to change, Fightful Select has learned that at least as of Thursday evening, there were plans on the June 2 WWE Smackdown for Roman Reigns to have a 1,000 Day Celebration for his Universal Title run.
We're told that as of that creative, there were also memos that mentioned "New WWE Universal Championship" on it. There is set to be a podium, where the "New WWE Unive...
2023-06-02 00:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post- We're told there were significantly less props brought over to Saudi Arabia for WWE Night of Champions than a standard WWE Raw.
- We're told there were no major injuries coming out of the Anarchy in the Arena match at AEW Double or Nothing.
- Owen Hart's son Oje was backstage at AEW Double or Nothing, visiting along with Martha Hart.
- Contrary to online speculation, Seth Rollins was never scheduled to leave Saudi Arabia early. He finished filming for his movie ahead of th...
2023-06-02 00:11:23 +0000 UTC View PostA top IMPACT Wrestling talent is currently poised to hit the open market this Summer.
Fightful Select has learned that as of a few weeks ago, former TNA and IMPACT World Heavyweight Champion Moose's current contract is set to expire in June. Moose was also set to to hit free agency in the summer of 2021, but IMPACT Wrestling re-signed him.
In 2021, IMPACT wanted to lock down Moose before he could even t...
2023-06-01 21:19:35 +0000 UTC View PostPhil and Reg answer YOUR questions!!!
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/c2Gito_RW0A
2023-06-01 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAAn AEW name is headed back to the roster soon.
26-year old Leyla Hirsch is nearing a return to the ring, Fightful Select has learned. Hirsch has been sidelined for well over a year since she tore her ACL during a match with Christina Marie on AEW Dark: Elevation.
Fightful had reported recently that we’d heard that Hirsch was in the ring preparing for a return.
Prior to her injury, Hirsch had been receiving a bit of a push, having competed in a World Title Eliminator on Dy...
2023-05-31 20:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
SRS' show after the show!
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPbnf5jPIQI
2023-05-31 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post- Contrary to prior reports, there were not creative plans for Alexa Bliss for quite some time before she announced her pregnancy
- Rob Wilkins of Fightful interviewed The League's Jon Lajoie this week about his LJN-inspired music video.
- We're told that AEW had tentative creative plans for Nick Wayne joining their roster months ago.
- We can confirm PWInsider's report that Braun Strowman is sidelined with an undisclosed injury. He's not factored in to plans that we've hear...
2023-05-31 18:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostMercedes Mone was slated to win the NJPW Strong Women’s Championship prior to her injury at Resurgence.
Fightful Select confirmed last week that Mercedes was slated to defeat Willow Nightingale at Resurgence to become champion. Since then we’ve learned that Mercedes herself called for the end of the match and the change in the finish when she realized something went wrong physically, at that time only known to be a leg/foot injury. We’ve been told since then that the NJPW Strong W...
2023-05-30 20:43:55 +0000 UTC View PostScott Edwards is back with another episode of the Select Style podcast to talk about the remainder of the NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 30 and Master Wato's ultimate win, the Hana Kimura Memorial Show pinx!, and wrapping up with STARDOM Flashing Champions 2023.
Here are the promotions that were covered in order:
- NJPW
- Hana Kimura Memorial Show pinx!
- SEAdLINNNG
- STARDOM
2023-05-30 18:38:10 +0000 UTC View Post- We’re told that ROH veteran Beer City Bruiser has hip surgery on the horizon. He’s been looking to do more coaching and agenting, and has helped out at recent shows.
- Cody Rhodes has consistently been a top merch seller for WWE. We’re told he’s usually tops in individual weekly merch sales at events, with a big exception of Raw in Boston where Cena outsold him.
- MLW's Lance Anoa'i is headed to NOAH in July to participated in the N1 Victory tournament. There is consider...
2023-05-30 15:58:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the 400th episode of SOUR GRAPS!
And to celebrate, Alex & Kate are going to review a rather pedestrian episode of Monday Night Raw, (at least through two hours it has been..)
Ronda and Shayna are the new Women's Tag Champs (surprise, surprise) but at least the match was mostly fun.
Imperium are the new #1 contenders to Sami & KO. Sure would be nice if they hadn't booked them like chumps the past few weeks.
Shinsuke Nakamura vs Bronson Reed. One ...
2023-05-30 02:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostMany in WWE tell us they’re in a “wait and see” mode after Vince McMahon has made his presence known since WrestleMania, and has been making regular changes to WWE shows remotely, but hasn’t popped back up backstage.
As our Inside the Royal Rumble 3 feature indicated, January 2022 saw an all-time low in WWE morale, followed by it reaching a near-high after Vince McMahon was out of the company. However, when McMahon forced his way back into WWE and appeared all WrestleMania...
2023-05-30 00:24:12 +0000 UTC View Post- CM Punk
- Jordynne Grace leaves IMPACT
- Jade Cargill
- Seth Rollins
- Kris Statlander
- Liv Morgan and Charlotte movie
- AEW Meeting
- Bryan Danielson
- Jake Roberts, Darby Allin, Flash Morgan Webster, Viking Raiders
- NWO
- Aussie Open
- Night of Champions news
2023-05-29 22:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post