Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp spoke to a number of WWE talent at a local media day for this weekend's WWE WrestlePalooza
IYO SKY
She's hopeful that Asuka will stay out of her match this weekend, and feels bad Kairi Sane is stuck in the middle.
She's very proud of her year and winning at WrestleMania after being considered an afterthought.
She said that the trash can spot was her idea, because she's crazy.
She hasn't named her...
2025-09-20 03:06:41 +0000 UTC
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Wow, what a terrible go-home show.
From having to listen to the Miz on commentary all night, to an ESPN infomercial full of misinformation played on repeat, to a super lazy Brock Lesnar angle, to a "Main Event" Contract Signing, what an awful way to try and entice millions of people to pay $30 to watch a 5 match PLE.
Everything sucks.
EDIT: I'm being told that nothing sucks, actually.
Not only does nothing suck TONIGHT, but in fact nothing has EVER sucked.
Yo...
2025-09-20 01:55:18 +0000 UTC
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Any reactions to how tone deaf and greedy Mark Shapiro came off w...
2025-09-19 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Your rumor roundup for September 18.
To clarify once again the rumors of TNA Wrestling and Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling, there aren't restrictions prohibiting TNA Wrestlers from working Maple Leaf Pro. Both Scott D'Amore and Carlos Silva spoke to us directly about that story. However, there was a situation early where Moose and Jordynne Grace were unable to work the shows, but we're told that's because they were champions. D'Amore stated that he and TNA actually have an amicable rel...
2025-09-19 14:31:58 +0000 UTC
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WWE WrestlePalooza is this Saturday with five matches on the card, but a sixth has at least been discussed.
Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp was told by WWE sources that a WWE Women's title match had been considered for the WrestlePalooza slate. As things were pitched, it would be Tiffany Stratton vs. Nia Jax vs. Jade Cargill for the championship.
The three worked together on the European tour in triple threat matches. In addition, Tiffany Stratton and Jade Cargill have a number o...
2025-09-19 01:53:01 +0000 UTC
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Kiera Hogan has left AEW the company after being removed from the roster page.
Fightful has directly confirmed the departure.
Kiera Hogan joined AEW in August of 2021, working a series of matches on AEW Dark. She has not been featured on AEW television in well over a year and a half, or on Ring of Honor for nearly that amount of time. She didn't wrestle anywhere for nearly a year until working a match in Las Vegas this past April, and hasn't wrestled since.
Kiera was featur...
2025-09-18 22:37:24 +0000 UTC
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Tony Khan's media conference call ahead of AEW All Out is taking place right now. We'll update with live notes that are updated throughout the call. You'll also get audio before anywhere else.
Tony Khan is set up to explain the Women's World Title feud by someone explaining the feud already.
Tony says that maintaining ticket prices that are affordable for families has always been very important for them.
Tony Khan says he DOES have interest in runni...
2025-09-18 19:12:40 +0000 UTC
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Which of the NXT talents do you think are set to be always in NX...
2025-09-18 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Tonight sees the return of Robyn Renegade, and in an interesting spot.
Renegade faces Riho, who is set to take on Mercedes Mone at AEW All Out. As Fightful Select has reported over the last year or so, Mercedes has often pushed to be involved with the Renegades on TV. To the point where a number of times, Fightful were told it was close to happening.
AEW sources we spoke to said that all parties seemed keen on it happening, to the point the Renegades had similar gear made to Mer...
2025-09-17 22:51:19 +0000 UTC
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Scott D'amore is at tonight's AEW Dynamite.
Mercedes Mone indicated that the Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling owner was at the show, of which Fightful Select confirmed.
We're told he's just visiting and is always welcomed there
2025-09-17 22:11:33 +0000 UTC
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They hurt people…and pretty soon more people….could be hurting people.
Hurt Syndicate have been a dominant faction for the year that they’ve been in All Elite Wrestling, and they could be adding some reinforcements. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp has learned that there has been discussion in adding new, younger members to the group.
Naturally, Cedric Alexander has been speculated online, but we’ve not heard that he’s being brought in at this time. He's been wor...
2025-09-17 20:02:21 +0000 UTC
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With the potential sale/ merger if WBD and Paramount/Skydance wh...
2025-09-17 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Fightful Select on the first ever ESPN-WWE media call ahead of WrestlePalooza. Notes are below. The call is at this link
It actually started off with a commercial for WrestlePalooza
There was a slideshow including some of the media appearances this week and upcoming programming.
ESPN confirms Fightful Select's report that they're working on rolling out deals for other cable subscr...
2025-09-17 14:55:35 +0000 UTC
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The first WrestlePalooza event under the WWE banner is upon us, and it's likely to be the first of many, and likely many big ones.
ESPN and WWE wanted to put forth a huge show for many reasons, the ESPN debut, competing with AEW All Out -- although the latter is more of a WWE concern than anything. But from what Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp is told, the company hopes to make WrestlePalooza a major event going forward.
Earlier this year, Fightful Select reported that WWE had co...
2025-09-16 23:39:15 +0000 UTC
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Notes from WWE RAW from this week, courtesy of Corey Brennan.
The working title of the show was "Partners."
On internal rundowns, CM Punk, AJ Lee, Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins had bullet points, where other things were fully scripted
John Cena's promo was scripted verbatim, outside of his line about playing offensive line at Springfield College.
WWE has the Usos, Bronson Reed, IYO Sky and Bron Breakker doing media later this we...
2025-09-16 23:35:32 +0000 UTC
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For NXT Homecoming who's someone you would love to see appear? I...
2025-09-16 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Raw was in Springfield, Massachusetts tonight. The old college town of John Cena. And to celebrate, he came out and gave a "never give up" speech.
The Grande Germanicano fiasco continues, as does the Mixed Match Challenge, as does the "Bayley has schizophrenia" storyline, as does the "LA Knight and Jey Uso Don't Like Each Other" storyline.
Everything continues. Unabated. Into WrestlePalooza weekend.
Does anything really matter? Not really.
Kate is out sick.
Every...
2025-09-16 02:36:42 +0000 UTC
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STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new edition of the WEEKENDER!
- MLW: "Fightland" results
- ACTION/ROH: "DEAN~!!!3" results
- GCW: "Evil Deeds" + "Rumble On The River" + "CannonballFest" results
- MLP: "Sacred Ground" results
- WWE Evolve (9/10) results
2025-09-16 00:34:30 +0000 UTC
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WWE RAW SCOOPS THREAD -- better late than never, courtesy of Corey Brennan
John Cena promo
Lyra Valkyra vs. Roxanne PEREZ
Kabuki Warriors, Stephanie and IYO segment
LA Knight and Jimmy Uso segment
Penta vs. Kofi Kingston
SPOILER SEGMENT
AJ, Rollins, Punk & Becky segment
Dominik Mysterio interview
Dragon Lee vs. El Grande Americano
SPOILER SEG...
2025-09-15 23:35:15 +0000 UTC
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A news update for Monday, September 15.
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Do you think if Tony had a full roster available to him for AEW ...
2025-09-15 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Andrade's WWE Departure
WrestleMania 43 in Saudi Arabia
Legal trouble over Levesque vacation photos
Wardlow injury
Claudio contract
Nixed AEW creative plans
Athena
MJF update
Vince Production Story
Bryan Danielson
MLW news
Chelsea Green/Ethan Page
Mark Sterling
Q&A: AJ Lee, Saudi WrestleMa...
2025-09-15 11:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Claudio’s status with AEW has become clear.
Recently. Claudio Castagnoli missed a planned date for AEW at their Grand Slam show in Mexico. Naturally, fans questioned whether he was injured, sidelined, or if something else could be happening. Many fans noticed it had been almost three years to the date of Claudio arriving in AEW, with many wondering if his contract had expired.
Claudio has been featured heavily since then, and we’ve followed up regarding his contract after a l...
2025-09-14 23:28:59 +0000 UTC
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Hey Sean hope all is well, was there a specific reason Clash in ...
2025-09-14 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Andrade has left WWE.
We were told that this would not have been a case of his contract simply expiring, as he had more than 18 months on his deal when he signed last year. Fightful Select is told that his departure is isolated and not connected to any additional cuts.
Fightful was told in August that Andrade was not on the company's internal injury list, despite his absence. We're told that the departure had been in the works, but as of now do not know the circumstances surroundi...
2025-09-13 18:35:48 +0000 UTC
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Who do you wish was gonna be on the Cena Retirement tour of matc...
2025-09-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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It's official. WrestleMania 43 will be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a part of Riyadh season.
The news itself was released via a snapchat video by Turki Al-Sheikh earlier in the week well ahead of when WWE planned. To the point that some in the industry familiar with Turki thought it was a fake because they were baffled it would be released that early. However, a press release in Saudi Arabia briefly went out this week before being pulled. Earlier this year, Blake 2025-09-12 19:50:22 +0000 UTC
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Our Friday Rumor and News roundup!
You can see our exclusive news, as well as Rumo...
2025-09-12 17:24:31 +0000 UTC
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The pandemic era was a strange one, but Vince McMahon is stranger.
Fightful and DownUnderTheRing's Phid McAwesome spoke to Bryan Danielson for a new interview, where Danielson brought up one of his ideas during the pandemic while he was contributing creatively.
Among the ideas was to debut Damian Priest as a big star to take on Roman Reigns. But while discussing the idea, he mentioned one of Vince ...
2025-09-12 16:23:54 +0000 UTC
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Any idea what Joey Styles is up to? Do you see him ever returning...
2025-09-12 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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