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FREE POST: Kevin Owens update

An update Kevin Owens.

Owens is unfortunately sidelined from action, and will require neck surgery, forcing him out of WrestleMania.

It was reported elsewhere today that Owens' surgery was believed to have taken place on April 7. Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp has confirmed that Owens' surgery actually hasn't taken place yet.

Those that we spoke to in WWE aren't expecting him back in 2025, and say it's quite possible he misses next year's WrestleMania. This is not an offic...

Select Answers: Britt Baker, Tag Matches, WWE ID

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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When will you have a Britt update? Andrew Zarian said on his show that "its something and not his story to tell"

Much of the same. I haven't heard of any injury, I haven't heard of any plans to bring her back after the "...

Update on Jordynne Grace "pay cut" rumors

Jordynne Grace is not poor.

In today's Wrestling Observer, it was noted that Scott D'Amore said that Jordynne Grace took a deal for a lot less money in WWE than she was making to bet on herself. There was no quote or where the word came from, so several took it as her taking a pay cut from TNA to join WWE.

That isn't what happened.

Fightful Select reported earlier this year that between outside ventures, brand deals and her TNA salary, Jordynne was making less in WWE. Howeve...

Update on Jericho-ROH

ROH may be done with Chris Jericho…. again.

Jericho said he was "going away" after losing the ROH Title, and while we can't speak to whether or not he's actually leaving AEW TV, the plan has been for him to finish up with ROH.

We’re told that Chris Jericho is expected to largely move on from Ring of Honor after his feud with Bandido ends. Jericho dropped the ROH Title at AEW Dynasty, and is set to embark on a new Fozzy tour. However, only one of Jericho’s tour dates are on a...

Latest on Charlotte/Tiffany

Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton had a war of words that went off the tracks, but everything else appears to be according to plan.

The idea for Charlotte Flair vs. Tiffany Stratton at WrestleMania was implemented even before Charlotte Flair’s return to the ring. Despite the fact that the two went at each other off-script on Smackdown, it hasn’t adjusted WWE’s plan.

A number of readers asked if the verbal joust changed WWE’s planned outcome of the match. When Fightful i...

Get Your Questions In! Ask Grapsody! Today, at 5 PM EST with Phil Lindsey & Righteous Reg

Phil Lindsey & Righteous Reg return for a new edition of Ask Grapsody!

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qbDYjiSIY

Select Answers: Mania Stage Set Ups, AEW Canada, All IN

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.

THESE ARE SEAN ROSS SAPP'S OPINION AND SHOULD NOT BE AGGREGATED

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Is AEW looking to make Canada a bigger part of the TV taping schedule? Does the recent actions of the administration hurt those chances?

I haven't heard of any imminen...

Details on AEW Dynasty finish, possible creative changes

The AEW Dynasty show ender had many fans up in arms as Jon Moxley defeated Swerve Strickland.

For some reason, when word of Bryan Danielson being backstage emerged, many people implied it was his call. It wasn't Every final decision in the company from an on-screen perspective comes down to Tony Khan. One source joked that if Bryan Danielson had that much creative say he would have never won the world title last year. It was reiterated that the decision was Tony Khan's.

As far as ...

FREE POST! Mania Week News, Retirement, Joe Hendry, MLW, More!

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• We're told that Kasey Catal has announced that she'll no longer be wrestling. She last competed in September, and is a veteran of GCW.

• TNA has Joe Hendry on a media tour in Las Vegas ahead of Unbreakable.

• O'Shea Jackson Jr., Max Adler of Glee., and director of Winning Time Salli Richardson-Whitfield were at MLW Battle Riot. ...

  2025-04-09 21:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

David Finlay talks Tekken entrance, Hornswoggle, online critics

Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful spoke with New Japan Pro Wrestling’s David Finlay ahead of the Windy City Riot show on April 11th at the Wintrust Arena. The show features Hiroshi Tanahashi's final U.S. match, Gabe Kidd vs. Tomohiro Ishii in an Ironman match, and the highly anticipated Zack Sabre Jr. vs. David Finlay.

You can hear the whole interview early on tier 2.

Finlay addresses the initial backlash when he took leadership of Bullet Club, admitting he took the criticism "persona...

Select Answers: CM Punk, AEW Mania Week, All INDIES

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 update on CM Punk’s deal? Is he considered full time or part time? How long is it?

He's considered full-time. I don't have specifics on money, dates, and length, outside of WWE claimed it was multi-year. They rewor...

More Charlotte-Tiffany details

Charlotte and Tiffany had a war of words.

We've heard a lot more details regarding Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair's Smackdown promo, which largely lines up with what Wrestling Observer Live recounting.

The general consensus backstage was that Charlotte Flair went off script first, calling herself the "nepo queen," which didn't garner much heat. However, when Charlotte began mocking Tiffany Stratton's voice, a number of people backstage felt like Tiffany Stratton "needed to ...

WWE Raw, Tony Hinchcliffee News, More SCOOPS!

Fightful

• Fightful spoke to Izzy and David Finlay. Those interviews will be up over the next week.

• We have a new episode of Sean Ross Sapp and Jimmy Van looking at LJN prototypes coming on Friday. It's up now for tier 2 subscribers.

• We have a new Fightful Presents video dropping Wednesday, looking at Sonny Siaki.

WWE Raw notes

• The plans have been in motion and pitches made for Natalya and Maxxine Dupri for a couple of mo...

  2025-04-08 22:54:30 +0000 UTC View Post

WWE Legend believed to have signed....legends deal

Another WWE Legend is........signed to a WWE Legends deal.

Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp has learned from numerous sources close to, and within WWE that Kelly Kelly is believed to now be on a WWE Legend's deal.

Kelly Kelly hasn't wrestled since the 2022 Royal Rumble, but popped up in Battle Royals twice in 2019, once in 2020, and once in 2022. She retired in the Summer of 2012 when she left WWE at only 25 years old.

Since then, she's done work in reality TV, acting, among...

Select Answers: Mariah May-WWE, Malakai/Miro/Ricky, Nikki Bella

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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There’s rumors that Mariah May is leaving AEW and heading to WWE, Do you know if this is true?

We covered this heavily last week, but there was a lot of misinformation going around even when learning about this story. ...

Fightful Weekender (4/7): MLW, GCW, ICW NHB, REVOLVER, WWE EVOLVE, NWA

STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new edition of the WEEKENDER!

- MLW: "Battle Riot VII" results

- GCW: "The Philly Special" results

- ICW NHB: "No Holds Barred Volume 72" + "No Holds Barred Volume 73" results

- REVOLVER: "We Did That" results

- WWE EVOLVE (4/2) results

- NWA: "Powerrr" (4/1) results

Alex & Kate's SOUR GRAPS: Raw 4/7 | A Serious Man

Jey Uso is now very serious. He no longer Yeets, that is how serious he is.
Too bad nobody sent the memo to the rubes in the crowd. Or the rubes behind the commentary desk. Kinda ruined the vibe.

El Grande Americano is one of the dumbest things this company has done during this century. And now he's in a WrestleMania match.

Hope you're ready for a "Can They Co-Exist" Women's Tag Title Reign, featuring the Women's Intercontinental Champion not defending her title, because that ...

WWE RAW SCOOPS THREAD

Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select has learned the following plans for tonight's WWE Raw, subject to change.

Please be cognizant of those who wish to avoid spoilers. Reposting the entirety of this article is against our terms of service.

• Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, IYO SKY promo

• IC Title: Lyra Valkyria vs. Bayley

• SPOILER MATCH

• SPOILER PROMO

• Tag Titles: War Raiders vs. New Day

• Penta vs. Dominik Myster...

  2025-04-07 23:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post

WWE Superstar Continues Big Brand Partnership

Cody Rhodes has extended another deal.

Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp has confirmed that Cody Rhodes and Wheatley Vodka have agreed to extend their partnership. Rhodes and Wheatley first announced their partnership in March 2024, and we've learned it is to continue for years to come in what was referred to as a "huge" partnership extension. Those we've spoken to here in Kentucky near Wheatley say that the partnership was a big one for the company.

Of note to wrestling fans will ...

Fightful Report Podcast (4/7): Tiffany/Charlotte, Injuries, AEW-WBD, QA

Sean Ross Sapp runs down the Select scoops for the week and answers your questions!

• Mark Davis, Switchblade, Orange Cassidy injuries

• Giulia update

• Tiffany/Charlotte

• Tetsuya Naito

• Wrestling free agents

• AEW-WBD numbers

• WWE Euro notes

• MLW News

• B-Fab

• 11:00 Q&A

• Q:A Topics: WrestleMania, All In, AEW departures, TNA departure, Nikki B...

  2025-04-07 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Select Answers: SRS Opinion Edition!!

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.

These are opinions and SHOULD NOT BE AGGREGATED

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So if Jacy Jayne were to be called up, you think she might be called up alone or with Fatal Influence???

I liked Toxic Attraction a lot more, but I could see Fatal I...

Alex & SP3's Sour Graps: AEW Dynasty 2025 | Swerve or Bust

Well, Kate is big timing the SGS once again, but all is not lost. We've got the return of SP3 in the co-host slot!

So many questions abound tonight:

Will the Megasus prove to be the end of Timeless Toni Storm?
Will Kenny Omega be able to retain his title again Ricochet and Speedball?
Will Adam Cole defeat Daniel Garcia and finally secure his first AEW gold?
We've got several Owen Hart Tourney 1st Round matches. Who's gonna pick up the W's?
Is it time for the current Tr...

AEW DYNASTY SCOOPS THREAD!!!!!

AEW Dynasty SCOOPS THREAD. This will be constantly updated throughout the evening.

UPDATE: We've added a look at the stage.

Fightful News

• Sean Ross Sapp will host a post show right after AEW Dynasty.

• Alex Pawlowski and SP3 will have a SOUR GRAPS review on Select.

• SRS will be in the Fightful Select discord talking AEW Dynasty on the AEW channel.

Notes

• AEW ar...

  2025-04-06 19:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Switchblade Jay White's injury affected Dynasty, Other creative

Switchblade Jay White's injury affected immediate creative plans for AEW.

White sustained an injury on March 29 against Kevin Knight, forcing him out of the Owen Hart Foundation tournament and altering some creative. Obviously Kevin Knight replacing him was one of them, affecting the working plan for Dynamite. We have heard that Switchblade Jay White vs. Will Ospreay was the working plan for Dynasty, and Knight was effectively inserted into Switchblade's plans.

As far as who was ...

SRS Q&A Questions

Ask away!

Please note, this will be recorded AFTER AEW Dynasty. If you have questions pertaining to Dynasty, feel free to ask them after.

Select Answers: Jack Perry, ROH TV, Sexy Star, Jessika Carr, Penta/Fenix

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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Will Kalyx be the gateway for Jessika Carr to get out of referring and back into competing? Or is this just her being a veteran in Evolve?

As of now, Jessika Carr is still expected to remain a referee. I'm told this may...

POSSIBLE SPOILER: Name in town ahead of MLW Battle Riot

Please navigate away if you wish to avoid spoilers

MLW's Battle Riot is tonight, and there is at least one interesting name in town.

Fightful Select has learned that Alex Hammerstone is expected to be on site for tonight's show. One of the most prominent names in MLW's history, Hammerstone's TNA contract expired soon.

Hammerstone left MLW over a year ago, with an amicable exit. We're told that a number of surprises are expected for tonight's MLW Battle Riot show, includin...

WWE Smackdown backstage news, MLW Battle riot

FIGHTFUL

• Grapsody will air Monday this week, reviewing AEW Dynasty.

• A reminder, SRS will be in the Fightful Select AEW discord talking Dynasty this week.

• We will also have an extensive scoops thread Sunday.

MLW

• MLW Battle Riot is expected to have numerous surprises.

• As broken on Fightful Select Espanol, Mistico is still planne...

  2025-04-05 21:20:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Internal reactions to Charlotte/Tiffany promo

Tiffany Stratton and Charlotte Flair had a surprising and buzzworthy promo exchange on Friday night Smackdown.

The April 4 promo turned heads as Charlotte Flair appeared to be affected by the crowd, and Tiffany Stratton got personal, referencing Charlotte's personal life. Charlotte discussed her recent divorce from Andrade on the Sherri Shepard show this week. After making a comment that Charlotte was "0-3" in marriages, Tiffany quickly rolled out of the ring. Charlotte would shout tha...

Select Answers: Mariah May, Contracts, Evolution, TNA

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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Hey SRS, regarding stories like the recent Mariah May contract situation - do you find that these leaks often serve strategic purposes? In your experience, are wrestlers or their representatives sometimes deliberately floating informat...