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Need more of The Beast? Then, this article is for you. According to a report from WWE.com, ESPN2 will be hosting a marathon of Brock Lesnar programming this Sunday, April 5, 2020. This is to lead up to Wrestlemania 36, which will be airing later that evening on the WWE Network.
The schedule of programming is as follows:
6 a.m. — UFC Main Event: Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem 7 a.m. — UFC Main Event: Brock Lesnar vs. Shane Carwin 7:30 a.m. — UFC Main Event: Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez 8 a.m. — UFC Unleashed: Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Couture 9 a.m. — 2000 NCAA Wrestling Championship In addition, ESPN’s “E:60” ??feature from 2009 will also re-air as part of Sunday morning’s “SportsCenter.”
The Beast will be defending the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 36 against Drew McIntyre. Here’s what we can expect from the contest:

Editor’s Opinion:
It will be neat for the world to get to see the other side of this man and how dominant he was in the UFC. This will help the audience..

The Beard vs. The Beast. WWE has posted a new video to its YouTube channel in which they show the full match between Brock Lesnar and Daniel Bryan from Survivor Series 2018. It was a “Champion vs. Champion” match, between the Universal Champion and the WWE Champion respectively.
You can see the match in its entirety below:

From WWE.com:
Thanks to a low-blow behind the back of a frazzled ref, the folk-hero-turned crazy-eyed sadist turned the two-time Universal Champion into a purple, writhing mess. Bryan landed a pair of Running Knees and slowly whittled The Beast Incarnate down until he was able to apply the “Yes!” Lock square in the middle of the ring. It was a remarkable turnaround for Bryan from the early goings of the match, where the five-time World Champion ill-advisedly tried to goad Lesnar into a fight, hoping, perhaps, to rile The Beast up to the point where he might make a mistake.
But much like AJ Styles and so many others before him, “almost” was as close as Daniel Bry..

NXT
Date: April 1, 2020
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Tom Phillips, Sam Roberts
It’s a taped show this week and likely will be for a good while to come. This time around we are going to have a rather stacked card, capped off by the triple threat match for the North American Title. Other than that though, all roads lead to next week with the final showdown between Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa. Let’s get to it.
The opening recap looks at the triple threat match.
Velveteen Dream vs. Bobby Fish Fish kicks away to start but Dream clotheslines him down. A knee drop gets two and there’s a little gyration for a bonus. Back up and Fish kicks him into the corner, only to get popped in the face. A top rope ax handle has Fish in trouble and Dream hammers away in the corner, only to get sent outside. Fish whips him into the barricade and we take a break.
Back with Fish kicking the knee out and then kicking away at it even more as you can’t fault his log..

That clears things up a little bit. With WrestleMania being such a mess on so many levels, there are going to be some mixed messages on the way to the show. That is going to cause some confusion and while we won’t know everything until this weekend, we can get an idea of what to expect. Sometimes that has to be adjusted though and that is the case with a pretty big match.
There are a lot of things that have to be put onto a WrestleMania card and this year’s show is even more complicated than most. Since there are so many factors to deal with this time around, you have to get in a few important pieces. One of those pieces was set up on last week’s SmackDown, but things were forced to be changed due to injury. It turns out that they were changed to something else than what was previously reported.
Last week, reports from Wrestling Observer Radio said that the SmackDown Tag Team Title match, originally booked as a triple threat ladder match, was changed into a singles match, possibly fo..

You can mark your calendars. WrestleMania 36 is something we have never seen before. For the first time ever, there is a two night schedule for the show, meaning that some matches will be taking place a full day before the next. I’m not sure what to expect from the show as a whole, but as of Monday, we have a better idea of what might be taking place on the first night.
There have been a lot of big matches set up for WrestleMania and a lot of them have been built around personal rivalries. Some of these have been going for a very long time now and one of the longest such rivalries is between Kevin Owens and Seth Rollins. The two have been feuding since November and now we know a little more about their impending showdown.
Rollins attacked Owens during this week’s Monday Night Raw, leaving Owens laying in the ring. Owens got up and had something to say to Rollins, during which he announced that their match will take place on Saturday. This is the first match officially assigned a day ..

Now that it’s official. With less than five days before WrestleMania 36 and the event already taped in advance, you might think that the card was ready to go. As tends to be the case though, WWE knows how to make their biggest card of the year even bigger and that was the case this week. Most of the show had already been announced but there was room for at least one more.
There have been a lot of matches set up over the last few months but not all of them have been confirmed for WrestleMania. There are so many things to cover in such a short amount of time that something is going to have to be left until the end. That isn’t a knock on the match, but it does show you how much is going on. We now know what that last match will be, at least on the Monday Night raw side.
During this week’s Monday Night Raw, a Women’s Tag Team Title match was confirmed for WrestleMania, as the Kabuki Warriors will be defending the titles against Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross. This match has been teased for ..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over ten years now and have reviewed over 5,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net, starting today. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be?
Wrestlemania XXXI
Date: March 29, 2015
Location: Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California
Attendance: 76,976
Commentators: Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield, Jerry Lawler
This is an interesting show as most people really weren’t looking forward to it. The card isn’t that bad on paper but the interest is still low. Reigns vs. Lesnar isn’t the most exciting main event and the idea of HHH vs. Sting as a regular match is borderline terrifying. The show has surprised me before though so let’s get to it.
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Ring of Honor
Date: March 25, 2020
Location: Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee
Commentators: Caprice Coleman, Ian Riccaboni
Host: Quinn McKay
From what I can tell, this seems to be the final weekly show that will feature new material. This is the start of a new event but for some reason it looks like the last episode they were able to produce. Fair enough as you never know how screwy things could have gotten thanks to everything going nuts. Things have been a bit better under the Scurll regime so hopefully they can go into hiatus on a high note. Let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
We open with a quick video on 2 Guys 1 Tag.
Quinn runs down the show.
Dan Maff/Jeff Cobb vs. Briscoes Mark and Jeff lock up to start with Mark’s headlock trying to cut off the power. A dropkick sends Mark into the corner so it’s off to Maff. That earns him a forearm to the face and Jay comes in for the big staredown. Maff gets the better of it and forearms away in the corner….as we cut ..

He’s worthy of some attention. The sports world is a bit of a strange place at the moment and that has caused some severe issues with the various sports programming networks. Since there are so few live sports available for broadcast, these networks are looking towards different sporting events to keep things on the air. That includes wrestling, which was the case on Sunday.
On Sunday, ESPN focused quite a bit of their television time on wrestling. This included the NCAA amateur wrestling tournaments from 2011, various documentaries on amateur wrestling and WWE, WrestleMania 35 and a 30 For 30 documentary on Ric Flair. The last one of those is a rather special one and deserves a special bonus, which is what took place on Sunday morning before the documentary aired.
This is a special one. Check out a special Flair appearance:

Before his documentary aired, Flair was a guest on SportsCenter on Sunday morning. Flair talked about how honored he was to be on the show because it meant so ..

Take two for AEW. One of the biggest attractions for a wrestling show is to have the events run live. With such a strong possibility for spoilers out there, wrestling airing live is the only surefire way to keep things under wraps. Granted, things are a little bit different at the moment as the lack of fans in an arena can keep any results from getting out. This means a segment not being live is not the worst thing, which was on display Wednesday.
This week’s edition of AEW Dynamite was highlighted by a confrontation between Chris Jericho and Matt Hardy. The big selling point of the segment was Broken Matt being able to speak on his own for the first time in a good while. Some people might have gotten more out of this than others, but there was a part of the segment that went so badly that it had to be redone at someone’s request.
According to Chris Jericho during a Facebook Live Q&A, the Hardy/Jericho segment that aired on Dynamite was the second version of the segment to be taped. ..

It’s a bigger deal than it might seem. WrestleMania, along with almost everything else in the world, has been turned on its head due to the spread of the Coronavirus. That is the kind of thing that you cannot plan for and with all of the changes that have taken place for WrestleMania itself, things are going to look very different than originally planned. Things might still be different after WrestleMania though.
One of the biggest issues the Coronavirus brings to the wrestling industry is having so many people in a close setting. If someone gets sick in WWE then there is a good chance that the rest of the roster could wind up with the same. That is a problem for anyone but there are some wrestlers who have it worse than others. Those people might not be around for a good while.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, both Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan could be away from WWE for longer than most. Both of them have autoimmune disorders which weaken their abilities to fight off diseases..