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Flying leaps can take their toll. According to a recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Jeff Hardy was injured at a Live Event over the weekend. Jeff, along with his brother Matt, were taking on the Usos on Saturday evening, when the injury occurred.
Dave Meltzer reported that Hardy appeared to have suffered some sort of leg injury. This was evident at Sunday’s SmackDown Live Event in Rochester, Minnesota, as Jeff was in Matt’s corner and was said to be “limping significantly.” At the show, Matt defeated Jimmy Uso.
Furthermore, at Monday’s Live Event in Sioux City, Iowa, Matt Hardy teamed with R-Truth to defeat Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows.
The Hardy Boyz are just entering their 8th reign as WWE Tag Team Champions. You can see their victory below:
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We will continue to monitor this story and provide any updates as they become available to us.
Editor’s Thoughts:
This sucks. The Hardys are getting older, and any injury that they sust..

This is only a rumor, so take it for what it’s worth. According to a tweet from WrestleVotes, there has been a strong push from within the WWE creative team to have this year’s men’s Money In The Bank winner coming out of the whole process looking like a star.
The feeling backstage is that for the past two years, the winners and cash-in attempts on the briefcase have failed miserably.
Strong push within the creative team to really have this years men’s Money In The Bank winner coming out of the whole process looking like a STAR. The feeling backstage is that they have completely blown the winners & cash ins the last 2 years.
— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) April 22, 2019
Check out what happened the last time a briefcase was cashed in:
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It should be noted that Braun Strowman won the 2018 men’s match and cashed in on Roman Reigns, who was the Universal Champion at the time. However, the match ended in a No Contest due to interference from Br..

Wrestling is a weird place. In most versions of entertainment, someone leaving a show or production results in them being replaced by a new actor. That’s not the case in wrestling though, as wrestlers often change gimmicks and are presented as new characters. Some of these aren’t that big of a deal, but other times see them go in a very different direction which jars the fans. That was the case this week.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Bray Wyatt made his official return after a six month absence in a drastically different gimmick. Wyatt is now hosting a children’s program called Firefly Fun House, which appears similar to Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Wyatt mentioned his previous persona and cut up a cardboard cutout of himself with a saw. It was also confirmed that the puppet and doll from recent weeks were his friends.
You need to see this one for yourself. Check out Wyatt’s new world:
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Opinion: This is one of those things where I have no idea wh..

The Man vs. The Woman. Tonight on Raw, it was announced that Raw and Smackdown Live Women’s Champion, Becky Lynch, will defend the Raw title against Lacey Evans at Money In The Bank 2019.
You can see a clip of an encounter between the two from Raw below:
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From WWE.com:
Lynch stood tall against incredible odds at WrestleMania, overcoming Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair to capture both titles in a Triple Threat Winner Take All Match. Since the moment she stepped off The Grandest Stage of Them All, Becky Two Belts has been well aware of the two large targets on her back and is ready to take on all comers; she didn’t have to wait long to find her next challenge.
After strutting up and down the entrance ramp for weeks, the bold Evans decided to make her move when she encountered the newly-crowed titleholder. During an episode of Raw, The Sassy Southern Belle turned in from her walk without warning and suddenly clocked Lynch in the jaw with the..

It had been previously rumored that Samoa Joe would be leaving Smackdown Live and bringing the United States Championship with him to Raw. This is due to the fact that Intercontinental Champion Finn Balor was drafted to the blue brand in the 2019 Superstar Shakeup.
This rumor proved to be true, as the Samoan Submission Machine officially made his debut on Raw during the first segment of tonight’s show.
Check out a clip from his match below:
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Joe would compete against Rey Mysterio and AJ Styles in a Triple Threat match, with the winner earning the right to face Seth Rollins for the Universal Championship at Money In The Bank 2019.
He would lose that match, however, and Styles would eventually go on to become the new No. 1 contender for Rollins’ championship.
Editor’s Opinion:
No surprises here, as both shows need a mid-card champion. That being said, there is potential for some great feuds for the United States championship. I can’t wait…

Time to burn it down. And burn it down they will. Tonight on Raw, a series of matches took place, in order to determine who would be facing Seth Rollins for the Universal Championship at the 2019 Money In The Bank pay-per-view.
To begin, Triple H announced that two Triple Threat matches would take place, with the winners facing each other in the main event of Raw. The winner of that match would advance to Money In The Bank to take on the Beastslayer.
In the first match, AJ Styles defeated Rey Mysterio and United States champion Samoa Joe in a battle of former Smackdown Live stars.
The second match saw Baron Corbin defeat The Miz and Drew McIntyre.
At the end of the night, it would be Styles hitting Corbin with the Phenomenal Forearm to earn the right to battle Rollins for the Universal Championship at Money In The Bank.
Below is a clip from tonight’s action:
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Editor’s Opinion:
While this is not surprising, this should make for an amazin..

Can we get some name tags? Last week on Monday Night Raw, the NXT Tag Team Champions the War Raiders made their main roster debut, but things had changed a bit. They were now called the Viking Experience and were individually known as Erik and Ivar. To say the names weren’t well received would be an understatement, but this time WWE has changed things up a bit.
A week after debuting as the Viking Experience, the team has now been renamed the Viking Raiders, with the individual names remaining. During their attack on the Lucha House Party, the team’s pop up powerbomb was called the Viking Experience. That wasn’t the only name change on the show though, as Bobby Roode is now known as Robert Roode, which he wrestled under in Impact Wrestling.
Meet the mustache. Check out Roode’s new image:
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Opinion: You know it says a lot when WWE admits that one of their ideas didn’t work. That’s the case with the Raiders, whose new name was such a disaster t..

One more for the red guys. Last week’s Superstar Shakeup seems to be all wrapped up, meaning the only time that the roster can make changes has come to an end. That’s the case, assuming WWE remembers that they can write the rules however they like. With that being the case, WWE can change the roster up whenever they feel like it, which they seem to have done tonight.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Cesaro appeared on the show and was announced as a member of the roster, defeating Cedric Alexander. There is no word on what this means for the Bar with Cesaro’s partner Sheamus not appearing with him. At the moment, Sheamus is out of action with an injury, meaning it isn’t clear which show he will be on whenever he is medically cleared.
It wasn’t that long ago. Check out Cesaro on SmackDown Live last week:
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Opinion: I’ll go with cautiously optimistic here as there is no reason to believe that this Cesaro singles push will work any better than th..

You do as the boss tells you. With WrestleMania and the Superstar Shakeup now over, it’s time to get on to other things. That includes the fallout from the big events, which means we’re starting to see how the new rosters look. It turns out that some of the changes from last week have been changed back, and now we know that there were some higher forces at work.
According to PWInsider by way of 411mania.com, the FOX Network wanted Zelina Vega and Andrade on the SmackDown Live roster before the show moves over to FOX in October. FOX is wanting to focus on Latino stars as they want to be able to promote SmackDown Live on FOX Deportes, the Spanish language channel. The move also included Vega’s husband Aleister Black moving as well.
The men certainly know each other. Check out one of their many matches together:
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Opinion: It makes sense and with the amount of money that FOX is throwing at WWE, they’re going to do whatever FOX wants them to do…