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While speaking to The Mirror to promote Sunday’s Slammiversary event, Alberto El Patron told the publication that he was very happy with his stay in Impact Wrestling and revealed that he plans to retire with the promotion.
“It was time for Alberto to find a new place, a place to make him love and enjoy wrestling again and IMPACT needed another big star, another big name, and now with the new people in charge, they were able to give me the right offer.
At that point, I joined the company and that is why I am so happy right now. I am going to retire in IMPACT Wrestling because I am just so happy.”
Primo and Epico may be on their way out of WWE.
SuperLuchas.com reports that there is a “strong rumor” that Primo and Epico have asked for their WWE releases. These rumors surfaced after a t-shirt for Orlando Colon surfaced on ProWrestlingtees.com. Typically WWE Superstars are not allowed to have any merchandise outside of the company.
We will keep you updated once we receive an update on their status.
Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jerry Lawler.
Lawler begins today’s show speaking about the MizTV segment from RAW this week, which featured LaVar Ball and his two sons. He says that this was certainly a silly segment, but it undoubtably accomplished its goal of getting people to talk about Monday Night RAW.
Lawler says that ‘wrestling purists’ who had a major issue with this segment need to chill out and settle down. WWE tries to be topical and if they have an opportunity to bring someone on RAW who has been in the public eye, they’ll do it every single time.
Moore mentions that Cody Rhodes dropped Lawler’s name on his conference call earlier this week. Rhodes was asked who he’d like to wrestle moving forward and he said Kenny Omega and Jerry Lawler. Lawler says he’d absolutely accept the invitation to face Rhodes one on one, and he anticipates that could happen in the very near future.
Mike Tenay has reportedly turned down an offer to return to the announcers booth for Impact Wrestling.
According to the Wrestling Observer, with Jeremy Borash and Josh Mathews competing at the upcoming Slammiversary event, Impact wanted to have Tenay and Don West reunite and call the show. Tenay apparently turned the offer company down, which led to the Impact bringing in Robert Flores to work alongside West.
Impact Wrestling has announced that AAA stars El Hijo del Fantasma and Drago will team up at Slammiversary in a 4-way match for the IMPACT Wrestling Tag-Team Championship, now held by the Latin American Xchange (LAX). The match will also feature talent from two other international promotions.
While speaking with Sports Illustrated, Cody Rhodes was asked about Daniel Bryan’s challenge to a match once his contract with WWE expires. Cody made the following remarks:
“I don’t think it was a challenge, just fun. Daniel Bryan remains one of my friends. Final Countdown would be a welcomed tune, even as a competitor. I have always looked up to Dan. It would be major, major box office for all involved.”
It was reported back in March via PWInsider that Eva Marie would not be returning to WWE, however those reports appear to be false.
Eva Marie appeared on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live and indicated that she could still pop up on RAW or SmackDown Live at anytime. She mentioned that her return may not be in the near future as she is still working on two filming projects, but the door is still open for her return.
When asked about reports that Lana has received her gimmick on SmackDown, she said that she couldn’t confirm that but hopes that’s not the case.
Mike Rome announced on Twitter that Nia Jax, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Emma, Mickie James and Dana Brooke will participate in a Gauntlet match on tonight’s episode of RAW. The winner of that match will move on to face Alexa Bliss for the RAW Women’s Championship at the Great Balls of Fire event.
Also confirmed for tonight’s show is a Miz TV segment featuring Lonzo and Lavar Ball. As always, we will have play-by-play coverage of the event. Coverage kicks off at 8PM ET!
As we reported earlier, Cody Rhodes was successful in procuring the ROH Championship by defeating Christopher Daniels at Ring of Honour’s Best in The World Pay-per-view.
Here’s what Cody had to say after his surprising victory last night:
Here are some reactions from Cody’s friends, family and other wrestling and non-wrestling personalities on his huge victory:
