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It's week two of our Fightful Select service, and we'll be giving you weekly rundowns of the new content you can find across several tiers of the subscription based service!
SRS Q&A Podcast: Our Bi-weekly Q&A show was posted this week, with Sean Ross Sapp answering any and all of your questions! For a full list of questions check out our post!
Scripts!- We have this week's Raw script posted for free over at Fightful Select, so give it a glance. If you've ever wondered what an NXT run-sheet looks like, that's also posted for subscribers!
Stupid News Extended- In an extra scene from our popular List & Ya Boy segment, Jimmy Van and SRS tackled additional stories, including one of the grossest yet. See a preview below.
The Fightful Weekender Podcast- SRS talks NXT TV from New Orleans, the tapings, ROH TV, Honor Club, Being The Elite “finale,” NJPW, 205 Live, and will break down exclusive info from his Fightful Wrestling weekly!
EARLY ACCESS: Sean Ross Sapp pos..

Fightful.com's Sean Ross Sapp and Alex Pawlowski react to Ember Moon's WWE Raw debut
Full episode: https://www.fightfulpods.com/podcast/wwe-monday-night-raw-4918-full-show…
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Jerry Lawler had a stroke while at home three weeks ago.
On his podcast Dinner with The King, Jerry Lawler revealed he had a stroke two and and a half weeks before WrestleMania 34. He said the stroke came right before he had a busy week planned.
“It was on March 21st at about 6:30pm. I was here at my house and matter of fact we were scheduled to leave the next day on the 22nd to go to (Los Angeles) for Wondercon,” said Lawler “I had a stroke out of the clear blue. I was basically feeling fine…I said something to (his fiancée) Lauryn and she said 'what did you say?' and I realized then what I said didn't sound right,” he continued.
Lawler implied he was in an intimate moment with his fiancée when his speech became slurred and half of his face became paralyzed. She drove Lawler directly to the hospital and he was attended to immediately. He said the stroke was a brain hemorrhage and his blood pressure was very high. He was in the hospital for three days without bei..

Impact Wrestling's Moose was interviewed by Wrestling Epicenter's Interactive Wrestling Radio. You can see the full interview above, and see highlights below.
Don Callis and Scott D'Amore's stint in charge of Impact Wrestling thus far:
“Great, man! Scott D'Amore and Don (Callis) and Sonjay (Dutt) are doing a great job running the show. I'm happy to be a part of it.”
Impact Wrestling returning to the road with their recent co-shows with Big Time Wrestling and Border City Wrestling:
“I think that is what Impact has been missing – Hitting the road a little bit. The last couple of shows we've done have been sell outs. That shows what the company can do when we leave the Impact Zone. I'm glad that we're starting to tour a little bit more.”
Football players like himself and Rob Gronkowski being drawn into professional wrestling:
“I mean, I think it is an easier transition to get into professional wrestling from football. I think (Rob) Gronkowsk..

Bill Simmons says WWE trusts him with Andre the Giant's story.
Earlier this week, the Andre the Giant documentary premiered on HBO. The film follows the life of Andre the Giant and provides insights to his life. In an interview with ESPN, producer of the film Bill Simmons talked about the creation of the film. He said he had been building relationships within WWE because of his podcast and eventually he got to talk to Vince McMahon.
“At that point I had a good enough relationship with the WWE to at least get them on the phone and get Vince, so we had this teleconference call…and basically tried to convince Vince to do it for an hour. It was really personal to him. I think we swayed them. The WWE is a really good company that is very protective of their (intellectual property) and they should be,” said Simmons.
Even though WWE is protective, Simmons said he feels trusted by the company.
“I just don't think this is something that could have happened sooner than this. T..

This is the Fight Size Update for the evening of April 11th.
– Pro Wrestling Unlimited discusses the Undertaker's next match in the video at the top of this page.
– The Rock appeared on the HQ app today in a trivia contest for $300,000
Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) hosts our biggest game EVER tomorrow afternoon for $300,000.
Keep your phone close –https://t.co/BO0wmgD0FS pic.twitter.com/PGOtHDe88J
— HQ Trivia (@hqtrivia) April 11, 2018
– WWE released this video of Mauro Ranallo's reactions to the in-ring action of NXT Takeover: New Orleans.
– TMZ Sports uploaded a video of Mojo Rawley chopping a fan's chest.
– Bobby Lashley's former boss commented on Twitter about his WWE return. Lashley replied with a “thank you.”
Dang. Kudos to @wwe for getting @fightbobby. A total BEAST!!! One of my absolute faves.
— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) April 10, 2018
– There was an episode of WWE Now about Chris Jericho's return to WWE at the Greatest Royal Rumble event.
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The Smackdown after WrestleMania supported higher ratings.
Leading up to WrestleMania 34, Smackdown had a dip in ratings. Three weeks ago, the show had the highest ratings since last year's Superstar Shakeup with 2,888,000 viewers on average. Over the next two weeks including the last show before WrestleMania, the ratings took a hit but then this week they went back up to 2,952,000 average viewers according to ShowBuzz Daily
Raw also supported great ratings this week with over 4 million viewers for the first two hours.
Smackdown beat all other cable original shows in the 18 to 49 year old demographic by averaging 980,000 viewers in that demographic. The show also averaged a higher viewership than every show in the same time slot besides Hannity and Rachel Maddow Show.
Three videos on the WWE YouTube from Smackdown had more than one million views. Those videos were Paige being announced as General Manager, Daniel Bryan versus AJ Styles, and Carmella winning her first Smackdo..

This is the Fightful.com live coverage for tonight's episode of WWE NXT. Tonight Aleister Black begins his reign as NXT champion after defeating Andrade Almas at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans this past Saturday. Kairi Sane faces Lacey Evans, Heavy Machinery takes on Tino Sabbatelli and Riddick Moss and much more so be sure to come back here at 8PM EST for all of the action!
Kairi Sane vs Lacey Evans
They lock up to start the match before Kairi hits a huricanrrana into a dropkick for a quick two count. Lacey cat he's Kairi coming in and hits a slingshot elbow drop for a quick two count, then drops her with a roundhouse kick before Kairi rolls her up for a near fall. Lacey chops Kairi in the corner and chokes her in the ropes before playing to the crowd as we go to commercial.
Lacey is in control as we come back from commercial, hitting a bronco buster for a quick two count before Kairi comes back with a series of chops only for Lacey to hit a shoulder breaker for a near fall. K..

Do not look any further if you do not want to see the matches that are on tap for tonight's set of NXT TV tapings.
Coming off of a scorching hot NXT TakeOver: New Orleans event it is now time for the yellow-and-black brand to regroup and start the train towards the next TakeOver which is in Chicago during 'Money In The Bank' weekend. Tonight, NXT will have tapings for upcoming episodes of the show and Fightful.com has obtained the match listing/script. It includes who is producing matches and promo segments.
The script for tonight’s NXT TV Tapings: pic.twitter.com/d7XzXKwKh5
— (@ADThompson__) April 11, 2018
Fightful will have the complete spoilers for tonight's NXT TV tapings and also, NXT will be airing their pre-TakeOver: New Orleans taping on the WWE Network.

The following are the matches and segments filmed during the April 11th taping of NXT.
Segment 1: Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae come out to the ring to talk about the events of NXT Takeover: New Orleans. A match between Zelina Vega and LeRae is created.
Match 1: Lio Rush defeats Chico Adams
Match 2: Ricochet defeats Fabian Archer
Match 3: War Raiders defeat Metro Brothers.
Match 4: Lars Sullivan defeats Killian Dain
Match 5: Candice LeRae defeats Zelina Vega
supremely powerful imagery pic.twitter.com/8QhehzKAPp
— sarah —- (@heeIneville) April 11, 2018
Segment 2: Johnny Gargano challenges NXT Champion Aleister Black to a championship match.
Segment 3: Roderick Strong is announced as a NXT Tag Team Champion replacing the injured Bobby Fish.
Scoop #18: Undisputed Era out, Roddy announced as one of the Tag Champs with Kyle pic.twitter.com/sJ5LjcJwnj
— Jacob Cohen (@MrJacobCohen) April 11, 2018
Match 6 North American Championship: Adam Cole defeats Oney Lorcan
Match 7..