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There are going to be some stories to tell. Wrestlers are the kind of people that you don’t see every day. All kinds of wrestlers exist but there are only a few true legends. Those are the kind of people that you hear about almost every single day and who will be talked about forever. Some names even go beyond the world of wrestling and enter pop culture, which is going to be the case for a major wrestling name.
There are very few wrestlers on the level of Ric Flair. Whether it is in the ring, on the microphone or some combination of everything else, Flair is the kind of wrestler that only comes around once in a generation, even if that often. He is still revered to this day and that will be the case for a long time to come. It might even be more so than than usual in the near future.
Flair was a guest on Busted Open Radio and talked about an upcoming film being made about his life. There is no word on any casting or a possible release date. The Rock and his business partner Dany Gar..

It had to change sometime. Back in 2014, the wrestling world changed forever with the launch of the WWE Network. The new format made wrestling available to the masses in a way that has never been done before, with fans being able to buy into the WWE video vault for a rather cheap price. Live pay per views were included in the offer and that became one of the biggest draws of the entire thing. That might change in the future though.
One of the biggest questions about the WWE Network was the way the pricing would work. Yes there would be a lot of fans buying the service, but that was going to be a lot of money being lost in the pay per view market. It was a delicate balance between the two sides and while it has worked for a very long time, that balance may be going away by this time next year.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WrestleMania 36 may be the last time that WrestleMania is available as part of the WWE Network for no additional cost. Starting next year, there i..

That’s a good sign. The Coronavirus has cranked into a completely new level over the last few weeks as the amount of cases has soared. The virus’ impact has been felt around the world and that does not seem to be changing anytime in the near future. It certainly has impacted the wrestling world and things seem to be getting worse instead of better. Now how has the spread directly impacted WWE?
One of the biggest problems with the entire situation is the most obvious one: wrestlers themselves getting sick. At the end of the day, they are humans and that means the are as vulnerable to the disease as any average person. The disease can spread at an incredibly fast rate and you never can tell who might get it next. So how is the WWE roster doing at keeping themselves safe?
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, no one in WWE has tested positive for the Coronavirus. However, it is not clear how many people in the company have been tested or how often they test employees. Rey Myst..

The kind of thing we need. Comedy is a hard thing to do in the world of wrestling. If you go too hard with it, you can alienate your audience. If you are too subtle with it, the fans won’t understand what you are doing and they miss the joke. At the same time, you have to find something that is actually funny so even if the presentation is right, the joke has to work too. Or other times, you find a good catchphrase and go from there.
Earlier this year, John Morrison returned to WWE and immediately reformed his tag team with the Miz. The two have a long history together and were a great tag team back in their day. They have had some more success of their own this time around as well and are currently the reigning SmackDown Tag Team Champions. Their charisma is well known, and that was on display again this week.
This speaks for itself. Check out the team’s latest musical efforts:

The Miz and Morrison have released a music video in honor of WrestleMania. The song, called Hey Hey, is ..

A trip down memory lane. Amy Dumas, known as Lita in WWE, was recently a guest on ESPN’s “Now or Never,” where she discussed some of her favorite WrestleMania memories from years past. This is to help promote WrestleMania 36 this coming weekend.
You can see the full interview below:

Lita began by discussing some of her favorite celebrity cameos throughout the years, which included Jon Stewart and Cyndi Lauper. She talked about the nerves and excitement leading up to the event, as well as the challenges that this year’s performers will be facing, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Lita also discussed what it feels like to be finished performing at WrestleMania and what happens when they return to the backstage area.
The interview concluded with a reveal of some of her favorite moments, including being a part of the run-in for the TLC Match between Edge/Christian, The Hardy Boyz and the Dudley Boyz from Wrestlemania 17. The other one that she spoke of was lighting the table on fire dur..

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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