In what is often a step toward becoming a regular presence on WWE television, NXT’s MaryKate Duignan Glidewell has a new ring name.
Glidewell, who is five-foot-eleven, will be known as Sage Miller going forward.
Her Twitter handle, which was @Amazon_Andrea, has been changed to @SageMillerWWE, with her bio reflecting the name change as well.
She sent out this tweet on Wednesday signifying the change.
Johnny Saint finished up his gig as a WWE Performance Center Coach this week.
PWInsider reports that the company held a big farewell party for Saint this week at the Center to bid him a proper farewell after he completed a scheduled six month run as a Coach to WWE NXT talents.
Saint began coaching for WWE earlier this year after making an appearance as a guest coach in March 2016.
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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.”
While speaking to USA Today, James Storm talked about his departure from WWE and reveled why he left. He also indicated that he is open to a return to the company if the opportunity presented itself.
“Everything is about timing. I didn’t think it was the right time. I was treated with respect when I went down there, Hunter (WWE executive vice president Paul ‘Triple’ Levesque and I talked about things. He just said, ‘At the end of the day, you have to do what’s best for you. If things don’t work out, you have my number. Give me a call.’ It was great for him to say that to me. At the time, I don’t think I was ready for it with some stuff with my family life and my personal life to take care of. He understood that. It had nothing to do with wrestling. But never say never is the wrestlers’ motto that we live by. If it presented itself, I would talk it over my family again and see what we could do.”
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.
The following matches are confirmed for Sunday’s Impact Wrestling Slammiversary event:
Title Unification Match
GFW Global Champion Alberto El Patron with Dos Caras vs. Impact World Heayweight Champion Bobby Lashley with King Mo
Title Unification Match
GFW Women’s Champion Sienna vs. Impact Knockouts Champion Rosemary
Fatal 4 Way for the Impact Tag Team & GFW Tag Team Titles
Laredo Kid & Garza Jr. vs. Naomichi Marufuji & Taiji Ishimori vs. Drago & El Hijo del Fantasma vs. The LAX
2 of 3 Falls for the X Division Title
Low Ki vs. Sonjay Dutt
Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team Match
Eddie Edwards and Alisha Edwards vs. Davey Richards and Angelina Love
Strap Match
James Storm vs. Ethan Carter III
Jeremy Borash & Joseph Park vs. Josh Mathews & Scott Steiner
DeAngelo Williams & Impact Grand Champion Moose vs. Chris Adonis & Eli Drake
It was announced this past week that an Independence Day Battle Royal will take place on Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live next week. The winner of that bout will move on to face Kevin Owens for the WWE United States Championship at the July 23rd WWE Battleground event.
According to PWInsider, AJ Styles is expected to leave the battle royal victorious. Styles is currently scheduled to face Owens for the Title at Battleground. As of this writing, Styles is the only participant in the match, however more names will likely be revealed in the next couple of days heading into the match.
While speaking to Card Subject to Change, Bobby Roode revealed that he would like to face John Cena at WrestleMania. Roode made the following remarks when asked ho he would love to face in the ring, dead or alive:
“One of the main reasons that I got into the business was I’m a huge fan of Curt Hennig, Mr. Perfect. I have like 12 hours of Curt Hennig footage that I watch all the time. So if there’s probably one guy that I would have loved to have just met it would have been Curt Hennig. And if you’re talking about potential matches that I would love to have, that’d probably be John Cena at Wrestlemania.”
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Dave Meltzer discussed the upcoming WWE Backlash event on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio. As of this writing there are only two matches confirmed for the show. Those matches are Jinder Mahal defending his WWE World Title against Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison match and The Usos defending their tag team championships against The New Day.
Meltzer revealed that two other matches that will take place on the card. Those matches are:
Sami Zayn vs. Mike Kanellis
Nakamura vs. Baron Corbin
WWE Battleground takes place on July 23rd from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.
Former Impact talent Gunner made his debut at the NXT Live Event in St. Petersburg, FL tonight. Here are photos of his new look:
Gunner left Impact Wrestling back in 2015 and he was considering retiring from the business. Plans changed and rumors of him signing with the company date back to a couple months ago.
Kurt Angle revealed on Twitter that he will be the pre-order bonus for the WWE 2K18 video game, which releases worldwide on October 17th for Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
It’s damn true! Your Olympic Hero is the pre order bonus for WWE 2K18!! #ImBack pic.twitter.com/bHL7h767yH
— Kurt Angle (@RealKurtAngle) June 29, 2017