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Jeff Jarrett has been teasing that the “most powerful, influential resident of Orlando, Florida” will take pace of this year’s Slammiversary week activities.
The word going around is that Jarrett is referring to NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal. O’Neil made various appearances for WWE and WCW previously and was originally going to face The Big Show at Wrestlemania 33 until plans fell through.
During a Twitter Q&A session ahead of tonight’s episode of American Grit, John Cena was asked about possibly working with Roman Reigns soon. He responded with the following remarks:
As previously noted, there has been talk recently of having Cena work a program with Reigns eventually.
Daniel Bryan took to Twitter to congratulate the new ROH Champion, Cody Rhodes. However, while doing so, Bryan also teased a possible future ROH return.
Here’s what Bryan said:
Bryan also tweeted this out immediately following the previous two tweets, indicating that it was indeed just a “tease”:
However, with recent rumours stating that Bryan has almost cleared all his tests and is good to wrestle by the end of next year, this tease holds a little relevance.
Would you like to see Bryan back in ROH? Give us your thoughts in the comments!
Rusev made his return to the WWE at a SmackDown live event last night. The Bulgarian Brute took part in a Triple-threat match against Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens.
Rusev had been out with an injury ever since the Fastlane pay-per-view. He was drafted to SmackDown Live as a part of the Superstar Shake-up.
Rusev returned donning the shorter hairstyle that he used before his injury. It is safe to assume that the former 2-time US Champion will return to WWE TV at this week’s SmackDown LIVE.
Here are clips and images of his return taken by the fans in attendance:
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Cody Rhodes defeated Christopher Daniels at Ring of Honour’s Best In The World Pay-per-view to become the new Ring Of Honour World Champion. Cody hit the Cross Rhodes on Daniels to get the win and the title.
This is Rhodes’s first big title win since he entered the independent wrestling scene after leaving the WWE. The American Nightmare has had a successful career after leaving the WWE, winning a number of championships on multiple promotions since his departure.
Rhodes is set to meet the IWGP Champion Kazuchika Okada at the upcoming G1 Classic USA.
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:
The Mae Young Classic keeps getting stacked week after week. Two more participants got qualified into the prestigious tournament at the NXT Tapings this week.
As we reported in our spoiler results, the two wrestlers who qualified for the tournament were NXT wrestlers Bianca BelAir (formerly known as Bianca Blair) and Vanessa Borne (formerly known as Danielle Kamella). The former qualified by defeating a fellow NXT wrestler, Aliyah and the latter got into the tournament by surpassing an Indy wrestler called Jayme Jameson (originally known as Jayme Hachey).
The Mae Young Classic will keep on recruiting quality female talent from all around the globe before it kicks off later this year.
After the controversial ending to the women’s Money in The Bank Ladder Match, Daniel Bryan announced on this week’s episode of SmackDown LIVE that there will be a rematch on next week’s episode of SmackDown LIVE. James Ellsworth will be banned from the ringside in the match.
Eric Bischoff expressed his displeasure over the decision on his podcast, “Bischoff on Wrestling”. Here’s what Bischoff said:
“I think it’s a bad move. It’s a mistake I’ve made in the past. Sometimes you learn from your mistakes. At least, sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. When you build up to a big event on PPV and you build up the stakes and you build up the expectation and you basically deliver a screwed finish and then re-match it on free TV. It diminishes the long-term expectation of future big event matches on pay-per-view when that happens. I think it’s a really bad idea. By the way, I’ve done it and the results were always negative”
TMZ recently caught up with the famous rapper, Lil Yachty who was donning an old-school Hardy Boyz/Team Extreme T-shirt. When asked if he would ever step into the squared circle, the 19-year-old rapper said he already had meetings with the WWE to make a “special appearance” for the company.
Yachty said that he wants to take a major beatdown by some WWE Superstars if he ever shows up in the squared circle. He then talked about his favorite tag team, The Hardy Boyz and also talked about how his signature move would be.
