Fightful.com's Sean Ross Sapp and Jeff Hawkins discuss the possibility of Jeff Jarrett performing his lip synced classic “With My Baby Tonight” at the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018 on their post-WWE Smackdown podcast.
Full show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_y9YsI_yLE
They’re moving on up. Over the last few weeks, “Impact Wrestling” has had another change of direction. This time around they’re going with a much simpler style with more basic, easy to follow stories and a long match to close most shows. That’s certainly different than what they’ve done at different times over the years and the shows have gotten a little bit better. The question though is are people watching. This week’s show didn’t have a major match announced coming in, so how many people tuned in for what wasn’t as big of an episode?
Miss the show? Here are some quick highlights.
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According to 411mania.com, this week’s episode of “Impact Wrestling” drew 399,000 viewers and a .1 rating in the 18-49 demographic. These numbers are up 10% and 11% respectively from last week’s 362,000 viewers and .09 rating. The rating is the same as it was two weeks ago but the viewership is the highest since the July 5, 2016 episode, which drew 410,000 vi..
“The Big Dog” feels that his match with The Undertaker did not quite live up to its expectations.
The main-event of WrestleMania 33 saw Roman Reigns take on The Undertaker. The match has been negatively critiqued by many and is not regarded as being a memorable outside of the closing moments where it appeared that “The Deadman” was giving his farewell to the wrestling world. At WrestleMania 34, Roman Reigns will be challenging Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship but before Roman's big match on April 8th, he stopped past CBS Sports' 'In This Corner' podcast to chat it up about the match with The Undertaker from last year's sports-entertainment spectacle.
“I don't think it ever could really,” Reigns stated. “It's a hard spot for The Undertaker to have such a storied career, to have such a huge list of ridiculously good matches and to have that respect, and to have that mystique, and to have that reputation as the godfather of the professio..
Its still all about her.
Tenille Dashwood, formerly known from her time in WWE under the name 'Emma' has made a splash outside of the sports-entertainment company since being released in October of 2017. After Emma's release from WWE she posted an emoji of a broken heart on Twitter indicating that the news was not something she was expecting to see that morning. Nonetheless her career continues on as she has been booked on a number of independent wrestling promotions' shows, and also has the opportunity to become the first-ever Women Of Honor Champion At ROH Supercard Of Honor XII on April 7th.
Dashwood gave a comment to The Sportster about the bright side of her WWE release; specifically the timing of it. Before she was released she was normally featured on WWE programming; often taking losses to “The Empress Of Tomorrow” Asuka. Tenille feels that this was one of the reasons why she has been heavily requested on the wrestling scene.
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Oh censored yeah. Twenty years ago, Steve Austin hit a Stone Cold Stunner on Shawn Michaels to become the WWF World Champion for the first time. This changed the wrestling world for the next several years and officially launched the Austin Era. However, there were a few issues working against the wrestlers and as a result, the opinions on the match have been mixed over the years. So all those years later, what did Austin think of the match? In a new interview posted to WWE’s YouTube channel, Austin talked about his thoughts on the match and the build towards the match, including the entire angle with Mike Tyson. As it turns out, Austin isn’t all that pleased with the match, mainly due to both wrestlers being a bit banged up. Austin was coming off his neck injury and Michaels had injured his back a few months earlier, not to mention Michaels’ personal issues, which were running rampant at the time.
As usual, Austin is worth listening to.
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And that’s about it for them. The Shield is one of the most dominating factions of all time. All three were World Champions at one point (once all in the same night at “Money in the Bank 2016”) and has one of the strongest fan bases you’re going to see no matter what the trio is doing. They were put back together late last year after several years apart, but a long string of injuries and problems might have already brought the team to its second end. If they’re gone, at least they came back in a great way.
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According to stillrealtous.com, WWE is producing a new DVD on the group, with the title “The Rise and Fall of the Shield”. This new set looks at their careers since the team’s original split and the title would suggest that the group’s latest run is over. The trio wasn’t able to team together often in their second run due to Roman Reigns being out of the ring due to illness and then Dean Ambrose injuring his arm and putting him on the shel..
Impact Wrestling's Josh Mathews was recently interviewed by Wrestling Epicenter's Interactive Wrestling Radio. You can see the full interview above, or selected highlights below:
Who will be calling the action for Impact versus Lucha Underground:
“I don't know. I'll be there. If I'm called upon to call the show, awesome! If not, there's other things that I could be doing down there. I would love to call the show. I've worked with Matt Striker for many years. That would be an easy thing to do. But, if that is not the decision that is made, then, all good.There's other things (laughs)to occupy my time. We're going to be live on Twitch Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and part of Sunday. There will be 48 hours of original content so that if you're not in New Orleans, we can virtually put you in New Orleans through our Twitch live stream! (laughs)”
Sonjay Dutt taking over color commentary:
“I've had the opportunity to work with more broad..
This past week, the staff here at Fightful made predictions for NJPW Strong Style Evolved.
The event is over and here are the standings for the Fightful Staff Predictions:
David Tees: (8-1)
Ryan Cook: (8-1)
Jeremy Lambert: (7-2)
Kyler James: (7-2)
Sean Ross Sapp: (6-3)
Pat Fannin: (5-4)
Sean Ross Sapp and Alex Pawlowski of the Fightful.com post-Raw Podcast give you their thoughts on the long awaited Bayley/Sasha fracture.
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Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com is here to talk Fightful's new premium service, Fightful Select, as well as ROH, NJPW, 205 Live and NXT!
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The third time’s a charm. WWE posted a new video to their YouTube channel today, which shows the full match between “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and The Rock from WrestleMania 19. It was the third match between the two on the “grandest stage of them all.”
You can see the match in its entirety below:
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As mentioned, this was the third meeting between the two WWE legends at WrestleMania. Austin had been victorious at WrestleMania 14 and 17; however, The Rock was able to pick up the victory in this final contest between the two.
Editor’s Opinion:
Oh man, do I remember this one. The Rock was playing an arrogant, Hollywood heel, who was constantly badmouthing the fans and singing songs about how much he hated being in the various towns that he was in. It was during this time that he even had a brief encounter with “The Hurricane” that was absolutely hilarious! These two are always magical whenever they are together, and this match was no exception…
Last week, Daniel Bryan announced that he was cleared to return to in-ring competition. A lot of fans (myself included) were very pleased with the development and proceeded to talk about every possible aspect of the return. Everywhere you looked there was something else being said about Bryan: when would he wrestle, who would he feud against, should he be champion, will the beard grow back? While I won’t ask why Bryan is getting all this attention (because that would be a very stupid question), I will point out that there are several other big names who are about to be back off the injured list. Some of these names are former World Champions and those are the kind of names that could really shake things up (say in a potential Superstar Shakeup, which is all but confirmed at this point).
Today we’re going to look at the upcoming returns of five names who have been on the injured list for various lengths of time. It’s not clear how many of them will be back in short order but it’s prett..