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According to WrestlingInc, WWE have now commented on ‘Raw‘ announcer Jonathan Coachman being named in the lawsuit to ESPN. As we previously reported, Coachman is one of several employees from ESPN named in the former anchor and legal analyst Adrienne Lawrence’s sexual discrimination and harassment lawsuit against the company.
In the suit, Lawrence claimed that Coachman offered to mentor her after she had reached out, but soon attempted to turn the relationship personal.
According to Lawrence, she alleges other colleagues told her that Coachman sexually harassed other female employees working at ESPN, which includes but is not limited to former SportsCenter anchor Sara Walsh.
WWE have issued a response on the lawsuit. Check it out:
“We take these matters very seriously and are investigating.”
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Coachman returned to WWE this year, as you can see in the video above, with the goal to continue commentary work on Monday nights for ‘Raw.’
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Shifting into the fast lane. With just over a month to go before “Wrestlemania XXXIV”, we’re also less than a week away from “Fastlane 2018”. The pay per view has been holding up the build for “Wrestlemania” but there are still big stories to get through before we can get to New Orleans. WWE.com has released its official preview for this week’s episode of “Smackdown Live”. The show will serve as the go home episode for “Fastlane 2018” and will focus on the build to Sunday’s Six Pack Challenge. The other matches set for Sunday’s pay per view will receive attention as well. Here are the stories listed in the preview:
Randy Orton battles Jinder Mahal before his first-ever U.S. Title Match at WWE Fastlane
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WWE Champion AJ Styles faces Dolph Ziggler ahead of Six-Pack Challenge
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Charlotte Flair and Ruby Riott come face to face before SmackDown Women’s Title Match
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The fall of Roman? Last week’s episode of “Monday Night Raw” was the official start of the Road to Wrestlemania as there are no more “Raw” pay per views left. That meant the build to Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar could begin. However, Lesnar wasn’t there last week and the story took a new turn. How interested were the fans in watching the new path?
Miss the show? Here’s a quick highlight package.
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According to 411mania.com, this week’s episode of “Monday Night Raw” drew a 1.09 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.099 million viewers. These numbers are up 3% and down 3% respectively from last week’s 1.07 rating and 3.180 million viewers. This week’s show was headlined by Paul Heyman responding to Reigns’ comments from last week.
Here are last night’s results.
Opinion: These aren’t the worst in the world but they could be higher than they are. At the end of the day, not having Lesnar show up is only going to get WWE so far. It’s the bigges..

Smackdown
Date: March 6, 2018
Location: Resch Center, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Commentators: Corey Graves, Byron Saxton, Tom Phillips
It’s the go home Smackdown for Fastlane and that means we can finally move towards Wrestlemania. However, we still have quite a big of stuff to get through first and that means a lot of work tonight. There’s a good chance John Cena will be in town but the rest of the matches need some attention too. Let’s get to it.
Here are last week’s results if you need a recap.
Charlotte and Ruby Riott are brought out for an opening chat. Ruby cuts Dasha Fuentes off and says this started on November 14, 2017 when Charlotte won the Smackdown Women’s Title. Charlotte is the perfect person to be the top star of the women’s division but then Ruby saw the myth fall apart. It was a week later that Ruby started the Riott Squad with the sole purpose of destroying Charlotte’s myth.
Charlotte talks about how just being good isn’t enough because she has to transcend everything…

The fast lane is getting congested. With less than a week to go before “Fastlane 2018”, there were only four matches set for the show as we came into this week’s “Smackdown Live”. That’s not much for a three hour show, but thankfully a few more of the spots were filled in throughout the night.
Here’s how the first one was set up:
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This week on “Smackdown Live”, two more matches were added to the “Fastlane 2018” card. First, Rusev challenged Shinsuke Nakamura to a match in order to avenge Aiden English’s injured throat. Later in the show, Natalya and Naomi agreed to a tag match with Carmella and Becky Lynch as the respective partners. Both matches were confirmed later in the night. Opinion: How nice of WWE to remember that Nakamura exists only four weeks before his biggest match in America. It’s like he’s been forgotten for the sake of setting up this Six Pack Challenge and that’s not a good thing for the Royal Rumble winner. The women’s m..

Don’t go messin with a Hall of Famer. It’s Hall of Fame season and that means we’ll be getting some big names being announced for the highest career honor in WWE. However, it also means that we’ll be getting some oddball names, which happens almost every single year. We now have this class’ odd choice.
He makes a good training partner.
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WWE.com has announced that Hillbilly Jim will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018. While Hillbilly Jim never won any titles in WWE, he was a beloved character for several years. After his in-ring career was over, he managed the Godwinns for a short time in the mid 1990s. Opinion: This makes no sense, this makes an even further mockery of the Hall of Fame and I couldn’t be happier. Hillbilly Jim has been a favorite of mine for years and I have a feeling he’ll get a great nostalgic reaction. He may not have been successful, but he was a great example of a fun character. Those are always nice ..

Monday Night Raw
Date: March 5, 2018
Location: BMO Harris Bradley Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Commentators: Michael Cole, Corey Graves, Jonathan Coachman
With five episodes to go before Wrestlemania, this show needs to start getting ready for Wrestlemania. At the moment, there is one match confirmed for the biggest show of the year and we’re 34 days out. I know there’s Fastlane to get through first but Raw doesn’t have another pay per view between now and New Orleans. Get something set up this week. Let’s get to it.
Here are last week’s results if you need a recap.
Here’s Kurt Angle to get things going. Kurt is serious this week because he got sucker punched last week. HHH hit him right in the jaw and while Kurt has swallowed his pride before, he’s calling HHH out right now. The jacket comes off and here’s a swaggering Stephanie instead. Stephanie asks about Angle’s five kids and ex-wife, meaning he likely has an alimony payment. She advises Kurt to stick with what he does for a..

And it’s official. As we head towards “Wrestlemania XXXIV”, one of the big matches that was all but set in stone was Ronda Rousey/Kurt Angle vs. Triple H/Stephanie McMahon. Rousey had been guaranteed a match at the show and the question was who she would be facing. That was answered at the start of this week’s “Monday Night Raw”.
It all started here.
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Angle opened this week’s show with a challenge to Triple H. This led to McMahon and Rousey coming out with Rousey selecting McMahon for her opponent. Angle wasn’t done and called out Triple H as well, setting up the match as a mixed tag. A brawl broke out with the villains being left laying. Opinion: This was the obvious match and there’s nothing wrong with that. Go with what makes sense and in this case it’s the mixed tag. Rousey isn’t ready for a singles match on such a big stage and there’s no reason to have McMahon get beaten up in thirty seconds for Rouey’s debut. They’re going with the..

And we have a match! Coming out of last week’s “Monday Night Raw”, it wasn’t clear who would be challenging the Miz for the Intercontinental Title at “Wrestlemania XXXIV”. Both Finn Balor and Seth Rollins pinned Miz last week but no match was officially made. That changed this week.
Here’s how Rollins beat Miz.
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As announced on this week’s episode of “Monday Night Raw”, both Balor and Rollins will be receiving a shot in a triple threat match. The announcement came after the two of them defeated Miz and the Miztourage in a handicap match. Rollins pinned Miz to win the match after a Curb Stomp. You can read this week’s full results here.
Opinion: This wasn’t the biggest surprise in the world but what I’m really hoping is that they don’t add anyone else. There’s no need to make the match even bigger, especially when you already have enough people. Just let it be the three people already involved in the storyline and go from there. I could s..

Give us two more. We’re coming up on “Wrestlemania XXXIV” and that means it’s time for some major changes to start taking place. Some of them might be new names debuting or some big matches being set up, but in this case it might mean some new titles being added to the current collection.
I wonder if it’s part of this vision.
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According to PWInsider.com, WWE will be introducing Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles at some point after “Wrestlemania”. There is no specific timetable on when the titles will be introduced or how the first champions will be crowned. There has not been a Cruiserweight Tag Team Title in a major promotion since WCW had the very short lived Cruiserweight Tag Team Titles which were introduced on March 18, 2001 and retired just eight days later. Not keeping up with “205 Live”? Here’s the latest episode.
Opinion: I’m a little skeptical about adding another title to “205 Live” and I’m hoping they don’t add something else to ..

A new report from the New York Post has revealed that things may be tough for Jonathan Coachman in the near future. Adrienne Lawrence, a former anchor at ESPN, has filed a sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit against the company. She is claiming that they did not address her complaints against being harassed by several employees.
One of them is Coachman, who worked at ESPN from 2008-2017.
He recently returned to WWE to work as a commentator for “Raw.” You can see an interview regarding his return below:
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From the report:
According to the suit, male executives and talent at ESPN “keep ‘scoreboards’ naming female colleagues they are targeting for sex.” It also alleges that men openly watch porn on their computers and have made comments in Lawrence’s presence like wondering what Rihanna must “taste like.”
Among many mentioned in the suit are Chris Berman, the longtime face of the network, former “SportsCenter” anchor Jonathan Coachma..

Hillbilly Jim was recently interviewed by Bleacher Report where he discussed his upcoming induction into the WWE Hall of Fame, class of 2018. Below are some highlights of the interview:
On receiving word that he would be inducted into the Hall of Fame:
“I didn’t have that on my mind whatsoever,” Jim told Bleacher Report. “For a moment or two, I was knocked back on my heels. Basically, I was speechless. It was a whole lot for me to digest quickly.”
On his character, Hillbilly Jim:
“It was always a very doable and easy character to step into,” Jim said. “I’m from this part of the country. I know a lot of country people. I know what that translates to. I did the best I could to bring that to the ring.
“It’s a lot like I really am in person. I’m a happy, excitable kind of character. And I just wanted to denote happiness.”
Here’s a clip of Jim with Hacksaw Jim Duggan:
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On how he wants to be remembered:
“I want the fans to enjoy this,” Jim s..