Edge opens today’s show speaking about his wife, Beth Phoenix’s horrible travel day which resulted in her having to make her commentary debut on last week’s Mixed Match Challenge on just 2 hours sleep. He says everything that could have went wrong in regards to her travel did so, and she really showed a lot of strength and work ethic in order to get to the show on time and make her commentary debut.

He adds that she beat herself up over the job she did on commentary that night, but he comforted her by pointing out that getting good at commentary will be a work in process. Edge and Christian both say that they loved doing commentary, but it was incredibly difficult. There’s no doubt that it takes a long time before anyone can feel 100% comfortable behind a commentary table in WWE.

Edge and Christian welcome Batista to the show.

Batista points out that at one point in time during his WWE career there was a storyline in place for him that would have revealed him to be a “rape child”, and this was a storyline that he wasn’t happy with. He didn’t think this was one of the creative team’s finer moments, but he was still rather new in the company and didn’t want to turn anything down.

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Batista For WWE Hall Of Fame 2018 Class?

It’s only August, but the rumors are already swirling for next year’s WWE Hall Of Fame class. The name at the top of the list right now is Batista. His name is currently being floated to headline next year’s class. Time will tell if this rumor comes to pass.

Zack Sabre Jr. On Not Signing With WWE

Zack Sabre Jr. is one of the best wrestlers in the world today, but many people wonder why he didn’t sign with WWE after competing in last year’s Cruiserweight Classic. ZSJ recently sat down for an interview where he explained not signing with the world’s biggest “sports entertainment” company.

It would be like asking a musician, “Why didn’t you sign with the biggest record label?” I’m just concerned with being the best professional wrestler I can be. Oh no, it was really just a personal choice. This is my path.

When asked about working with NJPW, ZSJ had the following to say:

My goal is to grow the presence of British wrestling. But selfishly, I feel New Japan is the best place for me really. I intend on making an impact here as much as possible. I still think it’s important for me to get out there and wrestle around the world as well, though. So it’s a balance between my life in the independents and New Japan. If I only stay in one place, I can only appeal to one set of fans. This year I wrestled in 12 countries or so. That’s why I travel as much as I do. I want to grow the interest in British and European wrestling around the world as much as possible.

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Two year-old Addie Cook died after being slammed by her mother’s boyfriend, who performed wrestling moves, including a “Batista Bomb” on the little girl. Police arrested Addie’s mother, 19-year-old Cheyenne Cook, and her boyfriend, 24-year-old Richard Gamache Jr., for the child’s murder.

Cook was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and has a $2,500 cash-only bond while Gamache was charged with abuse of neglect of a child and has a $500,000 cash-only bond.

WWE issued the following statement to FOX 2 Now regarding the issue:

“We are deeply saddened by this tragic death and hope that the guilty parties are brought to justice. There is no excuse or justification for the brutal and ultimately fatal beating of a 2-year-old child by a grown man. This is a clear case of criminal intent and a lack of parental supervision.”

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Former WWE Superstar Shelly Martinez announced on YouTube that she will be retiring from professional wrestling after this year.

“I’ve slowed down a lot but I haven’t retired yet but based on me just keep trying to make freaking wrestling work..”

She continued, “The time has definitely come and one of the signs that I know that wrestling is done for me is a couple. I’ve been having a real hard time these last couple of months and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ has been promoted and now is out. For those of you that know that me and Dave Bautista got in a fight backstage, that’s how I got fired – so it’s been interesting for me to drive around town and I see Dave Batista’s face everywhere.”

“There’s a lot of healing that I did through all of that but I was finding myself getting depressed. I would wonder why am I depressed and I would backtrack my day and a lot of times it was triggered by Batista.”

She then said that if she didn’t get fired then she probably wouldn’t live where she lives now and she probably wouldn’t have met her boyfriend if she had stayed with WWE. She said she is thankful for what she has now but she is “tired of the BS and I’m tired of the fake and phoniness” from the wrestling business.

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However, the pitch was rejected by the former WWE Champion as it was not considered good enough by Batista. There still seems to be a chance for him coming as both sides are open to possibilities.