Edge won’t be appearing at next week’s RAW as part of the 25th anniversary show. Edge will be out of the country and won’t be able to make it. It’s also unknown at this time if Christian, who tagged with Edge during the Attitude Era, will be part of the show either.

It’s very possible that WWE announces more names for the show between now and next week. Several other big names that were a huge part of WWE’s success have not been announced. The Rock, Bret Hart, Batista and among others. We will keep you updated if we receive any information on other talents appearing at the show.

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Edge and Christian open today’s show speaking about the WrestleKingdom match between Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega. They both thought it was a great match, and while they would have loved to see a traditional match between between these two men, they understand why it was necessary to go straight to a “No DQ” gimmick match.

Edge believes this was a one-off match, so they couldn’t build to a “No DQ” rematch. This stipulation also protected Jericho who has had quite a lot of time off recently. It’s amazing what Jericho can still do at 47-years old but his age is still a factor, so although Jericho is smart enough to put together a fantastic traditional match, this stipulation allowed them to pull out all the bells and whistles.

Edge and Christian welcome Beth Phoenix to the show.

Phoenix mentions that she just got home from meetings for the upcoming Mixed Match Challenge. She will be a part of the commentary team alongside Michael Cole and Corey Graves, and she points out that she’s very excited to learn this side of the business. After years away from the business she had forgotten how hard the travel is, and she admits that she’s exhausted right now.

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Edge Talks Shinsuke Nakamura

On a recent episode of his and Christian’s podcast, WWE Hall Of Famer Edge spoke about Shinsuke Nakamura’s chances of “getting there” on the WWE main roster.

“It’s strange with Nakamura, man, because, like you’ve said, we’ve seen his matches with AJ [Styles] in New Japan and everything. With Randy [Orton], I’ve seen it. And with Sami [Zayn], I’ve seen it. But that match too, man, I really loved that match and after that, it’s like, anything else is going to be tough to live up to.

“I mean, maybe [Nakamura will “get there”]. Maybe. Who knows? It’s a different beast entirely. People can blame it on booking, this, that, or the other. I don’t know. I think it’s weird. It just goes to show how different places to wrestle are completely different environments.”

Let’s just hope that Shinsuke isn’t wasted on the main roster from here on out. I think that the “dream feud” with AJ Styles could go far to cement Nakamura’s place in WWE.

AJ Styles Update

As we reported last night, AJ Styles missed the opening show of the current SmackDown Live South America tour in Buenos Aires. Apparently, AJ caught a stomach bug and wasn’t able to wrestle last night, leaving a lot of fans disappointed and complaining on social media. However, he is expected to be on tonight’s Buenos Aires show.

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In salute of #InternationalWomensDay I thought it was time to talk about a 2017 WWE Hall of Fame inductee, but more specifically, my wife, Beth Copeland, aka The Glamazon, aka The Glamamom, aka Beth Pheonix(that’s a lot of handles).

Now obviously I’m biased, and extremely proud of Beth, but after she expressed doubt as to whether she should go into the HOF so quickly, I looked at her resume. I stepped out of the husband shoes and looked at her question and came to the conclusion, that, hell yeah she should be. Who cares what year it happens, if you have a HOF resume, you deserve to go in plain and simple. There’s no time eligibility as with pro sports, so who cares when it happens, as long as it does. It’s not a race between people. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that’s mine, and since I’m a hall of famer myself, my opinion is more important(I kid, I kid, kind of).

Let’s roll through the credentials:
-first women’s ladder match in history vs Katie Lee Burchill
-first women’s Table match in history with Natalya vs Laycool
-first women’s I Quit match vs Melina
-second woman to ever enter the Royal Rumble(and eliminate The Great Khali)
-3 time WWE Women’s Champion
-1 time Divas Champion
-third most female ppv appearances with 38, one behind Trish Stratus and Natalya at 39

There’s a reason she was put in those positions. She was damn good at her job. I always felt(even before we were an item) that Beth was a wrestler. Plain and simple, she could wrestle. In a time when female physical strength was not in vogue, she still stuck to her guns(get it?). In the days of diva searches(no offense diva search contestants) Beth was a throwback. She joined her high school wrestling team. The first woman to do so at her school and broke down barriers, all with the goal of making it to the WWE after seeing Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart at Wrestlemania 10. She was, and is, a true fan of the industry which sadly can be a rarity within the industry. She left a good, safe job to hop in her Geo Prism and drive to Louisville, KY to try and get into OVW(at that time WWE’s farm system).

After being told for years by the higher ups in WWE talent relations that she wasn’t what they were looking for(which was the next Trish Stratus) and waitressing in Perkins to make ends meet, she continued showing up. Finally she was hired, eventually made it to Monday Night Raw, and in her first match, broke her jaw(and finished the match). Not deterred she came back with an idea and a different attitude and The Glamazon was born.

She could play the straight woman to Santino. She was the woman who the company could depend on for years on pay per view. She was one of the women to keep the flame alive for women’s wrestling in an era where it was put on the back burner, and let’s face it, given little attention by the WWE. I think the current renaissance of the division happened in part because of women like Beth, Nattie, Laycool, Mickie James, Candice etc. Those were some leanly written years for the women’s division but they kept the torch lit for women like Charlotte, Bayley, Becky, Nia and Sasha to show what badasses they are today.

The truest testament of your skill is what your peers think, especially in the WWE locker room. That’s a tough audience to win over, and Beth had the respect of everyone for being a worker. So this year that’s honored. And that’s great. But more important than all of that is the woman she is. Strong, idenpendent, smart, continuing her education and recently receiving her masters in forensic psychology and now about to embark on getting a degree in clinical mental health. All while being a mother to our two little girls, Lyric and Ruby and setting a sparkling example of what a woman can be if she believes in herself. In spite of today’s political climate. So, yeah, I’m pretty proud of her.

Who cares about the WWE Hall of Fame, if there was a Hall of Fame for life, Beth would be in first ballot.

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According to Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Radio, other names considered for the 2017 class are:-

– Former 9 Time WWE Tag Team Champion & WWE’s 12th Grand Slam Champion ”Captain Charisma” Christian,
– Former WWE Tag Team Champion and Current backstage agent Mike Rotunda,
– Former WWE Tag Team Champions The Natural Disasters – Earthquake and Typhoon
John Tenta (Earthquake) would be inducted posthumously as he passed away in 2006;

And, we also know that

– Former 3 Time WCW World Heavyweight Champion ”DDP” Diamond Dallas Page and,
– Former WWE Intercontinental Champion ”Ravishing” Rick Rude
will be inducted in the WWE HOF this year.

The WWE Hall of Fame 2017 ceremony takes place on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at the Amway Center in Orlando, FL during WrestleMania 33 weekend.

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Edge Tweeted the following when he had his Second child :

@TheBethPhoenix and I welcomed our beautiful lil bit, Ruby Ever Copeland on May 31. Look out world, have a feelin she will move mountains

— Adam (Edge) Copeland (@EdgeRatedR) June 5, 2016