Sunday, April 13th, 2025

A message from Kairi Sane:

Something for you to watch this lazy Sunday:

ROH is introducing a Women’s Pure Championship belt.

Tank Abbott, Don Frye, Dan Severn, Butterbean and Mark Kerr will all be guests at Bloodsport XIII.

Saturday, April 12th, 2025

During the Ultimate Improv Show, Becky Lynch was asked about her wrestling career. She stated: “It’s WrestleMania season, isn’t it? Look, I’m not wrestling anymore. Maybe one day but not right now… But my husband is!”

The Young Bucks have issued a challenge:

Here’s something to watch on a lazy Saturday:

In case you missed Smackdown last night, the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal will take place on next week’s edition.

Here is what you will see on Collision tonight:

Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament: Athena vs. Harley Cameron

Women’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament: Jamie Hayter vs. Billie Starkz

Men’s Owen Hart Cup Tournament: Brody King vs. Konosuke Takeshita

Anthony Bowens vs. Blake Christian

FTR to appear.

Drew McIntyre has confirmed that he cut his head open during the brawl on Smackdown last night.

Some updates on the WWE Hall of Fame inductions…

Shawn Michaels to induct Triple H.

The Undertaker to induct Michelle McCool.

Diamond Dallas Page to induct Lex Luger.

CM Punk to induct Wrestlemania 13’s Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart.

The Natural Disasters’ inductor has not yet been announced.

Hiroshi Tanahashi wrestled his last match in the USA last night. He was defeated by Konosuke Takeshita at NJPW Resurgence.

WWE has clarified which matches are on which night of WrestleMania

Night one

Roman Reigns vs. CM Punk (w/Paul Heyman) vs. Seth Rollins
World Heavyweight Champion Gunther defends against Jey Uso
WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton defends against Charlotte Flair
WWE United States Champion LA Knight defends against Jacob Fatu
World Tag Team Champions The War Raiders (Erik & Ivar) defend against The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods)
Naomi vs. Jade Cargill
Rey Mysterio vs. El Grande Americano

Night Two

Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes defends against John Cena
Women’s World Champion IYO SKY defends against Bianca Belair & Rhea Ripley in a triple threat
WWE Intercontinental Champion Bron Breakker defends against Penta, Finn Balor & Dominik Mysterio in a four-way
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez defend against Bayley & Lyra Valkyria
Sin City street fight: Drew McIntyre vs. Damian Priest
AJ Styles vs. Logan Paul

Friday, April 11th, 2025

Chris Jericho is taking a break from AEW at the present time to focus on his tour with Fozzy.

Here is what you will see on Smackdown tonight:

Rey Fenix vs. Berto
Cody Rhodes returns
Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre face-to-face
Women’s Tag Team Gauntlet for WWE Women’s Tag Team Title Match at WrestleMania 41: Kayden Carter & Katana Chance vs. Lyra Valkyria & Bayley vs. Shayna Baszler & Zoey Stark vs. B-Fab & Michin vs. Piper Niven & Alba Fyre vs. Maxxine Dupri & Natalya

In their promotional poster for Clash in Paris this August the WWE is spotlighting John Cena.
John Powell has another Stock Ticker for you Survivor fans.

Kevin Owens has had the neck surgery he needed. Word is he will be on the shelf for 8 to 12 months.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling has announced that it is coming to Montreal on July 5th for its MLP: RESURRECTION show. The event will emanate from Colisée de Laval.

Look who is going to be at WWE World:

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

If you are a fan of the series All American and Trick Williams you will be pleased with this news: Williams will be appearing on the season finale

AEW Dynamite ratings:

This week: 659,000 overnight viewers and 0.17 in the key demos.

Last week: 663,000 overnight viewers and 0.17 in the key demos.

Charlotte has responded to all the craziness around her and Tiffany’s segment:

 

100 years ago today, the legendary Angelo Poffo – father of Leaping Lanny and Randy “Macho Man” Savage – was born. Read all about the Poffo dynasty in our archives.

On this date in 1954, manager Paul Bearer was born. Oh, yes!

John Cena is confirmed for the last Smackdown before WrestleMania.

WWE President Nick Khan had this to say about what influence social media has in the WWE’s business decisions at the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas meeting yesterday. “It’s a small percentage of voices who have a big microphone or megaphone in front of them. It’s a mistake to respond to your business based off of that. You’ve got to base it off your gut and the results. What do people like? They like dramas. They like conflict. They like to see conflict being resolved one way or another. As Paul mentioned, in our business, you get to knock each other out in a 20×20 ring. People like that too. So for us, we want to appeal to everybody.”

Slam’s John Powell has double the Survivor news for you today:

Here is what you will see on Impact tonight:

Cody Deaner vs. Moose
Mustafa Ali vs. Ace Austin
Leon Slater vs. Ryan Nemeth
Steve Maclin vs. Eddie Edwards
The Rascalz vs. JDC & Brian Myers
TNA International Title Qualifier: Mance Warner vs. AJ Francis vs. Sami Callihan

Mance Warner and Steph De Lander are now engaged to be married.

Pac suffered an injury last night on Dynamite. Word is he had to seek medical treatment after limping to the backstage area.

NXT ratings:

This week: 683,000 overnight viewers and 0.17 in the key demos.

Last week: 650,000 overnight viewers and 0.15 in the key demos.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025

TNA Wrestling announced today that its Unbreakable live event on Thursday, April 17, from Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas will feature a ceremony to honor the UNLV Hockey Team, the 2025 National Champions. UNLV players and coaches will attend the April 17 show – along with the Murdoch Cup, presented annually to the national champion – for an in-ring ceremony to honor the Skatin’ Rebels who won the school’s first-ever ACHA National Championship, defeating defending national champion Adrian College, 7-3, in St. Louis. The Skatin’ Rebels have been local and national celebrities for the past month. They have been honored at Vegas Golden Knights and Henderson Silver Knights games. They were honored on social media by Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley, Barstool Sports, USA Hockey and Clark County Nevada, among others. The City of Las Vegas proclaimed April 2 as UNLV Skatin’ Rebels National Championship Day. The TNA ceremony will feature appearances by team captain Mattias Dal Monte, assistant captain Kyle Quinn, National Championship MVP Jeremy Forman and Coach of the Year Anthony Vignieri-Greener, among others.

WWE has a new partner:  WWE and Minute Maid, the world’s largest juice brand, today announced a new partnership that will see Minute Maid become the Official Juice Partner of WWE.

Some TNA news: TNA Wrestling today announced its next Mega On-Sale for multi-day live events this June: Tickets go on-sale Friday, April 18, for June events in Phoenix and Pittsburgh. The high-demand Ticket Pre-Sale for both events kicks off on Wednesday, April 16, at 2pm ET. Get ready for high-energy TNA shows:

Friday, June 6 & 7
Mullett Arena in Tempe, Arizona

Friday, June 20 & 21
UPMC Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Pre-Sale for all upcoming live events in Arizona and Pennsylvania starts at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, April 16. Go to TNAWrestling.com to sign up for the Pre-Sale.

The official Ticket On-Sale for all live events in Arizona and Pennsylvania starts at 10 a.m. local time (in each market) on Friday, April 18.

During last night’s NXT broadcast fans in attendance showed their support for Booker T in his feud with Swerve Strictland. Their chants of ‘F–k you, Swerve! All hail King Booker.’ were scrubbed from the broadcast but…

Jordynne Grace has a fun response to her botch on NXT last night:

For you Survivor fans, John Powell has this for you before tonight’s double eviction:

Survivor 48 Mid-Season Report Card

Kevin Knight has not only signed a deal with AEW but also with NJPW.

The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer has said this about the apparent rift between AEW bookers, management and Kamille.

“I think that they may not have understood the level that she was at, you know? With AEW, because it’s such a wrestling [focused] promotion, when someone isn’t good — because most of the people are really good, even on the women side — it’s really noticeable when someone is bad.”

Here is what you will see on Dynamite tonight:

Swerve Strickland vs. PAC.

Samoa Joe & Hook vs. Wheeler Yuta & Claudio Castagnoli.

Owen Hart Foundation Tournament: Kris Statlander vs. Thunder Rosa.

AEW Women’s Champion Toni Storm to appear on commentary for OHF tournament bout.

Skye Blue gave fans an update on her ankle injury. “Healing an ankle is not easy, especially when it’s completely disconnected from your leg [laughs]. But hopefully soon. Getting better and better every day,” she said during a recent autograph signing.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2025

Due to circumstances beyond the control of Slam!, the NWA Powerrr! recap will not be available.

Luckily, they decided for their 200 episode in the Lightning One Era, they put the entire episode on YouTube where it all started.

Please enjoy!

Drew is still having issues with his eye after Damian Priest slammed him through that car window.

Vince McMahon, WWE, TKO Group, and Linda McMahon are attempting to get the Ring Boys lawsuit dismissed. They contend that a court in Maryland has no right to judge the case because McMahon never lived in Maryland and there is no proof he himself broke any laws in the Maryland.

Here is what happened as Raw went off the air last night:

Smackdown ratings:

This week: 1,578,000 overnight viewers and 0.47 in the key demos.

Last week: 1,350,000 overnight viewers and 0.40 in the key demos.

Living Color is celebrating:

Tammy “Sunny” Sytch has been ordered to pay $5 million to the estate of Julian Lasseter, the man who perished in the fatal traffic accident that sent her to prison.

Here is what you will see on NXT tonight:

NXT Champion Oba Femi, Trick Williams and Je’Von Evans vs. Darkstate (Dion Lennox, Osiris Griffin, Saquon Shugars and Cutler James)

NXT Tag Team Champions Nathan Frazer and Axiom vs. Swipe Right

Jordynne Grace vs. Jaida Parker

Wes Lee vs. Yoshiki Inamura

Monday, April 7th, 2025

Here is what you will see on Raw tonight:

Lyra Valkyria defends Women’s Intercontinental Title against Bayley
El Grande Americano journeys to Minneapolis
Seth Rollins returns to Raw
Penta goes head-to-head with Dominik Mysterio

In what might change the editorial, journalistic landscape, WWE has announced that they are teaming with Getty Images. WWE announced a new photography partnership that will see Getty Images serve as the Exclusive Worldwide Photographic Licensing Partner of WWE. Getty Images will exclusively distribute and license WWE‑owned imagery for editorial and commercial uses. This includes coverage from Monday Night Raw, NXT and Friday Night SmackDown, as well as Premium Live Events, such as WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Money in the Bank and more.

Some news from Izzy:

Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) has been acquired by Morley Sports Management.

Both Orange Cassidy and Jay White are injured and off AEW TV.

Sabu’s final match will be against Joey Janela at GCW’s Spring Break. The match will be a no ropes, barbed wire match.

After Dynasty ended last night Swerve Strickland addressed the crowd and ended his chat with “f–k Booker T”.

NJPW has announced the G1 Climax schedule. It is:

Opening weekend: Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20 (Hokkaido: Hokkai Kita Yell)
Night three: Tuesday, July 22 (Sendai: Sendai Sun Plaza Hall)
Night four: Wednesday, July 23 (Nagaoka: Ao-re Nagaoka)
Nights five and six: Friday, July 25 and Saturday, July 26 (Tokyo: Ota-ku Gymnasium)
Night seven: Sunday, July 27 (Nagoya: Port Messe Nagoya)
Night eight: Wednesday, July 30 (Osaka- Yamato Arena)
Night nine: Friday, August 1 (Kagawa: Sun Messe Kagawa)
Night 10: Saturday, August 2 (Hiroshima: Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall)
Night 11: Sunday, August 3 (Fukuoka: Fukuoka International Convention Center)
Night 12: Tuesday, August 5 (Osaka: Intex Osaka)
Night 13: Thursday, August 7 (Tokyo: Korakuen Hall)
Night 14: Friday, August 8 (Yokohama: Yokohama Budokan)
Night 15: Sunday, August 10 (Gunma: G Messe Gunma)
Night 16: Wednesday, August 13 (Hamamatsu: Act City Hamamatsu)
Night 17: Thursday, August 14 (Tokyo: Korakuen Hall)
Final weekend: Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 (Tokyo: Ariake Arena)

Also here is the full card for this Friday’s NJPW Windy City Riot show:

  • IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Hirooki Goto defends against Shota Umino
  • Hiroshi Tanahashi’s last match in the United States: Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Konosuke Takeshita
  • Zack Sabre Jr. vs. David Finlay
  • Tetsuya Naito & Titan vs. Rocky Romero & El Phantasmo
  • 30-minute Iron Man match: NJPW Strong Openweight Champion Gabe Kidd defends against Tomohiro Ishii
  • NJPW Strong Openweight Tag Team Champions Royce Isaacs & Jorel Nelson defend against KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight
  • Strong Women’s title number one contender’s match: Mina Shirakawa vs. AZM (winner challenges Mercedes Mone at Resurgence on May 9)
  • Tom Lawlor vs. TJP
  • Kickoff match: Zane Jay vs. CJ Tino

Sunday, April 6th, 2025

Whoops! Someone was watching…

Nia Jax has denied injury is the reason she hasn’t appeared on WWE television lately.

Work on the WrestleMania set has begun:

NXT invades Gainesville, Florida, last night. Here are the results:

Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson beat Chantel Monroe and Aria Bennett

Hank and Tank best Tyson DuPont and Tyriek Igwe, Swipe Right

Trick Williams and Je’Von Evans beat OTM

Kali Armstrong defeated Kendal Grey

Gallus beat No Quarter Catch Crew

Yoshiki Inamura defeated Wes Lee

The Dark State beat Javier Bernal, Drako, Uriah Connors and Drake Morreaux

Thea Hail beat Lainey Reid

Brooks Jensen beat Oro Mensah

Stephanie Vaquer defeated Wren Sinclair – NXT Women’s Championship Match

Chris Jericho’s contract with AEW is in its final year.

Going forward, all future episodes of WWE Main Event will air on YouTube for international viewers.

In case you missed MLW’s Battle Riot last night. Mistico vacated the MLW Middleweight Championship due to injury.

BTW: You can check out the whole Battle Riot show here:

Also on last night’s show, a promo ran featuring The Good Brothers, although they were depicted in the shadows.

WWE Vault has posted this today:

AEW has announced that Fyterfest will be four hours this year broken up into two hours of Dynamite and two hours of Collision.

Saturday, April 5th, 2025

Kevin Owens explained that his neck injury occurred during a regular match. Owens also said he might be gone for six months to a year.

In case you missed Smackdown, Kevin Owens announced that he is suffering from a neck injury, has to have surgery and therefore won’t be able to take on Orton at WrestleMania. Rumour has it that a certain Bulgarian Brute could be stepping in as GM Aldis’ bodyguard and to settle the score with Orton.

If you have some time today:

At a NXT live event on Friday, Giulia returned to in-ring action against Arianna Grace and defeated her.

The Best of the Super Jr. 32 entrants have been revealed. They are:

El Desperado
Master Wato
Hiromu Takahashi
KUSHIDA
Ryusuke Taguchi
YOH
Kevin Knight
Ninja Mack
Kosei Fujita
Robbie Eagles
Taiji Ishimori
BUSHI
Francesco Akira
Clark Connors
SHO
Yoshinobu Kanemaru
Dragon Dia
MAO
Nick Wayne

A reminder that MLW’s Battle Riot VII show will be streaming live on YouTube tonight. The show starts at at 10pm ET. Last year’s show is streaming for free:

Friday, April 4th, 2025

AEW Dynamite Ratings:

This week: 594,000 overnight viewers and 0.16 in the key demos.

Last week: 663,000 overnight viewers and 0.17 in the key demos.

Cody Rhodes spoke to Fox News about…picking the perfect suit. You can read all about it here.

Former NXT superstar Von Wagner wrestled for RoH on yesterday’s show.

Slam’s John Powell not only has his thoughts on Survivor but also examines one of its most controversial moments.

Survivor 48 Stock Ticker: Episode Six

Here are some updated ticket sales from WrestleTix:

WWE Friday Night SmackDown
Fri • Apr 04, 2025 • 6:30 PM
Allstate Arena, Rosemont, IL

Available Tickets: 232
Current Setup: 15,199
Tickets Distributed: 14,967

NJPW Resurgence
Fri • May 09, 2025 • 7:00 PM
Toyota Arena, Ontario, CA

Available Tickets: 2,895
Current Setup: 3,721
Tickets Distributed: 826

Masked Mania: The Lucha Libre Experience
Sat • May 03, 2025 • 7:00 PM
Gas South Arena, Duluth, GA

Available Tickets: 3,181
Current Setup: 3,833
Tickets Distributed: 652

AEW Dynamite & Collision
Wed • Apr 02, 2025 • 6:30 PM
Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL

Available Tickets: 313
Current Setup: 2,824
Tickets Distributed: 2,511

WWE Monday Night RAW
Mon, Apr 7, 2025 – 6:30PM
Target Center, Minneapolis, MN

Available Tickets: 1,445
Current Setup: 8,979
Tickets Distributed: 7,534

AEW Dynasty
Sun • Apr 06, 2025 • 7:00 PM
The Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA

Available Tickets: 577
Current Setup: 7,039
Tickets Distributed: 6,462

AEW Presents Double or Nothing
Sun • May 25, 2025 • 5:00 PM
Desert Diamond Arena, Glendale, AZ

Available Tickets: 1,339
Current Setup: 6,233
Tickets Distributed: 4,894

TNA Wrestling: SLAMMIVERSARY
Sun • Jul 20, 2025 • 7:00 PM
UBS Arena, Belmont Park, NY

Available Tickets: 1,589
Current Setup: 4,101
Tickets Distributed: 2,512

AEW Collision
Sat • May 17, 2025 • 7:30 PM
INTRUST Bank Arena, Wichita, KS

Available Tickets: 1,679
Current Setup: 2,650
Tickets Distributed: 971

Want to know what’s streaming this weekend? Here is your schedule:

What’s New to Stream This Weekend April 4th to 6th

 

Word is WWE Evolution will be held on July 7th.

Hooooly! Check this out: A church in England opens its doors to pro wrestling in a bid to attract converts.

Here is what you will see on Smackdown tonight:

Jacob Fatu vs. Braun Strowman – Last Man Standing.

Rey Fenix debuts.

B-Fab vs. Naomi.

Charlotte Flair talks about her divorce here:

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

MLW has announced that due to injury Mistico cannot appear at Battle Riot. They have added this match: Templario versus Hechicero versus Esfinge. The event will be presented live on MLW’s YouTube at 10pm ET / 7pm PT. on Saturday.

Wrestling, anime and video games might get a kick out of the fact that the new Devil May Cry series on Netflix uses a particular song in its opening credits:

Charlotte Flair has revealed that she tried to tap Megan Thee Stallion to be part of her entrance at WrestleMania but Megan cannot due to a scheduling conflict.

In speaking to Fox News, Cody Rhodes pitched his brother Dustin for the WWE Hall of Fame.  “He’s extremely talented… I’d like to see that not just because I believe he deserves it, which he does, but I’d love to see the family just more added,” said Rhodes.

Slam’s John Powell has another Survivor interview for you:

Drumstick is partnering with WWE. Their campaign will begin at WrestleMania leading to the Drumstick Summer Snackdown.

Chelsea Green has responded to Val Venis’ statement:

Here’s an update from WWE 2K25

 

NXT ratings:

This week: 650,000 overnight viewers and 0.15 in the key demos.

Last week: 741,000 overnight viewers and 0.14 in the key demos.

The Rock’s ‘The Smashing Machine’ will be hitting theatres on October 3rd

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025

The Nintendo Switch 2 will be coming out in June. At that time, the WWE 2K franchise will be available on the platform going forward.

Here is the trailer for WrestleMania IX, Becoming a Spectacle. Paul Levesque, Lee Fitting are the producers. It streams exclusively on Peacock on Saturday, April 19 and Sunday, April 20 at 7 ET/4 PT.

Mexico might be the location for an upcoming WWE event.

Another bout has been added to Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XIII. Karrion Kross will be taking on JR Kratos.

In case you missed it, Ricky Saints won the North American Championship on NXT last night.

Here is what you will see on AEW Dynamite tonight:

AEW Champion Jon Moxley & Marina Shafir vs. Willow Nightingale & Swerve Strickland.

Cope vs. Claudio Castagnoli

Toni Storm vs. Penelope Ford

Owen Hart Foundation tournament brackets will be revealed.

Will Ospreay to appear.

July 12th AEW All In: Texas will be airing at 3 pm ET. Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor 2025 will take place the day before.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

John Cena commented on his current WWE angle in speaking to People:

“I’m going to say that there’s more unpredictability on the way,” he said. “Here’s the stance I’m going to take on it, and I think hopefully I can put it in terms you can understand: We’re in the middle of a very riveting season of episodic television and you are kindly asking me to give you spoilers, and I can’t do that,” Cena says. “What I did really enjoy about your question is you expressed the unpredictability of WWE programming, and I think that’s one strong point of the current state of WWE is its unpredictability in its programming.”

Here is news on the WWE ID championship tournament:

That cheeky Gunther…

Welcome to Hell pic.twitter.com/yzW5xIBMwY

— GUNTHER (@Gunther_AUT) March 31, 2025

Word is that talent backstage in WWE are becoming frustrated with Smackdown’s two hour-plus format and want to go back to their previous schedule.

Jackie Redmond filmed an Instagram posts speaking to various WWE superstars. Punk’s opinion on the The Beatles is the highlight:

Layla has announced she will be the host of a new podcast. It will be called ‘LayTalk’ and feature divas from the WWE. “It’s going to be dedicated to the Diva era. It’s also going to give you insight on different Divas’ careers and and also insight on some of the stuff that happened backstage that you guys would never, ever, ever get to know,” she said.

After Raw went off the air yesterday, CM Punk took on Ludwig Kaiser and defeated him.

Here is what you will see on NXT tonight:

WWE NXT North American Champion Shawn Spears vs. Ricky Saints.

Ava will speak on the NXT Women’s Championship scene.

Smackdown ratings:

This week: 1,350,000 overnight viewers and 0.40 in the key demos.

Last week: 1,459,000 overnight viewers and 0.39 in the key demos.