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The Usos, IYO SKY, Stephanie Vaquer Speak To Fightful And SRS

Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp spoke to a number of WWE talent at a local media day for this weekend's WWE WrestlePaloozaIYO SKYShe's hopeful that Asuka will stay out of her match this weekend, and feels bad Kairi Sane is stuck in the middle.She's very proud of her year and winning...

Alex's SOUR GRAPS: SmackDown 9/18 | Can't Win For Paloozing

Wow, what a terrible go-home show.From having to listen to the Miz on commentary all night, to an ESPN infomercial full of misinformation played on repeat, to a super lazy Brock Lesnar angle, to a "Main Event" Contract Signing, what an awful way to try and entice millions of people to pay $3...

Select Answers: WWE Ticket Pricing, Do-Over Matches, Chris Jericho

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Se...

Rumor Roundup and DEBNUNKATHON: Andrade, Gunther, Shayna Baszler, Big E, Saudi, Maple Leaf, More

Your rumor roundup for September 18.To clarify once again the rumors of TNA Wrestling and Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling, there aren't restrictions prohibiting TNA Wrestlers from working Maple Leaf Pro. Both Scott D'Amore and Carlos Silva spoke to us directly about that story. However, there was a...

Update on planned WrestlePalooza match

WWE WrestlePalooza is this Saturday with five matches on the card, but a sixth has at least been discussed.Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp was told by WWE sources that a WWE Women's title match had been considered for the WrestlePalooza slate. As things were pitched, it would be Tiffany Str...

Details on AEW departure

Kiera Hogan has left AEW the company after being removed from the roster page.Fightful has directly confirmed the departure. Kiera Hogan joined AEW in August of 2021, working a series of matches on AEW Dark. She has not been featured on AEW television in well over a year and a half, or on Ring of Ho...

LIVE Tony Khan Media Call Notes, Fightful Speaks With GOA

Tony Khan's media conference call ahead of AEW All Out is taking place right now. We'll update with live notes that are updated throughout the call. You'll also get audio before anywhere else.Tony Khan is set up to explain the Women's World Title feud by someone explaining the feud a...

Select Answers: Permanent NXT Talent, TNA/Maple Leaf, Paramount/WBD, Britt Baker

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers. When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful S...

Update on potential Mercedes group

Tonight sees the return of Robyn Renegade, and in an interesting spot.Renegade faces Riho, who is set to take on Mercedes Mone at AEW All Out. As Fightful Select has reported over the last year or so, Mercedes has often pushed to be involved with the Renegades on TV. To the point where a number of t...

Interesting name at AEW Dynamite

Scott D'amore is at tonight's AEW Dynamite.Mercedes Mone indicated that the Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling owner was at the show, of which Fightful Select confirmed. We're told he's just visiting and is always welcomed there

Popular group could be adding members.

They hurt people…and pretty soon more people….could be hurting people.Hurt Syndicate have been a dominant faction for the year that they’ve been in All Elite Wrestling, and they could be adding some reinforcements. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp has learned that there has been discussion i...

Select Answers: Will merger kill AEW?, Mania 43 Possibilities, Jacob Fatu

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers. When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful S...

FREE POST: ESPN-WWE Media Call Notes: AEW Counter Programming, Brock Lesnar

Fightful Select on the first ever ESPN-WWE media call ahead of WrestlePalooza. Notes are below. The call is at this linkIt actually started off with a commercial for WrestlePaloozaThere was a slideshow including some of the media appearances this week and upcoming programming. ESPN confirms Fightful...

Lots of news on the WWE WrestlePalooza Branding

The first WrestlePalooza event under the WWE banner is upon us, and it's likely to be the first of many, and likely many big ones.ESPN and WWE wanted to put forth a huge show for many reasons, the ESPN debut, competing with AEW All Out -- although the latter is more of a WWE concern than anythin...

Some WWE Raw Notes, Producers, Writers, More

Notes from WWE RAW from this week, courtesy of Corey Brennan.The working title of the show was "Partners."On internal rundowns, CM Punk, AJ Lee, Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins had bullet points, where other things were fully scriptedJohn Cena's promo was scripted verbatim, outside of his l...

Select Answers: NXT Homecoming, Lex Luger, Lights Out Cage

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers. When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful S...

Alex's SOUR GRAPS: Raw 9/15 | More Of A Shelbyville Idea

Raw was in Springfield, Massachusetts tonight. The old college town of John Cena. And to celebrate, he came out and gave a "never give up" speech.The Grande Germanicano fiasco continues, as does the Mixed Match Challenge, as does the "Bayley has schizophrenia" storyline, as does the ...

Fightful Weekender (9/15): MLW, ACTION/ROH, GCW, MLP, WWE EVOLVE

STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new edition of the WEEKENDER!- MLW: "Fightland" results- ACTION/ROH: "DEAN~!!!3" results- GCW: "Evil Deeds" + "Rumble On The River" + "CannonballFest" results- MLP: "Sacred Ground" results- WWE Evolve (9/10) results

WWE Raw SCOOPS THREAD

WWE RAW SCOOPS THREAD -- better late than never, courtesy of Corey BrennanJohn Cena promoLyra Valkyra vs. Roxanne PEREZKabuki Warriors, Stephanie and IYO segmentLA Knight and Jimmy Uso segmentPenta vs. Kofi KingstonSPOILER SEGMENTAJ, Rollins, Punk & Becky segmentDominik Mysterio interviewDragon Lee ...

AEW and WWE Media, Eddie Kingston's return, Fletcher, Cody Rhodes, MLW News!

A news update for Monday, September 15.AEW has Gates of Agony, Kris Statlander and others doing media ahead of AEW All Out. You can see Grapsody's interview with Statlander at this link.ESPN itself will be hosting a media conference to promote this weekend's WrestlePalooza.Tony Khan is set f...

Select Answers: AEW All Out Injuries, ROH TV Deal, Goto Street Fighter

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers. When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful S...

SRS Fighful Report (9/15): Hour Long Q&A, Saudi Mania, Andrade, AEW injuries, tons more!!

Andrade's WWE DepartureWrestleMania 43 in Saudi ArabiaLegal trouble over Levesque vacation photosWardlow injuryClaudio contractNixed AEW creative plansAthenaMJF updateVince Production StoryBryan DanielsonMLW newsChelsea Green/Ethan PageMark SterlingQ&A: AJ Lee, Saudi WrestleMania, Luger winning ...

Clarifying Contract Status With AEW Star

Claudio’s status with AEW has become clear.Recently. Claudio Castagnoli missed a planned date for AEW at their Grand Slam show in Mexico. Naturally, fans questioned whether he was injured, sidelined, or if something else could be happening. Many fans noticed it had been almost three years to the d...

Select Answers: Clash Scheduling, Athena and Roman Reigns....reigns?, Stormi Denali

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers. When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful S...

Andrade leaves WWE, more on his departure, AEW relationship, creative plans that changed

Andrade has left WWE.We were told that this would not have been a case of his contract simply expiring, as he had more than 18 months on his deal when he signed last year. Fightful Select is told that his departure is isolated and not connected to any additional cuts.Fightful was told in August that...

Select Answers: Cena Retirement Tour, Daniel Puder, The Rock

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers. When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful S...

Everything we know about WrestleMania 43 in Saudi Arabia

It's official. WrestleMania 43 will be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a part of Riyadh season. The news itself was released via a snapchat video by Turki Al-Sheikh earlier in the week well ahead of when WWE planned. To the point that some in the industry familiar with Turki thought it was a fake bec...

TNA-Maple Leaf Pro, Rollins-Punk, Daga, Danielson, More News In Our Rumor Roundup

Our Friday Rumor and News roundup!Bryan Danielson spoke to Phid McAwesome of DownUnderTheRing. Check out the full interview at this link, and their show at this link.Our Freddy Got Fingered review ended up being the longest in historyYou can see our exclusive news, as well as Rumor Roundup on the pa...

Bryan Danielson reveals weird Vince McMahon production habit

The pandemic era was a strange one, but Vince McMahon is stranger.Fightful and DownUnderTheRing's Phid McAwesome spoke to Bryan Danielson for a new interview, where Danielson brought up one of his ideas during the pandemic while he was contributing creatively.Among the ideas was to debut Damian ...