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Details behind Kota Ibushi's AEW return match

Kota Ibushi is back in AEW.Ibushi returned on this past week's Collision after over a year and a half away from AEW. During that time, he's dealt with a number of injuries, and sparingly wrestled.On Tuesday, it was revealed that Ibushi was taking on Trent Beretta on this week's episode o...

Alex & Kate's SOUR GRAPS: Raw 6/23 | Myth Busters

We're all hoping this cease-fire holds, but WWE was ready to do a show next door to a war zone this Saturday, and tonight is the go-home for that show.Jade Cargill beat Roxanne Perez to reach the Queen of the Ring Finals, and she's probably going to beat Asuka to win the whole thing, and tha...

Fightful Weekender (6/23): GCW, TWE, WWE EVOLVE, DPW, AIW, ROH SPOILERS

STEPHEN JENSEN is back with a new edition of the WEEKENDER!- GCW: "Bangin' In Little Rock" + "Take A Picture" results- TWE: "The Iron Prince" results- WWE Evolve (6/18) results- DPW: "Victory Lap" results- AIW: "Kash Rules Everything Around Me" results- RO...

Why one AEW All In program has slowed down

A major program was planned for AEW All In, but has somewhat stalled out.Months ago, Fightful Select had learned that there were “major creative plans” in order for FTR after their heel turn on Cope. Shortly after that, we were told that creative plans were in place to eventually reunite Cope an...

FREE POST: Latest on WWE Saudi Arabia trip

We have an update on what talent have heard...or not heard about WWE Night of Champions and Smackdown this weekend in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. There were reports Monday that "US Jets scrambling over Saudi Arabia" leading to natural concern for the event. As of 2:30 PM Eastern, talent that were ...

Answers: All In returns, Omos, AEW signing WWE releases

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. *** Sean, who’s your wildcard to return at all in?Sting. There&#...

SRS Fightful Report (6/23): Q&A, Stone Cold, NOC, Danielson future, All In, tons more!

WWE Saudi ArabiaStone Cold Steve AustinMJFTNA PittsburghAEW All In plansBritt BakerJordynne Grace theme changeBryan Danielson futureJamie HayterAmerican GladiatorsKali ArmstrongDamian PriestElijah injuryGail Kim at NXTAEW Grand SlamJoe HendryMotor City Machine Guns plans in AEW Liv MorganMonty Brown...

AEW's original Motor City Machine Gun plans for All In 2024

Motor City Machine Guns signed with WWE in 2024, and quickly became Tag Team Champions. However, them going to AEW wasn't out of the question.Recently a fan noted that they wished Motor City Machine Guns would have went to AEW. We did confirm last year that Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley had discu...

The latest on WWE-Night of Champions | FREE POST

WWE Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia has a lot of question marks after the United States bombed Iran.Iran vowed what it calls "everlasting consequences" to the US airstrikes on three of its nuclear sites. This has naturally caused concern among wrestling fans considering the contentious na...

Answers: GCW, CopeXChristian, Billington

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. ***Hey Sean! You write not too long ago about how the plan at that...

Answers: All In, Music, Free Agents

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. ***Sean, I see there are some Indy shows during All In is All In b...

Stone Cold Steve Austin's wrestling future?

We may not have seen the last of Stone Cold Steve Austin.Stone Cold Steve Austin effectively retired from pro wrestling in 2003, and didn’t have another match for 19 years. Austin came out of retirement to face Kevin Owens in the main event of WrestleMania in 2022. Since then, Austin hasn’t nece...

Answers: Women's C2, ROH TV, TNA x WWE

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. ***Hi Sean! There are so many female talents in AEW right now...do...

SRS Q&A questions

Hey guys! Ask away. One per subscriber please!!

Alex's SOUR GRAPS: SmackDown Review & WatchAlong 6/20 | Killngs In The Name Of

SmackDown was on television tonight.Sami lost. Asuka won.Ron Killings wants to unalive John Cena. Let's see how that goes.Everything sucks. Let's talk about it.YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGsG4-HNO-c

A ton of talent listed internally for this weekend's TNA show.

TNA has a couple of shows set for Pittsburgh, and we've learned of a lot of talent listed internally as being backstage.Saqon Shugars, coach Alexander James, Trick Williams, Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne and a number of NIL talent from WWE were expected to be backstage at this weekend’s TNA taping...

Update on Mercedes/Athena/Toni Storm/Mariah May rumors

Athena vs. Mercedes Mone was not the plan for AEW All In.There was recently a report regarding plans for AEW All In that suggested that Mercedes Mone vs. Athena was in the cards for All In, and that Mariah May leaving adjusted things. Specifically, that as recent as the Owen Hart Foundation tourname...

Unfortunate injury to TNA talent

Unfortunate news for a TNA talent.Fightful Select has learned that Elijah, formerly known as Elias sustained a triceps tear on this week's episode of NXT. We're told that the spot happened when he came off the the top rope and did double knees to the chest. When he broke his landing with his...

Answers: LA Knight, Butcher, Blade, Bunny, WWE/AAA

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. ***there any news on the Butcher, Blade, and Bunny?I haven't h...

Bryan Danielson news

Bryan Danielson is still around AEW, but his in-ring future had largely been uncertain. Then he appeared at ROH Global Wars in Mexico.Back in December, Danielson admitted to Fightful that he wasn’t feeling good physically, and was trying to avoid surgery. We’ve not heard from anyone in AEW who h...

AEW Grand Slam, Hulk Hogan, Smackdown Time, Liv Morgan, MLW, Joe Hendry

Claudio Castagnoli, Cash Wheeler and Billie Starkz all missed planned bookings in Mexico for Dynamite. We're looking to find out why.Though he didn't appear last night, sources that Fightful Select spoke to said that Gravity had impressed since his AEW departure, which is a reason he was bro...

Top WWE Talent Has Been Working Banged Up, Still Factored In For Summerslam

A top WWE star has been working banged up.Fightful Select reported recently that while Drew McIntyre was working through some injuries, his absence from WWE in the coming weeks is contractual. It’s actually his opponent that many in WWE were worried about during the feud.Damian Priest worked bange...

Ask Grapsody | June 19th Edition

Phil and Reg are back for a new edition of Ask Grapsody!YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ODspepLfM

Answers: Abyss, Omega Angle, Benched Contracts

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. ***Sean, kind of a wrestling biz question but when wrestlers are o...

MJF-fan altercation

It's still real to some.MJF got a good amount of heat from his angle at AEW Grand Slam Mexico. Sources in AEW claimed that a fan went after MJF at the hotel after the show. MJF was said to have been okay and laughed the situation off and was proud of it. We broke the news on our AEW Dynamite pos...

Interesting name backstage at NXT this week

A very interesting name was around at NXT this week.Fightful Select has learned that wrestling legend Gail Kim was backstage at this week’s NXT. We’re told this also isn’t the first time she’s been there of late. When we asked if she’s officially with the company, WWE sources said she isn�...

FREE POST: How Mortos is wrestling at Arena Mexico again

Fightful Espanol has learned that Tony Khan personally went to Salvador Lutteroth Lomeli and requested that The Beast Mortos perform on tonight's show, as they were unable to use Cash Wheeler and Claudio Castagnoli. Mortos hasn't wrestled in Arena Mexico in 14 years, and CMLL was very accomm...

FREE POST: Liv Morgan update

The word within WWE is that Liv Morgan's injury will require surgery.This is causing a significant creative reshuffling as she was involved in a number of programs. She will likely miss a number of months. We wish her a speedy recovery.

Why Jordynne Grace's theme was changed

Jordynne Grace has a new theme song, and it wasn’t received well by the audience.The NXT crowd chanted “fire Def Rebel” at the new theme, which Jordynne then joked that she hoped fans would suspend disbelief for and vibe with. The theme music that Jordynne used in TNA and her early NXT run act...

Answers: AEW Backstage, All In, Kross

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. ***How are recent comments from Maven Huffman and Tom Pestock abou...