UFC fighters predict the lightweight title fight - Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Max Holloway . See who picked who below.... Rob Font - UFC bantamweight Rose Namajunas - UFC strawweight champion Ray Borg - UFC flyweight Kyle Bochniak - UFC featherweight Paul Felder- UFC lightweight
Nia Jax feels that the story is what will attract people to her and Alexa Bliss's match. After two years on WWE's main roster Nia Jax will be getting her first-shot at championship gold as she will challenge her former "best-friend" Alexa Bliss for the RAW Women's Championship this Sunday at WrestleMania 34. Over the past few weeks on RAW, Bliss has been slandering Nia Jax about her weight, looks, and other characteristics about "The Irresistible Force". Nia Jax was interviewed by IGN ahead of her championship bout and shared that the story that has been told between her and Alexa Bliss is what will attract fans to their match. "This is years of hard work finally paying off," Jax continued. "The fact that she's been my best friend for the last four years on the roster adds to it because there's a lot of stuff going on right now on an emotional level in the storyline. It's taking a toll on me because I loved her, and I love her as a best friend, but now s..
One last time for the road. To open the 2018 WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony, the first inductees to accept their place amongst the greats in WWE's history were D-Von and Bubba Ray Dudley. In what was an entertaining induction which kick-started with Edge & Christian doing the honors; transitioned to The Dudleyz bringing The Hardy Boyz on stage to take a bow along with Edge & Christian and themselves. Also, both Bubba Ray and D-Von payed homage to their ECW brethren for going to war with them as they made their names in the pro wrestling industry. As they were wrapping up their speech, The Dudley Boyz theme music hit a little earlier than expected. A WWE producer then came out and told the 9-time WWE Tag Team Champions that they had to wrap it up. That would turn out to be a bad decision for the producer as he soon ended up going through a table by way of The Dudley Boyz. This producer obviously never heard the third commandment... THOU SHALT NOT MESS WITH THE DUDLEYS! #WWEHOF @bull..
There’s a plethora of big events this weekend in the form of Bellator 196, ROH Supercard Of Honor XII, UFC 223, WWE NXT Takeover: New Orleans & WWE Wrestlemania 34. The staff here at Fightful has made their predictions for the shows. Bellator 196 Ben Henderson vs. Roger Huerta Picking Henderson: David Tees, Kyler James, Jeremy Lambert, Sean Ross Sapp & Ryan Cook Picking Huerta: Final Tally: Henderson (5) - Huerta (0) Petra Castkova vs. Denise Kielholtz Picking Castkova: Kyler James, Jeremy Lambert, Sean Ross Sapp & Ryan Cook Picking Kielholtz: David Tees Final Tally: Castkova (4) - Kielholtz (1) Brian Moore vs. Giorgio Belsanti Picking Moore: David Tees, Jeremy Lambert, Sean Ross Sapp & Ryan Cook Picking Belsanti: Kyler James Final Tally: Moore (4) - Belsanti (1) Adam Borics vs. Teodor Nikolov Picking Borics: David Tees, Kyler James, Sean Ross Sapp & Jeremy Lambert Picking Nikolov: Ryan Cook Final Tally: Borics (4) - Nikolov (1) Ed Ruth vs. Ion Pascu Picking Ruth: Da..
During WWE's Hall of Fame ceremony, WWE announced tons of new content for their Network. WWE 24 - Three new editions of WWE's documentary series have been confirmed. Ronda Rousey, Matt and Jeff Hardy, and Raw 25 will all be profiled. King of The Ring UK- WWE's classic tournament, which started in the 1980s, will return for the first time since 2015. This tourney will consist of WWE UK talent. Elias Unplugged- Fresh off of his Bourbon street performances, WWE Superstar Elias gets his own show of unplugged tunes, Something to Wrestle With Bruce Prichard - The most listened to sports entertainment podcast is coming to the WWE Network. You can check out our exclusive interview with Bruce at the top of the page. Previous podcasts have been hosted by Stone Cold Steve Austin, Chris Jericho and Mick Foley and featured talent interviews. Prichard's showcases his memories of working in WWE for over two decades. Mae Young Classic - The second edition of WWE's all-fem..
On Episode 4 of UFC 223 Embedded, lightweight title contender Khabib Nurmagomedov and his opponent, featherweight champion Max Holloway, stay on track with their training during fight week. Former strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk starts her day with breakfast and Spongebob, and strawweight champion Rose Namajunas brings her dog to a photo shoot. Lightweight Michael Chiesa keeps his competitive juices flowing playing video games in his room. Then the stars of the event's two championship bouts attend the official press conference and open workouts, where Nurmagomedov and Holloway entertain with spirited trash talk. UFC 223 Embedded is an all-access, behind-the-scenes video blog leading up to the two championship bouts at UFC 223: Khabib vs. Holloway on Saturday, April 7 on Pay-Per-View.
The Rock will be on the other side of the world heading into WrestleMania weekend. Some fans have been hoping to see The Rock at WrestleMania 34, but according to his interview with Jimmy Kimmel he will be in China and England during WrestleMania 34 weekend. He said he has been nervous about the trip because his girlfriend is in the last stages of pregnancy. "Truth is we're expecting in the next two weeks, so I am on code red high alert...Now, this Friday I have to go to Shanghai (China). I've got to go," said The Rock. "As of now the doctor says it looks like we're going to be ok. The baby will be born when it's due which is April 25th...I have to go to Shanghai and then I have to go to London for Rampage," he continued. The Rock's last appearance on WWE television was at WrestleMania 32 but he did appear before a broadcast of Raw last year when he attempted to call CM Punk while in the ring. Elias has said he wants to do a sing-off with The Rock at Wre..
This is our launch week of Fightful Select, which features some great premium content as we kick off the service. Below is a list of content that we've put up in our first couple of days! RETRO SHOW!- I reviewed WWF Backlash 1999 and was pleasantly surprised. It was a really fun watch, and it got me in the mood to watch a lot more stuff from the era, but WrestleMania week has delayed it. I can confirm next month's will be WWF Summerslam 2000, at the request of $50 subscriber Alex Andrason. EARLY ACCESS- Right now at Fightful Select you can see the intro for this week's List & Ya Boy a day ahead, as well as the early draft of the Fightful Wrestling Weekly three full days ahead of time! In addition, I have several early access clips up, including a look at the Making a Finisher series coming later this year. Jimmy Van has also posted some teaser images for this week's List & Ya Boy Podcast. RAW SCRIPT- I've posted this week's WWE Raw script as well. Ever ..
Shane McMahon will return to Smackdown for the first time since he was attacked and hospitalized. It has been barley over a week since Shane McMahon was hospitalized with a hernia and diverticulitis and McMahon will be appearing on Smackdown five days before his scheduled tag team match at Wrestlemania 34. WWE made the announcement during Raw and also tweeted the following. #SDLive Commissioner @shanemcmahon RETURNS TOMORROW NIGHT at 8/7c on @USA_Network just FIVE nights before teaming with @WWEDanielBryan against #KevinOwens & @SamiZayn at #WrestleMania! pic.twitter.com/0VDFuVqafT — WWE (@WWE) April 3, 2018 A few weeks ago, McMahon put Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens in a match against each other at Wrestlemania. This led to the two wrestlers attacking McMahon which WWE blames for his hospitalization. Two weeks ago, Zayn and Owens were fired by Daniel Bryan and attacked him as well. Bryan would come out last week to create the tag team match of him and McMahon versus Zayn and Owens. I..
A little bit of cream on top of the sundae before WrestleMania. This Sunday on "The Grandest Stage Of Them All" former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey will make her in-ring debut for the WWE as she teams up with WWE Hall Of Famer Kurt Angle to take on the couple of Triple H & Stephanie McMahon. The tension between the two parties has been building up since Rousey's appearance at the 'Elimination Chamber' PPV in February, and tomorrow night on RAW both teams will meet face-to-face before their bout at WrestleMania. Things are BOUND to get intense on #RAW! Use #TeamMcMahon and #TeamRousey to ask a question for TOMORROW's face-to-face! @RondaRousey @RealKurtAngle @TripleH @StephMcMahon pic.twitter.com/mq057Ogy6A — WWE (@WWE) April 1, 2018 In the announcement as you see above, the sports-entertainment company announced that the two mixed tag teams will meet in a segment of sorts on RAW tomorrow night. They are asking fans to use hashtags so that..
Impact Wrestling's Josh Mathews was recently interviewed by Wrestling Epicenter's Interactive Wrestling Radio. You can see the full interview above, or selected highlights below: Madison Rayne and Austin Aries working with ROH Posibly Leading to an ROH and Impact Working Relationship: "I think the opportunity for that to happen certainly exists. As for the talent, my wife (Madison Rayne) is a free agent. She gets to go wrestle for Ring of Honor or go down and wrestle for (WWE) NXT. Or, come back to Impact! She got called to do the Windsor show in BCW. It was fun for her. She got to go up there, see some friends, see some faces, say hello.She had a great match with a future Knockout named Gisele Shaw. That match was on the pay-per-view. It is fun for her. She likes that. But, on the other side of it, she would also like a place that she could call home. A place that she could compete regularly and build her legacy or continue to build upon her legacy that she has built in Im..
The Illinois native has battled adversity and is looking to overcome all come April 8th. In two weeks at WrestleMania 34, the two men who stood atop of the WWE Cruiserweight Championship tournament, Mustafa Ali & Cedric Alexander will do battle over the title. Before the bout come April 8th, Mustafa Ali spoke with WWE.com to take fans on a trip down memory lane on his road to WrestleMania. “To me, it's a huge opportunity for representation,” Ali said. “There are preconceived ideas and these barriers that have come along with a name like mine. [I’d be] typically portrayed as the ‘bad guy. I have a chance to knock all that down and show young guys and girls who look like me and have a name like mine, here’s a guy like you that chased his dreams and wasn't worried about labels.” When the WWE Cruiserweight Classic tournament was beginning to take form, Ali's name was being considered for the field of competitors. The list of names would finally be released and Ali's ..
There’s just a single pro wrestling event event this week in the form of NJPW Strong Style Evolved. The staff here at Fightful has made their predictions for the show. NJPW Sakura Genesis 2018 IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Zack Sabre Jr. Picking Okada: David Tees, Ryan Cook, Sean Ross Sapp, Jeremy Lambert, John Moorehouse, Andrew Thompson & Kyler James Picking Sabre Jr.: Final Tally: Okada (7) - Sabre Jr. (0) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Title Match: Suzuki-Gun (El Desparado & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) (c) vs. Roppongi 3K (Sho & Yoh) vs. Los Ingobernables (Hiromu Takahashi & Bushi) Picking Suzuki-Gun: Ryan Cook, John Moorehouse & Kyler James Picking Roppongi 3K: Jeremy Lambert & Andrew Thompson Picking Los Ingobernables: David Tees & Sean Ross Sapp Final Tally: Suzuki-Gun (3) - Roppongi 3K (2) - Los Ingobernables (2) IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Marty Scurll Picking Ospreay: David Tees, Ryan Cook, Sean Ross Sapp, John Moore..
Fightful.com's Sean Ross Sapp and Jeff Hawkins discuss the possibility of Jeff Jarrett performing his lip synced classic "With My Baby Tonight" at the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018 on their post-WWE Smackdown podcast. Full show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_y9YsI_yLE
They’re moving on up. Over the last few weeks, “Impact Wrestling” has had another change of direction. This time around they’re going with a much simpler style with more basic, easy to follow stories and a long match to close most shows. That’s certainly different than what they’ve done at different times over the years and the shows have gotten a little bit better. The question though is are people watching. This week’s show didn’t have a major match announced coming in, so how many people tuned in for what wasn’t as big of an episode? Miss the show? Here are some quick highlights. [This post contains video, click to play] According to 411mania.com, this week’s episode of “Impact Wrestling” drew 399,000 viewers and a .1 rating in the 18-49 demographic. These numbers are up 10% and 11% respectively from last week’s 362,000 viewers and .09 rating. The rating is the same as it was two weeks ago but the viewership is the highest since the July 5, 2016 episode, which drew 410,000 vi..
"The Big Dog" feels that his match with The Undertaker did not quite live up to its expectations. The main-event of WrestleMania 33 saw Roman Reigns take on The Undertaker. The match has been negatively critiqued by many and is not regarded as being a memorable outside of the closing moments where it appeared that "The Deadman" was giving his farewell to the wrestling world. At WrestleMania 34, Roman Reigns will be challenging Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship but before Roman's big match on April 8th, he stopped past CBS Sports' 'In This Corner' podcast to chat it up about the match with The Undertaker from last year's sports-entertainment spectacle. "I don't think it ever could really," Reigns stated. "It's a hard spot for The Undertaker to have such a storied career, to have such a huge list of ridiculously good matches and to have that respect, and to have that mystique, and to have that reputation as the godfather of the professio..
Its still all about her. Tenille Dashwood, formerly known from her time in WWE under the name 'Emma' has made a splash outside of the sports-entertainment company since being released in October of 2017. After Emma's release from WWE she posted an emoji of a broken heart on Twitter indicating that the news was not something she was expecting to see that morning. Nonetheless her career continues on as she has been booked on a number of independent wrestling promotions' shows, and also has the opportunity to become the first-ever Women Of Honor Champion At ROH Supercard Of Honor XII on April 7th. Dashwood gave a comment to The Sportster about the bright side of her WWE release; specifically the timing of it. Before she was released she was normally featured on WWE programming; often taking losses to "The Empress Of Tomorrow" Asuka. Tenille feels that this was one of the reasons why she has been heavily requested on the wrestling scene. "That was almost good for me ..
Oh censored yeah. Twenty years ago, Steve Austin hit a Stone Cold Stunner on Shawn Michaels to become the WWF World Champion for the first time. This changed the wrestling world for the next several years and officially launched the Austin Era. However, there were a few issues working against the wrestlers and as a result, the opinions on the match have been mixed over the years. So all those years later, what did Austin think of the match? In a new interview posted to WWE’s YouTube channel, Austin talked about his thoughts on the match and the build towards the match, including the entire angle with Mike Tyson. As it turns out, Austin isn’t all that pleased with the match, mainly due to both wrestlers being a bit banged up. Austin was coming off his neck injury and Michaels had injured his back a few months earlier, not to mention Michaels’ personal issues, which were running rampant at the time. As usual, Austin is worth listening to. [This post contains video, click to play] At ..
And that’s about it for them. The Shield is one of the most dominating factions of all time. All three were World Champions at one point (once all in the same night at “Money in the Bank 2016”) and has one of the strongest fan bases you’re going to see no matter what the trio is doing. They were put back together late last year after several years apart, but a long string of injuries and problems might have already brought the team to its second end. If they’re gone, at least they came back in a great way. [This post contains video, click to play] According to stillrealtous.com, WWE is producing a new DVD on the group, with the title “The Rise and Fall of the Shield”. This new set looks at their careers since the team’s original split and the title would suggest that the group’s latest run is over. The trio wasn’t able to team together often in their second run due to Roman Reigns being out of the ring due to illness and then Dean Ambrose injuring his arm and putting him on the shel..
Impact Wrestling's Josh Mathews was recently interviewed by Wrestling Epicenter's Interactive Wrestling Radio. You can see the full interview above, or selected highlights below: Who will be calling the action for Impact versus Lucha Underground: "I don't know. I'll be there. If I'm called upon to call the show, awesome! If not, there's other things that I could be doing down there. I would love to call the show. I've worked with Matt Striker for many years. That would be an easy thing to do. But, if that is not the decision that is made, then, all good.There's other things (laughs)to occupy my time. We're going to be live on Twitch Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and part of Sunday. There will be 48 hours of original content so that if you're not in New Orleans, we can virtually put you in New Orleans through our Twitch live stream! (laughs)" Sonjay Dutt taking over color commentary: "I've had the opportunity to work with more broad..