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Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens return to Raw.
The two wrestlers went to Smackdown as part of the Superstar Shakeup last April and while there they feuded with Shane McMahon which eventually led to their tag team match against McMahon and Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 34. The two were fired by Bryan and did not earn their Smackdown contracts back by losing at WrestleMania.
During Raw, Zayn and Owens showed up to talk with Raw General Manager Kurt Angle who told them he only had room for one of them on his show. He put them in a match against each other to determine who gets to join Raw.
.@RealKurtAngle only has ONE SPACE on the #RAW roster, and @SamiZayn and #KevinOwens will have to fight EACH OTHER for it! #RAWAfterMania pic.twitter.com/KCGhzS0xlU
— WWE (@WWE) April 10, 2018
The match between the two wrestlers ended in a no contest and both were denied a contract with Raw. The following is an excerpt from the Fightful Wrestling live coverage provided by David Tees.
Owens goes to th..

Two storylines continue next week as the Superstar Shakeup starts.
Over the last few months, the friendship between Bayley and Sasha Banks has been breaking down to the point of them having a brawl in the locker room a couple weeks ago. On Raw, Bayley was ringside while Banks was in a match and Bayley ended up costing Banks the match.
WWE then announced a match next week between Banks and Bayley.
JUST ANNOUNCED: @itsBayleyWWE & @SashaBanksWWE’s animosity will reach a boiling point when they battle on #RAW NEXT WEEK! #RAWAfterMania pic.twitter.com/DPZmmh8TmU
— WWE (@WWE) April 10, 2018
At WrestleMania 34, Braun Strowman and a kid named Nicholas defeated Sheamus and Cesaro for the Raw Tag Team Championship. On Raw, Strowman told Raw General Manager Kurt Angle they needed to vacate the championship. Angle then created two matches between a total of four teams. The team of Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt and The Revival each won a match and now they will wrestle next week. The winners fa..

Brock Lesnar walks out of New Orleans with his WWE Universal Championship.
In Roman Reigns' fourth WrestleMania main event in a row he was unsuccessful in defeating Brock Lesnar and taking the WWE Universal Championship. Back at WrestleMania 31, Reigns had his singles match with Lesnar interrupted by Seth Rollins and a Money in the Bank briefcase. WrestleMania 34 was Reigns' first chance at a singles match with Lesnar in three years and he was pinned after bleeding all over the ring and receiving five F-5s.
#TheBeast @BrockLesnar has done it AGAIN. #WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/7MD8X4DnAm
— WWE WrestleMania (@WrestleMania) April 9, 2018
The following is an excerpt from the Fightful Wrestling live coverage provided by David Tees.
Lesnar then puts Reigns through an announce table using an F-5, Lesnar gets Reigns back in the ring and he follows him in there. Lesnar takes Reigns back to Suplex City by landing more German suplexes, Lesnar catches Reigns with another F-5 for..

This is the post-WrestleMania 34 Fight Size Update.
– In the video above, Pro Wrestling Unlimited discusses a video of Stephanie McMahon practicing her entrance for her WrestleMania match.
– Fightful Wrestling had live coverage, updates, and a recapping podcast for WrestleMania 34.
– WWE announced the attendance at WrestleMania 34 as 78,133 which is a record for the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
– Singers Chloe x Halle were interviewed backstage after singing American The Beautiful at WrestleMania 34.
– During the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, Aiden English had a full head of hair which was gone by the time Rusev competed for the WWE United States Championship. He shared his hair cut and shave on Instagram.
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— Wrasslin' Streamers (@PaperStreamers) April 9, 2018
– Matt Hardy talked to his trophy in a backstage interview after winning the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.
– In this video, the women of NXT reflect on appearing in the..

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“The Devil” is finally off of his back.
His journey to the NXT Championship has been one that has had many of pit tops. But tonight at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans Aleister Black has removed the devil off of his back that he says has been there for quite some time now. His quest for success would not come easy as he had to not only get through the battle-tested and hungry NXT Champion Andrade “Cien” Almas, but also deal with Andrade's manger Zelina Vega.
She did it again…
…but it's NOT ENOUGH to help @AndradeCienWWE put away @WWEAleister! #NXTTakeOver #NXTChampionship @Zelina_VegaWWE pic.twitter.com/RW2b4oAeyi
— WWE Universe (@WWEUniverse) April 8, 2018
Zelina Vega attempted to put the finishing touches on the match so that her client could overcome “The Dutch Destroyer”; as she went in for a cross-body onto Aleister Black but Black ducked under. Vega landed in the arms of her client which may not have been a bad thing at that moment in time, but as soon as Almas turned..

Johnny showed why you always (D)o (It) (Y)ourself.
One of the more storied rivalries in all of WWE climaxed tonight. Last year at NXT TakeOver: Chicago Tommaso Ciampa turned his back on his long time best friend Johnny Gargano. After being stabbed in the back by his former best-friend Gargano went on a bit of a slump in NXT. Months later Gargano got himself back together and engaged in a feud with the-then NXT Champion Andrade “Cien” Almas. “Johnny Wrestling” not being able to defeat Almas on numerous occasions drove him to put his career on the line to get his hands on the NXT Championship.
In the match in which he put his career on the line Gargano was attacked from behind by Tommaso Ciampa who had been out for a number of months rehabbing a knee injury. Ciampa thought he delivered the final blow to Gargano, but a fed up individual will not step away until they finish what they started and Gargano did just that. He showed up on NXT TV in the crowd and took the fight to his former t..

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..