It was reported via PWInsider that Paige was backstage at Sunday’s Slammiversary event to support her boyfriend Alberto El Patron.
There is now there is speculation that she was actually sitting front row during the main event match of Alberto DEl Patron vs. Lashley. Several photos of a woman in a mask were taken and people were speculating that it was Paige under the mask:
After Sunday’s Slammiversary event went off the air, Alberto El Patron cut a promo and took another shot at WWE.
El Patron called refereed to WWE as “that f***ing company full of losers” and said that he would would happily fight Lashley again because they’re not “f***ing sports entertainer.” The crowd then erupted in a “f**k WWE” chant.
Booker T talked about the New Day mimicking his famous “N-Word” botch from WCW on the latest installment of his Heated Conversations podcast. Here are some highlights of what he said:
Not Condoning New Day’s Mimicking: “I just want to make it publicly known that I don’t condone that at all especially coming off of Monday Night. We as a people, we gotta know when it’s time to speak up and when it’s time to shut up. My mother taught me that a long time ago. If you don’t know, it’ll come back and haunt you. [The WCW promo blooper] has haunted me for this many years. You put yourself in a situation for something to happen, just like Mike Tyson did, something can happen. For these young kids to understand and realize and be able to speak up for themselves…you know…then again, I spoke up because I was talent. I spoke up because I knew that I could speak up. I implore these young people out there to know exactly what they’re doing and how they are affecting our young people that are coming up. That’s the most important thing as far as I’m concerned. Me personally, I know I’ve made mistakes. That word that I said on national television in front of the world – I wish I could go back and erase it. I wish that I could take it back. I wish that WWE would never do something like that ever again.”
Not Needing it to Air: “Me personally, I don’t appreciate it. I don’t know if [WWE] knew that the parody was gonna go down because I know those guys do a lot of their own stuff. I don’t think that we as a company need to go that route. I think that parody should not have ever been shown on television because it wasn’t a great moment for us as black people. For us as black people, it was one of our worst moments. Just like the [Lamelo] Ball thing. The kid is 15-years old [and] I don’t blame him or anything like that. It was something that slipped out just like myself [in 1997], it was something that slipped out. For me as a person that’s trying to set an example for us as black people and for me to let so many people down – even the ones that thought it was the cool – even the ones that thought it was an anthem… …I want them to know that it was my worst day that I could have ever had being a black man and letting so many of our people down by calling us that word or saying that word in any realm [or] any form was definitely not right by any means. I wish I could take it right back. That one blemish is the only thing they have over my head that they could put out there to try to make me look bad in any way shape, form, or fashion. Of course, I could put a spin on it… … but does that make it right? No, it doesn’t make it right. It’s still a stain, a blemish, a mark that no surgical procedure could ever repair. So I just want young people to know exactly what they’re saying and when they’re saying it.”
It’s being speculated that WWE might end up booking Angle into a match sooner than previously expected.
Angle revealed earlier this week that he had not been tested by the WWE for in-ring participation yet. With SummerSlam around the corner WWE might end up using Angle to boost up their ratings and provide a spectacular main event for the biggest party of the Summer. Also, rumors of Angle’s current storyline setting up his feud with Triple H did go viral a few weeks ago so there might be some relevance to them.
While speaking to Esquire Middle East, Angle talked about the chances that he will compete in a WWE ring again.
“Well right now I’m just concentrating on my behind-the-scenes role as General Manager. I haven’t even had a physical yet and I don’t expect I will have one until they [the WWE] have some more detail of what they want me to do down the line. But is there a possibility? Yeah, there is a definite possibility! I think it’s more than likely it will happen. I don’t know if it has to do with this new story line that’s going on right now, but I’m sure that it will happen eventually. I still haven’t taken a physical though so I’m not going to get my hopes up until I do that.”
“My main aim would just be to contribute and wrestle some of the younger guys. There’s a lot of great talent right now and I’d love to be able to mix it up with them. I would also imagine that, being who I am, I’d get a pretty high profile match at Wrestlemania if I did wrestle again. And yeah, I think everybody wants a title-run. I’m 48 years old – I’m still in great shape, I can still go pretty hard in the ring, but then again there are other talents out there that need the title more than I do. Don’t get me wrong it would be a lot of fun if I did get a title run, but at the same time as long as I’m contributing and helping out the company I’d be happy with that.”
Naomi’s on-going feud with Lana has shifted from SmackDown Live to Twitter. The two had an exchange after Naomi took a shot at Naomi for her work ethic.
Working out in my @GoldSheepWear @goldsheeptweets? @LanaWWE get on my level pic.twitter.com/rvUPW0KhmH
— Trinity Fatu (@NaomiWWE) July 2, 2017
Congratulations you are a better athlete than me ! Tell us all something that we don’t know ! https://t.co/oHtyZRARF2
— CJ (Lana) Perry (@LanaWWE) July 3, 2017
I didn’t say anything about my athleticism thanks for the compliment when u actually work as hard as you portray on social media it’ll show? https://t.co/dUYAgqtEjB
— Trinity Fatu (@NaomiWWE) July 3, 2017
Don’t ever diss my work ethic again you insecure brat. Unlike you I’m not afraid to admit when other people are good at something. https://t.co/LxxAv1wjln
— CJ (Lana) Perry (@LanaWWE) July 3, 2017
It doesn’t look like Tommaso Ciampa will be returning to action anytime this year.
According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, Ciampa is expected to be out of action until early 2018. The Medical exam given to WWE indicates that he will be out of action until March 2018.
Ciampa was last seen on WWE television on the May 31st episode of NXT when he explained why he turned on Johnny Gargano at Takeover: Chicago. It was reported by PWInsider that he suffered a torn ACL.
WWE announced that Big Cass will face Enzo Amore at the WWE Great Balls of Fire Event. Here is the updated card:
WWE Universal Title Match
Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar
RAW Women’s Championship
Sasha Banks vs. Alexa Bliss
Ambulance Match
Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman
Cruiserweight Title Match
Akira Tozawa vs. Neville
Bray Wyatt vs. Seth Rollins
Big Cass vs. Enzo Amore
Great Balls of Fire takes place on July 9th from the American Airlines Center in Dallas. As always, we will have live play-by-play coverage of the event.
Here are some spoilers from tonight’s GFW Impact tapings, courtesy of PWInsider:
GFW will announce the return of the Super X Cup
Former ROH wrestler ACH is backstage and will be part of the tournament
Texas talent Sammy Guevara, who recently worked for EVOLVE is also in the tournament as well, as are Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Taiji Ishimora and AAA’s Drago
Octagoncito is backstage at the taping.
We hope to have full spoilers shortly.
Kurt Angle announced on tonight’s episode of RAW that The Miz will defend his Intercontinental Championship title against Dean Amborse at WWE Great Balls of Fire. Here is the updated card:
WWE Universal Championship
Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar
Intercontinental Championship
Dean Amborse vs. The Miz
30-Main Ironman match for the RAW Tag Team Championship
The Hardy Boyz vs. Cesaro & Sheamus
RAW Women’s Championship
Sasha Banks vs. Alexa Bliss
Ambulance Championship
Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman
Cruiserweight Championship
Akira Tozawa vs. Neville
Bray Wyatt vs. Seth Rollins
Big Cass vs. Enzo Amore
Great Balls of Fire takes place on July 9th from the American Airlines Center in Dallas. As always, we will have live play-by-play coverage of the event.
GFW taped the following for an upcoming episode of Impact Wrestling:
Celebration for new unified World Champion Alberto El Patron. He announces that his brother has joined GFW. Lashley comes out and re-match is setup for the main event.
X-Division Champion Sonjay Dutt defeated Caleb Konley. After the match, Trevor Lee attacked Dutt and left with the title.
Eddie Edwards, Grado, and VOW defeated Eli Drake, Chris Adonis, Fallah Bahh, and Idris Abraham.
Matt Sydal dfeated Braxton Sutter.
The Super X Cup competitors were revealed: Davey Richards, Andrew Everett, Dezmond Xavier, ACH, Drago, Idris Abraham, Ishimori, and Sammy Guevara.
Super X Cup: Dezmond Xavier defeats Idris Abraham.
Knockouts Champion Sienna defeated Rebel.
Gail Kim comes out and announced that 2017 will be her last year wrestling.
A segment was taped involving Eli Drake, Chris Adonis, and a couple of bodybuilders.
Super X Cup: ACH defeats Andrew Everett.
Alberto El Patron vs. Lashley ended when LAX came out and attacked Lashley. Konnan announced El Patron is LAX’s newest member and El Patron left with the group.
The Hardy Boyz’ “BROKEN” gimmick may be appearing on WWE programming shortly.
Dave Meltzer reported on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that The Hardy Boyz and Anthem Sports are close to reaching a deal for Matt & Jeff Hardy to use the “BROKEN” gimmick outside of the now-GFW promotion. Meltzer didn’t specify exactly what the terms of the deal would be, but indicated that a deal will be reached soon.
We will keep you updated if we receive any more details on the on-going negotiations between The Hardys and Anthem.