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She’s good at this stuff. There are two major kinds of wrestlers in the world, as a wrestler can be either good or evil. Some wrestlers are flat out better in one role than another and that can make for rather strong results from either side. Every so often, a wrestler knows how to antagonize fans without being full on evil though and that was on display again this week.
SmackDown’s Bayley took part in a Twitter Q&A earlier this week, though she did not actually answer any of the fans’ questions. Instead, Bayley responded with various answers that had nothing to do with what was asked, including a question by SmackDown interviewer Kayla Braxton. Here are some highlights:
Ok I feel bad for yelling. Not ALL of you are mean. I’ll make it up to you, I got some free time so use #iMissMyBayley for some Q&A.
— Bayley (@itsBayleyWWE) April 6, 2022
Very good point. And funny enough, one time overseas on tour, Daniel Bryan told me he thinks I’m the fastest woman in the division. (I had been ..

At least it’s a start. Injuries are one of the few constants in all of wrestling as you never know when you might see someone get taken out of the ring. That is never something you want to see and it can be even worse when they hit out of nowhere. An injury can cut anyone’s progress short and unfortunately that had happened again. This time though, we have a bit of an update.
The opening match of Night One of WrestleMania 38 saw the Usos successfully defend the SmackDown Tag Team Titles against Shinsuke Nakamura and Rick Boogs. During the match, Boogs suffered an injury, later revealed to be a torn quadriceps patella. According to PWInsider.com, Boogs has undergone successful surgery and will be recovering at home. The expected recovery time for his injury is 4-6 months.
Opinion: That isn’t good to hear and hopefully Boogs is back in the ring much close to the four month end than the six month version. Nakamura and Boogs were starting to get something together as a team and it is a s..

They’re up next. With WrestleMania 38 out of the way, it is time to see what WWE has in store for the future. They are going to have to start getting things ready for their next major show, which is only about a month away. That is easier said than done, but WWE does at least seem to have an idea of what they are going to be doing. At least they have some of the cast list ready.
According to PWInsider.com, local advertisements for WrestleMania Backlash include Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Ronda Rousey, Sasha Banks, Charlotte and Becky Lynch. The show takes place on May 8 at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island. No matches have been announced for the card and there is no guarantee that these wrestlers will be appearing.
Opinion: This is the kind of thing that might not mean anything in the long term but it is nice to see what WWE might have planned for the next month. If nothing else, seeing Lesnar and Rousey advertised at least suggests that the two of them will still ..

It was a unique one. WrestleMania 38 has come and gone and there were a lot of things going on over the span of two nights. Some of the matches were planned but there are a few surprise matches thrown in on the card. This included a match between Vince McMahon and Pat McAfee, which was followed by McMahon being attacked by Steve Austin. This didn’t go as well as planned and now we know a bit more about what McMahon thought of the whole thing.
According to Fightful Select, McMahon decided that he would be taking part in the match several months ago, but various people around him said that it would be a terrible idea. Following the match, McMahon was said to have known that the performance did not work but he was happy because the fans were entertained. McMahon came up with everything after the match was over, including being scared about thinking Austin Theory’s music was Austin’s instead.
Opinion: You kind of had to know that there were going to be some problems with the match as McM..

Welcome back? There are a lot of wrestlers on the WWE roster but not all of them are around every single week. It can be interesting to see what happens when one of them pops up after a lengthy absence as you don’t know what they are going to be doing. We might be seeing another of those returns sooner rather than later after a long time away from the ring.
According to PWInsider.com, Lacey Evans is rumored to return to WWE, possibly as soon as this week’s SmackDown. Evans has been away from WWE for over a year on maternity leave, with her last match taking place in February 2021. There is no word on what she will be doing when she returns or if she is ready for a return to the ring. Evans has been part of the main roster since 2019.
Opinion: This is the kind of thing that could be interesting, as both women’s divisions could use some fresh blood. Evans might not have been the top start, but she was doing enough to be a player in the title scene. Once she gets back, someone else can ..

He sounds on to something. WWE has been the biggest wrestling promotion in the world for a very long time now and some of that has been due to their television shows. Monday Night Raw debuted in 1993 and SmackDown debuted in 1999. The two shows have dominated the wrestling landscape for so long, though they are also on for a good amount of time every week. One prominent WWE star seems to think that it might be a bit too much.
Monday Night Raw’s Seth Rollins appeared on the Sports Illustrated media podcast and discussed the lengths of Monday Night Raw and WrestleMania. Rollins said that he feels a three hour edition of Monday Night Raw every week is “obnoxiously long” as WWE has to come up with ways to fill it each time. He called two hours the “beautiful kind of number for a wrestling show” as three hours is a lot to ask from the fans every week. Rollins also spoke about a seven hour WrestleMania being too long, citing WrestleMania 35 going until after midnight being too long. Instead..

So I grew up as a WWF fan, as I’m sure a lot of fans today did. That means I’m going to remember a lot of the sayings and phrases that were used over and over again on WWF television. One that has been coming to mind more and more over the last few days has been “anything can happen”, though the “in the World Wrestling Federation” part doesn’t apply so much this time. That’s a very good thing in this case.
WrestleMania Weekend has come and gone and my goodness it was another packed edition. There were so many things going on both in and out of WWE that it’s almost hard to keep track of everything (though that is what I try to do). What made things interesting though is that it felt like we were seeing things that I actually wouldn’t have believed possible, and that is where the fun came in.
One of the recurring themes of this weekend was seeing things that you probably didn’t expect but it was going on right in front of your eyes. That is the kind of thing that makes things all the b..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be?
Stand & Deliver 2022
Date: April 2, 2022
Location: American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas
Commentators: Vic Joseph, Wade Barrett
Somehow this is NXT’s first time on the road in over two years. It might not be Takeover, but it is one of NXT’s rare big shows and the card could look worse. NXT hasn’t had the chance to do something like this very often and at some point you need to just let them go out there and do their thing in front of a lot of people. Let’s get to it.
I was in attendance for this show, sitting i..

They might need to get ready. Wrestlers are in a weird place when it comes to acting. While they are playing characters and reading a script, they are going to be seen as wrestlers almost no matter what they do. Sometimes they move outside of the wrestling world and get somewhere in acting, and now WWE seems to be making preparations before one of its biggest stars might head to Tinseltown.
WWE President Nick Khan appeared on the Town podcast and discussed the possibility of Roman Reigns getting into acting. The company is hoping to help Reigns cross over into Hollywood though Khan did not specify how. Khan cited the Rock, Steve Austin and John Cena as wrestlers who play themselves in WWE and have done well in acting. Reigns appeared with the Rock in Hobbs and Shaw in 2019.
Opinion: This is one of those things that you hear a lot about in wrestling but it doesn’t always work. Austin tried to get into acting and never really got anywhere. Cena is certainly an established name, but he ..

That was different. WrestleMania 38 weekend has come and gone and there was a lot taking place in WWE. In addition to the namesake WrestleMania pay per view, there was also a stand alone NXT event, plus Monday Night Raw. While these two shows rarely have anything in common, that was the case this week, and now we know something more about how fast things changed.
On Saturday, Dolph Ziggler retained the NXT Title over Bron Breakker at Stand & Deliver. Two days later, Breakker took the title from Ziggler in a match not announced until the night of the show. According to Wrestling Observer Live, the original plans called for Ziggler to hold the title for “awhile”, with a commercial airing during Monday Night Raw advertising Ziggler as champion. While not confirmed, the theory was that Breakker was to be called up to the main roster but then WWE changed their minds.
Opinion: This is the kind of thing that WWE tends to do time after time, which doesn’t exactly make things that much better..

Come on up? NXT is in a weird place in the wrestling world as they have to find a way to balance out being its own show and WWE developmental. In some way is a good thing to see wrestlers leaving NXT for greener pastures but that can be a big hit to NXT every time. Now that might be the case again but even worse than usual as WWE might be calling up two names.
According to Fightful Select, WWE is considering calling up LA Knight and Raquel Gonzalez. Knight is considered less of a likelihood, though there is a chance that he could be called up as a manager due to his talking abilities. Gonzalez has been expected to be called up for several months now. She and Dakota Kai lost the NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles to Toxic Attraction earlier this week. Knight did not appear on the show.
Opinion: I don’t think either of these is a surprise as Gonzalez and Knight both seem to have been ready for the main roster for a LONG time now. They both look like main roster stars and aren’t going to get m..

NXT
Date: April 6, 2022
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Wade Barrett, Vic Joseph
We’re done with Stand & Deliver and while a lot of things happened at the show, the bigger story came on Raw, as Bron Breakker defeated Dolph Ziggler to retain the NXT Title. That should open up a few new doors in the main event scene and I’m curious to see which one they take first. Let’s get to it.
We open with a long recap of Stand & Deliver, plus Bron Breakker getting the title back last night on Raw.
Here is Breakker to get things going. After waiting out some WE WANT ZIGGLER/NO WE DON’T chants, Breakker talks about the things that he got to do over the weekend. He went to Wrestlemania for the first time and got to see some of the biggest stars. It made him realize that he was going to headline Wrestlemania one day, but also that he wasn’t going to let Dolph Ziggler leave Dallas with OUR NXT Title.
Now the title is home…and here is Imperium to interrupt. Gunther ..