While speaking with Sports Illustrated, Cody Rhodes was asked about Daniel Bryan’s challenge to a match once his contract with WWE expires. Cody made the following remarks:
“I don’t think it was a challenge, just fun. Daniel Bryan remains one of my friends. Final Countdown would be a welcomed tune, even as a competitor. I have always looked up to Dan. It would be major, major box office for all involved.”
It was reported back in March via PWInsider that Eva Marie would not be returning to WWE, however those reports appear to be false.
Eva Marie appeared on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live and indicated that she could still pop up on RAW or SmackDown Live at anytime. She mentioned that her return may not be in the near future as she is still working on two filming projects, but the door is still open for her return.
When asked about reports that Lana has received her gimmick on SmackDown, she said that she couldn’t confirm that but hopes that’s not the case.
WWE announced that Seth Rollins will face Bray Wyatt at the upcoming WWE Great Balls of Fire event. Here is the updated card:
WWE Universal Title Match
Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar
Ambulance Match
Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman
Cruiserweight Title Match
Akira Tozawa vs. Neville
Bray Wyatt vs. Seth Rollins
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.
Sasha Banks won the gauntlet on tonight’s episode of RAW to earn her a shot at the RAW Women’s Championship against Alexa Bliss at the Great Balls of Fire event. Here is the updated card for the show:
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
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.
While speaking to GiveMeSport, Seth Rollins talked about a possible Shield reunion at a future date and revealed what it would take for it to happen. He made the following remarks regarding the topic:
“To make our entrance through the crowd, it would take a common goal and that’s been the big difference I think, you know. In the last few years is that we’ve all got our individual goals and individual things going on so it would take something pretty massive to take us all away from that and get us back on the same page. But, never say never, you know? You never know what could come, that’s the cool thing about the WWE is; that it’s full of surprises so we’ll see. Like I said, we’ve all got our individual goals and aspirations.”
Steve Austin was vocal on a recent installment of his podcast regarding WWE booking Naomi to defend her SmackDown Women’s Championship against Lana at the Money in the Bank event. He made the following remarks:
“Naomi deserves better, the title deserves better. Lana wasn’t up for this task at hand, at this point in her career. I thought she had much more mystique as the valet, whatever the term is, with Rusev. Man, they kind of killed her gimmick off, and reinvented her, and I just liked her the way she was. So, if she wants to be in the ring, that’s more power to her, but a lot of the stuff I got on Twitter was, ‘Hey man. For a first match, she did a lot better than I expected.’ Ok. As I say that, good for her. But as a company who’s striving for excellence in sports entertainment/professional wrestling, the best of the best belong on a pay-per-view.”
You can listen to the podcast here.
Seth Rollins made an appearance at Saturday’s WWE Live Event and challenged Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship. The incident went down while Jinder Mahal was cutting an in-ring promo and Rollins made his surprise appearance and cut a promo as well. This led to a match between the two. The match ended in disqualification when the Singh brothers interfered.
You can check out footage below:
Originally Shinsuke Nakamura was scheduled to face Mahal at the event, however Rollins’ filled in as the replacement.
As previously reported, Alberto El Patron broke up with Paige last night in Orlando. After …
Jeff Jarrett has been teasing that the “most powerful, influential resident of Orlando, Florida” will take pace of this year’s Slammiversary week activities.
The word going around is that Jarrett is referring to NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal. O’Neil made various appearances for WWE and WCW previously and was originally going to face The Big Show at Wrestlemania 33 until plans fell through.
