Cody Rhodes and John Cena are both booked for SmackDown this Friday — the final show before WrestleMania 41. (WWE)
- Cody Rhodes and John Cena to appear
- WWE Tag Team Championship Match: The Street Profits vs. Motor City Machine Guns
- Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal: Competitors TBA
- Chelsea Green, Alba Fyre, & Piper Niven vs. Zelina Vega, Kayden Carter, & Katana Chance
Despite being the current WWE United States Women’s Champion, there are currently no plans for Chelsea Green to take part in either night of WrestleMania 41. (FF)
Shawn Michaels talks about NXT Stand & Deliver this weekend: “Stand & Deliver, much like WrestleMania, you can turn your career around in one match and one moment. Even when it comes to bonuses, those are things that, especially from an NXT standpoint, we have a lot of multi-person matches at Stand & Deliver. A lot of people don’t like that, but these young men and women work throughout the entire year. Not all of them get an opportunity to be on PLEs and those televisions that are on the road, which we’ve been doing more of lately. We want to give as many people as we can an opportunity to perform on the biggest weekend. That’s the reason people get into this line of work. To have that experience to have those moments. We’re hoping we have a lot of standouts come Stand & Deliver. It’s something we definitely keep an eye on and anytime there is a performance or somebody goes above and beyond, whether it’s in a match or throughout the entire year, we try to take care of them as much as possible.”
Ryan Nemeth and AEW have both agreed to arbitration, with AEW withdrawing their motion to compel it and Nemeth withdrawing his lawsuit against AEW and Tony Khan. Nemeth’s attorney: “There has been no settlement. The parties have agreed to submit the matter to arbitration.” Since both sides successfully ended their actions without prejudice, they have leave to refile in court should arbitration fail.
Bad news from Mercedes Mone — all of her ring gear is currently stuck in customs.
Karrion Kross returned to his old “Dead Silent” music on Raw last night.
Penta doesn’t think much of Dominik Mysterio: “If I can only choose one wrestler from them, it’s Finn Balor. But Dominik is… no. Dominik is very green to me.”
The last episode of SmackDown did a 0.45 18-49 video and 1.5 million views, down from 0.47 and 1.579 million the week before. (PI)
