Phil “CM Punk” Brooks is trying to gaslight us. Before his WWE return when speaking to Mike “The Miz” Mizanin on social media, he said “Go suck a blood money covered dick in Saudia Arabia you fucking dork.” (Yes he misspelled Saudi Arabia, that’s an exact quote.) Now on his Instagram live streams he claims he has no “blood money” feelings toward Saudi Arabia at all: “I don’t hate coming to Saudi, I’ve never been to Saudi.” The least he could do is admit he’s being a hypocrite about the whole thing. I don’t care that he changed his mind about going there because WWE is paying him a boatload of money… just admit that’s why.
At the recent JP Morgan conference, TKO COO Mark Shapiro spoke highly of WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque and his creativity at creating content: “There are two X factors when you look at WWE. Netflix, this is the greatest marketing platform you could ever ask for. Their pre-roll is one of the strongest tools. If you’re clicking on that icon, you’re getting a trailer. The (other) X factor is the creative power we have behind the brand. Paul Levesque lives and breathes; his whole life has been spent in WWE. He’s amazing on the creative storylines. Just when you think you know where he’s going, he turns left, like the heel John Cena became and then the champion.”
NXT’s ratings and demo were up slightly this week — 664,000 viewers over 652K and a 0.15 18-49 over a 0.14 last week. (PI)
Here are night four NJPW Best of the Super Juniors results. (FF)
- B Block: Ryusuke Taguchi (2-1) def. SHO (1-2)
- A Block: Dragon Dia (2-1) def. Clark Connors (1-2)
- B Block: YOH (1-2) def. Kevin Knight (0-3)
- A Block: KUSHIDA (1-2) def. Ninja Mack (1-2)
- B Block: Nick Wayne (3-0) def. Robbie Eagles (2-1)
- A Block: Robbie X (2-1) def. Yoshinobu Kanemaru (1-2)
- B Block: Titan (2-1) def. MAO (2-1)
- A Block: Kosei Fujita (3-0) def. Master Wato (1-2)
- B Block: Taiji Ishimori (1-2) def. El Desperado (1-2)
- A Block: Francesco Akira (2-1) def. Hiromu Takahashi (1-2)
The lineup for ROH on Honor Club tonight is below. (ROH)
- The Frat House vs. The Dark Order’s Alex Reynolds & Evil Uno
- Wheeler Yuta vs. Matt Mako
- Trish Adora vs. Rachael Ellering
- MxM Collection & Premier Athletes vs. Dustin Rhodes, Sammy Guevara & The Von Erichs
And here’s the lineup for Impact on AXS TV. (TNA)
- #1 Contenders Match for International Championship: Matt Cardona vs. Elijah vs. Ace Austin vs. Mance Warner
- Nic Nemeth vs. Jeff Hardy
- Tessa Blanchard & Victoria Crawford vs. Masha Slamovich & Nikkita Lyons
- Rosemary vs. Xia Brookside
- The Rascalz vs. The Great Hands
- Indi Hartwell vs. TBD
- Frankie Kazarian will address Under Siege
It appears that AEW is teasing Thekla will debut soon.
Here’s the updated card for CMLL Fantasticamania Mexico on June 20th. (CMLL)
- Yota Tsuji vs. Último Guerrero
- Thunder Rosa vs. La Jarochita
- United Empire (Templario, Francesco Akira & TJP) facing Los Ingobernables de Japon (Titán, Shingo Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi)
- Robbie X to appear
Their June 17th Martes de Arena Mexico has also been updated. (CMLL)
- CMLL World Tag Team Championship: Los Hermanos Chavez (Angel de Oro & Niebla Roja) (c) vs. CRU (Lio Rush & Action Andretti)
- Mascara Dorada vs. Bandido
- Averno, Hechicero & Último Guerrero vs. Don Callis Family (Kyle Fletcher, Konosuke Takeshita & Rocky Romero)
- Red Velvet vs. Persephone
Lilian Garcia will be the ring announcer for Saturday Night’s Main Event on May 24th.
