Last night Bayley won a gauntlet match on Raw to get a title shot at AJ Lee on next week’s Raw.
Speaking of Raw here’s an early lineup for next week. (WWE)
- WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship Match: AJ Lee vs. Bayley
- Original El Grande Americano vs. El Grande Americano II
- Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns both set to appear
As of right now (although Sean Ross Sapp says “anything is possible”) WWE and TKO Group are not changing course about holding WrestleMania 43 in Saudi Arabia next year. (FF)
Last week’s Impact did a 0.04 18-49 demo and 249,000 viewers. (PI)
Here’s the updated card for NXT tonight. (WWE)
- WWE Speed Women’s Championship #1 Contenders Tournament Finals: Thea Hail vs. Wren Sinclair
- WWE Speed Championship #1 Contenders Match: Jasper Troy vs. Sean Legacy vs. Eli Knight
- Joe Hendry & Myles Borne vs. Ethan Page & Ricky Saints
- Charlie Dempsey & Tavion Heights vs. Lexis King & Uriah Connors
- Lainey Reid vs. Sol Ruca
Coincidentally NXT content will disappear from Peacock “within days” unless a new deal is reached. (PWI)
Steve Maclin has signed a new deal with TNA Wrestling.
In this interview Oba Femi talks about his transition to the main roster: “There is a lot more traveling on the main roster. A way bigger audience and platform. I’m glad that everything I was able to do over at NXT happened. I was able to translate to the main roster effortlessly, seamlessly. The crowd has been behind me. They know my schtick. They know what I do. The ruler is here to stay on the main roster.”
RevPro announced that Ricochet will face Michael Oku at their Live In Coventry show March 22nd.
Judgment Day beat down Finn Balor and left him laying on Raw last night. Damian Priest couldn’t resist rubbing it in: “Sucks doesn’t it?” Meanwhile JD McDonagh justified their actions: “You lied to all of us for months. You got an ego. You wanted to be the leader. You played games. That’s never been what the Judgment Day has been about. You used to know that.”
Here are results from night five of the New Japan Cup. (NJPW)
- Knock Out Brothers (OSKAR & Yuto Ice) beat Masatora Yasuda & Aaron Wolf at 8:40
- United Empire (Jakob Austin Young, Francesco Akira, Great-O-Khan, HENARE & Jake Lee) def. Tatsuya Matsumoto, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI, Oleg Boltin & Hirooki Goto at 9:30
- TMDK (Kosei Fujita & Hartley Jackson) beat The United Empire (Zane Jay & Callum Newman) at 8:05
- The House of Torture (Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita) defeated Tomoaki Honma, Shota Umino & Satoshi Kojima at 10:23
- TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) defeated Unbound Company (Daiki Nagai & Yota Tsuji) at 12:09
- New Japan Cup Second Round Match: Shingo Takagi beat Don Fale at 9:30
- New Japan Cup Second Round Match: Yuya Uemura beat Drilla Moloney at 22:28
Steph De Lander is returning to the ring for ACW on March 14th.
