In this interview Sareee (a/k/a Sarray) talks about her WWE run: “That was the most difficult period of my pro wrestling career. With so many people on the WWE roster, it was hard enough just to get picked for matches, and on top of that, it coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, so I couldn’t compete as much as I wanted to. In the midst of that, I was assigned a high school girl character. I went with the intention of bringing strong women’s professional wrestling from Japan, but it was painful because what was required in reality was different. I became so stressed that I loved sweets, and after lunch, I ate an American-sized parfait and then flattened a big Häagen-Dazs and my face was covered in acne. Still, I did my best in my heart. Looking back now, it’s all become experience that has nourished me, so not a single moment was wasted.”
Ricky Morton is a guest coach at the WWE Performance Center this week.
Lexis King is “okay” despite taking an errant knee to the face at a NXT house show in Lakeland. (FF)
The person in AEW who advised Ricochet to take down his tweet and apologize for saying he was “glad she got MS” was reportedly Chris Hero. (FF)
Santos Escobar’s recovery from surgery will reportedly keep him out until late this summer. (FF)
Gail Kim and TNA will be going into mediation over their lawsuit on June 24th. (PWI)
From New Japan: “After the announcement of US deathmatch legend Nick Gage for the event on April 16, there was no way that El Desperado and Jun Kasai were going to pass up the chance to battle him, and there were plenty more wanting to step up to join the mix. As a result, we have an invitation only ‘love and pieces’ three way Deathmatch tag, Gage teaming with Matt Tremont to face Desperado and Kasai and Masahi Takeda and Rina Yamashita. A true murderer’s row of hardcore figures, what fresh carnage will these six individuals bring to a bloody Strip?”
Here’s the latest on Tom Brady possibly appearing at WrestleMania 42: “They are in negotiations with Tom Brady, but there is absolutely not a deal at this point for Tom Brady. So it could happen. Obviously, Logan Paul and Tom Brady are working. I mean, everyone knows they’re working the angle, I think people have seen that coming in. But there could be something in some form at WrestleMania, it would not be a surprise. And what they did in the football game was clearly to build it. Just as all the talk of, you know, Tom Brady cutting down pro wrestlers and the wrestlers all responding, that is all storyline. That is not like Tom Brady’s a dick and he doesn’t respect pro wrestling.” (WO)
Two upcoming Road to Sakura Genesis cards are below. (NJPW)
March 28 in Ibaraki:
- Masatora Yasuda vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto
- KUSHIDA vs. Taisei Nakahara
- Yuya Uemura, Taichi & El Desperado vs. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Tiger Mask
- Aaron Wolf, YOH, Toru Yano & Master Wato vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Don Fale, DOUKI, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
- Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI & Shota Umino vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Yujiro Takahashi, Chase Owens & Dick Togo)
- Unbound Company (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Gedo) vs. T.M.D.K. (Ryohei Oiwa, Zack Sabre Jr. & Hartley Jackson)
- Unbound Company (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi, Taiji Ishimori, Robbie X & Daiki Nagai) vs. United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Francesco Akira, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay)
April 2 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo:
- Shota Umino & Tiger Mask vs. KUSHIDA & Masatora Yasuda
- Konosuke Takeshita vs. Tatsuya Matsumoto
- Yuya Uemura, Taichi & El Desperado vs. Togi Makabe, Tomoaki Honma & Master Wato
- Boltin Oleg, Hirooki Goto, YOSHI-HASHI, Aaron Wolf & Toru Yano vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, Don Fale & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
- Unbound Company (Yuto-Ice, OSKAR & Gedo) vs. T.M.D.K. (Ryohei Oiwa, Zack Sabre Jr. & Hartley Jackson)
- Unbound Company (Yota Tsuji, Shingo Takagi & Daiki Nagai) vs. United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee & Zane Jay)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship: Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori (c) vs. United Empire (Francesco Akira & Jakob Austin Young)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: DOUKI (c) vs. YOH
Here’s the card for Raw tonight. (WWE)
- WWE Intercontinental Championship Match: Penta vs. Rey Mysterio
- Je’Von Evans vs. Grayson Waller
- The Usos vs. Logan Paul & Austin Theory
- Bayley & Lyra Valkyria vs. The Kabuki Warriors
- Brock Lesnar, Oba Femi, Roman Reigns and CM Punk to appear
- Becky Lynch justifies her attack on AJ Lee
The updated card for Dynamite on Wednesday is below. (AEW)
- AEW Women’s World Championship Match: Thekla vs. Mina Shirakawa
- EVP vs. #1 Contenders Match: Kenny Omega vs. Swerve Strickland
- Darby Allin vs. RUSH
- David Finlay & Clark Connors vs. Orange Cassidy & Roderick Strong
- MJF to appear
