Even though WWE never publicly said it, Block Lesnar retirement merchandise started being sold via WWE Shop. “In a valiant yet unsuccessful effort against Oba Femi at WrestleMania 42, Brock Lesnar suffered a mighty Fall From Grace powerbomb that would fell the Beast Incarnate. And following that pinfall loss, he reflected, took off his gloves and boots and symbolically gestured farewell to the WWE Universe. Pay your respects to Lesnar’s illustrious career by grabbing this Thank You Brock T-Shirt. The graphics printed across the chest are sure to call to mind an unforgettable matchup and a moment that the sports entertainment world isn’t soon to forget.”
Raw made it more official with a Brock Lesnar career retrospective video package, then Paul Heyman cut a promo lambasting the production truck for not moving Lesnar from the “Now” to the “Forever” part of the opening graphic.
There will be a Joe Hendry concert on next week’s Raw. (WWE)
- Roman Reigns and Jacob Fatu appear
- Joe Hendry in concert
- Becky Lynch return
The last Collision did a 0.08 18-49 demo and 473,000 viewers. (PI)
Impact did a 0.05 18-49 demo and 215,000 viewers. (PI)
Melbourne City Wrestling star Adam Brooks will be a guest coach at the WWE Performance Center this week. (PWI)
Josh Barnett explains why he decided to suspend Bloodsport: “I thought very deeply and heavily about this. I was trying to bring on corporate sponsors or sponsors in general to support the show, and bring in other outside elements to build towards what the ultimate example is, and we just weren’t able to do it. That’s not to say there isn’t any possibility of doing that, but I had a timeline and we didn’t meet those goals. It’s closed unless things can be done to get us where we need to go.”
Jacob Fatu challenged Roman Reigns to a title match at Backlash in Raw’s closing segment. (WWE)
Pete Dunne is appearing for ATTACK! Pro Wrestling in Cardiff on June 19th.
AEW Double or Nothing has already sold 10,000 tickets with a month to go and appears to be on pace to be completely sold out.
Here’s the Wrestling Redzone card for April 25th. (NJPW)
- IWGP Tag Team Championships Match: Knockout Bros. (OSKAR & Yuto-Ice) (c) vs. Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI)
- IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag team Championships Match: Unbound Co. (Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori) (c) vs. TMDK (Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles)
- Unbound Co. (Shingo Takagi, Yota Tsuji, Gedo & Daiki Nagai) vs. The United Empire (Callum Newman, Jake Lee, Jakob Austin Young & Zane Jay)
- Yuya Uemura & Tomoaki Honma vs. TMDK (Ryohei Oiwa & Hartley Jackson)
- Boltin Oleg, Aaron Wolf, Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe vs. HOUSE OF TORTURE (Ren Narita, Don Fale, DOUKI & Dick Togo)
- Taichi, Ryusuke Taguchi & Masatora Yasuda vs. The United Empire (HENARE, Great-O-Khan & Francesco Akira)
- Shota Umino, Toru Yano, YOH & Master Wato vs. The HOUSE OF TORTURE (Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi, SHO & Yoshinobu Kanemaru)
- Tatsuya Matsumoto vs Taisei Nakahara
Here’s the card for NXT Revenge tonight. (WWE)
- NXT Women’s North American Championship Casket Match: Tatum Paxley (c) vs. Blake Monroe
- WWE Men’s Speed Championship Match: EK Prosper (c) vs. Lexis King
- NXT North American Championship Match: Myles Borne (c) vs. Dion Lennox
- Last Woman Standing Match: Sol Ruca vs. ZARIA
- Keanu Carver vs. Joe Hendry
