Cody Rhodes, Jade Cargill, Waltman, SmackDown, Lizzy Rain, Meghan Walker, Wendy Choo, Triller – Wednesday’s Wrestling News for April 22nd, 2026

Cody Rhodes

It’s not believed that Cody Rhodes suffered a concussion when he got his black eye wrestling Randy Orton at WrestleMania 42, but he’s in a “no contact” concussion protocol anyway as a precaution. (WO)

In this Sports Illustrated interview, Jade Cargill says titles don’t make her: “It takes two to tango. I wasn’t nervous last year. I had a match with the great Naomi. I thought we had a superb match in itself. It wasn’t a title match, so obviously it’s not gonna have as much buzz around it, but I don’t think that this was any different. I just had a title. And a title doesn’t make me, I make the title.”

Via social media Sean Waltman (X-Pac) says he was accosted WrestleMania weekend: “That guy & all the rest like him can get fucked. It was insane how these people were. I got physically assaulted & camera shoved in my face, stalked in the bathroom, & more.” By that guy, he was referencing the fan who had the phone slapped out of his hand by CM Punk.

The last SmackDown did a 0.42 18-49 and 1.580 million viewers. (PI)

Lizzy Rain is making her NXT debut next week. (WWE)

New WWE recruit Meghan Walker made her debut in a dark match before NXT facing Wendy Choo. (BSN)

MLW has signed former WWE wrestler Big Damo. (FF)

AEW Plus service on TrillerTV has ended and you can no longer order AEW PPVs there either. (PWI)

Last week’s Raw did 2.9 million views on Netflix and finished 5th globally.