Last night during Fyter Fest, Will Ospreay challenged Swerve Strickland to a match at AEW Summer Blockbuster next week in Portland.
Congratulations to Jackson Drake on becoming the inaugural (WWE’s version of) EVOLVE Men’s Champion.
Vince McMahon is selling 1.579 million shares of Class A TKO stock to William Morris Endeavor Group and getting a quarter of a billion dollars richer in the process. Yes, that’s right. BILLION with a B. The only good news about this is that WME Group increases their majority ownership to 61.7% and McMahon’s minority ownership decreases to 4.1%, so if anybody was still operating under the delusion he could reassert control over WWE at any point in the future, he can’t. He can’t install a new Board of Directors, he can’t get himself reappointed as CEO, he can’t do anything. He could take his payout and start another promotion if he was so inclined but he’ll never run anything in WWE ever again.
The latest Wrestling Open results from Rhode Island can be found below. (FF)
- TJ Crawford def. JGeorge
- No Disqualification Match: Brick City def. DJ Powers & Giorgio Lawrence
- Dustin Waller def. Jake Gray
- Brando Lee def. Jariel Rivera
- Ricky Smokes def. Love Doug
- WWE ID Tournament First Round Match: Brad Baylor def. Aaron Rourke
- Bobby Orlando & Jermaine Marbury def. MINT
In this interview Trick Williams promotes TNA’s Against All Odds: “Man, why wouldn’t you order Against All Odds? Have you seen the card? We got Santino Marella with his daughter, NXT’s Arianna Grace versus Robert Stone with Tessa Blanchard. The winner is officially the TNA Director of Authority. We got Nick and Ryan – the one who’s talking trash on podcasts, versus Rascalz, Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz, for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. We got Steve Maclin versus Mance Warner with Steph De Lander for the TNA International Championship. And most importantly, we got Trick Williams versus Elijah. You know what I mean? The battle of culture, the battle of diss tracks versus the guitar strumming. Let’s talk about it. It’s gonna be fun.”
There were actually TWO arrests at the Performance Center in Tampa on Tuesday night. One was for the stalking previously reported and involved “a larger law enforcement agency” outside the Tampa area, and the other was for fighting outside the venue. (PWI)
There are “a few months left” on Karrion Kross’ current WWE deal. (FF)
Kevin Owens is unsure if he’ll be able to return to the ring: “It would be, not arrogant, but false to be able to tell you right now that I will absolutely return to the ring, that I will have other fights. I don’t know if that’s true.”
MVP talks about his BCW match with Wrecking Ball Legursky: “We went out there and had a great match. He took care of me. He was good, I wasn’t hurt. He was there, he listened. He was awesome. He was great. If I work with him again, we can do some more. Wrecking Ball Legursky; if you work with him, he’s solid. I had a great time and he was safe with me.”
Humberto advanced over Kit Wilson on the latest WWE Speed.
MJF says he’ll “consider” facing Mistico at AEW Grand Slam Mexico.
