Today's News

GFW:

Jeff Jarrett is in talks with a number of TV networks for his new promotion. WGN, Spike, Fox Sports 2 and CMT have all received a pitch from the WWE Alum. Also on GFW, TNA and ROH have officially told their talent they will not be permitted to appear for GFW at TV events.

Booker T:

Booker T has had to cancel his next ROW event as it coincides with the newly scheduled Elimination Chamber WWE show.

Zayn to work hurt:

Sami Zayn is tweeting teases for the Next NXT special, where he is scheduled to challenge for the NXT title. This despite his shoulder injury. Hideo Itami is also still advertised for the event, he also has a shoulder injury.

TNA backstage notes:

Mike Tenay will return to commentary until The Pope returns on May 22, and Sanada was released from TNA after a political dispute between TNA and Wrestle-1.

Legends fall out:

Rowdy Roddy Piper attacked the Honky Tonk Man on a recent episode of his podcast, saying of the greatest IC champ...

"Of all the wrestlers, he's an asshole. Honky Tonk…he can't sing, he can't play the guitar, and he's…jealous. And on top of that, allegedly, he tried to buy my name, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, Wayne Ferris did, allegedly. I saw it, and I don't know that it's the same Wayne Ferris, but I would find it difficult to believe there's another Wayne Ferris that dresses like Elvis Presley to wrestle. Really?"

Honky has now responded, and he has not taken kindly to the attack...

''Fans this @R_Roddy_Piper threw the first shot at me and I do not know why. I do not even know this guy other than a hello here and there. @R_Roddy_Piper U want some of this little man? Come out of the closet and get some! All u tweet freaks have to do now is ask @R_Roddy_Piper will he man up or c*nt up, don't ask HTM anymore about this.''

Honky then tweeted Piper directly to ask why he had made the attack against him, and Piper acknowledged it was unfair, he invited him onto a future episode of his podcast to give his side of the story. Honky is yet to respond to his offer.

Piper has also offended Pat Patterson, he claims Patterson sexually harassed him early in his career, at the age of 21. He later backtracked somewhat on what he said.

Rousey tried social media app to find love:

Ronda Rousey has been trying to find a partner on Tinder, but her fame has blocked her from finding someone suitable. She even says she tried to register under an alias, but still could not get the desired results.

Bushwhacker Luke talks the invention of their walk:

"I've got to give it to Butch. He came up with that. We were always creative, when we first came over to North America in 1972, we were Sweet William and The Brute but he (Butch) had to change his name because the Brute here was Brute Bernard. He had been all over Canada and the States so they changed his name to Crazy Nick Carter, so it was Sweet William and Crazy Nick Carter and I led him around on a chain. I was doing that from around '69 to 73-74, we were doing the Beauty and the Beast gimmick at the time and we constantly changed our gimmicks. When we went back to New Zealand in the mid-70s to do the first television shows we went back as The Dream Team which later on in life I saw Vince had Greg Valentine and Brutus the Barber as the Dream Team. When we were the Sheepherders we would go to the outside and when we were out on the floor we would go "Whoa" to the people. That was the Whoa and Yay. We had done that before as heels swinging our arms in the air to sort of scare the people at ringside at the barrier. So we decided to put that into our baby face thing, knees up high and swinging the arms."

WWE Alum attacks Tough Enough:

Curt Hawkins is not a fan of the return of the WWE reality show...

"It's a good TV show and that's it, there's never a payoff. Wrestling is an incredibly difficult art form to learn, you can't learn it in three months. So WWE takes these people who never trained before, throw them into a situation where they become big stars, they are on TV every week, people are invested in them and know their whole back story, know everything about them, and are on TV every week for three months and then they win, and guess what, they still don't know how to wrestle."

Vince McMahon:

Vince McMahon says Chicago may be in the running for a future WrestleMania, and he does not tire of hearing CM Punk chants. He made the comments as he was inducted into the Boys & Girls Club Hall Of Fame last night.

Finally happy 30th birthday to Zack Ryder... Woo Woo Woo Bro...