Today's News

GFW:

Eli Drake is now officially GFW champion.

Historic reign ends:

Asuka has relinquished her reign as NXT Women's champion. She also said goodbye to NXT last night. After she is cleared from injury she will be moved straight to the main roster.

New Day:

WWE want to make the New Day the greatest team in the history of the promotion. They already have a longevity record and WWE now want to make them the most decorated team too, meaning they will win and lose the Tag titles repeatedly in the coming months / years.

Edge to TNA:

Edge says he once considered following Christian to TNA...

"Interesting little tidbit here that I don't even know how much Christian knows, if even at all, to be honest. I don't recall talking to him about it. I don't know how word gets out on contracts being up and things like that, but there was one point where my contract was coming up and TNA reached out to me, and he was there, so they reached out to me, and they told me numbers, and schedule, and all of these things. And for me, at that point, schedule was the thing that I was like, 'well, that'd be a whole lot easier on the body' because I was getting pretty beat up. I started with WWE in '97. At that point it was like 2008 or 2009. I can't even remember. It's a long time. Now, there were breaks because of injuries, but that was my body saying, 'take a break dude,' and I never did until something broke. The idea that Christian was there, and the opponents. If I went there, there's Joe, there's AJ, there's a lot of fresh things to do, but for whatever reason, from day one WWE felt like my home. It felt like the place that I'd always wanted to get to. I did those two TV matches in WCW against Kevin Sullivan and Meng and within five minutes of walking into that locker room I was like, 'I don't want to be here - I could tell this is not the place for me.' And the dream was still WWF and getting there. And then, finally seeing the inner workings and then working into a position where I was one of the main event guys and I was factored in, it just felt like they did put that faith in me, that they did pull the trigger with me for whatever reason they did and I felt like I can't look that gift horse in the mouth. And sure, there was work involved, but 'I got to stick it out here and I got to stay here. I just want my career to be here and nowhere else.' But for Christian, I do believe that was definitely the right thing to do."

Christian dis-agreed, revealing how hard his decision to leave WWE was...

"Don't get me wrong, saying WWE felt like home, and it was home to me as well, and it crushed me to leave. It really did. It was one of the hardest things that I've ever had to do. Saying 'goodbye' on my last night there, tears in your eyes and you're crying because you don't know when you're going to see your friends again. And these are all the people that become your family when you're on the road and spending so much time with them, and, in a sense, you're leaving your family for something that's unknown."

Cass:

Big Cass had knee surgery today.

Angle returning to ring:

Kurt Angle says he expects to be back in the ring either late this, or early next, year.

WWE involved in big fight:

Mauro Ranallo will call the Floyd Mayweather / Conor McGregor boxing match this weekend.