Goldberg:

Goldberg is now a free agent.

Injury:

WWE have kayfabed Bobby Lashley out of the stories because he needs a legitimate shoulder surgery. He faces a minimum of 4 months on the bench.

JoMo to AAA:

John Morrison debuted in AAA this weekend.

Hall Of Fame:

Doink The Clown and Shane McMahon are reportedly on the shortlist for this years HOF class.

Tony Khan talks AEW inclusivity:

“I think in the LGBTQ community, we have great representation. We have Nyla Rose, a former Woman’s World Champion, the first transgender World Champion in wrestling ever. Of course, diversifying the roster is very important and we saw that… as we added great free agents this week including Keith Lee and AQA. 

And I plan to continue to diversify and expand the roster, and I’m very excited about what we’re doing. Also, Jake Atlas. He was another great debut who really serves, you know, the community and he’s a great person. I was sorry he had that injury on Rampage against Adam Cole, but I’m really excited about him and we’re going to take care of him while he’s out. I’m a big fan of Jake Atlas too.”

Brock went off script:

Brock Lesnar reportedly went off script at Elimination Chamber. The spot where he kicked his way through his pod was not scripted into the match, and the pod was not gimmicked to allow him to get out, he had to legit kick his way through.

Undertaker:

Undertaker made a surprise appearance at a Bad Bunny concert last night.

Heel Turns:

Eddie Edwards and Jay White turned heel on the factions at Impact last night.

Omega offers injury update:

“I was perhaps a little too optimistic. I was hoping to be back by February, and it’s not looking that way anymore. And that’s not to say that there was a huge snag or that you know there’s something that is terribly wrong. It’s not that. It’s just when you’re trying to get appointments and things fixed, you have it in your brain that oh yeah, I can just call a number, and I’ll get in the next day. I’m still feeling a little bit better as time goes by and that’s without even having to do a lot of the major procedures that need to be done. That’s just myself working with trainers and doing the proper rehab. I was leaning too heavily into my strengths as a performer and as an athlete. I guess over the years there were either just natural strengths that I had or things that I had overdeveloped and I was relying too much on those things. Now that the knees are gone, the neck’s going, a lot of stuff was going on.”

WWE UK:

September 3rd or 4th is the likeliest date for a major UK stadium show. WWE have been working on coming across the pond for a PPV level special for over a year, with Drew McIntyre being a driving force to get a deal done.

Mania 38 card... so far:

1. Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns (Title for Title) *
2. Becky Lynch vs Bianca BelAir (Red Women's) *
3. Charlotte Flair vs Ronda Rousey (Blue Women's) *
4. Stone Cold STeve Austin vs Kevin Owens
5. Sami Zayn vs Johnny Knoxville (IC)
6. The Miz & Logan Paul vs The Mysterio's
7. Drew McIntyre vs Happy Corbin

Confirmed matches indicated with a star.

Carlos Cabrera's replacement:

Jerry Soto is back with WWE to fill the seat vacated by Carlos Cabrera. He was released in November, but is now back.

Undertaker comments on HOF:

''Received an overwhelming response to the news. Thank you to everyone who reached out but for now, I’ll say this… it’s been a wild ride … headed to the #WWEHOF!''

New Day-Tona 500:

Big E. will be driving the pace car at the Daytona 500.

WWE games:

WWE have announced the arenas and titles you can play in and for, on the next video game...

Arenas:

1. WCW Monday Nitro
2. WCW Starrcade 1996
3. WWE 205 Live
4. WWE Clash of Champions 2020
5. WWE Elimination Chamber 2021
6. WWE Fastlane 2021
7. WWE Hell in a Cell 2020
8. WWE Horror Show at Extreme Rules
9. WWE Main Event
10. WWE Mixed Match Challenge
11. WWE Money in the Bank 2021
12. WWE NXT
13. WWE NXT TakeOver 31
14. WWE NXT TakeOver: In Your House
15. WWE NXT TakeOver XXX
16. WWE NXT TakeOver: Stand and Deliver
17. WWE NXT Vengeance Day
18. WWE Payback 2020
19. WWE Raw ThunderDome
20. WWE Raw 2020
21. WWE Raw 2021
22. WWE Royal Rumble 2021
23. WWE SmackDown ThunderDome
24. WWE SmackDown 2020
25. WWE SmackDown 2021
26. WWE SummerSlam 1988
27. WWE SummerSlam 2020
28. WWE Survivor Series 2020
29. WWE TLC 2020
30. WWE WrestleMania 37
31. WWE WrestleMania Backlash

Gold:

1. ECW Championship (Original ECW, WWE ECW, Final WWE ECW)
2. ECW Television Championship
3. LeftRightLeftRight Championship
4. Million Dollar Championship
5. NXT Championship (Classic and Current)
6. NXT Cruiserweight Championship
7. NXT North American Championship
8. NXT Women’s Championship (Classic and Current)
9. NXT UK Championship
10. NXT UK Women’s Championship
11. UpUpDownDown Championship
12. WCW Hardcore Championship
13. WCW United States Championship
14. WCW World Championship (1993 Version, nWo, Big Gold)
15. World Wide Wrestling Federation Championship (The first world title Hulk Hogan wins)
16. WWE Championship (Brahma Bull, Smoking Skull, Big eagle, Winged Eagle, Undisputed Current, Current but with scratch logo)
17. WWE Cruiserweight Championship (2001-2007)
18. WWE Divas Championship
19. WWE European Championship
20. WWE Intercontinental Championship (90, 94, 2011-2019, Current)
21. WWE Light Heavyweight Championship
22. WWE Raw Women’s Championship
23. WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship
24. WWE United Kingdom Championship
25. WWE United States Championship (John Cena variant, classic WWE design, current design)
26. WWE Universal Championship
27. WWE Women’s Championship
28. 
    

Injury:

Sammy Guevara has a scratched cornea.

YouTuber to wrestle:

Logan Paul is set to work a programme with The Miz and The Mysterio's.

Announcement nixed:

WWE killed a guest appearance, planned to announce The Undertaker for this years HOF, at Elimination Chamber.

Mania main confirmed:

Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns is now official for Mania 38.

Becky Lynch vs Bianca BelAir is also booked.

Flair accused:

Lacey Evans made, but later deleted, a post accusing Ric Flair of making sexually inappropriate comments to her during a WWE taping, just before she went off to have her baby. She says he compared her to a Hooters girl.

Injury:

Brock Lesnar is once again WWE Champion. He took the gold from Bobby Lashley in Saudi Arabia, after Lashley was unable to compete due to a kayfabe concussion injury suffered during an elimination chamber match.

 

Stromwan launches indie:

ECIII and Braun Stroman have announced they are launching a new promotion together. They are already in talks about a TV deal.

WWE show returns:

WWE have announced they are bringing back Saturday Night's Main Event.

Lio Rush:

Lio Rush has left AEW to return to MLW.

Career over:

D'Von Dudley was told he can never wrestle again, after undergoing back surgery this week.

Kairi Sane:

Kairi Sane is back in action in Japan, she has signed for Stardom.

Carlos Cabrera:

Carlos Cabrera was released by WWE because of his age. They want a younger face to represent the company to their Spanish language market.

Free to be:

The November cull of WWE talent are now free to resume their careers.

New baby:

Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae have given birth to a baby son. They named him Quill.

Hall Of Fame:

The Undertaker has been named for the Hall Of Famer 2022.

Rachel Ellering:

Rachel Ellering has reportedly cut her ties with Impact.

Corey cleared:

Corey Graves brother, Sam Adonis, says his brother has been cleared to return to wrestling after a 7 year injury lay off longer than any one knew it was even a possibility, and has been training with him., he thought for a Royal Rumble surprise appearance.

WWE support controversial doc:

WWE are supporting the Peacock Teddy Hart documentary, despite claiming otherwise when the story first broke.

Massive week:

Tony Khan is hoping to complete a deal on something massive within the next week.

Injury delay:

Ray Fenix has another month to wait for his AEW return, after an arm injury.

WrestleMania main event SPOILER!!!:

Brock Lesnar is scheduled to win the title back in Saudi Arabia this weekend, and then go on to face Roman Reigns in a title for title main event.

 

Rhodes return:

Cody Rhodes is reportedly scheduled to return to WWE this weekend at the PC for some taping. His wife Brandi is not expected to return with him.

Injury:

Jake Atlas has had ACL surgery.

Billy Gunn wants character over high spots:

Billy Gunn has urged AEW talent to consider building their gimmicks over their next high spot...

“I think one of the things is they’re not letting the people get emotionally invested in them and letting them absorb what their personalities are. Because they just go, go, go, go, go, and the hardest thing for people to teach is don’t do anything and get the most out of it, and then selling. It’s just go, go, go and the people never have time to catch up. They think just because the people are making noise, they’re over. That’s it, ‘I am it. Did you hear the people?’ Yeah but, they don’t know you, they’re just popping on the move stuff because they can’t do it. It’s just a reaction to something you’re doing and it’s forgotten about the next time somebody walks out of the tunnel. So I think a lot of it is not letting people into what their character, or who they are.”

Loony Toon:

John Cena is to star in the new Wil. E. Coyote movie.

WWE release:

Carlos Cabrera, WWE's long time Spanish mic man, has been dropped, ending a 30 year association with the company.

Match on?:

AJ Styles says he and Edge have talked about working a match at Mania.

WWE deal:

WWE have signed a deal to make Filterman Sports Group their official autograph partner. They will take over running and booking sessions, and collating exclusive signed merch.

New show:

WWE have announced a new reality show, following the real life relationship of Corey Graves and Carmella.

Jake names match Vince ruined:

Jake The Snake says Vince McMahon forever ruined the cage match...

“Vince McMahon, for all the good he did in wrestling, he ruined the cage match. When he made the cage match, the finish, you had to escape the cage. That was the whole reason you had the cage. You had the cage to keep that chickensh-t in the ring with you so you could get even with him and so you could keep other people out. And Vince ruined the whole d-mn thing. He said first one that escapes this cage is the winner. Are you serious? That blows off all of the heat.”

Retirement run:

The Hardyz are working on what they are billing to be their final run together as a team. They will start on March 12 and have 4 dates booked so far. One of those matches will be against Ryder & Hawkins.

JR considering retirement?:

“My contracts up soon and I’m not looking to go anywhere. But nonetheless, I’m 70, I’ve got to be realistic at some point my crazy a** life cause I haven’t been. If my late wife were here she’d say amen to that because he’s a character. I’m loving what I’m doing, still fun for me guys. As long as you keep that element in your place of work, you’re alright, you’re doing good. I can damn sure call a wrestling match because that’s what I love to do. At my age, I’m a widower, my life is occupied by only a small handful of things. One of them is broadcasting a pro wrestling match, as crazy as that sounds. It’s a great little company to be with, we’re growing exponentially, Tony Khan is a genius.”

Zack Ryder recalls creating Edge Heads:

“I have pitched literally hundreds of ideas, but I will say some of them have gone through and some of the ones that have changed my career. For instance, like the Edgehead story was our idea, where we would be Edge’s Edgeheads. So two guys that looked like Edge and we would be hidden under the ring,” he said. “And we’d hide there and then Undertaker thinks he is beating up Edge, but it’s this other Edge. Then Batista thinks he is beating up Edge, but it’s another Edge. Then the real Edge comes out and f**ks them both and wins the belt. That was our pitch. The problem was Adam was out with an injury, and we didn’t know him. We debuted and he was still out, so we had to ask for his email address and then email him. Because we needed his approval, and he was super cool. He could have said, ‘f**king no,’ because we were nobody’s, he didn’t need us because he was already a top guy. But if he didn’t take a chance on us, we were doing the Major Brothers thing, we would probably have gotten fired in six months because we were doing nothing. Sitting in catering every day and then Edge took us under his wing, and the next day we were going on this six-month run beating up The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels or Batista. But if Edge didn’t say yes, it wouldn’t have happened.”

 

Dusty Rhodes trophy:

The Creed Brothers are the 2022 winners of the Dusty Tag Classic.

Match scratched in:

Stone Cold Steve Austin is on the working match card for Mania, his planned opponent... Kevin Owens.

They also have another, equally important, surprise planned, but are holding their cards closer to their chest on that one.

Vince is personally working on a plan for Cody Rhodes return bout for the show.

Jake recalls heat with Bret:

Jake The Snake has recalled being a guest in the Hart dungeon, during one of Stu's more aggressive classes, with Bret, so much so, he stepped in to end it, earning the ire of Bret...

“Bret was laying on the floor. Stu just malled him like an old bear. ‘This is the first one.’ Latched it on and I don’t know how he put his arms and sh-t, but man, Bret’s legs were f-cking flying. He’s slapping the floor. You know, out he goes. Stu gets up to one knee and says ‘this next one, you watch how I apply this. Wake up son.’ He slaps him and as Bret starts coming to, out again. About the fourth one, because I’m with my leg. I’m injured, he ain’t stupid. But now I’ve realized this is bad. This is real bad because Bret is bleeding out of his nose, his ears, and the corners of his eyes. And then Stu says ‘f-cking Bret, he’s so limber, this one I tried to put on him, he just won’t go out. So what I do, I cup his mouth.’ Smothered him, put him out again. I had to distract Stu so Bret could crawl out of the room and get away from him. But, Bret held that against me for a long time.”

AEW branching out:

AEW will host their first live music event in March, a part of their new Music Live venture.

Bella's coming back?:

Nikki Bella says despite the joy she and Brie felt with their Rumble returns, and a harbouring ambition to win the Tag gold, we should not expect to ever see them back full time...

“I really missed it, but I’m in mom mode and things are different now. I was sore for a few days. I can’t lie. The show made me think about how we can come back and do more of a story. Unfortunately, where we are at in our lives Brie and I can never be back full-time. We hope there is something soon or in the future that we can come back and do something. Just getting the taste in the ring made us want more.”

Brock details anxiety battles:

“I have a total crash after being in front of audiences. Like, I go hibernate in Saskatchewan. Like, my downers – like, the anxiety from that – like, takes me a few days to recover. Forever, yeah it’s been that way. Like, I used to be on – have big wrestling matches in high school and – like, to come down from big arenas it’s like, I get nervous around people and I’m awkward as f*ck. Yeah, but I’m putting on a show. Like I’ve got to go through all this thing, and that’s just who I am. And I like to go and just get away from the people. And it’s not that I dislike people. I mean, it’s not been that way, but some people, yeah, I don’t like. I just like to be left the f*ck alone, and because I’m like – like, I’m in front of an audience then it just exhausts me. And so I’ve got to go and like, recharge up.”

Alum AEW bound:

Buddy Murphy's AEW debut is said to be imminent.

Ric Flair hot with WWE:

Ric Flair says not a single person from WWE reached out to offer support in the wake of his recent divorce...

“Everybody wants to just be negative. She still runs my business affairs, handles my personal life, there’s nothing wrong with our relationship. I’m really difficult to live with because I want to travel, I sign autographs and she did that for nine straight years and she just got tired of it and I get it. What killed me, of all the people, Charles Barkley, Darius Rucker, Kid Rock can call me and say ‘Is everything cool?’ which they have and I go ‘yeah, everything’s great and life changes and we go in different directions,’” Flair said. “Not one person from the WWE, not one. The most insensitive people in the world. People that I have given my life to and they have given me a lot of theirs. When you’re not there they don’t care. I don’t resent them for it, I know who reached out to me and who reached out to her and who didn’t. If you’re that insensitive, shame on you. Executives but I’m talking about my wrestling friends. It’s life, it’s wrestling and the lesson that should be learned is that when you’re so ramped up in your life as I was, now I look back on my career and say yanno what, I don’t feel so bad, because I wasn’t around either. It’s a full-time job being a wrestler.”

  

Impact lose top star:

Josh Alexander is free of Impact, and is free to work in the US after securing a new work visa.

Alexa is back:

Alexa Bliss has ditched her Bray Wyatt gimmick and will be back in the ring this weekend, at Elimination Chamber.

WWE want Austin back in the ring:

WWE have pitched an idea for a ring return for Steve Austin, after almost 20 years away. The angle would culminate with a prominent match at Mania 38. Austin may have bitten, he had a ring built at his ranch last summer and has been taking bumps. He has though, not as yet, made any commitment to any kind of physical involvement in the event.

Alum provides gear:

Lita says Renee Young loaned her the outfit she wore on her Raw return recently...

“These are her clothes because that is how little time I had to prepare. They’re like, ‘Can you come?’ So yeah, after St. Louis, I was supposed to go home. And on Sunday I drove to Cincinnati and swung by Renee’s house and I’m like, ‘Girl, what can I wear?’''

Does Brock want HOF?:

“I don’t care or give a sh-t. I’m serious. Like I don’t give a f-ck if I’m in the Hall of Fame or not. I’ve done what I did. I don’t care. I don’t care if I’m leaving a legacy behind. What I do care about is, you know, I’m a good person, a good dad, and all that stuff. That’s important to me. A Mount Rushmore of wrestling? Yeah, there’s a lot of guys. This is a business about making money okay? Unfortunately, you wouldn’t be doing a podcast if you weren’t making money. The world turns, the NFL, everything, you know is about just turning dollar bills, yo.”

Rhodes departures:

Cody and Brandi Rhodes have left AEW and are said to be in advanced talks with WWE. Cody reportedly asked for a big money deal as late as last Friday, but AEW did not front up an acceptable offer, so he has left the house he helped to build. He would be free to sign with WWE at his leisure, as his AEW deal had no post departure compete embargo clause in it.

Ref dies:

WWE and WCW Referee Mickie Jay Henson has passed away, aged 59. He died of Pneumonia relating to Covid-19.

Rock tease:

Rock says he made a WWE return tease during SuperBowl appearance, responding to a tweet...

''Brother that was a little “Easter egg” for you and the MILLIONS… Don’t worry…the MILLIONS with a pause is coming soon….''

WWE programming:

NXT Level Up is set to begin soon and 205 Live is ending. Execs made the call to cull the cruiserweights only show, earlier this week.

RIP Ivan Reitman, thank you!

Surgery:

Eric Bischoff is having surgery on his hand.

WWE at the SuperBowl:

There was lots of WWE interest at the SuperBowl last night. The Rock, Batista, Alexa Bliss, Nikki Bella and Titus O'Neill to name just some of the talent involved in one way or another.

WWE did cause some offence though, they tweeted a video of John Cena during his Dr. Of Thuganomics phase, during a hip hop performance led by Dr. Dre, and copped a ton of heat, for appropriation of culture. They deleted it quick, sharp.

Alum TM's his names:

William Regal has applied for both the names Lord Steven Regal and William Regal.

Owen Hart tribute:

AEW will kick off a male and female tournament in Owen Hart's Foundation's name this year. They will both start on the May 11 taping.

FTR reveals HOF support:

Dax Harwood has revealed Bret Hart reached out to praise their last match.

Jaxson Ryker recalls heat over Trump tweet:

The tweet, made in 2020, drew the ore of colleagues and fans, but he says he was just supporting his President...

"That was just my tweet to show my support. The funny thing is prior to that, lord I was looking through some history of things, I would tweet or Instagram certain things about Donald Trump. But for some reason that day, I had tweeted about him before, to me there was nothing wrong with that tweet. There was no racial undertone, there was no jabs,” he said. “There was nothing but me saying God Bless America, and thankful for the President Of The United States that we had at the time."

 

WWE star wants celeb to join WWE:

After recording an advert with singer Rihanna, Bianca Belair said she would love for her to come and be her Tag Team partner, after her pregnancy ends...

“When she’s ready to come back, I would love that! Come tag team with me, we can be tag team champions! I think we would break the internet with that one!''

ROH HOF:

Samoa Joe has been announced for the HOF of Ring Of Honor today.

Lesnar talks relationship with Vince:

“I met Vince when I was younger. I look at Vince as more of a father figure actually, because I’ve learned a lot of things from him and I was able to carry those things over and handle business with Dana. Vince is a self-made person, so is Dana… you know, he took the company and made it public, and made it big, big.”

AEW star blasts fans:

Thunder Rosa was left furious by fans on the indies over the weekend. Cutting this shoot on them...

“I’m gonna tell everybody that has been talking sh*t about what we do today here, have some respect for the women who are putting their lives in danger here. Anybody that was saying bad stuff about us, you have no right to talk about us like that.  We’re just like one of the boys in the back. If you come to the show – If you come to a show, and you are being disrespectful to the athletes, you have no right to be here.”

Cardona (Ryder) disrespected by NWA:

Matt Cardona says he felt dis-respected by the NWA locker room after he won their title over the weekend...

“They don’t like me. They did not like me when I walked in the first day, they did not like me when I walked into Oak Grove Kentucky. First of all, they should have been thanking me because nobody knows where Oak Grove Kentucky is, and it sold out because of me. Nobody thanked me for the house, which I thought was disrespectful. And then afterward, I am expecting this big standing ovation, a couple of hugs, even some b.s. high-fives, nothing. It was like a ghost town. I was the last person to leave that dressing room.”