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Originally Posted by PWI
A lot of people have contacted the site asking what is the status of John Cena vs. The Undertaker for WrestleMania. Here is what I can tell you as of right now.
WWE has gone through this week’s TV with no official announcement of the match for Sunday. According to many people I have spoken to, the feeling and understanding is that Undertaker will be at WrestleMania on Sunday. There has been no official confirmation, but people I have spoken with believe Taker will be there.
It’s expected that there will be some kind of interaction between him and Cena at the event. If they decide to do a match, we will get that but it’s also very possible that the two men will simply “face off” in a non-official capacity.
If that is how WWE plays it out then all of the people that attended last year’s WrestleMania, and thought they saw what was Taker’s last match, will then still be able to say that they did indeed see the final bout in his legendary career.
I have been told to expect something between Cena and Undertaker on Sunday. He is scheduled to be there and no one I spoke to in WWE believes that they would have had Cena do the promos that he has if there weren’t going to be a payoff.
This is just a theory but it would not shock me to see them have Kid Rock play Taker’s old theme, leading Taker to come out and confront Cena. Again, that is just a theory.
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
There was reportedly an idea to have a musical segment with The Rock, Elias, Jeff Jarrett and a few others at WrestleMania this Sunday, according to Justin Barrasso of Sports Illustrated. The idea was for it to be a take on the "Rock Concert" segments that have been done in the past.
According to the report, The Rock was not able to give a firm commitment for the show, so the segment was scrapped. It was added that The Rock is not slated to be a part of WrestleMania this Sunday "unless there were renewed discussions."
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Spoiler tag used since its related to potential Taker-Cena plans and a supposedly scrapped plan for Mania.
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Originally Posted by Observer
After mostly good WWE ratings for the last several weeks leading up to WrestleMania, this week's SmackDown viewership tumbled an additional four percent from last week's already low number. Tuesday night's go-home show garnered SmackDown's second-smallest audience of 2018 with just 2.476 million viewers.
It's actually the second-smallest number since October 31st of last year ...
Next week should be up again as the post-WrestleMania Raw and SmackDown are usually the highest rated episodes of the year.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Impact Wrestling has added four matches to the card for their WrestleMania week show with Lucha Underground.
It had been known that Scott Steiner and Teddy Hart would be appearing at the event, and Impact revealed today that they'll be teaming together against Dave & Jake Crist. Brian Cage vs. Eli Drake, Trevor Lee vs. Famous B, and Matt Sydal vs. Caleb Konley vs. Moose vs. Chavo Guerrero Jr. vs. Jack Evans vs. Matanza Cueto (Jeff Cobb) in a six-way have also been announced for the card.
The theme of the show is Impact vs. Lucha Underground. It's taking place at The Sugar Mill in New Orleans on Friday night and will air live on Impact's Twitch channel at 10 p.m. Eastern time.
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https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/...91838762131456
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Originally Posted by Observer
After confirming that their Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia would be airing live on the WWE Network, WWE announced today that there will be a one-hour pre-show before the event. The pre-show will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 27th before the main card starts at noon, which is 7 p.m. local time in Jeddah.
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http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/article...and-start-time
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Originally Posted by Observer
Sonya Deville supported Finn Balor’s “Balor Club is for Everyone” shirt campaign. Twenty percent of proceeds through the end of June go towards GLAAD.
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https://twitter.com/SonyaDevilleWWE/...86961151512577
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Originally Posted by Observer
ROH uploaded Mayu Iwatani vs. Deonna Purrazzo from the second round of the Women of Honor Championship tournament.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFaIwtlalDg
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Originally Posted by Observer
Nick Aldis and Tommy Dreamer’s title match is the subject of the NWA’s latest Ten Pounds of Gold video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDqTgAUjkdU
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Originally Posted by WrestleInc
It looks like WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar is headed back to the UFC.
UFC President Dana White appeared on Fox Sports' UFC Tonight show earlier today to promote UFC 223 and was asked about The Beast returning to the Octagon.
"Yeah," Dana responded. "Brock Lesnar's coming back. I don't know when but yes he is."
Lesnar's current WWE contract expires after WrestleMania 34 on Sunday, where he will face Roman Reigns in the main event. There's been talk of WWE working on signing Lesnar to a new contract but that has not been confirmed.
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There has been some conflicting info coming out from PWI about Lesnar's post-Mania status but they couldn't confirm it due to Lesnar being a lot more secretive backstage in recent years. Link to Dana White's comments (7 min mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8FdvWRbdEU
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Originally Posted by PWI
Ronda Rousey appeared on ESPN's Get Up today. She was asked who she has liked working with the best in WWE so far. She said Kurt Angle. When asked show she would like to work with she said CM Punk, though she said she didn't think it would happen (due to obvious reasons).
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https://twitter.com/Get_Up/status/981521852379095040
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Originally Posted by PWI
ROH tweeted that Chuck Taylor versus Jonathan Gresham will open SuperCard of Honor:
JUST ANNOUNCED: @TheJonGresham vs @SexyChuckieT will kick off #ROHSupercard!
Watch LIVE & FREE for ALL #HonorClub members THIS Sat April 7 at 830e/730c! https://t.co/vS7fcMBTTh
Go in depth: https://t.co/oOxN0Cksu0 pic.twitter.com/FYWj1CvzcK
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) April 4, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/stat...85987561230336
Some other sheet news includes:
- WWE recently released the brackets for the series of Axxess Invitational tournaments. https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/w...naments-254931
- WWE also recently released the updated list of participants for both the Andre and Women's Battle Royale matches. https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/u...-royals-254516
- During a recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast show with Jonathan Coachman as the guest, Coachman revealed he does not want Hogan to come back to the WWE. His main reason is him hearing Hogan likely won't be sincere for his apology and also likely asking for a lot of money to return. He also feels it will only be a matter of time before Hogan wants the spotlight on just himself instead of giving the rub to others. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...bringing-back/
- Yahoo Sports had a recent interview with the Miz talking about his IC title match at Mania, Vince and others support in him as a big star in the WWE, and the impact of social media in wrestling. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...-wrestlemania/
- WrestlingInc had a recent interview with Jimmy Hart talking about creating memorable entrance themes, the origins of his "Mouth from the South" gimmick, and fond memories of Bobby Heenan.
Some stuff from TPWW Frontpage: