Angelina Love appears to be gone from TNA.

The 34-year-old, who gave birth to a baby boy on Mar. 17, revealed Saturday that her contract with the promotion expired while she was pregnant and is now a free agent. She does, however, plan on returning to the ring in June.

9 days post delivery…this free agent will start posting videos soon of my workouts & return to the ring in June! pic.twitter.com/VGZerwH7ua

— Lauren/Angelina Love (@ActualALove) March 27, 2016

No, it expired during my pregnancy. https://t.co/5UDOxdpsOH

— Lauren/Angelina Love (@ActualALove) March 27, 2016

Love last wrestled in June, with her last appearance on Impact Wrestling taking place on Sept. 9. She was attacked backstage by members of The Dollhouse, who broken her arm in the storyline.

Love previously left the organization in 2012 and 2009. She has held the Knockouts Championship a record six times.

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Update: The Miz denies that he was injured at last night’s WWE live event from Richmond, VA. After reports were circulating that he was legitimately hurt by Jack Swagger’s ankle lock, Miz tweeted on Sunday:

https://twitter.com/mikethemiz/status/714159856773496832

Previously (3/26): The Miz sold an injury at Saturday night’s WWE live event from Richmond, VA that fans in attendance are saying looked legit. After Miz defeated Jack Swagger, Swagger went into attack mode and applied an ankle lock. Miz appeared to be legitimately injured by the hold. He left the ringside area and limped backstage. We have not heard anything about the situation beyond the live reports and what’s being said on social media, so let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope this was just part of the show. Miz will be part of the 7-man ladder match for the WWE Intercontinental championship next Sunday at WrestleMania 32.

WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase stepped into the ring this weekend in Australia and earned a much deserved “You still got it” chant from the live crowd.

The 62-year-old applied the Million Dollar Dream and executed a picture perfect Russian leg sweep. Of course, the moment would not have been complete without a dollar bill being stuffed in the victim’s mouth. Everybody’s got a price!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw4f023Pfl0

Kane is currently doing promotional work for WrestleMania 32, which takes place on April 3rd. In an interview with The Nottingham Post, Kane opened up about appearing at seventeen different WrestleMania events over the course of his career.

“I have been around a long time and shared some very elite company,” Kane said. “This will be my 17th Wrestlemania. I have done this by trying to be the best that I can be. I have always taken everything as it comes and tried to stay in good shape. I also have done my best to minimize the risk involved in what I do in the ring. I still think I have a lot to offer and I am pleased with the level of my performance in the ring.”

The former WWE World Heavyweight Champion was also asked about Daniel Bryan, who recently retired. Kane says he was sad about the news of Bryan’s retirement, but that he made the right decision.

“He was a great performer and it is such a loss. We had a lot of good times together (as Team Hell No) and I have often gone on record in saying that my time with Daniel Bryan was the most fun I had during my time in the WWE,” KAne said. “While it is sad he has had to retire, it was the right decision for him in terms of his health. He is still an amazing talent.”

You can check out the entire interview here.

London-based PROGRESS Wrestling announced on Sunday morning that the promotion will be hosting 2 qualifying matches for WWE’s upcoming Global Cruiserweight Series.

https://twitter.com/ThisIs_Progress/status/714107611528953857

Earlier this month, NXT General Manager William Regal announced that EVOLVE will also be hosting qualifying matches for the tournament. WWE’s Global Cruiserweight Series is a 32-man tournament coming to the WWE Network this summer.

The 10-week series premieres on the WWE Network on Wednesday, July 13th. The matches will be taped at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida.  Competitors from around the world will “vie for the right to call themselves the best cruiserweight in the world.”

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WWE announced on Sunday morning that legendary manager Slick will induct his former client the Big Bossman into the WWE Hall of Fame next weekend.

“The Doctor Of Style” first introduced Bossman to the WWE Universe back in 1988. He later paired his client up with “The African Dream” Akeem to form the Twin Towers tag team.

Their partnership ended when Slick attempted to sell Boss Man’s services to Ted DiBiase, resulting in Boss Man turning babyface and embarking on the most successful chapter of his career.

Former WWE Tough Enough contestant and Breaking Ground star Zamariah “ZZ” Loupe made his NXT in-ring debut at Saturday night’s live event from Orlando, Florida.

ZZ defeated Christopher Girard with a rollup pin. The match was said to be kept relatively short and didn’t feature any real noteworthy offense from ZZ. In fact, there was said to be a lot of rest holds used throughout the match.

Girad doesn’t sound like he was impressed by ZZ’s in-ring prowess:

https://twitter.com/_stardestroyer/status/713919635989655553

Here are a few photos of ZZ’s NXT debut:

https://twitter.com/JJWilliamsWON/status/713875394785509377

As noted earlier, Ethan Carter III has cancelled two UK appearances scheduled for next weekend. The former TNA Champion has since issued a statement clarifying the situation and explaining why he was forced to pull out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unvsKIzgtbQ

Next weekend, while most of the notable talent on the American pro wrestling scene (and a lot of names from elsewhere, as well) will be in Dallas for WrestleMania weekend, TNA’s Ethan Carter III was set to go to England for bookings with both Southside Wrestling and Preston City Wrestling. The promoters of the two groups are friends and generally split the transportation costs of international talent, so they tend to share each other’s outside names. Today, via nearly identical statements from both Southside and PCW that were posted on their respective websites, it was announced that TNA has pulled EC3 from both dates, telling PCW that ”Unfortunately nothing can be done. This is a network commitment and something he had no control over.”

As of this writing, it’s unclear exactly what kind of “network commitment for Pop TV (or perhaps an international partner like Sony Six in India) came up. The same goes for why it necessitated EC3 being pulled from his WrestleMania weekend bookings on eight days’ notice. The Southside statement said that they were told EC3 was needed to do “media work.”

Being that the show is WrestleMania weekend and just about every suitable replacement you can think of is already booked in Dallas on at least one of the many area independent shows, this is a much more difficult to solve problem than even a normal short notice pull-out for an international guest star. In his statement, PCW wonder Steven Fludder noted this issue, but promised the fans that “I have worked hard to secure somebody and subject to him finding his passport we may have another guest from the USA.” The other international fly-ins who are booked on the show (Ken Anderson , Cedric Alexander , Angelico , Eddie Kingston, and Jade) are still appearing.

This is the second time in the last several months that TNA has pulled EC3 from UK bookings on short notice, the previous occasion being so he could go do promotional work for TNA’s tour of China. You may remember that TNA’s tour of China ended up never happening. At PWInsider.com, Mike Johnson explained that according to his TNA sources, the latest cancellation was complicated by EC3 being booked directly instead of through the TNA office. Apparently, TNA took the stance that there was nothing they could really do, whereas they tried to make the situation right when James Storm (who must be booked through TNA per the terms of his new contract) had to be pulled for similar reasons this week.

Of course, just because TNA felt no obligation to help PCW and Southside doesn’t mean they couldn’t have tried to find out who was available this week that would be a suitable replacement for EC3. That said, as Dave Meltzer noted at F4WOnline.com, the most suitable replacements under TNA contract are already booked. The Hardys and Drew Galloway will be in Dallas. Bobby Lashley will be in Mexico, but that’s on Wednesday so he might be able to be freed up.

– The Undertaker has been training hard for his match against Shane McMahon at WrestleMania 32 on April 3rd. Undertaker was spotted visiting the WWE Performance Center in Orlando on Friday to train for his Hell In A Cell match.

– PWInsider.com reports that WWE is planning to announce a third match for their WrestleMania 32 kickoff show. The two matches confirmed for the kickoff show already are The Usos vs. The Dudley Boyz, and the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal.

WrestleMania 32 takes place on Sunday, April 3, 2016, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, with live coverage & discussion on SEScoops.com all night.

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– WWE created a pretty surreal video of what the WCW Nitro opening video would have looked like if WWE had lost the Monday Night War and WCW acquired WWE’s talent.

– Japanese wrestling sensation Shinsuke Nakamura will have new theme music when he debuts for NXT in less than one week at Takeover: Dallas. According to Yahoo! Japan, Nakamura is very happy with his WWE entrance theme.

“It was like a light bulb appearing,” he said. “It suits me perfectly.”

– Even though he won’t be returning to the ring any time soon, John Cena continues to tease that he will be appearing at WrestleMania 32 next weekend in some capacity.

#KCCO hoping this plays sometime soon!! Maybe @WWE #WrestleMania ? #NeverGiveUp pic.twitter.com/G8hzf1lMtc

— John Cena (@JohnCena) March 26, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQyN0VPi0A

Roman Reigns says despite the boos we hear on TV, he has a lot of supporters too. In an interview with The Kingston Whig-Standard to promote WrestleMania 32, Reigns was asked about the WWE fans’ love-hate relationship with him heading into the biggest event of the year.

“It’s a tough one because there is no one answer. There is no one reason why someone would want to boo me. Maybe they don’t like what I wear, how I sound, maybe I did something to offend them, but for me, it’s hard because I’m under the microscope and I’m dealing with a lot of different things and there’s a lot of things flying my way,” Reigns answered. “For me, I can only continue to stay within myself and worry about the things I can control and the things I can control are, Am I healthy?; Am I showing up to where I need to be on time?; Am I here to perform and do my job? If I do that, then our fans, they can cheer me, they can boo me, as long as we all show up to the arena, everything will be fine. We’ll be able to create that awesome experience, create that energy.”

“As for the reasons why these things happen, I don’t know. I do know I have a lot of supporters. These people have my back. There’s nothing that anybody can say negatively to me that will make me believe you are correct. It’s just your opinions,” he added.

Reigns is scheduled to face Triple H for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 32 on April 3rd.

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The March 28th episode of WWE RAW is the go-home show before WrestleMania 32 on April 3rd. The show will air live on the USA Network from The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. WWE will also reportedly be taping matches for Thursday’s SmackDown this Monday.

Names scheduled for RAW include Shane McMahon, Vince McMahon, The Undertaker, Brock Lesnar, Triple H and Roman Reigns. This will be WWE’s last episode of RAW to promote WrestleMania on. Here’s what WWE.com has to say about Monday’s show:

After his kendo stick assault on Brock Lesnar on SmackDown ended in an F-5, Dean Ambrose will have retribution on his restless mind when he enters the Barclays Center for Raw. Will The Beast Incarnate be waiting in Brooklyn, N.Y., six nights before their No Holds Barred Street Fight at WrestleMania? Plus, how will Shane McMahon and The Undertaker respond to Mr. McMahon’s announcement that, if The Deadman does not defeat WWE’s prodigal son inside Hell in a Cell, this will be his last appearance on The Grandest Stage of Them All?

Join us on Monday night for live results from RAW, then on Sunday, April 3rd for live play-by-play results and backstage news from WrestleMania 32.

Charlotte and Ric Flair were interviewed by Peter Rosenberg and Ebro for Hot 97 on Friday to promote last night’s live event from Madison Square Garden and Wrestlemania 32. Here are some highlights:

– They spoke about what it’s like to be on the road together and working as one of the top acts in WWE. Ric said it’s phenomenal and a dream come true.

– Charlotte was asked if she feels pressure to live up to Ric’s legacy. Charlotte said she loves it, she wanted to be paired up with her father because it drives her to be better.

– Charlotte talked about being able to “turn off” her public persona when she leaves the arena, while Ric is the Nature Boy 24/7.

– Rosenberg said it’s amazing that Charlotte is getting strong heel heat while paired up with her father, who is beloved. Ric says he wishes WWE would let him cut loose a little more, but he’s just happy to be working with his daughter. Charlotte said it was difficult being introduced as a babyface when her character talks about being genetically superior.

Overall, a great interview. Follow @RosenbergRadio and check out the Cheap Heat Podcast if you haven’t already – hands down one of the best wrestling podcasts out there.

Wyatt Family member Luke Harper injured his knee on Monday night after RAW from Philadelphia went off the air. While WWE has yet to acknowledge the injury, the word going around backstage at last night’s live event from Madison Square Garden is that Harper’s knee injury is worse than originally expected.

• Video: Luke Harper Injured After Monday’s RAW

The current estimate is that he will miss around 5-6 months, according to a report at PWInsider. This would keep him out of action until around SummerSlam.

Former WWE announcer Jonathan Coachman made a surprise appearance at Friday night’s WWE live event from Madison Square Garden.

Coach, who is currently an anchor at ESPN, said Shane McMahon called him and invited him to MSG. Coach brought out his favorite tag team, The Dudley Boyz. He served a the special guest ring announcer for the New Day vs. Dudley Boyz vs. Usos match. After The New Day retained their titles, Coach came back in the ring and revealed he was wearing a New Day “Booty O’s Cereal” shirt. He danced with The New Day, showing that he just loves to have fun, Maggul!

When asked if he’d be open to returning to WWE on a more regular basis one day, Coach said:

You just never know. https://t.co/RqzKKbuFBW

— The Coach (@Thecoachrules) March 26, 2016

Even though he’s moved on to greener pastures over at ESPN, Coachman showing love to his WWE roots = NOT Booty!

Oh man @TheCoachESPN. Oh man. #WWEMSG pic.twitter.com/FjHl4yhY9I

— Steve Braband (@stevebraband) March 26, 2016

It appears that The League Of Nations’ match against The New Day at WrestleMania 32 will no longer be for the WWE tag team championships.

The match was announced last week as a 3-on-4 contest with the tag titles on the line. WWE has since deleted the tweet announcing the title match and the match preview over at WWE.com no longer mentions the titles being on the line. Now, it’s being billed as a “Battle for Supremacy” between the two teams.

Dave Meltzer has been reporting for several weeks that WWE has something big planned for the New Day’s match at WrestleMania. It’s been speculated that this match is where The Rock will get involved in some capacity.

WrestleMania 32 takes place next weekend from AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

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For the second consecutive weekend, League of Nations member Alberto Del Rio has been pulled from WWE live events. The former World Heavyweight champion appeared on last week’s RAW, but missed Tuesday’s SmackDown taping.

Del Rio had been scheduled for last night’s WWE live event fromMadison Square Garden but was pulled from advertisements during the week and did not appear.

We know Del Rio has been dealing with lower back issues after taking a vertical suplex from Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble or a German suplex on the January 18th RAW event. This could be a case of WWE letting him have time off to rest up, but that’s speculation.

Del Rio is scheduled to team with King Barrett, Rusev and Sheamus to face WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day in a 4-on-3 Handicap Match at WrestleMania 32.

Three generations @TheGarden. #WWEMSG #RicMadeMeTakeOffMyShirt @MsCharlotteWWE @RicFlairNatrBoy pic.twitter.com/TL0NTmqvg0

— Triple H (@TripleH) March 26, 2016

Here are results from Friday night’s WWE live event from Madison Square Garden in New York City. Thanks to Henri Norton for help with the results:

– Dolph Ziggler defeated The Miz with a super kick.

– Kalisto retained the WWE United States Title over Rusev. Lana did a promo before the match and got good heat after dissing the NY Knicks.

– Ryback came out and attacked Kalisto on the ramp while he was celebrating. Sin Caramade the save and Ryback took a mic. He said little guys can never beat good big guys. Ryback said Kalisto had his match and now it’s Sin Cara’s turn.

– Ryback defeated Sin Cara with Shellshocked.

– Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks defeated Naomi and Tamina Snuka when Naomi tapped out to the Banks Statement.

The Bo$$ @SashaBanksWWE Is Representing In NYC Tonight #WWEMSG pic.twitter.com/HA07wC4XoJ

— Slice Wrestling (@EntSlice) March 26, 2016

– Kane and Big Show defeated Erick Rowan and Bray Wyatt when Kane chokeslammed Rowan. Wyatt jumped in the ring after the match but took a double chokeslam from Kane and Show.

Intermission

– WWE Divas Champion Charlotte defeated Natalya in a non-title match. “Charlotte sucks” chants early on. Ric Flair later distracted Natalya but got slapped, leading to Charlotte rolling her up for the win.

– Jonathan Coachman made a surprise appearance and said Shane McMahon invited him to be here to be special guest ring announcer. He called out his favorite tag team, The Dudley Boyz, and asked why there were no tables anymore. This led to The Usos coming out to make the save.

Oh man @TheCoachESPN. Oh man. #WWEMSG pic.twitter.com/FjHl4yhY9I

— Steve Braband (@stevebraband) March 26, 2016

– WWE Tag Team Champions The New Day retained over The Usos and The Dudley Boyz in a Triple Threat. After the match, Coachman came in and revealed a “Booty O’s Cereal” t-shirt under his shirt. He celebrated with The New Day.

– WWE Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens retained over AJ Styles with a pop-up powerbomb. After the match, AJ tripped Owens while he was celebrating. Owens went after him but Styles came off the top with a kick to the head. AJ cut a promo and thanked the fans for making his Garden debut special.

https://twitter.com/themikelawrence/status/713548903103258624

. Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose defeated Sheamus and WWE World Heavyweight Champion Triple H. Reigns came down the ramp again. There was a huge CM Punkchant early on. Reigns got the win for his team with a spear on Sheamus.

https://twitter.com/johncenaam/status/713563562078130177

Renee Young recorded a podcast for Sports Illustrated earlier today and confirmed that she auditioned for ESPN’s popular show Sports Nation in 2012 when WWE super-fan Michelle Beadle left ESPN for NBC. Young would then sign with WWE in October of that year. You can hear the full podcast when it is released sometime next week.

In news you never thought you’d read, former World Heavyweight Champion Vader claims his twitter was “hacked” by his ex-girlfriend, when a nude photo surfaced online. The photo was instantly deleted, not before a fan claimed his 7 year old son saw that picture while he was playing with the phone. Vader responded to the tweet saying “U would have to talk to my ex” Below Vader tweeted his response .

https://twitter.com/itsvadertime/status/713461162600374272

https://twitter.com/itsvadertime/status/713473706400440320

The March 24, 2016 episode of WWE SmackDown averaged 2,501,000 viewers on the USA Network. This is up from the previous week’s 2,260,000. The episode marked Brock Lesnar’s first SmackDown appearance since 2004.

SmackDown was ranked #4 in the Top 150 shows in cable for the night, which is up from last week’s #7 ranking.

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– WWE will be bringing back Funaki to do commentary and translations on the WWE Network in Japan for WrestleMania weekend. He’ll be doing NXT Takeover: Dallas, the Hall of Fame ceremony, and WrestleMania 32.

– According to Enuhito, WWE had interest in purchasing the Bullet Club name and logo from New Japan Pro Wrestling. The deal apparently never happened.

– Luke Harper has been pulled from this weekend’s WWE live events. Harper suffered an apparent leg injury in the dark main event after Monday’s RAW in Philadelphia, but there’s no official word on his status yet.

Revolution Pro announced on Friday that Kurt Angle will face Zack Sabre Jr. (non-title match) at their upcoming June 12th show from York Hall in Bethnal Green, London, England.

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Sabre is the reigning RPW British Heavyweight Championship and one of the best technical wrestlers in the world. Angle wrestled Rey Mysterio for URFight’s first iPPV event last weekend and is showing that he’s still got plenty of gas left in the tank.

Pre-sale tickets will be released on Monday. For more information, visit RevolutionProWrestling.com.

ZACK SABRE JR VS KURT ANGLE. Sun June 12th, York Hall Bethnal Green, London. Mailing list pre-sale starts Monday @ 7 pic.twitter.com/rezy5UEyCP

— Revolution Pro (@RevProUK) March 25, 2016

WWE will be holding their 7th annual Money in the Bank pay-per-view event on June 19th. The event will take place at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the event, the winner of the Money in the Bank ladder match receives a shot at the WWE World Heavyweight Championship to “cash in” at a time of their choosing within the next 12 months.

Last year’s event took place in Columbus, OH and saw Seth Rollins defeat Dean Ambrose in the main event.

WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross recently appeared on the Pro Wrestling Illustrated podcast to promote NJPW on AXS TV. During the interview, PWI senior writer Al Castle asked J.R. about Shane McMahon being chosen as The Undertaker’s opponent for WrestleMania this year.

Ross says he personally has no issues with Shane coming out of the woodwork for the semi-main event match, and that the storyline has people talking. “I believe . . . knowing the two participants as well as I do, and I know both of them very well, that they will do everything within their power to have an extraordinary match based on both their individual skill sets and their strengths and their weaknesses. So I have no issues with Shane McMahon coming out of the woodwork,” Ross said.

He added that people have been stopping him left and right asking about Shane McMahon’s return, so it’s certainly gotten the attention of casual fans. “So a lot of people are talking about it. And obviously when you have a lot of people talking about something they’re not all going to like it. I get it and I don’t have a problem with people expressing themselves and their opinions. But when people are so adamant that they know without a shadow of a doubt that this is bad booking, I sometimes am embarrassed for them.”

Ross was asked if WWE talent would be justified in feeling resentful that the owner’s son was chosen to take such a prestigious spot at their biggest event of the year. The Hall of Famer says he’s familiar with wrestling complaining about things like that, but that it’s usually not justified.

“It’s not the first time and it’s not the last time that people are getting passed over. I found out this: wrestlers that have complained regularly, loudly–discreetly loud–about their spot being taken by a non-regular normally didn’t work hard enough or smart enough during the year to keep their spot. I heard that same thing.”

“What do you think would happen in Bill Watts’ territory when he would bring in Andre the Giant to work the Super Dome or Dusty Rhodes or Tommy Rich or the NWA champion? You’d get the same thing: the guys in the locker room b—hing and moaning that somebody was coming in and taking their pay off.”

It might not be the ideal scenario for the full time performers, but the special attractions coming in raises the water level for everybody and today’s stars should be working to establish themselves as the special attractions of tomorrow.

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