Several fans from the Dallas area have noted that local advertising and merchandise at the WWE Axxess events are listing Triple H vs. Roman Reigns as a no disqualifications match. This opens the door for outside interference in the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between the two.
Triple H defends his World Heavyweight Title on April 3rd at WrestleMania 32, and we’ll have live play-by-play coverage right here on Sunday night.
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It sounds like the WWE creative team may have changed their mind regarding pushing Braun Strowman right away. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE is getting cold feet after planning for months to push Strowman. There were apparently concerns within management after his match with Dean Ambrose at the recent RAW in Philadelphia.
Strowman was at one point considered a lock to win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 32, but WWE is now reportedly working on different possible winners. Previous plans called for Strowman to win the battle royal and then face Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.
Despite the lumbering style he works on WWE television, we continue to hear that he’s actually a talented performer capable of a lot more than we’re currently seeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3zKJOyiZ5w
After wrestling Rey Mysterio at the URShow.TV Fight PPV Event in Phoenix, Kurt Angle plans to take a year off from in-ring action. The Olympic gold medalist was a guest on the Wrestling Compadres Slamcast, and revealed some behind-the-scenes details on his final TNA matches.
“Drew Galloway and Bobby Lashley , those two alone are the two most physical wrestlers I’ve wrestled since Brock Lesnar. And Bobby Roode and I had a pure wrestling match, and you just don’t see that much anymore,” Angle said. “That whole concept we did with the final three matches was my idea. I wanted Lashley to take out the whole locker room and have him face off with the new face of the company, EC III.”
One of Kurt Angle’s on-air rivals in WWE was Shane McMahon. Angle says Shane’s match with Undertaker has the ability to steal the show at WrestleMania, and both competitors still have “it.” Angle was also asked about possibly returning to WWE one day, which he didn’t rule out.
“I had a great career with WWE, but I won’t say I’m going to return to WWE or TNA,” Angle answered. “I have to keep my options open and see what the best situation will be in the future. I will be back in one of the two companies, I just don’t know where yet.”
You can listen to the full podcast with Angle here.
– Bubba Ray Dudley says that he and D-Von want their old entrance music back, for at least one night. According to Bubba on Twitter, the former Tag Team Champions put in a request to use their old entrance music at WestleMania 32, and the request was apparently denied. Here’s what Bubba said to a fan asking if anyone else wanted them to use their old music:
Yeah…US!!!! Trust me…we tried. https://t.co/XDFVgRNhQB
— Bully Ray (@bullyray5150) March 30, 2016
– WWE producer Dean Malenko will be missing WrestleMania week in Dallas as he recovers at home from a recent surgery. There’s no report on what kind of surgery the former WWE & WCW wrestler had.
– WWE posted a new “WrestleMania Diary” video on YouTube showing Sasha Banks training for her WrestleMania 32 match against Becky Lynch & WWE Divas champion Charlotte:
Join us here this Sunday for our live WrestleMania 32 coverage & discussion.
Shane McMahon was on ESPN SportsCenter on Wednesday night to promote Sunday’s WrestleMania 32 in Arlington, TX. The main topic of discussion was his Hell In The Cell match with The Undertaker. Shane also explained that being able to wrestle in front of his kids is his main reason for doing it.
“I’m really excited to be in there. I’m nervous to be in there. It’s a whole different atmosphere. When you’re against a guy that big… And I have so much respect for The Undertaker,” Shane said of his WrestleMania 32 opponent. “He’s the measuring stick of the business. He’s carried the business on his back for quite some time. I’ve known him a very long time. But when you’re in there it’s intimidating, so you just got to let it rip and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I’m kind of known for I will do anything, especially when the stakes are high, I will definitely do that just as I showed the other night, so I will give it everything I possibly have.”
Shane McMahon has been part of a lot of memorable moments on WWE pay-per-views and when asked, Shane couldn’t choose just one favorite moment from his in-ring career. Shane says it was never in the original plans for him to have multiple matches or become known for jumping from tall places.
“Gosh, I don’t know. I always thought I would have one match because it was never supposed to be a series of things, and then it kind of caught fire,” Shane explained. “And then everyone becomes accustomed to it and you have to start thinking about different things and then it starts to build, so I always thought I would have one match. I was like, let’s give them some cool stuff, and then that evolved and escalated and has grown into what it is today.”
We’ll have live play-by-play coverage of WrestleMania 32 right here on Sunday night, in addition to the latest backstage news before & after the event.
WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts believes that Bray Wyatt is a “very unique” talent on the WWE roster. In a recent interview with Ring Rust Radio, Roberts was asked about who on the current WWE roster he thinks is excelling both in the ring and on the mic.
“Bray Wyatt; he definitely gets it done,” Roberts answered. “I think they’re holding him down. I think he could do a lot more, and I would like to see them turn him loose, but I don’t think they’re going to. He would be something hard for WWE to ram something down his chute because his character is so strong. So they keep him beaten down and I think it’s a shame because he is very unique.”
While he believes Wyatt is capable of more, he doesn’t believe he’s capable of being a top heel. Roberts compared Wyatt to his own old character facing Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, saying it would be too hard for him to get booed by everyone.
“He will never be a top heel because people are infatuated by him. Just like the way they were with me,” Roberts said. “Whenever I wrestled Hogan they cheered me, with Savage it was split. People are funny man. When you’re doing your job really well, and you’re different and unique and you have this edge, that’s very special. People dig that, they respect that and they want to be with that. If they are scared of your character like they were of me and Bray, they want to be on the winning team, so they will want to cheer for you regardless.”
The WWE Hall of Famer also spoke on the recently retired Daniel Bryan, a talent he says WWE needs desperately. Roberts discussed his own experience with concussions, saying he believes they are to blame for spots on his brain that “don’t look good.”
“As far as Bryan goes, that’s a huge loss and I hate to hear that. WWE needs him desperately,” Roberts said. “I’m very proud of him that he is smart enough to get out after being injured. Most of us weren’t. As far as concussions for myself, I went and did all the tests because I am having issues. We did all the tests and stuff and it did not come out good. It come out there’s some spots on my brain that don’t look good and shouldn’t be there. It came down to how many concussions do I think I had, and I thought I had maybe two or three year. It’s a very low number when really I think it was more like eight or ten. So let’s say two or three, but I wrestled for 40 years, that’s 120 now. So I am going to have problems, and I’m already having problems.”
You can listen to the full interview here.
– If you’ve paying close attention to your TV, you may have noticed a fresh cut on Ric Flair’s forehead recently. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Flair demonstrated the process of “blading” for his upcoming ESPN 30 For 30 documentary on his life and career. There’s no word yet on when the special will air.
– The Wrestling Observer Newsletter also reports that Germany is a strong new market for the WWE Network. The Network launched in Germany this past January and is considered a success in the region. WWE is working on German commentary for all their pay-per-views on the WWE Network this year.
– Vince McMahon recently Tweeted about WrestleMania 32’s ticket sales at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX. WrestleMania 32 takes place this Sunday, April 3rd, and we’ll have live coverage right here on SEScoops.com.
Old Record: 93,173 at Pontiac Silverdome.
New Record: This Sunday at @ATTStadium?#WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/6qt0BSxfDT
— Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) March 30, 2016
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This week’s episode of TNA’s Impact Wrestling on Pop TV averaged 312,000 viewers for what was billed as a historic World Heavyweight Title match between Jeff Hardy and Drew Galloway. This is down from last week’s 331,000 viewers, but up from the 307,000 viewers their semi-live show drew two weeks ago.
The episode was ranked #113 in the Cable Top 150 chart, rising from last week’s #127 ranking.
Diamond Dallas Page was recently a guest on The Steve Austin Show, where Stone Cold Steve Austin asked DDP about The Fabulous Freebirds being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on Saturday. Page made his WCW debut in 1991 as The Freedbirds’ manager.
“When I think of the Birds, because when I came in to WCW, you remember, bro, I got to manage the latest Freebirds, it was always Michael P.S. Hayes and Jimmy ‘Jam’ Garvin, so I was really happy to see Jimmy go in the [WWE] Hall Of Fame too because he was one hell of a talent. And those guys together, they were so much fun. They taught me so much on the road,” DDP said
“Hayes [and] those guys could drink,” the former WCW World Heavyweight Champion continued, “like, you know I come from the nightclub business, and I drank my fair share of a lot of booze, but when you hung out with those guys, it went to a different level.”
Austin and Page also looked back at what may have been DDP’s biggest feud in WCW with the late ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage. Page revealed how his ex-wife Kimberly’s nude modelling lead to Page getting a push from WCW creative into a storyline with Savage on TV.
“At the time, Kimberly had done that Celebrity Nudes. She was the first Playboy chick [from the world of professional wrestling]. What they did was they shot this spread with her and they asked me to be in it! Now, I’m bottom of the middle of the card at the time. You know me, bro. If I get the opportunity to do something that’s going to shock some people, I’m going to go with it, so I went and I shot this thing with her where I’m putting on my boots [and] she’s slipping into something,” Page explained, “and they loved the photoshoot so much they asked us to come back and shoot again because they were going to give her a six-page spread. So I tell [Eric] Bischoff right before this goes down and he’s like, ‘are you crazy? You’ve got a morality clause in your contract. They can fire you!’ I go, ‘well, then, they fire me! Maybe Vince will do something with it!’ And then, it sort of just went away and that came back as the angle that Randy Savage brought out the Playboy with Liz spray painted over Kim’s nipples and butt and then she came out all spray painted nWo! And then, boom, that starts her angle with Savage.”
You can listen to the full podcast here.
Linda McMahon, who worked in high-ranking positions in WWE from 1980 to 2009, says she could “never say never” regarding Hulk Hogan returning to the company. In an interview with Katie Couric for Yahoo News, McMahon also revealed that she did follow the Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker trial and was on Hogan’s side.
“I followed it some because he’s been a part of WWE for quite some time. I don’t think anyone had the right to take that private tape and put it out. I thought Gawker was wrong in doing that. He said some deplorable things, and it cost him his job in WWE,” said McMahon.
McMahon, who left WWE in 2009 to pursue a career in politics, was also asked about Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Donald Trump has made several appearances for WWE over the years and is in their Hall of Fame. She stopped short of endorsing Trump, but spoke highly of him and claimed that his persona resonates with WWE fans.
“The persona of Donald Trump has resonated with [WWE fans.] Maybe their business isn’t growing, maybe they have kids who are graduating who can’t get jobs. All of those things that you hear I think resonate not only with some WWE fans, but across really the specter,” Linda said.
“He was a great partner, a wonderful promoter,” she said of her time working with Trump in WWE. “He really greased the wheels. We got to know him personally. He’s very loyal, he’s a patriot, he hires smart people around him. He did exactly what he said he would do.”
You can watch Linda’s entire interview on Yahoo.com.
WWE taped the following matches and segments for SmackDown this week in Brooklyn, NY at the Barclays Center. WWE will additionally be airing footage from the WrestleMania Axxess fan events on Thursday’s episode, which is the go-home show before WrestleMania 32 on Sunday.
– AJ Styles def. Heath Slater: The Social Outcasts cut a promo to open up the show. Slater had Curtis Axel, Bo Dallas and Adam Rose at ringside for the match. Styles got the pinfall after hitting Slater with his Springboard Forearm.
– D-Von Dudley def. Jey Uso: Bubba Ray Dudley was in D-Von’s corner and Jimmy Uso was in Jey’s corner. D-Von got the victory after hitting Jey with a spinebuster.
– Dean Ambrose def. Erick Rowan: Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman came out with Rowan during this one, but were sent to the back. Ambrose got the win after hitting Rowan with his Dirty Deeds finisher.
The March 28, 2016 edition of WWE RAW averaged 3,771,000 viewers on the USA Network for a 2.66 cable rating. This is up from last week’s 3,399,000 viewer average, for a 2.44 rating.
The first hour of the show averaged 3,823,000 viewers, the second hour increased to 3,852,000 viewers, and the final hour decreased to 3,638,000 viewers.
– WWE is reportedly not happy with the crowd’s reaction to Eva Marie at Monday’s RAW in Brooklyn, NY. On Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that Eva was meant to be a returning babyface and WWE management was not expecting her to get booed out of the building.
– WWE has officially hired 27 year old TV host Cathy Kelley, and she’ll be starting with videos on WWE’s social media pages the rest of WrestleMania week. Wrestling fans may recognize her from Afterbuzz TV’s WWE recap shows. We first reported back in February that she would be signing with the company.
https://twitter.com/catherinekelley/status/714961785158115328
– Tickets for WWE SummerSlam 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY will go on sale this Saturday, April 2nd. SummerSlam takes place on August 21st. The Ticketmaster pre-sale code is WWESUMMERSLAM.
– WWE Network’s Hall of Fame red carpet special on Saturday night will be hosted by Byron Saxton and Maria Menounos. Menounos hosted last year’s special with Michael Cole.
– Mojo Rawley vs. Christopher Girard has been added to Thursday night’s WrestleMania 32 Axxess session. Several NXT matches will reportedly be filmed during WrestleMania week at Axxess events. Speaking of NXT, below is a new promo video for Friday’s NXT Takeover: Dallas, airing on the WWE Network at 10 PM ET.
WWE returned to Brooklyn, New York to kick off WrestleMania 32 week. The March 28, 2016 episode of WWE RAW was the last RAW before WrestleMania on Sunday and features Shane McMahon, The Undertaker, Brock Lesnar and others.
– The Undertaker makes his way to the ring to open up the show as Michael Cole tells us there’s over 16,000 in attendance tonight at the Barclays Center. ‘Taker cuts a promo about how this WrestleMania will not be his last, and gets interrupted by Shane McMahon. Shane assures that he will win and gain control of Monday Night RAW, and Undertaker tells him to watch his mouth. Shane tells Undertaker that Brock Lesnar already ended his legacy, Undertaker tells Shane he’s always been his dad’s bitch, and they start brawling all over the ring. ‘Taker gets the upper hand and beats down Shane at ringside. Shane escapes an attempted Last Ride through the announce table. He lays out Undertaker on that same table with a TV to the head, then puts ‘Taker through it with an elbow drop off the top rope to the outside. The Undertaker sits straight up before the commercial break as Shane looks on from the ramp.
TOP ROPE ELBOW from @ShaneMcMahon!!! #ThisIsAwesome #YouStillGotIt #RAW pic.twitter.com/K3dAnFFRAH
— WWE (@WWE) March 29, 2016
– Zach Ryder def. Chris Jericho: Before the match, AJ Styles comes out and says he’s not leaving until Jericho agrees to a match with him at WrestleMania. Ryder starts getting the upper hand after a couple minutes with a missile dropkick off the top and a running forearm in the corner. Jericho comes back and goes for the Walls of Jericho but AJ gets on the mic from ringside and distracts him. Ryder is able to quickly roll up Jericho for a 3 count. After the bell, Jericho lays out Ryder with a Code Breaker and beats him down.
– After the match, Jericho tells AJ he’s a “stupid ass” and a “rookie,” and that he accepts his challenge for WrestleMania.
– Charlotte def. Becky: Sasha Banks is at ringside watching. Ric Flair grabs Becky’s leg at one point in the match, and Charlotte capitalizes with a big boot and the Natural Selection for the win.
– Backstage, Vince talks about how Shane McMahon will do anything it takes to win and isn’t afraid of the Undertaker. Vince says all Shane has done tonight is anger the Undertaker. Shane walks in and cuts a promo on Vince, saying he’s going to let loose 40 years of pent up anger at WrestleMania.
– Big Show & Kane def. Curtis Axel & Bo Dallas via DQ: The Social Outcasts try to cut a promo before the match bit The Big Show’e entrance music interrupts. In the opening minutes of the match, the other members of the Outcasts run in and the match is a DQ. They all brawl in the ring, which brings out other members of the roster who are in the Andre The Giant memorial battle royal at WrestleMania. They fight all over the ring until eventually Kane and Big Show lay everyone out and are the last two men standing. They hit chokeslams on Mark Henry and all of the Social Outcasts.
– Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are out next to cut a promo about what The Game is going to do to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania and how important the WWE World Heavyweight Championship is. Triple H talks about how he’s had a stranglehold on the championship and the WWE for the last 20 years, and that it’s Roman Reigns’ fault that he’s once again obsessed with being the World Heavyweight Champion. Roman Reigns interrupts and receives audible boos from the crowd in Brooklyn. Reigns beats down Triple H and The Game & Stephanie eventually retreat.
It looks like @WWERomanReigns has heard ENOUGH from @TripleH and @StephMcMahon! #RAW #WrestleMania https://t.co/A04Fw0EKm3
— WWE (@WWE) March 29, 2016
– Kofi Kingston def. Alberto Del Rio: The New Day cuts a promo on The League of Nations before the match. Del Rio controls most of the match. He goes for the cross arm breaker on Kofi, but Kofi rolls him up quickly for the 1-2-3. After the match, Jonathan Coachman meets The New Day on the stage and dances with them.
– Roman Reigns is in the back to do an interview when Bubba Ray Dudley interrupts him and calls him out. Reigns takes the bait, and The Dudley Boyz and Triple H all beat down Reigns. The Dudleys leave and The Game beats down Reigns some more by himself before walking away.
"You will NEVER get this. You understand me?!" – @WWE World Heavyweight Champion @TripleH to @WWERomanReigns #RAW https://t.co/7yk66Fhdsz
— WWE (@WWE) March 29, 2016
– Kalisto def. Konnor: Konnor controls the opening moments of the match. Kalisto comes back with some high-flying offense and kicks, and hits the Salida Del Sol for the win. Ryback comes out after the match and gets in Kalisto’s face and yells “feed me more.” Kalisto shakes his head and Ryback walks off.
– Paul Heyman is in the back getting Brock Lesnar ready to come out next.
– Lesnar and Heyman come out to the ring and Heyman cuts a promo about what The Beast is going to do to Dean Ambrose on Sunday. Heyman says Lesnar is going to perform a public colonoscopy on Ambrose at WrestleMania. Ambrose interrupts and he has a red wagon with him. He grabs weapons from under the ring and puts them in the wagon, then brings his wagon to the back.
– Emma def. Paige: Emma hits a dropkick and controls the match early on. Paige comes back with a flying knee in the corner and a fall away slam for a 2 count. Tamina distracts Paige and Emma rolls her up for the 3 count. All the members of the 5-on-5 Divas match at WrestleMania come out and brawl in the ring. Eva Marie comes out and joins Team Total Divas as the final competitor in the 10-woman WrestleMania match.
– R-Truth and Goldust have an emotional exchange in the back, that ends in R-Truth blowing his nose in a shirt and handing it to Goldust.
– Sami Zayn, Dolph Ziggler and Sin Cara def. Stardust, The Miz and Kevin Owens: Zayn and Miz go back and forth to start things off. Owens gets tagged in, but he immediately tags Stardust in and leaves the ring, wanting no part of Sami Zayn. Owens continues refusing to compete throughout the match, as The Miz and Dolph Ziggler spend the majority of the time as the legal men for their teams. Sami Zayn hits a cross body off the top onto both The Miz and Stardust, then a suicide dive onto Owens at ringside. Back in the ring, several men hit their finishers on each other and Sin Cara hits a springboard moonsault on Stardust to the outside. Kevin Owens sees everyone laid out and tags himself in to face Sami Zayn, and when he goes to tag out, his partners walk away. Owens yells at them as they walk up the ramp, and turns around into a tornado DDT from Zayn. Zayn hits a big boot in the corner for the 3-count.
– Triple H and Stephanie McMahon come out to the ring. Stephanie talks about what her and Triple H have accomplished, and says the fans “live their lives like Roman Reigns.” Reigns interrupts and Triple H meets him on the ramp. They brawl around ringside and Stephanie calls for backup, which brings out The League of Nations, The Miz and the Dudley Boyz. They hold back Riegns and Triple H beats him down. The New Day, Mark Henry and Dolph Ziggler come out to even the odds and pull apart Reigns and Triple H. Reigns hits a suicide dive out of the ring onto all of the heels at ringside. Triple H and Stephanie head up to the stage and stare down at Reigns in the ring to end the show.
How do you get to @WrestleMania? You FLY!!! @WWERomanReigns #RAW pic.twitter.com/6A6M03x8zX
— WWE (@WWE) March 29, 2016
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AJ Styles is all for the idea of Bobby Roode and Eric Young heading to WWE after his two former colleagues quit TNA earlier this month. In an interview with Digital Spy to promote Sunday’s WrestleMania 32, AJ Styles talked about who he would like to see join the WWE roster.
“There’s some guys who used to wrestle for the other company in the US that are not working there any more… Bobby Roode and Eric Young,” AJ said, “I would want to see those guys make their way on over.”
The former TNA World Champion was also asked about Chris Jericho kicking out of The Styles Clash, which has seldomly been seen executed on WWE TV since Styles’ WWE debut.
“It is what it is. I’ve had people kick out of the Styles Clash before – it’s not something that hasn’t happened before,” AJ answered. “It’s just one of those things. It was part of the match and it was a very good one! The finish came shortly after that with the Calf Crusher. It was still a great match.
“I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we’re calling it now, the Calf Crusher – the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with and whatever seems to work is what I’ll go with.
The WWE Network has confirmed that rapper Snoop Dogg will be inducted into the Celebrity Wing of the WWE Hall of Fame this year. On Monday, the Network sent out an email that contained a graphic advertising Snoop for the ceremony. There will likely be an official announcement from WWE soon.
The WWE Hall of Fame ceremony takes place Saturday night in Dallas and will also feature the inductions of Sting and The Fabulous Freebirds.
– On Sunday night WWE announced that their Battleground 2016 pay-per-view would take place at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC on July 24th. The pre-sale is underway at Ticketmaster with password: VERIZONCENTER.
– Alberto Del Rio has only wrestled three matches since late February, and was pulled from this weekend’s house shows for the second weekend in a row. The Wrestling Observer newsletter reports that he has been dealing with back issues, which is why he keeps getting pulled off the road and kept out of the ring. He’s currently scheduled to be part of the League of Nations vs. New Day match at WrestleMania 32 on April 3rd.
Back on the road, nothing can stop me from kicking people's traseros #WWEBrooklyn see you soon amigos #sisisi pic.twitter.com/jdU531mnp9
— Alberto El Patron (@PrideOfMexico) March 27, 2016
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.
– 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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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.
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.
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.
– 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.
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.