It looks like Bo Dallas could be in line for a slight character change in the near future, as WWE has been working on altering his gimmick lately.
After last Thursday’s SmackDown, Dallas debuted a new finishing move and attacked R-Truth after their match. He then cut a promo and spoke about how he has been trying to inspire people for so long, but it has turned him into a joke. He went on to reveal that he felt what he did to Truth by attacking him was “really funny,” and told fans he Bo-Lieves he will be a lot more “humorous” in the future.
– Bo Dallas teased a slight character change following his attack on R-Truth at WWE SmackDown this week. For those who didn’t see the show, Dallas is no longer using the “Bo-Dog” finisher, as he’s now using a variation of the whiplash neckbreaker.
– A 30-minute “sneak peek” of the new WWE “Monday Night War Volume 2: Know Your Role” DVD and Blu-ray will air on the WWE Network immediately following Monday’s edition of WWE RAW. The description for the show reads:
“A First Look at the latest WWE Home Video release, The Monday Night War: Volume 2, featuring an exclusive new interview with Eric Bischoff!”
– In addition to working on his hip-hop projects, WWE Superstar R-Truth is apparently looking to enter the Hollywood scene as well. Truth posted the following on Twitter:
WWE Hall Of Famer Mick Foley took to Facebook to post a new blog after watching Monday’s newsworthy edition of WWE RAW. Below is what the Hardcore Legend had to say.
EPIC RAW, POTENTIAL PROBLEM
I loved WWE Raw – I really did, Loved all of it….almost. The Heyman promo, the Inspirational Bo Dallas promo, that Brock didn’t quite buy into, The Dudleyz, The Sting thing. All of it was great, Except for the Divas match. For the 2nd time in two weeks, ?#?RAW? turned a little nasty the ladies
A friend sent me a message about the Divas, The guy is bot an official writer – just a guy who loves this stuff enough to write a message with suggestions. Here they are, Take a look. I think you’ll like it.
“The Divas division now has to consist of independent concurrent story lines. The WWE Universe wants to see a fight. Grudge matches. One versus one. Leave your entourage in the back. That is a big match feel. Not contrived weekly variations of all the Divas put together for a couple of segments. They need a WORLD Championship. And, a WORLD Tag Team Championship. This is why the Barclays trolled their Raw match. Their Summerslam Elimination match didn’t allow for the opportunity for the final-two-competitors pop. Big difference between those two examples and Saturday night. Frankly, The Sasha/Bayley pre-match video package gave me more chills. I don’t know if Sara del Rey works with the main roster Divas, but she should.”
– WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair is in town for WWE SummerSlam weekend. Flair is there primarily to watch his daughter Charlotte wrestle at SummerSlam, and apparently other members of the Flair family are also in town for the show. Former WCW star David Flair is among those from the Flair family that made the trip.
– WWE taped the following matches for tonight’s edition of WWE SmackDown:
* Ryback vs. Big Show
* The New Day vs. Los Matadores and El Torito
* Neville vs. Bo Dallas
* Brie Bella vs. Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch
* Randy Orton, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Cesaro vs. Sheamus, Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Kevin Owens
– WWE posted the following video of Triple H looking at the new Ultimate Warrior book, “Ultimate Warrior: A Life Lived Forever.”
WWE taped the following matches for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars prior to Monday night’s edition of WWE RAW in Everett, Washington.
– The Ascension def. Jack Swagger & Fandango in tag-team action to kick off the taping. There were some comedy spots in this match, which was kept relatively short. In the end, however, The Ascension was too much for Swagger and Fandango, as they finished the duo off with their finisher for the clean pinfall victory.
– Bo Dallas def. R-Truth in the second of two matches taped for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars, which airs on Wednesday evening. This was pretty much you’d expect, with the Everett, Washington fans giving Dallas a hard time in spots until ultimately, Dallas managed to get his hand raised.
– The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has signed on to star in the big scree adaptation of the hit 90’s TV show Baywatch. Seth Gordon (‘Horrible Bosses’) will be directing, with Hollywood heartthrob Zac Effron currently in talks to appear alongside The Rock. According to THR:
“The story centers on a by-the-book and very serious lifeguard (Johnson) who is forced to team up with a young rule-flouting hothead (Efron) in order to save their beach from environmental destruction at the hands of an oil tycoon.”
– Triple H announced on Twitter that next Saturday night’s NXT Takeover: Brooklyn live special from the Barclays Center is officially sold out.
WWE taped the following matches for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars prior to Monday night’s edition of WWE RAW in San Jose, California.
– Fandango def. Heath Slater in one-on-one action to kick off this week’s WWE Superstars taping in San Jose. There were a lot of comedy spots in this match, which the crowd seemed to get a kick out of. In the end, Fandango hit his finishing move on Slater to secure the pinfall victory.
– Jack Swagger def. Bo Dallas in the second of two matches taped for Superstars. The crowd was super into boo’ing Bo Dallas. In the end, Swagger caught Dallas in his Patriot Lock submission finisher. Dallas eventually tapped out, giving Swagger the submission victory. That is how this week’s Superstars ended.
WWE taped the following matches prior to the WWE SmackDown television taping on Tuesday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma for this week’s edition of WWE Main Event.
– Neville defeated King Barrett in the first match taped for this week’s Main Event. The crowd was into this match from bell-to-bell. The finish saw Neville hit the Red Arrow on Barrett for the 1-2-3.
– Becky Lynch defeated Brie Bella in Divas action, as the “Diva Revolution” continues. They gave this match more time than usual for a Divas match. In the end, Lynch picked up the win with her finisher.
– Bo Dallas defeated Zack Ryder in the third of three matches taped for this week’s Main Event. The crowd was into jeering Dallas and doing sing-alongs with some of Ryder’s stuff. In the end, Dallas scored the clean pinfall victory.
WWE taped the following matches prior to Monday’s WWE RAW in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars.
– Bo Dallas def. R-Truth in a quick match to kick off the evening in Oklahoma City. The fans were alive early on, and into boo’ing Dallas. In the end, Dallas picked up the clean victory over Truth.
– King Barrett def. Jack Swagger in the second of two matches taped for this week’s Superstars. Although Swagger is a hometown boy in Oklahoma, and was cheered as such inside the arena, the “King” still pulled off the “W” to close out the taping.
WWE taped the following matches prior to last night’s SmackDown television taping in Lincoln, Nebraska for this week’s edition of WWE Main Event.
– R-Truth defeated Bo Dallas in the first match taped for this week’s WWE Main Event. The finish saw Truth roll-up Dallas while Dallas was playing to the crowd. Apparently the fans were into hating Dallas in Lincoln.
– Some video replays are shown highlighting some of the action on this week’s post-Battleground edition of WWE RAW.
– JoJo interviews The Lucha Dragons backstage. The Lucha Dragons, who are scheduled to face Big E. and Kofi Kingston during tonight’s Main Event, focus their promo on The New Day.
– Big E. & Kofi Kingston defeated The Lucha Dragons in tag-team action. Again, the crowd was into hating on The New Day members, and were strongly into the high-spots that Sin Cara and Kalisto did in the match.
– The Prime Time Players defeated The Ascension in tag-team action. This served as the headline bout of this week’s edition of WWE Main Event, which the WWE Tag-Team Champions won via clean pinfall to end the taping.
The following matches were taped prior to WWE RAW on Monday night in Kansas City for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars.
– R-Truth defeated Heath Slater in the opening contest. This was a pretty good match with some comedy spots. The crowd seemed to enjoy it for what it was. Truth ended up picking up the “W” in a match that lasted a few minutes.
– Neville defeated Bo Dallas in the second of two matches taped for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars. This was said to be an excellent match that the crowd in Kansas City was super into. In the end, Neville managed to pick up the victory after hitting his “Red Arrow” finisher off the top-rope for the 1-2-3.
Prior to last night’s edition of RAW in Washington, DC, WWE recorded two matches for this week’s episode of WWE Superstars, they were:
– Adam Rose vs. Fandango
– The Ascension vs. Curtis Axel & Damien Sandow
After RAW went off the air, The Authority stood tall after defeating Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose. That was until Ryback, R-Truth and Dolph Ziggler made their way to the ring.
The fan favourites took on The Authority and hit their finishes on them to send them running to the back. Ryback interacted with a number of the kids at ringside afterwards.
In the video shown above, Bo Dallas can be seen reacting to The Rock’s attack on him during the WWE Live Event in Boston on Friday night which ended with Dallas receiving the Rock Bottom.
Dallas explains that the moment can’t be described and it’s something that he’ll remember for the rest of his life adding that Bo Dallas is the future.
On Friday evening at the WWE Live Event at the TD Garden in Boston, The Rock made a special
appearance and confronted Bo Dallas.
The WWE Legend was in the local area to film his latest movie “Central Intelligence” with Kevin Hart and of course couldn’t help but create a moment for the fans in attendance.
WWE posted the video shown above showing The Rock making his entrance before heading to the ring to cut a promo with Bo Dallas and then planting him with the Rock Bottom.
The following matches were taped in Indianapolis, Indiana prior to Monday’s WWE RAW for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars.
– The Lucha Dragons def. Bo Dallas & Heath Slater in tag-team action. This was described as a very fun opening contest that really did a good job of setting the tone for the evening.
– Cesaro def. Luke Harper In the second of two matches taped before RAW for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars, Cesaro pleased the crowd hitting a lot of his trademark power spots on Luke Harper, who he defeated clean in singles competition.
WWE taped the following matches prior to Monday’s RAW in Cleveland, Ohio for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars.
– Cesaro def. Bo Dallas in singles action to kick off the evening. Cesaro picked up the win via submission after locking Dallas in the Sharpshooter.
– Luke Harper & Erick Rowan def. Los Matadores & The Ascension in a triple-threat tag-team contest. Harper and Rowan dominated a lot of the action before picking up the win with their finisher.
– WWE Superstar Heath Slater picked up his first live event victory of 2015 at the May 25th WWE live event in Long Island when he defeated Adam Rose. Going into the event, Slater had the worst live event record in WWE with only one win and 44 losses. Other Superstars who went into the weekend with awful records were Bo Dallas with a 3-39 record, Adam Rose with a 5-56 record and Cameron with a 2-35 record.
– King Barrett noted on social media that he has been pulled from the scheduled WWE live events in Salt Lake and Pensacola this weekend, but was added to the live events in Mississippi and Louisiana.
– Pro Wrestling NOAH stars Mikey Nichols and Shane Haste were two additional independent talents who were at the WWE Performance Center for the WWE tryouts this week.
– WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross noted on social media recently that Bret Hart, Torrie Wilson and Mike Tenay will be guests on upcoming episodes of his “Ross Report” podcast.
– Speaking of podcasts, WWE Hall Of Famer Greg Valentine is the guest on the latest edition of Roddy Piper’s “Piper’s Pit” podcast, which is now available at PodcastOne.com.
– WWE Shop has released a new “Dawn Of The Attitude Era” t-shirt for Neville. The shirt is available now at WWEShop.com.
– WWE Superstar Roman Reigns is celebrating his 30th birthday today. Reigns was born on May 25, 1985. Also celebrating birthdays today are Bo Dallas (25) and Alberto El Patron (38).
WWE taped the following matches for this week’s edition of WWE Main Event prior to taping WWE SmackDown on Tuesday night in Norfolk, Virginia.
– Luke Harper & Erick Rowan def. Zack Ryder & Fandango in tag-team action to kick off the show. This was said to be a pretty basic tag-team opener.
– Bo Dallas def. Jack Swagger in a singles match to follow up. The crowd had a good time ragging on Dallas throughout this one.
– Alicia Fox def. Summer Rae in Divas action. This was said to be the same as any other Diva match you’ll see. The crowd wasn’t super-into this one.
– The New Day def. The Prime Time Players in tag-team action to close out the taping. The crowd did the New Day-sucks chant many times during this match.
– Following his attack of WWE U.S. Champion John Cena on RAW last night, NXT Champion Kevin Owens wrote the following on Twitter about their upcoming Elimination Chamber match.
– In this week’s RAW Fallout videos, which you can see below, Dolph Ziggler reacts to kissing Lana and Neville comments on being attacked by Bo Dallas, as well as the Kevin Owens-John Cena situation.
– Last night at Extreme Rules, we saw a segment with Ryback interrupting a promo by Bo Dallas and taking him out with Shell Shocked. It’s being speculated that this might come in to play as Ryback gears up for a feud with Bo Dallas’ brother, Bray Wyatt.
– Paul Heyman is scheduled to be kept off WWE television until July, according to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Lesnar is scheduled to return from his “indefinite suspension” this summer and will likely be working a top match at SummerSlam.
– Director Derek J Sulek noted on Twitter that his movie “The Confession” with Rob Van Dam is now complete. Here’s the DVD artwork featuring RVD:
After Monday’s post-WrestleMania 31 edition of WWE RAW in San Jose, California, Sting took part in an interview segment in the ring with Renee Young.
Sting spoke about finally wrestling a match in WWE and having his first “WrestleMania moment.” Young asks what the future holds for Sting, but he says he doesn’t know. The fans loudly chant “Undertaker” at him, which Sting acknowledges, but again he assures the fans that he doesn’t know what’s next for him.
Eventually, Bo Dallas came out and dressed Sting down. He tells Sting he blew his legacy in front of a record breaking crowd by losing to Triple H. Dallas gets in the ring and gets hit with a Scorpion Death Drop by Sting. Sting’s music hits again to end the segment.
– Jey Uso did not work the WWE live event on Saturday night in Seattle, Washington. Instead, Jimmy Uso appeared by himself, defeating The Miz in singles competition.
– Bo Dallas and Tyler Breeze have been working as a tag-team at recent WWE live events. At Saturday’s live event in Seattle, the two lost to The Lucha Dragons in tag-team action, however before the match, Dallas cut a promo, telling everyone that they were witnessing history as he and Breeze teamed up, and are now known as “Bo-Breeze.”
Below are photos of Bo-Breeze at last night’s show.