An audio recording released by TMZ on Monday sheds new light on the airport altercation between Alberto El Patron and Paige that occurred the previous and it conflicts Paige’s version of what transpired.
We reported that Global Force Wrestling Alberto El Patron was detained by police on Sunday at Orlando International Airport for an incident that they described as “domestic violence battery.” Witnesses said Alberto roughed up his female companion, which lead to the authorities getting involved.
Shortly after the news began circulating online, Paige refuted the reports that she and Alberto were at it again:
That apparently was not not “it.” In this newly released audio recording, the two were captured in the midst of a heated dispute that involved an emotional Paige saying, “Stay out of my life. Leave me the f*ck alone. I’m trying to get away from you. All the time.”
Alberto is heard saying saying, “Let’s do it. Get the cops .. I’m pressing charges against you. Call the police .. She assaulted me. She needs to be arrested .. We got into a fight at the restaurant.”
We reported exclusively last month that Alberto El Patron and Paige broke up (again) after another altercation, also in Orlando. The split didn’t last and the volatile couple was back together within a matter of days.
As reported earlier, Alberto El Patron was detained at an Orlando airport on Sunday. A witness informed TMZ that Alberto and a woman were arguing in the airport terminal. Things then escalated, there was an ‘altercation’ and police were called.
Paige recently posted a couple of tweets about the incident and claimed that a woman threw a drink at Patron when the couple refused a picture. Paige stated that she received some bad family news and the woman tried to take a picture.
Global Force Wrestling has also issued a short statement regarding Alberto El Patron being detained by police at the Orlando airport for a ‘domestic battery’ incident [via Ryan Satin]:
“Global Force Wrestling takes all legal situations very seriously and is looking into this matter. GFW is a privately-held company and will thoroughly investigate this incident and fully cooperate with law enforcement.”
Global Force Wrestling will now be conducting their own internal review of the alleged incident involving GFW champion Alberto El Patron. Alberto was featured prominently in storylines at GFW’s most recent tapings and it remains unclear if all of that footage will make it to air over the next couple of months.
Alberto El Patron and Paige broke up Saturday night. The couple was vacationing in Orlando and had a blowup that resulted in Alberto calling off their relationship. According to a source close to both of them who was present when it all went down, most of Alberto’s friends and family are glad he pulled the plug.
They’ve been dating on and off for the past year and were engaged last October – during a wrestling show – when Paige got down on one knee and proposed to Alberto inside the ring (Video).
Paige is on hiatus from WWE while recovering from neck surgery. She’s back training, although there’s no timetable for her return.
Alberto El Patron is scheduled to compete in the main event of Impact Wrestling’s upcoming Slammiversary XV pay-per-view on Sunday, July 2nd. He’ll defend the Global Force heavyweight championship against Impact Wrestling champion Bobby Lashley in a title unification match.
Just hours before the incident, both were posting romantic photos & messages on Instagram.
– Former WWE Divas Champion Paige took to Instagram to let fans know that she’s back in the gym training for her WWE return. Paige has been out-of-action since summer of last year after undergoing neck surgery, with a target return date landing somewhere around this summer. Here’s what Paige had to say:
“Just getting alberto to take pics in the gym. Pretending to work out… Jkkkk. Boxing gym later. Time to start kicking ass again!”
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– Since defeating WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz and the Congratulations Bear in a Tag Team Match on Monday Night RAW last night (June 12, 2017), alongside tag team partner Rhyno, Heath Slater has been retweeting fans on Twitter about him possibly challenging for the title next. Slater noted on RAW that its been a childhood dream of his to challenge for the strap, and he might just get that opportunity soon:
Woooooooooooooo!!!!! I'm finally going to get my wrestling dream…. I beat @mikethemiz and now I'm going for the #Intercontinentaltital
On a recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer provided an update on the statues of WWE Superstars Paige, Summer Rae and Eva Marie.
Paige is still out of action recovering from neck surgery, but the feeling is that she wouldn’t be brought back to television at this time even if she was cleared to wrestle. In light of her personal issues and how outspoken Alberto has been about WWE, her status with the company is helped by the fact that WWE and The Rock are developing the movie based on her family.
Summer Rae is ready to return, but WWE does not currently have anything planned for her in the short term.
Eva Marie will not be appearing on the upcoming season of Total Divas and could be done with WWE entirely. She has several projects going outside of WWE and we’ve come a long way from the days when Eva Marie was seen internally as ‘the female Roman Reigns’ (ie. in line for a monster push and one of the faces of the company).
Meltzer noted, “There’s an even number of women on both [RAW and Smackdown], so they don’t want to mess with that right now.”
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WWE Superstar Paige took to Instagram to note that her engagement ring from former WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio had been stolen from their hotel room. Del Rio went out and bought the former Divas Champ a brand new rock as a result, which you can check out below:
“Also he just keeps killing it with these rings. Unfortunately mine got stolen from our hotel room so he knew how heart broken I was and went and got a brand new one! This one is obviously different but it’s even more beautiful. He had me crying on the plane. This is my hubby ladies and gentleman, isn’t he just perfect?!?!?! After over a year and still have butterflies for my man. Always have and always will…”
World Association of Wrestling (WAW) will be holding some of the biggest events in company history this weekend when they hit the Epic Studios in Norwich.
You may recognise that venue as the WWE UK tapings took place there last week. Owner of WAW Ricky Knight (WWE star Paige’s father) has publicly stated his anger towards the WWE for running ‘his’ venue.
Rey Mysterio and Alberto El Patron are scheduled to be part of the Weekend shows as well as Mr Anderson, Scott Hall, Dos Caras Jr and Saraya Knight.
The shows will also be available to watch via Fite TV, you can purchase at a per show rate of $9.99 or view the entirety of the weekend’s proceedings for $19.99 as a package deal.
Rumours that WWE would like to bring back Alberto El Patron have been circulating lately, though it is doubtful Vince has been following Alberto’s numerous drunken periscope rants directed at his son-in-law.
Late last night Alberto and friends were out at La Cantanita in San Antonio (a bar/restaurant owned by El Patron), when somehow he was up singing with the band as the periscope stream started rolling.
Here is the link to the entire stream (about 4 minutes)
Alberto El Patron Periscope Highlights
Some of El Patron’s comments are a little hard to decipher, but here are the highlights:
“We are happy people, my wife and I. Some people was saying stupid stuff about us, and about me saying stuff about Triple H, Triple H you are a *expletive* p**sy, and I don’t have to be drunk to say this, you’re a pu**y”. You just married well, that’s all you did. You married well and you’re a p**sy. “
Alberto then returns to singing with the band for a moment as Paige awkwardly and silently appears in front of the camera.
“Come to La Cantanita and I’ll say it again. I don’t have to be drunk or sober. You’ve got a big nose and no balls”
On the latest episode of his Dinner With The King podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jerry Lawler commented on the controversy surrounding JBL and the allegations that he’s a bully behind the scenes.
Lawler came to JBL’s defense, saying, “I’m a JBL fan. Here’s the thing about JBL; you have to know the guy. And if you don’t get an opportunity to really know JBL, you can be offended. JBL is a funny guy. He’s a big guy. He’s boisterous. He comes across as, sometimes, crude and loud. But you gotta know him. That’s just JBL. He’s the same guy on commentary as he is in catering.”
He added that he doesn’t think JBL will get fired over the bullying issue. “I don’t think he will, not over something like this.”
– Paige posted a photo with Alberto El Patron on Twitter to showing off the book AJ Lee sent to her. Several fans noticed a Donald Trump poster in the background and gave her crap for supporting the controversial President of the United States.
After getting so many negative replies to the tweet for being a Trump supporter, she followed up with another look at the calendar and revealed it actually mocks the President and counts down the days until he’s out of office.
Impact Wrestling wrestler Alberto El Patron posted a series of videos on Periscope on Thursday night and pulled no punches while talking about WWE and the “p*ssies” who work there.
Alberto, joined by WWE Superstar Paige, says “thank god” he doesn’t work for that ‘PG’ company anymore.
In the weeks following Paige’s recent privacy breach, Alberto posted a message on Instagram implying that WWE might have been behind the leak in an effort to destroy his ‘baby.’ Alberto continued that line of claims, stating that, “I know it was you, motherf*cker” who did this to him and his baby. He says he’s going to prove it was them.
Alberto says people used to think that Paige was the crazy one, but Paige jokes that she’s actually the normal one in the relationship. Alberto says he used to be very angry when he worked in WWE, claiming that most of the people who work there are “a bunch of p*ssies” – including ‘the one with the big nose.’
Paige has broken her silence regarding her recent privacy invasion, viral shaming and cyber bullying. She posted the following on social media late Monday night:
I made a big mistake. Huge. I put trust in the hands of someone that took advantage of a young girl years ago. It was my mistake and I’ll always take responsibility. But the one thing that was the hardest was thinking “my husband is gonna leave me” “my family will disown me” but I am blessed beyond words to have a family a husband that stuck by me because they know who I am. They know I’m not a bad person and they held my hands through hell. Because as my husband says “you may feel like the devel is throwing you into a storm, but just remember, you are the storm”.
And he’s right. But we are human.
Unfortunately people don’t see it that way when they are behind a keyboard. They don’t think that we have feelings or we don’t suffer.
Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber bullying.
I had days where I wanted to physically harm myself. Not for what millions was telling me but because my family and my husband were suffering the same fate from the internet because of my mistake.
It made Alberto wonder how people who aren’t as mentally strong as us can handle this? How many people have to suffer because of the internet and the cowards behind the keyboard
Or how many men and women have fell into the same trap as me and made those mistakes?
That’s why we are taking this massive negative and making some kind of positive. We wanna bring those people to justice and also take down the ones who are trolls, for lack of a better term.
Bring awareness. Bring help to those who don’t have the tools or the mental strength to do this themselves. To show men and women alike to always think about their future before they do something that may cause a butterfly effect later on in life.
Now I know through all of this is..
No one will make me feel bad about my mistakes, I already know what they are and I already feel bad. But Alberto and I together can also make a change. My mistake could help people’s future.
Think. Before you act.
Anyways. Onwards and upwards. Only happiness. No longer talking about anything. Just looking into the future and being happy! I mean come on, I’m getting married? How can I not be happy!!!!
Impact Wrestling star Alberto El Patron has announced that he and WWE Superstar Paige are getting married this week. He also took aim at the ‘haters’ who are trying to destroy Paige and their relationship.
“I doesn’t matter how many times you try to break us… is not gonna happen… we were harassed by a company we still are… cause you don’t fool me MF’s I know I was you trying to destroy us… destroy my baby… she’s better stronger than all of you pieces of [poop emoji] We are getting married Wednesday … Have a nice [day] and go and F… yourself hatters”
Impact Wrestling star Alberto El Patron has cancelled his WrestleCon bookings for WrestleMania Weekend in Orlando to be with his fiancee Paige as she deals with the fallout from a recent invasion of privacy.
Alberto issued a statement this week and made his first comments since the incident with Paige last week.
Below is the full statement issued to the media on Thursday:
“Due to the invasion of our privacy, I need to be home with the person that needs me more at the moment and our family. Thanks for your support and I’ll be seeing you next time.”
WWE recently announced a 2 night stint at Epic Studios in Norwich, UK which is being billed as ‘WWE United Kingdom Championship Live.’
Since the news broke it has become a major talking point in the UK scene and while the reaction is mostly positive there is one company in particular that are not happy with the news.
World Association of Wrestling (WAW) is a UK based promotion owned by Ricky Knight, father of WWE Superstar Paige. WAW recently booked Jack Swagger for an appearance at this weekend’s WAW TV tapings and he had to pulled due to his WWE contract status.
Appearing on BBC Radio Norwich Knight stated: “To me the timing is absolutely crap, and I think there’s a conspiracy somewhere. “They could’ve left it until Monday. They [WWE] know we’re doing so well. They follow us religiously, it seems like they do. They would’ve known this is the biggest weekend in WAW history. To me they wanted to cut us open with the announcement this morning and putting their tickets sales on tonight. But tough guys, because this is going to be a sellout tonight anyway. Go and do your best.”
UK based Independent promotion World Association of Wrestling (WAW) have announced that Jack Swagger will be performing for the company at their March 11th TV tapings in Norwich, England.
WAW is owned by Ricky Knight, father of WWE Superstar Paige. The Knight family have a close relationship with some big names in the industry, most notably Scott Hall & of course Alberto Del Rio/El Patron. There are currently no further bookings for Swagger in the UK and his opponent for March 11th is yet to be named, however for his first stint on the UK scene since his WWE departure it is likely that he will make some more appearances over the weekend.
The upcoming wedding between WWE Superstar Paige and Alberto El Patron is tentatively scheduled for this coming May, schedules permitting. Paige proposed to Del Rio in the ring during a wrestling show Puerto Rican last October.
Given El Patron’s rocky relationship with WWE, it will be interesting to see if this wedding airs on Total Divas.
Alberto El Patron continues to wrestle on the independent circuit, competing against Kurt Angle this past weekend at WCPW’s True Destiny event. He serves as the figurehead of the Combate Americas MMA promotion where goes by the name Alberto El Presidente.
Paige has been recovering from neck surgery and is already back in the gym. On social media we’ve seen her training MMA and boxing. She recently told TMZ that she’s considering an MMA career and could make her MMA debut later this year when Combate Americas looks to hold their first pay-per-view-event.
– WWE Superstar Paige was in New York City earlier this week with Alberto Del Rio doing media for Del Rio’s Combate Americas MMA promotion. While in town, the two hit an MMA gym, with Paige showing off some of her moves just months after undergoing neck surgery. They were later approached by a reporter from TMZ and Paige said she is considering an MMA career when her days in the ring are over.
Visit our partner site MMANews.com to see video of Paige showing off her MMA moves on Del Rio.
– Sam Roberts will be returning to the WWE PPV kickoff panel this Sunday at Elimination Chamber.
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The Rock announced today that his Seven Bucks production company is partnering with WWE Studios to release a movie based on WWE Superstar Paige and her legendary Knight wrestling family. The movie will be based on Film4’s “The Wrestlers: Fighting With My Family” documentary, which you can view above.
“Fighting With My Family” is scheduled to begin filming later this month in Los Angeles and London, according to a report from Deadline. They confirmed that The Rock will have a role in the movie but no word yet on who he might be playing, if not himself in a cameo role. Paige will be played by actress Florence Pugh and her brother Zak will be played by actor Jack Lowden.
Seven Bucks’ Rock, Dany Garcia & Hiram Garcia are serving as executive producers while WWE Studios President Michael Luisi and Kevin Misher of Misher Films will produce. WWE Studios and Film4 are co-financing the movie.
Cara Maria of the MTV show The Challenge made some disparaging remarks about female WWE Superstars this week and Paige is having none of it. Maria is a longtime WWE fan, tweeting earlier this week:
– During a recent edition of his popular Something To Wrestle With podcast, former WWE & TNA employee Bruce Prichard shed some light on why WWE has never done a War Games match.
“[McMahon] hates the double ring. He hates the double ring thing. I tried to sell the two-ring battle royal for years. He hated the double ring thing. He didn’t like the guys going in at intermittent times and the way it was always done with the heels having the favor of the babyfaces, but then you fast forward to Elimination Chamber. It was just one of those things. It was a WCW creation and he didn’t care for it.”
Follow Bruce on Twitter @BrucePrichard.
– Alberto El Patron and Paige will be hosting a Royal Rumble party his La Cantinita Mexican restaurant this Sunday in San Antonio. The venue is approximately 20 minutes away from the Alamodome. In the event poster below, the venue advertising “the Superstars of WWE” after the Rumble is over.
As noted last Monday, Paige attended RAW from Tampa to meet with WWE officials and discuss her eventual return to the ring. Based on her recovery schedule, Paige won’t be ready in time for WrestleMania 33 in April and likely won’t be wrestling again until the summer.
Paige underwent neck surgery back in in October, a procedure that had been a contentious issue with the company.
Even though she’s been off WWE’s flagship programming for several months now, Paige’s tumultuous relationship with former WWE Superstar Alberto Del Rio is a prominent storyline on the current season of Total Divas.
Paige was backstage for RAW in Tampa earlier today but she’s already left the building, according to multiple sources.
Word going around is that Paige was there to meet with WWE officials about her neck. As reported before, she had neck surgery in October and has not been cleared yet.
There was also no Total Divas footage filmed with Paige today.
As seen in the fan photo below, Paige had boyfriend Alberto Del Rio with her at the arena:
WWE Superstar Paige is currently backstage for tonight’s RAW from Tampa, FL.
Paige has been away for several months due to neck surgery and a WWE Wellness Policy suspension. PWInsider reports that she is not cleared to wrestle but could be appearing for some kind of non-physical role.
– Luke Harper vs. Dean Ambrose has been announced for tonight’s SmackDown main event. Ambrose will have to deal with The Wyatt Family at ringside. WWE posted this ad for tonight’s show:
– Bayley wants her RAW Women’s Championship shot after pinning Charlotte in a non-title match last night on RAW. She calls on Stephanie McMahon and Mick Foley to grant her the shot in this backstage Fallout video:
– Paige is receiving all sorts of interesting comments from fans after she posted a sappy love tweet about her relationship with Alberto Del Rio last night. You can read the full tweet below, where she says she might “steal” Del Rio’s wrestling moves when he returns to the ring:
While luchador Tortuga Rafy had initially asked fans and colleagues to just drop the topic of his locker room brawl with Alberto El Patron during Sunday night’s IWRG card at Arena Naucalpan, it’s easy to see why he would change his tune. At that point, Alberto had not yet accused him of groping Paige, and once that happened, its no surprise that he would want to defend his name. On Wednesday, as part of the latest edition of the En+Carados podcast showLucha+TV’s YouTube channel (embedded above), Rafy gave his side of the story.
Shortly thereafter, Alfredo Esparza of LuchaWorld.comtweeted translations of the key points as he listened. To make it easier to follow, we won’t embed all of Fredo’s tweets (there were over a dozen), but make sure follow him on Twitter and check out both his site and podcast.
According to Rafy (who has also worked as Alan Xtreme,) was heading downstairs when he literally bumped into Paige and insisted she pass through first by saying “pass by, beautiful.” He conceded that he shouldn’t have worded it that way. When that got back to Alberto, he was hot at Rafy, saying it as disrespectful and asking “Who are you calling beautiful?” Rafy insisted he meant no disrespect and explained that he never touched Paige, but Alberto then yanked his mask off. Rafy tried to flee to the locker room to cover up (they was adjacent to a public hallway), and that’s when Alberto followed, throwing punches.
Tortuga Ninja Rafy wants to clear up that he did not touch Paige. Paige told Alberto that she was not touched by the turtle.
Rafy claimed that the early reports about him being knocked out and/or his face being badly marked up were not true. As the fight was broken him, he says Alberto calmed down and started apologizing. Rafy then apologized to Paige and Alberto, essentially saying that while he thought he was being chivalrous, these days, complimenting a women’s appearance out the blue is seen differently. He’s insistent that he did not touch Paige and that she backed up his story to Alberto.
He feels that the story blew up largely because of social media and his friend, wrestler AK-47, who posted on Facebook that Alberto “nearly killed” him, probably just got bad info (they hadn’t spoken about it yet) and was overly concerned. Rafy has no problem admitting that he got hit more and that Alberto “won” the brawl. saying that sometimes you win fights, and sometimes you lose.
After finishing the translation/summary, Esparza had some advice for wrestlers who will be around Paige and Alberto:
Paige is good-looking & Alberto's got a temper, so maybe for your safety don't look/talk/open doors for Paige.
Analysis: The biggest question mark around Rafy’s story is that he says it was settled almost immediately and Paige made it clear to Alberto that he didn’t touch her. If that’s the case, then Alberto either didn’t believe them or decided to go with that “inappropriate touching” story on Twitter to save face. Of course, there’s also the other possibilities, which are that it wasn’t settled afterwards or possibly that Rafy actually did grope Paige. Since Alberto reportedly blew up in at Robbie E. eight days earlier over what was apparently a similar non-incident with Paige at a WWC show, the gist of Rafy’s story absolutely comes off as credible, though.
