Here's your wrestling news for may 28th 2022
And your headlines for today include
Shinsuke Nakamura And Riddle's Alliance On Smackdown And The Potential Fallout
What's Going On With Sami Zayn On Smackdown?
Is Drew McIntyre’s Alliance With The New Day A Storyline Or A One-Off?
Ronda Rousey's New Alliance And Next Opponent Tease!
Real Reason Why ZELINA VEGA Has Disappeared From \WWE TV Revealed!
Charlotte Flair And Andrade El Idolo Get Married ; Update on Charlotte Flair’s Return To WWE TV Revealed!
TONY KHAN THROWS MASSIVE SHADE AT WWE FOR MOVING ‘MONEY IN THE BANK’ LOCATION!
RHEA RIPLEY SPOTTED TRAINING WITH SEVERAL AEW STARS!
TAY CONTI TAKING LEGAL PRECAUTIONS AFTER RECEIVING ‘SERIOUS THREATS’!
Former WWE Star Makes Surprise Appearance On AEW Rampage! And More!
We are kicking off today with SMACKDOWN as one good bit of news is that the blue brand's women's division is moving along, and the early stages of Ronda Rousey's title reign already feel
more exciting than almost the entirety of Charlotte Flair's last run as champion. Shotzi spent some time riling the women backstage up,
trying to get them to go against Rousey and Raquel Rodriguez. She successfully did so to Natalya and Shayna Baszler, only to get locked out herself by Aliyah to tease a non-title feud.
On the other hand, Natalya and Baszler interrupted the champi onship contender match between Rousey and Rodriguez, leading to a tag team match where the two babyfaces won.
There was a tease of a feud between Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler, which could end up being the SmackDown Women's Champion's next title defense.
More from last night’s smackdown as 'The Scottish Warrior' Drew McIntyre returned to SmackDown for the first time since WrestleMania Backlash. With Roman Reigns not defending
his title at Hell in a Cell, WWE has to drag it on until September at the UK show where they are expected to clash.
This week, he was the surprise partner in the main event as The New Day would defeat The Brawling Brutes, with Xavier Woods getting the pinfall on Ridge Holland. There was nothing
to indicate that this is a longer storyline, and we may just see them align together once or twice more at most. This week, The Usos opened the show on SmackDown but were
confronted by Shinsuke Nakamura, who has recently stated his intention to get back at The Bloodline. He has a reason after his tag team partner Rick Boogs suffered an injury at WrestleMania 38.
Another superstar who recently lost his partner to an injury is Riddle. And that's exactly who came out when Nakamura said that he had someone to help even the odds against The Usos.
It's clear that the alliance is to set up Randy Orton's return, and the overall 20-time champion could be set to return to feud with Roman Reigns soon.
Without a shred of doubt, the best part of the blue brand this week was the KO Show featuring Sami Zayn. While they were buttering each other up with Kevin Owens calling Zayn a
locker room leader and the latter telling KO that Elias and Ezekiel were the same, things would (un)surprisingly take a quick turn.
When Owens asked Zayn to join him on RAW, The Conspiracy Theorist declined due to his duties on SmackDown. KO questioned The Bloodline's appreciation for Sami Zayn and felt they were using him.
Zayn would quickly turn and tell him that Elias and Ezekiel were two different people.
Everything about this segment was gold, and it just goes to show how incredible the two men are in the ring. They're so incredible that it may only be after their careers when their greatness is truly appreciated.
Charlotte Flair and Andrade El Idolo tied the knot Friday in a ceremony in Mexico attended by several wrestlers. The couple exchanged vows in front of 160 people at Hacienda Mi Ranchito
in Torreón – At Andrade’s hometown
WWE Superstars Finn Balor, Apollo Crews, Rey Mysterio and Lina Fanene (Nia Jax) were in attendance.
We noted earlier how Flair was written off WWE TV earlier this month, after she dropped the SmackDown Women’s Title to Ronda Rousey at the “WrestleMania Backlash” . WWE announced that
Flair suffered a “fracture of the radius” and would be out indefinitely . As per storyline, Flair suffered a broken arm after being put in an armbar through a chair by Rousey in their “I Quit” Match.
Speaking to BT Sport, Charlotte joked that she had to lose her SmackDown Women’s Title prior to the wedding, or it would have upset Andrade
“We have a date, it’s this summer in Mexico. I think Manny (Andrade) would be a little angry if I walked down the aisle with my title. He was like, ‘Mami, for the wedding, I do not want your
hair to look like Charlotte.’ I was like, ‘What does that mean?’ Just less makeup, he likes the fresh face.”
The newlyweds are reportedly headed to Costa Rica for their honeymoon.
Slatrock Wrestling sends our best wishes to the happy couple.
We have some good news for Charlotte Flair fans who are already missing her on TV. WWE is now advertising her for the July 15th edition of SmackDown in Orlando, Florida, an indication that she
back on television by at least mid-July. It should be noted that Flair’s name doesn’t appear on the graphic, but her face sure does
Should Charlotte go after Rousey’s title or start a new feud with a fresh face, sound off in comments below
Tay Conti and Sammy Guevara get a lot of hate online, but some fans might take it over the line. The former NXT Superstar isn’t going to take it and she put one hater on blast in a big way.
Conti shared some personal information of a hater online. Some might see this as targeted harassment, but Conti saw it as justice. She not only let everyone know this hater’s name, but she also
include a photo of him and some direct messages.
“This is absurd. His name is Dustin Dolezal and he’s been threatening Sammy and I since January. He writes us EVERY SINGLE DAY and apparently planning to do something with
us in June. I’m taking legally precautions but if something happens to us y’all know who to look for.”
Conti also included a tweet from this aggressive fan that said, “And cuz that imma ruin her life and her future. And really f*ck with Sammy’s home life cuz this happened.” Upon closer examination
of this guy’s Twitter account, he seems like an Alexa Bliss fan.
Now Conti is taking legal precautions and letting everyone know to be on the lookout for this guy.
Tay Conti and Sammy Guevara have been the subject of much online ire after going public with their relationship and appearing in a storyline on AEW television together.
We have some news from Money In The Bank now as due to poor ticket sales, WWE announced that Money in the Bank was moving out of Allegiant Stadium (home venue of the NFL’s
Raiders) to MGM Grand Garden Arena, a 17,000 seat venue, Tony Khan took to twitter and threw a Massive Shade At WWE.
Speaking to the fans and media ahead of their Double or Nothing pay per view event set for Sunday, Khan broke the news to UFC president Dana White that WWE had to move out of Allegiant
Stadium to MGM Grand Garden Arena. As evidenced in his second tweet, Khan called it a “genius move” for WWE to compete with UFC in Las
Vegas for International Fight Week. That very night is the UFC 276 event at T-Mobile Arena, which will be headlined by Israel Adesanya defending his middleweight championship against Jared Cannonier
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reported that just 16,833 tickets had been distributed for the event as of May 6. Allegiant Stadium holds up to 65,000 fans for Raiders games.
Andrew Zarian of the “Mat Men Podcast” reported that the goal for WWE was to hold more events at stadiums, but not with the goal of sel ling out each of them. Rather to sell between 20,000-35,000 tickets.
WWE obviously felt confident in their abilities to get a decent crowd to purchase tickets for the Money in the Bank event, which had never been held in a stadium.
WWE sent out a memo to fans that had purchased tickets for the event at Allegiant Stadium that they will be refunded and have the first chance to re-purchase the tickets for its new location at MGM
Grand Garden Arena. Rhea Ripley has received a lot of attention from WWE after joining Edge and Damian Priest’s Judgment
Day alliance at WrestleMania Backlash last month. Edge has also teased the addition of other celebrities to the side, including Tommaso Ciampa, Paige, and others. Rhea Ripley recently
had the opportunity to train with a number of notable AEW wrestlers at the gym. She recently took to Instagram to post a photo with notable
AEW stars. Buddy Matthews, Tony Nese, and Brian Cage, as well as Melissa Santos and Flex Lewis can be seen in the picture. All of the stars were training at The Dragon’s Lair gym in Las Vegas.
Ripley just revealed that she is dating Buddy Matthews on social media. Matthews will compete in the AEW Double Or Nothing event in Las Vegas on Sunday. He will team up with Malakai Black and
Brody King to take on Death Triangle (Pac, Penta, and Rey Fenix).
We previously reported that Harland (Parker Boudreaux) was supposed to be in the group, but WWE decided against it before releasing him. We’ll have to wait and see what’s in store for Rhea Ripley
We have some news from Zelina Vega now; Vega faced RAW Women’s Champion Bianca Belair in singles competition on the April 11 episode of Raw but slowly disappeared from WWE TV
in the weeks that followed her last match. According to PWInsider, Zelina Vega is currently out of in-ring action due to ab injury that required
surgery. The outlet further stated that Zelina will miss six to eight weeks of action and could return in time for SummerSlam
“WWE’s Queen Zelina Vega disappearing off television, we’ve confirmed Vega has been out of the ring following an in-ring injury that required surgery.
The belief among those we’ve spoken to is that she’ll likely be out of action another 6-8 weeks, which means she’d be available to return around Summerslam.
There has been talk about her receiving a push upon her return as sources have noted her willingness to do what was requested of her and her hard work has been noticed behind the scenes.”
Zelina Vega returned to WWE in 2021 after a brief departure from the company. She became the inaugural Queen of the Ring at the Crown Jewel premium live event in October 2021.
We have some big news now as Jeff Jarrett is returning to WWE for a major role.
According to a report from PWInsider, Jeff Jarrett has come to terms on an agreement for a WWE return. The Hall of Famer looks set to assume a "high level executive" position from next week
dealing with the company's live event side of things.
A year following his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018, Jeff Jarrett was brought back into the promotion to work as a backstage producer, while making a few on-screen appearances.
Shortly after being promoted to the creative team, Jarrett departed the company in January of last year. Nonetheless, he did make an on-screen appearance for WWE earlier this year, sharing a backstage
segment with Shinsuke Nakamura and Rick Boogs on SmackDown.
Apart from having worked backstage in WWE with the same roster just a year back, Jarrett was responsible for a lot of backstage deali ngs on the TNA roster, some of whom are currently signed with WWE.
Former WWE star Gangrel made a cameo appearance during Friday’s live episode of AEW Rampage.
Gangrel accompanied Young Bucks to the ring for a match against Taylor Rust and Jon Cruz, as Matt & Nick Jackson cosplayed The Hardys. The trio did their best impression of
The New Brood, a former WWE stable consisting of Gangrel, Matt & Jeff Hardy. Brandon Cutler, meanwhile, dressed up as Lita.
After their victory, the Bucks turned on Gangrel, until The Hardys made the save. The real Hardys then posed with Gangrel to loud cheers from fans at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.
This was Gangrel’s second cameo for AEW, following his brief appearance in Matt Hardy’s Elite Deletion match against Sammy Guevara at the November 2020 “Full Gear” pay-per-view.
And we are ending today with Sasha Banks and Naomi as the both shocked many people when they walked out in the middle of Monday Night RAW last week. What entailed after that was not
something either of them expected, as the company made it clear they will never tolerate what Banks and Naomi did. In fact, the company isn’t even paying them during their suspension.
WWE has been merciless when it comes to doling out punishment to both of them. WWE indefinitely suspended both of them and that was just the beginning. The company actively buried them on live
television. They also removed Banks and Naomi from live events and stripped them of their WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles
According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer revealed that WWE is not paying Sasha Banks and Naomi while they sit at home during their suspension.
Both Banks & Naomi woudn’t even get the merchandise revenue and It Meltzer noted that WWE pulled their merchandise down from the online shop to “send a message.” We will have to see what happens
as Naomi’s contract is running out soon, but it is unknown exactly how long Banks has left on her deal.
Sasha Banks and Naomi are still listed on the active WWE roster even now. However, their status with the company remains questionable now, especially with how WWE is handling the situation