WWE has announced that the May 7 edition of Friday Night Smackdown on FOX will be a special “go-back” retro edition of the broadcast. Check out the official teaser trailer above. What a “go-back” special means precisely isn’t quite clear. The video has an old school 80s, early 90s WWF vibe, and they’re even using the modified classic logo. The Smackdown brand debuted in 1999 in the middle of the Attitude Era. Also The Miz is featured in the video for some reason? The post Special Retro Edition Of Friday Night Smackdown On FOX Announced appeared first on ProWrestling.com ..read more

WWE Smackdown Results April 30, 2021 — Bianca Belair kicked off the show but was quickly cut off by Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode. This brought out the Street Profits, who gave the Dirty Dawgz hell for interrupting the Smackdown Women’s Champion and the WrestleMania main event. Bayley added to the chaos and got into a fight with Belair, leading to a big brawl between everyone. — Six-Person Tag Team Match: Bianca Belair & The Street Profits def. Bayley & Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode. Everyone had a good match with a red hot final sequence. Dawkins made the hot tag and ran wild and ..read more

It was a rough night at the office for Daniel Bryan. It’s not often a WWE Superstar loses a major world championship match, finds himself suddenly “unemployed”, and has his head smashed in between two steel chairs all at the same time. Bryan took the “Tribal Chief” Roman Reigns to the absolute limit in a nearly half-hour Friday Night Smackdown main event, expending his entire arsenal in another failed bid to capture the Universal Championship. Per the match’s stipulation, Bryan is now banned from the blue brand going forward. Reigns and his cousin Jey Uso continued to beat down Bryan after the ..read more

Several big names from Ring of Honor and All Elite Wrestling are heading to Mexico this June. Federacion Wrestling, a newcomer to the Mexican lucha libre scene that has already ruffled some feathers, will make their pay-per-view debut on June 19. The promotion revealed a number of matches during a press conference on Friday afternoon, confirming the appearances of Andrade, Rush, the Lucha Bros, Tay Conti and more. The main event will feature Andrade’s return to the ring following his recent release from WWE. He’ll be reunited with ROH World Champion Rush and his father Bestia del Ring, and was ..read more

NBC has renewed Young Rock for a second season. The new comedy series from Universal Television and Seven Bucks Productions stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a fictionalized version of himself, telling stories about his childhood and teenage years as he runs for President of the United States during the 2032 election. The series premiere on February 16 was watched by 5.32 million viewers on day one, but according to Deadline the episode has been watched by 13.4 million people so far with another 3.6 million in digital viewers over the past two months. Finally @TheRock has come BACK ..read more

Mick Foley is calling for an all-women’s brand in WWE. The Hardcore Legend echoed sentiments first discussed by Mickie James following her release from the company. In a recent interview with GAW TV the nine-time women’s world champion said she pitched the idea of an all-women’s brand but was told in no uncertain terms that it would never happen. “An all women’s brand needs to happen in WWE unless you want AEW to beat you to the punch,” Foley tweeted in a public message to Vince McMahon on Friday, tagging the billionaire owner. Foley has been an outspoken advocate for women in wrestling for ma ..read more

Jeff Jarrett recently appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet where he spoke about a range of topics, including his relationship with Angle. The WWE Hall Of Famer spoke about how things are between him and Kurt Angle right now, pointing to that everyone has their ups and downs. “In my world, that’s family. It’s personal. It goes without saying, in 2010, I spent more time in the ring with him, he has spent Halloweens here at my house. He has five kids, that’s hard to imagine. I’ve got three biological, he’s got five biological. It’s family. Obviously, we all have our ups and downs, our i ..read more

Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis Bennett recently signed new deals with Ring Of Honor, and Mike discussed that contract in detail. Bennett recently spoke with Fightful.com where he discussed signing a new deal with Ring Of Honor. Mike spoke about how they had signed new deals with WWE in 2019, despite being unhappy, and he noted that things are very different with this deal. “I would never do that. That doesn’t sound like me at all. No, this is kind of one of those mutual agreements where it was like we wanted to get something done and—crazy!—they wanted to get something done. We were like, ‘O ..read more

The WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony was different this year, with each wrestler only having limited time to speak, and Holly Holly discussed that. Typically, the wrestlers are given a free time to talk, which has led to some fairly lengthy promos over time. However, this year things were limited, and when speaking with Busted Open Radio, Molly discussed that situation and how it was sad. “When I first — it was really awesome that Hurricane Helms was the one who tells me I was going to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame and the fact that he legitimately, for real got choked up and he was super proud ..read more

Daniel Bryan recently spoke about facing Kenny Omega in the past, and he discussed the respect he has for the AEW World Champion. Bryan spoke with My Mom’s Basement where he reflected on his PWG match that he had with Kenny Omega in 2009. “So one, you’d have to think that Kenny Omega then isn’t the Kenny Omega now,” Bryan said. “I think if we did that now, if you booked Daniel Bryan vs. Kenny Omega or Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny Omega, and we gave them the John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt bit, it wouldn’t fly. People wouldn’t be happy! “But at the time, he was substantially lesser known than he ..read more