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Backstage News On WWE Possibly Using Former Retribution Members (Photo Credit: WWE) WWE has reportedly dropped the Retribution names for Mia Yim and Shane Thorne. Yim was known as Reckoning in Retribution, while Thorne was known as Slapjack. PWInsider reports that both names have been dropped internally. Moving forward, Yim and Thorne will be using their previous ring names, but there’s no word on when we will see them back on WWE TV. It should be noted that as of this writing, both Slapjack ...

Title Rematch And Bobby Lashley Segment Announced For Monday’s WWE RAW (Photo Credit: WWE) WWE has announced a match and a segment for Monday’s RAW episode on the USA Network. RAW will see WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Natalya and Tamina Snuka defend their titles against the former champions, Shayna Baszler and Nia Jax. This will be the second rematch for Baszler and Jax. This week’s RAW saw Natalya and Snuka retain their titles after an explosion that was apparently created by Alexa B...

WWE SmackDown WrestleMania Backlash Go-Home Show Draws Lowest Key Demo Rating Since July (Photo Credit: WWE) Friday’s live WrestleMania Backlash go-home edition of WWE SmackDown, featuring the final build for the pay-per-view with Cesaro vs. Jimmy Uso in the main event, drew an average of 1.917 million viewers on FOX, according to @SportsTVRatings. This final number is up 6.5% from the overnight viewership that was released on Saturday morning, which was an average of 1.80 million viewers. Th...

Why Vince McMahon Reportedly Pulled Pat McAfee Segment From Throwback SmackDown (Photo Credit: WWE) WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon reportedly nixed Pat McAfee’s Throwback SmackDown segment because he thought McAfee’s impression of a young Vince McMahon “looked stupid.” McAfee recently revealed on The Pat McAfee Show how he got all dressed up for the segment where he impersonated McMahon from his announcing days, only for the segment to be nixed at the last minute. In an update, the Wr...

News On Nixed Pat McAfee-Vince McMahon Parody Segment From Throwback SmackDown ); Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Vince McMahon nixed Pat McAfee’s Throwback SmackDown segment because he thought McAfee’s impression of a young Vince McMahon “looked stupid.” McAfee impersonated McMahon from his announcing days, but the segment was nixed at the last minute.  ); The segment was pulled by McMahon himself because he felt like McAfee didn’t look or sound lik...

(Photo Credit: WWE) WWE SmackDown Superstar Aleister Black took to Instagram today to show off his 7-month body transformation. Black noted that he has spent the past 7 months working out with Josh Frye, an online fitness coach who works with WWE Superstars and other people around the world. 7 months goes back to when Black last wrestled a match for WWE, which was the No DQ loss to Kevin Owens on the October 12 RAW show. Black was drafted to SmackDown that night and has been off TV since the vi...

(Photo Credit: WWE) Former RETRIBUTION member Mia Yim (Reckoning) is scheduled to make her WWE SmackDown debut later this week during the WrestleMania Backlash go-home episode. It was originally reported by Ringside News that Yim was backstage for this past Friday’s Throwback SmackDown and was set to make her debut there, but the match never happened. That report stated that Yim’s debut was delayed to another week, as this past week the company dealt with being short-staffed backstage as Br...

(Photo Credit: WWE) WWE held a special Throwback edition of SmackDown this week as a special tie-in with FOX programming. FOX Sports previously announced a line-up of “#NASCARThrowback” programming to air Friday and Saturday of this week with NASCAR. It looks like WWE was possibly asked to hold a special Throwback edition of SmackDown, but it’s interesting how FOX Sports didn’t give much publicity to WWE like they did with NASCAR this week. It’s also interesting how last week WWE orig...

Big Match Revealed For WWE WrestleMania Backlash (Photo Credit: WWE) Cesaro vs. WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns is now official for the WWE WrestleMania Backlash pay-per-view. As noted before at this link, tonight’s Throwback SmackDown opening segment featured the return of Jimmy Uso, plus a special appearance by WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long. Long announced that Cesaro would earn a title shot from Reigns if he could beat Seth Rollins in their singles match. Rollins ended up having words w...