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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 and Reckoning are still listed as RAW Superstars on the official WWE roster, with their Retribution ...

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 Bliss and Lilly from the stage. That explosion knocked Reginald to the floor, which led to WWE keepin...

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. This number is down 16% from last week’s final SmackDown viewership of 2.282 million viewers for the...

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 Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the segment was pulled from the Throwback SmackDown broadca...