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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 like a young Vince. He thought it looked stupid, and was comical in the wrong way. McMahon was open t...

(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 vignettes for his return started airing on SmackDown a few weeks back.

(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 Bruce Prichard was on vacation and Ed Koskey was also absent. Triple H helped out a lot with the show ...

(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 originally announced that this would be a “Go Back” edition of SmackDown. A few days ago they starte...

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 with The Usos at ringside, which led to Cesaro getting the win and becoming the new #1 contender for ...