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the six star WrestleMania match of Shane McMahon
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we haven’t seen him since - and whatever
The Bar getting a tag team match on Raw was,
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We’ve got a packed show for you today, including
all the details on a WWE star being released,
Vince McMahon apparently firing someone else
backstage over WrestleMania weekend and the
latest on Sasha Banks suddenly going missing
from TV.
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PCO no-selling, and MizDad selling way too
much - seriously, I think he’s dead - aside,
the WrestleMania weekend moment that got me
the most was Kofi Kingston defeating Daniel
Bryan to become the new WWE Champion, to then
celebrate with his Kofi Kidstons in the ring.
It was the emotional highpoint of the night,
just five hours into a seven and a half hour
show, but not everyone was sold on Kingston
as champion.
Superstar Billy Graham was a huge name in
wrestling through the 70s and 80s, and doesn’t
just look like Hulk Hogan’s dad, he was
his metaphorical father figure, taking the
Hulkster under his wing during the early days
of his career. But while Graham’s advice
helped the likes of Hogan and Jesse ‘The
Body’ Ventura become all-time greats, the
business has moved on considerably since then,
and in many respects for the better. As Graham
rather outdated advice to Kingston on the
Facebook shows:
“Congratulations to Kofi for winning the
most important Title in pro wrestling history….sorry
you NWA guys…. Notice the word ” Heavyweight
” in his Title…so my man, I urge you to
start doing some steroids and add about 50
pounds of solid muscle to your championship
body. Vince wont care, honestly. Actually
he would be quite pleased with the muscular
transformation, as I predict that you young
man will have the longest run as WWE champ
in modern-day history.”
Maybe Graham made a typo and meant to write…
steaks? Like he meant to write ‘steaks’
instead of steroids? Oh, he’s posted again.
I’m sure he’ll clear up the confusion:
"Please notice that I urged Kofi to use some
steroids .......but never told him to ABUSE
them like I did.”
Nope, he definitely meant steroids then. Graham’s
own ‘abuse’ of steroids, by the way, has
led to him becoming sterile, needing both
his hips replaced and one of his ankle joints
to be fused. The good old days, eh!
But there’s another big ‘S’ word controversy
backstage in WWE this week: ‘shorts’.
Former American football player-turned-pundit
and podcast host Pat McAfee joined WWE a year
ago when he appeared on the pre-show panel
for NXT TakeOver: New Orleans. He appeared
on several more TakeOver pre-shows before
getting promoted to the main interviewer roster
for WWE’s live watchalong of March’s Fastlane
pay-per-view.
McAfee finally hit the bigtime at WrestleMania
where he appeared alongside Mean Charly Caruso
on the event’s kickoff show, and he celebrated
by wearing his best tuxedo and a pair of shorts
that also occasionally looked like a skirt.
It’s a bold fashion choice, and unfortunately
one that Michael Cole didn’t appreciate.
Speaking on his podcast, McAfee revealed he
was explicitly told before the event don’t
wear jorts - a memo that John Cena didn’t
appear to get later on in the night - as he
should dress smart for the Showcase of the
Immortals. So McAfee went and got a tuxedo…
and some tuxedo shorts to match, which didn’t
go down too well in rehearsals before the
show went
on air.
McAfee said getting yelled out by Cole was
so humiliating, he walked off, grabbed his
bag and almost quit WWE just minutes before
WrestleMania was due
to begin:
Thankfully for the sake of suit-short combinations
everywhere, one of the Digital producers stopped
McAfee from storming out and went to talk
to Vince McMahon himself, who, it turns out,
was a fan of the 
shorts all along:
Official confirmation: Vince McMahon is hip.
Unfortunately not everyone was so lucky over
the weekend.
Following the reportedly botched finish to
the WrestleMania main event, where the referee
counted the pin despite Ronda Rousey’s shoulders
being up, Fightful claim McMahon fined the
official in that match, and then also referee
Rudy Charles the following night on Raw for
a separate incident to “make an example”.
According to Sean Waltman, that wasn’t the
only example Vince made.
While most people were preoccupied with the
person who attacked Bret Hart during his speech
at Saturday night’s Hall of Fame, McMahon
appeared to have been more annoyed by something
else: his name being mentioned.
Of the many things that irrationally annoy
Vince - like the word ‘hospital’, people
sneezing near him, but oddly, not wearing
shorts with a suit (he’s hip, don’t you
know), one of his chief pet peeves is people
saying his name during the Hall of Fame.
This is something that DX made fun of during
their induction speech, when they mentioned
Vince’s name multiple times as an inside
joke. But it was no joke when Bret did it
earlier in the night, as McMahon apparently
fired the writer who had scripted Hart’s
speech, as Waltman reveals on his X-Pac 12360
show:
“I think Bret mentioned Vince a bunch of
times. Vince got really hot. I think somebody
might have gotten fired. Then we went out
and said it a million times and no one got
fired. It’s not funny for the guy that f******
lost his job… I’m not kidding. No, I’m
not. Vince was pissed.”
And that writer wasn’t the only person WWE
released over the weekend…
Pro Wrestling Sheet has reported generic backstage
interviewer No. 4 Dasha Fuentes has been released
by WWE.
Dasha originally joined the company as a wrestler
in 2014, but transitioned to the broadcast
team shortly after, where she’s been a backstage
interviewer for Raw, SmackDown, NXT and 205
Live ever since.
She hasn’t directly referenced her release
yet, but she did post an Instagram video calling
the last few days “interesting” and that
she’s now going on holiday.
And that’s not the only weird backstage
story from the last several days in the company…
Sasha Banks and Bayley lost their Women’s
Tag Team Titles to the IIconics at WrestleMania
35, and seemed set to start a feud with Alexa
Bliss on the following night’s Raw. WWE
had already promoted Bliss would fight either
Bayley or Banks on the show, and Sasha had
begun building the feud by muting Alexa on
Twitter while asking ‘you scared?’ - which
Bliss responded to by blocking her: “No,
not scared. Sick of your petty POO POO EMOJI
Hashtag blocked.”
But then Banks was nowhere to be seen on Monday
night, with Bayley taking on Alexa by herself,
and then Sasha pulled out of a scheduled TV
appearance the next day at very late notice:
“Due to personal reasons, I had to pull
out of my appearance today on @WendyWilliams
. Sorry to everyone who was looking forward
to it. Hopefully the opportunity will be there
again later. #IfYouOnlyKnew”
This last-minute cancellation, however, garnered
Sasha significant heat with TV producers on
the show, with an insider telling Page Six:
“She won’t be booked again. She didn’t
give a real reason for canceling, and she
did it only hours before the show tapes, so
production was left scrambling to fill her
spot. Wendy ended up doing an extra segment
of Hot Topics instead.”
Williams herself contradicted this on yesterday’s
episode, though, saying that Sasha’s representative
had actually cancelled the booking after midnight
the night before, and that it was because
of a family emergency.
And the whole situation is made even more
confusing by Sasha’s cryptic tweet following
WrestleMania:
“There is something about the way life happens
today that makes it hard to look ahead. There
are things that make it difficult to laugh;
difficult to live the way you want. There
are things that make it almost impossible
to trust where you are, or to believe in where
you want to be. You look around and life is
happening way too fast. Sometimes it feels
like the moments are gone. Everything happens
all at once and right away. We're marching
towards a destiny we cannot understand, towards
the kingdom of convenient. Then one day you
look up and you can't find the meaning. Your
crisis of purpose and passion is acting up,
but they tell you that that's suppose to be
normal. Well… I don't want normal, I want
magic; cause that's the place that feels like
home to me. That's the place where I remember
what dreams look like, where meaning is effortless,
and purpose is simple. That's the place where
love still matters. I want that feeling of
coming home again. I want to feel like myself…..
I want that magic."
Sasha to AEW confirmed!
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