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After RAW went off the air, we had a Universal title match, as well as a dream match of sorts. In case you didn’t know… In this week’s RAW, the main event saw Braun Strowman face off against Sami Zayn, where the winner of the falls count anywhere match would be added to the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match. Strowman bullied Zayn, but Zayn got help from Baron Corbin and Drew McIntyre which gave Zayn the win and a spot in the men’s Money in the Bank ladder match....

In case you didn’t know… Kurt first started receiving the ‘You Suck’ chants in late 2001, but they weren’t in the popular way he gets them today. At first, fans would chant it at the very beginning of his entrance theme for a couple of seconds, before they would become more scattered throughout the rest of his theme, and his matches. The ‘You Suck’ chant officially started in April 2002. Kurt was feuding with Edge, where Edge would tell Kurt he sucked, in every promo....

Samoa Joe managed to end Shinsuke Nakamura’s win streak and became the new NXT champion in an intense fight in the main event. Mickey James fought valiantly but Asuka managed to top the former WWE Divas champion to retain the NXT Women’s championship. DIY defeated The Revival in an epic 2-out -of-3 falls match to become the new NXT Tag Team Champions. The Authors of Pain defeated TM61 to win the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Class tournament....

Also read: WWE Smackdown Results: April 21, 2016 Apart from their wrestling career, the Bellas are also reputed for their appearance in ‘Total Divas’ at E! With the fifth season of the show coming to an end, WWE decided to provide the Bellas with a show of their own. The spin-off of Total Divas will be known as ‘Total Bellas’ and will be telecast on E!. Wrestlinginc.com reports that this “Total Bellas” docu-series will be featuring the members of the Bella family, including the Bella Twins, Daniel Bryan, John Cena and John Lauranitis....

When a fan speculated about the possibility of Matt Hardy being the fifth man on Team Miz, Julie Youngberg, a WWE employee and estranged wife of Shannon Moore, said that she wished it was ‘dead Matt’ who was the fifth man. Shannon Moore is a great friend of the Hardy Brothers, and they trained him to wrestle. Things only escalated from there as an enraged Reby Hardy engaged her in a Twitter Battle....

J.R also spoke about Matt Hardy and what he needs to do to make his Woken character work in the WWE. In case you didn’t know… J.R had been a staple of WWE programming from 1993 to 2009 as a commentator. He left WWE around 2010 but has continued to make sporadic appearances, the most recent being at Wrestlemania 33 and as the commentator of the May Young Classic on the WWE network....

The plan is to use Benjamin, Dolph Ziggler, and Jack Swagger in the new stable that is planned to reside on SmackDown Live, according to a report from Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The goal from WWE creative is to do something similar to the WCW “Varsity Club” stable with Rick Steiner, Mike Rotunda, Steve Williams, Kevin Sullivan and Dan Spivey back in the day. Wrestling Observer Newsletter also reports that ‘The Chairman Of The Board’ Vince McMahon is not a fan of shoot stables, as he thinks they are dangerous to any and all talents and personnel involved with them....

In case you didn’t know Over the last few years, the company’s stock has risen substantially following a period of great uncertainty which saw both WWE and Vince McMahon’s net worth drop. Now, however, with a new TV deal set to be announced soon, things are looking up. Heart of the matter As you can see in the reports from Twitter, WWE has passed 42.50 per share for the first time with a market cap of $3....

With WWE signing Steve Corino as a trainer at the Performance Center, New Japan Pro Wrestling was left with a vacancy on their English language commentary team. The position has quickly been filled, with former WWE and ECW superstar Don Callis signed to take over from Corino, starting with The New Beginning shows at the beginning of February. Callis took to Twitter to comment on his new gig, expressing enthusiasm to work with lead announcer Kevin Kelly once more....

Walter battled the Time Splitter, Kushida, in tonight’s main event. The Ring General and the rest of Imperium were stunned by Kushida a few weeks back after attacking his ring opponent for the night. Kushida hoped to send Walter and the rest of his group back to NXT UK where they belonged. It was a brawl of the undefeated tonight. Roderick Strong stole the North American Championship from the Velveteen Dream on NXT’s USA Network debut, thanks to the interference from the Undisputed Era....

Ember Moon vs Aliyah The Texas crowd was firmly behind their fellow Texan, Ember Moon, who hails from nearby Dallas. Aliyah started the match with an early pinning attempt but Moon soon took firm control of the match. She hit Aliyah with stiff kicks before hitting a beautiful double underhook suplex before locking in a painful looking abdominal stretch. Aliyah eventually managed to break out and hit a hip toss and followed it with a neckbreaker....

The men and women of NXT are in action on the night before WrestleMania and just like last year, they may steal the spotlight from their main roster counterparts once again. The card is stacked and the show will be headlined by Bobby Roode and Shinsuke Nakamura who will wrestle for the NXT Championship. Asuka will also be defending her NXT Women’s Championship against Ember Moon. Both women are undefeated in NXT and will wrestle to see who’s the top woman in NXT....

It’s a first and final for the WWE sub-brand on April 6: It’s the first NXT TakeOver scheduled to air on network TV, and it’s the last Wednesday that NXT will air before moving to Tuesday nights on April 13. NXT is taking a page out of the main brand’s book and stretching out its signature TakeOver event over two nights, with a bevvy of ways to watch. All of NXT’s biggest stars, including Johnny Gargano, Finn Balor, Karrion Kross, Ember Moon, Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly are in scheduled bouts....

This week’s RAW featured the return of Becky Lynch from suspension, a tag team championship bout, and the highlight of the show, Shield reunion. Two matches for Fastlane got confirmed this week, i.e. the Shield vs the trio of Corbin, Lashley, and McIntyre, and Charlotte vs Becky Lynch, with a stipulation that if Becky wins, she gets added to the RAW women’s championship match at WrestleMania. Multiple storylines were continued for Fastlane and HHH cut a passionate promo hyping up his match against Batista at Wrestlemania....

Sure, we always see Superstars that win a Championship celebrating in the ring. But then when the camera goes to the back where there’s a welcome party ready to commend you for an impressive performance, that’s a big deal. So why then did Vince McMahon have AJ Styles pin the new Champion the very next night on RAW, in a spectacular main event? Let me try and answer this question through five different points....

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He began the night with a string of announcements. Charlotte was set to defend her title against Natalya. AJ Styles will be facing Sami Zayn, who was robbed of his match last week by Owens, to determine if Reigns fights a triple threat at Payback. Also, there was a tag team tournament kicked off to find out New Day’s new opponents. Shane McMahon met one Kevin Owens who played such a great heel that he earned himself a match against Cesaro to see who faces Miz for the IC title....

Also read: [Video] WWE Raw Results, 18th April 2016: WWE Payback 2016 gets three huge matches The show’s gotten better with his presence. Obviously, there is a lot of excitement surrounding this particular McMahon. It’s pretty okay to believe that due to the tremendous social media support, again, he will be running Raw up until Payback, or so it seems. And that’s just great news at this point, if that’s what’s meant to be....

Four-and-a-half years after his first clean defeat, which came against John Cena at WrestleMania 31 in March 2015, “The Bulgarian Brute” has failed to win any of his last 19 pay-per-view matches. The run stretches all the way back to Roadblock: End of the Line (December 18, 2016) when he picked up a countout win over Big Cass in a match lasting 4 minutes and 30 seconds on the PPV’s kickoff show....

Well, there have been critiques in the past that WWE was “killing the business” by taking talent from the independent scene, and one of WWE’s most successful former indie stars has spoken out. In case you didn’t know… While Samoa Joe is one of WWE’s top stars just now and looks set for a huge push on SmackDown after making the move to the blue brand during the Superstar Shake-up, it’s easy to forget that he’s a 39-year-old veteran of the business....