Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Is Rhio signed to NXT? Saw she has...
2025-05-03 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWWE releases happened today, with a massive cut.
Shayna Baszler, Braun Strowman, Dakota Kai, Kayden Carter, Katana Chance were all released or departed the company. Unless we find out they were notified their contracts are expiring, they will have 90-day non compete clauses.
Dakota Ka...
2025-05-03 03:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostSmackDown happened tonight.
We will briefly discuss the particulars, but mostly this episode is going to talk about the WWE releases that occurred early this evening.
Shayna Baszler
Dakota Kai
Braun Strowman
Cora Jade
Eddy Thorpe
Both Katana & Kayden
Every member...
While the names mentioned earlier weren't released, Fightful Select has learned of another number of other Releases.
Internal memos went out indicating Kayden Carter, Dakota Kai, Braun Strowman, Shayna Baszler and Katana Chance had been released
Gigi Dolin, Cora Jade, Riley Osborne...
A wrestler has finished up with All Elite Wrestling.
Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp has learned that ROH talent EJ Nduka’s contract recently expired with AEW, and he is effectively a free agent.
Nduka was signed to AEW in early 2023 and was used sparingly. Eventually he'd appear...
2025-05-02 18:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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How real is the possibility of WWE...
2025-05-02 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostJeff Cobb is still headed to WWE.
Fightful Select reported months ago that then-NJPW talent Jeff Cobb appeared on WWE's internal rosters. Despite that, Cobb had a number of New Japan Pro Wrestling dates remaining, and finished those out. That included a tag team title run that was puzzling ...
2025-05-02 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSome familiar faces were backstage at the May 1 live TNA tapings.
Fightful Select has learned that Flash Morgan Webster and Mark Andrews are backstage at tonight's TNA tapings.
Fightful reported months ago the duo known as Subculture was in the process of getting their visas. They we...
2025-05-02 02:30:23 +0000 UTC View PostThere has been a lot of talk regarding Mercedes Mone having “creative control” since her AEW run started.
Almost like clockwork, whether it’s someone established, someone who just won their first match on TV, or an international star rarely seen on AEW TV, whenever Mercedes Mone gets ...
2025-05-02 02:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostMLW has a prominent talent deal coming up very soon.
Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp has confirmed that Alex Kane's Major League Wrestling deal is coming up very soon, with it expiring on June 1. We've not learned yet if the two sides have had extension talks, and didn't hear back from MLW...
2025-05-01 19:16:19 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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If wwe rebrands aaa as nxt Mexico,...
2025-05-01 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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This is less important than probab...
2025-05-01 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThekla is now done with Stardom after over three years in the company.
Fightful confirmed that Thekla’s agreement with Stardom has expired, and we can also confirm that she is effectively headed to the United States. Those we’ve spoken to claim that her move to the US has been planned ...
A big boost could be coming for the AEW women’s division.
Skye Blue is present backstage at this week’s AEW Dynamite taping in Norfolk, sources told Fightful Select. We're told she's actually been backstage at numerous TV tapings of late. We're told she was also at tapings as far back ...
AEW’s All In is less than three months away, with many matches still in question.
One of the top matches naturally will be the AEW World Title match. As of now, the winner of the Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament will take on the AEW World Champion. That won’t be determined until Doub...
2025-04-30 17:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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What's going on with the Wyatts stu...
2025-04-30 16:38:12 +0000 UTC View PostA new stable has made its presence felt in WWE.
At this year’s Raw After Mania, Bron Breakker joined Paul Heyman and Seth Rollins, who had just joined forces two nights prior. The stable immediately began drawing comparisons to Evolution, to the Dangerous Alliance.
However, we...
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Liv Morgan
Regarding L...
2025-04-29 17:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe opening promo of Raw tonight has already ruined the New Dangerous Alliance. So that was a fun week.
Logan Paul is getting a title match vs Jey Uso. So that's a weird choice to ruin Jey Uso's young title reign.
Becky has turned heel on Lyra. But if you listen to her promo tonight, ...
2025-04-29 02:07:25 +0000 UTC View PostWWE’s upcoming Netflix docuseries Unreal has had its trailer released, and has caused buzz.
During the trailer of the series, a whiteboard was shown with potential WrestleMania matches. From what we can tell, the whiteboard was from a creative meeting during the winter months.
Fight...
2025-04-29 00:29:14 +0000 UTC View PostAce Austin, Alan Angela, Thekla contracts
The Rock
Karrion Kross
Brodie Lee Jr's GCW spot
Stokely's return
8:00 Q&A: WrestleMania Roast, Wyatt Sicks, AAA-NXT, Orange Cassidy, Punk/Cena, Ladder Match, Who could ...
2025-04-29 00:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post
- BLP: "At Squared Circle Expo III" results
- DPW: "Title Fight In Vegas" results
- ACTION: "Se7en" results
- HOG: "Isolation" results
- WWE EVOLVE (4/23) results
- 1FW: "Fight Night At Freedom" results
2025-04-29 00:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostTNA
Indi Hartwell's signing was announced by TNA on April 27. Fightful Select had reported earlier in the month that a number of international signings hadn't been announced. Hartwell was in the process of being signed as far back as a full month ago, and it was finalized around tha...
2025-04-28 14:20:27 +0000 UTC View PostThekla is United States bound, by the looks of it.
The highly touted Austrian wrestler has made her impact in Japan for Stardom in recent years. On April 27, she also made a buzz when the company effectively wrote her off of TV with a confrontation with Stardom President Taro Okada. Thekla ...
2025-04-27 20:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostTNA is looking to retain a prominent star in their company.
TNA sources claimed to Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp this week that they had begun talks with Ace Austin to keep him with the company. We’ve not heard how far along the talks are, but that TNA was hopeful they’d reta...
2025-04-27 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Have you heard anything from AEW To...
2025-04-27 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBrodie Lee Jr won his first match, the GCW Clusterfuck.
Brodie has been training at the Dungeon 2.0, where he’s become a beloved face there. We’re told that Brodie legtiimately wants to learn to be a pro wrestler, and has put in work at the Dungeon to do it.
Regarding his appearan...
2025-04-26 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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Have you heard anything from AEW To...
2025-04-26 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostJohn & Randy yelled at each other.
For half an hour.
And then there was some other stuff too.
But they were pretty clear about none of that other stuff mattering too much.
Fraser & Axiom debuted.
There's gonna be a Triple Threat Tag Team Title TLC Tilt. (That's...