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Developmental Star Talks About Being The Only The Australian In WWE

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Australian wrestler Matt Silva recently spoke to Herald Sun about signing a WWE developmental contract. that he will make history. “I’ll be the first Australian to compete in the WWE,” Silva said. “I’m going in as a newbie, and just wait for a call up to the main roster before I start competing against those guys.”

According to the article, Silva was one of 85 wrestlers from around the world that recently took part in WWE tryouts in Tampa, Florida – and was the only man offered a chance to sign with the company.

Silva says he’s already made history and can’t wait to represent his home country to the WWE Universe.

“It’s the biggest wrestling company in the world, so whatever happens, happens. Being the only Australian over there and representing Australia on the biggest wrestling state in the world, I’m looking forward to it.”

TNA Impact Preview: Bully Ray vs. Jeff Hardy Full Metal Mayhem

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TNA will be in Corpus Christi, Texas tonight with a live edition of Impact Wrestling. Here is a preview from the TNA website:

– The huge main event on Thursday’s broadcast will feature World Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray of The Aces and Eights defending the gold against “The Charismatic Enigma” Jeff Hardy in a Full Metal Mayhem match! Hardy finally gets his rematch from Lockdown for the title against Bully Ray in a bout featuring tables, chairs and ladders – NO DISQUALIFICATION, ANYTHING GOES! Can Hardy recapture the gold? Can the Aces and Eights continue their domination of TNA? Don’t miss it!

– Thursday’s IMPACT will start off with the World Tag Team Championship match with Austin Aries and Bobby Roode defending against Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez in a 2 out of 3 Falls match! Also, if Chavo and Hernandez do not win the Tag Team Titles they can never team together again.

– Is AJ Styles with The Aces and Eights…or with TNA Wrestling? Hulk Hogan wants AJ’s answer on Thursday’s IMPACT! After weeks of questions about AJ’s allegiance, which side will Styles choose?

– The sexy TNA Knockouts will be in action on Thursday LIVE from Corpus Christi as Taryn Terrell makes her singles debut against her bitter rival, Gail Kim!

– Will newcomers Adam Pearce or Magno pass the TNA Gut Check to earn a spot on the roster? One of these two men will face the judges for the final decision on Thursday!

All this and much more on Thursday’s LIVE IMPACT on SpikeTV at 8/7c from Corpus Christi, Texas!

* TNA NEWS Page: Lots More Exclusive TNA News

WWE’s Promotional Efforts & Marketing Touted, Fandango’s Theme On MLB TV

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– Variety.com has an article looking at WWE’s incredible promotional and marketing efforts. The article states, “Hollywood can take a few lessons from the WWE’s all-encompassing approach to brand management” and looks at the ways WWE reaches their audience through various platforms and generates countless streams of revenue.

– The Fandango craze continues below, as the show MLB Now on the MLB Network comes back from commercial:

* VIDEO From After SmackDown – FANDANGO & CENA

HBK On Steve Austin’s Podcast, Otunga Doing Legal Commentary & More

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– Steve Austin’s latest podcast is online, featuring an interview with Shawn Michaels. [Listen Here]

– David Otunga has been appearing on the HLN Network doing commentary on the ongoing Jodi Arias trial.

– Shawn Michaels will be doing a signing and Q&A Session in Waynesboro, VA on 8/31 promoted. For more information, visit Top Rope Wrestling.

WWE Hits 100 Million Facebook Followers

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WWE issued the following:

WWE® TOPS 100 MILLION FACEBOOK FANS AT WRESTLEMANIA

STAMFORD, Conn., April 10, 2013 – WWE® (NYSE:WWE) today announced it eclipsed 100 million Facebook fans across its network of pages during WrestleMania 29, further cementing itself as one of the most followed brands in the world.

WWE’s Facebook network currently has more fans than the NFL and its 32 teams combined and MLB and its 30 teams combined. The main WWE Facebook page also has more fans than the NHL, The New York Times, ESPN, Pepsi, Burger King, NASCAR and CNN. Seventeen WWE Superstars rank in the top 100 most-followed athletes on Facebook, with John Cena ® (more than 14 million fans) as the third most-followed athlete in the U.S. behind only Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

To drive additional fan engagement, WWE launched “Superfan Showdown,” a Facebook app exclusive to the platform that allows fans from around the world to compete in fast-paced interactive trivia challenges, rapid-fire polls, mind-bending puzzles and much more. As fans go head-to-head, they earn points, climb the global leaderboard and accumulate “WWE cash” that can be spent to purchase exclusive virtual goods, including: limited edition badges, rare Superstar trading cards, and never-before-seen WWE video content.

WWE now has more than 150 million followers across all social media platforms while ranking in the top 20 most social companies according to the Dachis Groups Social Business Index. WWE is also one of only seven brands in the world to obtain a Klout score of 99 from Klout.com, which measures a brands’ social media influence on a scale from 1 to 100. The other six brands include YouTube, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Time, Associated Press and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Video From After SmackDown (Cena & Fandango), Swagger’s Court Date Set, WWE HOF Rating

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– Tuesday night’s 2013 WWE Hall of Fame special on the USA Network drew a 1.23 rating with 1.63 million viewers.

– WWE star Jack Swagger is scheduled to appear in court on June 25th for charges stemming from his DUI arrest in Mississippi back on February 19th. The Sun Hearld reports that city prosecutor Kirk Clark “always recommends the maximum sentence of two days in jail for first-time offenders and completion of victim-impact classes.”

– Check out the following video of what took place after Tuesday night’s WWE SmackDown tapings featuring John Cena and Fandango:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AaBma55xmqA

TNA Announces Dates For Summer Impact Wrestling Tapings

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TNA will be holding Impact Wrestling tapings on the following dates this summer:

  • June 20th: Peoria, IL
  • June 29th: Las Vegas, NV
  • July 18th: Louisville, KY
  • August 1st: Wichita Falls, TX
  • August 15th: Norfolk, VA
  • August 29th: Cleveland, OH

The Latest On CM Punk & The Undertaker’s Conditions After WM29

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– CM Punk was backstage at Monday’s RAW, despite the fact that he wasn’t used on television. WWE kept him off TV to sell the effects of his match against The Undertaker, but Punk really was very banged up during the match.

Another reason he was kept off the show was the fact that WWE didn’t want him getting a huge babyface reaction from the rowdy IZOD Center crowd. There had been talk of him doing a promo on the show, but the decision was made to feature Paul Heyman instead.

Punk is getting his knees checked out this week and reportedly had trouble walking around at RAW.

– The Undertaker, on the other hand, was said to be doing fine after WrestleMania 29. Despite the angle they filmed on RAW involving The Undertaker, Kane & Daniel Bryan vs. The Shield, there are no plans for the Undertaker to wrestle any time soon.

(Partial Source: PWInsider.com)

The Breakdown – Episode 2: In Defense of John Cena

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On this episode of The Breakdown, Steve just can’t get enough Fan-dan-go! He covers the hottest Raw of the modern era before playing Devil’s Advocate, this time in defense of WWE Champion John Cena. All of this, and a bit more Fandango!

Follow Steve on Twitter @GKickShalthis or comment on Because Wrestling’s Facebook page here.

Download The Breakdown – Episode 2: In Defense of John Cena

Got an idea for a future topic? Leave it in the comments below, or on Facebook or Twitter!

What Happened After SmackDown, Off-Air Comedy Segment With Vince & More

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– Baltimore Orioles player Adam Jones was in attendance at last night’s SmackDown tapings from Boston.

– There was an off-camera segment at Tuessday’s SmackDown tapings with Triple H, Team Hell No, Heath Slater – and a Katie Vick reference. After Slater took a chokeslam and a Pedigree, Triple H and Team Hell No some comedy and even hugged it out. They even brought up Katie Vick – which led to Vince McMahon coming out. Triple H said Vince needs a hug, but it never happened. The segment ended with Triple H, Kane and Daniel Bryan hugging.

– The dark main event after Tuesday’s SmackDown tapings from Boston saw John Cena, Kane and Daniel Bryan defeat The Shield by DQ when Rollins hit Cena with a chair.

After the match, the babyfaces hit The Shield with their finishers. Cena began cutting a promo and had Fandango’s music played. Fandango came out – and Cena unsuccessfully tried to pronounce his name. Cena pushed Fandango – which led to him getting a chokeslam from Kane, an attitude adjustment from Cena and another chokeslam from Bryan to end the show.

* Is RYBACK A Heel Now? Plus – Rumored Matches For EXTREME RULES

RAW Rating, Top Stars Going To The UK, JR Puts Over Michael Cole & More

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– The rating for Mondays WWE RAW was a 3.45. The show did 4.61 million viewers.

– WWE is advertising John Cena & Team Hell No vs. CM Punk, Dolph Ziggler & Big E Langston as the dark match main event for the upcoming RAW taping from London, England.

– Jimmy Hart noted on Twitter that WWE officials are negotiating with Turner on ways they can release WCW theme songs.

– Jim Ross gave props to Michael Cole on Twitter this week, noting how valuable Cole is to the WWE product:

“Most don’t realize how valuable @MichaelCole is to #wwe. Helps produce @JerryLawler & keeps Texan @JCLayfield in line. Full time #Raw trio?”

Alex Riley Explains His WWE Absense, WWE Shareholders Meeting

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– WWE will hold its annual shareholders meeting at WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut on Friday, April 26th.

– During a recent interview with CBS0-19 in Cleveland, WWE Superstar Alex Riley was asked why he stopped appearing on television:

“I don’t know, it’s a very competitive company. There’s a lot of people here and a lot of talent. So you have to constantly re-invent yourself and constantly be entertaining on a daily basis and find new ways to entertain and I’m trying to do that” …

 

“I was shoved into a main event spot very early in my career, which I don’t think a lot of people quite get that opportunity, so I was very lucky to get that opportunity. I wanna earn it, a lot of that had to do with Miz, so when I come back this time it’s going to be all me and I want to earn it.”

Foley’s HOF Elbow Drop Unscripted, Rock-WWE 2K14, WWE Title Rings & More

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– WWEShop.com is selling new WWE Championship belt rings for $50, including John Cena’s new WWE Championship.

– WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley says the elbow drop he gave to Chris Jericho at the Hall of Fame ceremony was not scripted. Foley told Raj Giri of WrestlingINC:

“It came as a complete surprise to me, as did CM Punk coming out doing the very un-bad-guy thing with doing the three count and hugging me on stage. For that one night, there are no good guys and bad guys.”

– Several video game websites have picked up the story of The Rock appearing on the cover of the upcoming WWE 2K14 video game, due out this fall.

– The WWE In Your House DVD and Blu-Ray will be released on 4/30.

WWE SmackDown Preview For Friday

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The following is a spoiler-free preview for Friday’s WWE SmackDown:

* World Heavyweight champion Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Jericho.

* Triple H addresses his Wrestlemania win.

* Randy Orton & Sheamus vs. Big Show.

* United States champ Antonio Cesaro vs. Kofi Kingston.

* Tag Team champs Team Hell No vs. Primetime Players.

* Intercontinental champ Wade Barrett vs. Santino Marella.

* The Bellas & Tamina vs. WWE Divas champion Kaitlyn & Naomi & Cameron.

Plus, there will be appearances from Vince McMahon, Fandango, The Shield, 3MB, Jack Swagger and Alberto Del Rio.

* MAJOR Update On THE ROCK’s Injury & His Uncertain Future With WWE

WWE Main Event Preview, Saturday Morning Slam Matches Taped & More

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– Justin Gabriel defeated Curt Hawkins in the dark match that took place before Tuesday night’s WWE TV tapings from Boston, Massachusetts.

– WWE taped the following matches on Tuesday night for an upcoming episode of WWE Saturday Morning Slam:

  • The Great Khali, Natalya and Hornswoggle vs. Epico, Primo and Rosa Mendes
  • The Usos vs. Team Rhodes Scholars

– The following matches were taped for Wednesday’s Main Event:

  • Tensai, Brodus Clay and Kofi Kingston vs. The Shield
  • Zack Ryder vs. Big E Langston
  • Yoshi Tatsu vs. Jack Swagger

Triple H Explains What Was On Him During His WrestleMania 29 Entrance

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https://twitter.com/TripleH/statuses/321767376171446274

*Spoilers* WWE SmackDown Tapings Results For Friday

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WWE taped this week’s WWE Smackdown Tuesday night from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. Below are full results including live news and notes:

The crowd seems to be slightly different from Monday night’s Raw. A Fandango theme song chant was a fail early on.

Lots of Ric Flair “Wooos” are warming up the crowd.

A recap of WrestleMania is shown, and there are a lot of boos for Cena.

Dark Match:

* Justin Gabriel defeated Curt Hawkins with the 450 splash.

WWE SmackDown

A highlight video of Triple H getting medical attention after WrestleMania was shown right before SmackDown started. They showed a graphic that he will be here tonight, making the crowd go nuts.

The show starts with Big E Langston doing his best Ricardo Rodriguez impersonation. He introduces the new World Heavyweight Champion, Dolph Ziggler, who makes his way to the ring with AJ Lee and to a huge pop. Ziggler cuts a promo and is doing his best to be a heel.

Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter interrupt Ziggler. Zeb says that Swagger wants a title shot. They leave and Ziggler continues acting cocky when Alberto Del Rio comes out limping wanting a title shot too.

Chris Jericho then comes out. The crowd is starting to turn on Ziggler. Jericho tells Ziggler that his first opponent World Heavyweight Champion is Chris Jericho and that match is tonight.

* Team Hell No defeated The Prime Time Players pretty easily in a short match. Daniel Bryan won the match for his team with the No Lock. After the match, The Shield come on the screen and cut a promo saying that they won’t back down again and that they can strike at any time.

* WWE Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett defeated Santino Marella. Santino got a little offense in this match and countered the Bullhammer to hit his Santino splash. Barrett quickly capitalized to hit the Bullhammer for the victory.

Backstage segment with Sheamus, Booker T, Teddy Long and Randy Orton. Booker T announced a handicap match with Sheamus and Randy Orton facing The Big Show tonight.

* The Bella Twins and Tamina Snuka defeated The Funkadactyls and WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn.

There have been lots of failed attempts for chants of Fandango’s theme song from the crowd. Seems like the crowd isn’t like the crowd from Monday’s Raw.

Triple H comes out and makes his way to the ring. He talks about his war at WrestleMania with Brock Lesnar. 3MB then come out and interrupt him trying to steal The Game’s thunder. The Shield’s music hits and 3MB try to go after Triple H. The Shield takes out 3MB and they circle around Triple H. Kane’s music hits and Team Hell No make their way out and the Shield retreats. Triple H then hit a pedigree on Heath Slater and clears 3MB from the ring with Kane and Daniel Bryan.

Team Hell No go to hug Triple H. The Game doesn’t want to hug Bryan but would hug Kane. Triple H tells Bryan to eat a piece of meat instead of vegetables because he is edgy. He says he has no problem hugging Kane and that he gets along with Kane. He brings up their weird history and Katie Vick and says they were young and needed money.

Vince McMahon then comes out and HHH says if anyone needs a hug, it’s Vince. Vince then leaves after teasing going through with it.

Bryan quickly apologizes and tells him to hug Kane. Triple H jokes that he wished the Shield come back out and finish him off. Triple H then hugged Kane and Bryan joined in. Triple H said that he felt violated. Crowd loved this segment, lots of laughs during it.

* Randy Orton makes his way to the ring and has his ribs tapped up to sell the Big Show’s attack on RAW. Sheamus came out next, followed by The Big Show. Orton starts the match with some punches, before Big Show hit a side walk slam. Show works on Orton’s ribs. Small “RVD” chants started through the crowd. Show fails to splash Orton off the top rope and Orton tags Sheamus in, who begins to unload his offense until Show countered with a spear. Show went after Orton, who hit an RKO out of nowhere. Sheamus followed up with a Brogue kick on Show, which knocked him out of the ring. Show then simply walked to the back and got counted out.

* US Champion Antonio Cesaro vs. Kofi Kingston in a non-title match. Back and forth match. Kofi hits Trouble in Paradise to beat Cesaro.

Fandango comes out with half of the crowd singing his theme music.

* World champion Dolph Ziggler defeated Chris Jericho after Fandango & Big E. Langston got involved.

*Spoilers* WWE Main Event Tapings Results

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Thanks to Will Mac for sending in the following results from Boston, Massachusetts:

1. The Shield defeated Kofi Kingston and Tons of Funk. The Shield picked up the victory, pinning Kofi Kingston. After the match, The Shield Triple Powerbomb Brodus and Sweet T. The heels stand tall.

-Backstage, Big E Langston is interviewed. He cuts a promo and has a match next against Zack Ryder.

2. Big E Langston defeated Zack Ryder in a quick match. Langston worked over a quick offensive attack from Ryder and finished him off with his finisher.

3. Jack Swagger defeated Yoshi Tatsu. Before the match, Zeb Colter came out and bashed Boston. The match was extremely basic with Swagger dominating Tatsu and making him tap to the Patriot Act.

*Spoilers* WWE Saturday Morning Slam Matches Taped

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Thanks to Will Mac for the following results from Boston, Massachuttes:

1. The Great Khali, Hornswoggle, and Natalya defeated Primo, Epico, and Rosa Mendez. Khali hit the chop, Hornswoggle hit his Tadpole Splash, and the faces pick up the victory with a dance afterwards.

2. The Uso’s defeated Rhodes Scholars in an entertaining match. Uso’s picked up the victory when they surprised Sandow with a rollup. Sandow was shocked and flipped out afterwards.

Updated On Velvet Sky’s Knee Injury

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TNA Knockouts Champion Velvet Sky provided an update on Tuesday regarding her recent knee injury. She tweeted:

TNA Knockouts Champion Velvet Sky provided an update on Tuesday regarding her recent knee injury. She tweeted:

“Dr.’s diagnosis: my kneecap popped out & popped back in. Significant swelling & fluid in the joint. MRI shows no tears or serious damage.”

 

“Thanks to all my #PigeonArmy peeps for ur well wishes. I’m a toughie and am healing well. Love u guys.”

Sky noted last week that she does not expect to miss ring time.

The injury took place at the March 28th Impact Wrestling taping from Jonesboro, Arkansas, which aired last Thursday night.  Sky was teaming with Taryn Terrell against Gail Kim and Tara. Sky grabbed her left knee during the match and was checked out by doctors after the match.

RAW Viewership Data, RAW Social Media Score Up 70%

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– Monday’s WWE RAW scored a Trendrr.tv social media score of 518,787, up a sharp 70 percent from last week. Raw ranked #1 on cable TV Monday night, but was crushed by the NCAA college basketball championship game on CBS, which had a social media score of over 2 million.

– TVByTheNumbers reports that Monday’s post-WrestleMania 29 edition of WWE RAW drew only 4.61 million viewers. This was up around 300,000 from last week, but probably not the strong showing WWE was hoping for. Here are the hourly numbers:

  • Hour 1: 4,490,000
  • Hour 2: 4,780,000
  • Hour 3: 4,560,000

More Superstars Congratulate Dolph Ziggler For His Title Win

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John Cena, AJ Lee, Edge, X-Pac and Dolph Ziggler’s ex-girlfriend, comedienne Amy Schumer are among the many people congratulating new World Heavyweight champion for his big win on RAW. Here are some of their tweets:

John Cena: “No problem Champ! Congrats RT @HEELZiggler: “@JohnCena: Read all about it… The Champ returns to Boston’s @tdgarden tonight for SmackDown!” – @BostonGlobe”
-thanks for the plug, bro”

AJ Lee: “Congratulations to my baby Ziggy @HEELZiggler . No one works harder or deserves it more. No one. I’m so happy right now.”

Big E Langston: “Congratulations to the new World Heavyweight Champion @HEELZiggler. Best tag team partner/double dutcher/lasagna chef I’ve ever known.”

Amy Schumer: “Um, @HEELZiggler i feel like we should get back together”

Edge: “Proud of my boy @HEELZiggler finally where he belongs. So deserving. Hard work pays off”

X-Pac: “@HEELZiggler I couldn’t be happier for you. You deserve last night & much more. I’m not ashamed to say I marked out for that.”

Curt Hawkins: “I hope all the guys on the @WWE roster see @HEELZiggler as a true inspiration. Because I certainly do.”

Beth Phoenix: “Congrats to @HEELZiggler on his well deserved championship win! Looong overdue!”

Michael McGuillicutty “If seeing @HEELZiggler win the World Heavyweight Championship didnt give u goosebumps, something is wrong with u… What its all about! #WWE”

Carlito: “After carrying around the MITB briefcase for 8 years, he finally cashed it in to become WHC! Congrats Dolph Ziggler!”

Scott Hall Comments On This Morning’s Hip Surgery

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As noted earlier, Scott Hall underwent hip surgery this morning. Diamond Dallas Page tweeted the following update:

Scott then followed up with the following:

https://twitter.com/scotthallnwo/status/321693528587636736

https://twitter.com/scotthallnwo/status/321714934054539264

Vince’s Reaction To Rowdy RAW Crowd, More On Dolph Ziggler’s Title Win

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– Vince McMahon enjoyed the rowdy crowd at RAW, even though they buried several matches and did their own thing for most of the night. It was understood at RAW that the post-WrestleMania show is comprised of die hard fans, many of whom travel from around the world to be in town that weekend.

– As you can imagine, the majority of the WWE locker room was very happy for Dolph Ziggler after his big World Heavyweight title win on RAW. Ziggler is seen as one of the real workhorses on the roster and has been working very hard to reach the main event level.

– WWE.com has an article up looking at the rowdy crowd from Monday’s WWE RAW, questioning if it was the best crowd in WWE history. The article said that the reaction to Ziggler’s World Heavyweight title win was deafening and that it “was a true star-making moment for WWE’s newest champion.”

(Partial source: Pwinsider.com)

Ziggler Comments On Title Win, RAW Backstage Fallout, PPV Pre/Post Shows

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– The pre-game and post-game show that we saw at WrestleMania featuring Jim Ross, Dusty Rhodes, Scott Sanford and Kofi Kingston will be a part of all WWE pay-per-views moving forward, according to f4wonline.com. No word on whether the hosts will stay the same, but expect to see the “analysts desk” format again.

– Following his World Heavyweight title win on RAW, Dolph Ziggler was interviewed by Matt Striker for the WWE App. App. Ziggler entered the backstage area to a round of applause, which he soaked in. Ziggler said his title win was a long time coming and proves that he can back up every word he says.

– Here’s the latest Backstage Fallout video from Monday’s RAW:

In the Raw edition of “Backstage Fallout,” Chris Jericho challenges Fandango to follow up on his WrestleMania win. Plus, Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett sets things right.

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