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The 5 News Week: Quick Predictions On Wrestlemania: Backlash.

Hello, my fellow wrestling fans and welcome to the 5 news week. The post where I report 5 major or minor pro wrestling news, rumours and spoilers of the week that I don't have time to do it separately.  Without further ado, here are the 5 news week. 

 A Brief Thoughts On AEW Dynamite. 


For the first time on this very series, I am going to briefly discuss my thoughts on AEW Dynamite and it was decent for the most part. I do have some perspectives on a few key things. 

Most notably, that Cody Rhodes promo which by the way, was without exaggeration, one of the worst PROMOS I've ever witnessed as a 14 year veteran in the wrestling fandom. 

The overall dialogue was an example of American imperialism and without a little or too much propaganda (while having the basic understanding of American imperialism), it exposed the very dated nature of the "America vs foreign heel" storyline. 

Let's move on to the positives. Miro's booking in recent months has been exceptional so it's really great that the booking has paid off with a title victory. 

Oh, and the match itself was pretty good (give him an undefeated streak like his 2014 run as US champion).

The Young Bucks' heel role has been exceptional. They have really embraced the a**hole side of their personas. 

Their mocking of the ending of Shawn Michaels' match with Ric Flair at Wrestlemania 24 was brilliant heel work that is honestly better than anything MJF, to be honest (also, f**k you Young Bucks for mocking an end to my favourite match of all time which you can read about it here). 

Quick Predictions On Wrestlemania: Backlash. 


The brief take for AEW Dynamite above, should convince you that this past week's news was slower than Internet Explorer circa 2009. 

So, I've decided to write some quick predictions for Wrestlemania: Backlash aka Backlashimania. The predictions are highlighted in bold letters: 

Bianca Belair vs Bayley For The SmackDown Women's Championship. 

Bobby Lashley vs Drew McIntyre vs Braun Strowman For The WWE Championship. 

The Miz vs Damian Priest. 

Dolph Ziggler And Robert Roode vs Rey And Dominik Mysterio For The SmackDown Tag Team Championship. 

Rhea Ripley (I hope) vs Asuka vs Charlotte Flair For The RAW Women's Championship. 

Roman Reigns vs Cesaro For The Universal Championship. 

An Update Regarding WWE Ready To Tour Again. 

I've talked about this almost two months ago (sheeeesh) and there are some ramblings within the industry regarding WWE hitting the road once again. 

Andrew Zarian of Mad Men Wrestling Podcast (the same dude that broke the story of NXT moving to Tuesday nights) has heard from his snitch that WWE is going to resume touring starting July 16th till the 19th.   

With AEW announcing its return to live touring, fans coming back with 100% capacity is fantastic news (something that sounded psychotic and crazy to say just a year ago). 

I'm honestly bored out of my eyes hearing the WWE 2K16 crowd noises from the Thunderdome. Thank God for the Bill Gates microchip (sarcasm of course). 

Pro Wrestling Sheet Is With TheSportster. Where Does It Lead? 


This is a piece of news that highlights the end of an important site in the wrestling journalism space. 

If you haven't noticed already, Pro Wrestling Sheet is with a new corporate overlord, TheSportster. 

TheSportster features some of the best-written content you've ever read like 10 Times A Female Wrestler Had A Male Manager, 10 Authority Figure Choices That Made No Sense, Apollo Crews Could Be This Smackdown Generation's JBL. 

The downfall of the site started when Ryan Satin left the site to join FOX.

Their Twitter hasn't been updated in a week and the last YouTube video Pro Wrestling Sheet has updated was almost 2 months ago. 

The last article was written on April 19th. Now, where does the site lead? To death is the answer. 

Ryan Satin has built a very successful media piece in pro wrestling sheet and that is something I'm trying to do with this website even though I don't like the guy personally. 

Yugi Nagata On His Favourite Opponent He’s Ever Faced. 

Yugi Nagata was in a New Japan Pro Wrestling virtual meet and greet. In it, he mentioned that Kurt Angle was his favourite opponent he's encountered (from Post Wrestling). Hey, can't argue with that. 


What do you think about the news I just reported and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy? Anyways, stay safe smarks.

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