Date: 05/04	1:00 PM
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Will Ospreay will defend the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in the main event of Wrestle Grand Slam against Shingo Takagi later this month. (NJPW)

The updated WrestleMania Backlash card is below. (WWE)

* WWE Championship Match: Bobby Lashley vs. Braun Strowman vs. Drew McIntyre
* Smackdown Women's Championship Match: Bianca Belair vs. Bayley
* Raw Women's Championship Match: Rhea Ripley vs. Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair

Chelsea Green has just had the metal plate in her arm removed.

New WWE related videos are available below.

The most recent New Japan card had significant changes due to several wrestlers having a high fever, indicating possible COVID exposure, which also meant the wrestlers who had worked with them having to go into quarantine too. As a result an El Desperado vs. YOH IWGP Junior Heavyweight title match was scrapped, Kazuchika Okada & SHO vs. Minoru Suzuki & Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Dick Togo, Taiji Ishimori, Yujiro Takahashi, EVIL & Jay White were replaced with Master Wato & Hiroyoshi Tenzan vs. Taiji Ishimori & Yujiro Takahashi and Ryusuke Taguchi, Toru Yano & Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Dick Togo, EVIL & Jay White. (NJPW)

Here's the announced lineup for NXT tonight. (WWE)

* Tommaso Ciampa & Timothy Thatcher vs. Grizzled Young Veterans
* Falls Count Anywhere: Leon Ruff vs. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott
* Street Fight For NXT Women's Tag Team Championship: Ember Moon & Shotzi Blackheart (c) vs. Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell
* Finn Balor returns

Here are last night's Main Event results: Ricochet beat Mustafa Ali, and Jinder Mahal beat Jeff Hardy. (wInc)

The card for NWA Powerrr tonight is below. (NWA)

* JennaCide vs. Skye Blue
* Thunder Rosa on Kamille and her future
* One-on-one interview with Trevor Murdoch and May Valentine
* Nick Aldis goes head-to-head with Joe Galli

New Ring of Honor videos are available below.

Laredo Kid vs. Gringo Loco has been added to tomorrow's Fusion. (MLW)

The latest A&E WWE biography on Randy Savage did 790K viewers, down from 880K from Roddy Piper. The 18-49 demo went up though from 0.29 to 0.31. (SBD)

Stephanie McMahon explains WWE's new motto: "We are all about bringing people together, putting smiles on people's faces and creating moments and memories that last a lifetime. Standing on the stage for WrestleMania 37 at Raymond James Stadium looking out at history being made in that moment was absolutely the shining moment that brought it all together. Bringing our community together isn't something we just started doing, it's something we've been doing since our inception. This time really brought it home in such a different way and we wanted to highlight and call attention to it. It's also a way of reinforcing to our fans that they belong. We have all these different people who are fans of WWE. No matter who they are, no matter what they do for a living, no matter where they live, no matter how much money they make, they belong, they are a part of WWE and that's the inclusive nature of our community and the bigger WWE family."

Here Isaiah "Swerve" Scott talks about his expectations for 2021: "2021 is going to be a very interesting year for Swerve, I'll just leave it at that. For the last year and a half, it didn't feel like I was a permanent fixture on the show. I feel like I was booked to have good matches, but you wouldn't really hear from me until I had another match on the show. That was where I felt content with things. For me, it was about what I'm doing now compared to then and giving the show a different vibe and change of pace. My presence changes the pace of the show. That's all these things I've worked on with getting my music more and more on TV. When you see these promos I'm cutting in my lab with produces and engineers in the background, it feels like you're watching Willy Wonka and everything is nice and shiny. Then it goes through the tunnel and there's a change of pace. That's what my lab and my moments are. I'm starting to change the pace of the show. You feel something for Swerve. Keep watching because I'm a slow burn, I've never been a quick fix when it comes to giving a viewer that satisfaction. A lot of these are off the top of my head. There are concepts that I've thrown and I'm like, 'This is dope, I have an idea for that.' Now I have the equity to where they trust it to let me work my art and it doesn't take long to get it done. It's honestly a play off what I do and say and how I deliver my facials. They're shooting so close to my face, my eyes have to tell the story."

Mustafa Ali breaks some misconceptions about Ramadan: "No we don't fast for 30 days straight, I assure you. We'll get water at some point. 'Oh, Ramadan, is that when you guys don't eat for 30 days?' No! No, cause I would die! {*laughs*} No. That's my big takeaway, ladies and gentlemen: We have water and we have food before sunrise and after sunset. We're good. We're great. We're happy."

AEW is not negotiating with Tessa Blanchard. (WO)

From WWE.

WWE And MATE Launch Australian Digital Content Series

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has announced the launch of an original digital content series in Australia in partnership with Australian telecommunications company, MATE.

'WWE Now Down Under' will include tailored digital content across YouTube and Facebook, as well as regional Instagram and Twitter channels, and the WWE's website.

The series will run with nine weekly episodes with an Australian WWE focus, including exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes content with Australian WWE stars.

The series will be hosted by sports presenter, Samantha Riches, with MATE set to have access to digital WWE content and be represented in WWE Now Down Under programming and social media promotions.

MATE general manager, Mark Fazio, said: "At MATE we love to associate ourselves with organizations that have passionate fans."

"We believe that MATE customers love what we do and how we do it, so working with WWE and seeing the way they engage their fans is something we really resonate with," Fazio said.

The series hopes to expand on the success of the WWE Now content platform, which has more than 200 million views across all platforms around the world.

The digital content series is the latest of many sporting organisations creating original digital content for international audiences, including Formula One (F1) with the Drive to Survive series, the AFL with the Making their Mark series, and Super Netball with the Everything is Possible series.

Congratulations to Pat Buck and his family on the birth of their son.

Lenny Leonard is returning to ROH this summer to commentate on the women's wrestling tournament.

2:00 PM ET. Sammy Guevara got in trouble for once of his recent vlogs: "Me and Brandon Cutler got in trouble a couple weeks ago filming something for the BTE Title. We had no place to film because it was so loud and the show was going on. We just went in the announcer's dressing room. Taz and Excalibur walk in. No one was coming in and right when we start filming, people are coming in. We got kicked out of there, filmed somewhere else. They were trying to film something for Road To and they were getting all pissed off that day, but screw 'em! I gotta make that content. Fuego, QT, a bunch of guys that people don't see on TV or their personalities."

JD Drake talks about his WWE tryout: "I went down to the WWE PC for a week, and trained over there. I wrestled Dio Maddin on a house show, and even defeated him. I was supposed to wrestle Ridge Holland but I hurt my lower back sacroiliac joint during the match with Maddin. And I couldn't stand up straight, it was the worst. There were talks, and they were into it. However, that opportunity obviously fell through, and everything happens for a reason. I'm starting to really believe that, now more than ever. Because I've been blessed with opportunities that I wouldn't have received otherwise - like the match with Daniel Garcia."

Here's the updated AEW Dark lineup for tonight. (AEW)

* Big Swole vs. Megan Bayne
* The Acclaimed vs. David Ali & Vary Morales
* Sonny Kiss & Joey Janela vs. Justin Law & Kit Sackett
* Dante Martin vs. Danny Limelight
* Serpentico vs. PAC
* The Bunny vs. Leila Gray
* Powerhouse Hobbs & Ricky Starks vs. Aaron Frye & Brick Aldridge
* Hughes Bros vs. Scorpio Sky & Ethan Page
* Leyla Hirsch vs. Diamante
* Lance Archer vs. Luther
* SCU vs. Jake St. Patrick & Spencer Slade
* Varsity Blonds vs. Liam Gray and Adrian Alanis

And here's the lineup for Dynamite tomorrow. (AEW)

* Blood & Guts: The Pinnacle vs. The Inner Circle
* AEW Tag Team Title #1 Contender's Match: SCU vs. Varsity Blonds vs. The Acclaimed vs. Jurassic Express
* Kenny Omega & MT Nakazawa vs. Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston
* Cody Rhodes vs. QT Marshall
* Britt Baker in action
* Miro to make a statement
* Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page to make an appearance

Alex Riley says he'd come back to WWE for one night only: "I will go back one night for one conversation with one human being. I'm just going to leave it there. That's the only reason I would ever go back to wrestling. One conversation, one night, with one human being. Other than that, I'm done. I don't see the purpose in me doing it. I had a good career, I'm happy for the career I had. I feel blessed and fortunate to even be called a former WWE. I want to be as truthful as possible to myself. I believe that I was blessed to even walk down the ramp with music and lights behind me as an artistic character in WWE. Vince McMahon shared his gift with me. He had confidence enough to put a microphone in my hand on live television with no delay. He had enough confidence in me, enough courage in me, enough appreciation of who I am to trust me. I owe him that trust and respect back."

Chris Jericho talks about working with MJF: "Who can I work with here? And the one guy that kept standing out was MJF, who looked like he was about 18 years old at the time. Who is this kid? He's deceptively big, but when you see him on screen, it's kind of like this runty, nerdy guy who's really good. Where did he come from? Why have I not heard of this guy before. So we did a promo face-to-face. I think it was Nashville last year, probably in October or November of '19. I just wanted to see what kind of chemistry is there, and it was through the roof right off the bat. So okay, MJF, I put him in my pocket. When the time comes, let's do something with him. Once we finish the Orange Cassidy thing, what's my next thing going to be? I said, well, what is MJF doing? He's really not doing anything. Well, let's start working with him, and we started in September of 2020 and here we are in March pretty much of 2021 and the MJF - Jericho feud is just starting."

According to one former WWE writer Braun Strowman was originally going to beat Brock Lesnar at Crown Jewel in 2018 to become Universal Champion, but that's awfully hard to prove. It's just one man's word against WWE's if they even cared enough to comment on it.