Date: 02/11	11:00 PM
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Fri. #2 is HERE. To help out the site subscribe to Mistah MegaManFan or support us on Patreon. With the cheap plugs out of the way here's Saturday's latest wrestling news.

On a recent livestream Ronda Rousey talks about what she was most nervous about in her WWE return: "My new paranoia, which (was) that I'm going to start lactating live on television. Like would I, well on Raw, SmackDown, or wrestling or something. That's why like, it was pretty bold wearing the white, white shirt on Raw. Oh God, please do not lactate. (And my ring gear?) Well, you know I said it maybe four months ago, and I didn't really feel comfortable enough to don my regular wrestling gear yet. But I'm working towards it. Because it's, you know, it's hard when being judged directly to how I looked three years ago."

In this interview Sasha Banks talks about being in The Mandalorian: "That dream was just like, only when you watch the movie, I'm imagining being in Star Wars. Not ever dreaming that I would ever actually be in Star Wars. And not just Star Wars, The Mandalorian. The number one show in the world. They're in love with it, they're in love with it. And it was just such an honor to get the call that I got. I got a message and then I got a call from my lawyer because I sent him the message. And I was like 'Disney wants me to do what? Okay, let's figure out what this is.' And then he called me up as I'm trying to go to the beach. He goes 'You've got to get home. Jon Favreau wants to call you right now.' He Facetimed me and he's like 'I saw you on Hot Ones. I loved your personality, you are great. I would love to write a role for you in The Mandalorian.' I was like 'what?' I was being so cool, I was so no-selling because I can't believe this is real. This is crazy."

A press release from Reality of Wrestling is below.

Reality of Wrestling (ROW), founded by 2x WWE Hall of Famer Booker T and his wife Sharmell Huffman and World Class Pro Wrestling, founded by Jerry Bostic, announced today that both organizations will co-host a four-night extravaganza "TEXAS SHOWDOWN: Don't Mess with Texas" at Southern Junction Texas on Thursday, March 31st through Sunday, April 3rd during WrestleMania weekend.

The TEXAS SHOWDOWN will feature two exciting and unique events. The Sherri Martel Women's Classic held on Saturday, April 2nd will honor the legendary professional wrestler and manager, Sherri Martel, and the Texas Legends event will be held on Sunday, April 3rd will honor the legendary professional wrestler, Black Bart.

"Reality of Wrestling is excited to partner with World Class Pro Wrestling to bring you an action packed, four-day event, featuring the BEST in Texas wrestling. We're looking forwarding to hosting the first ever Sherri Martel Women's Classic AND the Texas Legends event. It is very important to me that we honor Sherri with this tournament; she was a dear friend and extremely instrumental in my career. I'm also proud to show the world what Texas is made of by honoring our Texas Legends, like one of my mentors, Black Bart. This is going to be GOODT! You don't want to miss out, you don't want to get shut out, and I KNOW YOU CAN DIG THAT!!!" said Reality of Wrestling founder Booker T.

Reality of Wrestling and World Class Pro Wrestling will be showcasing the best talent in the State of Texas over this multiday event. Talent for the Sherri Martel Women's Classic will include: Promise Braxton, Hyan, Raychell Rose, AQA, VertVixen, Danni Bee, Gigi Rey, Insidious One, Kelsey Raegan, Skylar Slice, Myka Madrid, Erica Torres, Jordan Blue, Jazmin Allure, Heather Monroe and Marti Belle.

Talent for the four-night extravaganza, "TEXAS SHOWDOWN: Don't Mess with Texas" will include: Bryan Keith, Ryan Davidson, Gino Medina, Will Allday, Mysterious Q, Cameron Cole, Charlie Haas, Jacob Fatu, Moonshine Mantell, Max Castellanos, Tim Storm, Ivan Warsaw, Sam Stackhouse, and many more special guests to be announced.

"What an amazing day it is for not only World Class Pro Wrestling and Reality of Wrestling, but for Texas Wrestling as well. A sincere thank you to Charlie Haas, Eric Embry, James Beard, Booker T, and his team at Reality of Wrestling for coming together to make this happen. It's an honor to be able to present the 1st EVER Sherri Martel Classic, named after, in my opinion, one of the most influential figures in pro wrestling. It's also an honor to honor Texas Wrestling as everyone from the past has paved the way for us to be able to do what we're doing today." said World Class Pro Wrestling founder Jerry Bostic, "We can't wait to show you what we have planned WrestleMania weekend. Thank you to everyone who supports both brands, without you this is not possible."

Prior to each show, fans can meet with wrestling talent and legends.

In this interview Freddie Prinze Jr. says being on Vince McMahon's jet helped him beat his fear of flying: "They say, you're flying on the jet, and I'm sweating when they tell me. Vince wants you on the jet. I was like, 'oh man, alright.' My armpits are sweating right now and I ain't even afraid of flying anymore thanks to Vince, actually, he just made me do it until I wasn't scared of it anymore. So I get on the jet and the first thing that Vince says to me when he gets on, he says, 'I heard you had a bit of a problem on the last plane' with a smirk. 'Yeah man, I'm not big on planes.' And this is who I tell this story to and he goes, 'Ah don't worry, I got a better pilot than (Kevin Costner) anyway.'"

SmackDown highlights and new WWE related videos are available below.

In addition new AEW videos are below.

Rok-C was backstage at NXT this week and she appears to have signed with WWE. (PWI)

Impact did a 0.03 and 117,000 viewers this week, up just slightly from 0.02 and 114,000 last week. (SBD)

AJ Styles says he never knew Impact released a statement when he left for WWE: "I had no idea. You just told me. I had no idea they released any kind of statement. They were the furthest thing from my mind at that point in my career. So, why would I even pay attention to it?"

Roman Reigns and Bill Goldberg will have a face to face meeting before the Elimination Chamber PPV on SmackDown next week. And speaking of the Elimination Chamber, here's the updated card. (WWE)

* WWE Championship Elimination Chamber Match: Bobby Lashley vs. Brock Lesnar vs. Austin Theory vs. Riddle vs. Seth Rollins vs. AJ Styles
* Raw Women's Championship #1 Contender's Elimination Chamber Match: Liv Morgan vs. Rhea Ripley vs. Bianca Belair vs. Doudrop vs. Nikki A.S.H. vs. TBA
* WWE Universal Championship Match: Roman Reigns vs. Goldberg
* Raw Women's Championship Match: Becky Lynch vs. Lita
* SmackDown Tag Team Championship Match: The Usos vs. Viking Raiders
* No Disqualification Match: Drew McIntyre vs. Madcap Moss
* Ronda Rousey & Naomi vs. Charlotte Flair & Sonya Deville

Here's the current card for Rampage next week. (AEW)

* Face of the Revolution Qualifying Match: Dante Martin vs. Powerhouse Hobbs
* Trent Beretta vs. Jay White

Last but not least spoilers for next week's SmackDown courtesy WrestlingInc are below. Don't scroll down if you don't want to know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* The face-off between WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns and WWE Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg opened the episode. This was basic trash talking between the two, not a long segment at all and no fighting. Goldberg came out to his longer entrance from his dressing room, with pyro and all

* Ricochet defeated Sheamus

* Sami Zayn defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to become the new WWE Intercontinental Champion. This match had a good amount of time

* Ivar defeated SmackDown Tag team Champion Jimmy Uso

* There was a promo segment featuring Drew McIntyre with Madcap Moss and Happy Baron Corbin

* There were extended promos for Roman Reigns vs. Goldberg and the Elimination Chamber

* A contract signing was held for Ronda Rousey and Naomi vs. Sonya Deville and SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair at WWE Elimination Chamber. Adam Pearce hosted the signing. The two teams had words until Rousey threw the title belt at Flair, Flair went for her but Rousey slammed her face into the table. Naomi then kicked Deville, still wearing a sling, in the head. Rousey and Naomi then looked at each other, then flipped the table over onto Flair and Deville. They cleared the ring and stood together.