– WWE has announced Ryback vs. WWE United States Champion Kalisto for the Payback Kickoff pre-show on Sunday. Below is the updated card:
WWE World Heavyweight Title Match
AJ Styles vs. Roman Reigns
WWE Intercontinental Title Match
Cesaro vs. The Miz

WWE Women’s Title Match
Natalya with Bret Hart vs. Charlotte with Ric Flair
WWE Tag Team Title Match
TBD vs. The New Day
Finals of the #1 Contenders’ Tag Team Tournament
Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady vs. The Vaudevillains
Chris Jericho vs. Dean Ambrose

Sami Zayn vs. Kevin Owens
WWE United States Title Kickoff Pre-show Match
Ryback vs. Kalisto
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– WWE NXT General Manager William Regal turns 48 years old today while WWE Legend Tito Santana turns 63 and former WCW star Air Paris turns 39.

– Former WWE Superstar Alex “The Pug” Pourteau recently opened a new wrestling training school and promotion in Winter Park, FL, near Full Sail University where NXT tapes. The new venture is called Pro Wrestling 2.0 and Pourteau is the head trainer. Others working with Alex at the center include Texas Wrestling Academy’s Rudy “Boy” Gonzales, Texas Wrestling Hall of Fame Referee James Beard, former TNA Knockout Santana Garrett (Brittany), Puerto Rico legend Julio Estrada and others. E-mail [email protected] or call 407-470-3095 for more information.

– WWE Hall of Famer Booker T mentioned on last night’s RAW Pre-show how WWE United States Champion Kalisto had driven Ryback crazy all over the internet, referring to his recent blog post. Big E also took a shot at Ryback’s Twitter antics today with this tweet, referring to the unrelated “#BigGuyTwitter” hashtag that’s trending today:

Overwhelmingly disappointed that #BigGuyTwitter has nothing to do with this: pic.twitter.com/Onh1iQPz5s
— ShinigamE (@WWEBigE) May 10, 2016

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The full card for next week’s Impact Emergence card has been revealed, while a stipulation has been set for night two.

Taya Valkyrie will face Kylie Rae in what will be a Wrestle House match. The two have been stuck in the reality show house for the last few weeks, with Rae calling out Valkyrie on tonight’s show.

The Good Brothers will face Ace Austin and Madman Fulton in a tag team match. Austin and Fulton have been a thorn on Anderson and Gallows’ sides since their debut at Slammiversary.

The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley) will defend their new Impact Tag Team titles against former champions The North (Josh Alexander & Ethan Page). They made their return to Impact at Slammiversary, defeating The North for the titles.

Edde Edwards, successfully defending the Impact World title against Brian Myers on tonight’s show, will defend the Impact World title next week as well. Edwards has instituted an open challenge policy for the title since winning it.

Here is the full card for the first night of Emergence, which takes place next week:

Eddie Edwards will defend the Impact title
Kylie Rae vs. Taya Valkyrie in a Wrestle House match
Moose vs. Trey Miguel for the TNA World title
Chris Bey vs. TJP vs. Rohit Raju for the X Division title
Good Brothers vs. Ace Austin and Madman Fulton
Motor City Machine Guns vs. The North for the Impact Tag Team titles

Confirmed for the second night of Emergence is a 30 minute Iron Man match for the Impact Knockouts title, with champion Deonna Purazzo facing former champion Jordynne Grace. The second night will take place on August 25.

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– As seen below, TNA announced today that they have re-signed Robbie E to a new deal, and signed indie star Caleb Konley as well as Allysin Kay, who worked the recent tapings as Sienna.

Excited for @SiennaTNA to join the #Knockouts. @IMPACTWRESTLING pic.twitter.com/uI8JrqP1sL
— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) April 29, 2016

Excited for another addition to the @IMPACTWRESTLING roster! #IMPACTonPop pic.twitter.com/JEWRy82l45
— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) April 29, 2016

So happy to announce that @RobbieEImpact has re-signed with @IMPACTWRESTLING! #IMPACTonPop pic.twitter.com/yM5kjR4jJ0
— Dixie Carter (@TNADixie) April 29, 2016

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“Mean” Gene Okerlund revealed on twitter that WWE Hall of Famer Bobby “The Brain” Heenan has been hospitalized after taking a fall.

Okerlund wrote:

Hey Gang. Just got word that, Bobby Heenan had a spill this morning and will be in the hospital for a few days. Wishing The Brain the best
— Gene Okerlund (@TheGeneOkerlund) May 4, 2016

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– As noted, online show WWE Game Night resumed filming on Monday. WWE confirmed during today’s earnings call that Game Night and the Superstar Ink tattoo show will be returning soon.

– WWE announced 1.469 million WWE Network subscribers the day after WrestleMania 32 with 1.357 million of those being paid subscribers. They announced a total of 1.824 million subscribers in today’s first quarter 2016 earnings report with 1.454 million of those being paid subscribers. This shows an increase of 355,000 subscribers from March 31st to April 4th.

– Vince McMahon confirmed on today’s call that Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt, John Cena and Seth Rollins will all be back in action in the next month or so. Vince also touted 13 new talents coming to the main roster and said in the next 30 days they will have more talents on the roster than they have ever had before. Check out our recap from today’s call at this link where Vince talked a lot more about the WWE injuries, health and wellness.

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