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It was announced this week via WWE.com that immediately following this coming Sunday night’s WWE Backlash pay-per-view, a special post-show will be held live via the WWE Network.

In addition to the usual post-SmackDown Live edition of the weekly post-show wrap-up program, “Talking Smack,” which airs immediately following the blue brand show each Tuesday night on the WWE digital subscription service and various social media channels, WWE has announced a special “Talking Smack: Backlash 2017” post-show that is scheduled to air live following Sunday night’s SmackDown Live brand-exclusive PPV event.

While the WWE Network will not only host an official post-show for WWE Backlash this Sunday evening, the PPV will also get the usual pre-show treatment, as Renee Young, Booker T and D.J. Peter Rosenberg are set to host a three-person “expert panel” as part of the official WWE Backlash 2017 Kickoff Show, immediately leading into the big pay-per-view.

Join us here this Sunday evening for live play-by-play results coverage of the WWE Backlash 2017 pay-per-view!

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New WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne recently spoke with ESPN following his championship victory over former title-holder Tyler Bate at this past Saturday night’s NXT TakeOver: Chicago event.

Below are some of the highlights from the interview.

On how his match with Tyler Bate was received by those backstage at the show: “It was quite overwhelming to be honest. I didn’t expect it from the get-go, really. I’d be confident that any venue in the U.K., that there would be a fair amount of people that know who myself and Tyler are. It’s another thing to walk out in Chicago and get a great reception. And then to walk back to an even more overwhelming reception from the people in the back, the people that have been around the business for so long and all the great ones behind it all. It’s unbelievable.”

On working with former champion Tyler Bate: “[Tyler is] one of my two favorite people to wrestle [the other being fellow U.K. performer Mark Andrews] and I’m really glad I got to share that one with him. I had a big hand in training Tyler. I got him his first ever booking, which was against me in a tag match. As proud as I am of myself for being able to hold this WWE title, I was incredibly proud of him, as well. The two Brits on such a huge show of this magnitude.”

On his dream opponents: “I’d love to wrestle Brock Lesnar. It’s the realism, the way he carries himself. It’s 100 percent believable because he’s real. That’s someone who I’d love to get in the ring with someday. I don’t think there’s a possibility of it ever happening, but I’d also love to wrestle William Regal one day.”

Check out the complete Pete Dunne interview at ESPN.com.

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Longtime top WWE Superstar John Cena was recently a guest on the Playback Podcast for an interview. Below are some of the highlights.

On his thoughts on the job Paul “Triple H” Levesque has done in establishing NXT as the third major league brand under the WWE corporate umbrella: “Yeah, people don’t understand it’s a business of creativity and I’m wearing a suit right now because I’m comfortable in a suit. Everyone’s like, ‘ah, dress casual.’ This is my casual. I don’t mind being in a suit. I have a more Vince [McMahon] style than I have a Triple H style, but you get to be creative. What Triple H has done with NXT is literally creating another functioning brand for the company. That is awesome! Like, I tell him all the time. I’m fascinated by the growth and development. It’s amazing to see them run two functional brands now we legit have a third that we can set up in a town for one of our big four pay-per-views and sell out five days in a row. That’s unheard of in the ticket-tearing business. That’s unheard of.”

On enjoying going to the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida to give young, aspiring WWE talents useful and often-times cryptic advice: “I would love to do something like that and I don’t even mean in that major of a capacity. I live very close to the [WWE] Performance Center in Orlando [Florida]. I would love to just go there everyday and give advice. I love going to the Performance Center every once in a while and just giving a way left field look of, ‘I know you’re being told this by your coaches, I’ll drop, like, some weird fortune cookie moments on them and just about-face and leave and everyone’s scratching their heads going, ‘what happened?’. I like that too, man. You don’t have to be in charge of creativity to be around the creativity. I just love the creativity of the [pro wrestling] business.”

On his public marriage proposal to Nikki Bella live in the ring at WrestleMania 33 being what he considers his “favorite moment” in his WWE career: “The answer to my greatest match question is always the same. It’s my next one because that means I can continue doing what I love. My favorite moment is obviously when Nicole said she would marry me in front of 75,000 [people] at the Citrus Bowl.”

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On this week’s episode of ‘Dinner With The King’, hosts WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler and Glenn Moore give insight about WWE’s usage of the Great Balls of Fire name.

Lawler explains how WWE and Jerry Lee Lewis, who owns the usage of Great Balls of Fire, worked out a deal (18:45 mark of show).

“My personal attorney here in Memphis is Joe Barton. Good friend of mine and my attorney. I got a phone call from Joe a few weeks ago, and Joe also represents Jerry Lee Lewis.

And Joe said, “Hey Jerry, do you happen to know who I would contact at the WWE about copyright infringement?”

I go, “What? What are you talking about?”

He goes, “Well, we understand they are doing a pay-per-view called Great Balls of Fire and Jerry Lee has that phrase trademarked. He has ever since they recorded the song.”

So, I put him in touch with the WWE people, gave him a name. Apparently he called them and got everything worked out. Not only are they using the name, they are using Jerry Lee’s song, which is awesome.”

Also during this episode, The King talks about Andy Kaufman’s death, Kaufman’s final appearance in Memphis, how The King became King, and much more.

You can listen to the whole show below:

John Hennigan (aka John Morrison, Johnny Mundo) took to social media on Tuesday to announce that he and fellow Lucha Underground star Kira Forster (aka Valkyrie) have gotten engaged to be married.

“She said yes,” wrote an excited Hennigan via his official Twitter page. Forster wrote on her Twitter page, “I said yes!”

Congratulations to the happy couple.

— WWE sent out the following today:

Just a heads up we announced five additional competitors for the Mae Young Classic below including Tessa Blanchard, daughter of WWE Hall of Famer and Four Horseman Tully Blanchard.

The anticipation for WWE’s inaugural Mae Young Classic continues to grow with the announcement of five more entrants into the tournament, as first reported by ESPN.com.

Third-generation wrestler Tessa Blanchard, hard-hitting veteran Abbey Laith, black-belt judoka Taynara Conti, international bruiser Jazzy Gabert and Great Khali protégé Kavita Devi are the latest additions to the Classic, which streams this summer, exclusively on WWE Network.

They will join Toni Storm, Princesa Sugehit, Lacey Evans and Sarah Logan, who were announced last week for the 32-woman tournament.

Tessa Blanchard

Twenty-one-year-old Tessa Blanchard, of Charlotte, N.C., may be new to the WWE Universe, but her last name isn’t. The daughter of WWE Hall of Famer and Four Horseman Tully Blanchard, granddaughter of wrestler-turned-promoter Joe Blanchard, and stepdaughter of NWA legend Magnum TA, Tessa decided to follow in the family trade after watching her father’s Hall of Fame induction in 2012.

Since her 2014 debut, Blanchard has competed across the globe, including in the U.K., China, Japan and the Maritimes (where she once wrestled 23 nights in a row). She has even garnered praise from The Rock, whom she worked with on the set of the movie “Fighting with My Family.”

Abbey Laith

Abbey Laith grew up admiring revolutionaries like Lita, Chyna and Ivory, but the WWE Performance Center standout — renowned for her strikes and suplexes — will have a chance to break new ground of her own in this summer’s Classic. Coming to wrestling with an extensive background in dance, particularly ballet, Laith began training for the ring while working toward a bachelor’s degree in dance education from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

Laith, who counts WWE Cruiserweight Drew Gulak as one of her original coaches, developed into wrestling royalty on the independent scene. She captured titles in SHIMMER Women Athletes and Shine Wrestling and became the only woman to hold the Chikara Grand Championship before joining the Performance Center earlier this year.

Taynara Conti

A newcomer to sports-entertainment, 22-year-old judo master Taynara Conti might be one of the Classic’s least-seasoned wrestlers inside the ring. However, the Performance Center recruit isn’t lacking world-class combat-sport experience.

Conti spent years honing her martial arts skills in her native Brazil, eventually being promoted to black belt in judo and blue belt in jiu-jitsu. She competed in the 2016 Olympic trials in judo, and though Conti narrowly missed the cut, her thunderous throws helped put her on the radar of WWE talent scouts. Having trained under WWE coaches since last October, Conti will get her first chance at The Mae Young Classic to show the world what happens when a decorated judoka enters the ring.

Jazzy Gabert

Representing Germany in the Classic is Jazzy Gabert, a muscle-packed, 6-foot-1 brawler who has wrestled internationally for more than 15 years. A strongwoman and professional MMA fighter outside the ring, the bruising Berliner has achieved her greatest success in Europe and Japan.

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Gabert is a multi-time champion in Japan’s Stardom organization, and she is currently a women’s champion for groups in Germany and Switzerland. In MMA, she has fought under the banners of the Rizin Fighting Federation and IFO Europe.

Kavita Devi

Kavita Devi is a powerhouse student of former World Champion The Great Khali. Hailing from Jind, Haryana, India, the 5-foot-9 Devi is a top competitor in Khali’s Punjab-based organization, Continental Wrestling Entertainment. She gained the attention of WWE talent scouts at a tryout this past April in Dubai.

Devi was an accomplished kabaddi player in high school and is also a competitive powerlifter. In 2016, she won gold in the 75 kg weightlifting division at the South Asian Games. Inside the ring, Devi has racked up victories using a head-caving roundhouse kick.

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– Featured above, courtesy of Ultimate Warrior’s official YouTube channel, is a video that shows fans a tour of the late WWE Hall Of Famer’s home gym. The official description for the video reads: “View Warrior’s OWN Terrain of Testament in his dungeon barn.”

– Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson posted the following on his official Twitter page (@TheRock), which contains a teaser for his new “Jumanji,” film. “The Great One” wrote the following caption to go with the clip: “Legend continues… A game for those who seek to find, a way to leave their world behind. #Jumanji: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE trailer TOMORROW!”

Additionally, The Rock followed-up, as advertised, with another tweet this morning containing the official “Jumanji” movie trailer. You can check that out below as well.

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GFW continued their Impact Wrestling television tapings on Thursday evening, filming matches, segments and other material for future episodes of their weekly show on Pop TV.

In addition to the results of the tapings from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following their successful Slammiversary XV pay-per-view on Sunday, below are complete spoiler results from Thursday night’s tapings at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

The following report was written by @this_is_marc and WrestlingInc.com, with help from Tommy & Vanessa DeSocio.

IMPACT WRESTLING / GFW SPOILERS FOR 8/3 & 8/10

* Homicide & Impact/GFW Tag Team Champions The LAX defeated Unified GFW & Impact World Heavyweight Champion Alberto El Patron, El Hijo de Dos Caras and Dos Caras when Low Ki interfered and joined LAX

* Suicide, Grado and Braxton Sutter defeated KM, Mario Bokara and Fallah Bahh. After the match, Grado calls Laurel Van Ness to the ring for an answer on his marriage proposal. Joseph Park escorts her out and Grado proposes again. Kongo Kong comes out again and destroys Grado. He goes to the top for the big splash but Laurel gets in the way and won’t let him do it

* New Impact Grand Champion Ethan Carter III comes out and talks about winning the title last week. He talks to the belt as if it was his girlfriend or something, then left through the crowd

* Sienna takes a seat in the middle of the ring and refuses to leave until she finds out who her mystery opponent is for Destination X. Karen Jarrett comes out and talks about how she doesn’t like Sienna. She reveals the opponent to be Gail Kim. Gail comes out and says she will defeat Sienna for the titles and then retire as champion. They brawl to end the segment

* Naomichi Marufuji and Fantasma defeated Laredo Kid and Garza Jr.

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* Kongo Kong defeated Grado and Joseph Park in a Handicap Match. After the match, Laurel stops Kong from doing a splash again. Kong comes down and scoops Laurel for a slam but Tyrus appears for the save. They stare each other down in the middle of the ring until Laurel gets Kong to leave

* Tag Team Champions The LAX defeated The Veterans of War in a Street Fight due to help from the other LAX members

* Taiji Ishimori defeated ACH to advance in the Super X Cup tournament. The finals are now set as Desmond Xavier and Ishimori have a staredown at ringside in front of the trophy

* Low Ki, Trevor Lee and Bobby Lashley defeated Matt Sydal, Alberto El Patron and X Division Champion Sonjay Dutt in the main event, a preview for Destination X

* Several top stars celebrated the end of this week’s tapings in the ring after the main event, including Patron, Moose, Allie and others. Karen Jarrett came out with her family and had a birthday cake for Jeff Jarrett’s 50th. The crowd sang Happy Birthday and Jarrett gave thanks to end the show.

WWE Superstar Bayley recently appeared as a guest on an episode of the “Steve Austin Show” podcast for an interview. Below are some of the highlights.

On Vince McMahon, not Triple H, being the “go-to-guy” behind-the-scenes in WWE: “Yeah, I don’t know if Hunter’s really, like, the one to go for WWE. Obviously, for NXT, that was his baby, so he ran it all, but I’ve had conversations with him while being here [on the main roster] and it’s kind of more out of his… it’s not so much in his hands up with WWE. If I were to ask [Triple H] something, he was like, ‘you’re better off talking to Vince’ and he said, ‘you need to have that relationship with him anyway,’ so it’s good to have a relationship with him and I was like, ‘okay!'”

On feeling comfortable talking with Vince: “I feel comfortable talking to Vince, which seems so crazy for me to say. For me, I’ve been a fan, I’ve been watching him forever, and I’m like, ‘yeah, I’m comfortable to talk to Vince McMahon.’ Yeah, but if it was something I felt really strongly about, like I had the perfect idea, and I have the direction I want. I want ideas. I want kind of… I’m not going to go in there and be like, ‘hey, I feel weird – maybe I should change a little bit.’ I want to have exactly the idea of what I want to present to him and I’d probably just go to Vince because that’s the only way to go, if it’s something like that. I’ve talked to him a few times to where I’m like, ‘now, I feel fine.’ Like he’s still intimidating as hell when he walks by and you want to make sure you’re on your best behavior, but I feel comfortable enough.”

On feeling like she is starting over again and has to work her way back into title contention: “That was one of those things that I talked to Vince about and I was happy I did. I felt like that was a step back and I’m starting over again. I was the champion. And then, I had my rematch and I was right there until the main spot in the women’s division on RAW. And since I lost Alexa, I’m kind of starting back over again where I’m in line with everybody else, which I’m fine with. I really like the chase and working for it. And honestly, I just want to wrestle! Like, I don’t need to be in these crazy gimmick matches or always be working for the championship. Of course I want to be champion because that means you’re the best, but I just love wrestling and if I can have good matches week in and week out, that would make me happy.”

On if she ever thinks about turning heel: “It breaks my heart even thinking about it! And so, when I do have these ideas, like, I write everything down, ideas, just in case, they want ideas, ‘like, okay, we’re going to do this,’ I have ideas for that. But even just thinking about that, like one day, I was like, ‘yeah, I’m going to pitch this! I’m going to do it! Like, I want to be a heel!’ And then, I went out that night for our match and I saw maybe five or six girls dressed up like me and we had met these girls before the show that were just in tears meeting us. I was like, ‘okay, no, I can’t do it! I can’t turn my back on them. I don’t know what would happen.'”

Check out the complete episode of the “Steve Austin Show” podcast featuring the Bayley interview at PodcastOne.com/Steve-Austin-Show.

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– Featured above is video footage of the season 25 premiere of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars with Nikki Bella and Artem Chigvintsev dancing the Tango to the song “So What” by Pink, including Bella doing a wrestling move to Chigvintsev at the conclusion of the number.

– WWE was scheduled to film footage backstage at Monday night’s edition of WWE RAW at the SAP Center in San Jose, California with various WWE Superstars and personalities speaking on the life and career of WWE Hall Of Famer Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, likely for a future WWE documentary or WWE Network special. As noted, the legendary Heenan passed away this past weekend at the age of 73.

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