Chelsea Green was one of the ten wrestlers cut by WWE On April 15 despite having signed a new three-year contract five months previously. She currently is still being paid by WWE due to having a 90-day non-compete clause and can’t work for anyone else until mid-July. It’s expected multiple companies will be interested in using Green when available, and in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it has been reported she has been in discussions with Impact Wrestling.

Green worked for Impact between 2016-2018 and held their Knockouts Championship for two months. During her time with Impact, she competed under the name Laurel Van Ness and is best remembered for her jilted bride character with a disheveled look and smeared makeup. She would leave the promotion through her own choice, asking for her release with the intention of joining WWE. However, it would be several months before WWE would sign her, and in between, she worked indie shows and for Lucha Underground.

The earliest Green could appear for Impact if she does agree a deal would be on their upcoming Slammiversary pay-per-view, which is scheduled for July 17. To hype up the event, Impact has released a video teasing appearances of multiple wrestlers who may appear, including Samoa Joe, Mickie James, and Chelsea Green. Impact did this to promote last year’s event and ended up having Gallows and Anderson making appearances and Eric Young wrestling in the main event.

Don Callis returned to the wrestling business in 2017 when New Japan needed someone for their English commentary table, and Kenny Omega would suggest Callis. The former WWE, ECW, and TNA talent would be instrumental in getting Chris Jericho to wrestle for New Japan and dramatically changing the landscape of professional wrestling in the process.

Jericho would recommend Callis for a behind-the-scenes management role in Impact Wrestling. This would lead to both Callis and Scott D’Amore becoming the promotions co-executive vice presidents in December 2017. Since December 2020, Callis has been juggling multiple responsibilities due to also appearing for AEW, where he is aligned with Kenny Omega, and a few days ago, it was noticed that he had been removed from Impact Wrestling’s website.

Multiple reliable sources have now reported that Callis is officially no longer part of Impact Wrestling’s management team and was only at the recent set of television tapings for the first day working alongside Omega. It’s said he is still on good terms with the company and will remain an on-air talent aligned with Omega for the foreseeable future.

It is now thought Callis will be signing for AEW shortly, where he is highly regarded. Among his biggest fans is his longtime friend Chris Jericho, who stated last year that Callis would be one of the people he’d most like AEW to recruit.

Following the release of multiple NXT talents on Wednesday, it’s now been made public that Patrick Clark Jr., who wrestled as Velveteen Dream, has also been let go by WWE. Clark signed with the company in October 2015 following appearing on the sixth season of Tough Enough. He last appeared on WWE television on the December 23rd episode of NXT when he lost to Adam Cole.

Clark had become a popular performer with his Prince-inspired gimmick, and many fans and critics predicted a big future for him once called up to the main roster. However, after serious accusations were made against him both before and during the Speaking Out movement last year, fans turned on him. WWE says they carried out an investigation and found no evidence of any wrongdoing, but that didn’t alter the opinion of many, with fans regularly calling for him to be released.

It was thought these allegations were why he missed two months of television following NXT TakeOver: In Your House in May 2020. Although it later came out, it was due to a car accident where he failed to stop at a red light and ended up hitting another car, which put him out of action.

In recent weeks, Clark was spotted backstage at Raw, so news of his release has come somewhat as a surprise. Given the controversy his signing will provoke by any other major wrestling promotion, it is possible his career on the big stage could be over at the age of 25.

During the November 18 episode of Dynamite, Jon Moxley revealed that his wife of three years, Renée Paquette, was at home pregnant when he was cutting a backstage promo. She would then follow up afterward by posting a photo of them both smiling and hugging on Instagram. Since then, the mother-to-be posted a picture of a cut cake on her Instagram, along with the caption “It’s pink!” confirming the couple is having a baby girl.

Now on her podcast, she was joined by her mother and revealed to her listeners that she and Moxley will be naming their daughter “Nora” as a tribute to Paquette’s grandmother, Eleanor. This will be the first child for Paquette and Moxley, who began dating in 2013 after meeting while working for WWE. They’d go on to get married at their Las Vegas home in an impromptu ceremony on April 9, 2017.

Earlier today, New Japan issued a statement on their website that their top title, the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, had been officially vacated. This is because champion Will Ospreay, who defeated Kota Ibushi for the title in April, is suffering a neck injury. The injury took place on Night 2 of New Japan’s Wrestling Dontaku event on May 4th during Ospreay’s first title defense when he faced Shingo Takagi.

The severity of the injury isn’t fully known, but with Ospreay returning to the UK while recovering and no timeline known on how long he will be out for, New Japan seemingly had no other option but to vacate the title. Ospreay was the second-ever IWGP World Heavyweight Champion after the company unified both their IWGP Heavyweight Championship and IWGP Intercontinental Championship on March 1st.

Over the years, New Japan has been forced to vacate their top championship several times, most famously when Brock Lesnar refused to defend the title over a pay dispute and took the physical belt to the newly launched Inoki Genome Federation. Additionally, injuries have seen Antonio Inoki, Masahiro Chono, Kazuyuki Fujita, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Hiroshi Tanahashi, all giving up the IWGP Heavyweight Championship over the belts almost 34-year history.

Just over a month since WWE did a mass cut of talents, which saw multiple wrestlers, including Samoa Joe, The IIconics, and Bo Dallas, released by the company, there has been another round of cuts. This time, it is from NXT, and wrestlers Alexander Wolfe, Vanessa Borne, Kavita Devi, Jessamyn Duke, Ezra Judge, Skyler Story, and referees Drake Wuertz and Jake Clemons have been let go. Both Wuertz and Wolfe had appeared on this past Tuesday’s edition of NXT.

Wuertz is arguably the most well-known of all those released, being a former independent deathmatch wrestler who became a WWE referee in 2014. Despite being assigned to NXT to would referee Ronda Rousey’s official in-ring debut at WrestleMania 34. Recently he has made headlines after missing an NXT taping to arguing against children wearing masks at a school board meeting. It’s claimed he had a lot of heat, having refused to wear a mask himself, making others uncomfortable, and recently he walked out of a speech given by Triple H about Black Lives Matters.

Randy Savage was recently a subject of the A&E Network’s documentary series on legendary WWE wrestlers. While the others wrestlers featured so far had their flaws and scandals omitted, Savage’s episode came across more like an episode of Dark Side of the Ring. Eric Bischoff, who was interviewed for it, would even say on his podcast that he was embarrassed to have been part of it after watching it.

Not only was it filled with factual errors it also featured shocking allegations made during the documentary by his ex-girlfriend Stephanie Bellars, who managed him under the name Gorgeous George in WCW. She claimed that Savage had cameras hidden installed in her house and that he was a big-time drug user, taking steroids and even ecstasy, plus appeared on Nitro while high.

With Savage no longer here to defend himself, his brother Lanny Poffo, best known for his time in WWE as The Genius, has written an article about the show attempting to preserve his brother’s name. He would say his brother was made to look as bad as Chris Benoit and specifically addressed Stephanie Bellars’ claims of drug use.

Savage and Bellars met while she was dancing at a club, and after hitting it off, he got her involved in the wrestling business as his valet in WCW. He would purchase the name Gorgeous George from fellow WCW wrestler The Maestro for her, and she was trained by the future Molly Holly and Madusa so she could take bumps. This led to her wrestling referee Charles Robinson at WCW Slamboree 1999, but once she broke up with Savage, she departed WCW and lost the use of the Gorgeous George. Since then, her wrestling career would be uneventful with brief runs in both ECW and TNA.

She would end up marrying Paul Caiafa, better known as Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, the Misfits guitarist. However, they would go to divorce in 2013, and with her now retired from the wrestling business, she was running her own business selling pickles and hot sauces as of two years ago.

Near the end of Lucha Libre AAA’s Rey de Reyes event on May 1st, former WWE wrestler Andrade issued a challenge to Kenny Omega for his AAA Mega Championship at Triplemania XXIX via pre-recorded video. This is the top title in the promotion and has been held by Omega since October 2019, when he defeated Fénix at Héroes Inmortales XIII. However, despite such a long run as champion, Omega has only defended the title four times, twice being in AEW. You can watch the video in which Andrade also states he wants to face Psycho Clown below.

Today AAA would confirm the match is booked, and while last year’s show was moved from the traditional August date to December, this year’s event will take place on Saturday, August 14th, in front of a limited crowd at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico. Additionally, on the show will be Rey Escorpion vs. Psycho Clown in a hair vs. mask match, and Impact Knockouts Champions Deonna Purrazzo will face AAA Reina de Reinas Champion Faby Apache in a title vs. title match.

At Sunday’s WrestleMania Backlash pay-per-view, The Miz faced Damian Priest with zombies acting as lumberjacks around the ring due to a tie-in with Batista’s Army of the Dead movie. It will likely go down as one of the year’s worst matches despite being pre-taped and has drawn heavy criticism online. Batista would even attempt to distance himself from it by saying on social media he wasn’t involved in booking it.

The Miz would subsequently be absent from last night’s episode of Raw, and it was explained it was because the zombies had eaten him after the previous night’s contest. However, the real reason is The Miz was legitimately hurt during the ill-conceived match when Priest landed on his leg. Pro wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer would report this on his Wrestling Observer Radio show and revealed The Miz has actually suffered a torn ACL, but he wasn’t aware of the severity at present.

Sadly for the former WWE Champion, a complete tear will require surgery and leave him sidelined for at least six months. If this is the case, it will come a massive blow to WWE as The Miz is a big part of Raw every week, along with John Morrison.

Following her release from WWE on April 15, Chelsea Green began planning for the future. In addition to trademarking her name, she also launched a podcast named “50 Shades of Green.” All seemed to be going well until three episodes in, she received a cease and desist letter over the use of the name. She subsequently announces on Twitter that going forward, she had renamed her podcast to “Green With Envy.” Now during the debut episode of the newly named show, she has gone into further detail regarding the cease and desist letter.

It had been assumed that another brand or podcast of the exact same name had instructed their lawyer to get involved. However, she revealed it was actually on behalf of the Fifty Shades brand. For those unaware, the 50 Shades brand began life as series of erotic books (Grey, Darker, Freed) a decade ago. It was then turned into a movie trilogy starring Dakota Johnson as the female lead Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan as the titular character Christian Grey.

Green would go into details about her attorney receiving the letter and advising her that the issue was unlikely to go away. She did, though, see the funny side of the situation and poked fun by asking if Christian Grey wanted to use a safety word with her.

Thankfully for Green, this legal issue appears to now be over. Although, as a Canadian, she is still dealing with getting a new work visa and green card after departing WWE. In a recent interview, she would tell Chris Van Vliet that she and Matt Cardona have actually spoken about bringing their wedding forward to help with this. The couple has been dating since 2017 and became engaged on Green’s 28th birthday in 2019. The couple was likely hoping for a big wedding filled with friends and family. Still, given the circumstances, they may need to make do with a smaller ceremony to keep Green in the States and wrestling.

WWE partnered with Netflix’s Army of the Dead for last night’s WrestleMania Backlash pay-per-view. It made perfect sense as the Zack Snyder movie stars former WWE Champion Batista, and the opening of the show featured him narrating over the introduction and clips from the movie. Had that been the film’s only involvement in the event, it’s unlikely anyone would have said anymore. However, when it was revealed that the lumberjacks in the match between The Miz and Damian Priest, fans began to share their outrage on social media.

Thankfully, the match itself was only seven minutes in length, but being built around the zombies at ringside, it is destined for a future WrestleCrap induction. It featured The Miz trying to hide under the ring from the zombies, and John Morrison, who was accompanying The Miz, would dive onto the horde before he was dragged off the barricade. Priest would get the win, and then the zombies invaded the ring to apparently eat The Miz.

By now, fans on social media were either mocking the match or annoyed that WWE would put something like that on pay-per-view, with many choosing to tag Batista in their tweets. This resulted in Batista taking the time to respond to one fan and distancing himself from the debacle.

It isn’t 100% confirmed who played the zombies, as obviously the makeup (which was very well done) disguised them. It’s believed they were WWE signed wrestlers Joe Gacy, Daniel Vidot, Cal Bloom, Jiro Kuroshio, and Asher Hale. All of whom will probably hope this gets forgotten by fans promptly.

This wasn’t the first time WWE has used zombies on their shows. During the debut of ECW on Sci-Fi, independent wrestler Tim Arson would come out dressed as a zombie, making fun of the content that typically aired on the network. He would end up taking several brutal Singapore cane shots from The Sandman. Additionally, at last year’s Halloween Havoc NXT special, several zombies would be involved in a Haunted House of Terror cinematic match between Dexter Lumis and Cameron Grimes. While they were also silly, at least their inclusion played into the nature of the match and the event.

Jerome Young, known to wrestling fans as New Jack, passed away on Friday from a heart attack aged 58. The hardcore legend was a polarizing character but has left the wrestling world mourning. The hardest hit by his death is his widow Jennifer Young and their children, and she has taken to Facebook to provide a statement that you can read below.

Additionally, Janette Davies, a friend of the family, has set up a GoFundMe on behalf of Jennifer to cover her husband’s burial costs, expenses and provide some money for his children’s future. So far, $9,693 raised of the $50,000 goal from 219 donors. If you’re in a position to help, you can do so at gofund.me/65e78c6b.