WWE Money in the Bank has become such a celebrated event over the past 16 years that it has unofficially turned the “big four” tentpole events in to the “big five” for how popular it is. The show is always one of the most anticipated of the year, but fans will have to wait just a little longer for the 2026 instalment as the date for this year’s Premium Live Event has been pushed back.

In an official press release issued by WWE on June 8, the 2026 Money in the Bank Premium Live Event will now take place on Saturday, October 10, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. The show was originally set to take place on Sunday, September 6 in the same venue, which was already a rearranged date to begin with as the initial announcement had the show taking place on Saturday, August 29, one day before AEW All In London 2026. The press release didn’t disclose why the show has been pushed back by one month, but it did confirm that tickets for this year’s event will officially go on sale on July 10 at 10AM ET, with an exclusive pre-sale taking place on July 9.

This year’s Money in the Bank show was already a hot topic of conversation when it was initially announced, with some fans seeing it as WWE making up for the fact that WWE WrestleMania 42, which was originally set to take place in New Orleans, was moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. WWE does have an agreement in place with the city of New Orleans to host WrestleMania in the future, with the earliest possible year for that event to take place being 2028 given next year’s WrestleMania will take place in Saudi Arabia. However, WWE’s Chief Content Officer, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, did promise the people of New Orleans that WrestleMania will return to their city when announcing the original Money in the Bank date.

What a wild few days it’s been for Steve Maclin. It’s only been 24 hours since TNA announced that Maclin had been granted his requested release. Maclin was expected to be in demand and has already secured one deal. PRODUCE Wrestling announced that Maclin will wrestle on their Volume 2 show on July 16.

On Monday, they posted on social media that Maclin signed a multifight deal. “On July 16 in Jersey City, NJ, the Garden State native will debut on our second show PRODUCE: Volume 2 – TAIGASTYLE at White Eagle Hall.” Last week, PRODUCE announced their first six shows. Four shows will have four matches curated by Jonathan Gresham, Lee Moriarty, Rocky Romero, and Joey Janela, respectively. PRODUCE Wrestling shows will be available on MyAEW’s streaming platform.

Steve Maclin has come to terms with PRODUCE on a multifight deal.

On July 16th in Jersey City, NJ, the Garden State native will debut on our second show PRODUCE: Volume 2 – TAIGASTYLE at the White Eagle Hall.

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— PRODUCE by Orange Crush (@PRODUCENYC) June 8, 2026

Following news of Maclin’s release, Fightful Select reported that he had wished to keep his release quiet, but TNA sent out a rare press release to announce that he and Myla Grace had both been granted their releases. Maclin was with the company for five years and was a former IMPACT! World Champion, as the company was called at the time. He was also the inaugural International Champion, a title he would hold twice. On Saturday night, Maclin and his wife, Deonna Purrazzo held a charity wrestling show, “Battle for the Brave”, which benefited the Tunnel to Towers Foundation. Maclin and Purazzo have a podcast, Boots to Boots, which spotlights life transitions and identity shifts. Maclin is a combat veteran.

Booker T has assessed the match between Becky Lynch and Sol Ruca at WWE Clash in Italy, and argued that the work in the ring would’ve been better if they had a few house show matches with each other under their belt. 

WWE’s reduced house show schedule has left some of its younger talent to learn on television. The match between Lynch and Ruca was not as smooth as some would have expected, which Booker T said is something Ruca will improve with experience.

 “That’s something that Sol Ruca is going to have to really think about going forward, is being able to improvise,” he said on his “Hall of Fame” show. “I wish I would have got a chance to work with Sol Ruca on those improvisations and being able to know how to go out, and, you know, do certain things to make everything come together in a match. She’s so talented. And the thing is, her having that meteoric rise in NXT because, there again, you know, when you’re good at running the play, man, you can really really look good. But when that play get messed up and you got to call an audible, that’s when you got to still make it look like it was supposed to look that way.”

He believes she is bound to make mistakes due to her inexperience at the top level, but thinks she will only learn from them. He wonders if more practice on house shows would have made her look better in television matches. 

“How much Sol Ruca would have been prepared for that if she would’ve got a chance to do a house show loop, or a couple of house show loops, with Becky Lynch before they actually had that match? Someone like Steamboat-Savage had a chance to before they went into WrestleMania. How much better do you think that match would have been? It would have been so much better,” he stated. 

Booker T lauded the talent that Ruca possesses, stating she’s in the same category as other recent stars who have progressed from “NXT,” such as Tiffany Stratton.

Professional wrestlers finding love on the road is a tale as old as time, and one couple making it work in All Elite Wrestling is former TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher and his girlfriend, Skye Blue. The pair have been together nearly four years, after meeting backstage during an AEW show. Blue appeared on an episode of TMZ Sports’ “Inside the Ring” and spoke about traveling the world with her partner, who she said can be more high maintenance when it comes to road life.

“The biggest diva might be Kyle,” Blue said. “He’s going to kill me for saying that, though. He’s just a very large Australian man, so he doesn’t fit in seats very well sometimes. He’s always hitting his head on the overhead bins or something like that. But, he’s really not that big of a diva. He’s not, I promise. But, I think it is the coolest thing ever, because trying to explain to somebody that’s not in our industry, ‘Hey, this my job. But, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle that everything kind of revolves around it.'”

When they’re home, the couple is washing and bedazzling gear, meal prepping, studying wrestling, and going to the ring to train and try out new things. She said trying to explain the lifestyle to someone outside of it would be mind-blowing to that person. Blue said it’s not just a job to her and Fletcher, it’s’ their dream.

“Having a partner that loves it that much and is in the same field and cares about it the same amount, and I get to travel with, I absolutely love it,” she said. “He’s absolutely my rock. I absolutely love going to work with him.”

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