It’s been a couple of months since the last edition of Saturday Night’s Main Event back in January. That show saw the highly anticipated final match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura. Earlier this month, WWE announced the next SNME would take place on May 23 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Their calendar just expanded with today’s announcement of another SNME event. This time, it’ll be in the famed Madison Square Garden. WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select reports that the show will be on July 18. This is only the second time that SNME will emanate from the iconic venue, with the last being in August 2007. They also note that it will be the first live edition.

This SNME event is scheduled for the same weekend as Fanatics Fest. WWE will be heavily involved with Superstars like John Cena, Rhea Ripley, Cody Rhodes, IYO SKY, and Stephanie Vaquer already announced.The festival runs from July 17 through July 19 at the Javits Center in New York City.

SNME will take place just before a few weeks before a two-night SummerSlam on August 1 and 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

“The Ring General” turned “Career Killer” GUNTHER hasn’t been seen on WWE programming since beating down and unmasking Dragon Lee on the March 2 edition of “WWE Raw.” The former World Heavyweight Champion is currently not involved in a program ahead of WrestleMania 42, with reports indicating that a previously planned match pit him against Rey Mysterio before the Hall of Famer suffered an injury. According to WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select, however, there is still hope for GUNTHER at ‘Mania.

Wrestlevotes reported that WWE sources claimed that GUNTHER is still expected for a “substantial” role at WrestleMania despite his absence from “Raw” over the last few weeks. One source noted that GUNTHER missing ‘Mania wouldn’t benefit anyone involved. WrestleVotes also noted that GUNTHER was expected by many to face Mysterio, who is out battling an injury he sustained even before competing in the Royal Rumble.

As of this writing, GUNTHER is not publicly advertised to be at “Raw” on Monday, live from Madison Square Garden in New York City, though it’s always possible for the “Ring General” to make a surprise appearance. WWE is advertising the likes of Brock Lesnar, Roman Reigns, World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk, Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer, Jey Uso, Becky Lynch, and Rhea Ripley for the show.

GUNTHER had been feuding with Lee after he retired Lee’s former tag team partner, AJ Styles, at the Royal Rumble. Many fans thought another career-threatening match could be on deck for GUNTHER on “The Grandest Stage of Them All” as in addition to Styles, he has also retired John Cena and Goldberg.

While her job as referee is the one most wrestling fans associate Aubrey Edwards with, the long-time AEW employee has worn many hats for the promotion since joining it soon after its formation in 2019. In addition to working on several of AEW’s video game projects, Edwards has also been the one constant in the AEW podcast “AEW Unrestricted,” hosting it with both Tony Schiavone and Will Washington.

As the story goes though, all things must come to an end, and that’s no different for “AEW Unrestricted.” Taking to Bluesky on Thursday, Edwards revealed that the newest episode of “Unrestricted” was also the last episode of “Unrestricted,” with the podcast officially closing up shop after six years.

“Thank you for 316 episodes,” Edwards said. “The last AEW Unrestricted is available now on all the podcast apps. I only cried once!”

On the podcast, Edwards and Washington confirmed that the decision to end “Unrestricted” had nothing to do with their status in AEW, and that both would be sticking around. Furthermore, “Unrestricted” won’t be the end of AEW’s foray into podcasting, with both Edwards and Washington noting that there would be future AEW podcasting content coming, though they wouldn’t elaborate on what it would entail.

The 316 episode run of “Unrestricted” largely featured Edwards and Schiavone/Washington interviewing the stars of AEW, while occasionally doing preview shows for AEW PPV’s with AEW owner Tony Khan. As it stands, the last guest of “Unrestricted” will be Zayda Steel, who appeared on last week’s episode.

We’re just a few weeks away from WrestleMania weekend, which includes the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony. On Thursday morning, Paul Levesque announced that Bad News Brown would be inducted into the Legacy class.

Hailing from Harlem, New York, Brown started his wrestling career in Stampede Wrestling in Calgary, Alberta, Canada against talent like Bret Hart. He debuted in WWE in 1988, where he famously kept to himself and had no friends because he didn’t need them. While in WWE, he feuded with the likes of Hulk Hogan, “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. At WrestleMania IV, he won a battle royal by eliminating Hart.

In 1990, Piper eliminated him in the Royal Rumble and Brown got his revenge by getting back in the ring and sending Piper over the top rope to eliminate him. This led to a match at WrestleMania VI, which ended in a double countout. Following his feud with Piper, he moved on to Roberts after he had given him a reptile for his birthday, which Brown was not pleased with. In order to deal with Roberts and his snake, Damien, Brown found a sewer rat to combat them. Roberts defeated Brown at SummerSlam and Brown was never seen in WWE again. Following his WWE career, Brown wrestled in Japan for UWF-I and NJPW. He would also work for several independent promotions until finally retiring in 1999 due to a knee injury.

Prior to his pro wrestling career, Brown was an Olympic medalist. He won the Bronze medal in judo during the 1976 Summer Olympics. He died from a heart attack in 2007.

In just 10 months with AEW, Thekla has become one of the fastest rising stars in the company, having captured the AEW Women’s World Championship and defeating the likes of Thunder Rosa, Mina Shirakawa and Willow Nightingale. Earlier this month, Thekla retained the title in a Best Two Out Of Three Falls match against Kris Statlander at AEW Revolution, and according to a new report, the company chose to promote their top women’s champion shortly after the pay-per-view.

On Wednesday, Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp confirmed that Thekla has signed a multi-year contract with AEW. At this time, the exact length of the deal has yet to be revealed, but AEW was reportedly so impressed with the “Toxic Spider’s” work since she made the jump from Japan last summer, that they made the decision to sign her to a new multi-year contract with still over a year left on her current deal. 

Sean Ross Sapp also notes that Thekla’s performances have been well received by AEW, which led her to become world champion sooner than many expected. The 32-year-old reportedly used representation to complete the deal.

After retaining the AEW Women’s World Championship last night on “AEW Dynamite” against Shirakawa, Thekla’s will be looking to eclipse 50 days with the title next week, as she’s currently seven days away from reaching that milestone. That said, Thekla needed to rely on illicit means to hold onto the gold yesterday, as she used brass knuckles to defeat Shirakawa.