Despite spending the majority of her career in Japan before eventually signing with AEW in 2025, Thekla is very proud to be Austrian. The current AEW Women’s World Champion was born and raised in the Austrian capital of Vienna, and is the only performer from Austria on the All Elite Wrestling roster, but she isn’t the only well known wrestler from Vienna currently working today. The other notable name from European country is, of course, former WWE World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER, and during a recent interview on “The Sal Licata Show,” Thekla was asked if her success in AEW makes her the greatest Austrian wrestler working today.

“That’s a tight race,” Thekla said. “I’m going to say I usually do put myself on the number one spot, but I’m glad–I mean I’m glad he’s a guy, I’m a girl you know? We don’t have to actually race for that spot, but I think he can do s*** that I can’t do and vice versa. Let’s put it that way.” Like GUNTHER, Thekla wrestled in her home country when she started out, as well as making the trip across the border to Germany. However, she quickly established her name on an international scale when she first made the trip to Japan, eventually getting her breakthrough while working for Ice Ribbon until 2021.

GUNTHER also took the long trip to Japan during his pre-WWE days, wrestling for the likes of ZERO1-MAX and Big Japan Pro Wrestling as he idolized the Japanese legends of the past when putting together his own in-ring style. However, he primarily stayed in Europe during his time on the independent scene before signing with WWE in 2018.

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Welcome to Wrestling Inc.’s results for “WWE NXT” on May 26, 2026, coming to you live from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida! WWE/Netflix

The bell rings and Dame fires off shoulders on Vice’s midsection in the corner. Vice lands a spinning kick on Dame’s midsection and levels her with a cannonball off the ring apron on the outside, then dumps Dame back inside the ring.

Dame lands a backstabber on Parker, but OTM appears at ringside and brawl with Spears and Vance to the back as a confused Dame watches from inside the ring. She then delivers a kick to Vice’s midsection during the commercial break and fires off shoulders on her spine in the corner, before whipping her into the opposite corner and landing a backbreaker on her.

Dame lands a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker on Vice, but Vice looks to lock in an armbar on Dame. Dame blocks it with an S-Grip and Vice transitions into a Triangle, but Dame reverses into a variation of a Boston Crab.

Vice rocks Dame with a kick back from the break, but Dame sets up for a Shining Wizard on Vice. She accidentally hits the referee, but Dame levels Vice with a clothesline back from the break and the two women exchange right hands with one another as the referee is still down.

Dame looks to land a kick on Vice, but Vice pins her. Dame kicks out with the referee having begun his count late, causing Vice to check on the referee moments after. This opens the door for Dame to grab the NXT Women’s Championship from the outside and throw it over to Vice, then uses it as Vice holds it to run her over with a big boot. She goes for a pin, but Vice kicks out.

Vice cinches in a submission on Dame, but Dame counters into a roll up. Vice kicks out and delivers a spinning back heel kick to Dame for the win.

Winner (and still): Lola Vice

Moments before the show goes off the air, DarkState appears on their way out of the Performance Center and says after they defeat Myles Borne and Tavion Heights next Tuesday, they’re coming for the gold. The camera pans over to their left, and we see Saquon Shugars watching from the top of a production truck. 

The May 18 edition of “WWE Raw” stayed consistent in viewership over the course of seven days, as compared to the previous week’s episode. The show saw a hot opening angle with Jacob Fatu calling out World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns, after weeks of the pair opening the red brand.

According to Wrestlenomics, with data from Netflix, the May 18 episode of “Raw” drew 2.6 million global views over a seven day period, with 4.6 million hours of the show watched. The global views were consistent with the May 11 episode, but more hours of that show were watched, with Netflix reporting 4.8 million hours viewed.

“Raw” ranked seventh for the week globally, and fifth in the United States, down from its position at fourth domestically the previous week. The show was beaten out in the states by “Nemesis,” “The Boroughs,” “The Roast of Kevin Hart,” and season three of “Worst Ex Ever.”

In addition to the opening angle with Reigns and Fatu, further setting up their Clash in Italy rematch, the show also saw Finn Balor defeat JD McDonagh once again, this time in a street fight. Sol Ruca called out Women’s Intercontinental Champion Becky Lynch, setting up their non-title match at Saturday Night’s Main Event, and Paige and Brie Bella successfully defended their Women’s Tag Team Championships against Judgment Day’s Roxanne Perez and Raquel Rodriguez.

The main event saw Seth Rollins defeat Austin Theory. The post-match angle continued Rollins’ storyline with the Street Profits as well as The Vision, when Angelo Dawkins ran out to help him, then took a spear from Bron Breakker.