While Carlos Silva has been making headlines for pulling talent from independent shows featuring AEW talent, TNA has been announcing upcoming dates for the remainder of the year, including two of their biggest annual shows, Slammiversary (which happens to be the same day as AEW x NJPW’s Forbidden Door) and Bound for Glory. On Thursday, they made another big announcement: the return of Lockdown.

BREAKING: TNA Lockdown returns for the first time in over a decade broadcasting live on PPV and TNA+ from Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago on August 23! Pre-sale begins April 22, tickets go on-sale April 24! #TNALockdown

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A video posted to TNA’s social media revealed that the Lockdown pay-per-view will return after a  hiatus of more than a decade. The video opens with a shot of Nic Nemeth behind a cage and then it cuts to the Chicago skyline. Various other TNA wrestlers are seen in cages or behind fences. Lockdown was a popular event where every match occurs inside of a steel cage. There have been gimmick matches inside the cage such as “Lethal Lockdown”, a version of WarGames and “Queen of the Cage”, an all Knockouts match. The last two times that TNA had Lockdown shows, they aired as special episodes of IMPACT on TV. Lockdown was scheduled to return in March 2020, but was canceled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Lockdown will emanate from the Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago on August 23. Pre-sale tickets will be available on April 22 with regular tickets going on sale April 24.

Ronda Rousey has said Hunter Campbell, UFC’s Chief Business Officer, tried to sabotage her return to MMA while pitching her fight with Gina Carano. 

Rousey will be fighting Carano in her first MMA bout in 10 years, having last lost within a minute of the first round to Amanda Nunes, headlining MVP’s card streaming on Neftlix on May 16. It will also be Carano’s first fight since 2009, where she similarly lost to Cris Cyborg in the first round. 

Rousey has already confirmed the bout was originally pitched to the UFC due to her loyalty to Dana White. But that never transpired and the fighters banded with Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian’s Most Valuable Promotions. 

Speaking on her comeback during CBS Mornings, Rousey said that there were a “cascade” of different factors leading to it. 

“I think largely, I wanted to re-write my own ending in MMA. It was just unfinished, I never formally retired, Dana said I had retired, and I hadn’t fought in 10 years. But I needed everyone to give up on me coming back before I knew I was coming back for just me,” she said. 

“I first reached out to the UFC to get it done because I have so much love for them, and Dana for what he did for me. But he’s not really in charge anymore,” she continued. “Now this guy, Hunter Campbell, is running things and he was really trying to sabotage the deal and get me to fight other people, misrepresenting Gina. Saying she wasn’t serious and wasn’t going to make the weight.”

Since Cody Rhodes returned to WWE in 2022, he’s been the company’s biggest babyface star and has often stated that he has no interest in playing a heel at this stage of his career. However, heading into to WrestleMania 42, Rhodes has seemingly changed his tune on the idea of being a villain.

Speaking on ESPN’s “Unsportsmanlike,” Rhodes explained that Pat McAfee’s involvement in his recent feud with Randy Orton over the Undisputed WWE Championship has made him consider all options when it comes to retaining the title, and admires when the most educated fans are shocked by the overall result of a storyline.

“I love a fan who’s been watching this and studying this and thinks he knows the directions, but they also love when they don’t, right? When you can take them on a ride. I’ve been really bullish and real absolute in saying, ‘Oh I don’t think there’s a heel turn for me at any point or I’m against it. At this point, I don’t believe that at all. I really am open to all paths and all avenues and I make the choices I make that I was raised to make in terms of I very much play myself when I’m out there, but you really can’t call this one in the direction that it goes … is this a wrestling match? Like it’s supposed to be student versus teacher 20 years of history or is there more at play here?”

Since McAfee has become involved in the feud, it’s been reported that Ari Emanuel, the CEO of TKO Group Holdings, which owns WWE, wanted the former NFL kicker in the storyline to bring more celebrity attention to the WrestleMania main event. However, since Emanuel made his request, both fans and WWE’s talent have voiced their frustration with the decision, with Cagematch and IMDB ratings hitting historic lows for weekly episodes where McAfee was featured.

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Though it’s still several months away from hitting theaters, many wrestling fans are gearing up for the next “Street Fighter” movie, particularly because it stars Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and his long-time rival Roman Reigns as Guile and Akuma respectively. And after a less than a minute sneak peak whet the appetite for fans a few months ago, followed by a poster reveal earlier this week, a full length trailer has arrived to give an even better look at Kitao Sakurai’s new film.

Released on Thursday morning, the official “Street Fighter” trailer runs at nearly three minutes long, accompanied by a version of the song “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes. The central focus of the trailer was on characters Ken Masters (Noah Centineo), Ryo (Andrew Koji) and Chung-Li (Callina Liang), with Chung-Li searching for champions, including estranged friends Ryo and Masters, to take part in the second World Warrior Tournament.

While Reigns is listed higher on the marquee than Rhodes, he is only briefly seen in the trailer using a fireball attack. Rhodes was featured a bit more prominently, including during a nightclub fight scene, and towards the end of the trailer, where he has some dialogue. They were not the only wrestlers featured in the trailer, as former IWGP Heavyweight Champion Hirooki Goto was also seen, portraying E. Honda. Other characters featured were Balrog (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson), Dan Hibiki (Andrew Schultz), and the notorious Street Fighter villain M. Bison (David Dastmalchian).

Produced by Paramount Pictures, “Street Fighter” is scheduled to be released in theaters on October 16.