After her impressive first WrestleMania appearance last year where she defeated Charlotte Flair to retain her WWE Women’s Championship, Tiffany Stratton is not yet officially set for a match at ‘Mania 42 in Las Vegas. There have been reports, however, that Stratton will challenge Women’s United States Champion Giulia for her gold on the “Grandest Stage of Them All.” That match may not be set in stone, as Stratton addressed those reports in a recent interview with “The Schmo.”

“I’ve heard those rumors, too, and I feel like they’re just rumors, because I haven’t really been told anything that I’m at WrestleMania, but we’ll have to wait and see,” Stratton said. “I hope there’s a championship involved.”

Stratton has been feuding with Giulia on recent episodes of the blue brand, and defeated the manager of the “Beautiful Madness,” Kiana James, on the March 13 edition of the show. She’s set to challenge Giulia for the women’s US title on the upcoming March 25 episode. The former WWE Women’s Champion returned from a hiatus following the loss of her title to Jade Cargill at Saturday Night’s Main Event as the 30th entrant into the Women’s Royal Rumble.

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The bell rings and Speedball fires off his signature rapid fire kicks on Romero. He flies off the top rope to deliver a moonsault to Romero on the outside, then connects with his signature flipping double knees on Romero off the middle rope for the win.

Winner: “Speedball” Mike Bailey

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Tributes to Dennis Condrey of the Midnight Express continue to pour in from those throughout the wrestling world following the news of the star’s passing at the age of 74 on March 21. One of those who offered their condolences to Condry’s widow and shared memories of their time with him was former WCW commentator Tony Schiavone, who paid tribute to Condrey during an episode of “What Happened When.” Schiavone said he was going to miss his fellow WCW alum as a wrestler, a person, and a good guy who “f***** around with him” a lot.

“Dennis was one of my favorite guys, he and Bobby [Eaton],” Schiavone said. “It’s hard to believe that Bobby is gone, and now Dennis is gone… I had so much fun with those guys in the studios of TBS. [Jim] Cornette was always so focused on what he was going to say that he never did screw around with me, he was always the mouthpiece, right? But, as we were going on, and you can go back and watch any of the interviews or promos that the Midnight Express did at the set with me, and you look at it closely and you watch it a couple times, you will see Dennis and Bobby f****** with me endlessly.”

Schiavone said the tag team would step on his feet and say things in his ear when their manager was talking, trying to make him laugh. He said he knew why AEW’s Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler pay homage to Midnight Express all the time, because of how great they were, and how they set the standard for tag wrestling.

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Even with a week and a half of distance, many still cannot believe that AEW Revolution featured an appearance from Ronda Rousey, who confronted “Timeless” Toni Storm and left with long-time friend Marina Shafir after Shafir laid Storm out with a sucker punch. And even though Rousey’s appearance was reportedly a one-off for now, and any potential Storm-Rousey plans are impossible due to Storm being forced out of action, many are still curious about how this all came together.

On Wednesday, Rousey answered those questions herself, posting a six and a half minute YouTube vlog detailing her Revolution appearance. Rousey revealed that she had previously asked Shafir about getting involved during one of Shafir’s matches, both to help out her friend and to promote her upcoming fight against Gina Carano on Netflix. Revolution became an option after Shafir told Rousey she was wrestling her first PPV singles match against Storm at the event.

As footage was shown of Rousey interacting with people backstage, including Kenny Omega and Dax Harwood, the former UFC star admitted that she did find it weird that AEW kept her arrival secretive, revealing they wheeled her into the arena in a wheelchair covered in a tarp. Still, Rousey found the experience a good one, calling AEW “a less restrictive, more adult version of WWE.” Perhaps most importantly, Rousey also admitted the appearance was motivated, in part, to stick it to UFC and TKO, whom she had a falling out with during early negotiations for the Carano fight.

“It’s kind of a cool, little bit of a ‘f**k you’ to the TKO group,” Rousey said. “Which is kind of funny because…WWE is on Netflix. But I kind of figured it would be easier to ask for forgiveness instead of permission on this one. Like, I’m promoting your show, it’s fine. We didn’t advertise it, it’s not like we boosted the ratings of it. So it should be fine.”

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For the last few years, All Elite Wrestling has provided fans with more wrestling to enjoy, from weekly television shows like “AEW Dynamite” to massive pay-per-views. It’s often been seen as the “alternative” to WWE, due to just how different the two companies are. After six years of AEW, former AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa spoke about how she believes the company is no longer the alternative in the professional wrestling space during a chat on REAL 92.3 LA.

“For the longest [time], we were the alternative. We’re no longer the alternative, we’re here,” Rosa said. “We’ve been here for six years. The stuff that we have been able to accomplish, and I’ve always been very proud of this, I was part of one of the biggest changes in mainstream wrestling, having one of the most compelling and brutal matches that people in mainstream media have seen.”

Rosa spoke about her lights out match against Dr. Britt Baker on a March 2021 edition of “Dynamite.” She said it was the first time those in the mainstream saw two women bleed on TV in an extreme match involving ladders, chairs, and thumbtacks. Rosa recalled that she wasn’t even signed to AEW at the time, but she knew she had to do well in the match, not just for herself, but other women of her heritage.

“I remember Britt was telling me, ‘We gotta make sure this goes great and we don’t mess up,'” Rosa said. “I’m just thinking, ‘Girl, I know you’re doing it for the clout. I’m doing it because people don’t understand that this is not going to change my life, this is going to change a lot of… brown people’s lives.'”

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