When fellow Hall of Famer Bully Ray asked “Stone Cold” if he got the “itch” for one final match, Austin was blunt in his answer. While he ruled out a match, due to a knee replacement a little over a year ago, he didn’t rule out anything else, and said he would do something if WWE contacted him with the right scenario.

“No, it’d be to go back for one of those moments, not a match itch, right?” he said. “But, I get the itch for certain moments, but to try and do a match, no.”

He joked that WWE could “line everyone up,” including the guys selling the tickets now for him to hit with a “Stone Cold” Stunner. He said he wasn’t sure who he would want to share the ring with for one final big moment, however.

“It’s not something that I think about. Maybe I’m so far gone,” Austin said. “I’m happy that 3:16 Day is here and it lasts with wrestling fans. I’m happy for the career I had, but I don’t, in my current life, I don’t think about me as [‘Stone Cold…’] I’m doing the Steve Austin thing, and I’m not really doing the ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin [thing.]”

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For the most part, the focus on AEW in 2026 has been on their onscreen product. But that changed briefly in February, when anti-ICE chants sprouted up during matches involving AEW star and anti-ICE activist Brody King, leading to some mainstream attention towards the promotion. Even a month later, the chants have continued sporadically on AEW shows, while higher ups within the company have remained silent on the matter overall.

That changed during the post-Revolution media scrum, when AEW owner Tony Khan was asked about wrestlers expressing their political views and whether he feared that could alienate fans of AEW. Khan didn’t seem worried about it at all, and though he made clear that AEW itself was an apolitical entity, he had no issue with his wrestlers expressing themselves politically in any way they saw fit.

“I have said that the wrestlers, when they come out and express their opinions and their personal viewpoints, that’s the wrestlers,” Khan said. “That’s who they are, and AEW has people that express their authentic selves, and that’s what’s great about the wrestling show. These are real people. And when you have ‘Hangman’ Page or Brody King expressing their views, that’s their individual views. The wrestling company is a sport. I don’t have any views other than the sport itself. 

“So that’s where it’s great for the wrestlers to be able to express their own individual viewpoints, and then the league just puts out the best wrestlers, puts out the best wrestling product. And a wrestling organization is not a political league. So I do think that it’s been awesome to be able to see how many fans have gotten behind AEW and all the momentum we have as a wrestling league, but also, the individual wrestlers have their own individual fans. And I think it’s one of the really great things about AEW is the wrestlers have the ability to express themselves.”

Friday’s edition of “WWE SmackDown” saw the heel turn of Elimination Chamber winner Randy Orton on his now-former friend and Legacy stablemate, Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, ahead of their title match at WrestleMania 42. During the turn, which saw Orton viciously beat down Rhodes, causing him to bleed, fans cheered “The Viper.” According to Dave Meltzer on the most recent edition of “Wrestling Observer Radio,” that’s something that officials in WWE imaged would happen.

“I still expect Randy Orton to get cheered at WrestleMania… Everyone’s expecting it,” Meltzer said. “Including WWE, don’t kid yourself. They want Randy to be the heel. It’s tough, when you’ve got a guy who’s in his mid-40s and has been around for 25 years on top… You have that thing where people don’t really want to boo you because they’ve seen you for too long and they appreciate you.”

Orton is headed into his 21st WrestleMania match, in search of his 15th world championship of his career. While his contract signing with Rhodes at the end of “SmackDown” started out respectful, things took a turn and Orton bloodied the champion with the steel steps.

At one point, Orton’s SummerSlam 2025 tag team partner, Jelly Roll, jumped the barricade to attempt to calm down “The Viper,” but was shoved to the ground for his troubles. Orton sat in the ring, the Undisputed WWE Championship belt in his hands, to end the segment as the show went off air.

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The March 12 edition of “TNA iMPACT” saw a small increase in viewership as the show settles into its new home on AMC two months following its January debut on the network. The show saw the Hardys take on Sinner and Saint, a declaration from the newly re-instated Steve Maclin, and more.

According to Wrestlenomics, with data from Programming Insider, the March 12 episode of “iMPACT” drew an average of 259,000 viewers, a four percent increase from the previous week’s 249,000. The show earned a 0.04 rating in the ever-important ages 18-49 demographic, staying consistent with the previous week’s rating.

Compared to the trailing four weeks average viewership, the recent episode of “iMPACT” was up by seven percent from the average 242,000 viewers. The trailing four weeks average rating is 0.04, meaning the March 12 edition of the show stayed consistent there, as well, as TNA gears up for its next TNA+ special event, Sacrifice, on March 27 from the Alario Center in Westwego, Louisiana.

In addition to Matt and Jeff Hardy’s match against Sinner and Saint and Maclin announcing he had been reinstated to the company following him picking the “fired” briefcase during the “Feast of Fired” match, the show also saw AJ Francis take on Elijah and Indi Hartwell defeat Kelsey Heather.

The main event saw Moose, alongside Alisha Edwards, take on Cedric Alexander in an Atlanta street fight where The System was barred from ringside. While Alexander put up a good fight, Moose speared him through a table set up in the corner of the ring for the victory.

After receiving a hometown hero’s welcome in Los Angeles, “Jungle” Jack Perry fulfilled his destiny by becoming the new AEW National Champion after his third attempt against Ricochet and 20 other men in a Blackjack Battle Royal at Revolution on Sunday. However, looking past the raining confetti, a lot of emotions came crashing in, including not having his biggest fan and supporter of his career, former actor Luke Perry, sitting out in the crowd at the Crypto.com Arena watching him perform and giving him the embrace any champion looks for from their family after such a feat. From once being a fan to now a performer at the Crypto Arena, Perry spoke at the post-Revolution media scrum about his late father and how much he misses him.

“Today’s kind of bittersweet. I don’t talk about it too much. My dad died, like seven years ago now. It’s not something that I think about in a big way every single day,” the new champion said. “Obviously, I think about it, but it’s been seven years and thankfully I’ve been able to have other stuff to put my mind towards. And today, coming here, being in this building, the only time I’ve been here was walking around with my dad. And at that point I was so young, I was probably still holding his hand. It was interesting and it was really cool for me to now be here in this way, but it was also sad because I was thinking, you know, the person who I wish could be here the most isn’t here.”

Jack’s father and the beloved former “Beverly Hills, 90210” teen icon passed away from a stroke on March 4, 2019, at the age of 52. Recognizing the highs and lows that have come since joining the squared circle in 2015, Jack mentioned how his love from family, friends, cohorts like his tag team partner Luchasaurus, and AEW as a whole have reaffirmed his passion for this sport vigorously. This is Jack’s third singles championship that he’s carried so far in his young career outside of the TNT (one-time) and now retired FTW (one-time) belts.

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