Cody Rhodes regained the WWE Championship from Drew McIntyre on “WWE SmackDown,” a decision Bully Ray has backed, but the WWE Hall of Famer isn’t happy with one aspect of the match. 

The match between Rhodes and McIntyre saw the two battle inside and outside the ring, with Rhodes even being put through a table. The lack of a stipulation, Ray argued on “Busted Open,” was something that bothered him about the world title clash.

“I was happy with that television world championship match and I was unhappy with that television world championship match. The unhappy does not have anything to do with Cody or Drew. It has to do with the rules, the regulations, and the lack of stipulations. And I have the same problem with Cody and Drew’s match, the stipulations on that match, that I had with Kenny Omega and Okada at Wrestle Kingdom,” he said. “But as far as a television main event is concerned, mission accomplished.”

While many have criticized McIntyre’s loss to Rhodes, just a few weeks after he had won the WWE Championship from “The American Nightmare,” Ray has backed the title change, calling it a “smart idea.”

“I have zero problems with this creative decision. I have zero problems with this change of direction. None. I think it was a great idea. Forget about great idea, I think it was a smart idea. I think it was a ‘best for business’ idea. And at the end of the day, it makes for a considerably better story,” he said.

Rhodes’ win, his third WWE world title, means that he will face the winner of the men’s Elimination Chamber match, Randy Orton. Ray is excited for the Orton and Rhodes clash at “The Show of Shows,” but before that showdown, he is eager to see them come face-to-face on “SmackDown,” which he says is similar to the excitement he felt when CM Punk and Roman Reigns met head-to-head on “Raw.”

“TNA Impact’s” viewership and ratings have grown once again, following a slight dip in both metrics the previous two weeks. 

The March 5 edition of “Impact” has drawn just a shade under the quarter million mark, with the average viewership of the show being 249,000, according to “Programming Insider.” This is a sizable jump from the viewership for the previous two weeks — the February 26 and February 19 editions — which drew an average audience of 233,000. Last week’s show’s viewership is inching closer to the highest audience “Impact” has garnered since its move to AMC, which came on the February 12 edition that registered 254,000 viewers. As per “Wrestlenomics,” the 249,000 number is higher than the four-week average, which is at 240,000. 

The 18–49 key demographic rating also grew marginally for the March 5 “Impact,” rising from 0.03 to 0.04. While it has risen from the previous week, the rating is lower than the four-week average, which is currently at 0.05.

Last week’s show began with a TNA Knockouts World Championship match, where Arianna Grace successfully retained her title against Jody Threat, while The System became the new #1 contenders for the TNA World Tag Team titles. Leon Slater, meanwhile, continued his 200+ day reign as TNA X-Division Champion when he defeated Nic Nemeth, while the show closed with TNA World Champion Mike Santana demanding that TNA management reinstate Steve Maclin, whom he will face at Sacrifice later this month.

The pair put on an excellent match with too many great spots to name, but was highlighted by Page surviving the Panama Sunrise into The Boom, as well as the Deadeye through the table. The crowd was hot, despite it being the main event out of a 12-match AEW pay-per-view, as the company’s events have become notorious for running long. The crowd leaned to some silliness playing off the first names of the competitors, chanting “We want Adam!” and “Let’s Go Adam” with the response of “Adam sucks!”

Revolution 2022 overall was a highly-rated event on Cagematch, currently sitting at a 8.86 (out of 10) average rating with just over 475 votes. Page and Cole’s match for the AEW World Championship has an average rating of 8.26, based on 645 votes, with a majority of those votes rating the bout an eight or nine. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter gave the match four-and-a-half stars.

Page would go on to successfully defeat Cole once again in a Texas Deathmatch on an April 2022 episode of “AEW Rampage.” “Cowboy S***” would come to an end, for the time being, in AEW, when Page lost the title to CM Punk at Double or Nothing in May, ending his reign at 197 days.

Cole would go on to begin his infamous bromance-turned-failed feud with MJF as “Better Than You Bay-Bay” in June 2023. The storyline, which saw Cole reveal himself as “the Devil” was marred by injury, and in recent memory, Cole appeared to retire, or at least announced an extended hiatus, at All In 2025.

“Hangman” has faired better, and following his second reign with the AEW World Championship, is back in the title scene once again. He goes one-on-one with MJF in a Texas Deathmatch at Revolution on Sunday.

Finn Balor was shockingly attacked and ejected by The Judgment Day, led by Dominik Mysterio, this week on “WWE Raw,” and a former member of the group, Damian Priest, has reacted to the betrayal.

Priest knows a thing or two about being thrown out of The Judgment Day as he and Rhea Ripley were removed from it by the likes of Balor, Mysterio, Carlito, and JD McDonagh on “Raw” in 2024. It seems that the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion has had the last laugh after watching Balor being backstabbed by his compatriots.

“Sucks doesn’t it,” asked Priest simply on social media.

Sucks doesn’t it? ⚖️

— Damian Priest (@ArcherOfInfamy) March 10, 2026

McDonagh and Liv Morgan, who were involved in the attack on Balor this week, reacted to Priest’s remarks. McDonagh reminded him that he had done something similar to Edge, while Morgan said he would know something about it.

Balor’s removal from the group on this week’s show was initiated by Mysterio, who was unhappy that the Irish star didn’t come out to help him in his Intercontinental Championship match against Penta on last week’s show. The Irish star made a pointed comment toward Mysterio, suggesting that Dominik’s father, WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio, may have been right when he said that he was entitled. This angered Dominik, who turned on Balor, with the rest of the group following suit. Balor was the longest-serving member of the current iteration of the group, having joined the faction in June 2022, a few months after it was formed by Edge, aka Adam Copeland. Aside from Balor, Edge, Priest, and Ripley, Carlito was also a part of the faction in his short second stint with WWE.

AJ Styles is beginning his second career in pro wrestling behind the scenes following his recent retirement, and he has now explained his current role in WWE.

“The Phenomenal One” pulled the curtain on a legendary career at this year’s Royal Rumble and will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame later this year. After hanging up his wrestling boots, Styles will now move on to a new role in WWE, which he explained on “The Phenomenally Retro Podcast.”

“I’m on the internet checking out talent because that’s kind of part of my job with WWE now. I’m looking for talent, I’m looking to see if I can do anything for them if they can get better … little things like that because if there’s a possibility of them, I don’t know, get a WWE ID or something like that, then hopefully I can facilitate in getting that to happen. As of right now, it’s a little slow, but there are phone calls that are going to have to be made to make sure that my job is done. And it’s not just with indie talent, it’ll be NXT talent as well, and maybe even some main roster talent. I’m going to Seattle next Monday Night Raw to talk with talent and who knows,” he said. “Sometimes you need to talk to somebody to see how they’re feeling, and maybe they want to go down to the PC and work on some stuff. I’m that guy, that’s what I’m there for.”

The former WWE Champion stated that he will try to help wrestlers in any way that he can to keep their morale up and stay motivated. Styles admitted that he thought he would have more free time after retiring, but he has had his hands full with his work in WWE, as well as spending time with his family.