The conversation about Trump also saw Ventura suggest that the President had staged the assassination attempt in July 2024 by Thomas Crooks. Crooks was shot dead by Secret Service snipers after killing one victim and injuring two others.

Trump was wounded on the upper side of his right ear. Morgan said he believed Trump was heroic for getting back up and saying “fight, fight, fight,” after the attempt on his life. To which Ventura said: “Oh yeah, right, right. You ever hear of a blade job?”

Morgan asked whether that was a suggestion that the shooting was staged, and Ventura said, “I don’t know. Where’s his scar today?”

Morgan then reiterated that he thought Trump was heroic on that day, with Ventura replying then that Trump had “accomplished what he wanted out of you guys.”

Ventura also said that he was working on something involving him potentially going to Washington to confront Trump directly, though he declined to share details. He went on to cut something akin to a promo about it. 

“We withstood the onslaught of the Gestapo in Minnesota… Well, now Minnesota is secure. We’ve repelled the onslaught from Trump. Now it’s time for us to go on the offense. Maybe it’s time to send the Navy SEAL to Washington. Maybe it’s time for a showdown between the Vietnam veteran and the draft dodger.”

Morgan pressed if that was meant to be a physical confrontation, to which Ventura circled back to the Hall of Fame: “He’s in the Hall of Fame. Let’s both get in the ring. After all, he’s in the Hall of Fame, isn’t he? Even though he’s never, ever had a match. Do you think he’d have the guts to do that?”

WWE legend Kevin Nash has debated the decision of certain WCW stars to join WWE before their contracts expired in 2001, noting how one star’s career was killed after he joined WWE. 

Nash was one of the WCW stars who decided to run out his WCW contract after the promotion folded, but some stars like Booker T and Diamond Dallas Page chose to sign with WWE before he did. On the “Kliq This” podcast, the WWE Hall of Famer highlighted how DDP and Booker T took contracts with less pay than what they had in WCW to join WWE and detailed their contrasting fortunes after signing with Vince McMahon.

“He [DDP] got killed [in WWE]. They killed him,” began Nash. “He went over [to WWE], his dream was always to work for the WWE. And so when Vince offered the buyout at 50 cents on the dollar, he took it. So he took the buyout, took, you know, a downside. So basically, it’s like now you’re going back to work to make what you would have got if you would have sat at home on the couch. He’s the biggest star that comes over in the first run besides Booker. Him and Booker were the two biggest stars that came. And I think that the lack of having any black superstars at that time at the WWE, they didn’t want to f**k with Book. But they fu**ed with Dallas bad. I mean, he did a job for Taker’s wife.”

Nash recalled telling the stars who were going to sign with WWE after the demise of WCW to wait it out and do the Invasion angle involving all WCW stars, rather than have them go over to WWE in phases. Unlike Booker T and DDP, Nash — along with Hulk Hogan and Scott Hall — returned to WWE after their original WCW contracts expired, reforming the nWo and debuting it in WWE.

When “WWE NXT” takes to New York City and the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden next week, two women will face off to determine who will become number one contender to the NXT Women’s Championship and face Jacy Jayne at Stand & Deliver on April 4. On Tuesday’s edition of the show, it was revealed former EVOLVE Women’s Champion Kendal Grey will take on AAA World Mix Tag Team Champion Lola Vice.

Grey and Wren Sinclair faced off against Fatal Influence’s Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid, and Grey scored the victory when she made Reid tap out. After the match, Grey got on the microphone and called out Jayne, who was ringside for the match, and said that now that Sinclair has the Women’s Speed Championship, and after her own victory, she was going to take the title from Jayne at Stand & Deliver.

That brought out Vice, who told Grey that everyone knows she’s going to be champion someday, but that’s not going to happen at Stand & Deliver, because she was going to take the gold from Jayne. “NXT” General Manager Robert Stone then came out and made the number one contender’s match between Grey and Vice official for next week.

Jorge Masvidal revealed that he was originally offered Nate Diaz’s spot on the MVP-promoted Ronda Rousey-Gina Carano card streaming on Netflix in May. 

The full card boasts the likes of former UFC Heavyweight Champions Francis Ngannou and Junior Dos Santos, the former fighting Philipe Lins and the latter facing the reigning Karate Combat Heavyweight Champion Robelis Despaigne. 

Nate Diaz also marks his return to MMA with a fight against fellow UFC alum Mike Perry, though Masvidal said on his “Death Row MMA” YouTube channel that the spot originally belonged to him. 

“So I got offered a fight on this card, I had a very nice offer from Netflix. But UFC had other plans for me,” he said, continuing to explain that the MVP talks led to UFC’s laying out their plan for him to him. 

“I was talking to Nakisa [Bidarian, MVP co-founder], I get along very well with Nakisa, nothing but love for him for even thinking of me and calling me up and stuff. But it just didn’t work out. So I had the first offer before they gave it to Nate. And I desperately wanted to take the fight. But UFC has a good plan for me, and they told me the plan. I like it and we’re gonna see it through now.”

Masvidal has not fought in UFC since a 2023 loss to Gilbert Burns, marking his fourth in a row since 2020, his last win coming against Diaz in 2019 for the BMF Championship. Since 2023, Masvidal fought Diaz to a Majority Decision loss in boxing in 2024, and had a grappling match scheduled against Shara Magomedov for Hype FC earlier this month, but that was canceled. 

“WWE Raw” hit three million views once again, this time for its March 16 episode, two weeks after it last hit the mark on Netflix. The show saw plenty of storylines move forward on the “Road to WrestleMania,” and one major match became official when Oba Femi laid out Brock Lesnar.

According to Wrestlenomics, with data from Netflix, the March 16 episode of the red brand hit three million global views over the course of seven days, with 5.9 million hours of the 116-minute show watched. The global views were up from 2.8 million the previous week, where five million hours of the 101-minute episode were watched over the course of a week. The most-watched episode of the year over the seven day timeframe remains the January 5 edition of the show with 3.2 million views, marketed as a special episode due to “Raw’s” one-year anniversary on the streaming platform.

“Raw” ranked eighth for the week globally, and third in the United States. In the states, the episode was beat out by the seventh season of “Virgin River” and the second season of Tyler Perry’s “Beauty in Black.”

In addition to the segment that saw Femi lay out Lesnar with a Fall from Grace powerbomb after Lesnar attempted to take out Seth Rollins, “Raw” also saw AJ Lee successfully defend her Women’s Intercontinental Championship over Bayley. Elsewhere, Penta retained the IC title over Dragon Lee, and Nattie tapped out Maxxine Dupri. The main event segment saw Roman Reigns address his WrestleMania 42 opponent, World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk, in a promo that saw Reigns get hit with the microphone after calling Punk “old.”