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Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Issue #7237
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//->> OPENING WORDS FROM THE EDITOR

Nice surprise to see Lilian Garcia back on Raw last night. She was great during her time there years ago.


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//->> NEWS FROM THE WRESTLING-ONLINE NEWSWIRE
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KING AND QUEEN OF THE RING RAW SEMI FINALS SET

- Raw's side of the King and Queen of the Ring tournament is done with the quarter finals and the semi final matches are now set to take place on next week's broadcast. During the show, Gunther defeated Kofi Kingston in the first quarter final and then Jey Uso defeated Ilja Dragunov in the other men's semi final. In the women's tournament, Iyo Sky defeated Shayna Baszler and then Lyra Valkyria defeated Zoey Stark to advance. Gunther vs Uso and Sky vs Valkyria will both take place next week. The Smackdown quarter final matches will air this Friday on the show.

LILIAN GARCIA MAKES SURPRISE APPEARANCE ON RAW

- Former WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia made a surprise appearance on Monday Night Raw last night in Greenville, South Carolina. Current Raw ring announcer Samantha Irvin introduced Garcia to the fans and asked her if she would like the announce the next match. Garcia accepted the invitation and thanked Samantha. "You're amazing. You're doing an incredible, incredible job, I am so proud of you," Garcia told Samantha. The 57-year-old joined WWE in 1999 and left the company full time in 2016 although she did several appearances after that. She last did ring announcing for the Raw Reunion show in 2019. You can see her return at .

LYNCH NOT SIGNED TO A NEW DEAL YET

- Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful is reporting through his Select service that Becky Lynch has not signed a new contract with WWE yet and her current deal is up in three weeks. A week before WrestleMania, Lynch told Ariel Helwani in an interview that there have been no communication over a new deal and there was nothing offered to her at that time. That did change and Lynch was recently offered a new contract and while both sides are actively negotiating, there has not been any pen to paper yet. Lynch is the current WWE Women's World champion and will be defending her title against Liv Morgan at the King and Queen of the Ring tournament on May 24 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Her husband Seth Rollins recently signed a new deal with the company and the belief is that Lynch will also follow suit with one of the, if not the, biggest deals for a female competitor.

CHARLOTTE FLAIR CAST IN NEW MOVIE

- Deadline.com has an exclusive story about Charlotte Flair being cast along with Freddy Rodriguez to lead the indie horror/thriller movie You Lose You Die, written by Carlos “Spiff TV” Suarez who will also make his movie directorial debut. According to the synopsis provided by Deadline, the movie "follows sociopathic tech expert, Mr. Fantastik (Rodriguez), who runs a popular show on the dark web with two other sociopathic tech experts, Ms. Perfect (Flair) and Mr. Creep (Anthony Alvarez). On the show, thousands of viewers vote on games and challenges for prisoners to participate in. If the prisoners lose, viewers vote on the weapons the sociopaths use to kill them." The project is currently in pre-production. "So incredibly excited to be apart of this movie," Flair wrote in a post on Instagram. "You’ll be in for a treat."

SMACKDOWN RATING

- Friday Night Smackdown drew 2,128,000 viewers this past week, down 20,000 viewers from the prior week and the least-watched episode of the show for 2024. The show had heavy competition from the NBA Playoffs which went head-to-head with Smackdown. In 18-49, Smackdown drew 0.62 rating, up 0.02 from the previous show and was #1 on network television and #3 on all of TV behind two NBA games. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)

JESSE VENTURA SAYS HE WAS OFFERED A WWE LEGENDS DEAL

- WWE Hall of Famer Jesse "The Body" Ventura revealed in an interview on WABC 77 that he is currently in negotiations with WWE over a Legends deal. Ventura told host Frank Morano that his lawyer has the WWE Legends contract in hand and they're reviewing it, although he admitted he doesn't fully know what his role would be at this point. "I can only say that that’s happened because of the change of direction in the company," Ventura said. Ventura was highly critical of Vince McMahon in the past and has not appeared on any WWE television whatsoever since 2009. "You know, I’m an old guy now and you’ve got to have the legends. And hell, if you go back to WrestleMania I, there ain’t too many of us alive anymore," Ventura said, mentioning Roddy Piper, Paul Ordnorff, Andre The Giant, John Studd, and Junkyard Dog who have since departed. "The door is, you know, we’re talking right now about me having some," Ventura continued. "I’m getting older. I mean, I’m in my 70s now. And I guess I’d just like to open up the door at the end in the wrestling career and see what’s still left there." Ventura did say that he's not going to go back as an announcer for sure as he doesn't know who wrestles there anymore.

CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST CASH WHEELER DROPPED

- Florida prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against FTR's Cash Wheeler after they filed a legal notice a week before the trial was supposed to start. Wheeler was originally arrested in August 2023 following a road rage incident on July 27 and faced one charge of aggravated assault with a firearm, which is a third degree felony in the state of Florida. He had a pre-trial hearing set this week where he was ordered to appear but that of course was also canceled. Wheeler had plead not guilty to all charges and is now free from any legal issues stemming from that incident.


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