Steve Borden is continuing his wrestling journey.
Last year, Darby Allin confirmed to Fightful that he had been working directly with Steve Borden, the son of Sting. While Darby climbed Mount Everest, Borden continued his training, and had his first official match recently. That isn't a one-off, as we've confirmed he's got another upcoming booking.
Borden will be competing at DEFY AEON on Friday, November 21 at Washington Hall in Seattle, Washington. This will mark his first appearance for a independent promotion, as his debut w...
2025-11-13 18:19:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
Do you think the X, which has an algorithm that rewards contentious posts and features more bot accounts than human ones...
2025-11-13 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
Phil and Reg are back for the Fightful Select Exclusive, "Ask Grapsody."
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsgzm96dcE
2025-11-13 05:14:14 +0000 UTC
View Post
Blood & Guts is in the books, complete with plenty of violence.
Fightful inquired about the status of a number of talent who were on the show, and heard back about several of them.
We were told that Jamie Hayter got a little banged up, and may have chipped several teeth. One person we talked to said she was "as bad ass as you would expect" all things considered.
Skye Blue was said to be okay, after bleeding buckets in the Women's Blood & Guts match.
There were no serious injuries emerging from Hangman Page vs....
2025-11-13 03:41:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
MJF expected to be back sooner than later
MJF will be returning from Hollywood (or Winnipeg) sooner than later.
A couple of weeks ago, Fightful Select reported that MJF’s Violent Night 2 film was set to wrap filming “soon.” We weren’t sure what that meant for MJF in an on-screen capacity, but in following up we were told that he is set to return “soon,” although that could be relative to the sources indicating it. A specific date was not announced.
It was noted to us that MJF has caught the acting bug and has re...
2025-11-13 01:16:13 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
A recent opening for Manager of Live Events was posted for AEW. Any word what has happened with that position to cause f...
2025-11-12 17:00:25 +0000 UTC
View Post
WWE is not getting rid of their biggest events, at least any time in the near future.
TKO’s Mark Shapiro said that TKO needs to get in the business of “taking the torch and moving past that” in regards to PLEs created by Vince McMahon. This led to a number of fans wondering if WrestleMania, Royal Rumble and the like would be replaced by something different or new.
When speaking to a WWE higher up, they said that the belief is that is primarily for other monthly events as opposed to the tentpole franchises that were aforemen...
2025-11-12 00:54:52 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
hi Sean, in your opinion is there anybody that could plausibly return to the industry and get that kind of "holy shit, w...
2025-11-11 17:00:26 +0000 UTC
View Post
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdfxYMBvkc
It's Cena's last time in Boston.
He beat Dom for the IC Title. So that's good.
Nikki turned on Steph.
Vacquer, not McMahon. That would have been weird.
The men's WarGames has been announced, but there are only 3 guys on each team as of yet.
The women's WarGames is also on, but they've only got 4 each.
WWE is really hard to get excited about right now.
For me, at least...
2025-11-11 03:33:04 +0000 UTC
View Post
More details regarding Miranda Alize, Nixon Newell and the AEW situation are filtering in.
After the live stream the two participated in, a number of AEW talent and staff reached out about the situation. It was claimed to Fightful Select that Bryan Danielson even spoke with Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize and wasn’t thrilled about the way the match went on November 1, as it wasn’t the goal that AEW had. Nixon Newell spoke with Fightful and adamantly denied this, saying that she'd never met Danielson.
A number of women ...
2025-11-10 22:28:24 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
Whatever happened to Taylor Rust? I really enjoyed watching him in ROH and then later on in NXT with Diamond Mine, but h...
2025-11-10 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
View Post
Sean Ross Sapp talks all the news of the week and answers your questions!
AEW National Title vs. NWA
Miranda Alize and Nixon Newell's AEW drama
AEW and Zayda Steel
Ridge Holland
Drew McIntyre
Cody Rhodes
Jesse Ventura
DEBUNKATHON
16:30 Q&A: Andrade, creative changes, Royal Rumble, Who could win world title first?, Danhausen-WWE, bad wrestling themes, best live angles, Okada and Tanahashi, huge potential re...
2025-11-10 11:00:24 +0000 UTC
View Post
Miranda Alize and Nixon Newell’s situation at the November 8 episode of AEW Collision caused controversy.
PWInsider originally reported that Miranda Alize and the former Tegan Nox, Nixon Newell, refused to lose to Anna Jay and Tay Conti. Fightful Select has heard that actually wasn’t the case. Instead, the duo requested more than the three minutes that were planned for the match. However, they were told that by then, the time for the show had been budgeted out and set. We’re told that the two then left the show about an hour bef...
2025-11-09 22:30:43 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
Is there a reason that very little is being done with Giulia lately? She's not in a real feud, is saddled with Kia...
2025-11-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
Miranda Alize and Nixon Newell's AEW Collision match was canceled on November 8.
PWinsider reported that the duo refused to lose to Anna Jay and Tay Conti in what would have been their second AEW appearance. When Fightful inquired, it was stated to us that they didn't expect to win the match, but wanted more than the budgeted three minutes in the loss. They were told times had been set for the match and couldn't be changed.
The two left before the show and were replaced with Hyan and Maya World, who were thanked for their profe...
2025-11-09 05:51:46 +0000 UTC
View Post
All Elite Wrestling has interest in a former WWE ID talent.
Fightful Select has learned that AEW has shown interest in Zayda Steel of late. Until early October, Zayda Steel was contracted to WWE under her WWE ID contract. We're told that contact was made sometime in October between AEW and Steel, but that she wasn't signed as of then, and hadn't been as of this past week.
Under the terms of WWE ID's deals, WWE has matching rights if any company wants to sign the ID contracted talent. However, Steel is no longer under that deal, s...
2025-11-08 23:38:55 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
I see you've been reporting a lot on TNA contracts lately. Do you have anything on Leon Slater's contract? Feels l...
2025-11-08 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to the Friday Fightful tradition -- THE DEBUNKATHON. Today we have news updates on Ridge Holland, the National Title, and we're debunking a ton of stories on Jey Uso, Toni Storm, Rey Mysterio, CM Punk, Dakota Kai, John Cena and many more.
Lock in your yearlong subscription ahead of 2026, when we will be adding a ton of new content!
Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
What’s the word on Kamille? Assuming she’s still under contract, do you think we’ll ever see her in AEW agai...
2025-11-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hey guys, SRS here. Get your questions in!!!
SUNDAY UPDATE: I'm recording today, there's still time to get your questions in.
2025-11-07 13:00:15 +0000 UTC
View Post
One of the greatest wrestling careers of all-time is coming to a close.
Hiroshi Tanahashi’s retirement is upon us, as he’s set to end his 26-year career at New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom on January 4. The subject of his opponent has been heavily speculated, and Fightful Select has learned more about the planned reveal.
As of November 6, the match wasn’t officially signed and delivered, but we’ve been told that the candidates are down to three possibilities. A decision will be revealed in the next week or so, ...
2025-11-06 21:38:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Fightful Select has long been committed to providing you the best in exclusive news in professional wrestling by accuracy and volume, and giving you your money's worth.
We're proud to announce that WrestleVotes, as well has his co-host TC will be joining Fightful and the Fightful Select service. WrestleVotes has had a fantastic track record of breaking stories over the last number of years, as has TC. WrestleVotes and Sean Ross Sapp will be collaborating and conferring on stories in pro wrestling, adding another layer to the coverage
2025-11-06 17:59:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
With the loaded women's division in NXT who do you think we'll see called up soon?
Jacy Jayne has g...
2025-11-06 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
Things got worse for Ridge Holland, aka Luke Menzies.
Fightful Select confirmed with WWE sources that Menzies’ WWE deal has been terminated early. The word within WWE was that they considered some of his recent posts a breach and the call was made to release him from his deal early.
The deal was originally set to go until mid-November, of which he’d be paid. It was strongly suggested that he won’t be paid for the remaining period.
Menzies sustained an injury on September 27 that has him sidelined until well into 2026 ...
2025-11-06 01:17:11 +0000 UTC
View Post
To get exclusive daily news, Q&A articles, Discord access and more, subscribe to the paid tier of Select now! Lock in your year long subscription price before 2026!
House of Glory sent the following exclusively to Fightful, confirming Mercedes Mone's HOG opponent:
Mercedes Mone will battle APAC Wrestling Women’s Champion Nor “Phoenix” Diana at HOG Superclash on Saturday November 15th in Long Island! Phoenix is the world’s first hijab wearing pro wrestler defending the title from Malaysia. Can Mercedes add another cham...
2025-11-05 21:00:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
Fightful is happy to be able to share a few looks at AEW's new book "This Book Is All Elite: The Inside Story of All Elite Wrestling" written by friend of Fightful Keith Eliot Greenberg.
You can check out the book at this link, and wherever books are sold
Note: these pages are not for public distribution outside of Fightful.
2025-11-05 18:09:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
Who from 80/90s wcw and wwf in their prime would you like to see in AEW. For me I would have loved to see the stei...
2025-11-05 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
View Post
Sorry Vince Russo, Drew McIntyre will not be working for Juggalo Championship Wrestling anytime soon.
Russo, looking for any publicity for JCW possible, publicly invited Drew McIntyre to perform for the company whenever his WWE deal is up. Unfortunately for him, Drew McIntyre re-signed with WWE in the spring of 2024. The Rock sent a public congratulations to Drew, whose deal came down to the wire.
Fightful Select has gained some specifics around Drew's deal. Outside of it being into the millions of dollars per year, we're also to...
2025-11-05 02:54:45 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hey guys, SRS here. I think you all know I don't like missing shows if I can avoid it. The last week, we've been taking care of our gravely ill kitty, Jenny. I'd like to thank my Fightful team for stepping up and helping, but I'm always looking for ways to give our subscribers their money's worth. I've caught up on wrestling the past week and put my notes, as well as some exclusives in there, as well as a short review. We're leaving this one for free for all subscribers.
Again, I'd like to apologize for missing these shows.
A n...
2025-11-04 20:03:40 +0000 UTC
View Post
Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
***
Idk who this decision would fall on talent, booker, producers? But is there such thing as talent holding back or b...
2025-11-04 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
