News & Notes: WWE RAW Woes, G1 Climax Update, Ricky Morton, More

WWE RAW Could Hit New Record Low This Week

While the WWE was very lucky the past two weeks of RAW had no direct NBA competition, their luck ran out after last Friday’s Game 4 of the NBA Finals ended with the Cleveland Cavaliers avoiding elimination.

Game 5 will occur during Monday’s RAW and the show is expected to take a major hit as a result. The only bright side possibly keeping the show away from setting a new record low is the return of Brock Lesnar and heating up his feud with Samoa Joe.

Update to Recent NJPW G1 Climax News

As previously reported, New Japan Pro Wrestling was expected to announced the competitors and blocks for this year’s G1 Climax tournament during last night’s Dominion pay-per-view event. The announcement was expected to occur during the intermission of the show.

In an update to the news, NJPW ended up not making any G1 related announcements last night’s show. The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Melzter stated one of the shows for the upcoming G1 Special in the United States is currently expected to involve Kazuchika Okada vs. Cody for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

Ricky Morton Discusses Visit to WWE’s Performance Center

WWE recently released a video of Ricky Morton talking about his time as a guest coach for the Performance Center last week. Morton’s lessons as a guest trainer focused mainly on tag team wrestling.

“WWE Did You Know” – Batman and Wrestling

The original actor of Batman, Adam West, passed away over the weekend. In a “WWE Did You Know” type fact, Adam West once made an appearance as Batman for Memphis Wrestling. West gave a promo against Jerry Lawler who played a character called Superking.

Updated Card for ROH’s Best in the World PPV

Ring of Honor recently announced a new match for their upcoming Best in the World pay-per-view event occurring on June 23rd at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in Lowell, Massachusetts. A Six Man Tag Team Championship match between Dalton Castle and The Boys versus champions Buly Ray and The Briscoes was added to the card.

Updated Card:

*ROH champion Christopher Daniels vs. Cody Rhodes.

*ROH Tag Team champions The Young Bucks vs. War Machine.

*ROH Six Man Tag Team champions The Briscoes & Bully Ray vs. Dalton Castle & The Boys.

*ROH TV champion KUSHIDA in action.

*Strap Match: Adam Page vs. Frankie Kazarian.

*The Kingdom’s Matt Taven & Vinny Marseglia vs. CMLL stars El Terrible and Ultimo Guerrero.

*Jay Lethal vs. Silas Young.

*The debut of STARDOM High Speed champion Kris Wolf.