WWE: New Broken Skull Sessions Episode, Bout at the Ballpark Event Announced, Monday’s RAW Notes

Feb 9, 2022

New Episode of Broken Skull Sessions to Feature Ron Simmons

WWE recently announced that an upcoming new episode of their Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions series will be featuring WWE Hall of Famer Ron Simmons as the guest.

This upcoming episode was announced to be airing on February 18th on the WWE Network and NBC’s Peacock.

WWE Hall of Famer Ron Simmons joins @steveaustinBSR on the next episode of #BrokenSkullSessions, and it drops Friday, 2/18 exclusively on @peacockTV in the U.S. and @WWENetwork everywhere else…

DAMN! pic.twitter.com/5y17g98hqi
— WWE Network (@WWENetwork) February 8, 2022

WWE Announced Bout at the Ballpark Event for This Saturday

WWE announced that they will be holding an event called Bout at the Ballpark on Februrary 12th at the Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

This upcoming event was announced to be featuring amateur wrestlers from “top teams in both NCAA and international competition.”

Official press release:

WWE to recruit Superstars of tomorrow at Bout at the Ballpark
The best wrestlers in the world and perhaps even future WWE Superstars will be on display when the Bout at the Ballpark heads to Arlington, Texas this Saturday.
A unique wrestling showcase featuring the top teams in both NCAA and international competition has been scheduled for Globe Life Field on Saturday, February 12, 2022.
Bout at the Ballpark which will include dual matches between Oklahoma State University, the University of Iowa and the United States senior national team and a team of International All-Stars, and a major women’s international freestyle dual meet and a featured international Greco-Roman bout between the United States and Mongolia. Oklahoma State wrestling is the home of defending 197 lbs. NCAA champion and member of WWE’s Next In Line inaugural class, AJ Ferrari.
Tickets for Bout at the Ballpark start as $15 and are available at texasrangers.com/wrestling. The event will be broadcast live by FloWrestling.
The Oklahoma State-Iowa collegiate meet, plus the United States-International All-Stars men’s freestyle and United States-Mongolia women’s freestyle will take place simultaneously on two different mats beginning at 6:30 p.m. on February 12. This will mark the first time a senior-level international meet and an NCAA meet will operate in this format.
Bout at the Ballpark will be the first event at Globe Life Field, the Home of the Texas Rangers, to feature an international competition. The two wrestling mats will be located between the areas of pitcher’s mound and second base and will be placed on raised stages to improve sightlines from the seating bowl. Floor seating will be added with the Globe Life Field capacity expected to be at least 27,000 for the matches.
The Oklahoma State-Iowa collegiate meet and the United States-International All-Stars exhibition meet will take place simultaneously beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 12 with bouts from the two competitions alternating throughout the event on two different mats. This will mark the first time a senior-level international meet and an NCAA meet will operate in this format.
Oklahoma State versus Iowa is one of the most decorated rivalry in college sports. The Cowboys’ 34 NCAA team championships represent the NCAA record for most titles in one sport for any school and the Hawkeyes’ 24 ties for third. This will be the 55th meeting between these storied NCAA wrestling programs with Oklahoma State holding a 29-23-2 advantage.

This Past Monday’s RAW Show News & Notes

This past Monday’s episode of WWE RAW was notable for airing on the Syfy network due to USA Network’s current coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics Games and featured the first hour being presented as “commercial-free” on the network.

In regards to RAW’s “commercial-free” first hour, Twitter user @WreslingCovers noted that based on time split breakdowns, the first hour only contained around ten minutes and thirty-two seconds of actual in-ring action. The rest was split between WWE’s own ads and talking-based segments.

WrestlingInc.com reported that Chad Gable’s pinfall victory over Angelo Dawkins during the Alpha Academy vs. Street Profits tag team match on the show was Gable’s first televised pinfall victory since the June 15, 2020 episode of Friday Night SmackDown. Gable, under the ring name of “Shorty G” at the time, defeated Mojo Rawley in a singles match on that show.