WWE: Damian Priest on Looking Forwards to “Shutting Up People” When He Cashes In His Money in the Bank Contract, A&E WWE Ratings, More News

Damian Priest Comments on Looking Forward to “Shutting People Up” When He Cashes in His Money in the Bank Contract

A recent episode of The Babyfaces Podcast featured Damian Priest as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Priest’s thoughts about him looking forward to shutting people up once he officially cashes in his Money in the Bank contract for another championship in WWE.

“Just waiting and seeing. I got until July (to cash in Money in the Bank). I’m good. It doesn’t expire at WrestleMania. I think a lot of people get confused with that because it used to be at WrestleMania. But I have till July so… man, I’m chilling. We’re fine. It’s gonna happen… I see the stuff online where people aren’t sure if I’m gonna cash in, is it gonna be successful and championship material. When it happens, I’m gonna shut everybody up. I’m not gonna let everybody know when, because that would be silly. But it’ll happen and it’s gonna happen big so, I’m looking forward to that day and kind of shutting a lot of people up.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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A&E WWE Programming Ratings – March 10, 2024

This past Sunday’s Biography: WWE Legends episode drew 407,000 viewers on A&E. This episode also drew a 0.13 rating in the 18-49 demographic and a #23 key demographic ranking. This was up compared to last week’s episode of 276,000 viewers and a 0.07 key demographic rating. This episode focused on WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall.

This past Sunday’s WWE Rivals episode drew 368,000 viewers on A&E. This episode also drew a 0.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic and a #25 key demographic ranking. This was up compared to last week’s episode of 316,000 viewers and 0.06 key demographic rating. This episode focused on the famous The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels rivalry.

Source: Spoiler TV

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WWE News & Notes

WWE Hall of Famers Ron Simmons, Kane, Jimmy Hart, John “Bradshaw” Layfield, and Michelle McCool reportedly are currently scheduled to be traveling to Philadelphia for next month’s WrestleMania 40 festivities, according to PWInsider.

WWE filed a trademark for “Drake Morreaux” on March 12th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This is the ring name for former indies talent Beau Morris.

WWE recently announced that Randy Orton, Rhea Ripley, Becky Lynch, and Rey Mysterio will be making an appearance at their WWE World at WrestleMania fan event on April 4-8 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

As noted before, WWE is currently considering potentially bringing back Brock Lesnar to the company. WWE had pulled all of their plans for Lesnar’s return due to his involvement in the recent Vince McMahon sex trafficking lawsuit and also from their Supercard and WWE 2K24 video games. In a recent Q&A article, PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that Lesnar’s profile was never actually removed from WWE’s roster page to the best of his knowledge in response to recent rumors claiming the opposite and his profile being recently restored.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is currently scheduled to begin filming for a new film titled The Smashing Machine on May 1st. Johnson reported that filming is currently scheduled to take place from May 1st to August 1st and Johnson will be portraying the role of former MMA fighter Mark Kerr.

WWE officials reportedly are currently considering plans to move the start times for all of their domestic Premium Live Events from its current start time of 8PM EST to a new start time of 7PM EST going forward with next month’s WrestleMania 40 event, according to PWInsider.

As noted before, Wes Lee has been out of action for WWE’s NXT brand since this past December due to a back injury. Lee recently provided an update on Twitter showing a video of him performing some in-ring training for the first time since suffering his injury.

Pat McAfee recently announced that Roman Reigns will be making a guest appearance at the March 22nd episode of his The Pat McAfee Show podcast.

Former WWE and WCW wrestler David Taylor reportedly worked as a guest coach this week at WWE’s Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, according to PWInsider.

AJ Francis, former Top Dolla in WWE, recently confirmed on Twitter that he was in attendance backstage at this past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Houston, Texas. Francis stated “Bun B invited me to his show at Rodeo Houston so I pulled up to H-Town today… at the rental car spot a fan told me RAW was in Houston. EVERYONE I saw was excited to see me & that felt good…“

In a recent interview with WWE Die Woche, Xavier Woods stated that there have been recent talks about potentially bringing back The New Day’s podcast series in the future. Woods stated “I miss it too, I miss it too (New Day podcast). There are some talks — we’ve been talking about possibly bringing it back. I don’t wanna get anybody’s hopes up just in case. But, life got very busy for the three of us. We got families and a lot of stuff that we do outside of WWE as well but then also just WWE life is just very busy. The schedule is extremely demanding so we had to put it on that backburner for a while, while we were focusing on some other things but there’s a chance, there’s a chance that it might come back.” (Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com)