WWE: Lex Luger Reportedly Informed WWE of Wanting Sting to Inducted Him Into WWE Hall of Fame, Goldberg Says He’ll Be Cleared to Wrestle Soon & Potential Opponents for Retirement Match, More News

Lex Luger Reportedly Informed WWE of Wanting Sting to Inducted Him Into WWE Hall of Fame & Sting’s Potential Status

As noted before, former WWE and WCW wrestler Lex Luger will be inducted into WWE’s Hall of Fame as a member of this year’s class. Luger had stated in a recent interview with the Busted Open Radio that he has two undisclosed people in mind that he would like to induct him into WWE’s Hall of Fame.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that Luger had informed WWE officials that Sting was his top choice to induct him into their Hall of Fame.

Sapp also reported that Sting currently remains under an AEW Legend style deal but it is currently not known whether AEW would need to sign off on him appearing on WWE programming.

Sapp reported that it is currently not known if WWE has contacted AEW to help make that happen but they are making efforts to bring Sting in for the ceremony.

In an interesting note, Luger had attended Sting’s retirement match at AEW’s Revolution 2024 event in March of 2024 but was not allowed to be shown on camera due to WWE had asked him to not do so and he agreed to their request due to him being under a WWE Legends contract.

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Goldberg Retirement Match Update- Goldberg Says He’ll Be Cleared to Wrestle Soon & Potential Opponents for His Retirement Match

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg will be having a retirement match in WWE for his wrestling career at some point this year.

A recent episode of The Ariel Helwani Show featured Goldberg as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Goldberg’s thoughts about him currently not having a timeframe set for his retirement match but he is expected to be medically cleared to wrestle soon.

“I don’t have any idea. I just know that I got stem cells five weeks and six days ago, and I’m cleared physically in a very short period of time.”

Goldberg also gave his thoughts about potential opponents for his retirement match.

“I never got a chance to get my hand around Cena’s throat. That might have been cool. There are a lot of people I would have loved to have faced back in the day, but the fact is, what does that do for the business now? A lot of people don’t even remember me that watch wrestling right now. A lot of people don’t know me because they speak negatively of me. I think I was an innovator of sorts. There are a plethora (of people). I’d love to have a rematch with Roman [Reigns]. There are so many guys that are so talented and on the cusp of stardom if not there yet, that are possibilities. Bron Breakker. It’s a logical solution. It’s all in how the powers that be want to make it happen. We’ll figure it out and hopefully, at the end of the day, I’m able to present myself in a positive manner to where the people of today, who don’t remember me, will sure as frick remember me after they see me my last time, and it won’t be in a negative way.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com, Fightful.com

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WWE News & Notes

Wednesday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Dragon Lee defeating Ivar to retain the WWE Speed Championship. It was announced that next week’s show will be featuring the start of a new #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Women’s Speed Championship.

This past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Brussels, Belgium featured Jey Uso defeating Austin Theory in a quick squash match. This match was notable for both the very negative reaction to the video of the match that WWE uploaded to their YouTube channel and for Uso botching a dive to the outside that drew comparisons and ridicule to a similar botch by Top Dolla on the December 16, 2022 episode of WWE SmackDown. WWE’s video of Uso’s match against Theory has generated over 70,000 dislikes as of 3:00AM Thursday.

Current TNA World Champion Joe Hendry recently announced that he will be making an appearance at the WWE World fan event on April 19-20 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

As noted before, Warner Bros Discovery shelved their plans this past November for the release of their Coyote vs. Acme live action and animated film featuring John Cena among its cast. Deadline reported that WBD is currently in negotiations with Ketchup Entertainment for an all-rights acquisition deal in the $50 million range for their Coyote vs. Acme film. It was reported that should the deal be completed, the film would be released in theaters in 2026.

Karrio Kross recently announced on Twitter that the Blue Evening short film staring him is currently scheduled to make its official world premiere at this year’s Pasadena Film Festival event on April 8th.

WWE recently revealed the next match in their on-going countdown of their Top 50 matches in WrestleMania history. The 29th spot was the WWE World Heavyweight Championship match of The Undertaker vs. Edge (c) from WrestleMania XXIV.

WWE also recently released three new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was the WWE Championship match of Lex Luger vs. Yokozuna (c) from WWE WrestleMania X. The second new video was a “The story of The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels – WrestleMania rivalry (2009-10).” The third new video was a “Trish Stratus reacts to her greatest moments: WWE Retrospective.”

WWE also recently released one new video to their NXT Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was the full February 12, 2014 episode of WWE NXT.

In a recent interview with the 1 Of A Kind with RVD podcast, ECW legend and former WWE wrestler The Sandman gave his thoughts about how he hated his time in WWE and the reasons for it. The Sandman stated “I hated it there. I had no friends. It was soul sucking. I hated to get on a plane. I hated to go there. I hated to be in the locker room. I couldn’t wait to get out of the fucking building. I hated it so much. You know how everyone goes on TV and they want as much time as they can, they had to tell me to stop going home early. I was going in there and giving them five minutes. Kevin Dunn sends it down to [referee Mike] Chioda, ‘Do not go home early.’ I went home early every single match. Never took any time I was allotted.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Maurizio Merluzzo, former WWE and current TNA talent Santino Marella gave his thoughts about him making his official WWE in Italy and him telling Arianna Grace to see if she could follow his footsteps and make her official main roster debut at this Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Bologna, Italy. Marella stated “It’s interesting because this was Vince’s idea because he wanted to do something to grow the popularity in Italy. Now, I know the popularity came down a little bit, but I think now it’s coming back up. So my daughter wrestles in NXT, and I believe this year, she’ll be called up. So I messaged her yesterday and said, ‘Hey, see if you can debut in Bologna.’ It would be historical. I don’t know if she is, but that would be amazing.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)