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A PACKED edition of Wrestling Observer Radio today! Over 30 minutes on the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame, plus news on Lana and Rusev, WWE record low ratings, Seth on ESPN and why Dave thought it was pretty awful, Smackdown tapings, New Japan upcoming line-up, Ronda’s mom saying crazy things, a bunch of questions and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including notes on Rusev and Lana’s engagement, New Japan King of Pro Wrestling, then Dr. Lucha Steve Sims joins us to talk Mistico’s return to CMLL, Lucha Underground and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including tons of thoughts on New Japan, the return of Mistico to CMLL, TNA Impact TV and the title tournament, the new Rizin promotion and Kazushi Sakuraba, your questions and more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
It was reported today on TMZ that Rusev, aka Miroslav Barnyashev, and Lana, aka Catherine Joy Perry, are engaged.
The two had been dating for some time. Perry often posted pictures of them on various non-wrestling trips together on her Instagram account. Eventually they bought a house together in Nashville.
The TMZ report said that the engagement took place last month, and that the engagement was filmed at the pool in their backyard.
Earlier this year the two broke up in storyline, which historically does not bode well for real-life relationships. Barnyashev later suffered an ankle injury, and instead of staying home to recover traveled from city to city with Perry and the rest of the crew.
This probably was the impetus to the angle where Rusev and Summer Rae somewhat got engaged on Raw. Summer asked Rusev to marry him, and at first he said yes, but then stated, “not yet.” He said before she could put gold around her finger he needed to put gold around his waist, meaning he needed to win a title. The belief is that this was a way to drag the storyline out since Perry suffered a wrist injury and won’t be able to return to physical action for awhile. Dolph Ziggler, who is also involved in the storyline, also took time off to film a movie, so the only person involved who has not missed TV time is Summer Rae.
Lana suffered a wrist injury yesterday while in the ring training before the show in Fairfax, VA.
X-rays showed a fracture, described by Dr. Chris Amann as a Colles fracture and her wrist was put in a splint. Amann said that most likely she would undergo surgery. She would be unable to perform physically in the ring for about four months.
The WWE web site has a report on this at http://www.wwe.com/inside/lana-injured-while-training
