There is a ton of news and notes coming from the pro wrestling world over the last week as this journalist spent some time offline.

WWE moved through its first few matches of the King and Queen of the Ring Tournaments, while All Elite Wrestling’s (AEW) Owen Hart Foundation Men’s and Women’s Tournaments rang the bell on some of their first matches.

Meanwhile, Steve Maclin and Deonna Purrazzo held the Battle for the Brave, rapper Fetty Wap made an appearance at Game Changer Wrestling and a new champion was crowned on Major League Wrestling’s (MLW) “MLW Fusion.”

So, let’s get into it.

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Sami Zayn inserts himself into title picture

Sami Zayn and Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes speak during SmackDown at Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy, on June 5, 2026. (Andrew Timms/WWE)

Sami Zayn was still peeved with undisputed WWE champion Cody Rhodes and interrupted a segment between Rhodes and Gunther during “Friday Night SmackDown.” Gunther wanted a rematch for the title immediately and Rhodes was about to grant it to him until Zayn came out.

“You said you were the one who was going to beat Gunther and teach me a lesson,” Zayn reminded Rhodes. “Well, you beat Gunther. When do you want to teach me that lesson?”

That’s when Gunther snuck up on Rhodes and attacked him from behind. Rhodes barreled into Zayn, who rolled out of the ring. Zayn got back into the fracas and took out Gunther as he was choking Rhodes. Gunther threw Zayn out of the ring once more before Rhodes went on the offensive and started his beatdown on Gunther.

Zayn dragged Gunther out of the ring to continue the fight. Rhodes went for a suicide dive through the ropes and hit Zayn accidentally as Gunther pushed Zayn into harm’s way. Zayn wouldn’t accept Rhodes’ help to get back on his feet.

It appeared, at the very least, that a rematch for the Undisputed WWE Championship is on the horizon.

Gunther has a condition for the rematch, which SmackDown GM Nick Aldis revealed later in the show. However, Gunther’s “legal team” didn’t want to reveal the condition until next week’s show.

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Chad Gable apology tour

Chad Gable makes his entrance during Worlds Collide at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., on June 7, 2025. (Cooper Neill/WWE)

In the aftermath of losing his mask vs. mask match to El Grande Americano at AAA’s Noche de Los Grandes last weekend, Gable appeared on “Friday Night SmackDown” in a suit. He started his night with a meeting with Aldis.

Gable started with AAA world cruiserweight champion Rey Fenix. Gable said the two had a great match at WrestleMania 41 last year but he did it “under false pretenses.” He said going through his journey in Mexico learned that Lucha Libre wasn’t a joke.

Gable said he was asking for forgiveness and he got it from Fenix.

Where Gable goes now is everyone’s question. There’s plenty of people Gable needs to apologize to, including the Alpha Academy.

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King and Queen of the Ring Tournaments

“Friday Night SmackDown” featured a King of the Ring Tournament match and a Queen of the Ring Tournament match with some surprising results.

Raquel Rodriguez, Bayley, Jacy Jayne and Kiana James squared off in the Queen of the Ring Tournament fatal four way. It was Rodriguez who went over and pinned James to advance in the tournament. James got frustrated with Giulia in the match’s aftermath and clearly signaled a split between the duo.

Rodriguez will face Iyo Sky in the semifinals.

Dominik Mysterio picked up a surprising victory over Bron Breakker, Damian Priest and Trick Williams. The AAA mega champion got help from fellow Judgment Day members JD McDonagh and Liv Morgan. The women’s champion hit a low blow on Priest allowing Mysterio to hit a 619 and a frog splash on Priest to pick up the win.

Mysterio will face Oba Femi in the semifinals.

There are still two quarterfinal matches left on both sides of the tournament.

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Owen Hart Foundation Tournaments

Mercedes Moné made her triumphant return to AEW on Wednesday’s “Dynamite” as she was the wildcard that replaced Willow Nightingale in the Owen Hart Foundation Women’s Tournament. Moné took on and defeated Alex Windsor to move forward and inch closer to a shot at the AEW Women’s World Championship.

Moné also appeared on “Collision” on Saturday following Hazuki’s win over Persephone. Moné lost her CMLL Women’s Championship belt to Persephone a few months ago and Moné appeared to be out for revenge. She attacked Persephone after Hazuki won the match. Hazuki came back into the ring and chased off Moné. However, when Moné had her back turned, Hazuki dove through the ropes and launched her own attack.

It was a wild end to “Collision” for the second straight week.

On the men’s side, Will Ospreay continued his tear across the men’s roster and advanced to the Owen Hart Tournament Finals with a win over AEW national champion Mark Davis.

Ospreay now has his ticket booked to Forbidden Door at the end of the month and will meet the winner of the Swerve Strickland and Claudio Castagnoli match. The winner of each Owen Hart Tournament will receive a title shot at All In in August.

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MLW title change

Shotzi sits on the top rope at Major League Wrestling. (MLW)

Shotzi came out of the gate on fire when she appeared on “MLW Fusion” last week. She defeated Priscilla Kelly and challenged Shoko Nakajima for the MLW Featherweight Championship.

Shotzi’s torrid pace on MLW continued on Saturday when she defeated Nakajima to become the new featherweight champion. It was her first title with the company and the challengers have already lined up.

Lady Frost told pro wrestling fans that she was coming next, signaling that she had Shotzi in her crosshairs.

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Battle for the Brave a rousing success

Pro wrestling stars Steve Maclin and Deonna Purrazzo were champions at TNA. (Provided to Fox News Digital)

Steve Maclin and Deonna Purrazzo, for the most part, traded in their gear for a promoter’s hat and hosted the Battle for the Brave to benefit the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

By all accounts from pro wrestling fans on social media, the event in Rahway, New Jersey, was very successful. The card featured Maclin himself, Matt and Jeff Hardy, The Rascalz, Richard Holliday, Shotzi, Priscilla Kelly, Kris Statlander and plenty of others.

Holliday was the winner of the Battle for the Brave 12-man gauntlet match. He received the Battle for the Brave Cup for his win.

Fans appeared to be extremely happy with the event and expressed it as much on social media.

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Fetty Wap’s GCW appearance

Fetty Wap speaks during SiriusXM’s Front Row hosted by Swaggy Sie at the SiriusXM Studios in New York City on March 31, 2026. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

You never know who is going to show up in a pro wrestling ring and what they are going to do.

Fetty Wap showed up at Game Changer Wrestling’s (GCW) Tournament of Survival in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Little did anyone know, he was going to get involved in an angle.

Nick Gage handed Fetty some light tubes and the New Jersey-born rapper used the weapon on Tony Deppen. The crowd that packed the house at the Showboat Resort went wild.

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More notes from a week in pro wrestling:

• MJF defeated Rush to retain the AEW World Championship.
• Kevin Knight defeated Mike Bailey to retain the AEW TNT Championship.
• Lana Kross and Megan Bayne defeated Anna Jay and Tay Melo to retain the AEW Women’s Tag Team Championship.
• Kyle O’Reilly, Orange Cassidy and Roderick Strong def. Drarlistico, Rush and Sammy Guevara to retain the AEW World Trios Championship.
• Tony D’Angelo defeated Kam Hendrix to retain the NXT Championship.
• Lexis King defeated Romero Moreno to retain the NXT Speed Championship.
• Steve Maclin and Myla Grace departed from TNA Wrestling.

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A weeks-long standoff between protesters and police led to more arrests again Sunday outside Delaney Hall, the New Jersey immigration detention center targeted by political activists seeking to rile up unrest for their open-borders agenda.

Protesters obstructing the passage of vehicles outside the gates were fought back off the street and in some instances tackled and arrested after clashing with Newark Police Department officers who had shouted repeated orders to “back up,” a video posted online showed.

One activist appeared to be holding his head after he fell back after getting too close to arresting officers. He then proceeded to continue filming at a safer distance, apparently without serious injury.

Six were arrested Saturday night into Sunday morning on charges of rioting/failure to disperse, including two repeat offenders, according to Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda’s office.

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Newark Police made six arrests during the Delaney Hall protest from Saturday, June 6, into Sunday, June 7, 2026. (Newark Police; Adam Gray/Getty Images)

“These arrests were made after the suspects were observed committing property damage and blocking the entrance of Delaney Hall,” Miranda said. “At that point, an unlawful assembly was ordered, as blocking the entrance is a public safety hazard that puts everyone, including the detainees, in danger.”

“These individuals refused to comply,” Miranda added.

Allison Wuu, 19, of Fort Collins, Colorado, and Lucas Jimenez, 18, of Hoboken, New Jersey, were also arrested June 1, while four new rioters were charged Sunday: Drew Larsen, 28, of Brooklyn, New York; Solomon Dunston, 30, of Bordentown, New Jersey; Rayaan Baywa, 22, of Riverside, Connecticut; and Julianna Wurst, 19, of Old Bridge, New Jersey.

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Each faces a charge of rioting/failure to disperse and is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Protests outside the gates have shown activists pummeling cars, impeding the exits and in some cases getting hurled out of the way after collisions with vehicles attempting to speed away from the violent activists.

“No one has the right to come into our city, destroy personal property, or incite violence,” Miranda wrote on social media. “Think twice before coming to Newark with any other agenda than to protest peacefully.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Miranda’s office for further comment on Sunday night’s activity.

“The ones who we are charging with crimes, the ones that, you know, they go from protesting to criminal activity, insulting our officers and damaging government property: Most of them from out of state,” Border czar Tom Homan told “FOX & Friends” on Monday.

“Look, these are paid protesters. We’ve got facial recognition of people from Portland, they’re at Portland riots, and many from Minnesota. This is a well-planned, established thing they’re doing,” Homan continued. “This isn’t homegrown. There’s a lot of there’s a lot of local people there to protest peacefully, and they certainly can do that. But the violence, majority of violence, not all of it, the majority is coming from an out of town people.”

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A reported “hunger strike” has been ongoing since May 23 by illegal alien detainees over their accommodations, but Fox News has reported that detainee purchases of snacks at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center have spiked during the time of the alleged activist fasting.

“The fact is, we’re giving them the calories they want,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said last week. “This isn’t Holiday Inn.”

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Since the activists’ standoff with law enforcement, there have been about 90 arrests.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Rosie O’Donnell attacked President Donald Trump in a rare public appearance on Sunday at the Tony Awards, calling him a conman, narcissist and a psychopath in an interview with Variety.

“If you grew up in New York, you knew he was an a–hole and a liar from day one. And I am 64 years old and my whole life here. So, I remember when his planes were repossessed off the runways at LaGuardia. I remember when he was broke. I remember when he would call up places and pretend to be his own publicist,” O’Donnell said.

“He is a conman. He is a narcissist. And he is a psychopath if you ask me,” she said.

O’Donnell, a fierce critic of Trump, fled the country after he won the 2024 election and moved to Ireland.

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Rosie O’Donnell attends the 79th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 7, 2026. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Trump is expected to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden on Monday.

O’Donnell, who once vowed to never get plastic surgery, recently opened up about battling guilt and shame after undergoing cosmetic surgery earlier this year. 

“I used to feel very strongly about facelifts,” she wrote on Substack. “Not casually — morally. I had assigned myself as head of all women who would never — ever. I thought it was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of aging. Of our team of women worldwide. And then I lost 50 pounds…”

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After losing 50 pounds, Rosie O’Donnell — who once vowed to never get plastic surgery — got a facelift. (Dave Benett/Getty Images)

O’Donnell said in an interview with Chris Cuomo in February that she had returned to the U.S. briefly to visit family after fleeing to Ireland.

“I was recently home for two weeks, and I did not really tell anyone,” she told Cuomo. “I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country. I wanted to feel what it felt like. I wanted to hold my children again. And I hadn’t been home in over a year.”

O’Donnell said at the time she “wanted to make sure that it was safe” for her and her daughter to return to the U.S. over the summer so that they could be with family during her break from school.

O’Donnell claimed during the interview that she doesn’t “regret leaving at all” and feels she did “what I needed to do to save myself, my child and my sanity.”

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Trump and O’Donnell’s feud spans over 20 years. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

The bad blood between O’Donnell and Trump dates back 20 years, when she criticized him while on “The View.” They continued to throw jabs at each other over the years, with O’Donnell telling the Irish radio show “Sunday with Miriam,” “He uses me as a punching bag and a way to sort of rile his base.”

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After announcing she had moved to Ireland, the star shared she was applying for Irish citizenship during an interview with the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph in October 2025.