{"id":697066,"date":"2026-05-27T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697066\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:18:10","slug":"wwe-news-aew-news-pro-wrestling-backstage-news-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/697066\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exclusive update regarding Ludwig Kaiser.<\/p>\n<p>The latest on the arrest of WWE talent Marcel Barthel (Ludwig Kaiser\/El Grande Americano) was provided by Fightful Select.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser got into an altercation with another male, and a story made the rounds that the man made a comment about ICE to Kaiser\u2019s significant other, Lucha Libre AAA backstage correspondent and interviewer Andrea Bazarte, which allegedly sparked the altercation.<\/p>\n<p>Fightful Select spoke to a number of WWE sources who believe that was a planted story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cWhile speaking to a number of sources within WWE, they believe the story about Ludwig Kaiser defending himself and Andrea Bazarte from ICE comments was planted within the company, @FightfulSelect was told<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There was an unfamiliar number that reached out to several members of the wrestling media with the story, as opposed to Kaiser or Andrea themselves, or a member of WWE\u2019s team<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We have more details for Select subscribers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">While speaking to a number of sources within WWE, they believe the story about Ludwig Kaiser defending himself and Andrea Bazarte from ICE comments was planted within the company, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightfulSelect?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@FightfulSelect<\/a> was told<\/p>\n<p>There was an unfamiliar number that reached out to several members of the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tqdawWC1LJ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tqdawWC1LJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fightful\/status\/2059434237351088577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AAA commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightful.com\/wrestling\/jbl-shares-thoughts-about-ludwig-kaisers-arrest-i-dont-know-what-happened-but-i-am-100-percent-backing-kaiser\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Bradshaw Layfield publicly stated<\/a> that he did not believe that specific aspect of the story, but added that he supports Kaiser.<\/p>\n<p>To directly support us and our continuing breaking news, interviews, and the like, subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/FightfulSelect.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">FightfulSelect.com<\/a>. You\u2019ll get exclusive news sent to you directly before anyone else, and dozens of podcasts monthly, including WrestleVotes radio, Alex Pawlowski\u2019s Sour Graps, Sean Ross Sapp\u2019s Q&amp;A, Retro Reviews, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exclusive update regarding Ludwig Kaiser. The latest on the arrest of WWE talent Marcel Barthel (Ludwig Kaiser\/El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-697066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}