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WWE Championship Match Announced For Money In The Bank

WWE Championship Match Announced For Money In The Bank

CM Punk will defend the WWE Championship against Daniel Bryan at Money in the Bank next month. WWE Money in the Bank 2012 will take place Sunday, July 15, 2012 from the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. We’ll have [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Triple-Threat Match For The World Heavyweight Championship On Smackdown

Triple-Threat Match For The World Heavyweight Championship On Smackdown

Sheamus will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Alberto Del Rio and Dolph Ziggler in a triple-threat match on this week’s Smackdown. WWE will tape this week’s Smackdown tomorrow night from The For Center in Evansville, Indiana. We’ll have exclusive [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Sycho Sid Returns To WWE On Raw Supershow

Sycho Sid Returns To WWE On Raw Supershow

Sycho Sid returned to WWE on tonight’s Raw Supershow to squash Heath Slater. Sid’s appearance was part of a reoccurring theme of bringing back past talent to celebrate the 1000th episode of Raw on July 23, 2012. [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Four Participants For The WWE Championship MITB Ladder Match Revealed; Brock Lesnar To Respond To Triple H Next Week

Four Participants For The WWE Championship MITB Ladder Match Revealed; Brock Lesnar To Respond To Triple H Next Week

- Kane, Big Show, Chris Jericho and John Cena have been announced as participants for the WWE Championship Money in the Bank ladder match at the pay-per-view next month. The criteria for participants is that only former WWE Champions are [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Former WWE Champion Backstage At Raw Supershow Tonight

Former WWE Champion Backstage At Raw Supershow Tonight

The following article contains spoiler information. Due to the fact the material in this post will spoil upcoming programming, we have removed the excerpt so you must click the link to view the story contents. [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Charlie Sheen To Act As Celebrity Social Media Ambassador For Raw’s 1000th Episode

Charlie Sheen To Act As Celebrity Social Media Ambassador For Raw’s 1000th Episode

The official WWE website has announced that Charlie Sheen will act as the Celebrity Social Media Ambassador for the 1000th episode of Raw SuperShow. The website explains his role in the following excerpt: During the three-hour milestone event July 23 [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Watch The Latest TNA Today With Madison Rayne Here

Watch The Latest TNA Today With Madison Rayne Here

The latest episode of TNA Today features Madison Rayne and is embedded in the video below: [...]

June 25, 2012 TNA News
*Spoilers* WWE Superstars Taping Results From Fort Wayne, Indiana

*Spoilers* WWE Superstars Taping Results From Fort Wayne, Indiana

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June 25, 2012 WWE Spoilers
John Cena Says He Has An Announcement That Will Make History

John Cena Says He Has An Announcement That Will Make History

John Cena wrote the following on Twitter: In Fort Wayne for #Raw tonight I have an announcement that will make history! Make sure to watch #Raw — John Cena (@JohnCena) June 25, 2012 Thanks to Wrestling News World reader Mohammad [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Kevin Nash Talks Movie Cameos; Kelly Kelly Not At Tonight’s Raw Supershow

Kevin Nash Talks Movie Cameos; Kelly Kelly Not At Tonight’s Raw Supershow

- Scott Fishman of The Miami Herald has a new article online featuring quotes from Kevin Nash. In it, he talks about his cameos in “Rock of Ages” and “Magic Mike.” You can read it at this link. - While [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Smackdown Rating

Smackdown Rating

Last week’s Smackdown did a 2.02 cable rating with an average viewing audience of 2,970,000 viewers on SyFy. Smackdown Ratings Archive [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Jerry Lawler Says He Has A Match Against Michael Cole At This Week’s Smackdown Taping

Jerry Lawler Says He Has A Match Against Michael Cole At This Week’s Smackdown Taping

Jerry Lawler wrote the following on Twitter: In Ft Wayne for Monday Night Raw tonight then, tomorrow night At Smackdown in Evansville, IN I have a match against Michael Cole! Can’t wait — Jerry Lawler (@JerryLawler) June 25, 2012 [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Sting Added To Upcoming TNA House Shows; Madison Rayne Wins Bikini Contest

Sting Added To Upcoming TNA House Shows; Madison Rayne Wins Bikini Contest

- TNA announced today that Sting has been added to upcoming live events in Aberdeen, Maryland on July 20, 2012 and Brooklyn, New York on July 21, 2012. - Madison Rayne won first place in a fitness/bikini competition over the [...]

June 25, 2012 TNA News
Taeler Hendrix Discusses TNA Gut Check Appearance; D’Lo Brown On Scouting Talent

Taeler Hendrix Discusses TNA Gut Check Appearance; D’Lo Brown On Scouting Talent

- The folks at Diva-Dirt.com sent in the following: OVW star Taeler Hendrix joins us to discuss her recent appearance on Impact Wrestling in the TNA Gut Check. The young wannabe Knockout reveals how she got the opportunity with TNA, [...]

June 25, 2012 TNA News
WWE Announces Two New Corporate Hirings

WWE Announces Two New Corporate Hirings

- WWE issued the following press release today: STAMFORD, Conn., Jun 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — WWE today announced the appointments of Bill Hirsh and Ted Van Zelst each as Vice President, Integrated Sales. Hirsh and Van Zelst will be [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
WWE Announces New TV Series Called “Main Event” On ION Television Beginning October 3, 2012

WWE Announces New TV Series Called “Main Event” On ION Television Beginning October 3, 2012

- WWE issued the following press release today: STAMFORD, Conn., Jun 25, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — WWE and ION Television today announced a new weekly one-hour original series airing on Wednesday nights at 8/7C. WWE Main Event will debut on [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Details On WWE’s Two Biggest Stars Forming An Alliance Backstage & How They Went To Vince McMahon In An Attempt To Nudge Randy Orton Out Of The Company; Who They Are & Extensive Details On McMahon’s Mindset & Current Reasoning For Wanting To Bring Orton Back, Plus The Reaction From The Rest Of The Locker Room Regarding The Changing Political Atmosphere

Details On WWE’s Two Biggest Stars Forming An Alliance Backstage & How They Went To Vince McMahon In An Attempt To Nudge Randy Orton Out Of The Company; Who They Are & Extensive Details On McMahon’s Mindset & Current Reasoning For Wanting To Bring Orton Back, Plus The Reaction From The Rest Of The Locker Room Regarding The Changing Political Atmosphere

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June 25, 2012 Backstage News
TNA & Drug Testing, The Rock’s Return To WWE, Good News & Bad News For Heath Slater, Chris Jericho’s Suspension

TNA & Drug Testing, The Rock’s Return To WWE, Good News & Bad News For Heath Slater, Chris Jericho’s Suspension

The following is today's edition of Ask WNW. Ask WNW is the most popular feature on the website where Richard Gray answers four questions daily, Monday through Friday. To submit your question for the next installment of Ask [...]

June 25, 2012 Ask WNW
Several Returns Advertised For Tonight’s WWE Raw Supershow, Vickie Guerrero The “Guest GM,” Dark Main Event

Several Returns Advertised For Tonight’s WWE Raw Supershow, Vickie Guerrero The “Guest GM,” Dark Main Event

WWE will tape the Raw portion of this week’s WWE Superstars and tonight’s Raw Supershow tonight from the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Below is what is known for tonight’s Raw Supershow: Chris Jericho is advertised [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Rey Mysterio’s 60-Day Suspension Up Today

Rey Mysterio’s 60-Day Suspension Up Today

Rey Mysterio’s 60-day suspension for his second violation of the WWE Wellness Policy officially expires today. Details surrounding his return have yet to be announced as he is also coming back from a knee injury that has kept him out [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Eric Young Clarifies His Status With TNA Wrestling

Eric Young Clarifies His Status With TNA Wrestling

Eric Young posted the following on Twitter regarding his status with TNA: As far as rumor I have quit TNA totally not true they last minute changed impact schedual and all my Thursday’s where booked by animal planet show. TNA [...]

June 25, 2012 TNA News
Raquel Diaz Works WWE Live Events; Longest-Reigning FCW Divas Champion

Raquel Diaz Works WWE Live Events; Longest-Reigning FCW Divas Champion

The daughter of Eddie & Vickie Guerrero and WWE developmental Diva, Raquel Diaz, worked this weekend’s Smackdown live events as a ring announcer. Both Lilian Garcia (charity work in Ohio) and Tony Chimel (vacation) were away. Speaking of Diaz, she [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Watch The Latest Episode Of WWE Download With Dolph Ziggler Here

Watch The Latest Episode Of WWE Download With Dolph Ziggler Here

Embedded in the video below is the latest episode of WWE Download with Dolph Ziggler: [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
ROH’s Next iPPV, Original Plan For The Guardians Of Truth, Final Battle Update

ROH’s Next iPPV, Original Plan For The Guardians Of Truth, Final Battle Update

- The next Ring of Honor iPPV will be Death Before Dishonor on September 15, 2012 in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. - I’m told the original plan was for The Guardians of Truth at Sunday’s “Best in the World 2012″ iPPV [...]

June 25, 2012 ROH
WWE Raw House Show Results (6/24/12) – Huntington, West Virginia; Cena vs. Big Show, Tensai & John Laurinaitis

WWE Raw House Show Results (6/24/12) – Huntington, West Virginia; Cena vs. Big Show, Tensai & John Laurinaitis

Below are quick results from yesterday’s WWE Raw live event in Huntington, West Virginia: * WWE United States Champion Santino Marella b. Jack Swagger * Alex Riley b. Bray Wyatt * WWE Divas Champion Layla b. Beth Phoenix to retain [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE House Shows
Full Details On The Season Two Premiere Of Shawn Michaels’ MacMillan River Adventures

Full Details On The Season Two Premiere Of Shawn Michaels’ MacMillan River Adventures

Wrestling News World reader Carl Dantes sent in the following: Shawn Michaels’ MacMillan River Adventures begins its second season this June 26, 2012 on The Outdoor Channel every Tuesdays at 11:30pm eastern (8:30 pm pacific), Wednesdays at 8:00am eastern (5:00am [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Former WWE Creative Writer Talks About Vince McMahon Wanting To Fight Him

Former WWE Creative Writer Talks About Vince McMahon Wanting To Fight Him

- Mister Saint Laurent reporting: Former head writer of WWE Smackdown Alex Greenfield joined Mister Saint Laurent this week on MLW Radio, available right now at MLW.com. Greenfield spoke about the time WWE Chairman Vince McMahon asked him to “step [...]

June 25, 2012 WWE News
Detailed Live Report From Yesterday’s TNA House Show In Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Detailed Live Report From Yesterday’s TNA House Show In Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Wrestling News World reader A-Rob sent in the following report from yesterday’s Impact Wrestling house show in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Before the show started, people who had the $50 tickets were able to get into the building about an hour [...]

June 25, 2012 TNA House Shows
Smackdown! or Being in Limbo

Smackdown! or Being in Limbo

Opening Thoughts Because I’m in a rush (happens a lot lately :/) I’ll just explain the title of the blog: You’ll notice that no eventful things happened on this episode of Smackdown, but we got some pretty good wrestling. I’ll [...]

June 25, 2012 Smackdown
Details On A Smackdown Star In Line For A Huge Push Despite The Fact Other WWE Stars Have Labeled Them Unsafe To Work With – Who It Is & The Person Behind Their Push

Details On A Smackdown Star In Line For A Huge Push Despite The Fact Other WWE Stars Have Labeled Them Unsafe To Work With – Who It Is & The Person Behind Their Push

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June 24, 2012 Backstage News
TNA House Show Results (6/24/12) – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; 6-Man Tag Main Event

TNA House Show Results (6/24/12) – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; 6-Man Tag Main Event

Below are quick results from today’s TNA live event in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: * Robbie E b. Gunner * TNA Knockout Women’s Champion Miss Tessmacher b. Gail Kim to retain * Samoa Joe b. Zema Ion * James Storm vs. [...]

June 24, 2012 TNA House Shows
New ROH Tag Team Champions; Final Battle 2012 Taking Place In New York City The Same Day As WWE TLC In Brooklyn

New ROH Tag Team Champions; Final Battle 2012 Taking Place In New York City The Same Day As WWE TLC In Brooklyn

- The All Night Express beat Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin at Ring of Honor’s “Best in the World 2012″ iPPV to win the ROH Tag Team Championship. - ROH announced that Final Battle 2012 will take place from the [...]

June 24, 2012 ROH
Adam Cole Beaten Up & Bloodied; Identities Of The Guardians Of Truth

Adam Cole Beaten Up & Bloodied; Identities Of The Guardians Of Truth

- Adam Cole was badly banged up in his Hybrid Fighting Rules match against Kyle O’Reilly at Ring of Honor’s “Best in the World 2012″ iPPV. ROH posted a photo of his bloodied face on their Facebook page that you [...]

June 24, 2012 ROH
ROH Best In The World Results (6/24/12) – Steen Retains, Adam Cole Claims His Spot, New Tag Team Champions

ROH Best In The World Results (6/24/12) – Steen Retains, Adam Cole Claims His Spot, New Tag Team Champions

The cameras are working, and the stream is running!  There are some audio miscues from the get-go, but Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness are quick to recover and welcome the viewing audience at home.  Kelly talks about how a year [...]

June 24, 2012 ROH
TNA House Show Results (6/23/12) – Oshawa, Ontario, Canada; Bobby Roode vs. Mr. Anderson

TNA House Show Results (6/23/12) – Oshawa, Ontario, Canada; Bobby Roode vs. Mr. Anderson

Below are quick results from last night’s TNA live event fro the General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada: * Austin Aries b. Zema Ion * TNA Knockout Women’s Champion Miss Tessmacher b. Gail Kim * Samoa Joe b. Robbie [...]

June 24, 2012 TNA House Shows
WWE Raw House Show Results (6/23/12) – Wheeling, West Virginia; John Cena Sings “Country Roads”

WWE Raw House Show Results (6/23/12) – Wheeling, West Virginia; John Cena Sings “Country Roads”

Below are quick results from last night’s WWE Raw live event in Wheeling, West Virginia: * WWE United States Champion Santino Marella b. Jack Swagger * WWE Divas Champion Layla b. Beth Phoenix * Zack Ryder b. Dolph Zigger in [...]

June 24, 2012 WWE House Shows
WWE Smackdown House Show Results (6/23/12) – Springfield, Illinois; Both World Heavyweight & WWE Titles Defended

WWE Smackdown House Show Results (6/23/12) – Springfield, Illinois; Both World Heavyweight & WWE Titles Defended

Below are quick results from last night’s WWE Smackdown live event in Springfield, Illinois: * Sin Cara b. Hunico * The Uso’s b. Darren Young & Titus O’Neil * Damien Sandow b. Yoshi Tatsu * Alicia Fox b. Natalya with [...]

June 24, 2012 WWE House Shows
Footage Of Shawn Michaels At Friday’s Chicago White Sox Game

Footage Of Shawn Michaels At Friday’s Chicago White Sox Game

As noted last week, Shawn Michaels threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Friday’s Milwaukee Brewers at Chicago White Sox MLB game. You can watch a pre-game interview with HBK as well as footage of him in the announce booth [...]

June 24, 2012 WWE News
John “Bradshaw” Layfield’s Mountain Climb Underway; WWE NXT In South Africa

John “Bradshaw” Layfield’s Mountain Climb Underway; WWE NXT In South Africa

John “Bradshaw” Layfield has started his mountain climb. WWE Tweeted the following: .@JCLayfield‘s climb of Mt. Elbrus is underway! Follow his progress at wwe.me/bMlUE #SevenSummitsForKids twitter.com/WWE/status/216… — WWE (@WWE) June 23, 2012   Thanks to Wrestling News World readers Logan [...]

June 24, 2012 WWE News
Watch The Latest Episode Of “Are You Serious?” With Road Dogg & Josh Mathews Here

Watch The Latest Episode Of “Are You Serious?” With Road Dogg & Josh Mathews Here

The latest episode of Are You Serious? with Road Dogg and Josh Mathews is embedded in the video below: Thanks to Wrestling News World reader Logan Walker for sending us the link. [...]

June 24, 2012 WWE News