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One of my local television stations, WTAE Pittsburgh, interviewed Bruno Sammartino about the upcoming WWE Hall of Fame. In the interview, they discuss Bruno’s success, but also his battle with the WWE. Bruno reveals that he spoke out about the product but felt that he failed: “Naturally, I became a pariah to the wrestling world, [...]
WWE will tape this Friday’s WWE Main Event and Smackdown tonight from the Verizon Arena in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Rock is scheduled to appear. He appears in the following local advertisement, embedded below: In addition, The Highlight Reel is set to return on WWE Main Event, with Chris Jericho hosting The Miz. Raw Superstars CM Punk [...]
Show Starts Video Recap of The Shield attacking Maddox, until Cena, Ryback and Sheamus united to go after The Shield. What will happen when The Shield address Cena, Ryback and Sheamus. And The Rock will return live. Punk says The Rock will get what he deserves, as will Punk. What will happen? RAW will be [...]
The Elimination Chamber match to determine the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship at Wrestlemania 29 is set after undergoing some changes. Rey Mysterio is out and has been replaced along with two other workers being announced on this week’s Raw. The match is now as follows: Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan vs. [...]
- Mark Henry vs. Randy Orton in a rematch from last week was announced for this week’s Smackdown. - The Rock will not have a “champion’s advantage” in his WWE Championship match against CM Punk at Elimination Chamber on Sunday. The stipulation is the title will change hands if Rock is counted out or disqualified. - [...]
Last week’s Smackdown did a 2.16 cable rating with a strong average viewing audience of 3,190,000 viewers on SyFy. Smackdown Ratings Archive [...]
TNA Lockdown will be moving away from its “all steel cage matches” theme as the current plan is to feature a Lethal Lockdown match and the show’s main event (which, will be the TNA Championship bout that you can read about here) in a steel cage. The rest of the bouts are not scheduled to [...]
Dutch Mantel, working as the American patriot Zeb Coulter, debuted as Jack Swagger’s manager on this week’s WWE Raw. Mantel, a real-life Vietnam War veteran, is a semi-retired pro wrestler and was seen as the mastermind behind TNA’s stellar Knockout division during its glory days and was also a writer for Ring Ka King in India. Speaking [...]
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During this week’s WWE Raw, Chris Jericho earned a spot in the upcoming Elimination Chamber match at the WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. Henry joins Randy Orton, Daniel Bryan, Mark Henry, & Rey Mysterio, as well as one still-unannounced competitor. Click here to view full results from this week’s Raw. [...]
WWE is promoting “the announcement of a lifetime” from Paul Heyman on tonight’s Raw. Heyman made the first mention of the announcement on Tout earlier today, available here. We will have full live coverage of the show tonight on WrestlingNewsWorld.com. [...]
We’ve been reporting that WWE was considering doing John Cena, Ryback & Sheamus vs. The Shield in the Elimination Chamber structure at the pay-per-view on Sunday. Ryback might have leaked the plans in a new Tweet posted from his official Twitter account on Monday: Justice will be delivered hard to @theshieldwwe this sunday in NOLA [...]
In a story we’ve been following since December, Hulk Hogan continues to make subtle teases regarding a possible in-ring return. On Monday Hogan was asked about a follower for an update on his knee and back, the following is from Twitter: @jerrysorrentino yo Jerry getting back on track,this could get real interesting really fast brother,never [...]
R-Truth posted the music video for “Little Jimmy” on YouTube. You can watch it embedded in the video below: He also posted a behind-the-scenes video you can watch here: R-Truth, who has been out with a knee injury suffered at WWE TLC, is officially advertised for the Raw brand’s tour of Qatar beginning on February [...]
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Maybe Marty Skurll can win a spot on “The List” bro. Check out this week’s episode with Robbie E and Robbie T embedded in the video below: [...]
TNA Wrestling has teamed with Machinima Sports to resurrect TNA ReACTION. The first episode documents TNA’s 2013 Maximum Impact tour of the United Kingdom and is embedded in the video below: [...]
NBC Universal announced on Monday the rebranding and makeover of its G4 television network into “The Esquire Channel.” They’ll be teaming with Esquire magazine to launch “an upscale Bravo for men.” This is significant as both WWE and UFC tried to purchase the network and rebrand it for their respective companies. As I reported here [...]
Below are quick results from Sunday’s WWE Raw live event in Cape Girardeau, Missouri: * Zack Ryder b. Corey Graves * Tensai b. Alex Riley * WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn b. Tamina Snuka * The New Age Outlaws b. Team Rhodes Scholars * Justin Gabriel b. David Otunga * Chris Jericho b. Dolph Ziggler * [...]
- We heard there was some criticism of last weekend’s Smackdown live events due to the lack of star power. Big Show was off and replaced by Wade Barrett. On the Raw shows, John Cena didn’t work. - Gerald Brisco is scheduled to scout talent at the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Hall of Fame weekend in [...]
For those that missed it over the weekend, we broke exclusively here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com that CM Punk was knocked loopy after he was dropped on his head after a botched suplex by The Miz at Saturday night’s WWE Raw live event in Springfield, Missouri (results here). The spot was supposed to be a double stalling [...]
Below are quick results from Sunday’s WWE Smackdown live event in Louisville, Kentucky: * Kofi Kingston b. Heath Slater w/Drew McIntyre & Jinder Mahal * Alicia Fox b. Aksana * Fandango b. Yoshi Tatsu * Randy Orton & Sheamus b. Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins via disqualification when Roman Reigns got involved * Brodus Clay [...]
The Undertaker is in Nashville, TN where this week’s WWE Raw will take place from the Bridgestone Arena. A photo is circulating on Twitter of Undertaker with Gnash, the official mascot of the Nashville Predators NHL team as he was in attendance at Sunday’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks. Below is the photo: We’re told [...]
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 WNW, click here. [...]
WWE will broadcast this week’s Monday Night Raw from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN. Below is a quick preview: WWE Champion The Rock returns Brock Lesnar isn’t advertised but WWE teases another attack. Who will Mark Henry go after next? Jack Swagger or someone else poised for a big 2013? Will John Cena, Sheamus [...]
Below are quick results from Saturday’s WWE Smackdown live event in Champaign, Illinois: * Brodus Clay b. Conor O’Brian * Alicia Fox b. Aksana * Kofi Kingston b. Heath Slater w/Drew McIntyre & Jinder Mahal * Randy Orton & Sheamus b. Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose via disqualification when Roman Reigns interfered * Fandango b. [...]
Jim Ross has a new blog entry available on his official website. In it, he remembers Curt Hennig, comments on DirecTV/the WWE Network and Steve Austin’s new film deal. Below is an excerpt: Can’t help but think about Curt Hennig aka Mr. Perfect today on the anniversary of his untimely passing. “Perfecto’ was as good [...]
Below are quick results from Saturday’s TNA Wrestling live event in Vicksburg, Mississippi: * Christian York b. Zema Ion * TNA Knockout Champion Tara b. Velvet Sky * Chavo Guerrero b. Christopher Daniels via disqualification after interference by Kazarian. This turned into Chavo & Hernandez over Daniels and Kazarian. * James Storm b. Austin Aries [...]
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Ric Flair wrote the following on Twitter: I’m playing a doctor on Stuff You Should Know. It’s hilarious. 2pm on the @sciencechannel #SYSKtwitpic.com/c27wdc — Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) February 9, 2013 For more on “Stuff You Should Know” and the Science Channel, click here. [...]
TNA Wrestling’s announcement they would not be renewing their lease with Universal Studios and would be taking Impact on the road gave the locker room a big morale boost. Several workers had described the Universal crowd as “spoiled,” “calloused,” and even “exhausting” to try and garner a reaction from. The feeling amongst several people was [...]
-CM Punk was shaken up at Saturday’s WWE Raw live event in Springfield, Missouri. The Miz botched a stalling suplex on Punk, causing him to land awkwardly on his head. Punk was then checked on by officials for several minutes and eventually went on to continue competing, although our correspondent noted that “you could tell [...]
Wrestling News World reader Jacob Myers attended Saturday’s WWE Raw live event in Springfield, Missouri, and sent in the following results: * Zack Ryder b. Corey Graves. Prior to the match, Graves came to the ring talking down to Ryder in a promo. * Tensai b. Alex Riley. Before the match, Vickie Guerrero came out [...]
The latest edition of WWE Countdown ranks the 10 biggest unsuspecting upsets. The list is compiled below: 10. Rey Mysterio b. Randy Orton & Kurt Angle at WrestleMania 22 9. Bo Dallas b. Wade Barrett on Raw 8. Maria Menounos, Kelly Kelly, Eve, & Alicia Fox b. Beth Phoenix, Natalya, & The Bella Twins at [...]
For those who have not seen this weekend’s live event results, Cody Rhodes announced that the recently-disbanded Team Rhodes Scholars would reunite for this weekend’s live events. Tonight, they will appear as a team at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The announcement is below: After all this time and a great deal [...]
Below are quick results from Friday’s WWE Raw live event in Poplar Bluff, Missouri: * Zack Ryder b. Corey Graves * Tensai b. Alex Riley… twice. Riley claimed he lost the first bout because his shoe was untied and got a rematch. Tensai went over both times. * WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn b. Tamina Snuka [...]
Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Anchor Bay Films and Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Ranch Productions have agreed to a deal that will roll out two new action films. The first film is called “Kill Em All, John” and will star Austin as an ex-hitman pulled back into the underworld to “retire” a number of crime [...]
Bruno Sammartino said on the Busted Open radio show he’d like to have Larry Zbyszko induct him into the WWE Hall of Fame, however, he’s leaving it in WWE’s hands. Sammartino said that Triple H told him WWE usually lets Hall of Fame inductees select who they want to induct them but that they would [...]
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TNA Wrestling issued the following: TNA PRESIDENT DIXIE CARTER ANNOUNCES MORE LIVE TV MARKETS FOR “IMPACT WRESTLING”, JEFF HARDY RETURNS AND MORE DURING BELLATOR ON SPIKE TV THURSDAY NIGHT Top names in pro wrestling to make history in new markets across the US, Hardy signs long term agreement with company TNA IMPACT WRESTLING President Dixie [...]
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