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- Ryback will face Mark Henry on this week’s episode of Smackdown. WWE will tape this week’s Smackdown Tuesday night from the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. - Wade Barrett will defend the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Chris Jericho and The Miz in a triple threat match on next week’s WWE [...]
- Santino Marella, who is out with a neck injury, wrote the following on Twitter: BTW next Monday I’m cleared to wrestle again, fingers crossed, but so much stuff going on with #WrestleMania29 so we’ll see — Santino Marella (@milanmiracle) March 12, 2013 - John Layfield Tweeted the following graph photo of his heel after [...]
Brie and Nikki Bella returned to WWE on this week’s episode of Raw. They were reintroduced in a backstage segment with The Rhodes Scholars as they aligned with Damien Sandow and Cody Rhodes. The WWE contracts of Brie and Nikki expired on April 30, 2012 and they decided to leave to pursue outside projects. In [...]
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WWE has updated their Key Performance Indicators through January 31, 2013. In them, the preliminary buyrate for Royal Rumble 2013 featuring CM Punk vs. The Rock for the WWE title is reported. The show did an estimated total of 443,000 buys or right around last year’s number. The show did 443,000 buys in 2012 and [...]
TNA Wrestling issued about the 4/11 Impact taping in Corpus Christi, Texas: TNA IMPACT WRESTLING COMING TO CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, LIVE THURSDAY, APRIL 11 AT THE AMERICAN BANK CENTER ARENA PRESENTED BY DIRECT AUTO INSURANCE TNA SUPERSTARS AND LOCAL DIGNITARIES ANNOUNCE DETAILS AT PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 11, 2013) – IMPACT WRESTLING, TNA [...]
- Jeff Hardy shares his favorite Impact Zone memory at this link or embedded in the video below: - TNA Wrestling issued the following press release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 11, 2013) – TNA Wrestling brings its high-impact brand of professional wrestling to Boston for the very first time with Slammiversary XI, a live Pay-Per-View event [...]
Last week’s Smackdown did a 2.09 cable rating with an average viewing audience of 2,840,000 viewers on SyFy. Raw Ratings Archive [...]
- Big Show guest stars on “Psych” on Wednesday. You can watch a video preview at this link or embedded in the video below: - WWE touted their social media integration at this link or embedded in the video below: [...]
I don’t know about you but I love Jim Ross’ prospective on the wrestling business. In a new blog posted on Monday on his official website, he made the following point when discussing the possible outcome of CM Punk vs. The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 29: So, does Taker being 20-1 at WrestleMania’s adversely affect his [...]
TNA Wrestling posted footage of Jeff Hardy being helped to the back after his steel cage match against Bully Ray at Lockdown at this link. As noted earlier, the word from backstage was that Hardy suffered a concussion due to the powerbomb spot in the bout. The latest is Hardy is fine and will work [...]
Brooke Hogan wrote the following on Twitter after TNA Lockdown: To all the people who think this is purely storyline- you’re wrong. My heart is truly broken. I saw great things in my husband.. Crushed. Absolute betrayal. I’ve never felt so violated. Divorce already in motion. I lost my love…. She has since removed the [...]
TNA Wrestling has removed their scheduled April 6th live event from Atlantic City, New Jersey from ImpactWrestlingTour.com. The show, scheduled for Wrestlemania 29 weekend, was actually a rescheduling of their original date from the Rahway Rec Center in Rahway. They had to move the show due to the venue being badly damaged by the aftermath of [...]
- The children of William “Paul Bearer” Moody (Daniel and Michael) will be in attendance at this week’s WWE Raw from Indianapolis. I’m expecting some type of Bearer tribute but I can’t confirm whether or not his kids will be on television. I wrote an editorial how I feel Bearer should be honored on Raw here [...]
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- Ryback was on the 3/10 episode of LAW. In the interview, Ryback said after three ankle surgeries he was told he would never wrestle again. He said he doesn’t think anyone has challenged John Cena for the top spot in WWE in the past ten years and Goldberg was all about the streak but [...]
- The announced attendance for TNA Lockdown was 6700, which the company is saying is their most attended event in their history. - Below is the official preview for this week’s Impact Wrestling: This Thursday, March 14, “IMPACT WRESTLING” will be LIVE on SpikeTV as we return to Chicago and the Sears Centre Arena on [...]
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. [...]
Newsday has a new article online featuring quotes from Goldust Dustin Runnels. Below are the highlights: On his brother Cody Rhodes: “Cody has seen the trials and tribulations within our family, with me especially, and how good can go to bad because of my own mistakes,” Rhodes said. “Cody has just got the greatest head [...]
Below are quick results from Sunday’s WWE Raw live event in Loveland, Colorado: The show opened as expected with a Paul Bearer tribute * John Cena, Ryback & Sheamus b. The Shield via disqualification when Roman Reigns used a chair * CM Punk b. Zack Ryder * Alex Riley b. Michael McGillicutty * Bray Wyatt [...]
- Mike Knox will be known as Knux going forward. - TNA Wrestling’s United Kingdom Public Relations representative Simon Rothestein Tweeted that the Lockdown attendance beat the company’s previous record from Wembley. Dixie Carter confirmed the show was the most attended show in company history, not just the most attended US show. - The closing [...]
Below are quick results from Sunday’s WWE Smackdown live event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The show opened as expected with a Paul Bearer tribute * The Great Khali & R-Truth b. Epico & Primo * Layla b. Alicia Fox * Fandango b. Ted DiBiase * Jack Swagger w/Zeb Colter b. Justin Gabriel * Randy Orton b. [...]
- Joe DeFranco Tweeted a photo of Triple H training as he was performing a 400lb. SuperYoke carry on Sunday. View it here or embedded below: Photo of @tripleh performing a 400lb. SuperYoke carry during today’s workout. #NoDaysOff twitter.com/DeFrancosGym/s… — Joe DeFranco (@DeFrancosGym) March 10, 2013 - WWE has announced a combined roster live event [...]
The word from backstage at TNA Lockdown was that Jeff Hardy suffered a concussion in his main event steel cage match against Bully Ray for the TNA Championship. The injury happened when Ray gave Hardy a powerbomb from the top rope and he hit his head. He was clearly loopy on his way to the [...]
Bully Ray turned on Brooke & Hulk Hogan at TNA Lockdown, winning the TNA Championship and aligning with Aces & Eights as the faction’s President. Below is how Ray’s title match against Jeff Hardy ended courtesy of our result report by Sean Hopkins: Hulk Hogan is shown walking his way down to the ring on crutches [...]
The show opens with a video package that highlights feud between Aces & 8′s and TNA. They also focus in on the World Title match as well, with only a bit of focus on the all-cage match theme of the show. Hello everyone and welcome to Wrestling News World’s live coverage of TNA Lockdown. I’m [...]
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- As noted earlier, TNA Slammiversary will take place in Boston, MA on Sunday, June 2, 2013. The company will run in the Agganis Arena, which is on the campus of Boston University. The venue sits 7200. - Entertainment Weekly talks to Christopher Daniels about the comics and wrestling connection at this link. [...]
Christopher Daniels was interviewed by RedEye Chicago to promote this coming week’s Impact Wrestling. During the interview, Daniels was asked what it is like being in the locker room with the legends of the business. Daniels’ answer is below: It’s great, man. I respect the guys immensely. All the roster does. And when you’re standing [...]
- TNA Wrestling uploaded pre-Lockdown videos of SoCal Val interviewing Kenny King, Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez. You can watch here and here or embedded below: - Kharma, formerly known as Awesome Kong in TNA, said she declined an offer to work next weekend’s Knockout Knockdown pay-per-view. The following is from her Twitter account: Nope! Declined offer RT: [...]
John “Bradshaw” Layfield and his team made it to 20,000 feet of Mount Aconcagua (a/k/a Mt. Death) in Argentina. They were unable to make it to the summit due to weather. Michael Cole has been posting updates from his Twitter account @MichaelCole. Make sure you follow us @WNWNews. [...]
- The Voice out of the United Kingdom has a new interview with Kenny King at this link. - Bobby Roode was not at the Lockdown Fanfest in San Antonio on Saturday. His contract issues were a big discussion but have since been rectified. - TNA taped several episodes of Spin Cycle at the Lockdown [...]
- The Miz is featured in an interview here on JustPressPlay.net. - Dr. Joseph Maroon talks about the WWE Wellness Policy with Triple H and Bruno Sammartino at this link or embedded in the video below: - One of the things WWE is now doing backstage at Raw and pay-per-veiws is providing a “social zone” where [...]
Bobby Roode is scheduled to work TNA Lockdown with Austin Aries to defend the TNA Tag Team Championship against Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels & Kazarian) and Chavo Guerrero & Hernandez as advertised. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more but apparently there was an issue with the final year on his contract originally signed in 2009. [...]
- The current plan is for the Wrestlemania 29 pre-show to be an hour long and include interactive features where fans will be able to vote on stipulations or a match that will have an affect on the pay-per-view itself. The plan was disclosed by Stephanie McMahon at the SXSW event on Saturday. - Sarah [...]
Shannon “Daffney” Spruill settled her lawsuit against TNA Wrestling in a mediation session last Friday. The lawsuit was based on injuries she sustained at Bound for Glory 2009 (with medical bills over $26,000) and the challenging of her “independent contractor” status. Spruill wrote the following on Twitter: I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely [...]
Below are quick results from Saturday’s WWE Smackdown live event in LaCrosse, Wisconsin: * The Great Khali & R-Truth b. Epico & Primo * Layla b. Alicia Fox * Fandango b. Ted DiBiase * Jack Swagger w/Zeb Colter b. Justin Gabriel * Randy Orton b. Mark Henry via disqualification when Henry used a chair. * [...]
Below are quick results from Saturday’s WWE Raw live event in Broomfield, Colorado: * Brodus Clay & Sweet T w/Cameron & Naomi b. 3MB * Alex Riley b. Titus O’Neil. After the match, The Shield brought Riley to justice by attacking him. * Bray Wyatt b. JTG * WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn b. Tamina Snuka [...]
- WWE paid tribute to Paul Bearer at the beginning of all three live events so far this weekend by playing their awesome tribute video. I would expect the same for the shows Sunday night as well as Monday’s WWE Raw. If you want to know how I think Bearer should be honored, read my [...]
We’ve received some questions regarding Bobby Roode’s contract status with TNA Wrestling. Roode’s latest contract was for five years and commenced on March 1, 2009, meaning the deal wouldn’t expire until March 1, 2014. However, here is the kicker. The majority of TNA contracts feature options in their latter years. The options vary depending on [...]
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