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This week’s WWE Raw did a 3.16 cable rating with an average viewing audience of 4,260,000 viewers on the USA Network. Below is the breakdown of viewership by hour: Hour one – 4,350,000 viewers Hour two – 4,250,000 viewers Hour three – 4,180,000 viewers Obviously this is not a good headed into Elimination Chamber on [...]
WWE has announced Brodus Clay & Tensai vs. The Rhodes Scholars for the Elimination Chamber Pre Show that will be streamed live on YouTube. We’ll carry the footage live on Sunday night at 8 PM EST here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com. [...]
- Bruno Sammartino recently stated that he’ll receive $5000 and a WWE Hall of Fame ring for accepting the company’s invitation to be inducted. There are also plans for Bruno and WWE to work together on future projects that should pay him handsomely. - John Layfield will miss some television time as he climbs Mt [...]
This week’s edition of “WWE Backstage Fallout” Raw featuring Chris Jericho, Jack Swagger, Zeb Coulter, & Wade Barrett has been posted by the official WWE YouTube channel. The video is embedded below: [...]
- WWE is planning to book Brodus Clay and Tensai as a tag team moving forward. - WWE is advertising the return of “The Highlight Reel” with Chris Jericho featuring The Miz on this week’s WWE Main Event. The show will be taped Tuesday night in Little Rock, Arkansas. - The Rock and Jeff Jarrett [...]
Rey Mysterio is blaming the storyline attack of Mark Henry on the reason why he wasn’t on this week’s WWE Raw. The following is from his Twitter: Missed being @ Raw tonight! WSM Did sum damage on me last week, but been through much worse and have come back! 619 luv — Rey Mysterio (@reymysterio) [...]
WWE has announced that Kaitlyn will defend her Divas Championship against Tamina Snuka at this Sunday’s WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. Join us on Sunday at 8 PM EST for exclusive live play-by-play coverage of WWE Elimination Chamber 2013 here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com. [...]
Following this week’s episode of WWE Raw, below is the updated lineup for Sunday’s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view lineup. Make sure you join us Sunday night at 8 PM EST for exclusive live play-by-play coverage here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com: WWE Championship Match There is no champion’s advantage as the title can change on disqualification or count out. [...]
- Tickets for WWE Extreme Rules from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, MO officially go on sale February 23rd. You can purchase them at this link. - John “Bradshaw” Layfield is set to begin climbing Mt Aconcogua on February 26, 2013. According to JBL the mountain has a 30% success rate. - Hornswoggle was [...]
After this week’s WWE Raw went off the air Damien Sandow came out with The Rock still in the ring. He questioned Rocky as the WWE Champion and ended up taking a Rock Bottom. John Cena b. Dolph Ziggler w/Big E Langston in a dark match main event. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
-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 [...]
- WWE developmental worker Corey Graves is back on the road with the Raw crew this weekend. - WWE is returning to the Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tennessee on June 8, 2013. - This week’s episode of WWE Vintage Collection featured the following matches as transcribed by Devin Cutting: Gimmick Battle Royal [...]
- DirecTV is surveying customers about the proposed WWE Network. According to their survey, the network will be offered for a fee each month and will include all pay-per-views except for Wrestlemania. Pay-per-views will still be available for purchase for those that do not subscribe to the network. - Wrestling News World reader Ben sent [...]
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