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WWE will tape the Smackdown portion of this week’s WWE Superstars, this week’s WWE NXT, and this week’s Smackdown tonight from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. John Laurinaitis will be in charge of this week’s Smackdown, and the advertised dark match main event is a street fight involving Sheamus, Randy Orton, & The Big Show vs. [...]
WWE has posted last week’s Smackdown on their official YouTube channel. You can watch in the video embedded below: [...]
WWE is officially advertising The Undertaker’s response to Shawn Michaels being added as the special guest referee to his Hell in a Cell match against Triple H at Wrestlemania XXVIII on next week’s Raw Supershow from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Michaels will be there live and we’ll have exclusive live play-by-play coverage [...]
- 16,286 was the announced attendance for tonight’s WWE Raw Supershow from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. - The Rock is being advertised for the March 19th edition of Raw Supershow from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - ESPN’s Robert Flores was in attendance at tonight’s WWE Raw Supershow with Boston Celtics [...]
There will a presale beginning tomorrow morning at 10 AM EST on Ticketmaster.com to obtain tickets to WWE Night Of Champions. The password to obtain tickets is WWENOC. WWE Night of Champions 2012 will take place on Sunday, September 19, 2012 from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. We’ll have exclusive live play-by-play coverage here [...]
Santino Marella beat Jack Swagger on tonight’s Raw Supershow to win the WWE United States Championship. For those that missed it, John Lauranaitis tried to dispute the outcome (obviously in storyline) but Teddy Long had him “ejected” from the building. [...]
Shawn Michaels was officially announced as the guest referee for The Undertaker vs. Triple H in a Hell in a Cell match at Wrestlemania XXVIII. WrestlingNewsWorld.com first broke that Shawn Michaels would be the special guest referee in The Undertaker vs. Triple H at Wrestlemania here on WrestlingNewsWorld.com Premium on January 9, 2012. If you [...]
WWE United States Champion Jack Swagger will face Santino Marella on tonight’s Raw Supershow. The Great Khali vs. David Otunga has already been announced. We’ll have exclusive live play-by-play coverage of WWE Raw Supershow at the top of the hour here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com. [...]
- The following is from the official Facebook page of the Wells Fargo Center: Big announcement coming your way tomorrow about the 3/19 WWE RAW show at Wells Fargo Center…a new ad is running during the RAW telecast tonight w/ details, so tune in from 9-11 on USA Network to be the first to know! [...]
Last week’s Smackdown did a 2.01 cable rating with an average viewing audience of 2,905,000 viewers on SyFy. Smackdown Rating Archive [...]
-WWE Champion CM Punk & World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan recently took to Twitter to recognize Ring of Honor on its 10th anniversary: Congratulations to Ring of Honor for celebrating their 10th Anniversary tonight… I wouldn’t be where I am today without the people there. — Daniel Bryan (@WWEDanielBryan) March 5, 2012 Chicago is 175 [...]
- Wrestling News World reader Craig sent this in… The Score in Canada is now broadcasting WWE Vintage Collection online each week, so for people in the US that don’t get this great show showing classic wrestling they can watch now, click here to watch this week’s episode. - Wrestling News World reader Max Moskal sent this in… [...]
The official WWE website has excerpts up from the WrestleMania XXVIII issue of WWE Magazine in which Shawn Michaels discusses his favorite WrestleMania moments, including matches with Chris Jericho, Ric Flair, and The Undertaker. He discusses his match with Ric Flair at WrestleMania XXIV in the excerpt below: “Everything in that match, emotionally, for Ric [...]
- WWE announced today they will run shows in Brazil this May. Below are the announced dates: May 23 from the Ibirapuera Gymnasium in Sao Paulo, Brazil May 24 from the Maracanazinho Gymnasium in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - WWE is advertising The Rock for tonight’s Raw Supershow from Boston, promoting he will be there [...]
- The following article was written by The Associated Press: NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon is counting heavily on supporters from affluent Greenwich in her Senate bid, collecting more than 40 percent of itemized campaign contributions from donors with ties to her adopted Connecticut hometown. McMahon, a Republican who lost the [...]
WWE will tape the Raw portion of this week’s WWE Superstars and Raw Supershow tonight from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. WWE is advertising The Rock and Shawn Michaels for live appearances. At one point The Undertaker was advertised but he’s no longer listed. Following last week’s Smackdown, WWE is advertising The Great Khali [...]
Jim Ross has a new blog entry available on his official website. Below are the highlights: I’m anticipating some interesting ‘competition’ Monday night on Raw as the show stealer, Shawn Michaels, returns to live TV to, apparently, address HHH regarding HIAC at WM28. Point being is that last week’s Raw ended with the memorable verbal [...]
Brian Kendrick publicly discussed his TNA Impact Wrestling release on the Lowdown Unlimited show last week. He said he has stopped smoking marijuana and would be interested in working for WWE again. Kendrick is rumored to be connected with WWE’s prospective show centered around cruiserweight talent on the WWE Network. Thanks to Wrestling News World [...]
- Mister Saint Laurent reporting: 2012 WWE Hall of Famer J.J. Dillon joined Mister Saint Laurent on MLW Radio, the official podcast of Major League Wrestling. Dillon spoke about never working as a manager during his time with WWE. “When Tully and Arn left, the plan was for them to go up there as the [...]
Buffalo Bills linebacker Shawne Merriman has re-opened his beef with WWE Champion CM Punk. Remember the two had a run-in in Costa Rica last February. The following is from Merriman’s official Twitter: Oh yea *fu#k’ cm punk @wwe he’s still a punk forever in my book I’m sure my supporters feel the same way — [...]
Last night’s episode of WWE Vintage Collection featured the following matches. This write-up is courtesy of our old pal Devin Cutting: Buddy Landell vs. Bob Holly WWF Raw – December 18th, 1995 George Steele vs. Nikolai Volkoff WWF Prime Time Wrestling – June 23rd, 1986 Batista vs. Tajiri WWE Raw – May 10th, 2004 Butch [...]
- Episode 5 of “Are You Serious?” with Road Dogg and Josh Mathews is embedded in the video below: [...]
For those that missed it on last night’s Smackdown, David Otunga will face The Great Khali on Monday’s edition of WWE Raw Supershow WWE will tape this week’s Raw Supershow on Monday night from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. If you’re attending and would be interested in providing us with text-message updates, send your [...]
I can confirm The Undertaker had surgery on his shoulder and hip since working Wrestlemania XXVII last year. Undertaker is reportedly feeling good going into his Wrestlemania XXVIII match against Triple H this year. It’s unknown if Undertaker plans to retire after Wrestlemania this year and is believed to be more of the “wait and [...]
Wade Barrett underwent surgery for his dislocated elbow and the injury was much worse than originally expected. Barrett’s timetable to return is now 3-4 months as it was only expected to be 6-8 weeks. Barrett wrote the following on Twitter today: I am done with Twitter for now. See you in a few months. — [...]
Jim Ross has a new blog entry available on his official website. Below are some highlights: -Thoughts on Natalya’s flatulence, TV persona? Likely not something that I would have thought of but I can’t recall any time that Ms Neidhart has been in more discussions or the subject of more questions that she is now. Hopefully, this new [...]
Mark Henry was recently interviewed by the official WWE website about his induction into the International Sports Hall of Fame. Henry discusses winning the Arnold Classic in the excerpt below: “It meant a lot because that competition is geared toward the heaviest instruments in the world. To win that competition truly proves you are the [...]
- It looks like Triple H will get some ring time before his Hell in a Cell match against The Undertaker at Wrestlemania XXVIII. Madison Square Garden’s official website is advertising Hunter to be in action at the March 18th Supershow house show from New York City. Click here for local event information. - John [...]
- WWE has filed for the trademark of the word “kayfabe.” This is part of a new merchandise line they have launched with insider terms. - Darren Young, Derrick Bateman and Percy Watson are all three now listed on the Smackdown roster on the official WWE website. - Wrestling News World reader Fernando sent this [...]
- WWE has announced the following new live event dates: May 11th at 7:30 PM – Civic Center in Glens Falls, New York May 12th at 7:30 PM – War Memorial Arena @ The Oncenter in Syracuse, New York June 2nd at 7:30 PM – Civic Center in Mobile, Alabama - Tickets went on sale this [...]
WWE Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Big Show was officially added to Wrestlemania XXVIII on last night’s Smackdown. Below is the updated lineup: Singles Match - The Rock vs. John Cena Hell in a Cell Match - The Undertaker vs. Triple H WWE Championship Match - CM Punk (c) vs. Chris Jericho World Heavyweight Championship [...]
- The following video is courtesy of the official WWE YouTube channel: Santino’s Un-Stable YouTube ‘Exchange’ – “Foreign Exchange” Episode 5 [...]
The latest episode of Backstage Fallout from last night’s Smackdown is embedded in the video below: [...]
Embedded in the video below is the trailer for “Recoil” starring “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. The flick is available on Blu-Ray on March 6th: [...]
Jay Briscoe issued a strong denial on Twitter regarding rumors that Ring of Honor blocked he and his brother Mark from getting signed to WWE contracts. The rumors were never reported here on WrestlingNewsWorld.com although I had heard (and mentioned in yesterday’s Premium Mailbag) they were two workers on WWE’s radar. [...]
The latest episode of “Z! True Long Island Story” with Zack Ryder is embedded in the video below courtesy of the official WWE YouTube channel: [...]
- Cleveland.com has a new Q&A online with Dolph Ziggler. You can read it at this link. - WWE was once again featured in the “Unnecessary Censorship” segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live. This time the promo between WWE Champion CM Punk and Chris Jericho was featured: - The following is from the official Twitter of [...]
The New York Post has a new article online today on the WWE Network. The piece doesn’t break any new ground as it reiterates what we already know – the proposed April 1, 2012 launch date has been pushed back to to a lack of clearance. “WWE has the programming and marketing muscle, but they [...]
Triple H is working under a new performer’s contract that went into effect on January 1, 2012 and expires on March 30, 2016. As part of the agreement, Hunter will be paid $1 million for each year under the deal and will be limited to 180 days per year unless it is agreed upon by [...]
Embedded in the video below is this week’s edition of WWE Superstars courtesy of the official WWE YouTube channel: [...]
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