Smackdown Rating Holds Steady
Last week’s Smackdown ended up doing a 1.81 cable rating with an average viewership of 2,459,000 viewers on SyFy. Smackdown Ratings Archive [...]
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- *Live* Coverage From This Week’s Smackdown Taping In Dayton, Ohio (Spoilers)
- SummerSlam Main Event, Lesnar Back Early, Two WWE Stars Getting Big Heel Pushes, First MITB Ladder Match Entrants Revealed, Kaitlyn’s Wardrobe Malfunction, How Long Mark Henry’s Main Event Run Will Last, RVD’s Contract
- Anya Says She Wish She Had An Idea Her Release Might Come
- King Mo Fighting Wednesday Night, TNA Update
- More 1-800-FELLA Videos, Colter’s Militia (Video)
- *Spoilers* WWE Main Event Results (6/18/13) – Dayton, Ohio
- Daniel Bryan Legitimately Injured At WWE Raw, Match Outcome Changed
- Monday Night Raw Audience Rises After WWE Payback
- Lesnar’s F5 On CM Punk, Photo Of Dolph Ziggler & AJ Lee, WWE In Ontario (Video)
- Fruity Pebbles Go On The Road With WWE, Mid-South Wrestling DVD Cover Art
- CM Punk’s Blackhawks Ring Gear, RVD’s WCW Debut, WWE Mattel Elite Ryback Figure
- Undertaker Working The Shield At SummerSlam?, Be A Star in Chicago (Video)
- Mid South Wrestling DVD Match Listing, A Dream Come True For The Miz
- Details On TNA Hardcore Justice 2 On PPV, Another Executive Departure
- WWE Videos – “Backstage Fallout” Raw, Nikki Bella As Miss USA Judge (Video)
- Ryback & The WWE Title, Punk vs. Lesnar, Buying Axel But Selling Ryback, Cena/Daniel Bryan
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2012 Slammy Awards On Next Week’s Raw, WWE Main Event Programming Reminder
- WWE announced the 2012 Slammy Awards will take place on next week’s Raw. Voting for the awards will be a Rawactive feature through the new WWE App. Next week’s show will take place from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA. - This week’s WWE Main Event will air at 6:30 PM EST on [...]
Major Names Added To WWE PPV, Flo Rida On JBL & Cole Show, Should Punk Be Stripped?
- WWE announced here on dot com that Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and The Black Keys will appear at the Rolling Stones anniversary concert they are distributing. The concert will take place on Saturday on pay-per-view at 9 PM EST. It will also be streamed online. - Rapper Flo Rida taped an interview backstage at [...]
The Rock Comments On His Relationship With CM Punk & Their Upcoming Match
The Rock has been answering fans questions yesterday and today on his official Twitter account. One question was in regards to his relationship with CM Punk. Rock’s answer to that question is below: @cmpunk RT: @yogibthemc1: @therock Is there real life heat between you and punk?” Of course not my friend. I love Phillip & [...]
John Cena & Sheamus Appearing On Late Night TV To Promote Tribute To The Troops
- John Cena is scheduled to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, December 13, 2012 to promote WWE Tribute to the Troops. You can view all guests scheduled for Fallon’s show for the week at this link. - Sheamus is scheduled to promote the show on Conan on Thursday, December 13, 2012. [...]
The Showoff Is Back In This Week’s “WWE Download”
This week’s episode of “WWE Download” with Dolph Ziggler is embedded in the video below: [...]
Early WWE Raw Preview – Punk’s Title Reign, John Cena After The WHC, AJ Lee, TLC
WWE Raw will take place Monday night from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. Below are the key focal points of the show: How long will CM Punk’s WWE Championship reign last? Is John Cena poised to win the World Heavyweight Championship? Who is next in The Shield’s sights. Will AJ Lee continue winning? Who [...]
Randy Orton Suffers Apparent Injury At Tribute To The Troops Taping
Randy Orton suffered an apparent injury at the WWE Tribute to the Troops taping Sunday night in Norfolk, Virginia. The injury occurred while Orton was working Dolph Ziggler as it appeared to be Orton’s right hand or wrist. The referee gave the X signal and a trainer came to ringside to check him out during [...]
50 Cent Says Boxing Could Benefit From WWE, Live Event, New Year’s Eve Marathon
- Rapper 50 Cent says boxing could benefit from “WWE-style theatrics.” Below is a comment he gave to USA Today: “(We should) use some of the theatrics that you see in WWE and bringing them into a sport that doesn’t have a question mark — we know boxing is real. We don’t say ‘is that [...]
WWE Taping Tribute To The Troops 2012 Tonight, Seeking Spoiler Reports
WWE will tape Tribute to the Troops 2012 Sunday night from The Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia. The roster has been in Virginia all weekend, visiting with troops and doing promotional interviews. In addition to Superstars and Divas from both Raw and Smackdown, The Muppets, Kid Rock and Flo Rida will be on hand for [...]
3MB To Deliver “State Of The WWE Address” On Raw
Drew McIntyre stated on Twitter that 3MB will conduct their “state of the WWE address” on this week’s Raw. You can view his Tweet below: We at 3MB would like to take a moment to let everybody know that we can appreciate all the greatest artists had critics but never acknowledged anyone or let it [...]
The Great One’s Gaffe In This Week’s “Are You Serious?”
Road Dogg and Josh Mathews are back with another episode of “Are You Serious? featuring The Great One’s greatest gaffe. You can watch this week’s show embedded in the video below: [...]
Cody Rhodes Rehab Update
Cody Rhodes released a video on Saturday running the ropes as he rehabs his latest injury. You can watch it embedded below: Information! Rhodes Tweeted the following about the video: “Eyes are cold and restless…wounds are almost healed…”…training camp on the road Day1 twitter.com/CodyRhodesWWE/… — Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodesWWE) December 7, 2012 Cody was injured at [...]
The Muppets Returning To Raw As Social Media Ambassadors
WWE announced here on dot com that Disney’s The Muppets will make their return to Raw next week as the show’s Social Media Ambassadors. Next week’s Raw will take place from the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. We’ll have exclusive live play-by-play coverage here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com. [...]
WWE To Revamp Divas Division?
WWE is currently doing external research regarding their Divas division. The company wants to know what role fans prefer to see Divas in – wrestlers, love interests to Superstars, managers or dancers. They are also asking focus groups to compare the Divas of today to Divas of previous eras and what roles they would like [...]
WWE To Release New Bret Hart DVD, Plans For A Sequel To His Autobiography
WWE will be releasing another Bret Hart DVD next year. The current title is Bret “Hit Man” Hart: The Dungeon Collection and the set is expected out in March 2013. Speaking of Hart, he’s been working on a sequel to his critically acclaimed autobiography, My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling. Topics addressed [...]
The Shield’s Interview From SD, Ziggler & Swagger At Grapple At The Garden, Saturn At NXT
- For those that missed The Shield’s interview from this week’s Smackdown, you can watch it in the video embedded below: - Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger are scheduled to appear at Grapple at The Garden next Sunday from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The show will feature top notch collegiate wrestling teams [...]
WWE Condemns Former Talent For Gay Slur
Scorpio Sky (real name Schuyler Andrews) has drawn the attention of WWE after Tweeting a gay slur and attacking the people who didn’t like it. WWE issued the following response: WWE strongly believes that everyone should be treated with respect and this principle is the foundation of our anti-bullying initiative, “Be a STAR”. Mr. Andrews [...]
Meet The Beautiful People… And Santino In The Latest “Santino’s Foreign Exchange”
Meet the beautiful people… and Santino in the latest episode of “Santino’s Foreign Exchange” embedded in the video below: [...]
“It’s A 3MB ‘Par-Tay,’ Baby!” On This Week’s “Backstage Fallout” Smackdown
The team 3MB discuss their match, The Miz tells why he interrupted Damien Sandow, and and Kofi Kingston wants the gold on this week’s “Backstage Fallout” Smackdown. The video is embedded below: [...]
Evan Bourne Injury Update, JR’s Thoughts On NXT, Lilian Garcia Speaks On Return
- Evan Bourne, who is rehabbing a career-threatening foot injury, graduated to the treadmill on Friday. He was also able to resume squatting. Bourne suffered a LisFranc fracture dislocation in his foot in a car accident in March. - Jim Ross has a new blog entry online where he gives his thoughts from this week’s [...]
Bret Hart Says His Father & Davey Boy Smith Would Have Lived A Lot Longer If Not For Owen Dying
The Altoona Mirror has a new article online featuring quotes from Bret Hart. Below is an excerpt: “I think that in the end when you weigh it all up, I’m grateful for all wrestling gave me, and I think my dad and brother Owen would say the same thing,” Hart said. “I’m proud of everything [...]
Heath Slater Discusses The Debut Of The Nexus, Contradicts Himself
The Connecticut Weekender has a new Q&A online with Heath Slater. Below is an excerpt which features Slater legitimately answering a question, contradicting himself then flipping to complete work mode. Judge for yourself: Take us through the infamous night of June 7, 2010, the Nexus invasion. It was amazing man, it was great. Was there [...]
New Episodes Of Z! True Long Island Story & The JBL & Michael Cole Show
The latest episode of Z! True Long Island Story with Zack Ryder is embedded in the video below: Episode two of “The JBL & Michael Cole Show” is embedded in the video below: [...]
WWE Tribute To The Troops Weekend, Next Week’s TV Tapings
WWE will tape their annual Tribute to the Troops special on Sunday night from the Norfolk Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia. There are no live events this weekend as many roster members are already in Virginia visiting with troops. Big Show, Brodus Clay, Cameron, Hornswoggle, Naomi and Ted DiBiase are scheduled to visit the Naval [...]
John Cena Was Nearly A Marine Before Going Into Pro Wrestling
John Cena nearly joined the military before ever going into professional wrestling. Cena told The Virginian-Pilot: I was literally about to join the Marine Corps (Officer Candidate School) when a buddy asked me if I wanted to be a wrestler. I thought I would literally last two weeks in there and the Marines would always [...]
Raw’s 20th Anniversary, Alex Riley Returns, Celebrating Scotty Goldman
- WWE is expected to heavily promote the January 14th episode of Raw from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas as it is the 20th anniversary of the series. This is the only episode of Raw in January in which The Rock is not being advertised but it’s unknown if that will change. Several former [...]
Dr. James Andrews Touts CM Punk Post-Surgery, Latest Update On The Champ
WWE posted the following Tout of Dr. James Andrews discussing the arthroscopic knee surgery of CM Punk that he performed on Tuesday. You can watch his comments embedded below: Information! Punk isn’t expected to be taken off television as WWE wants to keep him in front of the camera as he recovers. The decision to [...]
Brad Maddox & “The Bad Maddox Experience” Highlighted In Outside The Ring
The latest episode of WWE “Outside the Ring” features Brad Maddox and “The Bad Maddox Experience.” You can watch it embedded in the video below: [...]
WWE Teaming With Yahoo For Rolling Stones Live Stream, Bad News Brown Added To Alumni
- WWE and Yahoo! announced on Thursday they will provide a global online live stream of the Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary concert on Saturday, December 15, 2012 at 9 PM EST. Vince McMahon commented on the partnership: “We are pleased to partner with Yahoo!, a global leader in digital media, to bring the Rolling Stones [...]
WWE Exec Says Network’s Drag On Earnings Is Painful
In addition to the topics we noted earlier here on WrestlingNewsWorld.com, WWE’s Chief Financial Officer George Barrios spoke on the WWE Network at the UBS 40th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference in New York City on Monday. Below is an excerpt from the transcript: We have talked about us going to market a network [...]
WWE Scouts Collegiate Match, Did Cena Draw On Main Event?, Del Rio’s Cars
- Gerald Brisco was at the Sports Pavilion in Minneapolis, MN last weekend to scout collegiate amateur wrestlers at the Oklahoma State at Minnesota meet. One match in particular he was interested in was Alan Gelogaev (OSU) vs. Tony Nelson (Minn). For more on the matches, click here. - Last week’s WWE Main Event featuring [...]
Updates On Lilian Garcia & Eve Torres
- Lilian Garcia posted the following on Twitter regarding her return to WWE: Yay!! I’m back!! Made my return last nite in my US home state of SC! Watch @wwe #MainEvent 2nite & #Smackdown on Fri! lockerz.com/s/266710408 — Lilian Garcia (@LilianGarcia) December 5, 2012 - WWE Divas Champion Eve Torres is currently banged up. We [...]
The Rock Advertised For Raw, WWE Reaffirms Commitment To 3-Hours & Tout
- The Rock is currently advertised for the 1/7, 1/21 and 1/28 episodes of WWE Raw. He is not advertised for the 1/14 show which is the 20th anniversary of the series. - WWE Chief Financial Officer George Barrios reiterated the company’s commitment to Raw remaining three hours and their investment in Tout at the [...]
Shaul Guerrero Wants To Return To WWE
Shaul Guerrero, who was released from WWE developmental in September, Tweeted she would like to return to WWE one day. The Tweet is below: I defiantly want to return to WWE but I have a couple of things to accomplish. My life is in Gods hands now! I’mdancing and off to college — Shaul Guerrero [...]
WWE TLC Match Officially Changed – Watch How It Happened Here
Embedded in the video below is how they explained the WWE TLC main event change on this week’s WWE Main Event: For those sheltered from the spoilers, Ryback vs. CM Punk for the WWE Championship has been changed to The Shield vs. Ryback & Team Hell No in a 6-Man TLC Match. [...]
Ryback vs. Alberto Del Rio Announced For Next Week’s WWE Main Event
It was announced at the end of this week’s WWE Main Event that Ryback vs. Alberto Del Rio will headline next week’s show. In addition, the December 12, 2012 edition of WWE Main Event is currently scheduled for preemption due a Hurricane Sandy benefit concert. Click here for more information. [...]
Season’s Greetings From WWE
WWE posted a Season’s Greetings video they filmed at TVs a couple weeks ago on their official YouTube channel. You can watch it embedded below: [...]
Shane McMahon Update, WWE In Missouri, Royal Rumble Poster
- George Barrios, Chief Financial Officer of WWE, wasn’t the only familiar name that spoke at the 40th annual Global Media and Communications Conference on Monday in New York. Shane McMahon spoke on behalf of You On Demand where he is Chief Executive Officer. The Hollywood Reporter has the story at this link. - WWE [...]
Lilian Garcia Returns To WWE
Lilian Garcia returned to WWE at this week’s Smackdown taping from North Charleston, SC. Garcia had been off the road since late October after being struck by a car in Los Angeles. The accident caused damage to her neck that prevented her from flying. She Tweeted the following on Tuesday afternoon: So happy today. Going [...]
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