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Undertaker Advertised for Today’s Tapings Undertaker is advertised for Tuesday’s Smackdown taping from the London O2 Arena in London, England. It’s unknown if he’ll appear on-camera as he’s advertised in what will likely be a dark match main event, teaming with Randy Orton & Sheamus to take on The Shield. JR Feels Undertaker Has Surpassed [...]
The Shield, Fandango and Summer Rae pulled double duty on Monday as they worked the Smackdown live event in Cardiff, Wales (results here) before flying via helicopter to WWE Raw in London, England. As was seen on this week’s Raw, WWE filmed the arrival of The Shield for inclusion on the broadcast. While The Shield [...]
Brie and Nikki Bella were in New York City Monday for the E! Upfront party. This is why they weren’t featured on this week’s episode of WWE Raw. They Tweeted the following photo with Ryan Lochte along with a “message” for AJ Lee: What would @ryanlochte and The Bella’s do?! #EUpFront twitter.com/nicoleandbri/s… — The Bella [...]
Elto Alexandrov from WWENews.net sent in the following live notes from Monday’s WWE Raw taping in London: Monday Night Raw started with the introductions of Michael Cole, JBL and Jerry Lawler. The crowd reaction to JBL surpassed that of most performers, as his name was chanted on several occasions. Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler got [...]
WWE will tape this week’s WWE Main Event, matches for WWE Saturday Morning Slam, and this week’s Smackdown today from the O2 Arena in London, England. The Undertaker is scheduled to appear, as well as Raw Superstars Fandango & Santino Marella. The advertised dark match main event is The Undertaker, Sheamus, & Randy Orton vs. The Shield. [...]
Pre-RAW Commercial Ryback let The Shield have Cena, even though he’s had problems with The Shield. Tonight Taker will be getting in the ring with Kane and Bryan against The Shield. Show Starts Video Taker was getting surrounded by The Shield in the ring, but Kane and Bryan. Taker will tag with Kane and Bryan [...]
Below are quick results from Monday’s WWE Smackdown live event in Cardiff, Wales: * Sheamus & The New Age Outlaws b. The Shield via disqualification when Roman Reigns used a chair on Sheamus. * Fandango w/Summer Rae b. Ted DiBiase * Natalya b. Alicia Fox * Mark Henry b. The Great Khali * Alberto Del [...]
Last week’s Smackdown did an average viewing audience of 2,590,000 viewers on SyFy. The show ended up doing a 1.92 cable rating. Smackdown was up against the intense media coverage of the manhunt for the Boston bombing suspect. I’m actually surprised we didn’t see a bigger drop off than this. Smackdown Ratings Archive [...]
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WWE is advertising Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger in a no disqualification for this week’s Smackdown. The company will tape this week’s Smackdown Tuesday from the London O2 Arena in London, England. We’ll have exclusive live play-by-play coverage here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com. [...]
Rosa Mendes provided the following explanation for leaving WWE’s current international tour on Twitter: Just wanted to let all my #Mendesluverz that I’m ok.I had to take care of some personal matters. Thank you for all your support. Love you — Rosa Mendes (@LaRosaMendes) April 22, 2013 I also encourage everyone to continue #MuscleMania.It has [...]
In a story we’ve been trying to gather more details on, Rosa Mendes has been sent home from WWE’s European tour. Messages left with WWE in attempt for comment were not immediately returned. The gist of the story is that Rosa had displayed outlandish behavior throughout the trip and it was time for her to [...]
The Rock’s NBA Playoffs Video The Rock is featured in a new video for TNT’s coverage of the 2013 NBA Playoffs. Rock is hosting an upcoming reality series on TNT this summer called “The Hero.” You can watch the video at this link or embedded in the video below: Jim Ross Reacts Jim Ross has [...]
The Miz on Rowdy Crowds The Miz spoke with The UK Sun about how the European crowds are always the rowdiest. You can read his comments at this link. Raw in Brooklyn WWE Raw will take place from the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York on July 15, 2013. This is the first episode of [...]
WWE introduced two new Divas in their press release for the upcoming E! reality series called “Total Divas.” The Divas are as follows: Eva Maria – Real name Natalia Eva Marie, who is described on Twitter as a 2012 Powertec Fashion Model Winner, Entrepreneur, Actress, Model all american athlete (soccer), Mexican/Italian and SF GIANTS FANATIC. [...]
WWE announced the appointment of Michael Pine as Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Partnership Marketing on Monday. Below is the official press release: STAMFORD, Conn., April 22, 2013 – WWE (NYSE: WWE) today announced the appointment of Michael Pine as Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Partnership Marketing. Pine, who previously held [...]
E! is teaming up with WWE for a new reality series called Total Divas. The show, set for the network’s summer lineup, explores life beyond the ring for seven WWE Divas who “must wrestle with the challenges of life in the spotlight, a grueling work and travel schedule, and the intense competition for prominence in [...]
According to Steve Austin’s friend Paul Lazenby, Austin would entertain the “right offer” for one more match and he’s in better shape then most might think. We’ll explore this a little more in detail later. Speaking of Austin, he has a new blog entry available at this link. [...]
WWE will tape this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw this afternoon from the London O2 Arena in London, England. The show will be headlined by Undertaker’s first match on Raw in over three years as he’ll team with Team Hell No to take on The Shield. Triple H will respond to Brock Lesnar’s challenge [...]
WWE officially announced that John Cena will defend the WWE Championship against Ryback at Extreme Rules next month. Already announced for the show is Dolph Ziggler defending the World Heavyweight Championship in a triple threat match against Jack Swagger and Alberto Del Rio. WWE Extreme Rules 2013 will take place Sunday, May 19, 2013 from [...]
Below are quick results from Sunday’s WWE Smackdown live event from the Sheffield Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England: * Drew McIntyre, Jinder Mahal, Santino Marella & Ted DiBiase b. The Prime Time Players and Epico & Primo. After the match, The Shield brought the babyfaces to justice. Dean Ambrose got on the mic and hyped [...]
Peter Rosenberg interviewed The Rock to promote his upcoming reality series called “The Hero” on TNT. In it, he talked exclusively about the injury he suffered at Wrestlemania 29 and whether or not this was his last match. Rock said when he sat down with Vince McMahon to negotiate his return [to WWE], the plan [...]
Below are quick results from Saturday’s WWE Smackdown live event from the Birmingham LG Arena in Birmingham, England: * Drew McIntyre, Jinder Mahal, Santino Marella & Ted DiBiase b. The Prime Time Players and Epico & Primo w/Rosa Mendes * Fandango b. Alex Riley * Natalya b. Alicia Fox * Mark Henry b. The Great [...]
The Rock Filming Hercules As previously reported here at WrestlingNewsWorld.com, The Rock is scheduled to begin filming his role in the upcoming motion picture “Hercules” later next month in Budapest, Hungry. He has the starring role in Brett Ratner’s film as he’ll play Hercules. Filming is expected to take four and a half months, which will [...]
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley (wow, that has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?) played the “what if” game with Twitter followers this weekend. Foley Tweeted: If I could have done ONE last match @jack_fats – it would have been with @cmpunk following those 2012 promos. But…I’m done, brother! — Mick Foley (@realmickfoley) [...]
Sheamus didn’t work Friday’s WWE Raw live event in Dublin as he was touring with Smackdown in Newcastle. The former WWE Champion Tweeted his apologies for not making it home: Hey #WWEDublin! Sorry i didn’t get home this trip but it looks like i will be on the next one… twitter.com/WWESheamus/sta… — Sheamus (@WWESheamus) April [...]
Zack Ryder posted a new video on his YouTube channel at this link on Saturday that has his fans clamoring for a heel turn. You can also watch it embedded in the video below: Thanks to Wrestling News World reader Braxton Worley for sending us the link. [...]
Wrestling News World readers Antoine Baronnet and Anthony Brouste attended Saturday’s WWE Raw live event in Paris, France and sent in the following live report: WWE RAW World Tour à Paris le 20.04.2013 The WWE is in France for the RAW Wrestlemania Revenge in Palais Omnisports of Paris-Bercy. Around 8-10 000 fans, 80-85% empty. Single [...]
The Rock will indeed have to undergo from his injuries suffered in the WWE title match against John Cena at Wrestlemania 29 a couple weeks ago. Rock wrote the following on Twitter: Saw my Dr who had to push my intestines back thru the tear in my abdomen. Kinda romantic.Surgery is next week. #BringItOn — [...]
Dana White Speaks on JR, CM Punk & Brock Lesnar UFC President Dana White spoke about meeting Jim Ross earlier this week at the UFC on Fox 7 press conference on Saturday. White said Ross was a really good guy, was “cool,” and it was the first time they have met. He said there wasn’t [...]
WWE Live Events in Florida WWE has announced the following live events in Florida this June: 6/7 from the BB&T Center in Sunrise, FL 6/8 from the Lakeland Center in Lakeland, FL Smackdown Live in Newcastle Below are quick results from Friday’s WWE Smackdown live event from the Newcastle Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, England: [...]
Mick Foley Comedy Wrestling News World reader Dustyn sent word that Mick Foley will be performing his standup comedy routine on May 29th in Edmonton and May 30th in Calgary. WWE will tape Smackdown in Edmonton that same week on May 28th. Extreme Rules Theme Song The official theme song for next month’s WWE Extreme [...]
Wrestling News World reader Sean O’Grady attended Friday’s WWE Raw live event from The O2 in Dublin, Ireland. He sent in the following live report: R-Truth b. Heath Slater Justin Roberts asks fans to vote whether AJ lee should be at ringside or not during the tag titles match to vote on twitter. Antonio Cesaro [...]
WWE Smackdown Results – (4/19/13) Results by: Adam W. of WrestlingNewsWorld.com Welcome to this week’s Smackdown! The show begins with a teaser of things to come tonight. Jack Swagger attacked Alberto Del Rio before his World Title Match. Jack Swagger would later defeat Dolph Ziggler, becoming the #1 Contender. Also, after Big Show was defeated, [...]
WWE’s Return to Belfast & Glasgow WWE will return to Belfast and Glasgow in November. The dates are as follows: 11/6/13 – from the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland 11/10/13 – from the the Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland Fandangoing Remix WWE released the Fandangoing Remix by Jim Johnston on Friday. Check it out [...]
The JBL & Cole Show This week’s episode of The JBL & Cole Show is now online at this link. You can also watch the show embedded in the video below: Video Preview Of WWE Performance Center WFTV Eyewitness News 9 in Orlando carried a story on the new WWE Performance Center. You can watch [...]
WWE’s Wrestlemania Revenge Tour continues this weekend overseas. Below is a look at this weekend’s shows and next week’s television tapings: Raw: Friday from The O2 in Dublin, Ireland (more info) Saturday from Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy in Paris, France (more info) Sunday from Arena Genève in Geneva, Switzerland (more info) WWE Raw on [...]
Finlay Gets An Irish Pop William Regal acknowledged WWE producer Fit Finlay after his match against Michael McGillicutty at Thursday’s WWE Raw live event in Belfast, Ireland. Finlay, who was ringside for the bout, received a huge pop after Regal put him over on the stick. Summer Rae With Fandango WWE developmental Diva Summer Rae appeared [...]
Economic Impact of Wrestlemania 29 NJ.com has the first details regarding the economic impact of Wrestlemania 29 in New Jersey. The article notes that workers earned about $1.4 million in gross salaries and benefits. Between Wrestlemania 29, the Hall of Fame Ceremony and Wrestlemania Axxess, fans bought more than 140,000 tickets. WWE says Axxess was [...]
Brian Fritz interviewed Triple H about the new WWE Performance Center Thursday in Orlando. You can watch it on YouTube at this link or embedded in the video below: Fritz also interviewed WWE developmental worker Mason Ryan at this link or embedded in the video below: [...]
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