Tonight’s WWE Mixed Match Challenge will take place from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
It’s week 6 of the WWE Mixed Match Challenge series.
The MMC season two continues this evening on Facebook Watch at 10pm EST., immediately following WWE SmackDown Live on the USA Network.
* The Miz & Asuka vs. Jimmy Uso & Naomi
* Bobby Roode & Natalya vs. Finn Balor & Bayley.
It was reported on Monday that John Cena and Daniel Bryan are refusing to work the WWE Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia on November 2nd by Barstool Sports’ Robbie Fox. Cena is one of the eight Superstars to compete in the World Cup tournament, while Bryan is scheduled to face AJ Styles for the WWE Championship.
In an update to those reports, Dave Meltzer reported on the most recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio that while he hasn’t heard anything about Bryan, the WWE creative team was told on Monday afternoon that Cena wouldn’t be taking part in the tournament and needed to be replaced. It’s not known if something had changed since then or if they feel that Cena will change his mind if the location is changed, but Cena was once again advertised to compete in the World Cup tournament on RAW later that night.
Meltzer also noted that the Saudi Arabia event is in jeopardy, and said that as things stand, it is a lot less likely to happen than it was last week. Tickets for the show were scheduled to go on sale last Friday, but never did.
WrestleVotes, who has broken several WWE scoops in the last year or so, reports that the show is back in “wait & see” mode. Regarding Cena being advertised for the World Cup on RAW last night, WWE may have kept Cena in the promos because officials want him to reconsider his decision or because Cena would end up being a part of the event if they decide to move locations. You can see their tweets below.
We will keep you updated on any developments regarding the status of WWE Crown Jewel.
Source: WrestlingINC
Alexa Bliss is reportedly out of action with another injury, according to F4Wonline.com.
Word is that Bliss suffered a concussion at Saturday night’s WWE live event in Hartford, CT, but WWE has not confirmed that.
Bliss missed Sunday’s WWE Supershow in Boston, despite being advertised. Bliss had been out of action with an arm injury but she returned to the ring Friday’s live event in Bangor, ME. She then suffered the injury on Saturday in Hartford. The matches on Friday and Saturday saw Bliss and Mickie James lose to Nia Jax and RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey when Bliss tapped to Rousey. Tamina Snuka replaced Bliss on Sunday in Boston.
Bliss is currently scheduled to team with Mickie to face WWE Hall of Famers Lita and Trish Stratus at Sunday’s WWE Evolution pay-per-view.
Source: WrestlingINC
Sting was recently interviewed by 99.7 CYK for an appearance for an independent wrestling show. As frequently stated, Sting stated that he credits his match with Ric Flair at Clash of the Champions for “putting him on the map.” He also stated that he prefers appearing at smaller shows now because he likes to catch up with old wrestling buddies.
For respect to Owen Hart, who passed away in 1999 due to his descension from the rafters at the Over the Edge pay-per-view going tragically wrong, Sting stated that he does not like sharing many stories of his close-calls comng from the top of the arena to the ring. However, he did share that he was close one night to experiencing a fatal accident.
“If people knew what was going on up there,” said Sting. “On a handful of occasions, oh my gosh. I mean, put it this way: I was close to having a fatal accident one night. Chicago, at the UIC Pavilion. That was, wow; I’m sweating right now telling you the story, and you know, coming out of the helicopter, and you got a Vietnam vet who’s the pilot, who says, ‘Sting, [if] by some chance your rope or your cord gets caught up in my blades, I’m gonna have to cut you loose.’ And I kinda chuckle a little bit, and he’s looking at me with these cold eyes, I’m like, okay, you’re not joking, are you?”
Sting added that although the helicopter was swinging back and forth because of his weight while he was hovering over the water during an episode, which was also very frightening.
Although he has been asked many times before, and stated that he is fine with not coming back to the ring, Sting admits that he would be open to coming back only under one condition.
“I would only consider against one opponent, and that would be [Undertaker], and that’s it,” Sting said. “Anyone else, at this point, why? But, I have always loved the idea of the Sting-Taker thing. So many ideas in my head, you know, how to make it just a night that people would never forget.”
Sting added that he has thought about ideas about competing against The Undertaker “for decades.” He also stated that he would not consider being a General Manager, because it would tarnish his legacy and mystique as a character.
Sources: 99.7 CYK and WrestlingINC
As if Raw wasn’t emotional enough due to everything involving Roman Reigns, the show ended with Dean Ambrose turning on Seth Rollins after they won the tag team titles.
The Shield defeated Dolph Ziggler/Drew McIntyre after Braun Strowman interfered and brawled with McIntyre to the backstage area. While Dolph was alone, Seth hit the Curb Stomp for the win.
Ambrose and Rollins began to celebrate in the ring, but Dean dropped the title and hit his tag partner with a Dirty Deeds DDT out of nowhere. He then continued to beat Rollins down while seemingly yelling about the conversation from Raw last week where Seth called him a lunatic.
Watch how it all went down below.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
Following a commercial break after the shocking announcement from WWE superstar Roman Reigns, WWE commentators Michael Cole, Renee Young & Corey Graves appeared on camera still visibly shaken by the news. Cole began by pointing out that the world of the WWE is an “alternate reality” and we can sometimes forget these are real people. Renee Young spoke about her husband Dean Ambrose’s close friendship with Roman as did Corey Graves.
Watch the moment below:
WWE Superstar Roman Reigns is holding on to his faith and will take “All the prayers” fans send his way. Reigns announced on Monday Night that his Leukemia had returned. Something he has battled since he was in his 20s. Roman will be taking time away from the WWE but insists this will not be a retirement saying that he is ready to fight this battle once again head on. In his speech Roman thanked fans regardless if they cheered him or booed him they always gave him a reaction.
The hashtag #ThankYouRoman has been trending on social media as fans and fellow superstars alike have shared their reaction to the news. Wrestling News Blog will have more on the situation as it develops and we would like to add our prayers as well.
Tonight’s WWE RAW will take place from the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island with the final red brand hype for WWE Evolution.
* Big man fall hard: Can Braun Strowman afford to fight a war on two fronts?
* You know who I am: Will Elias overreact to Apollo Crews taking his spotlight?
* As goes Dean Ambrose…: is anyone’s guess what this week will bring
* Lashing out: Will Finn Balor see how hard Bobby Lashley falls this week?
* Do something Bellas?: Can The Bella Twins keep RAW Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey off their tails for one more week?
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Vince McMahon being at the recent WWE SmackDown 1000 event was rare as the WWE Chairman rarely visits blue brand tapings these days, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Vince is usually back home or in the WWE offices on Tuesday after working RAW the night before. He still participates in SmackDown conference calls and oversees the script, and makes changes, but he’s no longer backstage each week. SmackDown is still very much Vince’s show and the others left in charge still follow his directions.
It will be interesting to see if Vince starts attending SmackDown TV events in October 2019 when the show moves from the USA Network to Fox on Friday nights. It’s been reported that Fox officials want the show to have more of a sports direction, which could bring a conflict as Vince is more into the comedy presentation with wrestling. It will also be interesting to see how Vince’s backstage WWE duties change when the XFL re-launches in 2020. Vince has previously stated that the XFL will not take away from his WWE responsibilities.
Source: WrestlingINC
WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett talked to Mirror Sport about Wrestling Travel, his AAA title run, Rey Mysterio’s WWE return and the NWA’s 70th anniversary show.
The Following was from the Mirror Sport interview with Jeff Jarrett:
Wrestling legend Jeff Jarrett has enjoyed an incredible 2018 – from winning title gold to being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Along the way the veteran performer wowed audiences with his first spoken word tour… and somehow became a Tranmere Rovers fan in the process!
Now ex-WWE Intercontinental Champion’s business Global Force Entertainment has partnered up with British travel company Wrestling Travel .
They are offering fans the experience of a lifetime – tickets and travel packages to New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 13, at the Tokyo Dome on January 4 next year.
Wrestle Kingdom is the biggest event on the NJPW calendar and the biggest wrestling show outside America, which Jarrett appeared in 2015 with Bullet Club.
The alliance comes hot on the heels of Wrestling Travel sponsoring the Starrcast convention at All In in Chicago and Wrestling MediaCon 2018 in Manchester.
Jarrett, 51, from Hendersonville, Tennessee, spoke to Mirror Sport’s Neil Docking about the unique partnership and what he hopes they can bring to the table.
He discussed his AAA Mega Championship run, spoken word tour, his good friend Rey Mysterio returning to WWE and the NWA 70th Anniversary Show.
It was very good. I’ve always had a good relationship with UK fans, but to be sat on stage talking about my career in that kind of setting, from that kind of perspective, it was different, but Kenny McIntosh of Inside The Ropes, Hooked On Events and the crowd made it easy and fun and I’m looking forward to doing it again.
Yes exactly. That was definitely interesting. You could say I’ve done a lot of things in the world of professional wrestling, but that was a first. London, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Cardiff… that entire tour 10 days, 10 appearances, I did the London Comic Con, did some independent shows… it was really a fun tour.
Oh no, not at all. Pretty much my entire life has been played out in front of wrestling fans, even the stuff, I guess you could say the legend and lore, which has grown. Certain instances, back to my WWF and Vince McMahon days, wrestling fans like to tell these stories and never let the facts get in the way of a good story! And I’m okay with that.
Well, I don’t know about that. Ha ha. Whether I’m in the Hall of Fame or not I can say whatever I like, it just depends on how it’s interpreted! But no, it was fun. The spoken word tour was a lot of fun and the Hall of Fame… what an amazing 2018 it has been for myself.
Oh yeah, he’s good, he’s very good at what he does. He obviously made me feel comfortable going in but we also sort of had an agreement, the Sheffield show in particular which was streamed on Fite.tv , the first time a spoken word tour had been streamed live around the world, Kenny said to me ‘I’m going to come at you with some questions that may or may not make you feel uncomfortable’. But it was good and he knows how to deliver what the audience want and hats off to that guy.
Ha ha ha. Well it may just be a perfect segue way into it, but Lee McAteer, of Wrestling Travel, sits on their board. There’s a national connection, he grew up a Tranmere fan, so he opened my eyes to them and there’s nothing like wishing a UK football team good luck. That thing went viral overnight almost, as soon as it was released. It got quite a bit of play I’ll say that.
We’ve had mutual connections, but I kind of almost want to say it was by fate. He’s an incredible entrepreneur/businessman, wrestling is not in his background, but business is. He comes from a line of business folks, attorneys and business managers and everything that goes with it, and runs an ultra successful travel agency. So mutual friends connected us, we hit it right off and almost immediately, outside of the Tranmere Rovers fun we had, we said ‘how can we do business together?’
We really have meshed or put together my 32-year background in professional wrestling and his lifelong business background. His travel agency is a worldwide situation and I’ve got a long history not just as a wrestler but as a promoter, my family have always been promoters and at the very end of the day, you have to give the fans what they want.
The combination we have put together… the world of wrestling I grow up in, there was German wrestling, and British, and Japanese, and Puerto Rican, and U.S., and Mexican wrestling, with their own fans. It was separate. Now in the digital age, in the age of social media, all of the wrestling audiences are so much more connected. I cannot stress that enough, how much more connected wresting audiences are around the world. So people know about events like NJPW Wrestle Kingdom, or AAA Triplemania, or lately All In. Fans know about these events and with travel getting easier and easier, I saw on the news about the first ever flight from Singapore non-stop to New York City, in 19 hours! The world is so much more connected than it was in the past.
We have put together packages, kicked it off with the biggest show of the year in Japan, a show that has been around for a lot of years, we’re just happy that we’re giving the fans that don’t live in Japan an opportunity and we’ll make it very easy shopping. We’ll get you there, you get to one of the four hubs we have strategically placed and we’ll make sure we do the rest. And that’s hats off to Lee. You get to London, New York, Sydney or San Francisco and then we’ll fly you there, pick you up, buses, transfers, hotels, all that.
Then we’re really creating some really unique experiences, as we get feedback, we really want to customise it for the fans. We’re going to do tours around Tokyo to famous wrestling stops, there’s a couple of Japanese legends we’re going to have meet and greets lined up with, there’s some restaurants owned by former Japanese wrestlers, so it’s going to be an authentic wrestling trip. It’s really a dream, Kōrakuen Hall holds events quite a bit, other wrestling shows outside of Wrestle Kingdom too we’re going to give the opportunity to attend, so it really is a customised wrestling travel trip.
Yes – there’s nothing like experiencing the local culture. I tell even my kids who have never been to London or Manchester or Glasgow, that it’s hard to describe travel and wrestling within the UK. I go to Mexico quite often and wrestling the Lucha Libre style, the pageantry, those experiences you truly have to live. Television or social media doesn’t do it justice. Once you’re there and you watch a show in Japan, surrounded by Japanese wrestling fans, there’s nothing quite like it. Getting in the culture is what’s so unique and if you’re a wrestling fan it’s definitely a bucket list item.
We work on projects like Starrcast, the four-day convention around All In, was basically a live podcast event, we brought that to Fite. The main thing GFE is doing now is we have partnered with Fite and they do combat sports, boxing, MMA and wrestling, and we are the wrestling arm of it. We market that and bring content to market, WrestleCade here in America is a Thanksgiving tradition, a three-day convention we are going to be bringing to Fite. This Sunday, October 21, GFE we’re bringing the NWA 70th anniversary show, the rematch from All In, Cody Rhodes versus Nick Aldis for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, we are bringing that content to your favourite streaming device, via the Fite app.
That’s right. When me and Lee sat down and went over my wrestling career and his day-to-day business shall we say, the travel world, we realised we could mix the two and really have a recipe for a lot of fun and a customised experience for the fan that we’re excited to bring to market.
Oh gosh yes. And what is really unique is, in the entire country of Mexico, they have wrestling seven nights a week, all over the country. In Mexico City alone they have it on three or four nights. AAA have five big shows a year, the biggest being Triplemania, basically their version of WrestleMania, but they have five big events a year, so those packages are going to be rolling out without question.
That’s another real experience, we can tie in for people all around the world, Mexico has got some beautiful beaches, Cancun, Cozumel and Acapulco, you could visit along with the wrestling experience and the culture. So my relationship with the Pena family is definitely going to be part of what we do with Global Force and Wrestling Travel.
Ha ha ha, there you go, it checks all the boxes, right?
Yeah like I said a bit ago, 2018 has been nothing short of incredible. It went down on one of their big shows, me and Dr Wagner have a long history in Mexico and me and Rey Mysterio go back over 20 years, we met when we worked together and against each other in the 1990s in WCW. So for me to be in that match and win the Mega Championship for the second time was definitely special.
Oh, I couldn’t be happier for him. Rey is such a good guy, a good human being. I think when history looks back, he may end up being the most famous Hispanic wrestler in history. You can’t say enough, the world wide travel that Rey has done and impact he has made, it goes 20 years plus like I said. He broke onto the scene as a young man in WCW and his time spent in WWE winning the world championships… he is just a legendary name. He was in the early days of AAA and now he’s back in WWE, I couldn’t be happier for the guy. A good family guy, a great human being and a fantastic wrestler.
Ha ha. You said it! Here’s what I take a lot of pride in. I train every day, I stay fit and I take a lot of pride in having the ability to go in there with them. It was special in so many ways, we were one of the main events at Triplemania but not only that, the last hour of Triplemania was broadcast live on Televisa, network television in Mexico, like an ITV or BBC, it’s the network in Mexico. So that hour, the ratings were through the roof. So when I tell you it was a big event in Mexico, I’m not quite sure I’m doing it justice. It was a pop culture event bigger than a mega wrestling show.
So to be a part of the B title of that organisation, the champion going into that match, at this stage in my career, going against Fenix – and Rich Swann and Brian Cage no doubt – but Fenix is, I used to be able to say because I met him when he was coming in the door as a young kid, Fenix has arrived and he is I wouldn’t say the next big thing, he is the big thing, and he is setting the scene on fire. For me to be a part of that and knowing I came prepared and carried my weight in the match so to speak, I’m pretty damn proud of it.
I brought the showbiz to that match, ha ha, and I’m damn glad to bring that. That’s something I guess you could say has been right up my alley my entire career, the showbiz part of the match.
Let’s not get too far ahead, I know that my in-ring days, my best years are in my rear view mirror, and I have no problem with that. But from time to time, the old Toby Keith song, ‘I’m not as good as I once was, but I’m as good once as I ever was’, that might be appropriate!
But on Sunday, the NWA 70th anniversary, The Tennessee State Fairground Sports Arena, a building my family has promoted in since it opened in the 70s, for me to put on my promoter’s cap, those kind of things excite me the most. I’m super excited for that and one of Britain’s own, Nick Aldis, is going to be challenging for the NWA title and the history with that title is pretty special for myself and my family, so no, I like to wear the promoter’s hat more than I do the in-ring performer hat now, if I had my choice.
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