Tonight’s WWE SmackDown Live will take place from the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire with the final hype for Sunday’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view.
* Team Hell No kick off SmackDown LIVE on “Miz TV”
* AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura to battle on SmackDown LIVE tonight
* Asuka and James Ellsworth square off in a Lumberjack Match
* Can Tye Dillinger defeat Samoa Joe?
* Sin Cara looks for payback on Andrade “Cien” Almas`
Tonight’s WWE 205 Live will take place from the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.
* WWE Cruiserweight Championship: (C) Cedric Alexander vs. Hideo Itami
WWE NXT Superstar Nikki Cross made her main roster debut at Monday’s SmackDown live event in Augusta, Maine. She teamed with Becky Lynch to defeat Peyton Royce and Billie Kay. No word yet on if she will be called up soon but SAnitY also worked last night’s live event and they were kept apart. Below are photos of Cross and Lynch at last night’s show:
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Source: WrestlingINC
The WWE TLC pay-per-view will now take place on Sunday, December 16th from San Jose, California, according to PWInsider. This will replace the originally scheduled Clash of Champions pay-per-view scheduled for that date and location. As noted, TLC 2018 was originally announced for October 21st in Boston but a non-televised WWE SuperShow live event with both brands will take place that night in Boston instead.
Source: WrestlingINC
Brock Lesnar showed up at UFC 226 this past Saturday and was invited into the Octagon by Daniel Cormier. Lesnar proceeded to shove the new UFC Heavyweight Champion and cut a promo ripping the UFC Heavyweight Division.
“I walked into this building and watched the Heavyweight disasters from the beginning,” Lesnar said. “Ngannou’s a piece of s–t, Miocic, the piece of s–t, DC… I’m coming for you motherf–ker.”
After the incident, UFC President Dana White said that the company was “definitely going to make that fight.”
ESPN’s Brett Okamoto reports that Lesnar has re-entered the USADA testing pool in preparation for another fight. According to MMAJunkie.com, Lesnar re-joined the USADA testing pool on July 3rd. Lesnar still has around six months remaining in his suspension after failing a pair of drug tests following his UFC 200 fight against Mark Hunt. Lesnar had defeated Hunt via unanimous decision, however the result was changed to a no-contest. He will be eligible to fight again on or after January 8, 2019.
Lesnar is still WWE Universal Champion and has one match left on his contract, according to Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer. His next match has yet to be officially announced by WWE.
Source: WrestlingINC
Ric Flair underwent successful surgery on Monday to reverse an ileostomy procedure.
Flair’s fiancé Wendy Barlow told Pro Wrestling Sheet that the operation went exactly as the Hall of Fame wrestler had hoped and they’re both feeling truly blessed.
Flair was required to undergo an ileostomy procedure after his health scare last year. The surgery today was being done in an effort to reverse the stoma, so he’d no longer be required to drain body waste from a pouch.
Flair should will be released from the hospital by the end of the week.
Tonight’s WWE RAW will take place from the TD Garden in Boston with the final red brand hype for WWE Extreme Rules.
* Potty crasher Braun Strowman
* One versus all (but mainly Bobby Lashley)
* The doctor is in: Dr. Shelby
* No apologies: Baron Corbin and Finn Balor
Matt Hardy is proposing he and Bray Wyatt make a trip to All In to defend the WWE RAW tag team titles against The Young Bucks.
Hardy tweeted out the suggestion after comments made by The Bucks following Saturday’s New Japanshow in San Francisco.
When asked about what they have left to accomplish, Matt Jackson made a suggestion some might consider out of the ordinary.
“How cool would it be to win the WWE tag team championship belts and not even have to perform on their show? That would be great,” he told reporters.
“A little one off?,” Nick responded.
“Yeah, a little one off. That would be fun,” Matt replied.
The result was a tweet from Hardy that read: “What are these FANTASTICAL FANCIES that you speak of, Bucks of Youth? September 1st?” The tweet included pictures of Hardy/Wyatt with their belts and The Young Bucks carrying their titles.
Matt Hardy has extensive history with The Young Bucks — and we recently saw WWE give Nick and Matt quite a bit of promotion on their social channels.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
WWE announced Fandango has suffered a shoulder injury.
WWE.com reports ‘Dango suffered a left labrum tear in his shoulder and surgery is required. No additional information was made available on when the injury occurred.
Fandango tweeted on Sunday morning saying he could be out of action for 6 months or longer.
The UFC is going full-steam ahead with plans of putting Brock Lesnar and Daniel Cormier together inside the Octagon. After Cormier defeated Stipe Miocic Saturday night at UFC 226 to become the heavyweight champion, he called out Lesnar, the reigning WWE Universal champion. Lesnar had sat Octagon-side as “DC” knocked out Miocic.
The two became involved in a brief shoving match before officials separated them. Lesnar, according to White, will need six months of clean testing in the USADA pool to become eligible to fight, meaning the bout is likely for early 2019.
“We’re definitely going to make that fight,” White said. “He’s going to pop up (in the USADA testing) here Monday or Tuesday.”
Cormier, who is also the current UFC light heavyweight champion, mentioned during his post-fight press conference a desire to fight again this year before concluding his career in 2019. That could mean a title defense of his 205-pound belt before facing Lesnar for the heavyweight championship.
“I fight Brock Lesnar, I get paid,” said Cormier, who added he is only interested in big fights to finish his career.
Source: WrestlingINC
Below is video of the confrontation between Cormier and Lensar after Cormier called Lesnar out.
