Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown and WWE 205 Live episodes will air live from the Allstate Arena near Chicago, IL with the final hype for WWE Survivor Series on Sunday.
* Roman Reigns, Mustafa Ali & Shorty G battle King Corbin, Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode on SmackDown
* Daniel Bryan summons Bray Wyatt to the SmackDown ring
* It is to be expected that Superstars from RAW and NXT will appear.
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown and WWE 205 Live will take place from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia as the road to Survivor Series continues.
There will be an appearance by WWE Universal Champion “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt.
The affects of the chaotic travel issues stemming from the WWE Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia are still being felt, as a big plan originally set for this month’s WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view appears to be scrapped altogether.
On the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio at F4WOnline.com, longtime Wrestling Observer Newsletter editor Dave Meltzer (@DaveMeltzerWON) suggested that one of the last matches that will be announced for this month’s WWE Survivor Series pay-per-vew will be “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt defending his WWE Universal Championship in a one-on-one showdown against Daniel Bryan.
It was speculated that the original idea for the title match was for Wyatt to face The Miz, with an angle to be shot for the episode of WWE SmackDown after the WWE Crown Jewel special.
Instead, due to the travel issues that came up, the angle and entire direction in general was changed.
Under those original plans, Bryan was headed for a WWE Intercontinental Championship win over Shinsuke Nakamura on TV, which would have put him in the three-way match at WWE Survivor Series against AJ Styles and Roderick Strong in the “Champion vs. Champion vs. Champion” triple-threat match featuring the WWE United States Champion from the WWE Raw brand (Styles), the WWE Intercontinental Champion from the WWE SmackDown brand (Bryan) and the North American Champion from the NXT brand (Strong).
As seen by the recent announcement made by WWE, the match will instead feature Styles, Nakamura and Strong competing in the three-way match of secondary individual title-holders.
WWE Survivor Series is scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 24th from Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. The show will air live via pay-per-view and will stream on the WWE Network.
Source: EWrestling
WWE is taping tonight’s SmackDown and Monday’s RAW from the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England today.
WWE is using a different set for today’s double tapings, as seen in the fan tweet below. The more elaborate sets that recently debuted on RAW and SmackDown are not being used.
https://twitter.com/Bluepeter1979/status/1192858732969037824
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown will take place at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England as the Road to Survivor Series continues. the show will be pre-taped beginning around around 1:15pm ET.
Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Sami Zayn had been having trouble with his shoulders in recent months. This is why he has been wrestling less and was put with WWE Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura as his mouthpiece.
There’s no word yet on when Zayn will return to regular in-ring action, but word now is that he’s OK and can wrestle, but the current role is what they have him doing. Zayn has worked some live events since being put with Nakamura, including losses to Buddy Murphy while WWE was in Australia last month, but he hasn’t wrestled regularly on TV since August, when he took losses on RAW to Samoa Joe and Cedric Alexander.
Pro Wrestling Sheet reports that WWE talent has been delayed from leaving Saudi Arabia following Crown Jewel and are in danger of missing SmackDown.
According to multiple sources, the delayed has lasted for hours with WWE Superstars and employees being stuck on the plane the whole time.
It’s unclear what the exact reason for the delay is at this time, but it seems to be an issue with the plane. We’re told WWE has been working on coming up with backup strategies that would hopefully get some of the talent to Buffalo to appear on SmackDown. This would seem to be difficult though due to the length of the flight.
The delay was first reported on Fightful Select.
UPDATE: A second charter flight was put together for top talent that will hopefully get them to the show in time.
UPDATE 2: The second charter flight did take off, but it might not make it to Buffalo in time for SmackDown. Talent still in Saudi Arabia got hotels for the night.
WWE NXT, RAW and SmackDown will compete for the first time ever at WWE Survivor Series this year.
As seen below, a promo aired during WWE Crown Jewel that revealed the black & yellow brand will be involved with the Survivor Series this year. No other details were revealed but we will keep you updated.
The 2019 WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view takes on November 24 from the Allstate Arena near Chicago.
Tonight’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown -and WWE 205 Live will air live from the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri with the final blue brand hype for WWE Crown Jewel.
WWE 205 Live will feature appearances by WWE NXT Cruiserweight Champion Lio Rush, Raul Mendoza and Angel Garza, but no matches have been announced.
FOX will be airing a one-hour “WWE Special” this Sunday, October 27 at 5pm ET.
There’s no word yet on what the special will be about, but it will apparently cover current and former Superstars, and some of the history of the business.
Xfinity guides show that the one-hour special will air in the window of NFL coverage, following an episode of PBC Fight Camp.
The synopsis for the “WWE Special” reads like this:
“A profile of some of the greatest stars in wrestling and the sport itself.”
Various TV guides note that the special will have a TV-14 rating.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
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