Lucha Underground Preview 10/5/16

Tonight’s 10/5 Lucha Underground episode on the El Rey Network will feature the following:

Roderick Strong & His Fiancée Marina Shafir Are Expecting! (VIDEO)

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Former ROH World Champion Roderick Strong said he wanted to “pursue other opportunities” when he left the company in June … and now he’s getting the opportunity to be a dad!

Strong’s fiancée — MMA fighter Marina Shafir — shared the news Monday night on Instagram … saying, “This is REAL life. I simply cannot explain the emotions that have been flooding me and @roderickstrong in the last few weeks … I did not prepare to be a mom (even though, everyone close around me always told me I had the instinct), but I’m on this bandwagon to the end now!”

Shafir also invited fans to follow her pregnancy, noting that she’ll be restarting her YouTube channel and vlogging about the experience weekly.

No word on the baby’s gender … but with those genes, we’re assuming it’ll be a badass bundle of joy.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Check out the video of Shafir getting an ultrasound below.

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ROH Preview 10/5/16

The following is set for tonight’s 9/28 ROH TV on Comet:

ROH TV Title Match: (C) Bobby Fish vs. EVIL

IWGP IC Title Match: (C) Michael Elgin vs. Donovan Dijak

Young Bucks, Yujiro Takahashi, and Adam Page vs. ACH, Alex Shelley, Lio Rush, and Chris Sabin

More Info on Alberto Del Rio Stabbing Attack

As noted, Alberto El Patron (Alberto Del Rio) missed Sunday night’s AAA Heroes Inmortales X event in Mexico City and later revealed that he was attacked by a “criminal” outside of a restaurant, revealing stab wounds in an Instagram post. You can see the graphic photos below. AAA put out a statement on Sunday, saying the former WWE Champion had failed the Mexican public.

According to MLW Radio, AAA was unable to communicate with Del Rio as he lost his phone after the attack in San Antonio. Del Rio made contact on Monday morning, then the company apologized and are backing him now. Their relationship is still in good standing. Del Rio actually wanted to try and make the show by chartering a flight but was talked out of it as he was still hospitalized.

The incident happened in San Antonio, Texas before Del Rio was to fly out for the AAA event on Saturday night. A confrontation took place when the driver of a car hit Del Rio’s car. The driver and Del Rio both exited their cars and had words. The driver pulled a knife and Del Rio went to walk away as he had to get to the airport but he was attacked from behind and slashed with the knife. Del Rio turned around and the man tried to slash his face but Del Rio was able to move to the side, still catching a slash to the side of his head.

Del Rio took the man down but while taking him down, the man continued to fight, slash and stab at Del Rio’s arm. He eventually got the knife from the man but the suspect got away in his car. There were witnesses and they did get his license plate but there’s no word yet on if he’s been arrested. Police came and a report was filed. Del Rio went to the hospital to get stitches as he lost a lot of blood but is he said to be alright.

Source: WrestlingINC

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Update On Jamie Noble- He Comments – Offers Award For Finding His Attackers (Photos)

Pro Wrestling Sheet has learned Jamie Noble suffered a collapsed lung after being stabbed last week … and the WWE producer posted brutal photos of his wounds.

Jamie Posted pictures on Facebook and Instagram of his wounds and comments on the stabbing incident that occurred outside his trailer park home in West Virginia.

Noble explained, “I was viciously attacked in my front yard. One coward got out of the car saying I pushed him off the road. I immediately apologize because I was on the road all week and just that night alone I got off work Tuesday night and drove from Cleveland to Princeton so I could have been tired and drifted over the yellow line.”

Jamie explained that he apologized again, but it wasn’t enough. The driver got out of his car and allegedly threw the first punch, but Noble says he took him to the ground during the second attempt. That’s when 2 more men got out of the car to attack the 39-year-old wrestler.

“In the middle of this madness one coward pulls a knife stabbing me once through the back middle near the spin. The blade went between my ribs and hit my lung.” Adding, “I still tried to fight back and then they tried to cut my throat. I was able to get them to miss the throat and rip my shoulder open.”

Luckily, Jamie’s girlfriend ran out of the house at that point and broke things up.

Noble wrote about his current condition as well, saying he was immediately put into surgery because one of his lungs was filling up with blood and the next 4 days were spent trying to get it working again.  He adds, “Good news is I’m getting a little better everyday. And I will be back on my feet 100% soon.”

Jamie also wants info on his attackers … writing, “I need help from my FB family, I need you to share this with everyone you can. Somebody knows something, or heard something, saw something that can help me get these criminals because the law isn’t going to. Please ask, listen, anything that can help me just get one name. Just one. This could have been my 63 year old dad or my 16 year old boy … can you even imagine that???? I can’t. I’ll also pay $200 for a name and if it turns out legit I’ll give you another $500 cash. Please share this with every friend you have and me get a name.”

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

Erick Rowan Undergoes Surgery For Shoulder Injury

WWE Superstar Erick Rowan went under the knife yesterday to repair a shoulder injury he recently sustained … and he’ll likely be out of action for months.

ProWrestling.net reports that Rowan had surgery on a torn rotator cuff today in Birmingham, Alabama. According to TopRopePress.com, he sustained the injury at a recent live event and may be out of action until March.

The timing of the injury couldn’t be worse. As we previously reported, Luke Harper was recently cleared to return the ring and The Wyatt Family was close to being whole again.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

SmackDown Live Preview 10/4/16

Source: WWE.com

What will happen when Cena, Styles and Ambrose come face-to-face-to-face?

Who will lose the mind game between Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton?

Who’s the hottest competitor in the Women’s division?

Is Ziggler his own worst enemy?

Can anyone stop the aggression of The Usos?

Dixie Carter Holds Backstage Talent Meeting At TNA Tapings, Talks WWE Sale Rumors And More

Source: WrestlingINC

Dixie Carter, who remains TNA majority owner, held a meeting backstage at last night’s TNA Impact Wrestling tapings in Orlando, discussing various issues and allowing talents to ask questions. President Billy Corgan was at the meeting but did not speak, according to PWInsider.

Dixie was asked about rumors of WWE possibly buying the company and she acknowledged WWE did want to purchase but stated she would not let that happen, but she could have. Dixie also stated that the company still owns their tape library in regards to rumors of WWE looking to purchase just the library.

Another issue discussed was late payments to talents. Dixie stated that there are times when late payments were made and that is because the company is waiting for owed money to come in.

Regarding rumors of Bound For Glory being canceled last week, she said the show was never not going to happen but admitted that the company scrambled to make things happen leading up to this past Sunday’s pay-per-view.

Dixie made it clear that she’s still the majority owner but admitted that there has been in-fighting and a power struggle among other owners. Dixie was said to be surprised that everyone was so worried about the status of the company. She also apologized to everyone for the amount of worry and concern that was going around. After the meeting, some talents felt like she helped to ease some of their concerns and there was respect for her stepping up to address the locker room but there’s still a lot of worry about what the future holds.

‘SAnitY’ To Be Revealed In The WWE NXT Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, All 16 Teams Announced

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Source: WrestlingINC

WWE announced today that “SAnitY” will be revealed in the upcoming WWE NXT Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. They also announced Tony Nese and Drew Gulak as a new team.

The tournament kicks off this Wednesday night and ends at “Takeover: Toronto” during Survivor Series weekend on November 19th.

Below is the list of 16 teams for the event:

* SAnitY is revealed
* Drew Gulak and Tony Nese
* HoHo Lun and Bin Wang
* No Way Jose and Rich Swann
* Austin Aries and a mystery partner
* Lince Dorado and Mustafa Ali
* The Authors of Pain
* Tucker Knight and Niko Bogojevic
* TM-61
* The Bollywood Boyz
* Hideo Itami & Kota Ibushi
* Tino Sabbatelli & Riddick Moss
* Bobby Roode & Tye Dillinger
* Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa
* Andrade “Cien” Almas & Cedric Alexander
* NXT Tag Team Champions The Revival

Goldberg Finally Returning To WWE Soon?

Source: WrestlingINC

Bill Goldberg will be on this week’s ESPN SportsCenter “Off The Top Rope” segment with Jonathan Coachman to discuss WWE 2K17 and his relationship with WWE.

Goldberg and WWE are said to be in very serious talks and a deal may already be done, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. It sounds like a Goldberg WWE TV return could be happening soon as Meltzer commented that Goldberg and WWE officials are at the “very strong discussion stage” at worst.