Wrestling News blogs’ Summerslam predictions 

 Summerslam is one of the biggest PPV’s of the year and we thought would be fitting if we gave you all our predictions for this years card.

But first here is the official and final card for tomorrow’s PPV “Winner Take All” WWE World and United States Championship Match:
-Seth Rollins vs. John Cena
WWE Intercontinental Championship Match:
-Ryback (c) vs. The Miz vs. The Big Show
WWE Tag Team Championship Match:
-The Prime Time Players (c’s) vs. Los Matadores vs. The New Day vs. Lucha Dragons
-Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker
-Sheamus vs. Randy Orton
-Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose vs. The Wyatt Family

-Kevin Owens vs. Cesaro
9-Diva Elimination Tag Team Match:
-Team PCB vs. Team Bella vs. Team B.A.D
-Dolph Ziggler vs. Rusev
-Steven Amell and Neville vs. King Barrett and Stardust


Trevor’s picks: John Cena, Ryback, PTP, undertaker, Wyatt family, Orton,  Owens, PCB, Ziggler, and Neville and Amell

Johns picks: Orton ~ Rusev ~ Owens ~ Stardust & Barrett ~ PTP but hopes Lucha Dragons ~ Ryback ~ PCB ~ Wyatt Family ~ Cena by DQ Sheamus cash in MITB ~ The Undertaker

Vanessa’s picks: Ryback, Sheamus, PTP, Wyatt family, Owens, Nevelle & Amell, PCB, Ziggler,Undertaker, and as for the main event I’m thinking there will be no clear winner.

Ed’s picks: Cena over Rollins, Wyatt and Harper over Reigns and Ambrose (please Dean no heel turn), Neville and Amell over Stardust and Barrett, Team PCB over Team Bella and Team B.A.D, Undertaker gets his revenge over Lesnar, Owens over Cesaro, Ryback retains over Big Show and The Miz, Rusev over Ziggler, Prime Time Players retain in the 4 way match, Orton over Sheamus but might Sheamus cash in his MITB Briefcase like Rollins did at Wrestlemania and leave Sheamus with the World Title and Cena with the U.S. Title?

What about you guys? What are your picks? Let us know in the comments below

Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs Claudia Gadelha targeted for UFC195

  Is it possible that UFC195 could be the first UFC event in history to have 3 women fights on a PPV card? It sure does look that way. Yesterday the huge announcement was made that Ronda Rousey will be defending her title for the 7th time against decelerated Holly Holm.

Dana White had an interview with New York Times and he said that he’s aiming to have Miesha Tate vs Amanda Nunes on that same card. It doesn’t stop there though because White also said he looks to have Joanna Jedrzejczyk defend her straweight title against challenger Claudia Gadelha in the co main event. However this all depends if Gadelha’s injuries are healed by January.

Jedrzejczyk and Gadelha have met once before, during  last December in what many believe was a razor thin split decision victory for Jedrzejczyk. The rematch between the two has been inevitable for quite sometime. 

The champ has a professional MMA record of (10-0) she is coming off a 3rd round TKO victory that she earned in June against top contender Jessica Penne. The challenger has a record of (13-1). She is coming off a UD win against Jessica Aguliar that she earned at UFC190 from this month. The one blemish in Gadelha’s record was of course delivered at the hands of Jedrzejczyk so you can bet she’ll be looking for some redemption.

It seems like we are now living in a day and age where women are dominating in sports, we have serina Williams in tennis, Hope solo in soccer, we have the divas revaluation in the WWE making waves in professional wrestling, and now we have both Ronda Rousey and Joanna Jedrzejczyk representing the UFC/ MMA world in thier respective divisions.

Everything is up in the air as it pertains to Jedrzejczyk vs Gadelha, but if this fight happens along with the possible Tate vs Nunes and the already set Rousey vs Holm UFC195 should be named ladies night.

How do you guys feel about a possible women’s dominated card? I for have faith that these 6 ladies have what it takes to put on a stellar show and bring the house down.

We here at WNB will be sure to keep all of you updated on the happenings of UFC195 as they continue to surface. UFC195 Is set to take place at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas and will be live on PPV on January 2nd 2016

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Dana White explains why he chose Holm over Tate for Rousey’s next opponent 

 Earlier this morning we covered a story that Rousey’s next opponent will be the (9-0) Holy Holm instead of Miesha Tate (17-5). Tate is on a 4 fight winning streak and after her UD win against Jessica Eye last month. It was assumed by Tate and fight fans alike that she would be the next contender for Ronda Rousey. I mean Dana white said it so himself in the UFC190 post fight press conference.

So why the sudden change? Well White sat down with The times and explained his reasoning. He said that they (Feritta, Silva, Shelby and himself) sat down and thought about it and they came to the conclusion that “we’ve all seen Rousey vs Tate already.” He went on to say that “Rousey has defeated Tate twice in the same dominating fashion and he believes more of the same would happen again” He even said that “an eventual lost to Rousey wouldn’t be good for Tate at least not right now.”
You can read whites full statement here http://www.mmafighting.com/2015/8/21/9189029/dana-white-holly-holm-tabbed-because-everyones-already-seen-ronda

Here’s my issue with this bogus reasoning. Yes we’ve seen Rousey vs Tate twice. Once in 2012 in Strikeforce and then again at UFC170 in December of 2013. The problem is though that many casual fans didn’t even see their first encounter. Not to mention their first fight ended in the first round while their second ended in the beginning of the 3rd!
Clearly Tate has evolved in her fight game. The same can be said for the champion. Both Rousey and Tate are COMPLETLY different fighters since their meeting in 2013 so it would’ve been interesting to see what a trilogy fight would’ve brought to the  Table.
Another problem this fight poses in my opinion is the UFC rankings. Tate is #3 as where Holm is #9. What’s the point of rankings if you’re not even going to put the top against the top??? Further more as noted earlier Holm has yet to defeat anyone in the top 10. If white and company didn’t want a Tate vs Rousey 3 they should’ve pinned Rousey up against anyone else in the top 5 (even though most would’ve still be rematches)
Tate was obviously very upset about the situation saying “I’m very disappointed in the events that have unfolded this morning. I was already training for Rousey. Not only am I disappointed for myself but also my fans who thought my next fight would be for the title”


You can read Tate’s official statement here https://Instagram.com/p/6qJG1DCkmA/


So what’s next for Tate? According to Dana he hopes to have her face Amanda Nunes (who is coming off a first round submission victory against veteran Sara McMann) on the same card as Rousey vs Holm at UFC195


Only time will tell. What are your thoughts on all of this? Let us know in the comments
-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

Rousey vs Holm set for UFC195???? (Vanessa’s thoughts)

This morning UFC Batemweight women’s champion Ronda Rousey made an appearance on Good morning America where she announced the next time she will step into the cage will be for the UFC’s New Years card as she takes on the Undefeated Preachers Daughter Holly Holm.

Living on the west coast and having a bad sleeping schedule I just now learned about the announcement myself thanks to the post fellow contributor John Bass posted this morning along with the official announcement on the UFC’s Facebook post.

This announcement came as a surprise to me and I’m a bit confused and I’m sure so are a lot of other fight fans. Miesha Tate Ronda’s greatest rivalry and in my honest opinion toughest opponent was originally slated to take on the champ for a 3rd time. I mean she’s racked up a winning streak in the UFC let alone Dana White said so himself  during the UFC190 post fight press conference that Tate would be next in line after coming off a victory against Jessica Eye.

The question now is what happened to Miesha. I mean to my knowledge she isn’t inured. (There’s been no announcement) and I have absolutely nothing against Holm but this match up makes absolutely NO SENCE to me. Sure Holm is an accomplished boxing champion and has a 9-0 MMA record but the girl has only fought TWICE in the UFC and none of her opponents have been in the top 10. She won her UFC debut back in February against Raquel Penninton via unanimous decision and her second win was against Marion Reneau also a UD win just last month.

In my opinion Holm is no where near ready to face someone of Rousey’s caliber so I’m scratching my head as to why this match up was made. I mean it’s not like Holm talked her way into a title shot the way Correia recently did.

Don’t get me wrong I love anytime Rousey has a fight. She’s exciting to watch and is one of my all time favorite MMA fighters but I REALLY can’t wrap my head around this fight and it isn’t helping all the naysayers that say “Rousey only fights cans” (I disagree with that statement let’s make that clear) but again why Holm??? I just don’t get it.

Another question that this poses is what’s next for Tate? The only possible reasoning I can come up with as to why she’s not Rousey’s next challenger is that she will be the 1st opponent for a newly 135lb Cris Cyborg (this is pure speculation) but it would make sence. Tate has said she wouldn’t mind fighting Cyborg and Dana has went on record saying Cyborg will fight Rousey if she can make weight and prove she can fight at 135.

So is this random Rousey VS Holm match up a sign that we could possibly be one step closer to seeing the biggest match up in WMMA history???? Is Rousey vs Cyborg on the horizon???

Who knows. The only thing we know is that Rousey will indeed defend her title for the 7th time against Holm at the MGM grand arena in Las Vegas on January 2nd to kick off the new year. I’m sure Rousey won’t disappoint.

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)

 

Daniel Bryan Says WWE May Never Clear Him

Daniel Bryan appeared recently at the Wizard World Chicago event in Rosemont, Il. Bran talked about his future in WWE:

Bryan mde it clear that he has no idea when he will wrestle for WWE again or if he will ever wrestle for WWE again. He said the problem was concussion related dating back to April I think. A doctor who worked for the Super Bowl cleared him to wrestle, but WWE is being really careful with Bryan’s concussion history and is not ready and may never be ready to give him the green light to go back in the ring. Bryan said he’s training as if he is going to return, but the decision is not up to him. He mentioned that he could work SummerSlam this Sunday if WWE added him to the event. What he said definitely came off as that he is completely 100% healthy and the only reason why he’s not wrestling right now is because WWE won’t let him.

Source: http://www.wrestlingnewssource.com

 

 

SummerSlam Card 8/23/15

Jon Stewart is the host of SummerSlam.

4 hour pay-per-view – 7PM ET.

 

The Undertaker VS Brock Lesnar w/Paul Heyman

Title For Title – Winner Takes All: WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins VS United States Champion John Cena

Roman Reigns & Dean Ambrose VS The Wyatt Family

Divas Three Team Elimination Match: PCB (Paige, Charlotte & Becky Lynch) VS Team B.A.D (Naomi, Tamina & Sasha Banks) VS Team Bella (Nikki Bella, Brie Bella & Alicia Fox)

Intercontinental Championship – Triple Threat: (C) Ryback VS Big Show VS The Miz

Stardust & King Barrett VS Neville & Stephen Amell

WWE Tag Team Championship – Fatal 4-Way: (C) Prime Time Players VS The New Day VS Lucha Dragons VS Los Matadores w/El Torito

Cesaro VS Kevin Owens

Randy Orton VS Sheamus

Dolph Ziggler w/Lana VS Rusev w/SummerRae

NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn Card 8/22/15

NXT Championship – Ladder Match: (C) Finn Balor VS Kevin Owens

NXT Women’s Championship: (C) Sasha Banks VS Bayley

Jushin “Thunder” Liger VS Tyler Breeze

NXT Tag Team Championship: (C) Blake & Murphy w/Alexa Bliss VS The Vaudevillians

Samoa Joe VS Baron Corbin

Apollo Crews (Uhaa Nation) VS Tye Dillinger

Bell time is 7:30PM ET. but the WWE Network coverage starts at 9PM ET. The matches listed above are likely the matches that will take place on the WWE Network broadcast this Saturday night. There are other matches scheduled for the night, which will probably be taped for upcoming NXT shows for the WWE Network.

You can see the full list of matches at this link: https://wrestlingnewsblog.com/2015/08/20/conference-call-with-triple-h-regarding-nxt

 

ROH Field Of Honor Card 8/22/15

The Stars of ROH and NJPW invade MCU Park in Brooklyn, NY this Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 – 7:30PM ET.

Gauntlet For A World TV Title Match In San Antonio: Frankie Kazarian, Moose w/Stokely Hathaway, Donovan Dijak w/Truth Martini, Cedric Alexander w/Veda Scott, Adam Page w/BJ Whitmer VS Dalton Castle w/The Boys, Silas Young

8-Man Tag Match: The Young Bucks, ACH & Matt Sydal VS The Kingdom w/Maria Kanellis & RPG Vice

Adam Cole VS Christopher Daniels

Hirooki Goto VS Michael Elgin

Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith Jr. & Lance Archer/Hoyt) War Machine

Kazuchika Okada VS Roderick Strong

reDRagon VS Shinsuke Nakamura & Jay Lethal w/Truth Martini

The Briscoes VS Time Spitters (Alex Shelley & KUSHIDA

You can get tickets at this link: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=CYC_WRESTLING&pid=7999268

Ronda Rousey Announced Her Opponent For UFC 195

UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey appeared on Good Morning America earlier today and announced that her next fight will be against Holly Holm at UFC 195 on January 2, 2016.

“January 2 I’ll be fighting Holly Holm, who’s the most decorated striker we have in all of mixed martial arts. ” Rousey said. “Not the women’s division, not the bantamweight division. (Holm)’s a 19-time boxing champion Holly Holm was The Ring magazine pound-for-pound Fighter of the Year, and definitely my biggest challenge to date.”

A third fight with Miesha Tate and a potential superfight with Cris Cyborg have been discussed, but the UFC ultimately landed on the undefeated Holm.

Conference Call With Triple H Regarding NXT 

It’s Thursday which means we are halfway through the week., and that means we are just THREE days away from NXT TAKEOVER IN BROOKLYN. What better way to get hyped for such an historic event then by listening to the conference call about that very event
http://wrestlingnews.co/audio-paul-triple-h-levesque-nxt-takeover-brooklyn-conference-call/

You can do so by clicking the link above. In this conference call HHH discussed numerous things. One of the things that stood out to me and even came as a surprise is that at first HHH was hesitant to hold the upcoming takeover event at the Barclays center. He was hesitant  because he knew the venue was bigger then any other venue NXT had ever  hosted however he decided to just roll with the punches and let things fall into place.

To his delight all 13,000 tickets sold without any problems. That’s right folks, the Barcly center will be jammed packed with 13,000 devoted members of the WWE universe this Saturday.

One of my favorite parts of the conference call was when he discussed the divas of NXT and the divas in general. He even got chocked up at one point saying he feels like a proud father to see how much the women of NXT have accomplished. He went on to say that yes him and Stephanie have given the women the opportunity but what they’ve done with it has been all them. He also says that he truly believes that one day we will see the women in the WWE main event a Wrestlemania. He said that every day he makes sure the girls are aware of that and continues to push them.

He also discussed the concern that has been brought up of “what happens when all the stars of NXT are called up to the main roster”? He is confident that when the time comes there will be no need to worry because he will continue to bring in talented men and women from all over the world, whether they’re from the indies or not. He says what he looks for is talent.

He also noted that this is indeed the largest card NXT has put on however the special will remain two hours. Not all matches will be shown this Saturday but will be shown in the upcoming week.

The full card can be seen here 

NXT Championship (Ladder Match)-Kevin Owens vs Finn Balor

NXT Tag Team Title Match-The Vaudevillians vs Blake and Murphy

NXT Women’s Title Match-Bayley vs Sasha Banks

-Jushin “Thunder” Liger vs Tyler Breeze

-Samoa Joe vs Baron Corbin

-Bull Dempsey vs Elias Samson

-Apollo Crews vs Tye Dillinger(Crews’ NXT Televised Debut)

-Eva Marie vs Carmella

-Enzo Amore, Big Cass & Hype Bros (Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley) vs Jason Jordan, Chad Gable, Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson

-Charlotte vs Becky Lynch vs Emma vs Dana Brooke

If you haven’t heard this conference call it’s definitely worth 35 mins of your time, aside from the points I mentioned above there are some other really awesome points brought up.

Be sure to tune into NXT TAKEOVER BROOKLYN LIVE AND EXCLUSIVELY ON THE WWE NETWORK this Saturday beginning at 5pmPT/8pmET

-Vanessa (@GreatLove91)