ROH World TV Championship: (C) Jeff Cobb vs. Hangman Page – Winner: Jeff Cobb
ROH WOH World Championship – Four Corner Survival Match: (C) Sumie Sakai vs. Madison Rayne vs. Karen Q vs. Kelly Klein – Winner and new WOH World Champion: Kelly Klein
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jonathan Gresham – Winner: Zack Sabre Jr.
Matt Taven vs. Dalton Castle – Winner: Matt Taven
Rights To World Title Match: Marty Scurll (Holder) vs. Christopher Daniels – Winner: Marty Scurll by submission
I Quit Match: Flip Gordan vs. Bully Ray – Winner: Flip Gordon
ROH Championship: (C) Jay Lethal vs. Cody – Winner: Jay Lethal by submission
ROH World Tag Team Championship – Ladder Match: (C) Scorpio Sky and Frankie Kazarian vs. The Young Bucks vs. The Briscoes – Winners and new ROH World Tag Team Champions: The Briscoes
WWE TLC, Sunday, December 16, 2018 – SAP Center, San Jose, California
WWE Championship: (C) Daniel Bryan vs. AJ Styles
SmackDown Women’s Championship – TLC Match: (C) Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka
RAW Women’s Championship: (C) Ronda Rousey vs. Nia Jax
Intercontinental Championship: (C) Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose
TLC Match: Braun Strowman vs. Baron Corbin
(If Corbin wins, he’s permanent Raw GM. If Strowman wins, he faces WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble and Corbin loses power)
WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship: (C) The Bar vs. The Usos vs. The New Day
Tables Match: Natalya vs. Ruby Riott
Ladder Match (with guitar hanging above the ring): Elias vs. Bobby Lashley w/Lio rush
Chairs Match: Randy Orton vs. Rey Mysterio
Finn Balor vs. Drew McIntyre
WWE Mixed Match Challenge Finals (Winners get the #30 spot in the men’s and women’s Royal Rumble matches): Jinder Mahal & Alicia Fox vs. R-Truth & Carmella
WWE Cruiserweight Championship: (C) Buddy Murphy vs. Cedric Alexander
MLW goes LIVE coast to coast nationwide on beIN SPORTS tonight at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. Spread the word about MLW Fusion LIVE.
The live network special will feature the undefeated and reigning World Heavyweight Champion Low Ki, Konnan, Pentagón Jr., “Filthy” Tom Lawlor and the return of Tony Schiavone calling live pro wrestling on cable television for the first time in 17 years!
The card features:
Main Event: Rush vs. Rich Swann
CMLL World Lightweight Champion Dragón Lee vs. DJZ
Ladder match for the vacant World Middleweight Champion: Dezmond Xavier vs. Kotto Brazil vs. Andrew Everett
Plus a ton more!
Set a reminder and be sure to watch live on beIN SPORTS tonight at 8pm ET / 5pm PT.
In an interview with Local Memphis 24, Jerry Lawler said that he hasn’t given up on finding answers to the mysterious death of his son Brian Christopher. Here are highlights:
On not getting any answers: “Up until this time, we haven’t been able to get any answers from anybody.”
On no autopsy report yet: “That’s the thing that’s so frustrating. You sit around hoping the phone is going to ring anytime and any day you’ll hear some kind of information, something positive. It’s just a slow process.”
On not giving up: “In the words of my attorney, there’s so much smoke that has come out of that Bolivar jail that there’s got to be a fire somewhere. And, you’re right, if we can help unearth that, then maybe things will change, and it’ll be better for some people down the line.”
WWE will be taping two episodes of RAW this Monday, with the second episode airing on Christmas Eve. They will also tape two episodes of SmackDown on Tuesday, with the second airing on Christmas.
The following week’s shows won’t be live either. The New Year’s Eve episode of RAW will be taped on Friday, December 28th in Detroit. The New Years episode of SmackDown will be taped on Saturday, December 29th in Pittsburgh.
The theatrical release for the “Fighting with My Family” movie has been pushed back to Thursday, February 21 from the previously announced date of Friday, February 8. The movie will premiere in New York and Los Angeles on Thursday, February 14.
The movie focuses on WWE SmackDown General Manager Paige and her family of pro wrestlers, inspired by a British documentary that was released a few years back. The Rock’s Seven Bucks Productions and WWE Studios are among the companies releasing the movie.
Rock makes a cameo in the movie. Paige is played by actress Florence Pugh with Tessa Blanchard serving as her stunt double. Zelina Vega stars as AJ Lee while Paige’s parents are played by Nick Frost and Lena Headey. The film also features Paige’s brothers participating in WWE tryouts.
As seen below, The Rock has released a new poster for the movie while MGM Studios has released two new stills:
New poster for our lil’ crazy comedy based on the true story of @WWE’s @RealPaigeWWE & her wrestling family. Honor for me to play a small part in Paige’s career defining moment, as well as bringing her family’s story to the big screen. #FightingWithMyFamily@SevenBucksProdpic.twitter.com/CHsA6MwM1U
Natalya says she has no problem with the death of Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart being the focus of her current storyline, because it feels like her father is getting “one last run.”
“My dad was a professional wrestler,” Neidhart told Yahoo in a new interview. “He was a WWE superstar, he was a WWE legend before he passed away and I feel like in some crazy way this is like my dad is having one last run.”
Adding, “I feel like if I asked my dad right now, ‘Daddy, how do you feel about me doing this storyline?’ My dad would say go for it. He understood pro wrestling, he understood how, for fans to become emotionally invested in stories, there has to be emotionally charged content.”
As we previously reported, Anvil passed away in August.
In case you missed it, Ruby Riott displayed a table with Neidhart’s image plastered over it on the latest episode of Raw and told Natalya she’d throw her through it at TLC.
Matt Hardy has been on the shelf since August while he lets his body heal from over two decades in the ring. He’s dabbled as a backstage producer and did a Halloween special for WWE Network, but Hardy has another WWE role in mind.
Hardy has interest in being the Raw General Manager as “Woken” Matt Hardy. He further talked about his ideas if given that title in an interview with Wrestling Inc.’s Akhilesh Gannavarapu.
“Baron Corbin is obviously a character in the role of abusing his power and putting the good guys in bad situations and taking advantage of it,” Hardy stated.
“I think coming in [as GM], it would be a fresh start considering I would be a good guy in many ways. Woken Matt Hardy in being the character he is, and how over the top he is, I think he would be very entertaining in a General Manager role. I could put guys in unique situations or matches. My interactions with each and every talent would be so unique.
“I think the funnest thing between Broken Matt Hardy and Woken Matt Hardy was the interaction I had with other performers. I think if you have Woken Matt Hardy interacting with the women’s division and all the different athletes of the men’s division, I think there would be so much entertaining tv there.”
The Hardy Boyz really made their name at SummerSlam 2000 when they took part in the first-ever TLC match alongside Edge and Christian and the Dudleys. Matt Hardy reminisced about those early matches and how the impact of them is still evident in WWE today.
“It was the matches that put us on the map and made us Superstars in many ways and it also allowed us the opportunity to go out and do things that had never been done before,” said Matt. “Myself and my brother, when we were doing independent matches before we came to WWE, we used to have a lot of matches against each other where I would be Surge Matt Hardy and he would be Willow the Wisp wearing a mask.”
Matt and Jeff used some of the ideas from those matches and pitched them to WWE. One of those ideas was that of a ladder match and Matt said Edge and Christian would make great opponents because of their athleticism and the chemistry between the two teams.
Soon after, the Dudleys were added and history was made.
“We integrated the Dudley Boyz and tables and that’s where all of the TLC insanity began. To me, being one of the forefathers that started that movement, it’s very cool that TLC is now a pay-per-view and a staple of WWE history. It’s cool to be a performer that created something that became a mainstay in WWE,” Matt said.
Matt also discussed the WWE tryouts that are heading to India next year and said he wished he had that opportunity when first starting out.
“I think it’s a great opportunity for anyone that’s an inspiring WWE Superstar,” said Matt. “When Jeff and I first started, we didn’t have an opportunity to go somewhere and get in front of WWE management. We were driving up and down the east coast and networking and hoping to catch a break one day.”
Matt noted how aspiring wrestlers can go sign up at WWE’s Performance Center website in order to get an opportunity in front of the people in charge at WWE.
“If they see something special, something that stands out or the “it” factor, it could gain you the chance to become a WWE Superstar and that’s a golden opportunity and one I wouldn’t pass up,” stated Matt.
