WWE Crown Jewel 11/2/18

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WWE Crown Jewel – Friday Nov. 2, 2018 – 12pm ET/ 9am PT – King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

DX (Triple H & Shawn Michaels) vs. Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker & Kane)

Universal Championship (Vacant): Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman

WWE Championship: (C) AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe

SmackDown Tag Team Championship: (C) The Bar vs. The New Day

World Cup Tournament: Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley

World Cup Tournament: Kurt Angle vs. Dolph Ziggler

World Cup Tournament: Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz

World Cup Tournament: Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton

Impact Wrestling Preview 11/1/18

The following is scheduled for tonight’s IMPACT on Pop TV at 10/9C.

* LAX vs. Matt Sydal & Ethan Page

* Desi Hit Squad in action

* Pentagon Jr. vs. Homicide

* Rich Swann vs. Willie Mack

* Impact Knockouts Championship: (C) Tessa Blanchard vs. Taya Valkyrie

Backstage News On Hulk Hogan Working WWE Crown Jewel

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WWE Hall of Famers Hulk Hogan and Jimmy Hart are currently in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with the rest of the WWE crew. As noted, Hogan will be hosting Friday’s big Crown Jewel event.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the company apparently wanted to keep Hogan’s return low-key, as they have with the location being Saudi Arabia. WWE recently produced a Crown Jewel commercial that featured Hogan in it, with the return announced. Workers in production expected the return to be announced on this week’s go-home RAW episode but the decision was made to quietly list Hogan’s name on the WWE website instead.

Source: WrestlingINC

More News On Daniel Bryan Refusing To Go To Saudi Arabia For WWE Crown Jewel

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Daniel Bryan was originally scheduled to face AJ Styles at WWE Crown Jewel for the WWE Championship, but rumors started making the rounds last week that Bryan had informed the WWE management that he wouldn’t go to Saudi Arabia. Once the company confirmed that the event would go on as planned last week, changes were made to the card, and Samoa Joe replaced Bryan in the WWE Championship match.

In the most recent edition of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer provided more information about the reasons behind Bryan’s refusal to go to Saudi Arabia. Meltzer stated that Daniel knew very little about Saudi Arabia until he performed at the WWE Greatest Royal Rumble pay-per-view earlier this year, and revealed that Bryan believed he couldn’t go back under those circumstances.

Meltzer further noted that Bryan’s decision had little to do with women not being allowed to compete at WWE Crown Jewel, but that the Superstar had learnt about Saudi Arabia’s treatment of homosexuals, and about Saudi Arabia not allowing Sami Zayn, who is of Syrian descent, to perform on the show, which he felt was racist.

According to The Observer, Bryan wanted The Miz to win the number one contender’s match in Australia last month, although Meltzer was unsure if it was because Bryan knew the WWE Championship match would take place in Saudi Arabia, or if Bryan felt it wasn’t the right time for him to pick up a conclusive win during their feud.

There were talks about WWE not sending AJ Styles to Saudi Arabia either after WWE confirmed last week that the event would go on as planned. An alternative plan was reportedly discussed, with Bryan and Styles facing each other at a technology center near the WWE Performance Center in an empty arena match. Furthermore, according to Meltzer, WWE officials discussed the possibility of either taping the match ahead of time and inserting it into the show, or doing it live, with the idea being that WWE could make it look like the match was taking place in Saudi Arabia. However, WWE nixed those plans fearing more backlash, with the media possibly jumping on the story of Bryan refusing to go to Saudi Arabia if they went ahead with the empty arena match at the technology center.

Bryan and Styles faced each other on SmackDown Live for the WWE Championship earlier this week, which Styles won cleanly via submission. Joe then attacked both the Superstars, setting up a match between AJ and himself at Crown Jewel this Friday for the WWE Championship.

Source: WrestlingINC

Hulk Hogan To Host Crown Jewel In Saudi Arabia

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WWE.com added Hogan to the list of superstars set to appear at the event, but was removed once it was noticed by multiple websites.

Pro Wrestling Sheet and WrestlingINC got confirmation from WWE that Hulk Hogan will be at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on Friday as the host of the event.

This will be Hulk’s first appearance on WWE TV since the Summer of 2015.

WWE NXT Preview 10/31/18

* What will be the fallout from last week’s chaos?

* War Raiders take on Undisputed ERA’s Adam Cole & Bobby Fish

* Matt Riddle to make his WWE Network in-ring debut

* The Street Profits and The Mighty reignite their rivalry

* NXT’s Twisted Sister will be in action

WWE 205 Live Preview 10/31/18

Tonight’s WWE 205 Live was taped last night at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

* # 1 Contender’s Match: Tony Nese vs. Mustafa Ali

* The Brian Kendrick vs. Jack Gallagher

WWE World Cup Stipulation Announced For SmackDown

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SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon announced on last night’s show that the SmackDown Superstar who loses to a RAW Superstar in the finals of the WWE World Cup tournament will lose his job and be fired from the blue brand.

This stipulation could be a way for Hardy, Orton, Miz or Mysterio to come to the red brand.

The first-round matches for the RAW brand will be WWE Intercontinental Champion & RAW Tag Team Champion Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley and WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle vs. Dolph Ziggler. The SmackDown brand will open with Jeff Hardy vs. The Miz and Rey Mysterio vs. Randy Orton.

The winner of the one-night World Cup tournament at Friday’s WWE Crown Jewel event from Saudi Arabia will take home the World Cup trophy.

Tye Dillinger Injured

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Tye Dillinger vs. WWE United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura was nixed from last night’s SmackDown Live.

Mike Rome announced that Dillinger suffered a hand injury at Monday’s live event in Macon, Georgia, and will need to undergo surgery. Tye lost to Shelton Benjamin at the show in Macon.

Last night’s  SmackDown featured Nakamura vs. R-Truth in a non-title match.

WWE Quietly Advertising Hulk Hogan For Crown Jewel

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Without any announcement from WWE, Hulk Hogan was quietly added to list of talent scheduled to appear at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia on Friday.

It’s unclear when Hulk was added to the Crown Jewel page on WWE.com, but if he makes an appearance at the event it will be his first time back on WWE TV since the summer of 2015.

Hulk told the Orlando Sentinel last week he was looking forward to going to Saudi Arabia with WWE … but didn’t specify at Crown Jewel. “We’re moving forward at a rapid pace,” Hogan told them. “It’s exciting to have this opportunity again after all these years where I was there and gone.”

In case you missed it, Daniel Bryan and John Cena refused to work the event and were both written out of their scheduled Crown Jewel matches this week on RAW and SmackDown Live

Renee Young will surprisingly be on the announce team in Riyadh. No word yet, however, on what sort of rules she’ll have to follow due to the country’s numerous regulations for women.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet