Tonight’s WWE SmackDown Live will take place from the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California.
* Jeff Hardy to defend the United States Title against Shinsuke Nakamura on SmackDown LIVE
* The Bludgeon Brothers to appear on “Miz TV”
* Becky Lynch goes one-on-one with Peyton Royce
* Xavier Woods of The New Day squares off with Rusev
* The cast of Netflix’s “GLOW” are coming to SmackDown LIVE, and they have a message for Naomi
In 2016, it was announced that the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW) promotion will be returning to television. The comedy-series, created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, and produced by Orange is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan and co-executive producer Tara Herrmann, was picked up by Netflix to air 10 episodes. Due to the rave reviews and success of the show, GLOW was picked up for another 10 episodes as of August of 2017.
CNN reported that GLOW has been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild awards. The categories include Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series (Marc Maron), Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series (Alison Brie), Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series.
The series also has cameos from pro wrestling talent John Morrison, Tyrus, Carlito, Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, Joey Ryan, Alex Riley, and Laura James, and features former Impact Wrestling Knockouts Champion Kia Stevens (Awesome Kong). Former ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero, Jr. serves the role of a consultant for the wrestling scenes.
The SAG awards has been one of the industry’s most honored prizes since 1995, and is scheduled to air on Sunday, January 21, 2018, on TNT and TBS.
Source: WrestlingINC
The new Netflix series GLOW was finally released yesterday … and the series included a few surprise cameos from across the world of wrestling!
While the involvement of Awesome Kong and Chavo Guerrero, Jr. was known about before airing, the series based around Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling also surprised viewers with unexpected cameos.
Lucha Underground star Johnny Mundo appeared in the first episode as Salty “The Sack” Johnson, a pro-wrestler hired (and fired) to train the female wrestlers.
Ex-WWE star Carlito and Impact Wrestling‘s Tyrus have small reoccurring parts as Carmen’s older brothers Tom and Kurt Wade — aka The Lumberjacksons.
While Alex Riley was known to have a part in the show before airing, now we know what it was. He plays a wrestler named Steel Horse, who main events a show some of the girls attend in episode 5.
Joey Ryan plays Mr. Monopoly in the same episode and his wife Laura James is there as well.
Episode 5 also features the Legion Hall where PWG events occur and Christopher Daniels/Frankie Kazarian in a match as nameless wrestlers with Lucha Underground referee Marty Elias — and Daniels hits the Best Moonsault Ever.
Finally, while Guerrero himself does not appear in the series, the gym where the cast trains is named after him … but blink and you’ll miss the easter egg. Plus, a later episode is dedicated to Chavo Guerrero Sr. — who passed away earlier this year — and Brooke Hogan makes an appearance.
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling are here, and they sure know how to put on a show.
Netflix’s newest nostalgia-tinged offering, GLOW (streaming June 23), is a half-hour comedy that follows the formation of a women’s wrestling league in the 1980s and is inspired by the real-life brawlers. Starring Alison Brie and created by Liz Flahive (Nurse Jackie) , Carly Mensch (Orange is the New Black) and former WWE/TNA star Awesome Kong (Kharma), the series is an especially watchable, bedazzled comedy that is, above all, a rollicking good time.
GLOW is anchored by Brie as Ruth, a struggling actress frustrated by the limited parts Hollywood offers women. She and a host of other “unconventional” women end up at an audition for the endearingly low-budget wrestling league, headed by a failed grindhouse movie director (Marc Maron) and an overenthusiastic, trust-fund-kid producer (Chris Lowell). The process is not entirely smooth, as the group of amateur women attempts, on a low budget, to make it look like they’re hurting each other without actually killing each other. But hey, their hair always looks amazing. And big.
Source: USAToday
The Netflix series GLOW is arriving on Friday with plenty of hype … and wrestling trainer Chavo Guerrero Jr. spoke about what it was like to train the women in a new featurette.
Guerrero was hired as a trainer for the upcoming dramedy based on the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling promotion from the 80s and today Netflix released video that included footage from one of his training sessions.
Several of the actresses admitted to being nervous at first, but eventually getting into the wrestling. Guerrero also spoke positively of the environment they trained in.
“Anytime you saw those girls that couldn’t get something or were getting frustrated, she’d have five or six girls supporting her right there.”
Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet
Source: WrestlingINC
GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) owner Ursula Hayden, also known as Babe The Farmer’s Daughter, announced on Facebook earlier this week that she signed a deal for a full new season of GLOW TV on Netflix. No other details were given but Diva-Dirt reports that Jenji Kohan, the creator of hit shows Orange Is The New Black and Weeds, is set to begin working on the series. It was also indicated that they are working on a pilot but the full season has not been confirmed yet.
GLOW will apparently tell the tale of a struggling actress in the 1980’s, who lands a role on a cult women’s wrestling show – GLOW. The Netflix series will focus on the actress struggling through the “many highs and lows of the (not so) glamorous world of wrestling.”
Kohan is executive producing while Carly Mensch (Nurse Jackie, Weeds) and Liz Flahive (Nurse Jackie, Homeland) will be writing the pilot.
Kohan got the idea for the new series after watching a GLOW documentary available on Netflix.
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