WWE Raw will air live tonight on the USA Network from the CHI Health Center Omaha in Omaha, NE.
- Fallout from Fastlane
- NXT Women’s Championship: Becky Lynch (c) vs. Tegan Nox
- Viking Rules Match: Ivar vs. Kofi Kingston
- Nia Jax vs. Raquel Rodriguez
Tag: WWE
John Cena Clarifies Whether He Will Immediately Leave WWE When SAG-AFTRA Strike Ends
As the SAG-AFTRA negotiations continue, John Cena provides some clarity about his future in WWE when the actors strike eventually comes to an end. During the WWE Fastlane press conference, Cena revealed that he plans on returning to Hollywood to resume his acting duties once the strike is over.
“I’ve made it clear that you can’t do both [WWE and Hollywood] because of the liability insurance,” Cena said. “If I were to try and juggle both, that’s very selfish because that would put a whole lot of people in the movie business out of work if something were to happen to me. So yes, I stopped a project in the middle of it – I can’t even talk about the project because of the strike we’re in, but we’re in the middle of it. As soon as we get back to work, we go back to work. I don’t control any of that. I’m crossing my fingers and hope we can find a resolve everyone is happy with. For right now, I think this is the best way I can help, is come back home to my family.”
While it’s uncertain when the SAG-AFTRA strikes may conclude, WWE fans can still look forward to a few more appearances from the “GOAT” in the upcoming weeks. Following his tag team victory alongside LA Knight at WWE Fastlane, Cena is advertised for the next three episodes of “WWE SmackDown,” with his latest run scheduled to end on October 27 as WWE heads to the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Source: Wrestling Inc. credit to WWE Fastlane Press Conference
WWE Fastlane 10/7/2023 (Results)
Jade Cargill arrived during the Kick-Off show. She was greeted in the backstage parking area by Triple H.
THE UNDISPUTED WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:
Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso def. The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) (c) to become new Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions
Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar) & ? vs. Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford)
The match started as a 2 on 3 match. Late in the match, Carlito arrived.
Latino World Order & Carlito def. Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits
WWE WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP:
Iyo Sky (c) def. Charlotte Flair and Asuka
Pat McAfee came to the ring. Pat said Indy deserves to host a WrestleMania. He introduced John Cena then took his place on commentary.
John Cena and LA Knight def. The Bloodline (Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa) (with Paul Heyman)
LAST MAN STANDING MATCH FOR THE WWE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:
Seth Rollins (c) def. Shinsuke Nakamura
WWE Seemingly Confirms The Undertaker Is Coming To WWE NXT Next Week
On Friday, we reported here on eWn that The Undertaker was expected to be in Orlando, FL next Tuesday for the WWE NXT TV tapings. While it wasn’t confirmed whether he’d be appearing on the show or not, it now appears that he will be.
On this week’s episode of WWE SmackDown, a promo to promote next Tuesday’s show saw a Pub Rules Challenge match between Tyler Bate and Butch vs. Gallus being announced, as well as the previously announced matches being hyped up. At the end of the promo, The Undertaker’s gong hit.
Next week’s episode of WWE NXT will be going head-to-head with AEW Dynamite due to an MLB Playoff game airing on TBS.
Source: eWn
WWE SmackDown Preview 10/6/2023
WWE SmackDown will air live tonight on FOX from the Enterprise Center in St. Louis, MO.
Tonight’s SmackDown is the go-home show for Saturday’s Fastlane on Peacock and the WWE Network.
- Dragon Lee vs. Austin Theory
- Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso to follow Damian Priest and Finn Bàlor to SmackDown ahead of WWE Fastlane
- John Cena and LA Knight to appear
- Charlotte Flair & Asuka vs. IYO SKY & Bayley
- United States Champion Rey Mysterio vs. Bobby Lashley – Non-Title
WWE Fastlane 10/7/2023 (Card)
WWE Fastlane PLE Saturday October 7 from the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana.
CARD
John Cena and LA Knight vs. The Bloodline (Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa) (with Paul Heyman)
LAST MAN STANDING MATCH FOR THE WWE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:
Seth Rollins (c) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
THE UNDISPUTED WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:
The Judgment Day (Finn Bálor and Damian Priest) (c) vs. Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso
WWE WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP:
Iyo Sky (c) vs. Asuka vs. Charlotte Flair
Latino World Order (Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar) & ? vs. Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford)
More matches may be added.
Rey Mysterio and Santos Escobar were set to team up with Cruz Del Toro or Joaquin Wilde in a six-man tag team match against Bobby Lashley and The Street Profits at tonight’s WWE Fastlane 2023.
Cruz and Joaquin got injured in storyline during Lashley and Mysterio’s match on SmackDown. As a result, they were left without a partner for Fastlane. During a backstage segment later in the show, Mysterio stated that he would find a replacement for them, but kept the identity of the replacement a secret.
Since then, there have been rumors that former WWE star Carlito could be returning at tonight’s show to be the mystery partner.
Carlito reacted to a video of the LWO’s segment on SmackDown by writing the following on Twitter:
Latest On CM Punk’s Possible WWE Return, Dave Meltzer Suggests Potential Timeline
Since CM Punk was fired by All Elite Wrestling, rumors have been swirling that the Chicago-born wrestler might be set to make a sensational return to WWE. In this week’s edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, veteran wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer wrote that people close to Punk have said that “it is his intention to return” to the Stamford, Connecticut-based promotion and that “the two sides are in talks.”
Meltzer went on to suggest that if a deal was put together, then the upcoming WWE Survivor Series 2023 premium live event at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois, would be the perfect time to pull the trigger for a surprise return.
Punk is currently a free agent after he was dismissed by AEW following a backstage altercation with Jack Perry at the AEW All In pay-per-view at Wembley Stadium on August 27. The incident reportedly took place right before Punk successfully retained the “Real World Championship” against Samoa Joe; Perry had just lost the FTW Championship to HOOK on the All In pre-show before that bout. Perry had referenced an alleged disagreement he and Punk had over the use of glass during his FTW title clash.
Punk’s most recent appearance for WWE came when he participated in the 2014 Royal Rumble match. Punk walked out on WWE the following day. He first joined the promotion in 2005 after many successful years on the independent scene. In 2019, he became an analyst on FOX’s “WWE Backstage” show; Punk was contracted to FOX for those appearances. Shawn Michaels, WWE’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative, recently said that he’d love to have Punk on the “WWE NXT” brand.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
John Cena, Cody Rhodes, Paul Heyman And Asuka Set For Next Week’s NXT
No fewer than four huge names on the WWE main roster will be headed to “WWE NXT” next Tuesday as the show goes head-to-head against “AEW Dynamite.” In addition to Asuka, who will be wrestling Roxanne Perez on the show, John Cena, Cody Rhodes, and Paul Heyman will all be appearing in what has to be considered the most star-studded “NXT” event of all time.
Cena will be in former “NXT” Champion Carmelo Hayes’ corner when he faces Bron Breakker, who, as it turnes out, will have Heyman in his corner. Cena is currently involved in a feud with the Bloodline and will face Solo Sikoa and Jimmy Uso in tag team action alongside LA Knight at the Fastlane premium live event on Saturday. As for Rhodes, he’s set to make “a major announcement,” but what exactly Cody wants to talk about has not been revealed.
“NXT” will go up against “Dynamite” on AEW President Tony Khan’s birthday, on what Khan is calling “Title Tuesday.” Only one match has been announced for the show so far, but it’s a big one: Adam Copeland, formerly known as Edge in WWE, will be making his in-ring AEW debut on the Tuesday edition of “Dynamite” against Luchasaurus. WWE’s recent strategy of infusing “NXT” broadcasts with main roster talent like Dominik Mysterio and Becky Lynch has paid off in ratings numbers that rival the ones “Dynamite” gets on Wednesdays; as a result, these announcements can safely be read as an attempt by WWE not only to counter-program “Title Tuesday” (and Copeland’s debut) but to beat “Dynamite” in the ratings for the first time since the heyday of the “Wednesday Night War.”
Source: Wrestling Inc.
WWE NXT Preview 10/3/2023
Tonight’s WWE NXT live in Orlando, Florida at the Performance Center on the USA Network:
- NXT North American Championship: Trick Williams (c) vs. Dominik Mysterio
- Gigi Dolin vs. Blair Davenport
- Gallus vs. Butch & Tyler Bate
- The NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament begins
- Women’s Champion Becky Lynch appears
Johnny Gargano Returns, Reunites With Tommaso Ciampa Against Imperium On WWE Raw
At long last, Tommaso Ciampa has found Johnny Gargano — and all he had to do was catch a group beating from Imperium to make it happen.
After searching high and low for Gargano for months on end to no avail, Ciampa was reunited with his former DIY tag team partner/arch nemesis at the end of Monday’s “WWE Raw.” Gargano hit the ring to fend off Ludwig Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci from beating Ciampa to a pulp following his unsuccessful Intercontinental Championship challenge against GUNTHER, as the champion casually waltzed away while his minions put the boots to the challenger.
But then Gargano’s music hit, and the former “NXT” Champion saved the day, warding off Kaiser and setting up for Meeting In the Middle, and the reunion was finally complete (though, in a matter of unfortunate timing, “Raw” faded to black before they could hit their finishing move).
Ciampa and Gargano, as DIY, won the “NXT” Tag Team Championships together at “NXT” TakeOver: Toronto in 2016, defeating The Revival (now known as reigning AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR) in a two-out-of-three-falls match. The pair would split less than a year later, when Ciampa attacked Gargano following a loss to The Authors of Pain, and they’d go on to feud for the better part of the next year. They’d reunite to make their debuts on both “Raw” and “Smackdown,” but that was short-lived. It wasn’t until Monday night that the two seemed back together, full time, and ready to shake up the tag team division on the main roster.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
