Tonight’s WWE Mixed Match Challenge and WWE 205 Live will take place from the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, PA.
WWE Mixed Match Challenge:
* Sasha Banks & Finn Balor vs. Bobby Roode & Charlotte Flair – The winners will go on to face Asuka & The Miz in the finals.
WWE 205 Live:
* Can Mustafa Ali and Cedric Alexander continue to co-exist?
* Fatal 4 Way: Akira Tozawa vs. Buddy Murphy vs. TJP vs. Kalisto
WWE announced today that they are bringing back the Superstars For Hope campaign to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America this year. The online auction is now live at CharityBuzz.com and will run through Tuesday, April 10th. Some of the opportunities include experiences at SummerSlam, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble and WrestleMania 35. Celebrities such as Mark Cuban, Celine Dion and several sports teams have also donated packages.
WWE launches global fundraiser to benefit Boys & Girls Club of America
WWE today announced the launch of this year’s Superstars for Hope, a global online auction on Charitybuzz.com, featuring unique, once-in-a-lifetime experiences to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Fans can now visit http://www.charitybuzz.com/wwe through Tuesday, April 10, to bid on exclusive WWE experiences with Mr. McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Ric and Charlotte Flair, backstage opportunities at SummerSlam, Survivor Series, Royal Rumble, WrestleMania 35 and more. Additional packages have been donated by Mark Cuban, Celine Dion, the New York Giants, the Los Angeles Lakers, the San Francisco 49ers and more as part of the campaign.
“WWE is dedicated to using the power of our brand and platforms to leave a lasting, positive impression on our youth,” said Stephanie McMahon, WWE Chief Brand Officer. “We are proud to once again partner with Boys & Girls Clubs of America during the Superstars for Hope campaign to continue their efforts to help put young people on the path to great futures.”
“We are so grateful to WWE and all those who have provided these exclusive experiences for the Superstars for Hope Fundraiser that benefits our Clubs,” says Jim Clark, President & CEO of Boys & Girls Club of America. “The strong partnership between WWE and Boys & Girls Clubs is helping every day to eradicate youth bullying in America.”
WWE and Charitybuzz have worked together for more than six years to raise nearly two million dollars for various nonprofits.
“WWE is not only a major name in entertainment, but they’re a genuinely philanthropic organization, mobilizing all of their channels to make a meaningful impact. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” said Ben Erwin, General Manager of Charitybuzz. “Charitybuzz is proud to provide the platform and support needed to complement WWE’s efforts and raise significant funds for Boys & Girls Clubs of America.”
The online auction highlights include:
Ultimate WrestleMania 35 Experience
* One Suite for 10 People at WrestleMania 35
* 10 Tickets to WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony
* 10 Tickets to WrestleMania Axxess
* Sneak peek of WrestleMania set before gates open
* Picture on ramp before WrestleManiaWWE Big 4 VIP Package
* Two tickets to SummerSlam 2018, Survivor Series 2018, Royal Rumble 2019 and WrestleMania 35
* Lunch with a WWE Superstar before Royal Rumble
* Meet Vince McMahon, Stephanie McMahon and Triple H, a backstage tour at SummerSlam and two tickets to the showA photo shoot with a WWE Superstar; available experiences include:
* Nia Jax
* Asuka
* Carmella
* Riott Squad
* AbsolutionAn opportunity to escort a WWE Superstar to the ring; available experiences include:
* Bobby Roode
* The New Day
* BayleyMore auction items include:
* One-hour pitch meeting with Mark Cuban
* Four tickets to “Live! With Kelly and Ryan”
* Miami Dolphins VIP Gameday Experience (4 tickets, field passes and parking)
* St. Louis Cardinals VIP Gameday Experience (4 tickets, battling practice and entrance into the museum)Fans can visit http://www.charitybuzz.com/wwethrough Tuesday, April 10, to see the full list of experiences and donate for their chance to win.
WWE Hall of Famers Ric Flair and Sting will be replacing the injured Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania 34 Axxess in New Orleans next month.
It looks like Ambrose was pulled due to his injury and not some filming or other appearance as WrestleMania Week is all hands on deck. He was also pulled from several World of Wheels convention appearances this month, including this past weekend in Salt Lake City.
The RAW Superstar has been out of action since December after suffering a high-grade triceps tendon injury. Ambrose was expected to be out of action for 9 months, forcing him to miss WrestleMania. He reportedly met with doctors in Birmingham, Alabama a couple of weeks ago to get checked out.
Below is WWE’s announcement on Ambrose being pulled from Axxess:
Sting and Ric Flair to stand in for Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania Axxess Premium VIP Autograph SessionUnfortunately, Dean Ambrose will not be able to appear at the WrestleMania Axxess Premium VIP Autograph Session on Sunday, April 8, at 10 a.m. However, we are pleased to inform the WWE Universe that WWE Hall of Famers Sting and Ric Flair will appear at this Premium VIP Autograph Session. Your existing Dean Ambrose Premium VIP ticket will still grant you access to the Premium VIP Autograph Session on Sunday, April 8, at 10 a.m. with Sting and Flair.
We hope you enjoy WrestleMania Axxess. See you there!
Tonight’s WWE RAW will take place from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH as the Road to WrestleMania 34 continues.
* John Cena takes on The Big Red Machine
* What’s “Woken” Matt Hardy’s next move?
* Braun Strowman needs a WrestleMania partner
* Are Stephanie McMahon & Triple H ready for Ronda Rousey & Kurt Angle?
* Will Roman Reigns be 100 percent for WrestleMania?
* Nia Jax’s pursuit of Alexa Bliss continues
* Does Finn Bálor owe Seth Rollins a rematch?
Three big matches have been announced for WWE’s Greatest Royal Rumble event – Triple H vs. John Cena, The Hardys vs. RAW Tag Team Champions The Bar and a Ladder Match with Seth Rollins vs. Samoa Joe vs. Finn Balor vs. WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz.
Below is WWE’s full announcement on the matches:
John Cena takes on Triple H at the Greatest Royal Rumble; tickets available this Saturday, March 31RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA and STAMFORD, Conn. — For the first time since 2010, John Cena will go head-to-head with Triple H at the Greatest Royal Rumble event at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Friday, April 27, at 7 p.m. AST. Tickets for this historic event are available this Saturday, March 31, at 12 midnight AST via ticketingboxoffice.com. Tickets will also be available at 10 a.m. AST at Virgin stores throughout Saudi Arabia. Ticket prices start at 20 SAR.
Additionally, the Greatest Royal Rumble event will feature an Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match: Seth Rollins vs. Finn Bálor vs. The Miz vs. Samoa Joe, and a Raw Tag Team Championship Match: The Hardy Boyz vs. Sheamus & Cesaro. A Ladder Match is when a championship title is suspended above the ring, and the first Superstar to climb to the top of a ladder and retrieve the title is the winner and champion.
General Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia Chairman, His Excellency Turki Al Sheikh, WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia invite the world to celebrate this signature event, which includes the first-ever 50-Man Greatest Royal Rumble Match and seven championship matches.
Fans will also get to see WWE Superstars Roman Reigns, AJ Styles, Braun Strowman, The New Day, Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt and Shinsuke Nakamura, among others.
The inaugural Greatest Royal Rumble will deliver live family-friendly entertainment to passionate fans across the Middle East. It is the first event as part of a long-term partnership between WWE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Additional event details, including broadcast information, will be available in the coming weeks.
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WWE announced Paul Heyman will induct Goldberg into this year’s WWE Hall of Fame. Here’s their full announcement:
Paul Heyman has been at ringside for some of Goldberg’s most intense battles in the squared circle. Now, Brock Lesnar’s advocate will be the person who inducts the former WCW, World Heavyweight and Universal Champion into the WWE Hall of Fame during the 2018 Induction Ceremony on Friday, April 6, during WrestleMania 34 Week.
Heyman had a bird’s eye view of the type of carnage Goldberg could create inside the ring when he returned in 2016 to challenge Lesnar to a Mega Match at Survivor Series in Toronto. He was stunned when Goldberg bulldozed through The Beast in under two minutes to win his first match in 12 years. Heyman also witnessed the demolition derby for the Universal Championship between Goldberg and his client on The Grandest Stage of Them All at WrestleMania 33 last year. Though Goldberg was not victorious on that night, he certainly made a major impression on Lesnar and his advocate.
Heyman is never one to pull any punches or mince words. What will he have to say when he presents Goldberg to the WWE Universe to receive sports-entertainment’s highest honor? Find out during the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, streaming live on WWE Network Friday, April 6, at 8 ET/5 PT!
Tickets for the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans are available now.
WWE Superstar John Cena will be hosting the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards tonight. This will be the second time Cena has hosted the annual awards show which focuses on whats popular with kids in television, movies and music.
WWE has announced that Molly Holly will induct Ivory into the WWE Hall of Fame during WrestleMania 34 Weekend.
Molly Holly was a rival and partner of Ivory during their illustrious in-ring careers in WWE. Now, Holly will have the distinction of inducting Ivory into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2018 on Friday, April 6, in New Orleans during WrestleMania 34 Week.
The two were trailblazers in the squared circle, creating a path that helped lead to today’s Women’s Evolution. It is perfectly fitting that Holly, a two-time WWE Women’s Champion, inducts Ivory, a three-time titleholder, into sports-entertainment immortality.
What kind of stories will Holly have to share about her friend and rival? Find out during the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, streaming live on WWE Network Friday, April 6, at 8 ET/5 PT!
Tickets for the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans are available now.
WWE has announced that Lilian Garcia will be the ring announcer for the first-ever WrestleManiaWomen’s Battle Royal at WrestleMania 34.
Veteran ring announcer Lilian Garcia will return as the guest ring announcer for the first-ever WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal, WWE.com can confirm.
A longtime member of the broadcast team throughout WWE’s Attitude Era, Lilian is also known for her stirring renditions of “America the Beautiful.” Her return to The Showcase of the Immortals comes in tandem with the establishment of the WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal, a counterpart to the male-centric Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal that will feature Superstars from Raw, SmackDown LIVE and NXT. Raw’s Sasha Banks became the first woman to declare for the contest on Monday; she was followed on Tuesday by SmackDown LIVE’s Natalya, Becky Lynch and Naomi as well as The Riott Squad — Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan.
Tune in to WrestleMania 34 on Sunday, April 8, to see the WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal begin another chapter in the Women’s Evolution, helped along in no small part by the forbear who will announce it to the world.
WWE Champion AJ Styles is scheduled to return to the ring at weekend SmackDown live events in New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania, according to PWInsider. Styles is booked to work eight-man tag matches, likely as a way to cut down on his in-ring work. Styles will be teaming with The New Day to face Chad Gable, Shelton Benjamin, Rusev and Aiden English.
Styles hasn’t wrestled since working a match against Rusev on last week’s episode of SmackDown Live. He appeared at last Friday’s live event at Madison Square Garden where he was scheduled to team with Nakamura, but an injury angle was done at the beginning of the show to take him out of the match. He missed the remaining SmackDown live events over the weekend, where he was announced as injured. Styles told Catch-Newz earlier this week during a media call that he still planned on defending his title against Nakamura at WrestleMania.
“If my leg got cut off I’d find a way to make it to Wrestlemania,” Styles said. “I will be wrestling Shinsuke Nakamura at Wrestlemania, don’t worry about it, it’ll be fine.”
Triple H also spoke with Catch-Newz and said they are working with AJ to get him cleared for the big match in New Orleans, if possible.
“AJ is working diligently on rehabbing his injuries and getting himself in tip-top shape for WrestleMania,” Triple H said. “We are trying to help him with that process of getting the best care and the best rehab and everything else possible. We’re hoping for the best. Right now he says he’s feeling a lot better and will be ready to go. Obviously we’ll get him doctors to make sure that he is ready to go and get a medical clearance, if that’s possible. He’s working very hard at it, so we’re hoping for the best.”
Source: WrestlingINC
