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WWE Survivor Series 11/20/16

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2016 WWE Survivor Series – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Special start time 7 PM ET/4 PM PT

Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar w/Paul Heyman

5-on-5 Traditional Men’s Elimination Match: Team RAW (WWE Universal Champion Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho, United States Champion Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman & Seth Rollins) vs Team SmackDown Live (WWE World Champion AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton & Shane McMahon)

5-on-5 Traditional Women’s Elimination Match: Team RAW (RAW Women’s Champion Charlotte, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Nia Jax & Alicia Fox) vs Team SmackDown Live (Nikki Bella, SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss, Carmella & Naomi)

5-on-5 Traditional Tag Team Elimination Match: Team RAW (RAW Tag Team Champions The New Day, Sheamus & Cesaro, Enzo Amore & Big Cass, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson and The Shining Stars) vs Team SmackDown Live (SmackDown Tag Team Champions Heath Slater & Rhyno, The Hype Bros, American Alpha, The Usos and Breezango)

Intercontinental Championship: (C) The Miz w/Maryse vs Sami Zayn

WWE Cruiserweight Championship: (C) Brian Kendrick vs Kalisto (If Kalisto wins, the division comes to SmackDown)

(Pre-Show) Tony Nese, Drew Gulak & Ariya Daivari vs Noam Dar, TJ Perkins & Rich Swann

(Pre-Show) Luke Harper vs Kane

AJ Styles On If It’s Been Hard Transitioning To The WWE Style, If He Is More Comfortable As A Heel, The Club Being Split Up

NBC Sports interviewed AJ Styles, who was promoting this Sunday’s Survivor Series pay-per-view. Below are a couple of highlights:

Transitioning to the WWE style:

“It’s been easy. Every guy that I’ve worked here in the WWE has been great. I think they understand that it’s not about them, it’s not about me, it’s about the match and about making sure that people enjoy what they’re seeing because if we work together and put on a good product, we’ll keep those fans.”

If he is more comfortable as a heel:

“Absolutely. Regardless of whether John Cena gets booed, or whatever it is, he’s still the ultimate babyface. He’s still a huge piece in this giant puzzle that is the WWE. So for me to be the heel against John Cena was perfect for AJ Styles.

“It was perfect for what I needed to do,” Styles continued. “It was easier because I think everyone that’s been a great babyface, aside from John Cena, has been a heel at one point. I think being a better heel, a better bad guy, makes you a better babyface in the long run.”

The Club being split up:

“I was … ah … I was shocked,” Styles said when asked about the moment in the clip above. “Um, I knew that we were coming out with Club shirts and stuff like that, so I just assumed that we were going to be together.”

“We’re more than friends. Those guys are more like my family. I spent two years with them in Japan and we came together to the WWE, so it was a big shocker that we got broke up. You know, it’s just ah … really hard to explain, you know? These are the guys I ride with when we’re on the road. So, for the first time in I guess two years, we’re not on the same shows anymore. In fact, I don’t see them at all. Honestly, I literally just got done talking to them on the phone, that’s how close we still are.”

“It was something that happened that we’ve grown from. I mean they’re doing great on Raw. I’m doing great on SmackDown,” Styles beamed. “Now we look forward to those four Pay-Per-Views a year that we get to hang out and act like goofballs together.”

Styles also discussed the WWE schedule not being hard for him and more. You can read the full interview by clicking here.

Source: WrestlingINC

WWE Announces New International TV Deal

WWE announced the following today:

WWE® AND SKY DEUTSCHLAND ANNOUNCE MULTI-YEAR AGREEMENTMUNICH, Germany and STAMFORD, Conn. 16 November, 2016 – WWE (NYSE: WWE) and SKY Deutschland today announced a new multi-year agreement to distribute WWE’s premier pay-per-view events starting this Monday with Survivor Series® and televise WWE’s flagship programs Raw® and SmackDown® live on SKY Sports beginning April 2017.

SKY customers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland will be able to order one of WWE’s biggest events of the year, Survivor Series®, this Monday, November 21 at 1:00 a.m. Central European Time featuring a Mega Match twelve years in the making between WWE Superstars Brock Lesnar™ and Goldberg™ as well as 5-on-5 elimination matches between Superstars from Raw® and SmackDown®.

“We are very happy about WWE coming back to Sky Deutschland,” said Dr. Malte Probst, Senior Vice President Programming Operations & Transactional Business, SKY Deutschland. “With this new long-term agreement with WWE, we can offer our customers many spectacular events, combining the best of sports with top entertainment. This mixture fits perfectly with Sky.”

“We are excited to once again partner with SKY to showcase WWE’s flagship programs Raw® and SmackDown® and our marquee pay-per-view events to our fans in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland,” said Ed Wells, WWE Executive Vice President, International. “This agreement illustrates the power and global growth of WWE, while creating another destination for our fans to enjoy our unique blend of thrilling, family-oriented entertainment.”

With this agreement, SKY plc now distributes Raw® and SmackDown® in three of its biggest markets – Germany, Italy, and the UK.

WWE’s popularity in Germany continues to grow with viewing options that now include SKY Deutschland, ProSieben Maxx, and WWE Network.

Post-SmackDown Video Of The Undertaker And Kane

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The Undertaker and Kane reunited after last night’s WWE SmackDown Live 900 went off the air. WWE posted this video of the Brothers of Destruction together once again.

WWE Announces A Record $170 Million Generated By WrestleMania 32

WWE issued the following:

WRESTLEMANIA® GENERATES RECORD $170 MILLION FOR DALLAS/ARLINGTON REGIONSTAMFORD, Conn., November 16, 2016- WWE® (NYSE: WWE), Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams announced today that WrestleMania 32 generated $170.4 million in economic impact for the Dallas/Arlington region this past April, according to a study conducted by the Enigma Research Corporation. This marks a new record for WrestleMania’s economic impact and the fifth consecutive year that WrestleMania generated more than $100 million in economic impact for its host region.

Over the past ten years, WrestleMania has generated nearly $1 billion in cumulative economic impact for the cities that have hosted the event. WrestleMania 32 also generated approximately $23.8 million in federal, state and local taxes.

“On behalf of our city, we would like to thank all of the domestic and international WWE fans that converged on Dallas for WrestleMania Week to enjoy all that North Texas has to offer,” said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. “The week-long series of events brought a tremendous economic windfall to our region.”

“We are proud that WWE’s biggest event in history was held here in Arlington,” said Arlington Mayor Jeff Williams. “The event was an incredible success for our city, and we would like to thank the Dallas Cowboys for their tireless efforts in bringing WrestleMania to AT&T Stadium.”

“We are thrilled that WrestleMania continues to break records for both WWE and our host community,” said John P. Saboor, WWE Executive Vice President, Special Events. “This success would not have been possible without the support of Mayor Rawlings, Mayor Williams, Charlotte Jones and the entire Dallas Cowboys organization as well as all of our public and private sector partners that embraced WWE’s worldwide fan base for this historic celebration. We now look ahead to our return to Orlando for WrestleMania 33.”

A record crowd of 101,763 fans from all 50 states and 35 countries attended WWE’s pop-culture extravaganza this past April, making it the highest-grossing and best-attended event in WWE history. Key highlights from the study include:

* $170.4 million in direct, indirect and induced impact derived from spending by visitors to the Dallas/Arlington region for WrestleMania 32.

* 72% of fans that attended WrestleMania were from outside the greater Dallas/Arlington region and stayed an average of 3.9 nights.

* $25 million was spent on hotels and accommodations within the Dallas/Arlington region.

* The economic impact derived from WrestleMania Week was equal to the creation of 1,550 full-time jobs for the area.

* $8.4 million was spent by visitors to the Dallas/Arlington region at area restaurants.

Next year, WrestleMania 33 will take place Sunday, April 2 at the Orlando Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 18 at 10 AM Eastern through Ticketmaster. The event will be broadcast live on WWE Network in more than 180 countries.

SmackDown Live Preview 11/15/16 900th Episode

Tonight’s SmackDown Live will be the 900th episode and will feature the return of The Undertaker and WWE Hall of Famer Edge to host The Cutting Edge. Dolph Ziggler will defend his Intercontinental Championship against the Miz.

What will happen when The Deadman comes home?

Can The Rated-R Superstar contain SmackDown LIVE’s Survivor Series Team?

Will The A-Lister take back the Intercontinental Title?

Internal turmoil threatens Survivor Series Women’s Team

Which SmackDown LIVE tag teams will survive?

 

WWE Dropping Some PPVs in 2017?

It looked like WWE was “all in” with the extra pay-per-views for the brand split but the declining subscription numbers for the WWE Network has caused them to reconsider some things.

According to the latest Wrestling Observer newsletter, the last word is that they would be doing less pay-per-views than originally planned for 2017. Everything still needs to be worked out and there’s no word yet on what they are planning on dropping from the schedule. I guess the fact that the shows don’t feel as special and the costs to produce their shows might have played a factor in their decision.

I would be interested to know how they would handle the brand-specific shows. It might be a good idea to just do a brand-specific show every other month so that they feel more special and, of course, continue on with the “big 4” shows as usual.

As of this writing, this is what the 2017 PPV schedule looks like:

Royal Rumble (January)
Elimination Chamber (February)
Fastlane (March)
WrestleMania (April)
Payback (TBD)
Extreme Rules (May)
Money In The Bank (June)
Battleground (July)
SummerSlam (August)
Backlash (September)
Clash Of Champions (September)
No Mercy (October)
Hell in a Cell (October)
Survivor Series (November)
TLC (December)
Roadblock (December)

Source: WrestlingNews.co

The Rock Named People Magazine’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ For 2016

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has been named People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2016. The annual feature started in 1985, when Mel Gibson was named the magazine’s first “Sexiest Man Alive.”

“I said, ‘That’s awesome.’ And then what went through my mind was just how cool and exciting it is,” Johnson said when learning about the honor. “And then I thought, ‘Wow, we’ve pretty much reached the pinnacle.’ I’m not quite too sure where we go from here. I’ve done it all, this is it.”

Johnson was also asked why his fans found him to be sexy. He credited his grooming habits, exfoliating his face and his sense of humor.

“I think probably just not trying to be sexy and just being cool and confident in your movies,” he added. “I think with a lot of my fans, I’ve gotten to a very, very cool place where there’s a direct line between the man they know off-screen and the man they see on-screen.”

Source: People via WrestlingINC

RAW Preview 11/14/16

Will Goldberg and Brock Lesnar clash before Survivor Series?

Shane McMahon and Daniel Bryan come to Raw

Can Team Red form a united front against SmackDown LIVE?

Is Sami Zayn about to bring the Intercontinental Title to Team Red?

Can The Brian Kendrick keep the Cruiserweight division under the Raw banner?

Source: WWE.com

Summer Rae Confirms She’s Injured In Lengthy Social Media Post

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Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

WWE Superstar Summer Rae has been injured for months, despite staying quiet about the situation … and now the wrestler has finally opened up about why she kept it under wraps.

Pro Wrestling Sheet exclusively reported back in September that Summer had been dealing neck, back and elbow issues that were keeping her from the ring — and now she admits she expected to heal sooner.

Summer explains, “I assumed it would be an easy fix & wouldn’t take that long to get back to normal. That it wouldn’t take this long to not only fix but diagnose as well. That alone is so frustrating.”

“In this business you just go go go & putting your body on the line every night becomes second nature & you don’t think much of it. But that isn’t a normal thing.” Adding, “Our bodies aren’t made to do this. But you forget that when you hear the roar of the crowd! I’ve been so humbled by the overwhelming support towards me on social media & seeing the fans outpouring love & passion.”

As we previously reported, Summer had been in pain for months and stopped wrestling once MRI results determined how bad the injury was. She last wrestled in mid-August.

She closes by saying, “It’s been one of the most frustrating times of my life filled with so many different emotions. Generally speaking, the unknown is scary. But thru the greatest times of uncertainty in my life have come immeasurable things.”