WWE will present a new episode of NXT TV tonight on the USA Network at 8:00 PM EST.
WWE Raw airs live tonight on USA Network from the Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida.
CM Punk will have a “can’t miss message” for Drew McIntyre
WWE has announced a new live event in Orlando for December 28, the same day as AEW Worlds End 2024. Tony Khan’s promotion will be running its final pay-per-view event of the year from the Addition Financial Arena on December 28, meanwhile, WWE has announced a “WWE Live Holiday Tour” show on the same date just 15 miles away at the Kia Center.
This isn’t the first nor most significant instance of WWE and AEW booking shows on the same date as one another, with “AEW Dynamite: Title Tuesday” running head-to-head with “WWE NXT” on October 8. And fans will remember that “NXT” used to go head-to-head with “Dynamite” on Wednesdays every week from October 2019 until April 2021, in what came to be known as the “Wednesday Night War” in reference to WWE’s former rivalry with WCW. But it is a rare instance for the promotions to run the same city and date. Later this month, both companies will be running major events from Europe. AEW will present the second iteration of what’s seemingly becoming its WrestleMania, All In, from Wembley Stadium in London, England on August 25. Then, on August 31 WWE will present Bash In Berlin from the Uber Arena in Berlin, Germany, its first Premium Live Event in the country.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
Previous reports suggest The Lucha Brothers (Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix) are expected to leave AEW for WWE when their contracts expire.
Penta’s AEW contract expires between August and September, while Fenix’s contract expires later this year.
Fightful previously reported that the Lucha Brothers may be interested in joining WWE as a tag team despite being offered a new deal by AEW. The terms AEW offers are similar to what Penta has conveyed that WWE is willing to provide.
According to sources within AEW, there were concerns that the Lucha Brothers did not adhere to proper business practices, which resulted in their departure from the company. Penta’s rejection of the reports is believed to have been a strategic move to facilitate Fenix’s departure from AEW without contractual impediments.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter shared an update on the concern within AEW regarding their right to extend Fenix’s contract for an additional year due to his time off for injuries.
There was speculation about Penta heading to Orlando, FL, leading fans to speculate that he might be heading to the WWE Performance Center despite still being contracted to AEW.
Source: eWn
Tonight’s WWE SmackDown will air live on FOX from the KIA Center in Orlando, Florida.
Former WWE star Becky Lynch has discussed what she has been up to and her mindset following her WWE exit.
Lynch’s contract with WWE expired on June 1 and she seems to be stepping away from the ring for a bit, which was hinted at in a recent post she made on social media. “The Man” recently spoke to former NFL star Julian Edelman on his “Games With Names” podcast, where she talked about life after WWE.
“It’s great,” said Lynch when she was asked about how life is right now. “Everything’s great. I got my wonderful little family, I have many options on the table and I get to, for the first time in a long time, take a bit of a breath to appreciate everything.
She explained that stepping away from WWE has given her time to reflect on her career and smell the roses, as well as look back on everything she has achieved.
“When you’re on the road 52 weeks a year, non-stop, going from town to town, and then in the last three years, I added to the chaos by having a daughter, who I would bring everywhere with me, and then on top of that I decided it would be good to write my biography. So, it was really — for the last year, two years, pure chaos. Now I’m taking a little bit more time, I’m taking a breath to look around the world, getting to look at what I created and evaluate everything. It’s been wonderful,” said the former WWE star.
While Lynch didn’t hint at when she may return to the ring, she hasn’t called time on her career yet, with her post following her last match in WWE highlighting that her wrestling journey will continue. Reports have also suggested that Lynch hasn’t informed anyone in WWE about hanging up her wrestling boots yet.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
Ronda Rousey would have loved to wrestle under the new Triple H era of WWE.
While speaking with Denise Salcedo of “Instinct Culture,” Rousey looked back at her WWE in-ring debut at WrestleMania 34. She said,
“It was an incredible introduction. Part of me wishes the time that I wrestled would have been in the Triple H era and not the Vince (McMahon) era because he [HHH] was the one that believed in me from the very beginning.”
She continued, “I’ve been hearing incredible things about how he’s running stuff now. It was such an experience.”
Rousey was last seen at WWE SummerSlam 2023.
Source: eWn
WWE will present a new episode of NXT TV tonight on the USA Network at 8:00 PM EST.
NXT North American Championship: Oba Femi (c) vs. TBA
NXT Tag Team Championship: Nathan Frazer & Axiom (c) vs. Chase U (Andre Chase & Ridge Holland)
NXT Heritage Cup Match: Tony D’Angelo (c) vs. Charlie Dempsey
Lexis King vs. Eddy Thorpe
Dakota Kai is unfortunately no stranger to knee surgery in her career, and it appears she’s headed for another one, as per “WWE Raw” commentary. Kai, who was attacked last week by Shayna Baszler, Sonya Deville, and Zoey Stark — a group now known as The Pure Fusion Collective — needs surgery for a torn meniscus in her right knee and is expected to be out of action for 8-10 weeks.
It’s unclear when the injury actually took place, but Kai hasn’t wrestled a match since July 27 at the WWE SuperShow live event in Tokyo, Japan, where she and IYO SKY defeated former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill. She was slated to take on Deville on last week’s “Raw,” having laid down the challenge the week prior, but was seemingly written out of that match by the backstage attack and replaced by her Damage CTRL ally SKY, who emerged victorious. On Monday’s episode, Kai was nowhere to be found while SKY and Io Shirai competed against Baszler and Stark in a No. 1 Contenders’ match for The Unholy Union’s women’s tag titles, a match that ended in a no contest when the champions attacked both sides.
Kai suffered a torn ACL in the same knee last year and only returned to action in February. Damage CTRL has been plagued by knee problems in 2024, with Asuka still recovering from her own injury with no timeline for her return having been announced.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
A big change is reportedly in store for The Judgment Day faction in WWE.
And it could begin tonight on WWE Raw in Austin, Texas.
Ahead of tonight’s three-hour WWE Raw on USA Network, sources are reporting that “plans are in motion to rebrand the ‘new’ Judgment Day.”
The report from Wrestle Votes claims that the group’s “essence will stay the same, but a name change is likely.”
Additionally, the report states that the leading candidate for a new name for the group is the “Street Trash” insult that GUNTHER used for Damian Priest heading into their WWE World Heavyweight Championship match at WWE SummerSlam 2024.
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