Kevin Owens might play a role in tonight’s episode of NXT after he was “barred” from the WWE Performance Center earlier today by Shawn Michaels.
Owens was at the facility to get some treatment on his shoulder when HBK caught wind of it and ordered him to leave. KO started filming his argument with Michaels, which obviously made it online, and HBK told him that he can come back any other day, but felt that he was only there today because he knew CM Punk was there for tonight’s show.
Punk will be facing Grayson Waller in tonight’s main event of NXT, with the Chicago native having a chance to win the NXT title.
Punk and Owens have been going at it for a while and the two will meet in a match this Friday on Smackdown.
NXT will air tonight live from the WWE Performance Center at 8PM ET and will go head-to-head with AEW Dynamite on AEW’s usual night. The show was moved to today due to yesterday’s U.S. mid-term elections coverage.
Five big matches have been announced for the show:
Grayson Waller vs CM Punk for the NXT title
Kelani Jordan vs TBA in an open challenge for the NXT Women’s title
Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno vs Hank and Tank in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic final
Dion Lennox vs Cruz Montana in an unsanctioned match
Vanity Project vs Rey Fenix, Dragon Lee, and Chad Gable in a six-man tag team match
Plus, the one and only John Cena will be in the house and so will The American Nightmare Cody Rhodes who will be presenting the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic trophy to the winners.
NXT airs live on The CW and on the ESPN app with unlimited plan for those in the United States and on Netflix internationally.
Dynamite will present its annual Blood & Guts episode tonight live from the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida.
The two cage matches are the only ones so far advertised for the show:
Will Ospreay, Adam Copeland, Darby Allin, Steven Borden, and The Young Bucks vs Kazuchika Okada, Kyle Fletcher, Kevin Knight, Wardlow, Mark Davis, and Jake Doyle in the men’s Blood & Guts match
Willow Nightingale, Jamie Hayter, Alex Windsor, Harley Cameron, Kris Statlander, and Queen Aminata vs Megan Bayne, Lena Kross, Thekla, Julia Hart, Skye Blue, and Persephone in the women’s Blood & Guts match
Dynamite airs live at 8PM ET on TBS and also streams live on HBO Max.
Taya Valkyrie has announced that she has departed AEW/ROH after declining a contract extension with the company.
Valkyrie has not appeared on AEW television since November 2025 and her last match in ROH came in January 2026.
“I am incredibly grateful for my time with AEW and the opportunity to be part of the organization,” she said in a press release. “While there, I wrestled and worked alongside exceptional talent, and built lasting relationships within the AEW family and deepened my relationships in the wrestling community.”
She also thanked the fans for continuing to support her as she steps into free agency.
“I can’t wait for what’s to come and have a lot more to leave in the ring. With my contract now concluded, I’m excited to explore new opportunities and possibilities as a wrestler, TV personality, and creative,” she continued.
Jake “The Snake” Roberts tracked back on his claim that he has returned to WWE and clarified that he is just “signing autographs” for the time being.
In a video posted on his social media, Roberts said that he went to SummerSlam on behalf of WWE and did signings as well as doing Topps card autographs.
“I enjoy doing it, just like coming out and seeing you guys, signing autographs for you, and taking pictures. That’s all there is. I’m not under contract, by no means,” Roberts said.
Roberts also addressed his health status, saying he’s on oxygen thanks to his 50 years of bad habits, mainly smoking.
“But I quit. I quit five weeks ago, and I’m sticking with it,” Jake added. “No-brainer, right? There’s a procedure they can do, but you have to be clean for six months before they’ll do it. That will help me get off of oxygen.”
PWInsider.com is reporting that Jacob Fatu’s return to WWE TV is imminent after Fatu filmed some material with the Bloodline ahead of the Survivor Series.
The WarGames match this year is heading in the direction of the Bloodline vs the 946, and with the 946 getting its fifth member in the form of Cruz Montana, the only one left to even the odds is Fatu.
Fatu last wrestled on the August 3 episode of Raw, defeating Royce Keys, and last appeared on WWE television on the September 28 episode of Raw, where he was taken out by Jaida Parker in a car.
The Samoan Werewolf has been off TV due to some filming commitments.
In a comment posted on the announcement of the John Cena Classic Raw and Worlds Collide: Doomsday events, former WWE champion CM Punk said that he will be working both events.
The two shows will run on December 14 and December 15 respectively, live from the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex as part of an extended agreement between WWE and The Walt Disney Company.
Punk, who has a chance of becoming the NXT champion tonight, worked the last Worlds Collide event in Rosemont, Illinois, teaming up with Rey Mysterio and El Grande Americano to take on Dominik Mysterio, JD McDonagh, and Omos in a six-man tag match.
It will be a busy weekend for WWE as the company will also be in Perth, Australia during the same time for Smackdown, Wrestlepalooza, and Raw.
The October 26 episode of Raw drew 2,300,000 global viewers on Netflix, down 200,000 from the prior week and the lowest since August 31 when the show did not chart at all.
The show faced heavy TV competition in the form of NFL, MLB World Series, and WNBA Playoffs.
Raw placed #7 on the Netflix top 10 global chart, with 4,200,000 global viewing hours based on an episode edited down to 1 hour and 47 minutes.
It charted only in seven countries for the week, the lowest ever, with Bahamas, Bolivia, Canada, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Trinidad & Tobago, and United States. No other countries from other continents charted.
Royce Keys has sent a warning message to NXT, teasing that he will be appearing on the show tonight.
In a post on X yesterday night, Keys told NXT that “ain’t nobody safe,” a statement various members of the 946 have used before there was chaos on TV.
The newest member of the 946, Cruz Montana, has an unsanctioned match on the show against Dion Lennox with UFC fighter Michael Chandler serving as the guest referee, so Keys, and perhaps the rest of the 946, might make their presence felt then.
Montana joined the 946 this week on Raw and helped the faction fight off the Bloodline in the main event segment of the show.
WWE yesterday announced an extended partnership with The Walt Disney Company in a press release.
The news got a lot of mainstream coverage from news outlets after the John Cena Classic Raw and the Worlds Collide: Doomsday events were announced.
Apart from these two back-to-back events, WWE and Fanatics will also hold WWE World, a two-day immersive fan event at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, giving fans access to exclusive merchandise and photo and autograph opportunities with WWE Superstars.
WWE will also produce and sell Avengers: Doomsday co-branded products, including title belts at WWE World, WWEShop.com, and Disney retail stores.
The Walt Disney Company and WWE launched its partnership in 2025 when the ESPN App became the exclusive domestic home of WWE Premium Live Events for ESPN Unlimited subscribers.
John Cena will be spending some time on WWE television over the next month to promote the John Cena Classic for Monday, December 14.
Apart from the already-announced appearance tomorrow night on NXT, Cena will also be on the November 13 episode of Smackdown from Ft. Lauderdale, the November 16 episode of Raw from Raleigh, and the Survivor Series: WarGames PLE on November 28 from Houston.
Cena will wrap up his appearances on the John Cena Classic Raw event live from Orlando at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
WWE Women’s Intercontinental champion Raquel Rodriguez sat down with Chris Van Vliet at Insight LIVE in New Orleans to discuss winning the Intercontinental Championship and her custom barbed wire title, giving John Cena the Tejana Bomb at Survivor Series, wanting to win a World Championship, the longevity of The Judgment Day, comparisons to “Big Sexy” Kevin Nash, dressing up as Nacho Libre one Halloween, and more!
Last time you were on the show, it was Elimination Chamber last year in Toronto, and you talked about how you wanted to do some more singles stuff; you wanted to win singles gold. Here you are now as the Women’s Intercontinental Champion. What did winning this championship mean for you?
“It meant so much. I think all of you guys know I’ve had a very long journey with WWE. I’ve had so many ups and downs, so many noes, so many yeses, and then for a moment there, I thought I was just getting pigeonholed into just being a tag wrestler. But to know that they have faith in me to carry a title, to know that they have faith in me to stand here as your Intercontinental Champion. That means so much to me and so much to my journey with WWE and just my journey in general in life. So it’s so cool.”
You get busted open in the match. You go to the back and you take your first promo photos with the championship; those are some of the most badass photos I think I’ve ever seen.
“Thank you. You know what’s so funny is I was going to a Texans game at the same time, and someone compared my photo to J.J. Watt when he was having his epic season and had that picture of blood running down his nose, and I was like, yeah, this made it 100 times better. Something so unplanned, it was very painful. I still feel like I have a bump or a little scratch there, girls being girls, but worth it. Worth every little bit.”
Were you like, I could wipe my face off, or no?
“I don’t know if you saw, but the referee kept wiping my face off. I didn’t want to wipe my face off. As soon as I felt the blood dripping down my face I was like, yes, let’s have more! But every chance that the ref could, she was coming up and just taking a napkin to my face and made it a little bit messier when it dried up at the end. But still, epic.”
I saw a fun fact the other day. Judgment Day has been around longer than the Shield and Evolution by many days. Isn’t that a crazy thing to think about?
“It’s a legacy being a part of the Judgment Day. It’s a legacy at this point. So once you’re in, you’re in. You’re a legend. That’s it, game over.”
I asked Finn Balor this question, but when it’s all said and done, how do you think people will remember Judgment Day?
“I think they’re going to remember us for all of it. For the good, the bad, the amazing characters, the amazing memories that we’ve been able to have, even just with each iteration of how Judgment Day was, even the great interactions between all of us when we were good guys and bad guys. I don’t know how many times I’ve wrestled Rhea when she was a part of Judgment Day. It’s insane. Even Dominik. I think I body slammed Dominik at one point. There was a moment where I didn’t like him, but now he’s my brother. So that’s what Judgment Day will be remembered for is always having that family tie.”
You had such a fun moment last year. You were part of one of John Cena’s last matches ever. In fact, you were part of John Cena’s last PLE match at Survivor Series. You gave John Cena your finisher. How did all this come together?
“Oh man, I think it started back in high school when I saw John Cena live and I developed a crush for him. Then I was like, I bought the inflatable hands. You guys remember the can’t see me hand with the movable fingers. Yeah, I definitely bought that. I remember hearing because I am from the border, which is a very small town. So I remember hearing he went to Whataburger down in Hidalgo, and I was like, he loves Whataburger too. Oh my God, he’s the best.”
“But then I started to really grow and learn from John Cena and see how he worked and his amazing trajectory with WWE and everything that he was able to accomplish, and then being put in the Judgment Day, and suddenly getting this moment of getting to be in a storyline with him and Dominik, and having an actual moment on a PLE with John Cena, all of that was just very, very mind-blowing. It’s crazy to like try and look back to that day and remember every single moment, but I do remember every single moment I had with him, from getting to learn under his wing, from getting to hear his thoughts, and even getting to pick him up in a Tejana bomb and slap him down-that was so cool! Oh my gosh, it was so full circle for me, and I was just very, very grateful that I got to be in that situation.”
What was that crowd reaction like when you did that?
“It was amazing. Even when I came home, the crowd reaction the next day and the day after that, everyone was like, ‘You picked up John Cena!’ I was like, ‘Yeah.’ And I don’t let people forget. People who come to my meet-and-greets wearing his shirts, I remind them. I’m like, ‘Hey, you know I slammed that guy. I picked him up and I threw him right down.'”
WWE will hold two shows at Disney World in Orlando next month, as apart from the John Cena Classic Raw, there will also be a Worlds Collide: Doomsday event the following night on Tuesday, December 15.
The WWE/AAA Worlds Collide Event is a partnership with Disney’s most popular Marvel franchise, Avengers.
This event will be themed around the Avengers: Doomsday movie which will hit theaters three days later on Friday, December 18.
Just like the Cena Classic, this will be held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex.
Two-day combo tickets will go on sale Friday, November 13, with a pre-sale to hit 24 hours earlier.
MJF will make his New Japan Pro-Wrestling debut at Wrestle Kingdom 21 in January and will take on Ryohei Oiwa.
The former AEW champion once again appeared via video during the NJPW Power Struggle 2026 event and challenged Oiwa at NJPW’s biggest event of the year.
“If you choose to accept my challenge, I will beat you in the middle of the ring, in the middle of that crappy little Tokyo Dome, with a move that is as simple as a headlock takeover,” MJF told Oiwa.
The NJPW star accepted the challenge after the video aired.
Oiwa won the G1 Climax tournament this year using the headlock takeover.
WrestleKingdom 21 takes place on Monday, January 4 live from the Tokyo Dome.
WWE wasted no time in putting up the John Cena Classic replica championship on sale via WWE Shop.
Unveiled on Raw last night by Cena himself, the championship resembles the spinner WWE Championship which Cena carried in the mid-2000s. It has John Cena doing his salute pose in the middle instead of the WWE logo, with the words John Cena Classic also on the front.
It also sports the Never Give Up, You Can’t See Me, Word Life, and Hustle, Loyalty, Respect side plates.
MJF will not be the only AEW star participating at Wrestle Kingdom 21 as former AEW World champion Jon Moxley will also be on the card.
This time around it was NJPW’s Shingo Takagi who laid out the challenge for the Death Riders leader. Takagi teamed with Jeff Cobb to take on Moxley and Wheeler Yuta at NJPW’s Power Struggle event today, and Cobb got the win for the team by pinning Yuta.
Following the match, Takagi challenged Moxley for a match on January 4 at the Tokyo Dome. Their last match against each other, Moxley beat Takagi in a no disqualification match at NJPW’s Battle in the Valley event in 2024.
Only Club WWE members will be able to vote in the upcoming John Cena Classic tournament.
Cena made the announcement on Raw last night, saying that the power will shift to Club WWE members to proclaim a winner, an announcement which got a few boos from the crowd.
Club WWE is a $99-a-year subscription which offers fans premium content, discounts on live event tickets, merchandise, and ability to chat with WWE Superstars and more in addition to a rewards system.
The service is only available to those who reside in the United States for the time being.
The John Cena Classic tournament will be held on Monday, December 14 as a second special episode of Raw live from Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
The Capital One Arena in Washington, DC will host a double WWE taping on Monday, December 21.
WWE will have a live Raw and then will tape the Christmas Day episode of Smackdown immediately following Raw. This will give at least Christmas Day off for the WWE Superstars, who will then get on the road the following day to continue the Live Holiday Tour.
A double taping will also be held the following week, with live Raw on Monday, December 28 and then a taping for the New Year’s Day Smackdown. AEW Dynamite will go head-to-head with Smackdown that night.
Tickets for the Washington DC double header go on sale this Friday, November 6 at Ticketmaster.com.
A new member of the 946 was unveiled on Raw last night, with former TNA champion and NXT’s Cruz Montana being the latest addition to the group.
The main event of Raw saw Solo Sikoa take on Royce Keys in a match which ended with Sikoa winning via disqualification. As both the 946 and The Bloodline brawled in the ring, a masked man entered the ring and first hit Roman with a chair and then with a lariat.
Keys was then helped up by the masked man, who removed his mask to reveal himself as Montana.
All of the 946 then continued to beat up the Bloodline and after all the smoke cleared, Roman Reigns had another thing coming for him: a Helluva Kick from Sami Zayn who came back for revenge after the opening promo duel from earlier in the night.
