WWE is once again going pink for the month of October as they continue their partnership with Susan G. Komen to raise awareness about breast cancer.
As part of this year’s “Rise Above Cancer” campaign, WWE will donate to Komen 20 percent of the retail sales price of all co-branded merchandise sold on WWEShop.com and at WWE live events. Fans can also donate $1, $5 or $10 to Komen upon checkout from WWEShop.com.
To support Komen’s mission, WWE will utilize all its assets including WWE Network and TV broadcasts, live events, public service announcements, digital and social media to generate awareness and encourage fans to get involved.
Throughout the month, the WWE announcer table, entrance ramp and ring skirts will be co-branded and the middle ring rope turned pink to promote the fight against breast cancer.
“We are so grateful for our partnership with WWE,” said Christina Alford, SVP of development for Susan G. Komen. “Their ‘Rise Above Cancer’ campaign reaches women in communities across the country, bringing awareness and helping us fund lifesaving research, and support to families living with breast cancer who need our help today.”
WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon said, “WWE remains deeply committed to this movement, as we utilize our global platforms to raise awareness and funds for a disease that impacts so many people around the world.”
The partnership launched in 2012 and has generated more than $1.5 million for Komen to date.
Dwayne Johnson has landed a major sponsorship as Ford Motor Company announced that it has hired the former WWE champion and Hollywood movie star as their Spokesman of Service.
Johnson has filmed a commercial which will start running on October 12 as part of a crew of technicians called The Specialists at Ford. It’s a multi-year deal for Johnson and he will be splashed across all platforms in an advertising campaign.
“His genuine appreciation of the brand makes the alignment of Ford service and Dwayne Johnson a great partnership,” Ford said in a statement.
In a post on his Instagram, Johnson said that he currently owns three Ford trucks and bought his first Ford when he was 15 years old and said he’s been a “Ford man ever since.”
Newest NXT Diva Asuka will be making her in-ring debut for the company at next week’s NXT Takeover: Respect, live from Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.
The Japanese sensation will be wrestling Dana Brooke, who will be in her second Takeover match herself after she was in a tag match at the Unstoppable event.
Asuka, who wrestled in Japan as Kana, first appeared at ringside at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn, and then was announced as the newest arrival to WWE’s most popular brand right now.
The main event for this Sunday’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view has now been changed to a three-way match for the TNA title.
The change came as a result of the tag team main event of yesterday’s Impact where Drew Galloway and Matt Hardy took on TNA champion Ethan Carter III and Tyrus with the stipulation that if Galloway and Hardy win, Hardy would be added to the main event at Bound For Glory.
The two were successful so now EC3 will defend his TNA title against Grew Galloway and Matt Hardy with Jeff Hardy as the special guest referee.
The season 4 finale of Total Divas which was titled Return of the Ex did a total of 1,158,000 viewers and a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo.
The 13th and final episode of the season had an increase of 363,000 viewers over last week’s episode. It’s probably the only good news ratings-wise that WWE got over the past few days.
The new season of Total Divas has already started filming with Tough Enough’s Amanda reportedly joining the crew replacing Trinity Fatu. (Ratings credit: TV By The Numbers)
Perhaps feeling the heat from the decline in ratings, WWE has added Brock Lesnar to the next Monday Night Raw which will take place at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lesnar was not originally supposed to appear on Raw and his only Raw appearance before the Hell In A Cell pay-per-view was on October 19. He will also tape a live show of the Stone Cold Podcast that night after the show is over on the WWE Network.
The former WWE World Heavyweight champion returns to the ring this Saturday at Madison Square Garden as he takes on his old rival The Big Show in a special televised house show on the WWE Network.
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Madusa, the WWE Hall of Famer who was inducted under her WWE name of Alundra Blayze, did her own “pipe bomb” on her Facebook page talking about the current WWE Divas.
“Well let’s just call it like I see it…. Most of you are over rated! Half of you cannot wrestle, some just sound illiterate as soon as you open your pie hole, all so disrespectful,” Madusa wrote, adding that she threw up in her mouth when Nikki Bella threw up her hand when someone from the audience mentioned Alundra Blayze’s name during the Divas segment.
She said she was the real revolutionary that started this women’s revolution and also dissed Paige for calling the NXT women’s title as “the” title. Madusa knocked Paige for her own “pipe bomb” saying she’s not AJ, who followed her husband’s footsteps by doing her own “shoot” interview in the middle of the ring.
“Oh and where in the hell is #teambad #tobusywithglowsticks and things that #glowinthedark?” she questioned. She added that as far as she is concerned, Charlotte, Becky Lynch, and Natalya are the ones to look out for.
“But what the hell do I know…… I am 50, past my time and have been reported as an ugly bitch! I have three words you can call me #Bossassbitch!”
The trailer for the WWE Studios movie starring Randy Orton titled The Condemned 2 was released this week.
The movie is about a failed mission to capture the leader of a deadly gambling ring played by Wes Studi. Bounty hunter Will Tanner, played by Randy Orton, becomes the hunted — a human target in a game in which contestants must kill or be killed. As high rollers bet on who will survive, Will, his dad, played by Eric Roberts, and members of Will’s team wage an all-out war against the game’s mastermind, played by Steven Michael Quezada.
The Condemned 2 is a co-production with Lionsgate and will be available in select theaters and on-demand November 6. It’s rated R.
The movie is a follow up to the 2007 film with the same name starring Steve Austin. It was the third WWE Studios movie at the time and to this day is the least grossing WWE Studios which had a full theatrical release getting only $7.3 million in domestic receipts.
Alarm bells must be ringing at WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut as Raw ratings continue its decline with this week’s show drawing 3,330,000 million viewers on average, down from last week’s 3,349,000.
Hour one started with 3,476,000 viewers, followed by 3,326,000 viewers in the second hour, and then went further down to 3,188,000 viewers in the third and final hour.
Last week’s show was the worst non-holiday number since the early days of 1997 so this week’s show now has that record. (Ratings credit: TV By The Numbers)
The Associated Press is now reporting that the decision the judge took in the motion to unseal the Hulk Hogan case documents last week was not actually a decision of the motion they filed a couple of days before with other media companies, but rather for a request the media did earlier in the Summer.
The AP issued a correction to their original story saying a hearing by Judge Pamela A. Campbell is scheduled for this Thursday that will tackle this new motion.
Currently the FBI records into the investigation including the video can only be seen by the attorneys for Hulk Hogan and Gawker.
Wade Barrett made his return to Monday Night Raw last night after being out of action since after SummerSlam.
Barrett returned home to England after the pay-per-view to film a WWE Studios-Richwater Films action-thriller film titled Eliminators. The movie follows a former U.S. federal agent who must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding after his London home is mistakenly invaded, leading to him finding himself on the run from Europe’s most dangerous assassin to get his daughter to safety.
This will be Barrett’s second time in a movie, having previously performed a small role in the 2013 film Dead Man Down.
The season 4 finale of Total Divas airs tonight on E! with episode 13 titled Return of the Ex.
The finale will focus on Nikki Bella, who gets approached once again by ex-boyfriend Dolph Ziggler who says he wants her back. Meanwhile, Nattie faces career-ending news for both her and her husband TJ, and Paige debates telling her fiance her true feelings on their engagement.
“Superfly” Jimmy Snuka will be back in court on October 7 as a judge Maria Dantos set a hearing to decide if the case will go straight to trial.
Snuka was originally set to have a preliminary hearing on September 21 however the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office filed a motion to request a bill of information is approved by the court.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Charles Gallagher argued that “a preliminary hearing in this case would squander judicial resources,” and another lengthy, complex testimony from an investigating grand jury “could be considered not only a waste of scarce grand jury and judicial time, but also a repetitious, costly, and superfluous layer of delay before trial.”
The former WWE Superstar, who is suffering from cancer, is being charged with a third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for the death of his mistress Nancy Argentino back in 1983. The case went cold however thanks to the investigative work of The Morning Call newspaper the DA office agreed to re-open the case and even find enough evidence to charge Snuka.
Kurt Angle’s first match back in 4 months will be against former TNA champion Eric Young and it will happen at the Bound For Glory pay-per-view.
“I’ll be able to face the most talented wrestler on the TNA Roster, @TheEricYoung – looking forward to it,” Angle wrote on his Twitter. With all Impact shows taped for months, the Bound For Glory build-up has mostly been online.
Angle’s time in TNA is coming to an end as he already announced that he will not be signing a new deal once his contract is up in January.
Monday Night Raw TV Report for September 28th, 2015 – “One-Man Militia”
Introduction Segment: Video Promo and Welcoming
A montage of Night Of Champions and last week’s Raw, featuring then-United States and current WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins, Kane, and current United States Champ John Cena airs. Michael Cole acknowledges us from Buffalo, New York. John Cena’s music plays, and Cole says that he will be in a United States Championship Open Challenge to kick off Raw! Also, he announces that Bray Wyatt will face Roman Reigns later!
Match #1: Single for the United States Championship – John Cena (Champion) VS. ??? (Challenger)
After Cena cuts a quick promo declaring the Open Challenge, the mystery opponent(s) are the trombone-playing, Tag-Team Champions The New Day! Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, and Big E. walk down the ramp and proclaim they will beat The Dudleys at Madison Square Garden this Saturday, available on WWE Network; they then predict to be the new U..S. Champs and “swimming in all the gold!” (minus the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.) Cena orders them to stop goofing around and instead just wrestle. New Day reveal Xavier to be Cena’s challenger.
Following formal introductions by Lillian Garcia, the bell rings and John clotheslines Xavier hard! The Tag-Team Champion tumbles to the outside and yells “I wasn’t ready!” All New Day members hop the apron, but Kofi and Big back off. Cena plants Xavier with the spin-out backdrop, but is grabbed on the ankle by Kofi as he ran off the ropes. The referee sends E and Kingston to the back!
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Cena is still in control, but Xavier reverses and starts to gain momentum. He dives off the turnbuckle with a DDT, then brings him down with a reverse-suplex a short time later. Cena begins a comeback, attempting an Attitude Adjustment, but Woods reverses into a foot and armbreaker. He climbs the turnbuckle and soars again, but Cena moves and Xavier hits the mat. Cena clotheslines again and traps Woods in the STF, but the other New Day partners run out and attack, causing the dq.
Winner via Disqualification and STILL United States Champion: John Cena
Post-match, as all three Tag-|Team Champs assault the U.S. Champ, The Dudleys run down and help out for Cena. A brawl and faceoff ensues.
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Match #2: Six-Man Tag-Team – Tag-Team Champions The New Day (Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, and Big E.) VS. John Cena and The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von)
The Dudleys and Cena are dominating Kofi, until Big E. is tagged in. He uses his power over Cena and all three triple-kick Cena. Kofi is now in and slides by Cena, tripping him up. Big is tagged in and gives John a big splash. He goes for a second, but misses. Cena leaps for the hot-tag to D-Von! He cleans house on New Day, bringing Kingston down from the second turnbuckle with a neckbreaker. Big E. runs between the ropes at Cena on the apron with a shoulder block, and both fall to the floor.
Bubba tries to assist, but is held back by Xavier while Kofi hits the Trouble In Paradise kick and covers D-Von for the victory!
Winners via Pinfall: Tag-Team Champions The New Day
Commercials.
Segment #2: Office Promo
Triple H and Stephanie are debating whether Human Resources is right to work out Kane`s situation. “The Big Red Machine” walks in is introduced by Stephanie to Ashley, the Human Resources representative. WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins now joins and wonders who could have sent a blind email, accusing The Director Of Operations of making an “unsafe working environment.” Kane gets in Rollins’ face, but then is all-too-happy to get reviewed and questioned by Ashley. He takes her by the hand and they walk away.
Segment #3: Locker Room Promo
Dean Ambrose is warning Roman Reigns that he shouldn’t be wrestling Bray tonight. Of course, Reigns disagrees. Ambrose says he doesn’t want anybody else involved, but Randy Orton walks in and takes offense. He reminds them he rescued them last week, then threatens that Ambrose and Reigns have one more chance tonight to extract The Wyatt Family, then “it’s open season.”
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Match #3: Single – Mark Henry VS. The Big Show
Show handily beats Henry, albeit a little slower than I thought. He spears, scoop-slams, and knockout-punches “The World’s Strongest Man.”
Winner via Pinfall: The Big Show
Up next, The Miz will interview Divas Champion Charlotte and Becky Lynch about Paige’s turn-around on them.
Commercials.
Segment #4: Arena Promo
The Miz airs replays of Paige’s departure from Team PCB last week on Raw. He then brings out Divas Champion Charlotte and Becky Lynch. They poke fun at Miz’s attire and call him a “sexist, chauvinistic, jackass!” He stir the pot about them, insinuating that Team PCB has split. Charlotte insists that Paige join them and talk it out, or “throw it down.” Miz doesn’t take well to Charlotte overtaking MizTV, but Becky chucks his mike to the ramp.
Instead of Paige, Team Bella walk out. All three mock PCB’s state, and say they (Bella) are “more united and stronger than ever.” Charlotte pressures Nikki that she will tap-out again. Nikki goes on to take credit for setting off the “Divas Revolution.” Charlotte disagrees, saying that all the Divas equally created it.
Paige now appears and procures ownership of “The Revolution.” She says that since she was the first NXT Women’s Champion, that’s what brought Charlotte and Becky up. Nikki wonders why Lynch and Charlotte are not fighting back; “if you have friends like these, why do you even need enemies?” Paige wittily replies, “yeah, and if you have two boyfriends like yours, who really needs ambition!” (referring to The Bellas dating/being married to John Cena and Daniel Bryan, respectively.)
This embarks a fight, with Team Bella being shoved out of the ring by all of PCB
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Match #4: Six-Diva Tag-Team – Team P.C.B. (Divas Champion Charlotte, Becky Lynch, and Paige) VS. Team Bella (Nikki and Brie Bella, and Alicia Fox)
Paige whips Alicia, then tags in Becky, who tags in Charlotte. P.C.B. work over Fox until Brie is tagged in and focuses on Charlotte’s left arm. C.B. comeback, double-teaming Brie, then Lynch gives Brie a forearm. Fox hits Becky, allowing Brie to gain an advantage. Nikki is in and snap-suplexes Lynch, as does Alicia. She stretches Becky with a surfboard, then switches with Brie again.
Brie kicks away at Becky in the corner, then rips at her face with a chinlock. Nikki is in, and tries a suplex but it is reversed into a small-package for one. Becky manages to get Charlotte in, but as she goes for the Figure-8, Nikki kicks the Divas Champion away into Paige on the apron. Paige takes umbrage and walks away, until Natalya walks out. Paige and her converse, then Natalya hops on the apron. Paige yanks her down and heads to the back, as Nikki plants Charlotte with the Rack Attack and the 1 – 2 – 3!
Winners via Pinfall: Team Bella (Nikki and Brie Bella, and Alicia Fox)
Up next, a look at The Big Show and Brock Lesnar’s rivalries.
Commercials.
Segment #5: Video Promo
Footage of the past between Brock Lesnar and The Big Show is shown.
Segment #6: Locker Room Promo
Seth is talking with Ashley when Kane walks over with a giant red present. It is divulged to be the head of the statue of Seth Rollins! Kane says he got it from a dumpster, but Rollins does not accept. Kane leaves the statue head with Ashley.
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Match #5: Tag-Team – The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O’Neil) VS. The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Braun Stroman)
(Note: the feed in Canada went out for a few minutes, so I missed the start of this.) Wyatt Family are firmly in control when Raw comes back on. They quickly complete this bout after Stroman wears down Titus with his submission.
Winners via Submission: The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Braun Stroman)
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Match #6: Single – Stardust VS. Neville
They lockup and trade wristlocks. Neville flips around and gives a running hurricanrana. Stardust springboards off the top rope but Neville counters with a front-dropkick. He ascends the turnbuckle, but before he does something, Wade Barrett’s music plays and out he walks. Stardust shoves Neville into Barrett, who gives Neville a Bullhammer Elbow, DQing Stardust.
Winner via Disqualification: Neville
Post-match, Stardust tries to convince Wade to join him again, but Barrett responds with another Bullhammer. He demands a microphone, where he declares “All hail return of the king.”
Up next is Ashley’s report on Kane!
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Segment #6: Arena Promo
Kane and Ashley walk to the ring; she starts to give her findings but is promptly interjected by WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. He has put together a highlight package of Kane’s faults over the last while, but Kane retaliates with one of his own on Rollins. Ashley concludes that Kane is completely OK to help run Raw as The Director Of Operations, but it may be Rollins that really needs the help, which now infuriates Seth.
He yells at both of them, then gives an awkward-looking Pedigree to Kane. He continues the punishment by whacking a chair repeatedly over Kane’s left knee. He screams at Kane that “he’s the man!” Doctors and paramedics rush to help Kane, and carry him away on stretcher and in ambulance.
In the garage, as Seth is still watching on the ‘Titantron from the ring, the ambulance suddenly stops. It goes back to Rollins then back to the garage, where the emergency vehicle is now filled with red lighting and smoke. Out bursts Kane, in “Big Red Machine/Demon” gear. He limps at first, then stomps his left foot on the ground and walks normally. He marches to the ring with a purpose, where he Chokeslams Rollins and goes for the Tombstone, but Seth slides out and scurries to the back. Kane holds up the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and signals his pyro to blow.
Segment #7: Video Promo
Bray Wyatt is on the Titantron. He is happy with his boys’ win over The Prime Time Players. He has also accepted Roman’s want. “Tonight, I alone will enter the battlefield.” He says that it is all about him and Roman. “Be careful what you wish for, because only a fool would believe that he can look into a dragon’s eyes and not be burned. Run!”
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Match #7: Single – Bo Dallas VS. Randy Orton
They immediately clash on the outside for a bit, then back in the ring Orton finishes with an R.K.O. quickly.
Up next, I.C. Champ Kevin Owens will face Rusev!
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Match #8: Single – Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens VS. Rusev (with Summer Rae)
(Note: Ryback is on commentary.) Rusev and Owens punch back-and-forth until Rusev is thrown into Ryback; Rusev and Ryback engage, invoking another dq.
Winner via Disqualification: Rusev (with Summer Rae)
Post-match, both Rusev and Owens double-team Ryback until Dolph Ziggler runs out and helps fend Rusev and Kevin off.
Segment #8: Video Promo
Ellen DeGeneres, daytime talk show host, has started a fundraising campaign, challenging people to dance and raise money for Pediatric Cancer Research. Several WWE Superstars have already taken place. The announcer’s also continue to promote Connor’s Cure.
Paul Heyman is shown walking backstage.
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Segment #9: Arena Promo
Paul Heyman returns to Raw and puts over his client, Brock Lesnar, over and over again on how he will destroy The Big Show this Saturday in New York. The Big Show interrupts and scares off Heyman, cautioning him that he will need a new client after Lesnar is knocked out.
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Match #9: Single – Roman Reigns VS. Bray Wyatt (with Wyatt Family members Luke Harper and Braun Stroman)
Prior to the contest, Roman questions Bray on bringing out Stroman and Harper; he calls them “the training wheels” and Wyatt “a little bitch.” However, Bray complies and tells Braun and Luke to go to the back.
Reigns and Wyatt slug it out to begin, then Roman hits the Drive By running front-dropkick from the floor to the apron!
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Bray has Reigns locked in a rear chinlock, but Roman gets out of it with a backdrop. Wyatt comes back with a one-arm slam, then pounds away on the back/head of Reigns. He chokes him against the middle rope and almost takes this with a DDT! He runs at Reigns twice, but misses both times!
Reigns slowly gets to his feet and hits hard on Bray. He suplexes Wyatt for two, and gears up for the Superman Punch. Bray blocks it and tries another one-arm slam but Roman whips Bray, and Bray hits back with a harsh clothesline for a close-call! Bray tries to suplex Reigns from the turnbuckle, but Roman reverses into a sit-down powerbomb for two!
Roman hits the Superman Punch, but Bray stumbles to the floor. Reigns runs at Wyatt, but Bray moves and Roman crashes into the steel steps. Bray picks up a set and charges with them, but Roman moves and clotheslines Wyatt over the corner barricade! Reigns tears apart the announce table, but the referee has already counted to ten, counting them both out!
Winner: None due to Double Count-Out
Post-match, they continue to scrap around the arena. Roman leaps over another corner barrier onto Bray and they tussle through the fans. Bray hurls one of the technical men at Roman, then dives at him back into the timekeeper’s area! Both lay there for a bit, then Bray is the first up.
Wyatt climbs onto the announcer’s table and poses on top, but Roman gets up and Spears him through it! Both are prone amid a broken table, with most of the fans doing a repeated “Yes” call to close the show.
End Of Raw.
Reporter’s Rumblings
This was another great Raw overall; I enjoyed the storytelling and line-up of the matches; most were well-wrestled, but a lot of them had bad finishes. Onto the particulars:
Excellence: All of Kane/Rollins; loving this new/old feud, especially with the new angle Kane has. He is truly playing it perfectly, and I can almost see him winning the belt from Rollins for “one-last run” before retirement; I think he deserves it for the long career he’s had in WWE and all that he’s put up with!
Paige’s new attitude; as with Kane, she is playing it very well too and this is the “bad girl” Paige I really like. The promo by the other Divas was pretty great too, as was the match.
Also liked Woods/Cena, (and all The New Day does) and New Day/Dudleyz/Cena Six-Man, and Bray/Reigns.
As always, Paul Heyman and Bray was awesome on the mike/video promos. Loved the passion/”fire” from The Big Show too; again like Paige, this is the attitude I like to see out of Show and how he should be built again until he also retires.
Bogus: Too many DQs. One or two is OK, but not as many as they had tonight. Henry/Show was a waste of time;
I knew right away that Henry was going to lose when he was on screen and didn’t even get an entrance. With Big, we don’t need to see how strong he is; those who have been watching a long while know what he can do in the ring when he really wants to. Thankfully, this does seem like a time he really wants to and thus didn’t need the match. I also think Lesnar should’ve been included here and had at least a stare down with Show prior to Madison Square Garden, especially since they’re using them in the title on Saturday night; would’ve added a little more effect.
Was disappointed in the return of Barrett; at first I was a little excited because he seemed serious and no-nonsense/dropped the “king” gimmick, but unfortunately, he’s still referring himself to that. I want him to go back to the “Bare Knuckle Brawler” character he had a long while ago; that suits him best and can be taken way more importance.
All-in-all, again a really good show. Until Smackdown!, Be Excellent Wrestling-Online Readers and Fans!
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The WWE YouTube channel topped the charts for August in terms of views according to TubeFilter.com and analytics company OpenSlate.
WWE videos ranked number one worldwide with a whopping 456.4 million views for last month, with the LittleBabyBum channel following closely at 448.4 million.
WWE’s rise to the top of YouTube’s ranks last month was largely thanks to SummerSlam, which is WWE’s second biggest pay-per-view of the year behind WrestleMania.
WWE makes money off its YouTube videos which is why the company uploads several content, including original stuff, to the world’s biggest video sharing website.
WWE today announced that in accordance with its Talent Wellness Program, WWE has suspended Dylan Postl, better known to fans as Hornswoggle for 30 days, effective immediately, for his first violation of the company’s policy.
It’s been quite a while since WWE published a name of someone who for some reason failed the Wellness Program test. The statement on WWE.COM did not specify what drug test Postl failed.
Brooklyn has locked down SummerSlam for the next two years as WWE today announced that the 2016 and 2017 pay-per-view shows will be taking place at the Barclays Center, the site of this year’s event.
Following this year’s massive success in the area, WWE opted to leave the West Coast again where SummerSlam has been a recurring event in Los Angeles.
In 2016, WWE will host NXT on August 20, SummerSlam on August 21, and Raw on August 22, while in 2017, NXT takes place on August 19, SummerSlam on August 20, and Raw on August 21.
“We are thrilled to build on the success of the 2015 SummerSlam and welcome WWE back to Brooklyn in 2016 and 2017. Big events like SummerSlam help cement New York City’s appeal as a dynamic, high-energy destination,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “We’re thankful for WWE’s commitment to Brooklyn, and look forward to a long partnership that benefits the City.”
Brett Yormark, CEO of Barclays Center, added, “We’re excited to be hosting WWE SummerSlam for the next two years. We had an incredible experience this past August and are looking forward to continuing our partnership with WWE and NYC & Company.”
WWE described the Barclays Center, NYC & Company and the City of New York as “incredible partners” to them and judging from the wonderful reception WWE got during those three nights it was not a surprise that they have decided to bring back SummerSlam week back in NYC.
