Barbie Blank, the former WWE Diva better known to fans as Kelly Kelly, told British-based DigitalSpy that she would return to WWE if asked.
“If WWE approached me about it I definitely would consider it – I wouldn’t say no,” Blank said. She last wrestled for the WWE in August 2012 and was released a month later. She has not appeared on WWE television ever since.
Blank said that if given the chance she would love to wrestle Paige and noted the girls she used to wrestle against back when she was there – including the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox, Natalya, and Rosa Mendes – are still with the company.
Kelly Kelly is a one time WWE Divas champion and she was speaking with DigitalSpy to promote E!’s WAGS where she is part of the cast.
The 2016 Fastlane pay-per-view will be taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Quicken Loans Arena on February 21.
The announcement was made yesterday during the non-televised live event in Cleveland which was then tweeted by the official account of the Quicken Loans Arena. TheQArena.com is running a pre-sale already with the code WWEPRE to unlock tickets. The pre-sale ends on October 2 while tickets go on sale to the general public on November 21 at 10AM.
Ticket Prices are $25, $50, $75, $100, $150, $350 & $500 plus a $3 facility fee and another convenience fee depending on the price of the ticket.
The last semi finalists in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament were revealed yesterday after the non-televised NXT live event in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Jason Jordan and Chad Gable defeated The Hype Bros. to advance to the semis and will now be facing Baron Corbin and Rhyno. The winners of that match will meet the winners of the other semi final match featuring Finn Balor and Samoa Joe vs The Mechanics.
Both the semi finals and the finals will be held at the NXT Takeover: Respect live WWE Network event on October 7 with Cody and Dustin Rhodes presenting the trophy to the winners.
Hulk Hogan’s court records will remain sealed after a Florida judge today rejected the motion brought forward by a group of media outlets to make them public.
The Associated Press and a group of other media companies filed a motion yesterday requesting all records in the current Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit become public. One of the tapes sealed was leaked to The National Enquirer who outed Hulk Hogan as a racist after publishing a tape of Hogan saying a lot of racial remarks when he was being secretly taped having sex with Heather Clem, the ex-wife of one of his biggest friends Bubba “The Love Sponge.”
The attorney representing the media companies said in a statement that it’s highly unusual for this much secrecy to surround a civil proceeding.
After suffering several setbacks, Hogan finally won a round in court. He’s suing Gawker for $100 million for the leaked sex tape and the case will go to trial in the first quarter of 2016.
Presiding judge Joseph J. Matika slapped a $2,000 bail on Tammy “Sunny” Sytch during yesterday’s hearing after she was arrested for not showing up at three different court hearings.
TMZ reported that the WWE Hall of Famer was still in jail yesterday afternoon as no one has bailed her out yet however she posted the $2,000 bail in the evening.
“Skyping tomorrow night! email me at Synnyskype8@gmail.com for info and to reserve your spot,” she wrote on Twitter today, continuing her one on one video sessions with fans that sometimes also include full nudity, depending on how much you pay.
The trial, stemming from her DUI arrest in May of this year, is expected to start on December 7 although she has other court dates in between for cases unrelated to this particular one.
Stone Cold Steve Austin has come out to slam the reports that he is one of the people being considered to wrestle Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 32 next year.
“You can take my name off the rumor mill as a Brock Lesnar opponent at WM32,” Austin wrote on his Twitter before calling those who wrote the rumors as, “Bullshit reporting.”
The WWE Hall of Famer was put on the spot by Paul Heyman a couple of months ago during the Stone Cold Podcast on the WWE Network and the addition of Lesnar as his next guest this month fueled these rumors.
Austin, in no way, shape, or form, has ever said that he wants to take on Lesnar at WrestleMania. He last got in the ring at WrestleMania XIX in Seattle, Washington, losing to The Rock in what ended up being his last ever WWE match.
Smackdown TV Report for September 24th, 2015 – “Side A or Side B?”
Introduction Segment: Video Promo and Arena Promo
Night Of Champions and Raw is recapped with a video montage, then we go live to the arena in Corpus Christi, Texas. Eden Stiles asks us to welcome the Director Of Operations, Kane. The (former) “Big Red Machine” is thrilled to be back, and books a couple of bouts for the night. Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens will partner with Rusev to face Dolph Ziggler and Ryback; Roman Reigns will take on Luke Harper; and Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt, and Braun Strowman are banned from ringside.
He is about to announce another match when WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins comes out on stage. Kane is happy to see him too, but Rollins can’t figure out what’s going on with him. He accuses Kane of still being “the demon” despite wearing corporate attire now. The 7-footer almost turns to that side, but backs down. Seth alludes that Kane needs professional help, psychologically, but Kane will just “take that under advisement.” The WWE World Heavyweight Champion can’t believe it, and Kane puts him in a match against Dean Ambrose, later!
Rich Brennan, Jerry “The King” Lawler, and Booker T. address us from the announce table. Booker speculates that Kane now has Split-Personality Disorder, but Lawler thinks that Kane is just playing it up to …. Rollins.
Roman Reigns makes his entrance to meet Luke Harper!
Commercials.
Match #1: Single – Roman Reigns VS. Luke Harper
Luke kicks to begin and tries a powerbomb immediately, but Roman blocks and tries one of his own. Harper slides out and the two fight on the outside. Luke is tossed back in the ring and given a big suplex. Reigns whips Luke into the ropes and attempts a Samoan Drop but Harper elbows out. Roman puts Luke into the corner and clotheslines him ten times, then slugs away on the opposite side.
They brawl back on the floor, with Luke giving Reigns a big boot-to-the-face. Back in the ring, Harper impressively slingshots himself from the apron onto Roman with a senton splash! He powerbombs Reigns for a near-fall, then measures him up. He goes for the Discus Clothesline, but Roman counters with a Superman Punch and the Spear; he covers for the victory!
Winner via Pinfall: Roman Reigns
Up next, Neville and The Lucha Dragons will be in Six-Man Tag-Team wrestling with Tag-Team Champions The New Day!
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Match #2: Six-Man Tag-Team – Tag Team Champions The New Day (Xavier Woods, Big E., and Kofi Kingston) VS. Neville and The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara)
Prior to the bout, all three New Day members cut a promo about defeating The Dudley Boyz on October 3rd at Madison Square Garden in New York City. That match will be for the Tag-Team Championship
Neville and Kofi start out, then Neville tags in Kalisto, who flips around. Kofi retreats with New Day for a break.
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Kalisto is now wrestling Big E, with the big man taking control. New Day triple-kick Kalisto repeatedly in the corner, while Xavier sounds off with the trombone. Kofi is the legal man and kicks Kalisto in the head, then clamps on an armlock after only two.
Cara is tagged in and flies all over Woods. This breaks down, with Dragons and Neville getting the best of New Day. Neville, Cara, and Kalisto triple-dive onto the New Day from the ring to the floor! Cara and Xavier are left in the ring, and Xavier knees Sin in the head and gets the 1 – 2 – 3!
Winners via Pinfall: Tag-Team Champions The New Day (Xavier Woods, Big E., and Kofi Kingston)
Post-match, The New Day celebrates on the announcer’s table with more trombone playing and dancing!
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Match #3: Single – Cesaro VS. Bo Dallas
Before this commences, Dallas tells Cesaro to “Bo-lieve” to get better. An elbow/collar tie-up is first, then Dallas engages in a wristlock. Cesaro kips up and rolls Dallas around in a couple pin combos. Cesaro continues to control until Bo elbows him out of the corner. Dallas gives Cesaro a forearm into the lower back and wears him down. Cesaro reverses later into another new pin combo that finishes this one!
Winner via Pinfall: Cesaro
Segment #2: Photo/Video Promo
A recall of Charlotte’s Divas Title win from Night Of Champions and her interview with her father, Ric Flair, from Raw is shown. She will be out after.
Commercials.
Segment #3: Arena Promo
Divas Champion Charlotte, followed by Becky Lynch, comes to the ring. She puts over Nikki Bella for her long reign, and thanks the fans for their support. “The future has never been brighter.”
Former P.C.B. partner Paige walks out. She tries to make peace, but Charlotte and Becky aren’t buying. Natalya now interrupts, which displeases Paige. She is very satisfied with the way the Divas Division has gone, and is going. She puts over Paige for when she won the Divas Champion, but isn’t sure why the change of attitude in her. Paige responds by slapping her, after declaring that Natalya “let the Divas Revolution pass you by.” Paige walks off and mocks the Flair Strut on the stage.
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Match #4: Tag-Team – Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens and Rusev (with Summer Rae) VS. Dolph Ziggler and Ryback
Ryback and Kevin go to start, but Owens quickly switches with Rusev. Instead of Ryback, Rusev asks for Dolph, so he gets him and begins to pick apart Ziggler. He yells at Dolph, but “The Show Off” hits back with a dropkick. His comeback doesn’t last long, as Rusev gives him a twisting slam then is tagged by Owens. Both he and Rusev dominate Ziggler for a bit until Dolph leaps on Rusev with a DDT!
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Kevin is back in control over Dolph. He also taunts Ziggler as he works him over. Rusev back in and stomps away. Owens does the same and scoop-slams Dolph, then prompts Rusev to do the same and “one-up” him. Dolph, however, hops out of Rusev’s scoop-slam and does the same. He also scoop-slams Owens, then jumps for the hot-tag to Ryback. He tries to clean house, but Rusev kicks “The Big Guy” hard and almost takes this!
Ryback suddenly catches Rusev with a spinebuster, then hits Kevin off the apron. He turns into another kick from Rusev, but Kevin decides to walk away with his Intercontinental Championship! This leaves Rusev be kicked by Dolph and planted with the Shellshock and the W!
Winners via Pinfall: Dolph Ziggler and Ryback
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Segment #4: Video Promo
Big Show’s warnings to Brock Lesnar are featured, along with a highlight montage of Show’s literal hits. They will square off at Madison Square Garden.
Segment #5: Backstage Promo
The Dudley Boyz are walking when Rene Young shows up and chats with them. Bubba insinuates that The New Day are just a role with the “save the tables” and championships. The Prime Time Players walk up and challenge them when they are finished with Xavier, Kofi, and Big E.
Segment #6: Backstage Promo
Jojo interviews WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. He continues about Kane needing help, but still goes along with taking on Dean Ambrose and concedes that Kane is the Director Of Operations. “I am going to destroy Dean Ambrose.”
Dean makes his entrance for the main-event!
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Match #5: Single – Dean Ambrose VS. WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins
They lockup and Ambrose wristlocks Seth. He clamps on another, works on his shoulder, and stomps on Rollins’ hand. He has a headlock on, but Seth pushes Dean into the corner. He then stomps away, but Dean ducks a clothesline and gives him a running front-dropkick!
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Rollins is dominating again, giving a scoop-slam to Dean, then wearing him down with a grounding rear chinlock. He gives Ambrose a punch as he ran, then dives off the top turnbuckle with a knee-to-the-head! He corners and taunts Dean, but “The Lunatic Fringe” turns him around and chops a number of times.
Seth kicks hard again, then runs at Dean in the corner. He whips Ambrose again, but Dean hits back with a clothesline. He rapidly punches Rollins, then brings him from the turnbuckle to the middle of the mat with a suplex! “The Lunatic Fringe” ascends the turnbuckle, but Seth meets him up there. They both go back-and-forth with counters and pin combos, then Dean tosses Rollins to the floor!
He follows up with a dive, then blocks a kick into a Fisherman’s Suplex for two! Rollins hits back with an enziguri, then they both punch at each other! They continue to counter moves, until Seth pokes Ambrose in the eye, then drives him into the corner with a powerbomb!
Kane’s pyro suddenly explodes on stage, and the WWE World Heavyweight Champion is searching. Dean takes advantage and rolls up Rollins to get the victory!
Winner via Pinfall: Dean Ambrose
Post-match, Rollins demands to know what’s going on with Kane. “Do you know who I am? Do you know what I’m capable of? Every single person who has stepped in this ring with me has paid the price. Did you see what I did to ‘The Icon’ Sting at Night Of Champions?” He closes the show by stating how good he is and holding the WWE World Heavyweight Championship high.
End Of Smackdown!
Reporter’s Rumblings – By Moe Tapp
This the first time ever in all of my reports that I liked absolutely everything promo and match-wise on this show! Smackdown! was excellent this week, with a good mix of promos and action, and all was well put together/spoken. I don’t even have to go into my usual breakdown, as the whole show would go into my “excellence” category. Way to go, Smackdown!
Until Raw, Be Excellent Wrestling-Online Readers and Fans!
Lucha Underground today announced that it has released Shawn Hernandez from his contract have parted ways amicably.
As you might remember, Hernandez showed up on TNA’s Impact in June of this year and joined the Beat Down Clan while he was still under a deal with El Ray Network for Lucha Underground. He was involved in several Impact tapings with the BDC however Lucha Underground entered into a legal dispute with TNA preventing them from airing Hernandez on television. After he was released from TNA, the Beat Down Clan angle was slashed from television since the footage was unusable without Hernandez in them. It also led to the departure of MVP from TNA.
This week Lucha Underground announced that is returning for season 2 and will be taping in the next several weeks with kick off of season 2 in early 2016.
Another match has been added to the Bound For Glory pay-per-view event featuring a TNA tag team vs a GFW tag team even though the angle was wrapped up last week on Impact.
The new match features TNA Tag Team champions Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards taking on GFW’s Trevor Lee and Brian Myers for the titles, the fifth title match on the card.
So far there are six matches on the BFG card including EC3 vs Drew Galloway for the TNA title, Gail Kim vs Awesome Kong for the Knockouts title, Bobby Roode vs Lashley for the King of the Mountain title, Tigre Uno defending the X Division title in an Ultimate-X match against opponents still to be named, and Kurt Angle will be wrestling as well but no opponent has been named so far.
In an interview with TribLive.com, Cody Rhodes has revealed that he and his brother Dustin will be at the NXT Takeover: Respect live event to present the winners of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic with the trophy.
“I will actually be there myself, (as) me — for the first time a while on WWE programming — Cody Rhodes and my brother will be there to present the trophy, which I’m looking forward to seeing,” the man behind the Stardust gimmick said. Cody said that he helped preparing it for whomever the winners will be and it will be a great way to honor his father.
Dustin, as Goldust, has not appeared on WWE television since May after he underwent shoulder surgery while Cody has not appeared outside his Stardust gimmick since June 2014.
The Associated Press is reporting that a group of media outlets is asking a Florida judge to make records in the Hulk Hogan sex video case public, something which would be worst case scenario for Hogan. The AP is one of the companies requesting these records.
The judge presiding the case has sealed all records which were part of an investigation carried out by the FBI. The audio tape released in June which had several racist rants from Hogan was supposed to be sealed however someone leaked it to The National Enquirer which resulted in Hogan losing his WWE job and his career wiped from the WWE. Hogan has since been on damage control.
“It’s highly unusual for this much secrecy to surround a civil proceeding,” said Charles Tobin, a lawyer for Holland and Knight who is representing the media companies. “Ordinarily, whether it’s a celebrity or an average citizen, once you ask the court to help solve a dispute you open the proceedings up to public review. What’s going on in Hulk Hogan’s case certainly is not the norm when it comes to public transparency of the courts.”
The trial is scheduled for March 2016 in Pinellas County Court in St. Petersburg, Florida.
WWE Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch is once again behind bars after she was locked up at the Carbon County Correctional Facility in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, two days ago.
Sytch failed to appear three times at hearings which were scheduled following her DUI arrest earlier this year in Mahoning Township, Pennsylvania. A bench warrant was issued on September 3 and she was arrested 20 days later. A hearing is set for today with a trial expected to start on December 7. Chances are she will remain locked up till the trial starts due to her already bad history for failing to show up for court dates.
She blasted WWE earlier this month for not supporting her financially even though WWE picked up all her rehab bills in the past. The company has since stopped paying for her rehabilitation since she falls off the wagon every time. Sunny has been Skyping with fans for a set amount of dollars and even doing nude video chats to earn money.
You can see the mug shot courtesy of TMZ.COM below.
WWE.COM and WWE Network won two W3 Gold Awards and 18 Silver Awards given out by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.
The WWE App received two Gold Awards in the Entertainment and Sports categories. The WWE App also earned three Silver Awards for Media Streaming, Best Streaming Video and Integrated Mobile Experience.
The WWE Network won eight Silver Awards in the General Website, Website Features and Video Channels and Network categories. For the second consecutive year, WWE Network was honored as a Silver Award recipient for Visual Appeal.
WWEToughEnough.com earned a Silver Award for in the Entertainment category of General Websites. WrestleMania 30 was recognized for excellence in entertainment social media and sports social media with two respective Silver Awards. WWE.com’s video featuring the Boogeyman scaring employees at WWE Headquarters earned a Silver Award for Viral Online video.
WWE’s Social Media team earned a Silver Award for Social Media presence as well as a Silver Award for Social Media Content and Marketing for WWE on Twitter. WWE’s YouTube channel also earned a Silver Award for Social Content and Marketing – Sports.
The non-televised TNA live live event at the UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been changed to a One Night Only pay-per-view show titled Battle of New Orleans.
The show will start filming at 7:30PM and will broadcast in the United States and in more than 120 countries around the globe in early 2016. Tickets for the event start at $15 and are available via ticketmaster.com.
The event is headlined with a steel cage match between Kurt Angle and Eric Young and the Knockouts will also have a cage match featuring Gail Kim and Awesome Kong. Other matches announced so far are The Wolves vs EC3 & Tyrus, Bobby Roode vs Matt Hardy, and Abyss vs Robbie E in a Monster’s Ball match.
Wrestling legend Sting talked to WWE.COM regarding the injury he suffered at Night of Champions, giving his first public comments since the incident.
Sting said that apart from having a stiff neck and banged up a little bit, he feels good, or better yet, “pretty standard” for a wrestling match like that. He felt tingling and numbness down both his arms and then after taking a bump, the turnbuckle power bomb, it went down his legs too and “they just felt like rubber.” Sting eventually collapsed after getting Irish whipped and instead of just ducking the planned clothesline he just crashed to the mat.
“I had to go down on all fours there for a minute, get my composure. I was a little…I was worried,” he said.
He added that he was out when he got to the hospital and doctors hooked him up to an IV to ease the pain. “They mentioned cervical spinal stenosis, but that’s only part of what I heard. I don’t know if there’s anything else,” Sting said, adding that the doctor told his wife that he’s lucky he walked out of the ring.
Despite the massive scare, Sting is eager to return to the ring under the ring scenario and circumstances but it’s a big bold question mark at this point and he’s going to take the wait and see approach for the time being.
Sting described Rollins as one of the best he’s ever worked with and it was a pleasure and an honor to work with him. “And I think he’s just scratching the surface on what he will do. I’ve never seen somebody as talented,” the former WCW champion said.
You can read the full interesting interview at WWE.COM.
Episode 12 of season 4 of Total Divas titled Some Like It Hot dropped to a low of 795,000 viewers and a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 demo. It’s the least watched episode of season 4 so far with one episode remaining.
That is down 5,000 viewers from episode 11 and it’s the second lowest rated episode of the whole series, only behind episode 8 of season 2 which was titled Red and Gold and which received 750,000 viewers. (Ratings credit: TV By The Numbers)
WWE has just announced that three of its biggest Hall of Famers will be in Dallas, Texas, for the October 19 Raw just one week before Hell in a Cell.
Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels, and Nature Boy Ric Flair will all be in the house to give the pay-per-view one final push. Austin will also be doing the live Stone Cold Podcast with Lesnar following the show.
Speaking of Lesnar, his opponent, The Undertaker, will also be on Raw that night as the two will participate in their final build-up for their second Hell in a Cell match.
The court case of WWE doctor Chris Amann vs Phil “CM Punk” Brooks continued this past Monday at the Circuit Court of Cook County under the judge Janet Adams Brosnahan.
The judge gave both parties involved time to file amendments or additional amended pleadings with a deadline of October 19 for CM Punk and November 2 for Amann. On November 24 the judge will review the papers and then either dismiss, strike, or withdraw allegations.
The case was opened on February 19 of this year when Dr. Chris Amann filed a libel/slander lawsuit against Brooks and his friend Scott Colton, otherwise known as Colt Cabana, for their explosive podcast a few months earlier accusing Amann of several shortcomings and misdiagnosing Punk’s health issues.
CM Punk and Cabana are being assisted by attorney Daniel Saul Brenner while Amann is being represented by the Chicago law firm Deutsch, Levy & Engel.
During an hour and twenty minute Q&A session with fans in Sydney, UFC Women’s Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey once again expressed her desire to appear at WrestleMania 32 in Dallas, Texas, next year after making an appearance at this year’s WrestleMania alongside with The Rock.
When asked if she wants to be involved in next year’s WrestleMania, Rousey said she would love to however she’s going to be in Jakarta filming her next movie during that timeframe and besides, if she really was going to be there she was not going to spoil it to everyone during a Q&A. “If I really was going to be there would you want to know or be surprised? Because I think wrestling fans would want to be surprised,” Rousey said.
Dana White then jumped in and said that what Ronda did at WrestleMania 31 was cool and she did a great job and it was an awesome segment however “she’s got a lot of shit to do!” He then asked the fan why does he want to see her wrestle when he can see her fight? “Even her wrestling debut was fast, she beat Stephanie so fast it was unbelievable,” White joked.
You can see the video of her answer, which starts at 1:16:53 below.
The post-Night of Champions Monday Night Raw drew the lowest non-holiday rating since the early days of 1997 with an average of 3,349,000 viewers and a 1.16 rating in the 18-49 demo. That is down from last week’s 3.39 million viewers.
Hour one drew 3,420,000 viewers, followed by 3,368,000 in the second hour, and then even worse at 3,260,000 viewers in the third and final hour. The NFL game on ESPN head to head with Raw did 12,479,000 viewers and a 4.7 rating in the 18-49 demo. (Ratings credit: TV By The Numbers)
