NXT has its Takeover and Survivor Series go-home episode tonight on USA Network with many Superstars from Raw and Smackdown expected to show up to retaliate to the recent NXT run-ins.
In a conference call with the press earlier today, Triple H said that there will be a lot of big names showing up on NXT tonight, many of which people don’t expect.
Only two matches have been announced for the broadcast so far, including a ladder match for WarGames advantage between Adam Cole and Dominik Dijakovic, and The Undisputed Era vs The Revival.
WWE will add its second official podcast to their network with a new show from The New Day titled Feel The Power.
The new show kicks off December 2 and will be available weekly on major podcast platforms.
“Feel The Power is the perfect platform for us to take our engagement with fans to the next level,” The New Day said in a press release. “Nothing will be off limits as we take listeners on a wild ride inside our lives.”
The new podcast will have personal stories from the three members of The New Day, and debates on their favorite topics such as sports, music, and video games.
The WWE Podcast Network is in partnership with Endeavor Audio, part of Endeavor Streaming which carries the WWE Network infrastructure.
All Elite Wrestling rolls into Indianapolis, Indiana tonight for another episode of Dynamite live from the Indiana Farmers Coliseum.
Four matches have been announced so far for the show including Hikaru Shida taking on Dr. Britt Baker, Santana and Ortiz versus Private Party, Fenix battling Nick Jackson of The Young Bucks, and Darby Allin versus Jon Moxley. A big announcement from Chris Jericho is also being hyped for the broadcast and the The Dynamite Dozen battle royal takes place on the show as well.
AEW extended their lead again last week over NXT coming off their Full Gear pay-per-view and after coming close to losing two weeks ago.
CM Punk started his new role as an analyst on WWE Backstage on FS1 last night and was pretty candid in his comments.
Renee Young led a whole face-to-face interview segment with the former WWE champion and immediately took him to task by asking the most obvious question: is he coming back to the ring?
Punk said he’s 41 years old and he’s learned over the years to never say no. He said that he’s currently a FOX employee and has had no contact with anyone in WWE for the past six years. Punk admitted that for him to step back in the ring for WWE, there’s a bridge that has to be rebuilt and joked that it might take as long as the construction of the Great Wall of China for that to happen. He took the “never say never” approach and also added that there are several hurdles along the way before that actually happens.
Renee mentioned that Survivor Series is in Chicago and Punk told her to stop otherwise they will start chanting his name again, only for Renee to tell him that they never actually stopped.
Punk said that his butterflies were back and that’s a good thing because when he wrestled The Undertaker at WrestleMania several years ago, he said he preferred to be sitting in the back talking to his girlfriend – and now wife – rather than going out to perform. He said that having butterflies and being nervous means that he’s not “dead inside” and thinks that this was the right move for him.
A WWE corporate employee won the 24/7 title yesterday during a town hall meeting held at WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
The win came after Truth, who was giving a speech, left in a hurry and went face first into the backdrop. With him out cold, an employee, referred to as Michael, got up from the front row and with a WWE referee sitting next to him, covered for the pinfall and victory.
But his title reign only last a few hours. As the new champ was being congratulated by WWE Senior Director of Talent Relations Mark Carrano, he was required to do five push-ups and five sit-ups before he’s offered a “contract.” Truth was already lurking in the background waiting for his opportunity and when Michael was in his fifth sit-up, Truth jumped on him and pinned him. Truth took the title, and the contract, telling Michael that “You don’t need this!”
Truth has now won the 24/7 title for a whopping 23 times!
Monday Night Raw improved slightly in the ratings versus last week, getting an average of 2,127,000 viewers, up just 69,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast. It was the second least-watched broadcast of 2019 so far.
Hour one kicked off with 2,211,000 viewers, then it went up to 2,245,000 viewers, before going down to 1,925,000 viewers for the third and final hour which involved the big melee. The night was dominated by the NFL on ESPN which did 12.5 million viewers.
Raw was #4, #5, and #6 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic and #11 in overall viewership for the night on cable. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Tonight’s episode of Total Divas, the eighth of season nine, is titled 35 Years In The Making, and will focus on WrestleMania.
The synopsis for the episode reads, “In the first ever WrestleMania headlined by women, Ronda gives everything she has left in what could be her last match at the WWE. Meanwhile, the Bellas wonder if it’s their time to come back as a tag-team. Natalya prepares to give the ultimate tribute to her father by inducting him into the WWE Hall of Fame. Carmella takes everyone by surprise in the Women’s Battle Royal, Sonya finds her way to pay homage to the LGBTQ community and Nia attempts the risky move she’s been working on – a jump off the top rope with two torn ACLs.”
Lionsgate is releasing the documentary titled The Ronda Rousey Story: Through My Father’s Eyes on digital platforms today.
The project was originally announced in 2014 and was set to be released in theaters nationwide in 2016. That got pushed back to 2017 but it never took off until Lionsgate purchased the rights for the documentary. Rather than pushing it through theaters, the movie company is now releasing the doc on digital platforms for a wider release.
The Ronda Rousey Story: Through My Father’s Eyes follows Ronda’s inspiring journey to superstardom, weaving revealing interviews with dynamic fight footage to create a portrait of a remarkable and fearless woman who overcame all odds to become a symbol of strength, hope, and female empowerment.
The documentary was written and directed by former WBC International Light Middleweight boxing champion Gary Stretch.
Rousey has been on hiatus from WWE ever since her loss to Becky Lynch at WrestleMania 35. She’s part of the Total Divas cast this season and also has a recurring role on the popular FOX show 9-1-1. You can see the trailer of the documentary below.
It’s a big day for the WWE Backstage show on FS1 as tonight marks the official start of former champion CM Punk as an analyst on the show.
Punk made a very surprise appearance last week towards the final segment of the show and told fans that he’s here to “change the culture.”
Punk promoted Backstage tonight by writing, “It IS weird trying to catch up on 5+ years of rasslin’, I’m doing what I can. There’s bright spots, mostly women from what I can tell. There’s BAD too. I’m gonna talk about it, and no one is safe. Join us,” he said, tagging also Vince McMahon and AEW President in the tweet.
Tony Khan immediately responded to Punk’s tweet, writing, “No one is safe? Sounds like a plane full of wrestlers in Saudi Arabia!” WWE Superstar Randy Orton was also quick to respond to Khan, apparently not seeing the humor in the tweet. “What’s that whole thing about glass houses and stones?” replied Orton, attaching an article from a few years ago about Shahid Khan being investigated for corruption.
The back and forth did not stop there as Khan shot back saying that he thought Orton only tagged him in posts when he was grasping for leverage. “That article’s over a year old + is about baseless claims made about my dad years ago. That’s the best you can do, nothing. Meanwhile in the time since that was written, you used the N word on Twitch,” Khan fired back.
Orton then decided to take another dig at Khan, calling him the “Jacksonville Dixie,” saying that if he wanted to talk, he’d simply call his father!
Since starting head-to-head with AEW, NXT has not won one single week in the ratings and came close two weeks ago with just 9,000 viewers separating the two shows.
But the biggest chance of “taking over” is this week and next with the Survivor Series and Takeover go-home episode and next week’s fallout from both shows.
Now, in a bid to boost viewership tomorrow, WWE is somewhat promising that both Raw and Smackdown Superstars will invade Full Sail University. At the end of Raw last night, Triple H invited everyone to bring whatever they have and said that NXT will have an “open door” policy tomorrow night on USA Network.
So far, four main roster members appeared on NXT – AJ Styles, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, and Smackdown Women’s champion Bayley – to promote the Survivor Series Raw vs Smackdown vs NXT storyline. All were unadvertised appearances.
It’s a risky plan as if NXT fails to beat AEW in the numbers tomorrow, it will look very bad on those everyone involved.
The Raw women’s Survivor Series was revealed in full last night on Raw just six days before the pay-per-view.
The team of Charlotte Flair, Asuka, Kairi Sane, Natalya, and Sarah Logan will be teaming up together to take on Smackdown’s Sasha Banks, Nikki Cross, Lacey Evans, Carmella, and Dana Brooke, and five from the NXT roster which presumably will be revealed tomorrow night on USA Network.
Meanwhile, the WWE championship match between Brock Lesnar and challenger Rey Mysterio will now be a no holds barred match. Paul Heyman made the request to turn this match in a no holds barred match and Mysterio accepted, with Heyman saying either Rey will pull off the biggest miracle or else he will be on the receiving end of a massive massacre.
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The January 22, 2020 episode of AEW’s Dynamite will be recorded from the Jericho Rock N Wrestling Rager at Sea cruise, which will be sailing the Caribbean between January 20 and 24.
The announcement was made by AEW in a press release issued today along with the Bash At The Beach resurrection. The Jericho cruise, now in its second annual, will be aboard the Norwegian Pearl and it is sold out.
“AEW’s Bash at the Beach events will deliver nine unforgettable days of wrestling and much more from the hottest company in the business today,” said Chris Jericho. “Thousands of the Friends Of Jericho onboard the SOLD OUT ‘Rock N Wrestling Rager At Sea’ will have the experience of their lives, and now millions more will be able to watch AEW Dynamite along with us, as we break out the bubbly together from Miami to the Bahamas,” he added.
It’s unclear if the show will be airing live from the cruise or if it will be recorded earlier and then post-produced although it’s likely that it will be not be airing live.
Bash at the Beach, the old WCW pay-per-view name, is being resurrected by All Elite Wrestling as the company today announced that their January 15 episode of Dynamite will officially be referred to as AEW: Bash at the Beach.
The show will be airing live from the Watsco Center located at the University of Miami in Florida, the company’s first visit to the city. Tickets for this show go on sale this Friday at Noon ET at AEWTix.com. AEW is using a Miami Vice-type of logo to promote the show.
The Bash at the Beach trademark was filed by Cody Rhodes on March 18 of this year under entertainment services. The trademark had been “dead” since the closure of WCW and WWE never renewed the trademark application and never used the name following their WCW takeover.
Bash at the Beach ran from 1994 to 2000 as a pay-per-view and had a beach theme as the set. Five of the seven Bash at the Beach pay-per-views were held in Florida and the other two in California.
Perhaps the most famous Bash at the Beach was in 1996 when Hulk Hogan was revealed as the third man of the nWo. It was only a year earlier when Hogan made his WCW in-ring debut during the Bash at the Beach PPV in Huntington Beach, California, defeating Ric Flair to win the WCW title.
The WWE Network is now the home of all 146 episodes of WCW Thunder after the final 19 episodes of the series were uploaded on the streaming service.
WCW Thunder ran from January 1998 to March 2001 and originally aired on TBS as the second show of the promotion. WWE started uploading episodes of Thunder in March 2018 but only uploaded half of them in the beginning before adding more throughout the months after that.
The addition of these episodes brings around 32 hours of more programming to the Network.
Three matches have been confirmed for tonight’s Monday Night Raw, the Survivor Series go-home episode live from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.
Raw Tag Team champions The Viking Raiders will be defending the titles against the team of Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins, Natalya will go one-on-one against Asuka, and Seth Rollins puts his Survivor Series spot on the line against Andrade.
Becky Lynch, the Raw Women’s champ, and Charlotte Flair will also be in action tonight although no opponents have been named while Rey Mysterio will be making an appearance as well.
A few days ago on November 13, All Elite Wresting submitted an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the name AEW Blood and Guts, their possible new pay-per-view name.
In the description of the trademark, the artwork submitted is described as having the AEW logo at the top and then the words Blood and Guts, all in caps, in larger font with the word Blood on top, the word And in the middle housed in a rectangle, and the words Guts in the bottom.
It was submitted in the entertainment services, live video streaming, retail store services, toys, clothing, apparel, and the usual categories that are used for merchandise.
The “blood and guts” remark was actually uttered by Vince McMahon during the Q2 2019 conference call with investors saying that their plan was not to go back to the Attitude Era type of “blood and guts” unlike their new competitor, referring to AEW.
NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool II is officially sold out and no more tickets remain. The venue holds approximately 3,000 seats.
Tickets went on sale at 10AM GMT for £22.60, £45.20, and £67.80 and fans very quickly scooped up all available tickets, including the meet and greet tickets which were sold for an additional £56.50 on top of the entrance ticket.
The Empress Ballroom will host its second UK Takeover event on Sunday, January 12, 2020.
WWE will be presenting its now-annual Starrcade non-televised live event on December 1 live from the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth, Georgia. An hour from the show will stream on the WWE Network although at this point it wasn’t announced which matches will be featured in that live broadcast.
WWE has reshuffled the card a little bit and it will be now headlined by The Fiend Bray Wyatt taking on his former Wyatt Family member Braun Strowman in a steel cage match for the Universal title. The steel cage match was the main event of the first-ever Starrcade show back in 1983 and WWE has closed their own version of Starrcade with a steel cage as well over the past two years.
The Miz was supposed to wrestle Wyatt in the main event but now Miz sees himself taking on Shinsuke Nakamura for the Intercontinental title. Other title matches of this dual-branded show has Kabuki Warriors vs Lynch and Flair in a Texas Tornado match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles, AJ Styles vs Kevin Owens for the United States title, and The New Day vs The Revival for the Smackdown Tag Team titles.
Starrcade 2019 is nearly sold out but tickets are still available for purchase.
Sportsbooks tend to have a difficult job in setting odds for pro wrestling events. In fact, you will often see the betting lines suspended at a moment’s notice should a rumor drop about some change of outcome; moreover, they also have to judge what’s going on in Vince McMahon’s mind, and if he will decide to change the event. Survivor Series 2019 looks to be no different, and a couple of weeks before the event, bookmakers have settled on offering odds for three events that look like they are set in stone.
Brock Lesnar vs Rey Mysterio for the WWE Championship
Triple Threat Champions Tag Match
Triple Threat Champions Women’s Match
Below we are going to go through the betting odds for the outcome of each match, so please look away if you don’t want anything resembling a spoiler. To be fair though, the bookmakers aren’t too sure about the winners here, so perhaps don’t put too much weight on the betting favorites.
Lesnar vs Mysterio
Lesnar isn’t unfamiliar with providing a shock result or two down the years (think back to the win over Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 35, which the bookies had shorted), and, indeed, he has also upended some UFC betting markets during his career in the Octagon. In short, there should be some scepticism about Lesnar’s favorite status at odds of 11/25 (odds supplied by 888sport). The bookmakers are hot on Lesnar, but much longer than usual in a match that people are assuming is a foregone conclusion. Mysterio (8/5) is well within touching distance in betting terms, and there is a growing feeling that WWE might give him a final run with the title before he calls it quits on his career.
Triple Threat Champions Tag Match
Whether you believe it was out of desperation in the face of AEW’s challenge or not, adding NXT stars to Survivor Series looks like it could give the event quite the jolt in terms of fans’ excitement. The tag team match up sees The Viking Raiders, The New Day and NXT’s The Undisputed Era set to collide in a bout that looks tough to call. As such, sportsbooks have plumped for The Viking Raiders, with odds 3/5 cited. The New Day and The Undisputed Era are found at 11/4 and 5/2 respectively. One would argue that this match looks a little more open than the odds suggest, making one of New Day or NXT tag team champions worth a value bet.
Triple Threat Champions Women’s Match
The feeling here is that WWE is going to pull the trigger here on either Bayley or Shayna Bazler, with Becky Lynch seen as something of an outsider. The odds also suggest that, with Lynch a long shot at 7/2, Bayley at 6/4 and Bazler at 4/5. The question, of course, is how they go about doing it? Some are arguing that Bayley should be given the push along to becoming a top heel in the women’s division, and that’s understandable. But how to go about protecting the franchise player, Lynch, and one of the big stars of the future, Bazler? WWE’s go-to-answer for these conundrums is usually some kind of screwy finish, which will undoubtedly send the fans home unhappy.
