Here are the full betting odds for tonight’s Stomping Grounds pay-per-view. Remember, these odds are most likely to change as the event gets closer to bell time so please be careful if you’re betting with real money.
Kofi Kingston remains the overwhelming favorite to retain the WWE title tonight in the steel cage match against Dolph Ziggler who is at 6/1 for the win. A Brock Lesnar cash-in and win is 7/1. Seth Rollins is also favorite to keep his Universal title with odds of 1/4 against Baron Corbin who is at 11/4 himself in the odds. A Brock cash-in and win is set at 11/2.
The Raw Women’s title match has champion Becky Lynch as favorite with odds of 2/5 while her challenger Lacey Evans is at 7/4. Meanwhile, Bayley is at 1/7 to keep the Smackdown Women’s title against Alexa Bliss who is at 4/1 for the upset.
There are three other title matches on the card. Samoa Joe is at 2/5 to retain the United States title against Ricochet who is at 15/8 to win. Daniel Bryan and Rowan are at 1/3 to keep the Smackdown Tag Team titles against Heavy Machinery who are at 9/4, and Tony Nese is at 1/2 to keep his Cruiserweight title against Drew Gulak who is at 3/1 and Akira Tozawa who has odds of 9/2.
The remaining two matches have Drew McIntyre and Roman Reigns locked at 5/6 odds for both of them and Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn favorites with odds of 1/2 against The New Day who are at 6/4.
PWInsider.com is reporting that All Elite Wrestling has applied for a trademark for the term Wednesday Night Dynamite with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The trademark was filed on June 18 by attorney Maya L. Tarr on behalf of All Elite Wrestling LLC under several goods and services including entertainment services, live streaming of video, toys, apparel, and many others.
The company also filed for a trademark for Tuesday Night Dynamite in November 2018 as plans were for AEW to hold their weekly TV show on Tuesday nights since Smackdown is moving to Fridays come October.
But with WWE planning to have a studio show on FS1 on Tuesdays in the current time slot of Smackdown, AEW looks like they want to avoid any competition for the time being and there is no wrestling on cable TV on Wednesdays.
AEW is set to debut on TNT in October with a weekly two-hour live event but no start date has been announced yet.
Live tonight from the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, WWE presents Stomping Grounds 2019 on pay-per-view and on WWE Network. The full card is as follows:
Kofi Kingston vs Dolph Ziggler in a steel cage match for the WWE title; Seth Rollins vs Baron Corbin for the Universal title; Becky Lynch vs Lacey Evans for the Raw Women’s title; Bayley vs Alexa Bliss for the Smackdown Women’s title; Samoa Joe vs Ricochet for the United States title; Tony Nese vs Akira Tozawa vs Drew Gulak in a triple threat match for the Cruiserweight title; Daniel Bryan and Rowan vs Heavy Machinery for the Smackdown Tag Team titles; The New Day vs Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn; Roman Reigns vs Drew McIntyre.
Stomping Grounds is available for free on the WWE Network if you’re a first-time subscriber. Simply go to http://w-o.it/wwentwrk to start your 30-day free trial.
Just over 500 tickets remain available through Ticketmaster.com for the Stomping Grounds pay-per-view tonight.
WWE managed to move a few tickets over the past few weeks after the turnout was not looking that good at all. Floor seats remain, including row A which are going for $227. The prices have not been inflated by Ticketmaster as usual due to the lack of interest in the show. Cheapest prices for tickets in the bleachers are priced $27.
The company has been having a hard time filling arenas over the past year and it’s a problem that they have acknowledged and vowed to fix, but nothing has changed. Television tapings usually have whole sections of empty seats behind the camera as WWE moves people around across the camera to make the arena look full. Wide shots of arenas are few and far in between lately on television due to the low attendances.
In an interview with the New York Post, the number one contender for the Smackdown Women’s title Alexa Bliss discussed the fear of her career being over after a couple of concussions sidelined her for several months.
Bliss said that after the second concussion, she was worried of not being able to get back in the ring. “There’s so many different types of concussions and I didn’t know that at the time. Each one had to be treated differently and the fact that I didn’t know what was going on with my brain and didn’t know until I saw the concussion specialist, it made me very scared,” Bliss said.
Bliss traveled to Pittsburgh to see concussion expert Dr. Michael “Micky” Collins to get a better explanation of what’s going on with her brain and also talked with Daniel Bryan about the subject.
“The stuff that he [Dr. Collins] taught me about concussions and injury has been so mind opening and mind blowing, actually,” Bliss said. “It made me feel like for the first time that I actually was in control of my own injury and actually well aware of what was going on in my brain and it made me feel so much better about returning to the ring because concussions are a scary thing.
The former champ was relieved to hear that she could make a full recovery and with doctors being certain of that, made her feel much better. She noted that when she was not able to work, she was driving herself a little bit crazy but was thankful that she got to do a lot of things that she otherwise wouldn’t have done if she didn’t have the time off.
Bliss also briefly touched the trip to Saudi Arabia and how they eventually were not allowed to wrestle during Super ShowDown. “One person came up to me during the show, shook my hand and thanked us for being there and said, ‘We really hope to see you guys have a match here soon,’“ Bliss said. “So it’s definitely something that would be embraced, I feel.”
It’s pay-per-view time again and tomorrow WWE will present Stomping Grounds, a brand new PPV name for 2019. Today, we take a look at the betting odds for top four matches on the show and a full review will be done tomorrow prior to the show.
In the Universal title match, Seth Rollins is the favorite at 1/5 to retain the title over Baron Corbin who is at 7/2 for the upset. A potential MITB cash-in from Brock Lesnar and a win for Lesnar is listed at 11/2, which in betting terms is more far fetched than Corbin winning the title.
The WWE title will be on the line in a steel cage match and the current champion, Kofi Kingston, is at 1/12 overwhelming favorite to walk out as the champion. Dolph Ziggler is at 6/1 while a Lesnar win following a MITB cash-in stands at 7/1.
Both Women’s titles will also be up for grabs, with Becky Lynch at 2/5 favorite to retain the Raw Women’s title over Lacey Evans who is at 7/4, and Bayley is 1/7 favorite to also keep the Smackdown Women’s title against Alexa Bliss who is at 4/1.
Former WWE Cruiserweight champion TJP made his return to Impact Wrestling during yesterday’s episode.
Perkins returned when Ace Austin was cutting a promo in the ring and issued an open challenge, which TJP responded to. The two had a match which TJP eventually won with the Detonation Kick.
This is his second stint with Impact having previously wrestled for the company between 2004 and 2016. He assumed the identity of Manik in the final few years in the company.
In 2016, he moved to WWE and participated in the Cruiserweight Classic tournament, winning the tournament and the Cruiserweight title as well.
He was released from WWE in February of this year. Perkins has not signed a deal with Impact yet and will still be appearing on the independent scene.
A Breakout Tournament will be held over the next several weeks on NXT television with eight wrestlers who are currently training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
The single-elimination tournament will feature Jordan Myles (Formerly ACH), BOA, Cameron Grimes (Formerly Trevor Lee), Isaiah Scott (Formerly Shane Strickland), Dexter Lumis (Formerly Sam Shaw), Bronson Reed (Formerly Jonah Rock), Angel Garza (Formerly Humberto Garza), and Joaquin Wilde (Formerly DJZ).
The winner of this tournament will receive a title shot of their choosing.
The matches of the left bracket are Dexter Lumix vs Bronson Reed and Isiah Scott vs Cameron Grimes. The right bracket has Angel Garza vs Joaquin Wilde and Jordan Myles vs BOA.
WWE’s Watch Along is returning for the Stomping Grounds pay-per-view this Sunday without the usual host Pat McAfee. Instead, it will be Cathy Kelley who will be anchoring the show this time around.
Guests scheduled to stop by during the duration of the show are Dana Brooke, Zack Ryder, Curt Hawkins, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows, Heath Slater, David Otunga, and WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. The show will stream on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter and will feature a live discussion and reactions from the guests while they watch Stomping Grounds backstage.
The broadcast is usually a train wreck of the sorts with everyone talking at the same time but it does provide some funny moments and the occasional slip up of spoilers!
Pat McAfee has been hosting Watch Along since it was first created. It’s not known why he won’t be anchoring this month’s show.
Wrestling is rather an interesting sport that you would want to try out. Probably not try out but even watch. Growing up, a lot of people were really fascinated by wrestling. And from the time that it started we must say that the popularity it has gained is out of this world. And because of that, it was integrated to entertainment wrestling.
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Do you know anything about Make-A-Wish Foundation? And you would wonder why this is even in connection with wrestling. But let’s cut to the chase. Do you know that John Cena is currently holding the record for granting the most wishes.
Probably you have seen a lot of wrestlers that wear masks. But did you know that after the fight when Kane beat Steve Austin he was the first WWE Champion to actually put on a mask.
How interesting is it to see a movie that has big wrestling personalities actually acting? The undertaker is a rather controversial character in wrestling and acting with one of the biggest wrestlers (Hulk Hogan) in the world is just the most astounding thing you could ever ask for. Maybe it’s time casinos in usa create a slot based on him.
From a wrestler to a writer? That seems pretty interesting. After being a superstar on RAW and WWE, CM Punk went on to write or become a writer perhaps for comic books. We must say that the switch of professions is rather unusual, which makes it interesting.
E! has greenlit Total Bellas for its fifth season which will premiere in early 2020, featuring 10, one-hour long episodes.
“Nikki and Brie have never shied away from revealing every aspect of their lives to our viewers,” said Amy Introcaso-Davis, Executive Vice President, Development and Production, E! “They’re strong women who are incredibly relatable and connect deeply with our audience.”
Season four averaged 436,000 viewers per episode, a big drop from the 582,000 average per episode from season three. But the show still ranked as a top three program for E! and when adding DVR and other replays, it averaged 783,000 viewers.
“We’re at a really exciting point in our lives and can’t wait to take the Bella Army on this journey as we continue to work hard and inspire them to live their dreams,” said Brie Bella.
“We’re looking forward to sharing our triumphs and challenges with our fans this season and hope they all have as much fun as we’re having along the way,” added Nikki Bella.
Total Bellas is produced by WWE and Bunim/Murray Productions with Gil Goldschein, Russell Jay and Farnaz Farjam Chazan serving as Executive Producers for Bunim/Murray Productions and Kevin Dunn and Chris Kaiser serving as Executive Producer for WWE. Nikki Bella and Brie Bella also serve as Executive Producers.
The Showtime-produced Mauro Ranallo documentary titled Bipolar Rock ‘N Roller has been uploaded in full on YouTube for free by Showtime.
The documentary made its premiere on May 25, 2018 as it highlighted Ranallo’s lifelong battle with mental illness and took a look at his Bipolar Affective Disorder, a condition affecting nearly five percent of the U.S. population according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
As a national sportscaster for boxing, mixed martial arts and WWE events, Ranallo has long been an advocate for ending the stigma of mental illness. Through extensive behind-the-scenes video footage, candid personal interviews and detailed accounts from his loved ones and doctors, the doc takes an unflinching look at mental illness and its effects.
“I have always tried to do my part to bring awareness to mental health issues,” said Ranallo at the time when the documentary premiered. “Over the last several years, I allowed my best friend, Haris (Usanovic), to film me at my lowest points as well as at my highest. The idea is simply to show others who suffer that they are not alone and that, even when the outlook is bleak, you can overcome and achieve success. Mental illness is a life sentence—there is no cure—but it doesn’t have to be a death sentence.”
After a turbulent year in WWE, Ranallo switched to NXT where he continues to have some of his best work behind the broadcast table.
Wrestling is something that has been around for a very long time. For some, it goes beyond entertainment. While others just think that it is fake. Today, on the other hand, we want to look at a few reasons why people love professional wrestling with specific reference to WWE.
Reasons to Love WWE
WWE like any show is strictly for entertainment. It’s like playing top rated online casino games for real money in your free time. As we all know that the E at the end of the acronym stands for entertainment. And we all know that entertainment doesn’t have to be real or fake, it just needs to give you a good time as you watch.
No Teams
Wrestling is entertainment like no other. There are no teams in wrestling. Even the so-called tag teams at times turn against each other and that makes it even more entertaining than other sports that people like. With wrestling it’s just an individual wrestler whose job is to keep all the fans entertained.
Monday Raw Hype
Most people, be it they work or not have this hatred for Monday. And well, with Monday Night RAW we have something look forward to. You have this ring filled with people who just want to fight each other so that you are made happy. What better way to blow off the Monday steam than by watching people who are dedicated to keeping you entertained? Did you know there’s also betting odds for WWE? One of the most popular is WWE Stomping Grounds. Visit choiceonlinecasino.com to read more about WWE Betting odds.
No Leaks
Most people hate wrestling because they believe that it is fake. Well, to be honest, the WWE is staged entertainment, it’s just scripted. It’s for entertainment purposes, so of course, it scripted. But unlike all the other scripts and TV shows out there, there are no wrestling leaks. Which makes it all the better for fans as they know that they have something to genuinely look forward to.
After losing the 24/7 title to Drake Maverick this week on Smackdown, R-Truth regained the title yesterday on the day of Maverick’s wedding!
The switch came after Maverick tied the knot with Renee Michelle, also a professional wrestler. As the two were walking back down the aisle, Maverick was blocked by a referee who was standing in the way. It was too late for a reaction though as as soon as he realized what was about to happen, R-Truth rolled him up from behind and pinned him in the middle of the aisle.
As Truth celebrated, he ran away and Maverick left his wife there so he could run after him! The 36-year-old Brit has been running – literally – after the 24/7 title ever since it was introduced and only managed to win it on Tuesday after he tricked Truth that he’s Carmella.
Maverick had EC3, Jeremy Borash, Braun Strowman and others as his groomsmen. His wife participated in the 2017 Mae Young Classic tournament, losing in the first round to Candice LaRae. Congratulations to the new couple!
Appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, Nikki Bella revealed the real reason why she is officially retired from the ring.
Alongside with her twin sister Brie, Nikki said that the two were thinking of stepping back in the ring and going after the Women’s Tag Team titles but since she hadn’t been in the ring for months, she felt like she needed to get a check-up.
“The results came back and I herniated the disc above where I had surgery. I have all this inflammation around the metal and then I have a cyst on my brain. So, they were like ‘you’re done, no more.’ So I didn’t get a choice, which sucks,” Nikki told Fallon.
Nikki announced her retirement on an episode of Total Divas last season but the real reason why she’s stepping away was never announced.
The former champion last stepped inside the ring against Ronda Rousey, main eventing the first-ever all-women pay-per-view Evolution last year.
Having moved on from John Cena, Nikki is now dating her former Dancing with the Stars pro-partner Artem Chigvintsev.
It will be a while before we see Lars Sullivan back in the ring as Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer is reporting that the knee injury he is suffering from is worse than originally thought.
Sullivan is expected to be out between six to nine months and last wrestled on the June 10 episode of Monday Night Raw. On that night, Sullivan defeated the Lucha House Party in a 3-on-1 handicap elimination match and injured his knee during that match.
It’s been a rough two months for the former NXT star as last month, fans were calling for his dismissal due to the old racist and homophobic posts unearthed from the BodyBuilding.com forum he used to be active on. Sullivan was fined by WWE for his words but no other disciplinary actions were taken.
WWE is ending its three-decade partnership with British Sky Broadcasting as it moves all of its programming to BT Sport starting from January 2020.
The partnership between WWE and Sky is the longest in terms of TV deals for WWE with Sky bringing WWE shows in 1989. It’s a partnership that even outlasts WWE’s deal with USA Network in the United States, but as they say, all good things come to an end. Their last deal was signed on January 30, 2014 with a five-year agreement where Sky continued to be the exclusive home of all WWE shows including pay-per-views.
WWE viewership on Sky greatly diminished over the years and despite Sky being in 8.5 million homes in the United Kingdom, WWE only got a small fraction of that viewership every week. The live Raw and Smackdown shows draw dismal viewership, although in fairness they air at 1AM local time, and pay-per-views on Sky Box Office don’t do great either due to the WWE Network.
BT Sport launched in August 2013 in an attempt to dethrone Sky as the king of sports in the UK and Ireland. The channel is owned by BT Group, the telecommunications giant in the country. While over the years BT Sport has managed to snap up rights for some Premiere League games, all UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches, the UFC, and other mainstream sports, it is still way behind in terms of subscriptions compared to Sky. BT Sport is available in less than 3 million homes and it is accessible on BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media television platforms in the UK and Sky, Eir TV and Vodafone TV in the Republic of Ireland.
WWE has not revealed the details of the new deal with BT Sport. The United Kingdom television deal is one of the most lucrative ones for the company along with that of India and of course the United States.
Cruise vs Bieber the latest celebrity grudge match
Many in the pro-fighting world clutched their heads recently, as pop poodle Justin Bieber, decided, out of the blue, to challenge “Mission: Impossible” action hero Tom Cruise to a cage fight. No one quite knows why this happened or what Bieber hoped to gain from it. Certainly, neither of them needs the money or a boost to their career, with Bieber recently topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and Cruise about to take off with a brand-new “Top Gun” adventure later this year. Bieber has since backed down, claiming that the challenge was a joke sent while bored, but UFC president Dana White has not it go, claiming he has real backers for the fight.
Promotion Power
Celebrity fights are nothing new and have brought new audiences to fighting sports for many years. These fights may not hold much interest for the real fans, but they attract a lot of interest, and backing, from casual fans, with bookmakers queuing up to attract their business with a range of free bet offers on sites like on Oddschecker. Wrestling has recruited everyone from Muhammad Ali to Mr. T to boost their reach down the years. WrestleMania II Battle Royal turned to the services of NFL stars such as William “Refrigerator” Perry to try and bring new fans across from football. The WWE has even opened a “celebrity wing” of its Hall of Fame, with inductees that include Kid Rock, who proved at WrestleMania 25 that while he may have a great wrestling name, that’s pretty much where his talent for the sport ends.
The promotional power of celebrity crossovers now spreads beyond wrestling to include the serious no-holds-barred world of UFC. Many are less than comfortable with this, but one of the biggest UFC stars of all time, Georges St-Pierre, says it is inevitable. “The world is changing,” he told a recent press conference, “and we have to change with it.”
Celebrity Boxing
Wrestling isn’t the only ring sport that has turned to celebrities to boost ratings. The boxing ring is a regular hangout for a host of big names, although generally, these bouts have involved celebrities fighting each other rather than being pummeled by the pros. Fox had its own show, Celebrity Boxing, which included a whole host of fading stars, keen to either revitalize their career or perhaps pay their mortgage. From white rapper Vanilla Ice to disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding, the program scraped the bottom of the barrel in its search for ratings.
Vanilla Ice gave celebrity boxing a bad rap
Celebrity Street Fights
Of course, some celebrities don’t need a boxing or wrestling ring to start a fight. Some barely even need a reason. They will happily fight between themselves, such as Axl Rose’s slapping session with none other than designer Tommy Hilfiger while others, such as actors Lindsay Lohan and Shia LaBeouf as well as Icelandic singer Björk as happy to lash out at anyone in their vicinity.
Perhaps the strangest celebrity fight of them all happened between the two men you’d least expect to turn to their fists rather than their wits to solve a dispute. Although both went on to international fame and fortune, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase were fiercely competitive in their early careers on “Saturday Night Live.” It boiled over one night when Murray called Chase a “medium talent,” and the two went at it with gusto until separated by fellow cast members.
Cruise vs. Bieber?
So, what can we expect from a Cruise vs. Bieber match-up? On the one hand, Bieber is less than half the age of the movie star at just 25 to Cruise’s 56. Still, at the same time, Cruise has proved time and time again in his “Mission: Impossible” movies that he is hard as nails, doing most of his own stunts and even breaking his ankle in the process on the last installment. With Bieber, by his own admission, “really skinny right now,” this could be quite a one-sided affair, leading to his loss in a matter of minutes!
All Elite Wrestling will unveil the brand new Women’s title at the upcoming All Out pay-per-view on August 31.
The news was revealed by Chief Brand Officer Brandi Rhodes during the latest Road to Fyter Fest YouTube series video.
There was no mention of when the inaugural champion will be crowned and what will the process be to find out who will challenge for the title. AEW will have a new World champ that night as Hangman Page takes on Chris Jericho and probably the focus that night will be on that title.
Bret Hart unveiled the AEW World title at the Double or Nothing pay-per-view and most likely the company will take a similar route for the unveiling of the Women’s belt.
After three decades of partnership with BSkyB, WWE is switching sides in the United Kingdom.
BT Sport today announced a new multi-year deal with WWE which will see BT Sport becoming the exclusive home of WWE in the United Kingdom and Ireland starting January 2020.
BT Sport will air both Raw and Smackdown live every week and will also carry same day primetime re-airs of Raw on Tuesdays and SmackDown on Saturdays, a two-hour version of Raw, one-hour version of Raw and one-hour version of SmackDown across its portfolio of channels. All WWE pay-per-views will also air on BT Sport Box Office. WWE and BT Sport will also partner across digital and social media platforms to create new content, further increase reach, and drive engagement for UK and Irish fans.
BT’s Managing Director of Content and Strategy, Andy Haworth said, “We are incredibly excited by our new partnership with WWE. It is the most successful sports entertainment brand in the world, with a rich, fun and colorful history, loved by fans across the UK and Ireland. This is a brilliant addition for our customers and we can’t wait to get going in January.”
Stefan Kastenmüller, WWE Senior Vice President & Group General Manager, added, “We are pleased to begin an exciting new chapter for WWE in the region as we join BT Sport’s innovative offering and impressive portfolio of premium sports content.”
