SummerSlam tickets are practically sold out with Ticketmaster.com showing only a few platinum seats available with prices going over CA $2,300.
Most of the tickets were grabbed during the pre-sale over the past two days, leaving only a small part of the tickets for general purchase. Ticketmaster was also selling a four-day combo event which included NXT Takeover, SummerSlam, Raw, and Smackdown tickets but that offer is also now gone and no longer available.
The Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, the site of this year’s SummerSlam weekend, will be configured for a maximum of 18,043 seats so this is good news for WWE.
Individual tickets for NXT Takeover, Raw, and Smackdown have not gone on sale yet.
Do you have a passion for wrestling and would like to add to the excitement by placing a little bet on the result? This can be a fun way to add even more enjoyment as you watch your favorite wrestlers throw down in the WWE or similar.Or perhaps you are even looking for an extra way to earn some income. In general it is never a good idea to look roulette online as a way of generating money, and in particular as a way of paying your bills. However, there are certain betting approaches which you can use to increase your chances of winning, and in some cases almost guarantee certain returns.
In this article, we look at the different ways you can bet on WWE and other forms of wrestling, with varying chances of financial returns.
Can You Bet on WWE?
At this point you may be wondering, how do you bet on WWE? Although by now at least most of us know that WWE wrestling matches are staged, you can actually bet on the results of these matches. This is because although the fights are scripted and the winners and losers are already determined before the fight starts, only a very limited number of people know what this result will be. Therefore, a number of online bookmakers, some specific to wrestling and others general sportsbooks, will let users bet on the results of the fights.
This means that, like any type of online betting on sporting matches, you can place a bet on the outcome, and depending on the result and the odds, you may receive a generous pay out in return. Gambling of course is heavily based on chance, however there are things you can do to bring the odds of success more in your favor, including having a degree of knowledge to help predict the result, and employing certain techniques and strategies. We will look at these in more detail in the sections below.
Take a Punt
The first and most obvious way to bet on wrestling fights is to simply place a bet. You can do this with a number of online bookmakers: typically you will need to sign up for an account, and then will be able to place bets online. Your winnings (if they eventuate) should then be credited to your account.
Betting on a result, whether wrestling or any other kind of sport, doesn’t need to be a stab in the dark. Having some knowledge of the sport and doing extra research on the particular fight or match will help you to make informed decisions and increase your chance of winning. In staged fight leagues like the WWF this is obviously even more complex than when betting on traditional sporting matches, whether boxing, football or horse racing. In these kinds of sports you can look at factors such as past form, injuries and experts predictions to make a best guess as to who will win. In the case of WWE the process organisers use to determine the result also has its own internal logic.
Money Line Bets
A money line bet is a particular type of bet. This basically is a bet that a particular athlete or team will win an event, and is not specific to how they win or by how much. In other words, they just need to win at all and you will win your bet! This have the advantage of being simple and straightforward, meaning that your chances of making a mistake are much lower than compared to complex bets.
This sounds simple enough, but it can be a little confusing when it comes to how sportsbooks present and pay money line bets out. The important thing to understand is how odds are presented. When placing a bet on, on a fight for example, you should look at the odds which are being offered by the online bookmaker. Obviously, sportsbooks don’t offer the same odds on every fight and every athlete – if they did, they would lose out significantly on the favorites. Therefore they offer better odds for the underdog.
Money line odds can be present in three different ways: American odds (+100), fractional odds (1/1), and decimal odds (1.00). Generally, US sportsbooks and online bookmakers use the first one. In American odds, the favorite will have a negative “-“ sign, and the underdog will have a positive “+” sign next to their betting odds. The bigger the number, the bigger the favorite/underdog they are. The key to making a good return on a bet is to finding the surest bet at the longest odds.
Matched Betting
If you want to take the guess work out of betting entirely, you can use the matched betting technique. Matched betting is not gambling, but rather a particular strategy which involves placing two bets at the same time on the exact opposite result, at the same odds. Of course this means that your winnings and losses will be exactly the same. The trick is to use free offers given out by online bookmakers to place one of the bets, meaning that you essentially pocket the amount of the free bet, and generate a small profit each time.
Sites like profitaccumulator.co.uk can connect you to information on how to use this technique effectively, how to find free offers, and link up with online peer support to make the most of your matched betting. There is a growing community of matched bettors online who report making a regular, steady profit from using this technique.
WWE stocks saw a 3.65% bump today, ending the day at $90.63 and a market cap of $6.83 billion. The 3.65% increase resulted in $3.19 more per share. At time of this writing, it continued to climb to $91.18 in after-hours trading.
The increase – which is a five-month high – came after Wolfe Research set a new bar for analysts’ price targets, increasing WWE’s target price to a whopping $157 from $105. Most analysts who cover the stock have their target price listed at $100.
With their new India and UK deals expected to be announced this year, the stock could sky rocket even more as the company is expected to make more money than ever this year thanks to strong television contracts with their broadcast partners.
Despite being the most popular wrestling pay-per-view of the year, WWE and DIRECTV remain at odds over pay-per-views, including this year’s WrestleMania.
For the past four years, DIRECTV has not carried WrestleMania – or any other WWE show on traditional PPV – and this year is no different. When we reached out to a DIRECTV representative regarding WrestleMania on DTV this year, the rep said, “Unfortunately, WWE events are no longer available for purchase on DIRECTV, in this case the WWE events aren’t available in PPV option.”
DIRECTV stopped airing WWE pay-per-views following WrestleMania XXX after the introduction of the WWE Network, citing unfair practice.
While DIRECTV will not be airing WrestleMania, many pay-per-view providers will, including DISH Network.
WrestleMania will be free for first-time subscribers to the WWE Network and subscribing to the service during WrestleMania week will allow you to watch the full library as well as the Hall of Fame, NXT Takeover: New York, WrestleMania, and other live broadcasts that WWE plans during the weekend. To start your 30-day free trial, go to http://w-o.it/wwentwrk.
Chelsea Green, the former Impact Wrestling and Tough Enough star who is now part of the WWE Performance Center as one of the trainees, will be undergoing surgery after breaking her wrist during a match.
Green wrestled Jessie Elaban in her first match at Full Sail University in a dark match during last night’s NXT TV tapings in Winter Park, Florida and that’s where she suffered the injury. Green noted on her social media that making her debut at Full Sail was everything she imagined it would be…but, “Of course, with this job comes occupational hazards. Unfortunately, I broke my wrist mid-match & will require surgery first thing tomorrow morning.”
Green said that she’s upset, angry, sore, and the whole situation sucks but this was just a small bump in the road for the goals she set for 2019.
She signed a WWE deal five months ago but has not appeared on NXT television yet. Prior to joining WWE again, Green wrestled as Laurel Van Ness in Impact Wrestling.
The seventh match on the WrestleMania card has been made official on WWE.COM, with WrestleMania veteran Randy Orton taking on the Phenomenal AJ Styles.
The two had an in-ring segment during Smackdown this week, arguing on who built “the house,” referring obviously to the Smackdown brand. Orton didn’t like the fact that AJ says Smackdown is “the house that AJ Styles built” and trashed him for being on the indies most of his career and getting a suntan with Dixie Carter while he was busting his ass building Smackdown throughout the years.
Rebutting Orton’s rundown, Styles said that Orton would not have lasted in the independents with a Diamond Cutter finish rip off and alleged that Orton needed his father’s help to get him a job with WWE and later needed the help of his Evolution buddies Triple H, Ric Flair, and Batista to make it in WWE.
AJ challenged Orton to a match at WrestleMania but Orton left without responding to the challenge.
A new NXT champion will be crowned at NXT Takeover: New York next month after the title was vacated during the television tapings last night.
With Tommaso Ciampa out for the next several months due to neck injury, the plan of Ciampa vs Gargano at Takeover went out of the window. Triple H kicked off the NXT TV tapings by announcing a fatal 5-way match between Aleister Black, Ricochet, Velveteen Dream, Adam Cole, and Matt Riddle, with the winner taking on Johnny Gargano during WrestleMania weekend.
Gargano and Ciampa were eliminated from the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic during the latest NXT TV episode on the WWE Network and the former tag team partners then turned on each other, an angle which was serving as the lead up to their Takeover match.
With Roman Reigns now pretty much resuming his full-time schedule with WWE, the former Universal champion has also been added to the WrestleMania Axxess fan interactive event.
Reigns will be signing autographs and posing for photos at Axxess on Monday, April 8 at 2PM. This will be part of the Noon Axxess session and the only one on Monday. A Premium VIP ticket is required to meet Reigns and tickets will be available this coming Friday at 10AM ET on Ticketmaster.com.
Meanwhile, Reigns has also been added to the upcoming European tour in May and will be working the Raw shows. Reigns was previously not part of the roster which was making the overseas trip.
The pre-sale for this year’s SummerSlam is currently on at Ticketmaster.com using the code WWESLAM.
It will end tomorrow, March 14, at 10PM ET ahead of the general public sale which takes place on Friday, March 15 at 10AM ET also at Ticketmaster.com. Seats on sale range from CA $121 to CA $628 and Ticketmaster is displaying a note saying that only single seats are left. More seats will obviously be available during the general public sale.
This year’s SummerSlam will be moving away from Brooklyn and will take place at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada, on August 11.
Smackdown did 2,198,000 viewers this week, up 43,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast. This was the second most-watched Smackdown of 2019 so far. The show was #2 on the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic and #8 in overall viewership for the night on cable. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
The odds have been stacked against Kofi Kingston and his dream to wrestle for the WWE title at WrestleMania 35 against Daniel Bryan.
But despite the odds, Kingston has a chance to earn that title shot after WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon gave him an opportunity…as long as he wins a massive gauntlet match next week on Smackdown.
And Kofi’s opponents aren’t easy either: Randy Orton, United States champion Samoa Joe, The Bar, and Erick Rowan. If Kofi beats all five next week, he gets his title shot at WrestleMania.
The last time Kofi entered a gauntlet match, he lasted over an hour and eliminated three of the five opponents he had to face. He got the place in the gauntlet match after Mustafa Ali was deemed unable to compete. At the Elimination Chamber a few days later, Kofi had another impressive outing but at the end lost to Bryan. The pay-per-view ended with Kofi getting a standing ovation from the crowd rather than with the champion celebrating.
The former multi-time tag team title holder is also gathering a lot of support from his peers on social media who are using the hash tag #KofiMania to show their support.
Monday Night Raw pulled in an average of 2,818,000 viewers this week for the post-Fastlane show, up 36,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast.
Hour one started with 2,838,000 viewers, then increased to 2,866,000 viewers for the second hour, and then down to 2,752,000 for the third and final hour. Viewership stayed consistent throughout the show this week and suffered no large drop from hour one to three as it’s usually the case.
The show was #1, #2, and #3 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic and #4 in overall viewership for the night on cable. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Smackdown Commissioner Shane McMahon will be stepping inside a WWE ring again at WrestleMania with his opponent this year being The Miz.
The match was highly expected after Shane turned on his former tag team partner at the Fastlane pay-per-view this past Sunday following their unsuccessful attempt at regaining the Smackdown Tag Team titles from The Usos.
McMahon is now doing the heel character on Smackdown and is demanding that he is introduced as the best in the word following his WWE World Cup win last November in Saudi Arabia. Being heel is not new to Shane who did the bad guy gimmick many years ago.
This is McMahon’s fourth WrestleMania match in a row, having previously wrestled The Undertaker, AJ Styles, and then teamed up with Daniel Bryan to take on Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. It’s his first match working as a heel since his surprise return a few years ago while The Miz will be working as a babyface at Mania for the first time as well.
The WWE Performance Center has welcomed three new additions to the ever-growing list of trainees. These are Robert Strauss, Stokely Hathaway, and Cal Bloom.
Strauss is best known for his role as Robbie E in Impact Wrestling. Now 35 years old, he last wrestled for Impact in 2017 and has been working the independents ever since. Apart from being an accomplished wrestler, Strauss has also participated in the trials for Dwayne Johnson’s The Titan Games and was a contestant on the CBS reality TV show The Amazing Race.
Hathaway has been working lately as a manager rather than a wrestler although he does wrestle occasionally. He spent the last few years managing at Ring of Honor and at EVOLVE. He was the manager of Moose in ROH, who now works for Impact Wrestling.
Bloom, certainly the biggest of all three in terms of size, is a second-generation wrestler. He is the son of former WWE Superstar Wayne Bloom, who was Beau Beverly of the Beverly Brothers. Bloom stands at 6’5″ and is 255lbs. He is a former football player and the 25-year-old still has yet to make his pro wrestling debut.
The eighth episode of the fourth season of Total Bellas was full of drama and family togetherness, as the whole Bella clan gathered in San Diego for some much needed family time.
This episode also contained two big decisions on the part of Brie Bella in her husband, Daniel Bryan. However, before any big decisions were made, the family went on several outings planned by the Bella family matriarch, Kathy.
On their first outing, the family took a sushi-making class, because what’s the fun of having lunch if you can’t play with your food? One family member disappointed the rest by showing up late for the raw fish fun. Brie and Daniel showed up 30 minutes late. Brie seemed more eager to eat her lunch rather than create it, so she quickly assembled and devoured her roll. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Nicole, choose to painstakingly follow each of the teachers instructions. It was further noted that Bryan was still busy rolling his sushi as the rest of the family ate. Furthermore, certain family members pointed out that Brie who is known to be indecisive about many things, crammed her roll full of ingredients rather than choosing just a couple. Personally, I think this family was getting just a little too analytical about lunch.
The ride to the sushi class also gave Brie plenty of time to criticize her husband’s slow driving. I think that Bryan is right to practice defensive driving techniques particularly due to the fact that he is often driving with the couple’s one-year-old daughter, Birdie, in the backseat, but apparently his slowness annoys Brie greatly. However, later on in the episode, Bryan got the chance to show Brie that he wasn’t so slow after all, by coming in first when the family raced go carts. This episode also presented many occasions during which one of Brie’s worst qualities, indecisiveness was on full display.
In recent episodes, Brie, Bryan, and Birdie moved from Phoenix, Arizona in order to comfort a despondent Nicole after her recent breakup. Nicole seems to be moving on just fine without Brie’s questionable heart healing abilities, while Brie doesn’t seem to be settling in well in her rented San Diego home. So, she suggested to her husband Bryan that they relocate yet again, breaking their lease and returning to Phoenix.
Brian pointed out that breaking their lease would cost them a large amount of money. Over the four seasons of Total Bellas, the couple has moved several times with Brie never feeling settled in any of their homes. However, she desperately wanted her daughter to put down permanent roots somewhere. When she mentioned this to Bryan he suggested that it wasn’t only their home that Brie was being indecisive about.
Throughout this season, Brie has been toying with the idea of retiring after the all women’s pay-per-view, Evolution. She has been torn between continuing to have the career she loves and focusing on growing the family that she had Bryan have. However, in the end of this episode, Brie finally decided that she would be hanging up her wrestling boots permanently, and focusing on adding another baby to the family so that Birdie can have a sibling who is close to her in age.
The Danielsons have also decided that Phoenix is also the best place to raise their family. Congratulations, Brie and good luck on all your future endeavors. I can’t wait to see what adventure awaits for the rest of this season of Total Bellas, and who knows maybe we’ll be seeing a second baby Danielson in time for next season!
Total Bellas episode eight of season four, titled Road to Evolution, pulled in 441,000 viewers, up 30,000 viewers from last week’s episode. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Triple H and Batista’s match at WrestleMania was made official last night on Monday Night Raw and the two former Evolution partners will battle in a no holds barred match.
This will be Batista’s first match at WrestleMania since WrestleMania 30 and his first wrestling match overall since Payback 2014 where he and Evolution were defeated by The Shield. Batista went on to quit WWE in June of that year due to creative differences.
Triple H has not wrestled since the Australian pay-per-view Super Show-Down where he teamed up with Shawn Michaels to take on The Undertaker and Kane. He tore his pectoral muscle during the match but soldiered on and finished the match. He underwent surgery since then and is now cleared to return to the ring.
The two already met at WrestleMania, way back at WrestleMania 21 in 2005. On that day, Batista came out on top and defeated Triple H for the World Heavyweight title. Triple H has never beat Batista in a one-on-one match.
WWE has surpassed 1 billion fans in total on its multiple social media accounts, an impressive feat not matched by any other company.
On Facebook, WWE has a total of 501 million likes with John Cena having more than 44 million on his own making him the most followed active American athlete on Facebook. Instagram is the next most-followed by WWE fans with 226 million followers. On this platform, as with the rest of social networks, a brand, company or person is considered to be more popular the higher the number of followers it has, something that many companies take into account when it comes to bringing carry out a strategy that allows them to gain importance, notoriety and visibility among users of the social network. Precisely for this reason, the buy real Instagram followers is an increasingly recurring action, mainly because it allows improving the level of positioning of an Instagram profile much faster than it would have to achieve those same results manually. Or making use of Galaxy Marketing and advertising strategies.
On Twitter, 221 million fans follow WWE accounts, while 46 million subscribers are on WWE’s YouTube, which is the number one sports channel on the platform with 30 billion views. WWE’s YouTube channel is also the second most-viewed channel in the world behind only T-Series, India’s largest music label and movie studio.
WWE’s 15 social media platforms include Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, Qzone, Toutiao, WeChat, V+, Weibo, YouKu, Periscope, Pinterest, Foursquare and Tumblr.
Former Raw and Smackdown Women’s champion Alexa Bliss will be the host of this year’s WrestleMania.
Bliss, who spent several months out last year due to multiple concussions, has not wrestled since returning at this year’s Royal Rumble match and while she was cleared, she remains absent from the ring.
Bliss now hosts the Raw segment A Moment of Bliss and it was during this segment that she revealed herself as the host of WrestleMania 35.
There was no host for last year’s WrestleMania but The New Day did host WrestleMania 33 in Orlando. Other Superstars who hosted WrestleMania in the past include The Rock and Hulk Hogan.
Meanwhile, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che will be at the show as well as guest correspondents.
WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle will hang up his wrestling boots once and for all after he wrestles one final match at WrestleMania 35.
The announcement came from Angle himself last night on Raw which was followed by a match against Apollo Crews in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
No opponent was named and at this point it remains unclear who will be wrestling Angle in his last match.
When Kurt returned to WWE a few years ago, his aim was to return to the ring. That happened a dozen of times as even during his tenure as Raw General Manager, he still wrestled occasionally especially at non-televised events. He was given a prominent role at WrestleMania last year teaming up with Ronda Rousey and will once again have an important match on this year’s card.
