WWE Superstar Lana turned quite a few heads around as she strolled around in Beverly Hills this weekend as her husband Rusev is out in South America for the Smackdown brand tour.
Paparazzi snapped Lana – real name CJ Perry – wearing a fitted sports trousers and a white see-through tank top with no bra, leaving pretty much nothing to the imagination.
Lana did not travel to the Smackdown tour and was most likely in the area doing filming for Total Divas for the gender reveal party for The Miz and Maryse.
You can see the photos, courtesy of Celebsfirst.com below.
Triple H stepped inside a WWE ring as a wrestler for the first time since WrestleMania 33 today in Santiago, Chile as WWE stepped up its efforts to make up for the departures of Kevin Owens and AJ Styles from the South American tour.
The former WWE champion looked as good as ever as he wrestled Rusev during the show, winning the match with his Pedigree finishing move. The Game made his trademark entrance, coming down with a leather vest as the fans in Santiago cheered on.
After the match, The New Day convinced Triple H to dance with them, but after Triple H stopped showing his dance moves, he Pedigreed Kofi Kingston. Earlier, The New Day – who teamed up with Randy Orton for their match – also danced with Orton. He tried to escape but was dragged back to the ring to bust a move.
With hours away from the TLC pay-per-view, odds for the 5-on-3 handicap TLC match remain largely the same, with Kurt Angle, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose the favorites with odds at 4/9. Their five opponents – The Miz, Sheamus, Cesaro, Kane, and Braun Strowman – are at 13/8 for the win.
In the only two title matches on the card, Enzo Amore is the favorite to win the match and the title, with his odds at 2/7. Kalisto, who won the title just a couple of weeks ago, is at 5/2 to retain the Cruiserweight belt. Alexa Bliss is the overwhelming favorite to retain the Raw Women’s title with odds at 1/6, while her opponent and challenger Mickie James is at 7/2 for the upset.
Finn Balor remains the favorite at 2/5 in the battle of former Bullet Club leaders, with AJ Styles from Smackdown at 7/4 for the win. Asuka is at a whopping 1/50 to continue her undefeated streak while Emma is at a very distant 12/1 for the unthinkable upset. Brian Kendrick and Jack Gallagher are 4/5 to win their cruiserweight tag team match while Cedric Alexander and Rich Swann are very close at 10/11 for a win. And in the Kickoff match, Sasha Banks is clear favorite at 1/4 while Alicia Fox is at 11/4.
Bets are most likely going to change by the time the pay-per-view starts so be careful before placing any money.
Live from the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, WWE presents TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs on pay-per-view and the WWE Network. The full card is as follows:
Kurt Angle, Dean Ambrose, and Seth Rollins vs The Miz, Sheamus, Cesaro, Braun Strowman, and Kane in a 5-on-3 handicap TLC match; Alexa Bliss vs Mickie James for the Raw Women’s title; Kalisto vs Enzo Amore for the Cruiserweight title; Finn Balor vs AJ Styles; Asuka vs Emma; Cedric Alexander and Rich Swann vs Gentleman Jack Gallagher and The Brian Kendrick; and Sasha Banks vs Alicia Fox in the Kickoff match.
TLC is free for first-time subscribers to the WWE Network. To start your 30-day free trial, simply go to http://w-o.it/wwentwrk and sign up. Signing up today will also include NXT Takeover: WarGames and Survivor Series free as part of your trial.
Singers Avril Lavigne and Ryan Cabrera were two of the many guests invited to The Miz and Maryse’s Halloween-themed gender reveal party at the couple’s villa in Los Angeles on Friday night.
Lavigne, who is friends with Maryse, showed up to the party dressed as…Maryse, while Cabrera showed up as The Miz!
“This is what it looks like when u steal @mikethemiz & @marysemizanin actual ring clothes when they weren’t home!! We go hard in the paint when it comes to Halloween,” Cabrera wrote on Instagram, along with a photo of himself and Lavigne in their outfits doing the typical Miz/Maryse poses.
All four then posed for a photo doing the same pose. You can see the photos below.
Hey everybody! It’s @TheMagnumDA with another installment of the PPV Pick’em Contest. Tonight, it’s TLC and it’s live from my hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. As many of you are aware, the viral meningitis bug has hit the WWE locker room. This means that the planned Shield reunion has been put on hiatus. But fear not! Because for the first time in 11 years, Raw GM Kurt Angle will be stepping into a WWE ring to take Roman Reigns’ place in the main event! With that in mind, let’s run down the cards and the picks with our very own Colin Vassallo!
Sasha Banks vs. Alicia Fox
Magnum: I think this was put on the card to reestablish Banks as a top contender for the Women’s title. These two seem to have great chemistry, though… so expect the best possible match out of Fox. Give me Banks to win clean.
Colin: If this was the original planned match between Sasha and Nia, I would have said Nia wins, but against Foxy, I would be surprised if Banks loses. I say Banks with the win.
Brian Kendrick and Jack Gallagher vs. Rich Swann and Cedric Alexander
Magnum: A peculiar turn of events has led to this contest. Get it? Turn? I…okay, I’ll shut up. Whoever gets the fall here will probably become the #1 contender for the Cruiserweight Championship. I’m going to give that to the newly-turned Gallagher. Kendrick and Gallagher win.
Colin: I gotta be honest, I don’t follow 205 Live much, if at all. I think it’s another hour of live TV that WWE can do without at the moment. With that said, Kendrick/Gallagher are my pick.
Kalisto (c) vs. Enzo Amore (Cruiserweight Championship)
Magnum: What a long, strange trip this Enzo turn has been. It actually led Neville to leave the company! I still think they’re trying to find their footing with Kalisto, so expect him to retain. He’s got Gallagher and Kendrick to worry about next.
Colin: I still don’t know why they gave Enzo the title and then take it away after a couple of weeks. I hate when they do that – with any title. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again today. Kalisto retains.
Finn Balor vs. AJ Styles
Magnum: What a fascinating matchup this is. These two men definitely have a history as former members of the Bullet Club, however their paths have never crossed in WWE until now. I think this could be the match of the night. Balor wins in a ****+ contest.
Colin: This will probably steal the show. I would be surprised if it doesn’t. Considering this is a Raw show, I expect Balor to win. Who would like a Club reunion here with Gallows/Anderson interfering? Maybe a heel turn for Finn? Hey, I can play fantasy booker too.
Alexa Bliss vs. Mickie James (Raw Women’s Championship)
Magnum: It’s great to see Mickie finally getting a title shot in a one-on-one match, but I think Little Miss Bliss has another date on the horizon with Sasha Banks. I like Alexa to retain here.
Colin: Mickie hasn’t done anything special since returning to the company. Her experience surely helps many around, especially backstage. She’s still a great addition, but she does not need the title around her waist at this point in her career. Bliss to retain.
Asuka vs. Emma
Magnum: Wouldn’t it be stunning to see Asuka go down in a shocking upset in her debut match at TLC? I could see it now…actually, no I can’t. It would probably ruin her career. Asuka wins.
Colin: Do we really need to do this for this match? I mean, if there’s someone who will defeat Asuka’s streak it surely ain’t Emma. Wonder what the odds are for Emma in this match! Asuka to extend her undefeated streak.
Kurt Angle, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs. The Bar, The Miz, Kane and Braun Strowman (TLC)
Magnum: Another crazy turn of events has Roman Reigns out of this match, with Kurt Angle taking his place! It’s a savvy move by WWE to prevent them from botching the planned Shield reunion. However, this could all lead to a big storyline down the road. Personally, I’m marking out at the thought of Kane vs. Kurt Angle. They had a killer match 15 years ago at WrestleMania. Yes, they’re grizzled veterans now, but there should be enough excitement and craziness to keep fans interested. Give me the Olympian and the Tag Champs to take it all in this main event.
Colin: The faces are the favorites here according to the odds. Anytime there’s a 5-on-3 handicap match and the 3 win, there’s something wrong, especially when the opponents include Strowman, Kane, Sheamus, Cesaro, and The Miz. I get the whole nostalgia act of Angle returning (he shouldn’t have for this one, but that’s another story in itself) but the heels should win this one, especially since Reigns is not here and that would set up a good rematch with The Shield in-ring reunion finally taking place.
So there you have it! Enjoy tonight’s show and we will see you for the Survivor Series!!
The longest-reigning NXT Women’s champion will be making her main roster debut tonight, two months after she last wrestled at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III.
Asuka, who is the 7th longest reigning champion in WWE history, will be taking on Emma tonight on the pay-per-view in a rematch from the NXT Takeover: London event.
The Empress of Tomorrow has been out of action due to a broken collarbone she suffered against Ember Moon at Brooklyn III. She surrendered the NXT Women’s title to NXT General Manager William Regal at the following NXT television tapings, ending her 523-day title reign undefeated.
Asuka is the latest star to be called up from NXT and joined a growing list that has Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Sasha Banks, Charlotte, Becky Lynch, Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode, Carmella, Alexa Bliss, and many others.
With AJ Styles and Kevin Owens taken off the South American tour, it was time to give WWE fans something big, and that came in the form of Triple H.
AJ Styles got pulled for TLC to replace Bray Wyatt while Kevin Owens was pulled due to personal reasons.
“My boots are packed and I’m coming for a fight. #WWESantiago, I’m headed your way. Chile, get ready…it’s #GameTime,” tweeted Triple H. The last time Triple H wrestled was at WrestleMania, losing to Seth Rollins.
Meanwhile, Kevin Owens addressed the fans on Twitter following his removal from the tour. “I’m not sick. I’m not hurt. My family needed me home. Thank you to @WWE & the fans in Argentina & Chile for their support and understanding,” Owens tweeted today.
There are two shows left on the four-day South American tour and both are back-to-back shows in Santiago.
The Miz and Maryse are expecting a baby girl. The gender was revealed during a Halloween party at the couple’s villa in Los Angeles this weekend.
The Miz posted a video on his Instagram account giving a tour of the decked-out house with guests inside. There was a cake which said “Eat everything on the table BUT do not touch the cake.” The cake-cutting eventually revealed the baby’s gender.
The whole thing was filmed by E! for an upcoming episode of Total Divas. Production crew can be seen in the video that The Miz filmed for his Instagram.
The couple announced that Maryse was pregnant during an episode of Monday Night Raw a few weeks back. Maryse has not appeared on WWE television ever since.
A guest by the name of Valeri Fatehi at the party recorded the reveal moment on her Instagram account, a video which you can see below.
The changes to the card for TLC has surely sent oddsmakers scrambling to provide new and updated odds for tomorrow’s pay-per-view.
With the Universal title not featured on this show, the main event will be a tables, ladders, and chairs handicap match featuring Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and the returning Kurt Angle to take on Braun Strowman, Kane, Cesaro, Sheamus, and The Miz.
As odds currently stand, the faces are the favorites despite the 5 on 2 disadvantage, with Ambrose, Rollins, and Angle at 1/4 to win and their opponents at 5/2.
Meanwhile, the other new match featuring Finn Balor vs AJ Styles has Finn Balor the slight favorite at 7/20. Balor was supposed to wrestle Bray Wyatt under the Sister Abigail gimmick.
Odds will change by the time tomorrow comes around so be careful before placing any bets.
Details of the travel packages for WrestleMania 34 have been revealed by WWE.COM. There will be six packages in total: Once-In-A-Lifetime, Mardi Gras, VIP, Platinum, Gold, and Silver.
Each package – apart from the Once-In-A-Lifetime package – will contain WrestleMania Axxess, Hall of Fame, NXT Takeover, WrestleMania, Raw, and Smackdown tickets, and three/four/five-night hotel accommodations depending if you take Raw or Smackdown tickets.
Seating arrangements depend on which package you take with the cheapest packages offering lower-priced tickets than the others.
The VIP package also contains two VIP sessions at WrestleMania Axxess as well as the WrestleMania collectible chair.
The Mardi Gras package includes a tour of Mardi Gras World with WWE Superstars including lunch and round-trip transportation, exclusive reception with WWE Superstars prior to NXT Takeover, one Premium VIP and one VIP session tickets for Axxess, and the WrestleMania collectible chair.
Strangely enough, the more expensive Once-In-A-Lifetime package does not contain all the tickets and only has a hotel accommodation from Saturday to Monday. The package includes an exclusive reception with WWE Superstars prior to WrestleMania, a behind-the-scenes experience with WWE Superstars prior to NXT Takeover, private charter flight with WWE Legends from New York to New Orleans, round-trip transportation from airport to hotel, ringside tickets for NXT Takeover and WrestleMania as well as the WrestleMania chair.
The Once-In-A-Lifetime package will cost $9,175 per person, the Mardi Gras one costs $8,250 per person, the VIP package costs $6,075 per person, the Platinum one costs $4,175 per person, the Gold at $3,525 per person, and the Silver at $3,250 per person. These prices are for a single person only, and getting more people in the same room will decrease the price significantly.
Alternatively, Wrestling-Online.com is offering accommodation at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans with rates at nearly 50% discount from the going rate at the hotel during the same weekend. For more information go to http://w-o.it/wm34hotel.
While The Shield reunion was probably the match everyone was looking forward to, with the change and the unexpected addition of AJ Styles facing Finn Balor, that sentiment has probably now shifted to this match.
This is certainly a dream match between two of the most gifted wrestlers in the world today and an interesting match that pits two former leaders of the world-famous Bullet Club faction.
Balor, wrestling under the name of Prince Devitt, took over the leadership of the faction in 2013. It lasted around a year and eventually The Young Bucks – also part of the group – turned on Balor during a loser leaves town match against Taguchi. Balor lost, ending his association with the faction, and eventually NJPW as well.
AJ Styles took over the reigns of The Bullet Club for around two years after Balor left the promotion. At Wrestle Kingdom 10 in January 2016, The Bullet Club turned on Styles and Kenny Omega became the new leader.
“I think most people thought they’d see AJ Styles vs Finn Balor maybe at a different time, maybe in a different country. Maybe not so abruptly. But it’s happening,” Styles told WWE.COM when he was interviewed backstage in Buenos Aires while on tour with the Smackdown brand.
Styles said he had fought demons all his life and warned Balor that he’s about to meet the phenomenal one.
After losing AJ Styles due to the TLC pay-per-view, the Smackdown brand on tour in South America also lost another big star: Kevin Owens.
The former WWE Universal champion has left the tour due to personal reasons which are not public at this point. WWE.COM did not elaborate on the story, saying only that he will skip the other shows as he heads home. Owens wrestled on the first leg of the tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina yesterday and was scheduled to be present for the other three dates – one more in Buenos Aires tonight and two in Santiago, Chile over the weekend.
On the first night, Owens wrestled Tye Dillinger and Baron Corbin in a triple threat match for the United States title.
In what seems to be like a first, a viral infection has spread around the WWE locker room, putting three WWE Superstars on the sidelines, two of whom will be missing out important TLC matches.
Bo Dallas has been out for weeks and is thought to have viral meningitis. His brother Bray Wyatt and his girlfriend JoJo were also pulled. While JoJo’s mother confirmed on Twitter that her daughter is not sick, Wyatt is the second one to have been infected.
Roman Reigns was also taken off the show after he was diagnosed with an undisclosed viral infection, although it could be the same one as the brothers. Unlike Bo Dallas and Bray Wyatt, Reigns has been appearing weekly on television and this week wrestled Braun Strowman in a steel cage match.
“We have confirmed that three of our performers have been diagnosed with a viral infection,” a WWE representative told ESPN. “As a precautionary measure, we are ensuring in-ring performers and staff are tested and immunized in accordance with recommended medical guidelines.”
Considering that most of the Superstars eat and share the same locker room, this could turn into a major disaster for the company if more are found to be infected.
It’s not clear how and where Bo Dallas became ill and it looks like he was the first one to get the virus.
It has been seven months since Kurt Angle laced up his wrestling boots and now on a three-day notice, he will find himself in the main event of TLC replacing Roman Reigns who is out with an illness.
The last time Kurt wrestled inside in a WWE ring was in August 2006, 11 years ago when at the time he wrestled Sabu in a match on ECW TV. Since returning, Kurt has often stated that his ultimate goal will be to step back in the ring and be an active competitor once again.
That decision was in the sole hands of one person – Vince McMahon – and during several interviews, Angle said that he did not discuss his in-ring return yet with WWE management and was happy to play the role of Raw GM for the time being.
The Olympic gold medalist also added that while he is drug tested as part of the Wellness Program, he never did the physical tests required to step back in the ring.
It’s not known when Angle found out that he will be wrestling again this coming Sunday or if he did indeed do any of the physical tests in the meantime. One thing is for sure, a return which could have been properly promoted is now going to happen with just an announcement on WWE.COM.
Medical issues have led to WWE making some major changes for this Sunday’s TLC pay-per-view event.
WWE revealed on Friday afternoon that the planned 3-on-5 handicap match, where the Shield were to return to pay-per-view, will be altered slightly, as Roman Reigns has been forced to pull out of the card with illness. In his place will be WWE Raw GM Kurt Angle, wrestling his first match in over 18 months, and his first in a WWE ring since an ECW house show in August 2006.
Similarly, the planned match for Bray Wyatt – as “Sister Abigail” – against “The Demon” Finn Balor has also been scrapped. AJ Styles has been taken off of SmackDown’s current tour of South America, and will replace Wyatt in the match against Balor.
These withdrawals come after reports surfaced online that Bo Dallas had been kept off the road due to a viral illness, with Bray Wyatt and Raw ring announcer Jojo also being kept off the road as a safety precaution. Meanwhile, AJ Styles had been pulled from a SmackDown house show in Buenos Aires on Thursday night with reported stomach flu – although this may have been a cover to get him back to the States in time for Sunday’s PPV in Minneapolis.
Episode seven of season two of Total Bellas titled Countdown to Mania did a total of 563,000 viewers up 11,000 viewers over last week’s episode. Next week will be the season finale of season two. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Impact Knockout Taryn Terrell has departed the company and will no longer be part of the Bound For Glory pay-per-view.
The Impact Twitter account sent a tweet today announcing that the two sides are parting ways. “Taryn would like to pursue other career options and she has our full support. We wish Taryn well in whatever she does next,” the tweet said.
Terrell was supposed to be part of the fatal 4-way match for the Knockouts title but the match has now been changed to a triple threat. On Impact last night, the announcers said that she was not “medically cleared” to explain her absence.
Terrell starting working with TNA in 2012 after spending two years with WWE where she was the General Manager of ECW and later moved to Smackdown. In January 2016, she left TNA but returned in August of this year attacking Gail Kim during her GFW Knockouts Championship match against Sienna.
The former Playboy model has two kids and is married to professional motorcyclist and stunt man Joseph Dryden.
Alexa Bliss, the current Raw Women’s champion and best friend with Nia Jax, told the New York Post that Jax is just resting up and having a break, adding she wouldn’t necessarily call it a leave of absence.
“We have talked about it a lot. She’s taking some time off because our schedule it very grueling. It’s very, very demanding. There are times where you are run down and your body can’t do it anymore and you get sick or you get injured from it and you get tired,” Bliss told the newspaper.
She explained that while in NXT, she took some time off and it was never public knowledge. “We all take them once in a while. I am happy when she comes back. I feel like everyone needs that refresher week or refresher moment,” Bliss continued
Meanwhile, Dave Meltzer of the Observer is reporting that Jax will return in time for the upcoming European tour which kicks off in around 10 days.
Bliss also told the NY Post that she will be back very soon. “Absolutely, no doubt in my mind,” she said.
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