The Alundra Blayze documentary on the WWE Network titled Trailblayzer: The Alundra Blayze Story will be airing this coming Wednesday immediately following the conclusion of NXT.
Alundra Blayze, better known as Madusa throughout her career, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015 after two decades of being on the WWE black book for her actions in 1995. During that year on an episode of Nitro, she threw the WWE Women’s title in the trash live on the broadcast, a title she “retrieved” back from the trash during her Hall of Fame speech.
The one-hour sit-down interview will chronicle her wrestling career, the controversial Nitro episode, as well as her return to the company. She recently worked with WWE on the Mae Young Classic tournament and was ringside for the finale in Las Vegas.
Bound For Glory this year will be hosted in Canada and while no city has been named, it’s expected to be in Toronto, the home base of Anthem Sports and Entertainment.
The event will take place on November 5, a month later than usual. All previous twelve editions of Bound For Glory took place in October. Since this particular pay-per-view is considered to be the “WrestleMania” for GFW, the show is often held outside the confines of Universal Studios in Orlando, where the majority of the tapings occur.
In fact, counting this year, out of thirteen editions of Bound For Glory, only two took place in Orlando, the first one in 2005 and last year. This will be the second Bound For Glory outside the United States as the company already held the 2014 BFG in Tokyo, Japan.
GFW will officially announce the city and place tomorrow.
For his return to Japan, the WWE United States champion AJ Styles busted out some old apparel much to delight of the Japanese fans in Osaka.
Styles came out for his match against Kevin Owens in a mask resembling that from his time in the Bullet Club, the popular wrestling faction in New Japan Pro Wrestling. Styles also sported in his old Japan wrestling gear and jacket.
The current champ wrestled in Japan regularly for NJPW between 2014 and 2016 and was the leader of the Bullet Club. Current WWE stars who were also part of the Bullet Club include Adam Cole, Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, and Finn Balor.
The WWE Superstars in Osaka were also seen in a video having dinner with several NJPW stars.
The NXT Women’s title match at the upcoming NXT Takeover: Houston will be a fatal 4-way match with Kairi Sane, the winner of the Mae Young Classic, the only official name so far in the match.
WWE already taped two qualifying matches that will air over the next few weeks on NXT TV on the WWE Network. The first match will feature Nikki Cross vs Peyton Royce vs Liv Morgan and the second match includes Sonya Deville vs Ruby Riot vs Ember Moon, with the winners of these matches advancing to Houston.
The third match to determine the final women in the match was not taped during this set of television tapings. NXT returns to Full Sail University next month for more tapings that will take them up to NXT Takeover: Houston.
NXT Takeover: Houston takes place on November 18 from the Toyota Center on the eve of the Survivor Series.
In a recent Instagram Live chat with fans, Brie Bella revealed that she had filmed a video of training in the ring, giving Daniel Bryan a dropkick from the second rope, but WWE did not allow her to upload the video because it shows the Smackdown GM taking a bump.
Brie was responding to a fan who asked her to put up a training video on the Bella Twins YouTube channel. “I actually…did do some but they weren’t allowed to be shown,” Brie said, as she turned the camera on Bryan.
“Oh yeah, because she drop kicked me off the second rope,” replied Bryan. Brie then explained that it wasn’t allowed to be aired. Bryan continued, “Yeah because they’re not allowed to show me do anything wrestling-wise.”
Brie said that it’s not that she’s not hearing the fans’ requests because she is, and they found a ring and did it. “And I was training there, still training,” her husband exclaimed.
You can see the video of the two explaining below.
This week’s Impact drew 239,000 viewers, just 12,000 viewers more from last week’s low of 227,000. Yesterday’s show was the second least-watched Impact of 2017. Thursday Night Football did 8 million viewers. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
The Miz has moved in third position in the longest Intercontinental title reigns chart, surpassing the self-proclaimed greatest IC champion of all time, The Honky Tonk Man.
The current champion and daddy-to-be is at 456 days combined, two more than The Honky Tonk Man. His next target is Don Muraco who currently stands at #2 with 541 days combined over two title reigns.
This is the seventh title reign for The Miz. He won the first one on July 23, 2012 at the Raw 1000 episode by beating Christian. His second win was at WrestleMania 29 on April 7, 2013, defeating Wade Barrett. He then won it again on July 20, 2014 at Battleground in a battle royal for the vacant title. His fourth title reign came on September 21, 2014 at Night of Champions, defeating Dolph Ziggler. Title reign #5 came on April 4, 2016 on the post-WrestleMania Raw defeating Zack Ryder. On November 15, 2016, The Miz won his sixth Intercontinental title from Dolph Ziggler at Smackdown 900 Live and won the last one at Extreme Rules on June 4 of this year from Dean Ambrose.
WWE video games are pretty popular, especially mobile ones, and today, Reliance Games announced a multi-year deal with WWE to develop WWE Mayhem, an arcade action game with over-the-top signature moves enhanced by unlockable content when used in conjunction with items from a forthcoming Mattel action figure line.
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“Reliance is excited to be working with WWE so tightly to create this experience,” said Amit Khanduja, CEO, Reliance Entertainment, Digital. “WWE is known worldwide for the energy and explosiveness that they bring every single night. We couldn’t be more excited to help translate this excitement to mobile.”
Casey Collins, WWE Executive Vice President, Consumer Products, added, “WWE Mayhem brings action and entertainment for the entire family with simple gameplay mechanics for casual players and deep progression elements for core gamers. Reliance’s history of working with world-class brands and their expertise in free-to-play mobile gaming made them the natural choice to partner with on this exciting new game.”
Lacey Evans, the 27-year-old NXT star who was part of the Mae Young Classic, wrote on Instagram that she lost her home in Florida thanks to Hurricane Irma.
Evans said that the hurricane took her home, clothes, appliances, and most importantly, personal items that cannot be replaced. “I can replace appliances…clothes…hell, my entire home. But this will never be replaced. Never,” she wrote accompanying a photo of her sifting through photos of her late father in the destroyed home.
“I could give two shits about what I’ve lost. But damn this is the worse part. All I have left of my father are these? Saving what i can. #HurricaneIrma can kiss my ass,” she added.
Evans has been signed to a WWE deal since April of last year and appeared on NXT television a couple of times. She advanced to the second round of the Mae Young Classic tournament by defeating Taynara Conti but eventually lost to Toni Storm to get eliminated.
Evans, real name Macey Estrella, is a former U.S. Marine and member of the Marine Corps Special Reaction Team.
On Monday, the location for this year’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view will be revealed by Anthem and in two teaser videos, they are using images from London, New York, and Las Vegas.
The two videos have the title “Where will Bound For Glory land?” and there’s one for the United States and one for the United Kingdom. The video for London, released first, has shots of the London Bridge, followed by the iconic double decker red buses, a shot of the Big Ben and other images of London. The United States video has shots of the Brooklyn Bridge, the New York City skyline, the fountains of the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, and a shot of the New York New York hotel and casino in Vegas.
Bound For Glory is the company’s biggest pay-per-view event of the year and it’s believed that they will be moving away from Orlando this time around for the show. You can see the teaser videos at
Episode two of season two of Total Bellas titled Martial Mayhem did 558,000 viewers, down 123,000 viewers from last week’s season premiere. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
W-O reader Geoffrey McGee attended the live WWE non-televised event in Sydney, Australia today and sent in the following results:
Jason Jordan won a battle royal to get an Intercontinental title shot later in the evening. Participants included Rhyno, Heath Slater, Titus O’Neil, R-Truth, Goldust, Apollo Crews, Elias, Dean Ambrose, Bo Dallas, and Curtis Axel; Neville defeated Akira Tozawa to retain the Cruiserweight title; The Hardy Boyz defeated Cesaro and Shamus; Finn Balor defeated Bray Wyatt; Alexa Bliss defeated Emma, Mickey James, Sasha Banks and Nia Jax to retain Raw Woman’s title; Jason Jordan defeated The Miz via disqualification so The Miz retained the IC title; Dean Ambrose, R-Truth and Jason Jordan defeated The Miz, Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel; Roman Reigns defeated Braun Strowman in a street fight.
The biggest pops of the night went to the Hardy Boyz, Finn Balor, and Dean Ambrose while the biggest boos went for The Miz and Roman Reigns.
WWE.COM is reporting that Olympic gold medalist Erica Wiebe was at the WWE Performance Center today to get “an up-close look at what life in WWE is all about” and train with the NXT stars.
Wiebe, who won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 75kg freestyle wrestling for Canada, was also ringside for the Mae Young Classic finale in Las Vegas on Tuesday night. Wiebe is also attending the NXT television tapings tonight. WWE talent scouts saw her at the Rio Olympic Games last year and have been trying to get her ever since.
She was invited to the state-of-the-art training facility by WWE in hopes of luring her to the company and make the transition to professional wrestling.
The 28-year-old who trains and lives in Calgary holds degrees in kinesiology and sociology from the University of Calgary and is also an athlete ambassador for Fast and Female, a not-for-profit organization that promotes women empowerment through sports.
The big Smackdown from Las Vegas with the return of Vince McMahon paid off for the company in terms of viewers as Smackdown this week drew 2,754,000 viewers.
That is up 172,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast and the most-watched Smackdown since the April 11 show. Smackdown was #2 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic and also #2 in overall viewership. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Jeff Hardy will be performing live at a concert with his band Peroxwhy?gen in Clarksville, Tennessee on September 30 which will be held at O’Connor’s Irish Pub.
Doors will open at 9PM, with the show starting at 10PM. Tickets can be purchased here for $15 each.
On that day, the Raw brand has a live event in Winnipeg, Canada but both him and his brother Matt will not be part of the show.
Monday Night Raw with the first show head-to-head with the new season of Monday Night Football did 2,902,000 viewers, down 30,000 viewers from last week’s show.
Hour one opened with 3,022,000 viewers, followed by 2,987,000 in the second hour, and then 2,699,000 viewers in the third and final hour.
Raw placed #3, #5, and #7 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic. NFL did over 11 million and 10 million viewers going up against Raw. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
As episode two opened, Brie Bella and her husband, Daniel Bryan were still busy preparing for the arrival of their first child. During last week’s episode, the couple was engaged in friendly debate over certain aspects of Brie’s handling of her pregnancy, however, it appeared that the debates were far from over.
This week, Brie and Daniel engaged in the great diaper debate, namely whether to use cloth or disposable diapers for their baby. Brie thought that the easier option would be to simply use disposable diapers, while Daniel preferred the more environmentally-friendly cloth diapers. In order to persuade Brie that his way of thinking was best, Daniel decided to take Brie on a tour of the landfill in order to show her how long it takes dirty diapers to decompose. I for one wonder whether it wasn’t a serious health risk to take a pregnant woman to the landfill, but I’m sure Daniel did his research.
In fact, it seems Daniel has been doing a lot of research concerning his wife’s pregnancy, and imparting his knowledge to his wife. While I applaud Daniel for wanting to be involved in his daughter’s life even in the womb, I could see why Brie might be annoyed with the constant stream of facts that her husband has been dishing out. However, I think that what she chose to do in response to the constant flow of research was just a tad mean.
While at lunch with her mother and sister, Brie did some research of her own. She discovered that by placing electrodes on a man’s stomach, and giving him mild electric shock one can simulate to some degree the pain of labor. Brie and Nikki were certain that Bryan would adamantly refuse to undergo the false labor experiment, but Bryan was actually excited about it. Perhaps, he felt that it would be nice to add practical experience to his research, or maybe he just likes trying new things. Whatever his reasons, Brie and Nikki were all too happy to schedule the experiment in John and Nikki’s Phoenix rental villa. They also chose to invite the entire family to support or make fun of Bryan. The sisters also convinced their brother, JJ, to try the experiment as well because his wife so recently delivered their daughter.
JJ was the first to try the experiment, and didn’t like it at all. At the equivalent of 1 cm of dilation JJ was in pain and wanted to stop the experiment. By contrast, when it was Brian’s turn, he remained calm throughout and didn’t scream or cry out once. I guess this should show Brie that her husband is a lot tougher than he thought, and also that his researching comes from a place of love, and not judgment.
Meanwhile, JJ and his wife continued to struggle with their marital problems, and Nikki struggled with keeping his secret from the rest of the family. Using her maternal instinct, the mother of the Bella clan seemed to deduce that all was not right with one of her children. Hoping to get information from Nikki, her mother began to make speculation about relations between her and John Cena knowing that they were false, but hoping that Nikki would tell her the truth in order to deflect attention from her own relationship.
Eventually, Nikki did admit the truth to her mother, and these three Bella women began to attempt to solve JJ’s marital problems for him by accosting him and demanding that he and his wife attend therapy. It seems that the Bella women will never learn to mind their own business, however, if they did this season of Total Bellas would be much less exciting. So, here’s hoping that there’s plenty more meddling to come.
Both the Raw and Smackdown brands are on a very short overseas tour with the Raw brand doing Australia and the Smackdown brand doing Japan and China.
The red tour starts today at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Tomorrow, it’s Sydney for a live event at the Qudos Bank Arena and then on Saturday they will move to Brisbane for a show at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. That will wrap up their tour and will fly back in time for Monday Night Raw.
The blue brand already performed at the Neal S. Blaisdell Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii yesterday and are on the way to Osaka, Japan for a show on Saturday at the Edion Arena. On Sunday, they will go to China for a show at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center Arena in Shenzhen. They will then fly back immediately to Oakland for Smackdown Live.
The team of Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish got their group name: The Undisputed Era.
The NXT trio, all former Ring of Honor stars, had their name revealed after WWE Shop released their first t-shirt. The t-shirt design has Undisputed at the top and Era at the bottom with CFO in the middle. The CFO initials stand for Cole, Fish, and Reilly. On the back of the shirt there is Shock The System across the shoulder and their names again.
While Fish and O’Reilly made their less-than-spectacular debut on NXT television several weeks ago, the duo joined new arrival Adam Cole at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III and attacked NXT champion Drew McIntyre to close the show.
With NXT television tapings tomorrow, it’s more than likely that WWE’s newest faction will officially debut their name during these tapings.
A new match for Hell In A Cell was announced last night on Smackdown and once again it involves a McMahon…Shane McMahon!
Shane O’Mac will be taking on Kevin Owens inside the steel structure, his second Hell In A Cell match of his career and his second match of 2017 after taking on AJ Styles at WrestleMania earlier this year. His first Cell match was when he faced The Undertaker at WrestleMania 32 in Dallas. This will be Kevin Owens’ first match inside the Cell.
The match was made official by Vince McMahon before he was brutally attacked by Kevin Owens. It’s the second match on the card so far with the other one being Jinder Mahal vs Shinsuke Nakamura for the WWE title.
Hell In A Cell takes place on October 8 from Detroit, Michigan at the Little Caesars Arena.
