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TNA and Sony SIX announce the signing of Indian wrestler Mahabali Shera

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Colin Vassallo
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TNA and Sony SIX today announced the signing of the first ever Indian wrestler Mahabali Shera into the global roster of TNA Wrestling.

The 24 year old Shera was selected by Hall of Famer Kurt Angle, who went to visit India last year in a search for TNA’s first Indian star.

Speaking on the announcement, Mr. Prasana Krishnan, Business Head, Sony SIX commented, “We are thrilled to partner with TNA in creating this iconic moment with the unveiling of the first ever Indian wrestler for TNA. India is home to some of the most passionate wrestling fans and through our consistent offering, high quality content and market reach we will make Mahabali Shera a household hero and fuel growth and popularity for TNA.”

TNA President Dixie Carter added, “Signing Mahabali to our roster as the first Indian wrestler is a testament to TNA’s commitment to our Indian viewers and our continued focus on international brand expansion. With his in-ring talent and incredible story of achieving his dreams, we are confident viewers will quickly connect with Mahabali as he represents the people and nation of India throughout the world.”

Michelle McCool tackles Undertaker health problems rumors on Instagram

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Colin Vassallo
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Responding to the continuing rumors of the Undertaker being sick and not in good health, his wife and former WWE Women’s champion Michelle McCool used her Instagram to respond to those who are making up the lies.

“Sadly, there’s always rumors about my hubby! Apparently he’s now super sick and not doing well! While we always appreciate thoughts & prayers, we are ALL GOOD IN THE HOOD,” wrote McCool. McCool also said that the two of them will be at the Hill Country Galleria in Austin, Texas, this Sunday for the CC4C micro marathon.

McCool also posted a photo of her and her husband The Undertaker looking healthy and smiling to accompany her words! You can see the photo below.

Michael Moody, son of WWE Hall of Famer Paul Bearer, passes away

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Colin Vassallo
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Michael Moody, the son of WWE Hall of Famer Paul Bearer, passed away during the weekend and announced by his brother Daniel.

Michael and Daniel Moody both attended the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony earlier this year to honor their legendary father and accept the HOF induction on behalf of the Moody family. They also appeared at WrestleMania XXX with the other Hall of Famers.

“This is the 3rd hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through. Today my brother Michael Moody passed away. Please keep my whole family in your prayers especially Betty Moody and my nieces. I just can’t believe I’m the only one left in my family. Mom, Dad, and now Michael gone. I love you bro. Fly high,” Daniel Moody wrote on his Facebook.

WWE also issued a statement on the passing of Moody on WWE.COM, writing, “WWE is saddened to learn that Michael Moody, the son of legendary manager Paul Bearer, has passed away. The announcement was made on the Facebook page of Moody’s brother Daniel. Earlier this year, both Michael and Daniel accepted Paul Bearer’s WWE Hall of Fame induction on behalf of their father. WWE extends its condolences to the Moody family.”

WrestleMania 31 travel packages out in the coming weeks

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE will release WrestleMania 31 travel packages in the coming weeks with some out of this world prices for those who want to get the top packages.

There will be five different packages in total: Silver, Gold, Platinum, VIP, and California Dreamin’. The cheapest package starts from $900 but the best package starts from $5,500 and these prices increase if you’re traveling alone or with just another partner.

Each package will contain tickets for two WrestleMania Axxess sessions, a Hall of Fame ceremony ticket, WrestleMania 31 ticket, Monday Night Raw ticket, round-trip rail transport to the Levi’s Stadium, a WrestleMania 31 dine-around card for restaurants in the San Jose area, and accommodation at a hotel in San Jose.

The difference between packages is the WrestleMania 31 ticket, and the California Dreamin’ package also contains a Premium VIP and VIP session at Axxess, reception with WWE Superstars before the Hall of Fame ceremony, and a trip to a California vineyard with WWE Legends.

The California Dreamin’ package goes on sale on Monday, September 29, while all the other packages go on sale on Monday, October 6.

WWE 2K15 eye-popping video game trailer released

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Colin Vassallo
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2K today released the full eye-popping amazing trailer of WWE 2K15, the first trailer just a month before the game is set to be released.

The trailer features Superstars such as John Cena, Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker, Triple H, Bray Wyatt, Cesaro, Sheamus, Rey Mysterio, Kane, and much more in the most realistic WWE video game in the history of the company.

The game will be released on October 28 for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 and on November 18 for Playstation 4 and Xbox One. You can see the trailer below.

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Night Of Champions 2014 pay-per-view results

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Colin Vassallo
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Here are the results from last night’s Night of Champions pay-per-view which took place from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.

Goldust and Stardust defeated The Usos to become the new tag team champions; Sheamus defeated Cesaro to retain the United States title; The Miz defeated Dolph Ziggler to become the new Intercontinental champion; Rusev defeated Mark Henry; Randy Orton defeated Chris Jericho; AJ Lee defeated Paige and Nikki Bella in a triple threat match to become the new Divas champion; John Cena defeated Brock Lesnar via disqualification in the main event with Lesnar retaining his title after Seth Rollins interfered.

Roman Reigns thanks fans for their support

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE Superstar Roman Reigns thanked his fans for their support after undergoing emergency surgery yesterday to treat his hernia.

“Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I’m hurting right now but it’s great to know good people have my back,” Reigns wrote on his Twitter.

In a short video interview on the WWE Network from his hospital bed, Reigns said that he felt sharp pains below his belly button and was advised to call 911. After an ambulance transported him to the hospital, doctors told him he needs to undergo surgery immediately.

The former member of The Shield is looking for up to three months on the sidelines or in best case scenario, just a month. His match with Seth Rollins for tonight’s Night of Champions has obviously been scrapped with no replacement announced.

Night of Champions 2014 live on PPV and WWE Network tonight

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Colin Vassallo
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Live tonight from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, WWE presents Night of Champions live on pay-per-view and WWE Network. The full card is as follows:

Brock Lesnar vs John Cena for the WWE World Heavyweight title; Sheamus vs Cesaro for the United States title; Dolph Ziggler vs The Miz for the Intercontinental title; Paige vs AJ Lee vs Nikki Bella in a triple threat match for the Divas title; The Usos vs Goldust and Stardust for the Tag Team titles; Mark Henry vs Rusev; and Chris Jericho vs Randy Orton.

The pre-show will see Chris Jericho being the guest of Christian’s Peep Show.

Total Divas preview for tonight: Roadside Rumble

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Colin Vassallo
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Total Divas returns tonight with episode 3 of season 3 titled ‘Roadside Rumble,’ an episode which will see the return of Summer Rae after not being featured in the first two shows since she was off filming The Marine 4.

The synopsis for episode 3 reads, “Brie and Bryan’s wrestling careers are at risk; Brie’s effort to save their future puts Nikki in a tough spot with John; Rosa fails at reconciling two enemies.”

Tonight’s Total Divas will go head to head with Night of Champions on pay-per-view and WWE Network. It airs at 9PM EST on E!

Heath Slater joins Cena to sing Country Roads at non-televised live event

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Colin Vassallo
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It seems whenever WWE visits Charleston, West Virginia, former WWE champion John Cena always ends up singing the song Country Roads.

This time it was no different but it was a duet rather than a solo with Cena bringing out home town boy Heath Slater to join him. Slater is from West Virginia and was pretty popular with fans at the non-televised live event yesterday.

The song happened after Cena and Kane finished their main event match and then Slater was invited out by Cena to sing along. You can see the video below.

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Roman Reigns out for up to three months following surgery

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Colin Vassallo
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An hour and a half after WWE was supposed to go live with an update on Roman Reigns on the WWE Network, cutting into the CM Punk documentary, the update finally happened with the scheduled WWE Slam City being interrupted.

Scott Stanford ran the update from the WWE Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, and was joined via telephone by WWE physician Dr. Chris Amann. Amann said that the surgery was successful and everything looks like it’s going to be fine with Reigns now staying at the hospital overnight for monitoring.

Dr. Amann said that Reigns was in serious pain this morning while in his hotel and contacted the WWE medical team to alert them. He was ordered to go to the hospital immediately and he found out that a loop of intestine had wrapped around his hernia, which resulted in emergency surgery.

This was something that Reigns had been dealing with lately and it was not an injury that he suffered in the ring.

The former member of The Shield will be out from a minimum of a month to as long as three months and Dr. Amann made it clear that Reigns will not be cleared to return until he’s completely healed from the injury.

WWE pulls plug on live update of Reigns on WWE Network

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE was supposed to give an update on Reigns’ injury at 1PM on the WWE Network but pulled a bait and switch, with 1PM coming by and nothing happened.

The original announcement said that they will be cutting into the live WWE Network feed – which was airing CM Punk’s documentary – at 1PM for an exclusive update but as time went on, WWE.COM changed their story to, “Check in with WWE Network all afternoon for live updates.”

Keeping WWE fans waiting was not a very popular idea and with Roman Reigns trending top worldwide, the WWE Universe voiced their opinions on the company keeping them waiting without any promised update.

The Wrestling Observer also adds that one of the plans that WWE was working on for Night of Champions fell through which might have affected the decision to pull the plug on the 1PM update.

Roman Reigns undergoes emergency surgery in Nashville

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE.COM broke the news today that Roman Reigns has undergone emergency surgery today in Nashville, Tennessee, just 24 hours before the Night of Champions pay-per-view.

Reigns went under the knife due to an incarcerated hernia and will now be evaluated by the local surgeon and WWE physician Dr. Chris Amann to determine recovery time. He will obviously miss the pay-per-view. Reigns was scheduled to wrestle Seth Rollins on the card.

There will be an update on the situation at 1PM EST on the WWE Network.

WWE Network to air WWE 2K15 roster reveal special on Monday night

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Colin Vassallo
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There will be no Raw Backstage Pass on the WWE Network this coming Monday as right after Monday Night Raw, WWE will air the WWE 2K15 Roster Reveal event which happened during the SummerSlam weekend in Los Angeles.

Hosted by WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin and Renee Young, the roster reveal special had Sheamus, Cesaro, Roman Reigns, John Cena, Hulk Hogan, and Sting, as guests on the panel.

Playing up on the cryptic tweet that WWE sent yesterday, Sting also hyped up Monday’s date on his Twitter with a message saying, “It’s Showtime. 9.22.14.”

WWE 2K15 gameplay trailer released on Monday

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Colin Vassallo
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2K has announced that the world premiere of the WWE 2K15 gameplay trailer will be coming on Monday, September 22, on IGN.COM who scored the exclusive.

This will be the first trailer released of the game that shows actual gameplay, quite late in production as the game will be released in October for older consoles and November for next-generation consoles.

The tweet that WWE sent hyping up September 22 might now be referring to this one as it does mention that fans have been waiting for long enough.

WWE investing in India according to local news outlet

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Colin Vassallo
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The Hindu Business Line in India is reporting that WWE and its television partner in the region Ten Sports will invest over $100 million in the country.

Rukn Kizilbash, WWE’s India General Manager said that the company is committed to the Indian market and want to make a good amount of investment while Rajesh Sethi, CEO of Ten Sports, did not disclose the exact amount of money the two are investing.

Sethi said the funds would be used to bring in technology, which would help reduce the gap between the television shows shown in the US and the Indian market and to organize more live events in the country, and to launch a WWE line of merchandise for kids and adults.

WWE recently announced an extension to their agreement with Ten Sports to broadcast even more WWE television shows.

Ric Flair out of hospital this weekend

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair is expected to be released from the hospital this weekend and according to Jim Ross, Flair is “doing well and is upbeat.”

The 16 time World Heavyweight champion was admitted to the hospital last week to treat appendix and hernia problems. He missed the NXT Takeover special on the WWE Network where he was supposed to introduce Kenta and also missed the Smackdown tapings where he was set to referee a dark match.

Flair will be resuming his WWE work next month.

Major upset at TNA Impact tapings, spoilers ahead

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Colin Vassallo
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Fans attending yesterday’s TNA Impact tapings in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, got a nice surprise as the company delivered a big surprise which will air next month on Spike. If you are not interested in spoilers, we suggest you stop reading and close this because we will definitely spoil you the surprise!

The main event of one of the upcoming Impact shows will be Lashley defending the title against Bobby Roode with Kurt Angle as the referee. The big story is that Roode eventually won the TNA title, his second run with the gold in the company.

TNA was going to take the title off Lashley if he lost his MMA fight on Bellator and has not advertised his name for the Bound For Glory pay-per-view yet. Lashley won his MMA fight and many expected him to still be the champion come October 12.

WWE teases the next generation for September 22

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE sent a cryptic tweet today hinting that something is going to happen on September 22.

“You’ve waited long enough… Prepare yourself for the next generation. 9/22/2014,” the tweet read.

September 22 is this coming Monday and one would assume whatever is going to happen will happen on Monday Night Raw, which will also have the fallout from Night of Champions.

A lot of theories are already popping up online with the one that makes sense the most being the introduction of some NXT favorites to the main roster. WWE is running an interview with Hideo Itami, Kevin Steen, Fergal Devitt, Adrian Neville, and Sami Zayn on WWE.COM with the headline “Are these five men the future of WWE?”

Hideo Itami makes his NXT in-ring debut

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Colin Vassallo
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Hideo Itami, the man formerly known as Kenta, made his NXT in-ring debut during last night’s NXT show from Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

Itami took on Justin Gabriel in the second match of the night and pinned Gabriel for his first NXT victory. Itami was then attacked by the former NXT tag team champions The Ascension, continuing their angle which started at NXT Takeover: Fatal 4 Way last week.

With Itami, Sami Zayn, Adrian Neville, and Kevin Steen and Fergal Devitt still yet to make their debut, the WWE future looks very bright!

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