W-O reader Brian Baull attended the live non-televised WWE event at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center in Salisbury, Maryland, and sent in the following results:
R-Truth defeated Fandango twice in a row; Big E & Kofi Kingston defeated NXT Tag Team champions The Ascension; Sami Zayn defeated Tyson Kidd; Adam Rose defeated Damien Sandow; Dolph Ziggler defeated Bo Dallas; Brie Bella, Eva Marie and Naomi defeated Nikki Bella, Cameron, and Alicia Fox; The Big Show defeated Rusev via DQ; Roman Reigns defeated Seth Rollins in a tables match.
Roman Reigns, Big Show, and Dolph Ziggler got the biggest pops of the night while Lana and Rusev, Seth Rollins, and Bo Dallas got the biggest heat.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is on the September 2014 cover of Muscle & Fitness magazine. The cover features a photo of Johnson from his Hercules movie and contains 12 pages of all-things Rock inside the issue.
Several other photos of Johnson accompany a long interview the magazine did with the former WWE champion where he discusses several topics, including being injured at WrestleMania 29 just before he was set to shoot the Hercules movie.
There’s also a list of exercises that The Rock does to get in shape as well as his “Hercules diet.”
Jake “The Snake” Roberts was released from a Las Vegas hospital yesterday and already made an appearance for Future Stars of Wrestling in Vegas.
Walking out to his WWE music, Roberts walked slowly to the ring to address the crowd. “Thank you God for still having me on this planet,” Jake started. Jake mentioned the demons, addiction, and every problems he tried to hide because of the shame, but now he’s fighting cancer, and it’s cool, because if you can beat addiction you can beat cancer.
Roberts thanked WWE for being “very very kind” to him and for continuing to help him throughout his battles.
The WWE Hall of Famer cut an emotional promo and thanked Sinn Bodhi, the man behind FSW, and Diamond Dallas Page for saving his life.
Roberts is not cleared to fly and will be staying with Bodhi in Las Vegas until he’s healthy enough again to go back home in Georgia.
The popular reality TV show Total Divas returns for the third season tonight on E! at 8PM EST.
The new season will see a new addition to the cast, Rosa Mendes, who joins Brie, Nikki, Trinity, Arianne, Natalya, Eva Marie, and Summer Rae.
Tonight’s episode is titled ‘Eggs Over Freezing’ and the synopsis reads, “Nikki plans a future without John, Eva Marie has to choose between her family and her husband and Rosa Mendes returns and reveals a dark secret.”
With Night of Champions two weeks away, six matches have been already announced for the live pay-per-view and WWE Network production.
Besides Cena taking on Lesnar for the World Heavyweight title, Sheamus will wrestle Cesaro for the U.S. title, The Miz vs Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental title, Usos vs Goldust and Stardust for the Tag Team titles, and Paige vs Nikki Bella vs AJ Lee for the Divas title.
Mark Henry vs Rusev is the other non-title match on the card at this moment.
The SyFy publicity team Twitter account sent a tweet yesterday announcing that season 5 of their show Haven will now be airing on Thursdays at 8PM EST, which was the time slot that Smackdown was supposed to take starting October 2.
PWInsider.com reported yesterday that Smackdown would be keeping its Friday time slot after SyFy changed their Fall schedule. The SyFy schedule on the website has not been updated to reflect the changes and still has Smackdown listed on Thursdays.
WWE had been promoting Smackdown on Thursdays on their production trucks and it was a move which was expected to happen until SyFy changed everything this week.
Keeping Smackdown on Friday will avoid going head-to-head against the NFL game which airs every Thursday at 8:25PM EST.
TNA World Heavyweight champion Bobby Lashley improved his MMA record to 11-2 after defeating Josh Burns yesterday at Bellator 123 in Uncasville, Connecticut.
Lashley finished off his opponent via submission with a rear naked choke at 3:54 of round 2. This was Lashley’s Bellator debut and it was made possible thanks to the close working relationship between Bellator, TNA, and Spike TV.
Lashley’s last mixed martial arts fight was almost a year ago, in November 2013, winning via a unanimous decision after going all five rounds.
16 time World Heavyweight champion the Nature Boy Ric Flair will be appearing at the upcoming NXT Takeover 2 special on the WWE Network on September 11 to welcome Japanese Superstar Kenta to NXT.
This will be Kenta’s first televised appearance under the NXT banner after he was officially introduced to the WWE world during the July tour of Japan by Hulk Hogan.
NXT Takeover 2 will be airing live from Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, and it looks like WWE is sticking with the Takeover name for NXT live specials on the Network.
Ric Flair also appeared at the last Takeover special where he was in the corner of his daughter Charlotte for her match against Natalya who had Bret Hart in her corner.
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley underwent the first of several minor surgical procedures which he hopes to have him walk in less pain.
“Looking forward to the first of several minor surgical procedures that will hopefully have me walking around in less pain than I’ve known in years. But for the next few days I’ll be flat on my back, recuperating,” Foley wrote in an entry on his Facebook.
For a guy who abused his body so much throughout his professional wrestling career, Foley was “lucky” not to have major surgeries and the fact that he’s still able to walk considering the crazy stuff he’s done is a remarkable feat in itself.
“Would appreciate any well wishes from my friends here, right here in Facebook,” he added, a take on his usual cheap pop at arenas.
The Los Angeles Times newspaper has a story about Brock Lesnar recently selling his rural estate outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, for $750,000.
Lesnar owned the 1996-built, 43-acre estate which has 3,247 square feet of living space and a heated pole barn, storage barn, and pond. If you think Lesnar made a profit on that three quarters of a million figure, well, you’re wrong. Records show that the current WWE champion paid $783,500 for it in April 2003 and was asking $849,000 before it was sold for $750,000.
Judging by how much money Lesnar made in the UFC and currently makes in WWE for working part time, it will be no problem for him to cover the $33,500 loss on the property.
WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross will be making his MMA announcing debut on October 3, for Battleground MMA.
The former voice of the WWE will be joined by former UFC fighter Chael Sonnen, who is currently serving a two year suspension from actively competing in mixed martial arts.
Ross made it no secret in the past that he would love to call an MMA event as he is a big fan of the sport. In his career, Ross called wrestling, professional football and just recently boxing as well.
The show will be on pay-per-view and will take place from the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
TAMPA, FLA, September 3, 2014 – Former WWE Diva and Actress Karlee Perez announces her new recurring role on producer Mark Burnett’s new show; Lucha Libre, a weekly hour-long wrestling series on the El Rey Network. Mark Burnett, the uber-producer behind Survivor, The Apprentice, The Voice and The Bible is teaming with Robert Rodriguez’s new Latino-themed network to create a weekly hour-long series featuring a new lucha libre league. The Mexican wrestling series will debut in the second half of 2014.
Karlee known as former WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Diva “Maxine”, where she was portrayed as an intimidating, sexy villain in heels; Karlee attracted audiences around the world during the four years of her exciting career in wrestling. Her non-stop action packed, body slamming wrestling career, resulting in endless live camera promos and matches and a devoted social following of thousands of fans and supporters.
The El Rey Network, which launched in December, is a new 24-hour English-language network targeting the Latino 18-49 audience. Founded and curated by Rodriguez, the network has a national distribution agreement with Comcast.
About Karlee Perez
Born, April 19, 1986, to an entrepreneur family in Tampa, Florida. Karlee Perez first gained fame with World Wrestling Entertainment, as WWE’s Diva, “MAXINE”, a sexy, alluring, selfish villain in heels, making her a household name and sex symbol. Described by industry insiders and fans alike, as the perfect kind of woman… everybody “hates to love”. Karlee is a unique twist of exotic multi-ethnic looks, from her ethnic backgrounds of Spanish, Cuban, Italian, Hawaiian, Irish, English and Chinese.
Monday Night Raw on Labor Day scored 3,920,000 viewers for the three hour broadcast, down 74,000 viewers from last week.
Hour one did 4,009,000 viewers, followed by 3,925,000 in the second, and then 3,827,000 in the third and final hour. This is the third week in a row that Raw declined in the ratings. (Ratings credit: PWInsider.com)
After inviting NFL free agent Michael Sam to Monday Night Raw two days ago, WWE.COM removed the invite graphic and letter penned by Stephanie McMahon from the website after it was revealed that the Dallas Cowboys have signed him up.
The invitation was replaced by a congratulatory message which reads, “Congratulations to Michael Sam on signing with the Dallas Cowboys! WWE will extend its invitation for Michael Sam to appear on any future Monday Night Raw he wishes. We offer our support for Michael as he continues his journey.”
Sam will be the first openly gay player in the NFL and was cut from the St. Louis Rams practice squad last week.
The open invitation from WWE garnered some publicity on major sports websites across the Internet.
WWE Diva Rosa Mendes suffered a wardrobe malfunction on Main Event live on the WWE Network during a tag team Divas match thanks to Layla.
The incident happened while Mendes was outside the ring and after she threw Summer Rae back in, she tried to follow her but Layla grabbed her from her tights and pulled it down, giving WWE fans who were behind the broadcast table a very pleasant full moon.
The WWE Network quickly went to a black screen for a split second but it was too late anyway. The replays of Main Event on the Network now shows a different angle to avoid Mendes’ ass to be splashed all over the screens.
WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts was taken off the ventilator and breathing on his own according to a post by Sinn Bodhi.
“He is kicking ass on his spirometer breathing tests…If he keeps up this pace he will not need to go back on ventilator so everyone please cross your fingers,” Bodhi said.
Roberts had been unable to speak for almost a week and communicated only via a notepad when he was conscious. After nurses took off his bandages from his neck where tubes are going in, Roberts wrote “DDT” on the pad, obviously showing the pain that he was in.
“Once Jake could speak he wanted steak, milkshakes, eggs & donuts,” Bodhi wrote. “Jake even joked that he would do anything for a donut if he had to…the nurses still said no donuts, to which Jake replied with his favorite gesture. I think he was trying to say ‘you’re #1’ but I could be wrong?!”
Bodhi added that Roberts will now be monitored for the next 48 hours to see if it is safe to keep him off the ventilator for good.
Former WWE champion Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson today confirmed that he will be playing Black Adam in DC Comics’ movie Shazam!
“’Kneel at his feet or get crushed by his boot.’” My honor to become.. #BlackAdam #TheAntiHero #DCComics,” Johnson revealed on his Twitter today.
Johnson was a lock in the movie but was still not sure who he would be playing – the hero Shazam or the anti hero, Black Adam. For this movie, Johnson decided to turn heel and chose to be the villain.
The Black Adam character is described as a corrupted, ancient Egyptian predecessor of Captain Marvel (now Shazam!), who fought his way to modern times to challenge the hero and his Marvel Family associates.
No production date has been set, and Darren Lemke has just been tagged to write the script.
“We Love Dwayne and have had nothing but success with him over the years,” said Toby Emmerich, President and COO of New Line. “When I look at Dwayne both off screen and on screen, he is such a larger than life character and it just made perfect sense to me that we put him in a DC comic movie. You look at these comic book characters and they have this certain swag and charisma that Dwayne carries with him where ever he is so that’s why this always made sense.”
Who is the best man to handle all the Bella sisters family feud at the moment? The king of trash TV himself, Jerry Springer. And of course, WWE has booked the legend to appear on Monday Night RAW this coming week to offer some “family management advice.” Uh oh!
Springer will be moderating a discussion between Nikki and Brie on what WWE is billing as the season premiere of RAW live from Baltimore. This is not the first time that Springer has been on WWE television. He hosted the show on February 15, 2010, at the Wells Fargo Arena, when WWE was in the midst of having a celebrity guest host every week.
Investment website SeekingAlpha.com is predicting a huge increase in WWE Network subscribers following SummerSlam based on Google’s search traffic statistics.
The article states that at its peak during WrestleMania week in April, search traffic from Google to WWE.COM in the United States resulted to 3.4 million hits while during the SummerSlam weekend it registered 4.3 million hits, a 26.9% increase in traffic.
Based on these stats and previous Network signup data, SeekingAlpha.com is predicting 922,000 subscribers to the Network and worst case scenario of 866,000. WWE’s latest subscriber count by June 30, 2014, was 700,000.
These predicted numbers are solely for US based subscribers and do not include potential foreign subscriptions. WWE Network is now in over 170 countries.
There are several reports floating online that the fan who was holding a sign that said, “I could be at home watching Nitro” at last night’s RAW was ejected from the building.
The fan’s apparent friend was holding another sign next to him that read “For just $9.99,” and the duo – facing the hard camera – were on TV for most of the night with their signs showing at every opportunity.
A post on Reddit by this alleged fan said that he was threatened with an arrest after “5 men in suits” surrounded him after he left with security to the vending area. He was first approached by a “skinny white male with a black polo shirt with the WWE logo,” and then by “a huge black male in a suit with a WWE lapel pin.”
He then said that he left on his own. “After 5 maybe 10 minutes of the bullshit I left to my own will because I was tired of this shit,” he wrote.
The problem is that this particular fan, who was sporting a yellow t-shirt (there was another fan with a yellow shirt in front of him) was there till the very end of the show. His sign most likely got taken away since it disappeared towards the final part of the show, but surely it doesn’t seem that he was ejected as it’s being reported.
You can see the evidence of the guy sitting through five different segments of the show including the main event in an animated GIF below.
