Several WWE Legends and Hall of Famers appeared at the Bad Blood premium live event in Atlanta last night.
Bill Goldberg and his son Cage, Jacqueline, Lilian Garcia, Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, X-Pac, Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson, Mickie James, and Scott Steiner all were shown on camera and acknowledged. Other celebrities shown included Quavo, Lil Baby, Metro Boomin, and Killer Mike.
WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg even had an in-ring segment after Gunther called him out. After the Crown Jewel announcement, Gunther came to the ring and mentioned Goldberg, who was sitting ringside for the show. Gunther said that the comment he made to Bret Hart last time around that Goldberg was his childhood hero was simply a lie and no one could be impressed by a one-trick pony like Goldberg.
Gunther then addressed Cage and told him he hopes Goldberg is a better father than he was a wrestler, a comment which did not sit down well with Goldberg.
Goldberg jumped the security barricade but security and Raw General Manager Adam Pearce kept him away. Gunther told him that he got “three minutes” for him and then Sami Zayn then ran down to attack the World Heavyweight champion and eventually he bailed out.
In the ring, Triple H raised Goldberg’s hand and he told Gunther, “You’re next, boy!”
The two top matches for Crown Jewel were announced last night by WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H, who unveiled a new Crown Jewel championship in what seems to be an annual tradition going forward.
Dubbed as a “historic announcement,” Triple H said that the main events of Crown Jewel will have the WWE champion taking on the WWE World Heavyweight champion and the WWE Women’s champion taking on the WWE Women’s World champion in singles matches, with none of the titles on the line, but the winners will receive the brand new Crown Jewel title.
The new championship, made out of 50 carats of diamonds, is of a different design from the regular WWE championships and has a gold and green theme on a black leather strap, the colors used for Crown Jewel.
In years past, the Survivor Series was the place where champions of each brand face each other but that went away in recent years especially since Survivor Series is now more marketed for WarGames.
Crown Jewel takes place on November 2 live from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This will be the sixth event of the series.
The Final Boss returned at Bad Blood, his first WWE appearance since the Raw after WrestleMania, following the main event shenanigans which saw Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns defeat the Bloodline.
As Rhodes and Reigns stared each other down in the middle of the ring, The Rock’s iconic theme song hit the speakers and over 16,000 fans lost it.
Rock slowly walked out with the People’s Championship over his shoulder and tapped on his chest to acknowledge the crowd’s reaction. The Rock stayed at the top of the entrance as Cody, Roman, and the returning Jimmy Uso looked on from the ring and the rest of The Bloodline watched from the stands.
The Rock spent a minute or so quiet, then did the People’s Eyebrow and the cut throat hand signal to end the event before walking to the back.
Immediately after going to the back, he went live on Instagram, saying there has been a lot of bullshit going on for the last six months and then said that he’ll let everyone know his thoughts about the Bloodline development “when The Final Boss is ready.”
Here are the results from last night’s Bad Blood premium live event which took place from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia:
CM Punk defeated Drew McIntyre in a Hell In A Cell match; Nia Jax defeated Bayley to retain the WWE Women’s title; Damian Priest defeated Finn Balor; Rhea Ripley defeated Liv Morgan via disqualification so Morgan retained the WWE Women’s World title; Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns defeated Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu.
Hey Everybody! It’s @TheMagnumDA and we are BACK with the Pick’em report! Tonight, WWE is in the ATL for the return of Bad Blood! We’ve not seen this event since 2004, when Triple H and Shawn Michaels battled for nearly 10 days inside of Hell in a Cell. Okay, it wasn’t 10 days, but it sure felt like it!
For tonight, the WOPC Championship WILL be on the line, as both Colin and myself will walk through Hell in the hopes of walking out as the Champion of the Wrestling-Online Pick’em Crew. Tonight’s picks will be “Confidence” based, which means that we will put 5 points up for the pick with highest confidence…all the way down to 1 for the pick we’re least confident about. Who’s going to end up Champion? We’re about to find out.
ON WITH THE PICKS!
Hell in a Cell
CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre
Magnum: This is it. The final chapter between these two. This has been nearly one year in the making – there’s no need to tell you the backstory, because you already know it. We’re told that this will open the show, but I don’t think anyone’s going to top it. This will be as barbaric of a match as you’ve seen in WWE all year. In the end, Punk will finally get his vengeance. CM Punk wins and moves on to bigger and better things. (Confidence Pool: 5)
Colin: I am not a fan of violent extreme matches and I was critical of AEW when they did it (see Swerve Strickland vs Adam Page). I don’t think they will staple each other to the face or do some crazy ass wicked shit like AEW does, but we will see blood, a lot. Punk will probably pull a Flair and have a crimson mask on and I can deal with that. It’s a HIAC match after all. Blood is fine when it’s not done every week and this match certainly calls for blood. Time for these two to wrap it up and move to different feuds and I’m picking Punk to have the last laugh. (Confidence Pool: 4)
Women’s World Championship Match
Liv Morgan (c) (with “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio) vs. Rhea Ripley Dom will be suspended above the ring in a shark cage
Magnum: I have thoroughly enjoyed this program from start to finish. It feels like this is going to be the end of the feud, at least for now. Rhea’s quest to regain the title is going to come up short. Expect Dirty Dom to drop some brass knuckles or something like that to give Liv the edge. Morgan retains. (Confidence Pool: 3)
Colin: These two ladies have been “bringing it” for the past several weeks. I just love their dynamic. And add Dom to the mix and it’s magic. I would love Ripley to regain the title, but Liv is having an awesome time as champion and I actually don’t want her to lose it. I half expected this to be a Hell In A Cell match too, but I guess no gimmick matches for the women in this one. You know Dom is getting out of that cage somehow and Liv will retain. (Confidence Pool: 1)
Damian Priest vs. Finn Bálor
Magnum: This is basically Part II of the final chapter of the Judgment Day vs. their former members. The difference here is that Damian Priest is going to get the win. He needs a victory to put himself back in the title picture, and this is how he does it. Priest wins. (Confidence Pool: 2)
Colin: I’m really not that interested in this match. Not that I don’t think they’re great, because they are, but of all the matches on the show, this one is the least one that has my attention. Priest kinda fizzled out after his title loss and Balor’s always presented as a sidekick type. I miss NXT Finn Balor. Winner? Probably Priest. (Confidence Pool: 2)
WWE Women’s Championship Match
Nia Jax (c) vs. Bayley
Magnum: As I review the card, I’m seeing a familiar pattern. This is basically the champions from Mania 40 getting their last crack at the title before we move on to the build for Mania 41. I’ve gotta believe that Bayley leaves the title picture after this match, sadly. Whether Tiffy cashes in or not, I cannot say….but I’m certain that it’ll be Nia Jax that she takes the title from. (Confidence Pool: 4)
Colin: Let’s face it, Bayley is not getting her title back for now. I’m more interested in seeing Tiffany Stratton cash in on Nia Jax. I imagine that pop will be effin huge. I’m a Tiffy fan, by the way. Anyway, back to the match, no sense in having Bayley win this one, her title reign this year was a bit underwhelming to be quite honest. Nia retains the title. (Confidence Pool: 5)
Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns vs. The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu) (with Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa)
Magnum: The OG is back. I’ve been looking forward to Roman’s return for some time, now. I can’t help but feel like we could see something big here – it could be the debut of lHikuleo, or even bigger….it could be the return of The Rock. As for the match itself, I feel like Cody and Roman will be able to stay in line and work together…but something is going to be off with these two. It will eventually lead to their downfall. In a massive upset,I’m going to take Solo and Fatu for the win. (Confidence Pool: 1)
Colin: Roman’s first match back…and it’s in a tag! I guess they sold 14,000 tickets to this one, so they can keep that solo return match to sell another show. Will Cody and Roman be able to coexist? Hm, highly unlikely, although I do think they will eventually win this match. Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa will for sure interfere in this one so I wonder who will even the odds! (Confidence Pool: 3)
All right folks! That’s going to do it for us! We’ll see you next time for the Pick’em report. @TheMagnumDA signing off.
We are just hours away from the Bad Blood premium live event, a show which returns to the WWE calendar for the first time in 20 years. It also happens to be 27 years exactly to the date of the original In Your House: Badd Blood.
We are presenting you the latest betting odds for the show and while these are accurate as of press time, they might change just before the show starts so be careful when betting with real money.
In the only Hell In A Cell match of the night, CM Punk is the clear favorite to emerge victorious with his odds set at 1/20 while Drew McIntyre is 7/1 to end this feud on a high.
Dominik Mysterio will be suspended in a shark cage as his girl Liv Morgan defends her WWE Women’s World title against his former girl, Rhea Ripley. Morgan is still favorite with 2/15 odds to retain this title while Ripley is 4/1.
Former Judgment Day team mates Damian Priest and Finn Balor collide tonight with the former WWE World Heavyweight champion having 1/5 odds and favorite while Balor is 3/1 for the upset.
WWE Women’s champion Nia Jax is 1/4 favorite to retain her title while former champion Bayley is 5/2 to regain it.
And the unlikely pairing of Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns are favorite to defeat The Bloodline in tonight’s apparent main event, with the faces having 1/5 odds and the heels at 3/1.
The Hell In A Cell match between CM Punk and Drew McIntyre will be opening the Bad Blood premium live event today after it was earmarked for the main event several days ago.
This is the only Hell In A Cell match on the show as WWE has stepped back from having women HIAC matches, with the last one coming in 2021 with Bianca Belair defeating Bayley.
The change in the main event could be due to a return or something big happening in the now main event match between Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns against Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu.
Pat McAfee, speaking to Cody Rhodes a few days ago on his show, said that he heard that “the big guy is coming back this weekend,” to which Cody replied, “Which one?”
Cody also alluded that his opponent for the WWE title at Crown Jewel will become apparent on tonight’s show.
There will be no Collision next week as WrestleDream will be held on a Saturday night and AEW opted not to do the show rather than hold it on Friday like last month.
A month ago, Collision was held on Friday, September 6 and went head-to-head with Smackdown on FOX and an NFL game on Peacock, which was not the greatest idea as the show drew just 157,000 viewers, the lowest-ever for the series.
“It’s the final #AEWCollision before #AEWWrestleDream with major implications for the event,” wrote the AEW X account, confirming the news.
Collision, like Dynamite, is part of the new AEW/WBD media rights deal and will keep its Saturday night time slot on TNT in 2025 and beyond.
Live from the sold out State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, WWE presents Bad Blood streaming live on Peacock and WWE Network. The full card is as follows:
CM Punk vs Drew McIntyre in a Hell In A Cell match; Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns vs Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu; Liv Morgan vs Rhea Ripley for the WWE Women’s World title with Dominik Mysterio suspended above the ring in a shark cage; Nia Jax vs Bayley for the WWE Women’s title; and Damian Priest vs Finn Balor.
Bad Blood will have a special start time of 6PM ET with the Countdown to Bad Blood starting an hour earlier at 5PM ET. The pre-show airs on WWE’s social media channels as well as on Peacock and WWE Network. A press conference is set to take place immediately following the conclusion of the show, currently slated to start at 9:15PM ET.
Are you located in Brazil and want to watch Bad Blood tonight? As part of ongoing testing, Bad Blood will air on Netflix in the South American country only starting at 7PM Brasilia Standard Time.
While not advertised on the front page, a simple search for WWE on Netflix brings up the Bad Blood graphic and a ‘remind me’ button.
“Superstars seeing red look to settle their intense rivalries in vicious encounters, including the infamous Hell In A Cell match,” reads the preview of the show.
Netflix is expected to do more testing such as this over the next few months ahead of WWE’s arrival in January 2025. The streaming giant already aired WrestleMania XL live in New Zealand earlier this year.
All WWE premium live events will shift to Netflix internationally where there are no television deals in place, along with Raw, Smackdown, and NXT.
A promo aired last night on Smackdown which is believed to be for the arrival of former TNA Tag Team champions Motor City Machine Guns.
The vignette shows a sports car racing through the streets with a glimpse of what looks to be the skyline of Detroit. A “coming soon” then appears to end the quick video.
Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley have signed a deal with WWE and were reportedly set to be on the NXT brand but this promo suggests that they will eventually land on Smackdown in the near future.
AEW were also interested in the duo and at one point that seemed like the likely destination but WWE won their services this time around.
The new NXT title, NXT Women’s title, and Intercontinental title are already available for sale on WWE Shop.
The Intercontinental title, which adds a little blue to the plates and which made its debut on Raw this past week, is available for sale for $499.99 while the NXT title and NXT Women’s title, both of which also introduced this week during the premiere episode on the CW, are $449.99 each.
Former WWE Tag Team champions Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard are heading to Bad Blood tonight in Atlanta.
“Heading to very familiar surroundings for WWE Bad Blood tomorrow in Atlanta,” Anderson wrote on X. “Having Tully there should provide some serious flashbacks, and it will be an honor to walk the halls of the fresh, new WWE. To all my friends who still work there see ya tomorrow!”
Arn last showed up on WWE television at SummerSlam, giving Cody Rhodes a pep talk before his WWE championship match against Solo Sikoa.
Collectively known as The Brain Busters and two constants of the Four Horsemen, the duo have not appeared together in WWE since their Hall of Fame induction in 2012.
The Bad Blood go-home episode of Smackdown airs tonight live on USA Network from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, with over 10,000 fans expected in the audience.
The show will be headlined by a triple threat ladder match for the WWE Tag Team titles as Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa of The Bloodline defend their titles against The Street Profits and DIY. Also tonight, Chelsea Green takes on Michin in a dumpster match, Naomi battles Ms Money In The Bank Tiffany Stratton, and the “Phenomenal” AJ Styles returns after three months off WWE television.
Plus, ahead of their tag team match tomorrow night, Smackdown will take a special look at Cody Rhodes & Roman Reigns’ match against The Bloodline. Reigns is not advertised as appearing live at the show although the WWE champion is.
WWE is back with another premium live event as Bad Blood takes place live from Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow with a special start time of 6PM ET.
The show will be held exactly 27 years to the day of the original Bad Blood, a show which was then headlined by The Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels in the first-ever Hell In A Cell match.
Marketed under the In Your House brand, the 1997 Bad Blood was held at the Kiel Center in St. Louis, Missouri with over 21,000 fans in attendance. The seven-match card saw the arrival of Kane, who helped Shawn Michaels defeat The Undertaker in the HIAC match.
Today we present you with the early online betting odds for the show. Remember, odds will likely change so please be careful when betting with real money!
The only Hell In A Cell match on the card features CM Punk vs Drew McIntyre, with their year-long feud climaxing on this very show. Punk is 1/14 favorite to defeat the Scottish Warrior who is at 7/1 in his odds.
Mortal enemies Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns team up for the first time, and probably the last time, to take down a common enemy: The Bloodline! The WWE champion and Reigns are 1/5 favorites to beat Solo Sikoa and Jacob Fatu who have 3/1 odds as of this writing.
Former stablemates Damian Priest will clash with Finn Balor. Priest has odds of 1/4 and favorite in this match while Balor currently has 5/2 odds.
The Judgment Day will also be represented in the Women’s World title match as champion Liv Morgan defends against Rhea Ripley. Morgan is 1/7 favorite to retain her title and Ripley is 4/1 to win back the title she never lost.
Bayley is looking to regain the WWE Women’s title against champion Nia Jax but things are not looking good for her on paper as Jax is 1/4 favorite while Bayley is the underdog with 5/2 odds as well.
None of the individuals who wrestled at the original Bad Blood are part of this premium live event, although people like The Rock, Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker remain an integral part of World Wrestling Entertainment 27 years on.
The original Bad Blood card featured The Nation of Domination defeating The Legion of Doom, Max Mini and Nova defeating Mosaic and Tarantula, The Godwinns defeating The Headbangers to become the new WWE Tag Team champions, Owen Hart defeating Faarooq to win the vacant Intercontinental title, The Disciples of Apocalypse defeating Los Boricuas, Bret Hart and The British Bulldog defeating The Patriot and Vader, and Shawn Michaels defeating The Undertaker in the Hell In A Cell match.
A tournament was held to determine the Intercontinental champion after Steve Austin had to vacate the title following his injury at SummerSlam when he was piledrived by Owen Hart.
The eight WWE Superstars in that tournament, apart from Hart and Faarooq included Brian Tillman, Dude Love, Goldust, Ken Shamrock, Ahmed Johnson, and Rocky Maivia. Shamrock originally won his quarter final match against Faarooq but was later injured so Faarooq advanced. Hart defeated Goldust and Pillman to advance to the final match.
After this event, WWE held only two more Bad Blood pay-per-views, in 2003 and 2004.
The 2003 event, held at the Compaq Center in Houston, Texas in June, was headlined by Triple H vs Kevin Nash in a Hell In A Cell match with Mick Foley as the special guest referee. That card featured nine matches in total in front of 10,000 fans.
The 2004 event was held in June as well from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio and that had Triple H vs Shawn Michaels in another Hell In A Cell match. The eight-match card had 9,000 fans in attendance.
The 2024 Bad Blood premium live event was announced to the world on July 6 via a YouTube video featuring Cody Rhodes and Metro Boomin. Boomin’s song, GTA, was announced as the official theme song for the show.
Well over 14,000 fans will be in attendance tomorrow at the State Farm Arena with the show guaranteed to sell out. There are less than 100 tickets left on Ticketmaster for this event, which makes it a financial success. Tickets on the secondary market are also selling for a higher price than previous WWE premium live events.
It’s going to be a few months before you hear Taz on AEW commentary again as the former ECW champion is undergoing knee replacement surgery.
Taz was “attacked” by someone in the parking lot before Dynamite this week and was not on commentary duties, with Nigel McGuinness replacing him in the three-man booth with Tony Schiavone and Excalibur.
On X, the man also known as the Human Suplex Machine wrote, “Unfortunately, I will be out for a while. I’ll be having total knee replacement surgery very soon. Talk to you guys down the road.”
Taz has been doing Dynamite commentary full time since June 2022, replacing Jim Ross.
AEW Rampage is expected to end its run in December and will not return on TNT as part of the new AEW/WBD media rights deal in 2025.
The one-hour broadcast on Friday nights, which started in 2021 and was the show which CM Punk made his return after seven years out, has been tanking in the ratings this year, with an average of just 320,000 viewers so far.
Rampage was not mentioned anywhere in the press release issued by AEW and Warner Bros. Discovery and Battle of the Belts, which is a quarterly show on TNT, was also omitted, suggesting that it will be canned as well.
AEW is rumored to be negotiating a deal for another show, tentatively titled Shockwave, with FOX.
Some industry insiders suggested that while AEW on WBD is not exclusive, WBD has the exclusivity when it comes to cable – on TNT and TBS – and on streaming – on Max – so that would leave network television and the main FOX station as the only other option, which would be a huge get for the company.
After Peacock removed all episodes of the NXT library from its service, Wrestling-Online.com reached out to NBCUniversal for clarification.
A Peacock spokesperson confirmed that Peacock no longer has the library rights of NXT episodes from October 1 onward due to the move of the show to the CW. NXT premium live events will continue to air on Peacock and available on-demand but weekly episodes, including those of the past, are not available anymore.
A CW spokesman also confirmed a few weeks ago that CW will not have the full NXT library and the network will only have episodes of the show which aired on CW on their app.
In addition, all WWE Raw episodes on Peacock will also be removed from the service in January 2025. This is because Raw is moving to Netflix and an expiry clock on these episodes will be shown starting December 2. It’s unclear if all previous episodes of Raw will also port to Netflix in the United States.
Smackdown episodes, including new and the full library of the show, will remain on Peacock due to the company’s agreement with NBCUniversal for the next five years.
Also, all premium live events, including NXT ones, will remain exclusive to Peacock in the United States.
The fifth anniversary episode of Dynamite this week drew 680,000 viewers, down 22,000 viewers from the prior week. The show had a 0.20 rating in 18-49, down 0.03 from the last show and placed #7 on the top 50 cable chart for the night. This was the least-watched episode in a month, facing one MLB playoff game on ESPN. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
The relationship between Nikki Garcia and her estranged husband Artem Chigvintsev got more complicated after Garcia file a restraining order against him this week.
A judge signed off on the request following Nikki’s sworn declaration to court according to TMZ.COM.
Nikki wrote that her husband tackled her multiple times and pinned her to the ground when their son was present. She also said that since he was removed from Dancing with the Stars, he grew increasingly angry, snapping at her, and yelling a her.
On the day 911 was called and police showed up to arrest him for domestic violence, she did admit that she threw their son’s toddler-size 7 shoes at him and hit his leg, but since they’re light and small, no damage could have been done.
Nikki also detailed what happened that same day and when police showed up, their four-year-old son told them that daddy hurt his hand.
Imposing the restraining order, the judge has prohibited Artem from contacting or coming within 100 yards of Nikki, their son, and their home with the only exception being for visitation or exchange of the child per court-ordered visits. The judge denied Nikki’s request to travel out of country with their son pending a full hearing on October 21.
