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Royal Rumble 2025 tickets on sale on November 15

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE today announced that tickets for the 2025 Royal Rumble in Indianapolis, Indiana will go on sale to the general public on Friday, November 15 at Ticketmaster.com.

A pre-sale will kick off two days earlier on Wednesday, November 13 at 10AM ET. Fans can register for pre-sale access by visiting https://www.wwe.com/royalrumble-2025-presale.

Additionally, Royal Rumble Priority Pass ticket packages will soon be available from On Location, offering fans the chance to be ringside for every exhilarating moment including premium seating, pre-show hospitality with WWE Superstar appearances, ringside photo opportunities and more. To place a deposit or sign up for exclusive pre-sale access, please visit https://onlocationexp.com/royalrumble.

WWE and Indiana Sports Corp made an agreement earlier this year which will also see a two-night SummerSlam and a two-night WrestleMania all coming to Lucas Oil Stadium in the near future.

TNA to hold TV tapings in Nashville this week with all proceeds going to hurricane relief fund

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Colin Vassallo
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TNA wrestling has rescheduled their Spartanburg Impact television tapings to Nashville, Tennessee, this coming Wednesday, October 2, and Thursday, October 3, with both events held at the Skyway Studios.

All tickets for both shows are $10 each and all proceeds from both shows will be donated to the Hurricane Helene Relief Efforts in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

The original shows were set for September 27 and 28 and were rescheduled twice before getting canceled due to the aftermath of the hurricane, which left people dead and millions without power in the area.

TNA will have auctions at both shows for match-used and autographed memorabilia, plus unique collectibles for sale and all proceeds are also going to the relief fund.

Fans will have the opportunity to donate additionally to the relief efforts at both shows.

TNA officials have been in contact with members of the Spartanburg Police & Fire Departments, as members of both departments were scheduled to attend the TNA shows in Spartanburg.

Logan Paul and fiancee Nina Agdal announce birth of first child

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Colin Vassallo
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Former WWE United States champion Logan Paul and his fiancee Nina Agdal announced the arrival of their first child, Esmé Agdal Paul, earlier today.

Paul posted a few photos of the new arrival on his Instagram accounts, with Paul writing, “Esmé Agdal Paul has entered the chat.”

The part-time WWE Superstar has not appeared on television since his United States title loss to LA Knight at SummerSlam earlier last month.

Paul and Agdal have been engaged for over a year now and announced that they were expecting their first child together in March.

John Cena on The Simpsons season premiere episode tonight on FOX

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Colin Vassallo
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John Cena is getting the yellow treatment as he will be a guest in the season premiere of The Simpsons today on FOX TV.

“A big episode needs even bigger guest stars,” The Simpsons’ X account wrote. “Don’t miss @JohnCena and more on the season premiere of #TheSimpsons this Sunday on @FOXTV! Next day on @hulu.”

The X post also featured the first look of Cena getting Simpson-ized, sporting a very tight grayish t-shirt and biceps clearly on display.

The synopsis for the episode reads, “Bart celebrates the most shocking birthday party of his entire life – one that might just change everyone in Springfield forever.”

It airs at 8PM ET on FOX.

NXT’s Tatum Paxley and Javier Bernal get married

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Colin Vassallo
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NXT’s Tatum Paxley and Javier Bernal got married over the weekend, becoming the latest WWE duo to tie the knot.

This is the first marriage for Paxley, 27, and Bernal, 25, who both met each other at the WWE Performance Center.

The ceremony was attended by several of their fellow NXT stars including the likes of Lexis King, Lash Legend, Nikkita Lyons, Jakara Jackson, Lola Vice, Brooks Jensen, Karmen Petrovic, and many others.

Congratulations to the newlyweds!

Toni Storm returns to Stardom after five years

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Colin Vassallo
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Toni Storm returned to Stardom for the first time in five years last night in at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan, teaming up with Mina Shirakawa to take on IWGP Women’s Champion Mayu Iwatani and AZM.

Storm, portraying her AEW character, won the match after she pinned AZM following the Storm Zero finisher.

The former AEW Women’s champion is now going for the IWGP Women’s title next week as she wrestles Iwatani at the Stardom Nagoya Golden Fight event on October 5.

Storm wrestled for STARDOM for two years before she made her way to WWE. She is a former World of Stardom champion.

Collision: Grand Slam preview for 09/28/2024

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Colin Vassallo
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Tonight’s Collision is the first one from Arthur Ashe Stadium and carries the Grand Slam label. In prior years, AEW did Rampage: Grand Slam but the more important Collision took that title this year with two title matches on the card.

Headlining the show will be AEW Continental champion Kazuchika Okada against Sammy Guevara in a championship eliminator match. The AEW Trios titles will be on the line as Claudio Castagnoli, Pac, and Wheeler Yuta defend against Private Party and Komander, Jack Perry has his TNT title open challenge, The Beast Mortos vs Hologram vs Dralistico in a three-way lucha libre match, Saraya takes on Jamie Hayter in a Saraya’s Rules match, Chris Jericho, Big Bill, and Bryan Keith team up against The Conglomeration in a tornado trios match, and Jeff Jarrett battles Hangman Page in a lumberjack strap match.

Collision will air in its regular time slot of 8PM ET on TNT.

TNA cancels two television tapings in Spartanburg due to Hurricane Helene

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Colin Vassallo
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After rescheduling their Impact television tapings twice, TNA Wrestling pulled the plug on the two shows due to Hurricane Helene.

Spartanburg was in the path of the storm and five people have already died. Hurricane Helene left more than 1.2 million homes and businesses without power in South Carolina.

“The safety and well-being of our TNA wrestlers, staff, crew and fans are top priority,” TNA said in a statement. “TNA will provide an update on refunds for the Spartanburg shows, as well as an update on future/additional shows.”

WWE programming moving to YouTube in South and Central America until Netflix deal

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE will be moving Raw and Smackdown to YouTube for all of South America and Central America starting with Friday, October 4 until the new Netflix deal kicks off in January 25.

The upcoming Raw on September 30 will be the last-ever WWE show airing on ESPN in those regions as their TV deal is expiring.

The only exception to this is the country of Mexico, where the shows will continue to air on FOX Sports for the rest of 2024 and then they also move to Netflix.

WWE is not renewing their international television deals since Netflix will be taking over globally, except in the United States where only Raw will be on the streaming service. The rest of the world – where there is no TV deal in place or where a deal is expiring – will get Raw, Smackdown, NXT, and premium live events on Netflix.

Roxanne Perez vs Giulia to kick off NXT on CW

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Colin Vassallo
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The NXT on CW premiere next Tuesday will kick things off with the NXT Women’s championship match featuring champion Roxanne Perez defending against Giulia.

NXT moves to network television after five years on cable on USA Network and will start its new era with a show from the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, a show which will also have the appearance of a few main roster stars including CM Punk.

Punk will be the referee of the main event match between Ethan Page and Trick Williams for the NXT title.

Tickets for the show are still available at Ticketmaster.com.

20% discount offered for WrestleDream pay-per-view tickets

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Colin Vassallo
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With ticket sales for WrestleDream hurting, AEW is now offering a 20% discount for the pay-per-view using the code WAR20 on Ticketmaster.com.

The promo code will unlock mostly $25 tickets, plus taxes and fees, in the 100 Level seats. Ringside seats have also fallen in price, with the same promo showing $72 seats on the floor.

The Tacoma Dome hosts 21,000 seats but AEW has configured the place to just over 7,000 capacity, with less than 5,500 tickets distributed so far according to @WrestleTix.

The show might get a little boost now that the main event has been announced featuring Bryan Danielson vs Jon Moxley for the AEW World title.

Nikkita Lyons returns to the ring after eight months out

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Colin Vassallo
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NXT star Nikkita Lyons made her return to the ring last night at the NXT live event in Davenport, Florida.

Lyons has been out since January of this year after tearing her ACL a month after she returned to the ring following another nine-month injury where she tore the ACL of the other knee.

She was sporting two knee braces at the show last night, something that will probably be part of her in-ring wardrobe moving forward.

The 25-year-old from Las Vegas was on a good roll before getting injured the first time around but before yesterday, she only managed to wrestle 10 times since January 6, 2023 due to her injuries.

Swerve Strickland claims AEW is “about to get on FOX”

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Colin Vassallo
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Swerve Strickland claimed in an interview on the Queenzflip YouTube channel that AEW is “about to get on FOX,” becoming the first person from the company to acknowledge the rumors that have been floating around for the past several weeks.

The new AEW media rights deal is not exclusive to just Warner Bros. Discovery and AEW shopped around other networks for a different show as well. Rumors started to float that the proposed show, tentatively titled Shockwave, was going on a FOX channel, although it’s thought to be FS1 rather than the main FOX channel which Smackdown was on.

“We’re about to move,” the former AEW World champion said. “We’re about to get on FOX. Smackdown is leaving FOX, and then we’re taking FOX, TNT, TBS… we got all three of them things.”

AEW filed paperwork to trademark the term AEW Shockwave on September 6 under the goods and services description of entertainment in the nature of wrestling contests, live professional wrestling, production of professional wrestling evens and production and distribution of ongoing TV programs in the field of professional wrestling.

TNA reschedules Impact television tapings again due to hurricane

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Colin Vassallo
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TNA Wrestling has once again moved its scheduled television tapings in Spartanburg, South Carolina due to Hurricane Helene.

Originally set for yesterday and tonight, TNA announced that it was moving them to tomorrow and Monday, but the new dates now sees the first show on Monday and the second show on Tuesday.

Tickets for the originally scheduled Friday, September 27 show can be used on Monday and tickets for the Saturday, September 28 show can be used on Tuesday.

For those who cannot make the new dates, refunds will be offered and a new start time will also be announced by the company on their website and social media properties.

AJ Styles returning on next week’s Smackdown

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Colin Vassallo
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For the first time in three months, former WWE champion AJ Styles will be returning to Smackdown next week.

Styles was last seen at Clash at the Castle in Glasgow, Scotland, in June, losing an I Quit match to Cody Rhodes and disappeared from television after that.

He has been wrestling occasionally during his time away from television, appearing for Pro Wrestling NOAH in July for a match against Naomichi Marufuji and also appearing at several WWE non-televised live events.

His current WWE contract is believed to be expiring at the end of 2024.

Shawn Michaels promises “one of the best” NXT shows for CW premiere

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Colin Vassallo
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Speaking to the Chicago Tribune ahead of next week’s NXT debut on The CW, Shawn Michaels promised one of the best shows the brand has ever produced.

Tuesday’s NXT will be live from the Allstate Arena in Rosemont in front of nearly 7,000 fans and will mark a new era for the brand as it transitions to network television from USA Network on cable.

HBK said that they want to make a “big splash” on CW and teased some changes.

“We’ll have some big changes, but I think more of that will be from a look and physical standpoint. We will still be what NXT is, which is bringing some of the most talented, young, diverse athletes in all of the nation, and developing them into the WWE superstars of tomorrow,” Michaels said. ” The hunger, the passion that’s always been the core value of NXT is always going to be there. But certainly we’ll try to put on some pretty cool bells and whistles for the CW launch on October 1.”

Chicago’s own CM Punk will be in the building as he was appointed the special guest referee for the main event match between champion Ethan Page and challenger Trick Williams.

Michaels is looking forward to have Punk back, saying that every time he comes to visit, it’s not only valuable from a TV standpoint, but also to the up-and-comers who are Superstars in training.

“We have numerous fantastic legends and coaches here on NXT, but it is always fantastic when you have a current main roster WWE and global superstars like CM Punk come visit,” Michaels said. “He has come down here on various occasions. He’s been very supportive of NXT, the talent and the system that we have here.”

MJF books role in Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2 movie

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Colin Vassallo
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MJF has been cast in the Netflix movie Happy Gilmore 2, starring Adam Sandler.

The exclusive story, published by Deadline, says that his role is still a secret and so is the plot of the movie. Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald will return to the cast and Travis Kelce is expected to do a cameo.

MJF made his acting debut in The Iron Claw and just recently finished filming the independent comedy The Floaters along with Seth Green and Aya Cash.

The former AEW champion has been off television since All Out earlier this month and his last match was defeating Daniel Garcia.

Saraya signs new one-year deal with AEW

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Colin Vassallo
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Former AEW Women’s champion Saraya has reportedly signed a new one-year deal with the company. The news was broken by Fightful Wrestling yesterday.

While Saraya had an optional year in her original deal, Fightful says that this is something different and runs until September 2025.

The British star has been working for AEW since September 2022, returning to the ring five years after getting medical clearance to resume her in-ring career.

Prior to joining AEW, Saraya was part of WWE until July 2022, working under the name Paige. WWE doctors never cleared her due to her neck injury and was sidelined for years, just collecting a paycheck as WWE had nothing for her.

Saraya will be wrestling Jaime Hayter in a Saraya’s Rules match tomorrow night on Collision: Grand Slam.

WWE announces the 2024 Holiday Tour live events

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Colin Vassallo
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WWE today announced nine live events as part of the 2024 Holiday Tour.

The tour will start on Boxing Day with a show at the Vystar Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. Two shows on December 27 will see Smackdown from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida, and house show at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

On December 28, it’s two live events at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, Maryland, and another one at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida, head to head with AEW’s Worlds End pay-per-view.

The last four events will be on December 29 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois and at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, and then on December 30 it’s a live Raw from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, and the from the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

The annual tradition of Madison Square Garden on December 26 is still expected to happen despite not being announced yet.

The December 30 Raw will be the last Raw on USA Network.

Dynamite rating for 09/25/2024

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Colin Vassallo
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The Dynamite: Grand Slam episode drew 702,000 viewers, up 15,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast. The show had a 0.23 rating in 18-49, up 0.01 from last week and was #3 on the top 50 cable chart for the night. The show was down compared to last year’s Grand Slam when it did 984,000 viewers and a 0.36 in 18-49. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)

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