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Bella Twins Return To Action At WWE Live Event (Video)

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The Bella Twins were back in action over the weekend as they worked a live event on Sunday night in Rochester, NY at the Blue Cross Arena.

Nikki and Brie and Ember Moon defeated the Riott Squad in a six-woman tag team match at the show. This was their first match since the Women’s Royal Rumble back in January. Following their return, the Bellas thanked their fans on Twitter:

“Bella Army we LOVE you beyond words!!!! Your support and love tonight was INCREDIBLE!!! Thank you!!! B&N #WWERochester #BellaArmyStrong.”

The Bella Twins each have several WWE matches scheduled for the coming months. Brie has her next match set as she will team up with her husband, Daniel Bryan, to take on The Miz and Maryse at the upcoming Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event on Sunday, September 16, 2018 in San Antonio, Texas at the AT&T Center.

Nikki, on the other hand, is slated to work the upcoming WWE Evolution pay-per-view event. You can find out who she is likely to wrestle at this show but keep in mind that it contains spoilers.

The Bella Twins Return

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#WWERochester Results

  • Sasha Banks & Bayley defeated Alexa Bliss & Alicia Fox.
  • The B-Team defeated The Deleters of Worlds & The Revival to retain the RAW Tag Team Championship.
  • Bobby Roode defeated Jinder Mahal.
  • No Way Jose, Rhyno, Heath Slater & Zack Ryder defeated The Ascension, Curt Hawkins & Mike Kanellis
  • Akam defeated Tyler Breeze.
  • The Bella Twins & Ember Moon defeated The Riott Squad.
  • Dean Ambrose & Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins defeated Dolph Ziggler & Drew McIntyre.
  • Finn Balor defeated Baron Corbin.
  • Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman ends in no contest once Reigns speared Strowman through a table. Reigns retained Universal Championship.

Terry Funk Withdraws From Starccast For Health Reasons

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One of the most legendary wrestlers of all-time will not be at Starccast this weekend. Terry Funk has been forced to withdraw from his planned “Empty Arena Match Retrospective” along with Jerry Lawler.

Starrcast announced the change recently on Twitter:

The 74-year-old has been dealing with diverticulitis and an abdominal hernia this summer. It is not clear, however, if this is what has caused him to withdraw from Starrcast.

Jerry Lawler vs Terry Funk Empty Arena Match

The famous empty arena match between Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk is now 37 years old. The match took place April 25th, 1981 as part of the long-standing rivalry between the two.

Leading up to the match, Funk expressed it was impossible for him to get a fair fight against Lawler in Memphis. Funk said the entire city of Memphis was biased in Lawler’s favor.

This included the referees, promotion management, fans and even the Memphis police according to Funk. The only way Funk felt he could get a fair fight against Lawler would be within an empty arena.

Starrcast Replacement

Starrcast announced that they have found a replacement session for the Empty Arena Retrospective. A “Total Non-Stop Jarrett” session will now replace the Empty Arena Retrospective.

Jerry Lawler will still be on-hand at Starrcast for photos and autographs despite the change in plans.

Eric Bischoff On Sting Thriving In WCW When Hogan, Hall & Nash Came In

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The latest episode of Eric Bischoff’s 83 Weeks podcast focuses on Sting’s 1996. A lot was changing for WCW that year. In addition to launching Monday Nitro in the fall 1995, WCW was acquiring WWF talent at a breakneck pace. After signing top names from the WWF like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, 1996 saw many more high-profile acquisitions ushc as Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.

As the franchise player of WCW, there was no guarantee that Sting would react kindly to so many big stars coming in. While some people in Sting’s position would have reacted negatively to so many new challengers to his spot, Bischoff says Sting was the consummate professional and welcomed the new opportunities that awaited him.

“One of the things that stands out to me so much is that (Sting) was the ultimate team player.”  Bischoff said.  “He was one of the few guys that really was completely supportive. He wasn’t [just] supportive – he was excited that Hulk Hogan was coming to WCW, he was excited that Randy Savage was coming to WCW.”

When Bischoff took over WCW, Sting was the top babyface in the company. With political sharks like Hogan, Hall and Nash entering his waters, Sting took it all in stride.

Bischoff explained “[Sting] was so apolitical in that regard, in an era where everybody was worried about their spot or all of a sudden the spotlight going from them to someone else.”

Head over to 83Weeks.com for more on Eric Bischoff’s podcast.

Video Of Bloody Injury At Impact Wrestling Event

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On Saturday night, Impact Wrestling returned to Mississauga, ON for another One Night Only show. The show, “Bad Intentions, in conjunction with Destiny Wrestling featured a main event of Sami Callihan taking on Josh Alexander inside a steel cage.

Callihan hit Alexander with a trash can during the match, busting his opponent wide open the hard way.

https://twitter.com/Walking_Weapon/status/1033568220500971520

Destiny Wrestling sent out a Tweet just to let fans know that Alexander is OK.

Sami Callihan vs Josh Alexander

“The Walking Weapon” Josh Alexander is a 31-year-old Canadian independent wrestler. He’s well-regarded on the Canadian independent scene but unfortunately, you won’t find him performing anywhere else for a while. Visa problems are preventing him from traveling outside the country, limiting which promotions will book him.

Even after being sponsored by a promotion for a work Visa, Alexander was denied.

https://twitter.com/Walking_Weapon/status/1032058748125163520

Impact Wrestling’s Big September

Although Alexander has taken part in Impact tapings so far this year, he won’t be on either of the next two trips for the promotion.

First up for Impact in September is a trip to Manchester for the Wrestling MediaCon event. The promotion will air the event live on their Twitch channel.

Just 4 days after their show in Manchester, Impact is then off to Mexico. On September 13th and 14th, Impact will bring their TV tapings to Mexico City. Those tapings will be the final ones until Bound for Glory in October.

First NXT UK Women’s Champion Crowned (Spoiler)

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History was made on Sunday night when WWE crowned the first-ever NXT UK Women’s Champion. WWE just held two nights of tapings at the Insomnia gaming festival at NEC Birmingham. These matches will air on the WWE Network as part of the upcoming NXT UK series.

As part of the tapings, an 8-woman tournament was held to crown the first champion. The participants included Toni Storm, Rhea Ripley, Jinny, Isla Dawn, Millie McKenzie, Nina Samuels, Dakota Kai and Xia Brookside.

When all was said and done, it was Rhea Ripley standing tall as the first-ever NXT UK Women’s Champion. Ripley defeated Toni Storm in the finals.

The 21 year old competitor from Adelaide, Australia signed with WWE last year. She competed in the inaugural Mae Young Classic tournament and will be part of the event once again this year.

As WWE’s latest female champion, Rhea Ripley is expected to be part of the all-women’s WWE Evolution pay-per-view in October.

We have full spoiler results from both nights of NXT UK TV tapings:

On Monday afternoon, WWE released these photos of the new NXT UK Women’s Championship in all its glory:

Seth Rollins Reveals When He Found Out About His WrestleMania 31 Cash-In

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Seth Rollins cashing in his Money In The Bank contract at WrestleMania 31 is one of the most iconic moments in the history of not only the Show of Shows but all of WWE as well.

However, during a recent interview with News.com.au, the current Intercontinental Champion revealed that his cash in was finalised in the last minute.

According to Rollins, he didn’t know for sure that he would be a part of the main event until the show had begun and he was told about it when we were already halfway through the event:

“I didn’t know for sure until the middle of the show (it was happening), I had a match with Randy Orton early in the day and then I was sequestered backstage and informed that would be the plan at the end of the night. It honestly was a very last-minute thing.”

Continuing on the topic, Seth Rollins revealed that the show had almost exceeded its runtime and moments before he came out, he had started thinking that the plans might change once again.

Roman Reigns won the 2015 Royal Rumble event and as a result, earned the right to challenge the then WWE Champion Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 31.

However, midway into their match, Seth cashed in his Money In The Bank contract and inserted himself into the bout. He went on to pin Reigns and win the World title.

Paige Announces Mini Tournament To Determine Challengers For The New Day

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With Rowan being out of action for the foreseeable future, the Bludgeon Brothers are not very likely to cash in their rematch clause for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships against New Day anytime soon.

So General Manager Paige had to come up with an idea to determine the next challengers for the now 5 Times Tag Team Champions, and she decided to do another mini-tournament.

Paige announced in a video posted on her twitter account recently that they will be holding two triple threat tag team matches on the upcoming episodes of SmackDown Live.

The winner of these triple threats will go on to face each other in a regular tag match and whoever wins that, will earn the right to challenge the New Day for their title at the upcoming Hell In A Cell PPV:

https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE/status/1033793943098482689

The first triple threat that is expected to take place on this week’s episode of the show will see The Bar Sheamus & Cesaro battling against The Colons, Primo & Epico, and The Club  Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson.

It’s worth mentioning here that this appears to be the Colons’ first on screen tag team match together since Primo suffered a knee injury and was put on the shelf back in June last year.

The participants for the second triple threat of this mini-tournament have not been revealed yet, but the company is most likely to announce it on the Blue Branded show this week.

Spoilers: WWE NXT UK TV Tapings Results (8/26)

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The journey of bringing the WWE NXT UK brand to the WWE Network has continued as the company held TV tapings on Sunday in Birmingham, United Kingdom at the NEC Birmingham.

As of this writing, there’s no word yet on when these shows will air. WWE crowned the inaugural NXT UK Women’s Champion, which is Rhea Ripley, who defeated Toni Storm to win the title. Here are the spoilers:

August 26th Taping

  • (Women’s Championship Semifinals): Rhea Ripley defeated Dakota Kai
  • Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster defeated Joseph Conners and Saxon Huxley.
  • Dave Mastiff defeated T-Bone
  • (Women’s Championship Semifinals): Toni Storm defeated Jinny
  • Millie McKenzie and Xia Brookside defeated Killer Kelly and Charlie Morgan
  • Eddie Dennis defeated Aston Smith
  • Joseph Conners defeated Saxon Huxley
  • NXT UK Champion Pete Dunne defeated Jordan Devlin
  • Ligero defeated Dan Moloney
  • Tyler Bate defeated Joe Coffey
  • Zack Gibson and James Drake defeated Kenny Williams and Amir Jordan
  • (Women’s Championship Finals): Rhea Ripley defeated Toni Storm to become the first NXT UK Women’s Champion.

What are your thoughts on these results? Do you plan on watching the shows once available? Is Ripley the right person to be the first champion? 

Spoiler: Two Matches Revealed For ROH Death Before Dishonor PPV

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The card for the ROH Death Before Dishonor PPV is slowly but surely coming together. Two new matches for the show have been revealed following the promotion holding TV tapings on Saturday night in Philadelphia, PA at the 2300 Arena.

Those matches are Jay Lethal defending the ROH World Title against Will Ospreay as well as ROH Women of Honor World Champion Sumie Sakai defending the strap against Tenille Dashwood.

Lethal vs. Ospreay was set up after Ospreay issued a challenge, which Lethal later accepted. On the other match was set up once Sakai stated that she felt like she couldn’t truly call herself champion until she beat Dashwood one-on-one.

Bullet Club (Cody, Adam Page, The Young Bucks, and Marty Scurll) vs. CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada, Chuckie T, Beretta, Tomohiro Ishii, and Rocky Romero) in a 10-man tag team match has already been confirmed for this show.

Ring of Honor is slated to hold their Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view event at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, September 28, 2018. The event will air on traditional PPV outlets and the FITE TV app. The promotion will be announcing more matches in the coming weeks.

The Card

ROH World Champion Jay Lethal vs. Will Ospreay

ROH Women of Honor World Champion Sumie Sakai vs. Tenille Dashwood

Cody, Adam Page, The Young Bucks, and Marty Scurll vs. Kazuchika Okada, Chuckie T, Beretta, Tomohiro Ishii, and Rocky Romero

Jushin “Thunder” Liger vs. TBA

What are your thoughts on this card thus far? Sound off in the comment section.

AAA TripleMania Results: El Hijo Del Fantasma Unmasked

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The biggest event of the year for AAA Lucha Libre took place last night. The promotion presented TripleMania XXVI from the Arena Ciudad in Mexico City, Mexico.

The main event featured a 4-way cage match which guaranteed one luchador would lose their mask. The rules were that 4 luchadors would start in the cage and once two had escaped, the remaining two would wrestle a single’s match. The loser of that match would be forced to unmask.

El Hijo Del Fantasma Unmasked

In a shocking turn of events, El Hijo Del Fantasma (aka King Cuerno in Lucha Underground) has been unmasked.

AAA TripleMania XXVI Results

  1. Astrolux, Dragon Bane, and Freelance defeated Aramis, Drastik Boy, and Latigo
  2. AAA World Cruiserweight Championship
    Sammy Guevara defeated Australian Suicide (c) vs Shane Strickland vs ACH
  3. AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championships
    Big Mami and Nino Hamburguesa (c) defeated Angelikal and La Hiedra vs Dinastia and Lady Maravilla vs El Hijo del Vikingo and Vanilla
  4. AAA World Tag Team Championships #1 Contender
    Bandido and Flamita defeated DJZ and Andrew Everett vs Golden Magic and Laredo Kid vs Aerostar and Drago
  5. Averno Chessman and SuperFly defeated Jack Evans, Juventud Guerrera and Teddy Hart
  6. El Texano, La Mascara and Rey Escorpion defeated Joe Lider, Murder Clown, and Pagano
  7. AAA World Heavyweight Championship
    Fenix defeated Jeff Jarrett (c) vs Rich Swann vs Brian Cage
  8. Mask Vs Hair
    Ladi Shani defeated Faby Apache
  9. Mask vs Mask 4-Way Cage Match
    LA Park, Pentagon Jr, and Pscyho Clown defeated El Hijo Del Fantasma

Bret Hart Honored By First Nations Community With Blackfoot Name (Video)

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Bret Hart was honored by the Siksika Nation on Thursday in a ceremony held at Mount Royal University. The same University also celebrated Bret back in May with an honorary degree.

Bret was given a “Blackfoot name” which is an honor bestowed by the Blackfoot Confederacy of First Nations. The Blackfoot or Blackfeet people are First Nations communities located mainly in BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Stampede Wrestling used to regularly run tours in these communities, even traveling there in treacherous conditions during the dead of winter.

Recently, a First Nation community decided to give back to the Hart Family. You can watch the ceremony in the player below:

Bret Hart Given Blackfoot Name “Iyiikitapinna” Meaning: “Courageous Chief”

During the ceremony, an Elder spoke of an ancient warrior named Iron Shield. Bret, the Elder said, exhibited similar courage as the ancient warrior.

The chief gave Bret the name, “Iyiikitapinna”, which translates to “Courageous Chief”.

“It might be too bold a name for me. It’s a huge honour for me,” Bret said. “Growing up here all my life, being from Calgary, there’s a strong sensitivity to the struggles” of Indigenous people.”

Bret would continue to say he felt he was representing his whole family at the ceremony.

“I feel like I’m here representing the whole family, and I know my father always had a really strong relationship with the First Nations community,” Hart said. “This day would have been special to him. There’s always been a warmth, friendship and kind of respect there.”

Bret would continue to say Iyiikitapinna was a more important nickname to him than “Hitman”.

Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate Confirmed For WWE 2K19 (Entrances & Screenshots)

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There’s only ever been two WWE United Kingdom Champions in history and both have just been confirmed for WWE 2K19.

“As WWE expands globally, we want the WWE 2K roster to reflect those changes as much as possible,“ said Sean Conway from Visual Concepts. 

The standard game releases on October 9th. Pre-Orders will be available on October 5th, however. AJ Styles is this year’s cover athlete.

WWE 2K19 Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate

2K has confirmed several other features of the game as well. Most notably, Showcase mode will return to WWE 2K19 this year. 2K is promoting Daniel Bryan’s showcase as the mode returns after a one-year absence.

Pre-Order bonuses also include access to the game 4 days early and Ronda Rousey and Rey Mysterio as bonus characters.

A commemorative Ric Flair version of the game has also been announced as well. This version of the game includes a plaque with a real piece of one of Flair’s iconic robes incased and a replica of a WWE Hall of Fame ring. The Flair version of the game also involves the following characters as bonus content:

  • “Rowdy” Roddy Piper character (1980s)
  • Dusty Rhodes (1980s)
  • Rick “the Dragon” Steamboat (1980s)
  • “Macho Man” Randy Savage (WM8)
  • The Undertaker (2002)
  • Ric Flair (WM24 attire)
  • Charlotte Flair (WM32 attire)
  • NWA Starrcade 1983 Arena

Jessamyn Duke Makes In-Ring Debut At WWE NXT House Show

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Jessamyn Duke is now the final member of the Four Horsewomen of MMA to make their pro wrestling debuts. At a live event presented by WWE NXT on Saturday night in Largo, FL at the Minnreg Hall, Duke made her in-ring debut for the company by teaming up with Four Horsewomen members Shayna Baszler & Marina Shafir to defeat Kairi Sane, Io Shirai & Deonna Purrazzo in the main event.

The finish of the match saw Baszler tap out Purrazzo while Duke and Shafir prevented the submission from being broken up. This past May, the company announced that they had signed Duke and Shafir where they would later start training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

Moving along to last month, Shafir had her first match at an NXT house show. Duke was supposed to wrestle last month as well but plans changed.

With all four of MMA’s Four Horsewomen now active on the WWE and NXT rosters, the prospect of a showdown with WWE’s Four Horsewomen (Charlotte, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks and Bayley) is realer than ever.

The Results

Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) defeat Adrian Jaoude & Cezar Bononi

Brennan Williams defeats Tian Bing (w/Rocky)

Kacy Catanzaro & Lacey Lane defeat Reina Gonzalez & Taynara Conti

Dan Matha defeats Luke Menzies

The Velveteen Dream defeats Babatunde Aiyegbusi

Heavy Machinery (Otis Dozovic & Tucker Knight) defeat Jaxson Ryker & Wesley Blake

Raul Mendoza defeats Humberto Carrillo

Jessamyn Duke, Marina Shafir & Shayna Baszler defeat Deonna Purrazzo, Io Shirai & Kairi Sane

Spoilers: ROH TV Tapings In Philadelphia (8/25/18)

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ROH held TV tapings on Saturday night (August 25th) in Philadelphia, PA at the 2300 Arena. This was an important taping as it’s the final one before their next big event.

Ring of Honor is slated to hold their Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view event at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, September 28, 2018. The event will air on traditional PPV outlets and the FITE TV app.

The promotion will be announcing more matches in the coming weeks. Here are the spoilers from the tapings, courtesy of PWPonderings:

Spoilers

– A video package was shown of Will Ospreay challenging Jay Lethal to an ROH World Title match at Death Before Dishonor, which the champion accepted

– WOH Champion Sumie Sakai defeated Tasha Steelz. Post-match, it was announced that Sakai will defend against Tenille Dashwood at Death Before Dishonor.

– Jonathan Gresham defeated Bully Ray by DQ

– So Cal Uncensored defeated ROH World Television Champion Punishment Martinez & ROH World Tag Team Champions The Briscoes

– Cody and NWA World Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis did an in-ring promo to hype their match at All In

– Best Friends defeated The Boys

– Kenny King defeated Hangman Page

– Donte Calbero vs. Brian Johnson never happened as Jeff Cobb hits the ring and attacked them.

– Bully Ray & Silas Young defeated ROH World Champion Jay Lethal & Jonathan Gresham

– Jenny Rose, Stella Gray & Tenille Dashwood defeated Ashley Vox, Kris Stadtlander & Riley Shepard

– Shaheem Ali defeated Chris Sabin, Flip Gordon & Shane Taylor

– Punishment Martinez ROH World Television Champion retained over Aaron Solow

– Coast 2 Coast defeated The Kingdom (TK O’Ryan & Vinny Marseglia)

– Hurricane Helms defeated Marty Scurll

– Cheeseburger defeated Will Ferrara

– Cody & The Young Bucks ROH World 6-Man Champions retained over Beer City Bruiser, Brian Milonas & Silas Young

New Day Member Wins Guinness World Record

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With more than 1.6 million subscribers worldwide, Xavier Woods (real name: Austin Watson) has been presented with a certificate recognising his popular YouTube channel, UpUpDownDown, as the most subscribed to celebrity video games channel on YouTube by Guinness World Records.

He received the honour at the Insomnia Gaming Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Woods started his YouTube endeavour in 2015, attempting to use the platform as a way to cross boundaries and connect with his fanbase.

Originally showcasing himself playing video games with different superstars, it allowed fans to see superstars out of character, and enjoy a peek behind the curtain of their lives.

UpUpDownDown has since expanded, allowing other superstars an opportunity to engage with their love of video games, providing a now established platform to share their passion, such as AJ Styles’ new series, Retro Styles.

Trent Seven Discusses Goal Of WWE NXT UK Brand

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Trent Seven discussed the current goal of the WWE NXT UK brand. The star of the brand spoke about the topic in a recent interview with The Sun in the United Kingdom.

He started out by talking about the NXT Tag Titles are still firmly in his and Tyler Bate’s sights after holding them and winning the titles at the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year from The Undisputed Era. He added that’s it’s a moment that they’ll never forget and that they will continue to try and chase it.

“We’ve got a taste for the gold now and we’ll definitely continue to try and chase it. We’re big strong boys and we’ll come back. Performing in Brooklyn has only ignited the fire.”

Seven continued by stating that they have a lot on their plates with building the NXT UK brand but the goal is to make this as big as they can.

“At the moment we have a real intimate relationship with the product as far as the size of the crowds goes, but as that builds hopefully one day we can look to do stadiums and much bigger venues.”

Seven continued by stating that he can definitely foresee a major WWE event coming to the British Isles in the very near future and believes that as long as they continue to keep working hard and impressing, they can play a part in that as it would be incredible.

What are your thoughts on Seven’s comments? Sound off in the comment section.

Mark Henry Explains Why WWE Should Create Women’s Tag Team Division

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WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry is a strong believer that WWE needs to introduce a women’s tag team division. During a recent edition of Busted Open Radio on Sirius XM, he talked about this idea as well as the upcoming all-women’s Evolution pay-per-view event.

The former WWE World Heavyweight Champion stated that he thinks this division is needed and that with this event coming up, WWE is going to need more programming, which could be the next step. He noted that the Mae Young Classic is another one where there’s no tag teams but rather single matches.

“I think that the tag titles could carry, and go between both shows.” He would continue by stating that fans will get to see the women from the other shows on RAW and SmackDown and it’ll be a win for the fan.

The Evolution pay-per-view event takes place on Sunday, October 28, 2018 in Long Island, New York at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and will air on the WWE Network.

WWE officially announced the first match for WWE Evolution. WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus is coming out of retirement once again to face Alexa Bliss.

WWE Hall of Famer Lita, WWE Hall of Famer Beth Phoenix, SmackDown Women’s Champion Carmella, Ronda Rousey, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Naomi, Asuka, Nia Jax, Ember Moon, Natalya, Shayna Baszler, Bayley, Sasha Banks and NXT Women’s Champion Kairi Sane are all advertised for this show.

Spoilers: WWE NXT UK TV Tapings Results (8/25)

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The journey of bringing the WWE NXT UK brand to the WWE Network has continued as the company held TV tapings on Saturday Birmingham, United Kingdom at the NEC Birmingham.

As of this writing, there’s no word yet on when these shows will air. WWE will also be taping on Sunday from the same venue where the inaugural NXT UK Women’s Champion will be crowned. Here are the spoilers:

August 25th Taping

Xavier Woods comes out to announce that Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate will be in WWE 2K19.

Triple H unveils the new NXT UK Women’s Championship in front of the live crowd..

Jordan Devlin defeated Sid Scala

Joseph Conners and Saxon Huxley defeated Kenny Williams and Amir Jordan

Tyler Bate defeated James Drake
Wolfgang defeated Aston Smith

Women’s Championship Quarterfinals: Dakota Kai defeated Nina Samuels

T-Bone defeated Jake Constantino

Dave Mastiff defeated Dan Moloney

Women’s Championship Quarterfinals: Jinny defeated Millie McKenzie

Zack Gibson defeated Trent Seven. Post-match, Coffey Brothers and Wolfgang beat down Moustache Mountain

Women’s Championship Quarterfinals: Rhea Ripley defeated Xia Brookside

Eddie Dennis defeated Jack Starz

Mark Andrews defeated Wild Boar

Women’s Championship Quarterfinals: Toni Storm defeated Isla Dawn

Jordan Devlin defeated Ligero

Pete Dunne and Tyler Bate defeated Mark Coffey and Wolfgang

What are your thoughts on these results? Do you plan on watching the shows once available? Sound off in the comment section.

The Bella Twins Appearing At Live Events, Lilian Garcia Looks Back At WWE Debut

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– After returning to WWE television this past week, The Bella Twins are slated to appear at a live event on Sunday.

Brie Bella announced this afternoon on Instagram that she and Nikki will appear at tomorrow night’s WWE Raw live event in Rochester, New York (at Blue Cross Arena).

https://instagram.com/p/Bm6b7FRniAi/

Nikki and Brie are also advertised for a live event taking place on Saturday, October 13 in Binghamton, New York at the Maines Arena & Broome County Forum Theatre. The twin duo is also advertised to appear at a show taking place the following night at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

WWE announced on Tuesday that Brie will team with Daniel Bryan against The Miz and Maryse in a Mixed Tag Team Match at WWE Hell in a Cell on Sunday, September 16. Nikki, meanwhile, is being rumored to challenge Ronda Rousey for the Raw Women’s Championship at WWE Evolution on Sunday, October 28.

– Nineteen years ago this week, Lilian Garcia made her WWE debut in Ames, Iowa, handling ring announcing duties for Raw Is War. She held this position for the next 10 years, and in the process, became the first “WWE Diva” to remain with the promotion for a decade.

In these two Instagram posts, Garcia looks back at her WWE debut.

https://instagram.com/p/Bm1Z6lSAun3/

https://instagram.com/p/Bm1aAAGg0KY/

Lineups For Both Impact Wrestling Shows This Weekend

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Impact Wrestling will film two “One Night Only” specials this weekend. The promotion will be in Binghamton, NY for “Night of the Dummies” and also in Mississauga, ON, for a special show in conjunction with Destiny Wrestling.

The show with Destiny will air next Friday on the Global Wrestling Network. The airdate for “Night of the Dummies” appears to be TBD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXoaR8RFkRc&frags=pl%2Cwn

One Night Only: Night of the Dummies
Impact Wrestling/Xcite Wrestling
Binghamton, NY
August 25th, 2018

  • Eli Drake vs Eddie Edwards
  • Moose vs KM
  • Sean Carr vs Brute Vanslyke
  • Z&E vs LAX
  • Homicide vs TBD
  • Wagner Brown vs Axel Lennox
  • Alisha Edwards vs Rebel
  • Fallah Bah vs Richard Justice

One Night Only: Bad Intentions
Impact Wrestling/Destiny Wrestling
Mississauga, ON
August 25th, 2018

  • Petey Williams vs Michael Elgin
  • The Desi Hit Squad vs OVE
  • KC Spinelli vs Kiera Hogan
  • Steel Cage:
    Josh Alexander vs Sami Callihan
  • Tessa Blanchard vs Gisel Shaw

Impact will be live broadcasting today on their Twitch channel as Bound for Glory tickets go on sale. Their next show after today will be on September 9th in Manchester.

We spoke to Joe Hendry on Thursday about Impact’s upcoming UK show. Here is the lineup for it as well:

Impact Wrestling MediaCon Twitch Special Lineup
September 9th, 2018

  • Impact Wrestling Tag Team Championships
    LAX (c) vs Jody Fleisch & Jonny Storm
  • Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Death Match
    Sami Callihan vs Jimmy Havoc
  • Eli Drake vs Joe Hendry
  • Su Yung vs Lana Austin
  • Rich Swann vs Matt Sydal vs Trevor Lee

Will Ospreay Calls First Dibs On Match With Neville

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Will Ospreay has called shotgun on facing Neville first now that the wrestler formerly known as Pac is a free agent.

Last night, it was reported that Neville is no longer contracted to WWE. His pending return to the independents and non-WWE promotions has wrestlers and wrestling fans alike excited.

https://twitter.com/willospreay/status/1033268894998437888?s=21

Neville/Pac Free Of WWE

Few details are available at the moment as it concerns how Neville’s time with WWE ended. It’s possible that his contract ended but it is also possible he and the company came to an agreement on his early release.

It does appear, however, that Cody and the Young Bucks were aware ahead of time before news broke. The members of the Elite dropped a few hints through social media in the days leading up to the news breaking.

https://twitter.com/MattJackson13/status/1032726642823589888

Matt Jackson and Cody’s talk regarding Neville may have been a coincidence or it may not have been.

It has been over 6 years since Neville was a free agent. He began his career with WWE in mid-2012 and debuted in NXT that October. During his time with NXT, he won the NXT title once and the tag-team championships twice, once with Oliver Grey and once with Corey Graves. On the main roster, he was a former 2x Cruiserweight Champion but is believed to have become unsatisfied with his role, the product, or both.

His last match in WWE was on October 7th, 2017. He defeated Enzo Amore by DQ at a 205 Live house show.

Wade Barrett Discusses His WWE Run, Working With CM Punk On TV Show

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Wade Barrett has reflected on his WWE run as well as working with former WWE Champion CM Punk. The former WWE star spoke with TV Insider to talk about various topics.

WWE Run

Barrett talked about his run with the company by stating that he went from being a complete nobody to a main event guy in 2010 where he was battling all the top stars like John Cena and Randy Orton. He noted that at that time, there were fans who asked him if he felt the pressure of being in the top spot and he always responds by stating no.

“The pressure I felt in my wrestling career was when I was the guy who wasn’t known and had to try and build a name for myself and build a career for myself.”

Hosting Ultimate Beastmaster & CM Punk

Barrett also discussed being the UK host of Ultimate Beastmaster and working with CM Punk briefly on the show where he stated that it’s a cool thing to have Punk being one of the US hosts as fans get to see them interact on camera again and was good to see him again.

“I haven’t seen him in a few years. He is doing great for himself and seems to be enjoying his life away from WWE. I was happy to reconnect with him and see what he is doing.”

What are your thoughts on Barrett’s comments? Sound off in the comment section.

Braun Strowman Challenges Roman Reigns To Match On Monday’s RAW

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Braun Strowman has made the challenge to WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns for a match next week. The big storyline on the flagship show of the WWE, Monday Night Raw, started at the WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view event in Brooklyn, New York at the Barclays Center once he came out and stated that he would cash-in his Money in the Bank briefcase after Universal Title match between then-champion Brock Lesnar and Reigns.

He was unable to get that chance as Lesnar took him out. This led to Reigns beating Lesnar to win the title. Moving along to the next night, Reigns successfully defend his title against Finn Balor in the main event. Once the match had concluded, Strowman attempted to cash-in but Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins prevented Strowman from cashing in his Money in the Bank title shot.

This led to The Shield attacking the fan favorite superstar and power bombing him through the announce table.

Now, Strowman took to his official Twitter account to issue the challenge to the WWE Universal Champion to a match with the title being on the line on this Monday’s episode of RAW in Toronto, Canada at the Scotiabank Arena. He wrote the following:

“I don’t need to surprise you to cash in #MITB. I promised to do it face to face. Face me in the middle of your “yard” on #Raw, Roman. And if you’re really a man you’ll come alone. #MonsterInTheBank.”

https://twitter.com/BraunStrowman/status/1033044824751001601

Two More Big Matches Revealed For WWE Hell in a Cell

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Two more big matches have been revealed for WWE Hell in a Cell, which takes place on Sunday, September 16 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The official website of the AT&T Center is now advertising Roman Reigns as defending the Universal Championship against Braun Strowman, as well as Ronda Rousey defending the Raw Women’s Championship against Alexa Bliss.

WWE has officially announced two matches for the show so far: AJ Styles defending the WWE Championship against Samoa Joe (announced on Friday), and Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella vs. The Miz and Maryse in a Mixed Tag Team Match (announced on Tuesday).

In addition to the aforementioned matches, the AT&T Center is also advertising these two bouts:

* Jeff Hardy vs. Randy Orton

* Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs. Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre

Report: Neville No Longer Under Contract With WWE

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Neville has finally been released from WWE, according to Pro Wrestling Sheet. The former Cruiserweight Champion has been off television for nearly a year.

Last fall, it was widely reported that Neville was unhappy with his creative direction. He allegedly walked out of the October 9th, 2017 episode of Monday Night Raw after learning that he would have to lose to Enzo Amore on the show.

Instead of releasing him, WWE opted to keep him under contract. This prevented the Man that Gravity Forgot from working with other promotions.

Neville reportedly had a few rounds of negotiations with WWE over the past year. Unfortunately, nothing ever came of it and one of the top wrestlers in the world has been needlessly sitting on the sidelines during the prime of his career.

No word yet on what is next for Neville. It goes without saying that he will have no trouble finding work and is definitely a talent to keep an eye on in the months ahead.

Shortly after the news of Neville’s free agency was reported, several wrestlers took notice on Twitter. New Japan Pro Wrestling star Will Ospreay called ‘first dibs’ on a match with Neville.

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