On Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown, the WWE released another set of special guests that will be appearing on the 25th Anniversary of Raw special later this month.
Monday’s episode of Raw faced steep competition from the College Football Championship game and resulted in a 3.8% drop in audience on the USA Network.
The WWE has announced that Samoa Joe suffered an injury during his match with Rhyno on Monday’s episode of Raw and is out of the “Mixed Match Challenge”.
New Japan Pro Wrestling has announced the lineups for their three New Beginning cards. The shows will consist of back-to-back nights in Sapporo later this month and culminate with the third show at the Edion Arena in Osaka on February 10th.
On Monday’s episode of Raw, the WWE announced a number of huge names that are scheduled to appear for the 25th Anniversary of Raw on Monday, January 22nd in Brooklyn, New York.
Former tag wrestler Johnny Evans a.k.a Reginald Love of The Love Brothers team has passed away, preview of Raw for Memphis, the latest team for “Mixed Match Challenge”, Michael Elgin issues a statement over inappropriate comments, CWF Mid-Atlantic severs ties with head booker and lead announcer and IPW U.K books match between a New Japan and WWE champion.
Enzo cleared and back at this weekend’s house shows, Enzo vs. Cedric Alexander announces for Raw in Memphis, Impact Wrestling does its strongest number since August on POP TV, POST Wrestling’s Worst of 2017 Show released, Enzo discusses Neville’s situation and our “Forum Question” on Impact viewing habits.
The WWE has canceled one of the 205 Live events from the upcoming tour, the WWE confirms the status of the remaining two events to POST Wrestling, big angles shot at New Year’s Dash, Chris Jericho vs. Tetsuya Naito, ticket information for New Japan’s next Long Beach event, John Cena advertised for appearance at WWE Fast Lane in March & more.
John Pollock goes through New Japan’s biggest show of the year with Wrestle Kingdom 12 from the Tokyo Dome. The event is headlined by Kazuchika Okada defending the IWGP heavyweight title against Tetsuya Naito along with Kenny Omega taking on Chris Jericho.
A big preview of the Wrestle Kingdom 12 card going through all the matches, tickets sold for the Tokyo Dome, New Japan announces video game deal with Fire Pro Wrestling, the first team announced for “Mixed Match Challenge”, Daniel Bryan speaks on WrestleMania, Chris Jericho and Don Callis share details of how New Japan deal came together and lots more.
A.J. Styles takes on Sami Zayn in a non-title match on SmackDown Live in Orlando, Larry Matysik hospitalized, a schedule of the major events for the month of January, commentary team for “Mixed Match Challenge”, John Cena enters the Royal Rumble, a new book on the history of the Tokyo Dome and lots more.
Sid Eudy misses an independent show and cites a travel restriction as the reason, Braun Strowman misses WWE shows, Samoa Joe cut leads to match ending early with Roman Reigns, a full rundown of the UFC 219 card, POST Wrestling’s “Best of 2017 Show” is out and a schedule of this week’s POST shows.
Chris Jericho has announced that he will be leaving the Podcast One network, Cody and Nick Jackson have indicated that plans are nearly final for “All In”, a rematch between Roman Reigns and Samoa Joe has been added to Raw, Colt Cabana will be changing the format of his popular podcast, a review of this week’s NXT and lots more.
Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live saw an increase in the program’s audience with the USA Network airing the first hour of the program commercial-free.
A six-woman tag was called off in the middle of the match on Wednesday after an injury to Paige at the WWE’s live event on Long Island, New York. The match involved Paige teaming with Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose against Sasha Banks, Mickie James and Bayley.
The unique experiment of running a live episode of Raw on Christmas Night with a commercial-free first hour at least proved the WWE and USA Network could maintain the core audience.