The USA Network issued the following on Tuesday night:
“WWE TOUGH ENOUGH” PUTS REALITY WORLD ON NOTICE IN DEBUT
WWE TOUGH ENOUGH premiered to huge numbers last night in its debut on USA Network. WWE TOUGH ENOUGH is #2 new reality series premiere of the year on cable in P18-49 and P18-34.
– P18-49: 1.969 million
– P25-54: 1.714 million
– Total Viewers: 3.326 million
– P18-34: 1.064 million
WWE TOUGH ENOUGH premiered last night immediately following WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW, and moves into its regularly scheduled timeslot, Mondays at 8/7c, starting on Monday, April 11.
– Prior to their epic match at Sunday’s WrestleMania 27, sources report that WWE officials were discussing a Triple H vs. The Undertaker rematch for WrestleMania 28 in 2012 from Miami, Florida.
Based on what we saw at RAWand Triple H saying he would be waiting when Taker returned, it looks like they are indeed heading in that direction.
– John Cena and The Rock posted the following on Twitter about what went down on RAW and their big match next year at WrestleMania:
John Cena: “CeNation. I truly can not believe what happened tonight. Only in the WWE. WM 28. HERE WE COME!”
The Rock: “TEAM BRING IT – Wrestlemania 28 Miami, FL. – The People’s Champ…The People’s City…The People’s Wrestlemania. IT’S OUR TIME..”
As we’ve been covering here on the site, Kurt Angle went on a rant on Twitter last night – accusing Randy Orton, Jack Swagger and Jerry Lawler for “stealing” his wrestling moves at WrestleMania.
Randy Orton responded to Angle’s accusations, which you can read here.
Angle then responded to that – claiming his Twitter account was actually hacked – and it wasn’t him who made the posts.
CM Punk has chimed in on the Kurt Angle situation, providing some enlightening insight as to what really happened with Angle’s Twitter account. Punk tweeted on Monday:
“my twitter account was hacked”, is the new: “I’m a sloppy drunk douche”.
SEScoops.com was at the media-only press conference prior to WrestleMania 27 at the Georgia Dome .. WWE brought out a number of superstars, divas and celebrities to hype the event and ask questions, including John Cena, The Miz, Steve Austin, Trish Stratus, John Morrison, Dolph Ziggler,Booker T, Drew Carry and Pee-Wee Herman.
Check out these amazing pictures we got:
Thanks to our photographer Noah Mark for these great shots!
Below are comments on Twitter from several wrestling personalities regarding last night’s WrestleMania 27 event:
The Rock: “Wrestlemania..what a night! TEAM BRING IT – I love you..no more words..”
Joey Styles: “The end of that match between The Undertaker and Triple H was one of the best I have ever seen. 19-0 at WM. The Undertaker is not one of us.”
Jim Ross: “Working w/ @JerryLawler @ wm27 was great. The band was back 2gether 4 one nite. Hope we made you smile. Thanks for the support & 4 watchin.”
Jim Ross: “Huge respect for Undertaker & HHH. They beat the hell out of ea other. Both their bodies are bruised/ scrapped. Nasty. Great old school bout.”
JTG: “Nights like this make me so motivated and HUNGRY . Its time for me to EAT WWE universe, and I don’t mean food.”
Ricardo Rodriguez: “Being in front of 71,000+ screaming fans was truly an amazing experience.”
Ezekiel Jackson: “To walk out in front of 71000 members of the WWE universe to perform was #priceless….I’ll say it again #I’mtrulyblessed…”
Kofi Kingston: “Wow, it will never get old performing at Wrestlemania. Still on cloud 9…”
Eve Torres: “Congratulations to all the WM 27 participants. It was an incredible event with unbelievable matches. Counting down until next year…”
Michael Cole: “Ringside in the colemine! What a night. Georgia dome is filled with 72,000 coleminers!”
Candice Michelle: “I think the girls match should have involved morrison n dolph more, would have been much more entertaining instead of putting snooki over!”
Chris Jericho: “Two thoughts about Mania- 1-Taker/HHH told a brilliant story and stole the show 2-Mitchell Cole has the worst collection of tattoos ever.”
Chris Jericho: “HHHs entrance saw him come out behind a giant set of Snitsky teeth…”
Shawn Michaels: “Undertaker/HHH was Awesome. Two war horses showing it how its done. A pleasure to watch!!”
In response to our earlier report on Kurt Angle tweeting on WWE stars using his signature moves at last night’s WrestleMania event, Randy Orton had the following comments to say.
Everythings been done before as far as ‘moves’ go in the sports entertainment. I want to thank SCSA for the ‘Thesz Press’.
And I know for a fact that SCSA got the ‘Thesz Press’ from Dutch Mantel.
Point being, instead of taking offense to someone using your move, consider it a sign of respect.
Btw does anyone know what Ken Shamrocks finish was? I believe Jack Swagger used ankle lock outta respect for Ken?
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WrestleMania XXVII Results: 4/3/2011
From the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia
Solomonster here, thanks for joining us tonight. Keri Hilson out to perform America the Beautiful.
Rock is out to a monster reaction for a promo to start the show. He promised to electrify and didn’t really have much else to say, other than getting the crowd to chant “WrestleMania” and”Yabba Dabba” along with him. He said his catchphrase and left. Fade to the usual intro video.
We’re starting with the World Heavyweight Title on the line! First time in Mania history.
World Heavyweight Championship Match
– Edge (c) vs. Alberto Del Rio
Story of the match was Del Rio working over the arm of Edge to set him up for the cross arm bar. Edge got out of it and fought through interference by Brodus Clay to deliver a spear for the clean pin and retain the World title in 11:45. After the match, Edge and Christian took a lead pipe and a tire iron to Del Rio’s $100,000 Rolls Royce on the stage. Del Rio cried to end the segment. Not exactly made to look strong here.
By the way, Michael Cole is in the Cole Mine announcing with Jerry Lawler and Josh Mathews.
Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes
Mysterio is out wearing a pretty neat Captain America costume. Good back and forth match that featured a great spot where Rhodes delivered a delayed vertical suplex on the second turnbuckle to Rey. Cody ripped off Mysterio’s kneebrace and Rey ripped off Cody’s mask during he match. Later on, Cody nailed Mysterio with the kneebrace on a dive through the ropes and brought him back inside to deliver Crossroads for the pin in 11:38. Huge win for Cody who got lots of chants during the match as well.
Backstage segment with Teddy Long and Snoop Dog looking for talent to join him on his upcoming tour. William Regal rapped (if you can call it rap), Great Khali and Beth Phoenix sang a song from Grease, Roddy Piper clocked Zach Ryder with a coconut from behind, and Hornswoggle spoke for the first time on TV, rapping with the Bella Twins. Total comedy.
8-Man Tag Team Match:
Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Heath Slater and Ezekiel Jackson vs. Santino Marella, Kofi Kingston, Big Show and Kane
This was a colossal waste of a match. Kofi took out some members of The Corre with a cross body block on the outside, Santino delivered the Cobra and Big Show knocked out Heath Slater with a punch for the pin in just 1:27.
Backstage segment with The Rock and Eve (you know, the Divas champion who doesn’t have a match on the show). This leads to an appearance by Mae Young where she smacks the Rock’s ass on the way out. Rock then turns around and comes face to face with Stone Cold Steve Austin. They exchange pleasantries and really drive home how much I wish we could get another Mania match between these two.
Randy Orton vs. CM Punk
Story here was Punk working over Orton’s injured leg. Once Orton regained the advantage, he went for the punt but collapsed in a heap, feigning a leg injury. When Punk sauntered over, Orton went for the RKO but Punk was smart enough to slither out to the apron. He then went for his springboard clothesline, but this time Orton caught him in mid-air with an RKO and got the pin in 14:53.
Backstage now with Gene Okerlund and The Rock. Some more comedy here that ends with Rock confronting Pee Wee Herman, who he inducts into Team Bring It. That’s enough of a reason to leave Team Bring It as far as I’m concerned.
Special Guest Referee: “Stone Cold” Steve Austin
– Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole with Jack Swagger
Jim Ross and Booker T are out to call the next match with Josh Mathews. After some stalling inside the Cole Mine, Lawler went after him and got him in the ring. Jack Swagger attacked King on the outside and put him in the ring. From there, the match just dragged and dragged as Cole beat up Lawler. At one point, there was a loud boring chant. When Lawler started making his comeback, Swagger threw in the towel, but Austin would have none of it. Swagger came into the ring and ate a Stunner from Austin. Lawler then proceeded to beat up Cole, executing a fistdrop from the second rope and ending with an anklelock for the submission victory in 14:21. Austin shared some beers with Lawler after the match and Booker T even ran in to do a Spinaroonie and participate in the beer bash. Austin then nailed him with a stunner to a big pop. The anonymous Raw GM then chimed in and Josh Mathews announced that because the referee overstepped his bounds, he was reversing the decision and awarding the DQ win to Cole. Lawler threw Mathews into the ring where Austin delivered yet another Stunner. The most hilarious part about all of this was the fact that every other word out of Austin’s mouth was the f-word. I mean, it was totally absurd.
Time for THE STREAK.
No Holds Barred Match With “The Streak” On The Line
The Undertaker vs. Triple H
Triple H is out first to Metallica’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls” before seguing into his usual theme music. Undertaker out to Johnny Cash. Didn’t take long to spill out to the floor. They destroyed the Cole Mine. Triple H went for a Pedigree thru the announce table, but Undertaker backdropped him to the floor and it looks like that sucked for Hunter. Undertaker gets back in the ring and oh no, please tell me he’s not going for the dive. BUT HE DOES and Taker wipes out Hunter on the floor with a HUGE cross body block over the top to the floor. Undertaker recovers, thank god, and positions the steel steps by the spanish announce table and tries for a tombstone on the steps, but Hunter slips out to the floor. Undertaker gets a running start and charges toward Triple H, but Hunter catches him for a spinebuster through the table! These guys are killing each other out there. Each man hit his finisher a bunch of times, only for the other man to kick out for several near falls. This includes Triple H hitting three Pedigrees, but Taker kicked out each time. Triple H is shouting for him to stay down now as he lays in repeated chairshots to the back. Triple H now hoists Undertaker up for a Tombstone and nails it for the best near fall of the match. A desperate Triple H retrieves a sledgehammer from underneath the ring and goes to use it, but Undertaker catches him in the Hells Gate submission and Hunter has no place to go. After valiantly fighting, Triple H is forced to tap out for the submission in 29:30 of a FANTASTIC match. Just great stuff.
Both men exit the ring gingerly, but Undertaker just collapses on the ground outside the ring after the match. He looks like death. They drive a forklift-looking vehicle to the ring, agents are out including Dean Malenko and Mike Rotunda and they help lift Undertaker onto the vehicle as they drive him out and fade to black.
Good luck following that match.
6-Person Mixed Tag Team Match
Trish Stratus, Snooki & John Morrison vs. LayCool & Dolph Ziggler
Thankfully, this was kept short. Snooki did the old Chyna cartwheel into an elbow spot in the corner on McCool, then did another cartwheel into a standing splash for the pin in 3:08.
They announced a new all-time GeorgiaDome attendance record of 71,617.
WWE Championship Match
– The Miz (c) vs. John Cena
Great promo packages for each man. Cena had this big, elaborate entrance with a live church choir singing and they were promptly booed once they were done singing. Cena is now wearing a new red shirt, thus reinforcing the Fruity Pebble stereotype. Match starts and has shockingly little heat. Part of it I think is the acoustics of a dome show, but the crowd is just not into this match. They had a great near fall where Miz accidentally hit Alex Riley with his briefcase and Cena gave Miz an awesome Attitude Adjustment, but only scored a two count. They fought to the outside and both men spilled over the barrier into the crowd where they were counted out for a draw in 14:30.
At this point, Rock came out and the GM chimed in again. Rock went to read the announcement, but trashed the laptop instead and said there’s no way WrestleMania is ending this way. He restarted the match as a no DQ, no count out affair. Cena immediately brought Miz into the ring and went for an Attitude Adjustment, but Miz slipped out and Rock snuck up from behind Cena, giving him a Rockbottom. Miz then crawled on top of Cena and scored the pinfall to retain the WWE Title (for the second time tonight). After staring down Miz a bit, Rock got into the ring and beat up Miz, giving him a spinebuster and a People’s Elbow to end the show.
Seven Time WWE Women’s Champion Trish Stratus appeared at Fan Axxess in a silk blouse and tight black latex pants, and no one could believe the fact her body looks hotter now than it did in her wrestling prime. The gorgeous brunette fitness champion and Yoga studio owner posed for an exclusive series of photos, which you can see in entirety by clicking on the photo below!
Exclusive Photos of HBK Diving Over Table To Surprise HHH!
Famed wrestling photographer Bob Mulrenin was in the right place at the right time as HBK Shawn Michaels dove
over HHH’s autograph table just to surprise “The Game” during Wrestlemania Fan AXXESS.
It was a surreal moment, in which HBK had a camera crew following him around, and HHH (who as everyone knows is WWE Chairman Vince McMahon’s son-in-law) was distracted by a fan.
That’s when Shawn made his move, and dove over the table, which got a huge standing ovation from the people on hand.
Exclusive: Jim Ross, Michael Cole, and Jerry Lawler’s assigned matches tonight!
SE Scoops is the first to report Jim Ross will call the final four matches at Wrestlemania tonight.
As of the 2pm eastern time script, JR will call the Jerry Lawler vs Michael Cole match; the Undertaker vs HHH match; the 8-man tag team match; and the show-closing Cena vs Miz (with Rock involvement) WWE Title Match.
Josh Matthews is scheduled to be the host of the show, along with Cole and Lawler, who are (as of this hour) scheduled to host the show until they step into the ring.
SEScoops.com is the first to report this exclusive, which is the fact the Wrestlemania match order has changed. We can exclusively report the following matches are the last four to go on tonight at Wrestlemania, as of 2:00 pm eastern time this afternoon.
The script now calls for Jim Ross to come out, and the Jerry Lawler vs Michael Cole match to take place.
They will be followed by The Undertaker vs HHH.
That match will be followed by the 8-man tag team match.
John Cena vs The Miz, with The Rock’s involvement at the end, will close the show.
BE HERE tonight for our LIVE COVERAGE of WRESTLEMANIA 27!
Below are comments from several WWE Superstars and Legends about the 2011 Hall of Fame ceremony last night in Atlanta:
Shawn Michaels: “At the Philips Arena w/all the fellow inductees telling stories. AWESOME!!!”
Diamond Dallas Page: “It was a very Emotional HOF Triple H and Michaels Awesome Dusty LOD and Ditto Bullet Bob Road Dog Double Diitto”
John Morrison: “Lay-Cool’s induction speech at Hall of Fame = the Situation at the Trump roast”
Kofi Kingston: “wow, as expected, that was awesome! Can’t wait for y’all to see when its broadcast!”
Ricardo Rodriguez: “My first hall of fame was amazing! Very emotional”
Paul Bearer: “Many don’t realize that tonight was my first HOF in my 20-years with the company. It was indescribable. Made so proud to do what I do.”
Jim Ross: “Drew McIntyre wearing a kilt. Piper in tux. JR in hat. Flairs in house. HOF about to begin. Hosted by multi-tasking King. Sauce it!”
“HOF was fun. Full house @ Phillips Arena. Congrats to all & welcome to our little club. Humbled to be a member since 07.”
Here’s a recap of the day’s festivities at the WWE AXXESS fan fest:
– Shawn Michaels and Sheamus both did in-ring interviews.
– There was a wrestler imitation contest in the ring.
– Vladimir Kozlov defeated Tyler Reks and after the match was the angle where The Corre jumped Vladimir Kozlov. They hit his arm with the steps. Later on they said that he was “injured” and might not make it to WrestleMania.
– Drew McIntyre defeated Chris Masters.
Talent on hand included Triple H, Jim Ross, Kane, Cody Rhodes, Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez, Yoshi Tatsu, Goldust, Paul Bearer, Vickie Guerrero, Laycool, JTG, Great Khali, Ted DiBiase Jr and Sr, Sgt Slaughter, Mark Henry, William Regal, Zack Ryder, Jerry Lawler and more.
The Diva photo booths had Melina, Alicia Fox, The Bella Twins, and Tamina.
We’re going again tomorrow – and will be posting tons of pictures tomorrow afternoon – stay tuned!
Checking in once again with another update from WWE AXXESS ..
CBS radio’s Noah Mark conducted a bunch of exclusive audio interviews with various WWE superstars on Friday and they’re now online.
Hear what they had to say about their upcoming appreaence at WrestleMania 27, how they got their start what it’s like to be infrot of 70,000 people and more!
What’s up everybody – we are checking in from Atlanta – site of this weekend’s WrestleMania 27 festivities. Here are some quick notes from the first few hours in town:
– The entire city is buzzing with the WrestleMania hype. There are WrestleMania billboards around town, the street lights have posters of various WWE superstars and everywhere you turn, it’s wrestling fans wearing all sorts of WWE merchandise.
– The WWE crew is staying at the Hyatt here in downtown Atlanta. The place is crawling with WWE superstars and divas from past and present. In the hotel gym, we saw CM Punk, Beth Phoenix and Kane.
Walking around, we saw The Miz, Edge, Christian, Ric Flair, Melina, Primo Colon, Mae Young, Road Dogg, Terry Funk, Larry “The Axe” Hennig and more. Skip Sheffield was walking around, he put on a lot of weight. Most were very friendly and took pictures / signed autographs for everybody.
– This afternoon, we are headed to AXXESS.
– Tonight of course is the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.
We’ll be posting tons of exclusive pictures from the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony late tonight – so make sure to check back later for those! Stay tuned!
— On his Twitter account @JRsBBQ, Jim Ross wrote the following with the last hour:
“Mtg w/ my ATL lawyers. Working on a big deal. What irony 2 talk about this deal here & now. Gonna be a shocker! Get sauce @ axxess.”
— WWE and THQ held the annual Superstars and divas video game tournament at Axxess .. This year’s winner was Jay Uso.
— Also at Axxess, WWE did an angle and match featuring Roddy Piper and MTV star Rob Dyrdek defeating Tyson Kidd and Zack Ryder. The footage will air on an upcoming episode of Drydek’s MTV show.
Shawn Michaels and Sunny will be joining the WWE Hall of Fame on Saturday night and spoke to Brian Fritz of the Between The Ropes blog to discuss what entering the Hall of Fame means to them. Check out the videos below:
SEScoops.com reader Marc attended the WrestleMania AXXESS fan fest in Atlanta on Thursday night and sent in this recap of the event ..
I went to Wrestlemania Axxess last night. It was my first time at Axxess and it was awesome with lots going on.
– The Bella Twins and Todd Grisham hosted Smackdown. CM Punk did an in- ring promo.
– The Usos fought Santino and Kozlov but I did not see the results.
– Daniel Bryan defeated Ted Dibiase (no surprise there).
– Hornswoggle did an in- ring appearance.
– The Diva photos booths had Gail Kim and Kaitlyn in the first session and Rosa Mendes and Laycool in the second session. All of the divas were very nice and personable.
– The talent I met that signed were Great Khali (cool guy), Chavo Guerrero (very talkative), Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero (both very nice), Sheamus (one of the most friendly and nicest wrestlers I’ve met), and Ezekiel Jackson, Heath Slater, and Justin Gabriel (all very cool).
– Other talent that signed were: Big Show, Pat Patterson, Chris Masters, Kofi Kingston, Jack Swagger, Michael Cole, Alberto Del Rio, Ricardo Rodriguez, John Morrison, Jimmy Hart, Sunny, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Randy Orton was also there signing for the VIPs.
All of the divas and talent were very cool and friendly to there fans. It was an amazing experience and I can’t wait until I go back tonight!
After a face-to-face staredown with The Undertaker after his most recent UFC fight several months back, there was widespread speculation that Brock Lesnar was in talks with WWE to appear at Sunday’s WrestleMania 27 pay-per-view. In an interview with the UK’s Daily Star, Lesnar says the negotiation never happened .
“They were smart enough to know that I am deeply involved in UFC, what I am doing now.”
“Wrestling doesn’t affect my life so much. I’m a fighter. The WWE will go on, and it will always be there, but I am in the UFC for as far as I can see.”
While it’s clear Lesnar has no plans on returning to WWE any time soon, he didn’t rule out the possibility of appearing at a future WrestleMania event after his UFC days are over.
“If ever there was an opportunity in the future to be on Wrestlemania, then I guess I have to say: ‘Never say never.’”
