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WWE Shop Now Selling “List of Jericho” Clipboards

Now you can be the one to decide who makes the list! WWEShop.com has added “List of Jericho” clipboards to their inventory.

WWE Shop notes that the clipboards do not come with a pen. You also have to add people to the list yourself.

WWEShop link: https://shop.wwe.com/chris-jericho-the-list-of-jericho-clipboard/77104.html?dwvar_77104_color=No%20Color#start=1

Triple H also has a new shirt available:

WWE Shop has a new Samoa Joe shirt available as well.

If you think the “List of Jericho” clipboards are weird, let me remind you of the WWF Attitude cologne:

 

 

 

Posted February 8th, 2017 in News.

Adam Cole’s Upcoming Title Defenses, Cards For This Month’s ROH Shows

Ring of Honor has had a busy day on Tuesday announcing upcoming matches, including a World Championship opportunity for Bobby Fish in New York on March 4th 2017.

As previously announced, Dalton Castle will get an ROH World Title opportunity on April 1st 2017 at Supercard of Honor 2017. The show will take place at the Lakeland Centre in Lakeland, Florida.

CMLL wrestlers are scheduled for the event in Florida as well. Announced wrestlers so far include Dragon Lee and Volador Jr.

Match Cards for Ring of Honor Events in February:

ROH: the Experience
February 11th 2017 in Pittsburgh
Stage AE

Adam Cole, Cody (Rhodes) and the Young Bucks vs. Jay Lethal, Bobby Fish and the Briscoes

TV Title Match
Marty Scurll (Champion) vs. Donovan Dijak

6-Man Tag Team Title Match
the Kingdom (Champions) vs. the Rebellion

No DQ Tag Team Match
Damien Martinez and BJ Whitmer vs. War Machine

Motor City Machine Guns vs. Tempura Boyz

 

ROH: the Experience
February 12th 2017 in Columbus
Express Live

6-Man Tag Team Title Match
the Kingdom (Champions) vs. A team determined by fan voting

Tag Team Title Match
the Young Bucks (Champions) vs. War Machine

Adam Cole and Hangman Page (Bullet Club) vs. Jay Lethal and Bobby Fish
* Fans vote on stipulation

Proving Ground Match
Marty Scurll (TV Champion) vs. Lio Rush
*Fans vote on stipulation

“American Nightmare” Cody (Rhodes) vs. Dalton Castle

Jay White and the Motor City Machine Guns vs. the Rebellion

the Briscoes vs. Tempura Boyz

Posted February 8th, 2017 in News, ROH.

Lucha Underground’s Son of Havoc (Matt Cross) Injured

Popular Lucha Underground star Son of Havoc/Matt Cross announced on Twitter recently that he has a broken leg.

He is scheduled to meet an orthopaedic doctor today to find out how long he will be out of action for.

16-Year Career Peaking

The 36-year old Cross began his pro-wrestling career in 2001 under the name M-Dogg 20. He would spend two years wrestling with the hardcore promotion Combat Zone Wrestling from 2002-04. He also appeared in Ring of Honor under the name Matt Cross from 2006-09.

Cross would wrestle some tryout matches for the WWE in 2010. He would also participate in the re-vamped season of Tough Enough. Surprisingly he was eliminated on the second week of the show. He would make some contacts on that show that would eventually land him a spot in Lucha Underground however, namely LU head writer Chris DeJoseph.

After appearing on the very first episode of Lucha Underground, under the name “Son of Havoc”, he has become one of the show’s most popular luchadors. The broken leg should not impact his ability to tape episodes for LU, considering they are most likely not filming again until the fall.

Posted February 8th, 2017 in News.

Former WWE Broadcaster Mike Adamle Diagnosed With Dementia, Doctors Suspect CTE

Former WWE announcer and RAW General Manager Mike Adamle has been diagnosed with dementia and what doctors believe could be Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy, also known as CTE. He is also said to be suffering from post-traumatic epileptic seizures.

While the 67-year old is most well-known to wrestling fans for his run in the WWE in 2008, Adamle spent six seasons in the NFL. He played with the Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, and Chicago Bears during his NFL career. He later was a broadcaster with NBC Sports.

NBC Chicago Interview

Adamle revealed his diagnosis during a recent interview with NBC Chicago. Video and a full transcript can be found here. 

“I’ve had seizures and epilepsy for the last 19 years.” Adamle revealed.

He was not able to answer how many concussions he suffered throughout his football career. In the early-70s, when he was playing in the NFL, not much attention was given to the long-term impacts of head injuries.

“You went to the sideline, ‘How many fingers do I have?’” Adamle told NBC Chicago. “And no one thought anything of it. No big deal. I’m sure a lot of guys still don’t think it’s a big deal. Now they’re saying it’s a big deal.”

Part two of his interview with NBC airs tonight.

Posted February 8th, 2017 in News, WWE. Tagged: .

Sami Zayn Hopes to Change Perceptions of Muslims

Sami Zayn was born and raised in Montreal, QC Canada, but his family comes from Syria. His real name is Rami Sebei, his family is Muslim, and he speaks Arabic fluently. 

Here’s a fun task: 

– Using google translate have the words “Sami Zayn” translated from English to Arabic.
– Then reverse the words. Have the Arabic translation translated back to English and you get the words “El Generico”. Pretty creative.

While WWE is avoiding political talk at the moment, Sami Zayn hasn’t hesitated to comment on the US travel ban.

Sami Zayn ESPN Interview

Zayn recently spoke to ESPN about his Syrian heritage and Muslim upbringing, as well as his hopes to change perceptions of Muslims.

“It’s definitely a sensitive topic to discuss, but I have felt since I signed with the WWE I was in a unique position to reestablish how Arabs were perceived in the WWE and western media,” He told ESPN recently.

“Ever since I was a kid and growing up and watching things like the ‘Naked Gun’ movies, there was always this stereotype about how Arabs were perceived and portrayed. I’ve never watched those Arab villains in the movie and felt like that was me. They were nothing like me, and now I get to just be me — and hopefully being me strikes a chord with a lot of young Arabs and non-Arabs, honestly. We’re really not all that different.”

Zayn is a Canadian citizen, and even though he his family is from Syria, he will not be impacted by the US travel ban.

Quebec Mosque Shooting

On January 29th 2017 2 gunmen opened fire on a mosque in Quebec City. 6 people were killed while attending prayer. Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens are both from Quebec.

Both Owens and Zayn could be seen wearing black armbands with the Quebec fleur-de-lis, a symbol of French Canada.

https://twitter.com/FightOwensFight/status/825910261835968518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Posted February 7th, 2017 in News, WWE. Tagged: , .

Update On The Future Of The Stone Cold Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiqwu_pXgqQ

Don’t expect to see the Stone Cold Podcast return to the WWE Network any time soon.

The popular sit-down interview show hasn’t been since last summer, when then-WWE Champion Dean Ambrose was a guest. The overwhelming consensus is that Ambrose’s appearance did not go well, with Austin essentially telling him to ‘show more effort’ if he wants to carry the company on his back.

Dave Meltzer commented on the situation on the the latest Wrestling Observer Radio. In response to a fan question asking why the Stone Cold Podcast hasn’t returned, Meltzer said management wasn’t happy with how Austin approached the role and was too “real” for what they’re looking for.

“The Ambrose one… I didn’t think it was a disaster, but many did.”  Meltzer said. “Steve tries to be real and they don’t want real. They want their version of real.” Meltzer stated.

Ambrose also revealed that Brock didn’t really want to do much in their WrestleMania match last year. We learned later that Lesnar didn’t take a lot of risks at WrestleMania because he was already training for his UFC return later that summer.

Other previous guests include Vince McMahon, Triple H, Paul Heyman, Paige, Edge and Christian, Brock Lesnar, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Big Show, Mick Foley, AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose.

Austin was said to have gotten some backlash as a result of the interview he did with Lesnar in October 2015 as well. In that interview he teased a possible WrestleMania match with Brock. In fact he mentioned if they were to wrestle it should be in a “Texas Death Match.”Vince was apparently upset about this, thinking fans would believe the match would happen since they mentioned it on-air.

On another episode, Austin expressed to Triple H that Chyna deserves to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, which probably didn’t go over too well either.

Meltzer would continue to speculate that the “Legends With JBL” interviews have essentially replaced Austin’s show. “JBL at least knows the framework of what they want, and Steve tries to be real. JBL will do their version of real”

Posted February 7th, 2017 in News, WWE. Tagged: , .

Fan Releases Rundown Sheet for RAW Online

A fan has released a copy of the rundown sheet from last night’s RAW on Twitter:

Evidently James, who describes himself as rad, was cleaning up after RAW and stumbled upon the sheet, then decided to release it on Twitter.

Notable Items on RAW Rundown Sheet

Somewhat notable on this sheet is the list of which producers are working on which storylines and angles.

Looking it over it is clear that Michael Hayes is producing anything to do with Samoa Joe, and possibly Roman Reigns as well. It could be that Hayes produces the main event matches and segments for the show, as he also covered the Brock Lesnar vs. Big Show dark match.

Dean Malenko producing the Chris Jericho vs. Sami Zayn match is interesting as well, considering some of the great matches Jericho and Malenko had in WCW. Zayn sort of fits with their style as well.

D-Von Dudley working as a producer for the New Day vs. Shining Stars match makes sense as well, considering his experience in tag-team matches. Mike Rotunda, aka IRS/father to Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas, working as the producer for tag team championship match shows that he is probably the head producer for the division, whereas D-Von works the smaller matches.

Arn Anderson got the Rusev vs. Sin Cara match for Main Event, as well as the Braun Strowman handicap match. Jamie Knoble looks to cover all the cruiserweight matches.  The former Sarita from TNA was the producer for the lone women’s division match.

Also notable was that the Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho segment, which later involved Goldberg, did not have a producer. That means it was just those guys and Vince.

Posted February 7th, 2017 in News, WWE.

NJPW Running Survivor Series Style Event Tuesday

New Japan Pro Wrestling will have english commentary available for their show this Tuesday. Don Callis and Kevin Kelly will once again call the action. The show has a very “Survivor Series” style theme to it, with 3 elimination tag-team bouts booked for the event.

It should be noted that eliminations in these style matches in Japan can occur via pin, count out, DQ or from being thrown over the top rope.

Here is the lineup for Tuesdays show:

Main Event
10-Man Elimination Tag Team Match
Dragon Lee, Taguchi, Nakanishi, Tanahashi and Michael Elgin
vs.
Hiromu Takahashi, Bushi, EVIL, Sanada, and Tetsuya Naito (Los InGobernables)

Co-Main Event
10-Man Elimination Tag Team Match
Beretta, Rocky Romero, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, Kazuchika Okada (CHAOS) vs. Taka Michinoku, Taichi, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Lance Archer, and Minoru Suzuki (Suzuki-Gun)

4th Match
10-Man Elimination Tag Team Match
Kushida, Juice Robinson, Shibata, Honma, Togi Makabe vs. Jado, Gedo, Will Ospreay, Yoshi-Hashi and Hirooki Goto (CHAOS)

3rd Match
6-Man Tag Team (non-elimination)
Tiger Mask, Justin Liger, Tenzan vs. El Desperado, Yoshinobu Kanemaru, and Takashi Iizuka (Suzuki-Gun)

2nd Match
Tag Team Match
Yuji Nagata  and Satoshi Kojima vs. Hirai Kawato and Yoshi Tatsu

1st Match
Henare vs. Tomoyuki Oka

Another english language broadcast will be broadcast on Saturday morning, main event’ed by Michael Elgin vs. Tetsuya Naito for the Intercontinental Championship.

Posted February 6th, 2017 in News, NJPW. Tagged: .

New Content Added to the WWE Network

WWE Network has added new content under the “Hidden Gems” collection. The new content was released this morning.

New Matches Added:

A Killer Challenge
Killer Kowalski takes on Mr. Moto and Duke Keomuka in a 2-on-1 handicap match
from April 29th 1952

Legends of Texas Rasslin’
Joe Blanchard, “Cowboy” Bob Ellis and Duke Keomuka vs. Bob Geigel, Gary Hart, and Waldo Von Erich
from November 8th 1966

Bruno Battles a Caged Animal
Cage Match
Bruno Sammartino vs. George “the Animal” Steele
from July 29th 1970

A Moving Demonstration
Wrestling moves demonstrated by Danny Hodge, Harley Race and others
from June 15th 1972

the Cowboy and a Texas Bronco
North American Championship Match
“Cowboy” Bill Watts vs. Terry Funk
from November 27th 1975

Inoki Faces the Lariat
Antonio Inoki vs. Stan “the Lariat” Hansen
from Stampede Wrestling August 17th 1979

Battle of the Nature Boys
“Nature Boy” Ric Flair vs. “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers
from November 22nd 1979

Big Cat vs. Modern Day Warrior
Ernie Ladd vs. Kerry Von Erich
June 7th 1981

the Size of a Giant
Andre “the Giant” segment from Mid-South Wrestling
from September 1st 1983

Cruiserweight Pioneers
best 2-of-3 falls
the Lighting Kid (Sean Waltman) vs. Jerry Lynn
from January 6th 1992

the Funks Make Bad Company
the Funk Brothers vs. Brian Pillman and Bruce Hart
from Stampede Wrestling December 15th 1995

Festival De Lucha
Konnan, Rey Mysterio Jr., Hector Garza, and Silver King vs. Chris Jericho and team
pilot for a WCW lucha show that never aired
from January 27th 1999

An Ultimate Encounter
Edge and Christian vs. Nova and Frankie Kazarian
from April 25th 2001

the Beast Meets Leviathan
Batista vs. Brock Lesnar 
from OVW July 28th 2001

Gold Before Justice
Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose vs. Roman Reigns
before they were the Shield February 5th 2012

Posted February 6th, 2017 in News, WWE. Tagged: .

Hideo Itami Cleared to Return

Hideo Itami is finally medically cleared to compete will be returning to NXT in the very near future. Itami’s NXT run has been plagued with injuries and he’s been out since October, when he went down with an injury that prevented him from teaming with Kota Ibushi in the Dusty Rhodes Memorial tag team tournament.

Hideo Itami Injury Woes

The 35-year old Itami debuted in NXT after having had a very successful run in Pro Wrestling NOAH. Then known as Kenta Kobayashi, Itami spent the better part of 14 years with the organization. Throughout this period, Itami would also make sporadic appearances with ROH, but his main focus was in Japan.

He won the company’s heavyweight championship in 2013, and then held it for almost a year. Itami would eventually drop the belt in January of 2014. He began training in WWE developmental around that time. He would wrestle his final match for NOAH that May.

Since landing in NXT however, Itami has suffered two injuries that have kept him on the sidelines for extended periods of time.

His suffered an injured shoulder in May of 2015 that required surgery. The injury was only supposed to keep him out 6 months, but due to complications from the surgery he ended up being inactive for over a year. He returned in June of 2016, but would be injured again in October. Now, according to Meltzer, he is cleared to compete again and could make his return any day.

Posted February 6th, 2017 in News, NXT. Tagged: .

Wrestling Personalities React to Super Bowl on Twitter

Stephanie McMahon and Triple H’s favourite football team completed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history last night. They did it against Goldberg’s former team the Atlanta Falcons. So you had the WWE team going up against the team from WCW’s hometown.

Wrestlers Tweeting on the Super Bowl:

Sasha Banks who is from Boston:

Xavier Woods, who is from Atlanta, enjoyed the first half but not the second half or overtime:

he re-tweeted this gem at halftime:

after the second half he was not in as great a mood:

Woods’ New Day teammate is from Boston however (not Jamaica)

Big E was less interested in the Super Bowl:

Boston native John Cena had this to say:

Carmella was apparently a Patriots cheerleader at one point:

Vince McMahon had nothing to say on the Super Bowl, perhaps not wanting to watch the sport after the recent XFL documentary aired on ESPN.
Triple H, a noted Pats fan, was also quiet on Twitter oddly enough.

Posted February 6th, 2017 in News.

Matt and Jeff Hardy Hosting a WrestleMania Tailgate Party

Matt Hardy has announced plans to hold a “Broke Tailgate Party” in Orlando the day of WrestleMania 33.

Tickets to the event will cost $30 and include food, non-alcoholic drinks, and seating for American Combat Wrestling and Full Impact Pro Wrestling events as well. The event will be held outside the “Saddle Up All-American Bar”, a few blocks east (30min via transit) from Camping World Stadium, host of WrestleMania 33 on April 2nd 2017.
Tickets will be on sale shortly (no on-sale date announced yet) at TicketFly.com.

Alcoholic drinks can be purchased but are not included in the cost of a ticket.

https://twitter.com/BookItGabe/status/827545943423721473

Hardy Family Autograph Session

All five members of the Hardy Family will be available for autographs, though you do not need a ticket to attend the autograph session.

A photo-op with either Matt or Jeff is $40 each.

Rebecca Hardy, Señor Benjamin, and King Maxel are $20 each.

You can get a photo-op with the whole family for only $99.

Each autograph session comes with an 8×10.

The event is being run by the World Wrestling Network, whose streaming service, WWNLive, launched last year. The #BrokenTailgate is part of a series of events run by WWN over WrestleMania weekend.

Posted February 3rd, 2017 in News, TNA. Tagged: .

Kevin Kelly Leaving Full-Time Position with ROH

Kevin Kelly is leaving his full-time position with Ring of Honor in order to free-up his schedule for other projects, namely NJPW. While Kelly has given his notice to the company, it does not necessarily mean he is done as a broadcaster with ROH. It is believed he intends to work on more of a freelance basis, which would include calling shows for both ROH and NJPW.

Ring of Honor has recently lost two members of their broadcast team, Nigel McGuinness and Steve Corino, to WWE. McGuinness recently replaced Corey Graves on NXT, and was also an announcer for the company’s recent UK tournament. Corino is working as a trainer in developmental.

In addition to working for ROH since since 2010, Kelly was a broadcaster with the WWE from 1996-2003.

ROH and NJPW Joint Shows

Kevin Kelly will be flying to Japan shortly to team with new NJPW broadcast partner Don “Cyrus” Callis, for the company’s event on February 5th 2017. Ring of Honor will also be heading to Japan later this month for their second annual “Honor Rising” shows at Korakuen Hall. It is assumed at this point that Kevin Kelly will still be on commentary for those shows.

At last year’s ROH Korakuen Hall shows Roderick Strong lost the ROH TV title to Tomohiro Ishii on night 1. Then on night 2 last year Jay Lethal successfully defended the ROH Championship against Tomaki Honma.

Posted February 3rd, 2017 in News, ROH. Tagged: .

New Japan Pro Wrestling Launches English Site

New Japan Pro Wrestling is taking further steps to combat WWE’s international growth strategy. The company launched their full-english site earlier this week at NJPW1972.com. The site has interviews, match results, and news available in english. The company’s online streaming service, NJPWWorld.com, has both English and Japanese versions available as well, though you may have to use google translate to access the english version.

New Japan Pro Wrestling Expansion to English Markets

The popular Japanese-based promotion has been slowly taking steps to expose their product to english speaking markets in recent years. Since launching their streaming service NJPWWorld.com, the company has been bringing in english announce teams to cover their bigger events. Recent events had been covered by Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino. With Corino now employed by WWE, Don “Cyrus” Callis will be replacing him for future events

https://twitter.com/LanceStorm/status/821359389168668673

The New Beginning in Sapporo

The first event NJPW will be running after the launch of their new site, and with their new english announce team, will be this Sunday in Sapporo. The show will feature the return of many NOAH wrestlers who have recently been brought back to NJPW.

The lineup for the card is as follows

IWGP Heavyweight Championship Match
Kazuchika Okada (Champion) vs. Minoru Suzuki

IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship 3-Way Match
Ishii and Yano (Champions) vs. Honma and Makabe vs Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer

NEVER Openweight Championship Match
Hirooki Goto (Champion) vs. Juice Robinson

IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Match
Roppongi Vice (Champions) vs. Taka Michinoku and Taichi

– Dragon Lee, Taguchi, Nakanishi, Tanahashi and Michael Elgin vs. Takahashi, Bushi, EVIL, Sanada, and Naito

– Yoshi-Hashi vs. Takashi Izuka

– Tiger Mask, Justin Liger, and Shibata vs. Will Ospreay, Gedo and Jado

– Nagata, Kojima and Tenzan vs. Oka, Henare, and Yoshi Tatsu

– Kawato and Kushida vs. El Desperado and Kanemaru

Posted February 3rd, 2017 in News, NJPW.

Lucha Underground Coming To Netflix

Court Bauer of the MLW Radio podcast network recently confirmed that Lucha Underground is officially coming to Netflix. The news comes after a year of speculation and lobbying from fans. Various Twitter hashtags, such as #NetflixNeedsLucha, were used in 2016 by fans in an attempt to bring wider exposure to the promotion.

Seasons 1 and 2 are expected to debut on the streaming service in US and Canada on February 15th 2017. The company will continue to air first-run programming on El Rey. The deal is not expected to impact their relationship with the network. El Rey continues to own a stake in the promotion.

https://twitter.com/MLW/status/827177716482981888

Posted February 3rd, 2017 in News.

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