– Tonight’s WWE NXT episode saw Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch lose to Riddick Moss and Tino Sabbatelli. In the video below, the former rivals talk to Christy St. Cloud after the loss. Burch says they jumped the gun just a bit, adding that they need to get on the same page as they didn’t work well as a team. Burch is sure they can make it happen and Oney says they need to go back to the drawing board.
– Next Wednesday’s NXT episode will feature The Authors of Pain vs. NXT Tag Team Champions Eric Young & Alexander Wolfe of SAnitY with the titles on the line. NXT General Manager William Regal has announced that Niki Cross and Killian Dain will be banned from ringside.
– The feud between The Velveteen Dream and the undefeated Aleister Black continued on this week’s NXT episode as Dream attacked Black before Black was about to wrestle a match. A “Takeover: WarGames” match between the two is expected to be announced soon. Below is video from tonight’s attack:
Nikki Cross won a Battle Royal on tonight’s WWE NXT episode to earn the final spot in the Fatal 4 Way for the vacant NXT Women’s Title at “Takeover: WarGames” during WWE Survivor Series weekend in Houston.
The match will be Cross vs. Peyton Royce vs. Ember Moon vs. Kairi Sane. The competitors joined NXT General Manager William Regal in the ring for a photo-op after the Battle Royal, as seen below:
– Below is the latest vignette for Erick Rowan and Luke Harper’s return at The Bludgeon Brothers:
– As noted, Sin Cara scored another non-title upset over WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin on this week’s SmackDown, likely leading to a title match between the two on an upcoming blue brand episode. Cara tweeted the following after the match, which Google translates to: “Because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, strength of character; the strength of character, hope”
Porqué sabemos que el sufrimiento produce perseverancia; la perseverancia, entereza de carácter; la entereza de carácter, esperanza ???? pic.twitter.com/1yTqq3lb5Z
– This week’s WWE 205 Live saw Jack Gallagher and Brian Kendrick confront Cedric Alexander and Rich Swann after their win over Tony Nese and Noam Dar. Gallagher noted that they were not here to fight, but to offer an olive branch of peace. Kendrick gave props to Cedric, saying they recognize the cruelty inside of him and because of that, they feel like he has a world of potential. Kendrick added that Cedric will never live up to that potential as long as he’s carrying around the dead weight that is the dancing clown Rich Swann. Gallagher chimed in and said he was in a similar position as Cedric not too long ago, singing and dancing for the people, but it’s true that the people don’t matter.
The segment ended with Kendrick and Gallagher saying they were coming for Swann next week and Cedric can join them if he wants. They told him to think about it over the weekend and if he doesn’t make a decision, they will make one for him. Below is video from the segment:
– As noted, Becky Lynch is the Team Captain for SmackDown at WWE Survivor Series for the women’s 5-on-5 Traditional Elimination Match. She will team with Charlotte Flair, Tamina Snuka, Carmella and Naomi to face Team Captain Alicia Fox, Sasha Banks, Bayley and two other RAW Superstars to be announced. In the video below, Becky says her plan is very simple – to lead SmackDown into victory, to continue what they started on Monday night at RAW. Becky goes on and says everyone thought RAW would retaliate on SmackDown but they didn’t as it seems they don’t have much left in them, especially being led by Fox.
– The dark main event after this week’s WWE 205 Live in Milwaukee saw Bobby Roode and Shinsuke Nakamura defeat Dolph Ziggler and WWE Champion Jinder Mahal in tag team action.
– Last night’s WWE 205 Live main event saw Kalisto get his TLC rematch from WWE Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore. Kalisto won by disqualification after Enzo kicked the referee into the ropes to crotch Kalisto from the top. The post-match segment saw Kalisto attack Enzo on the ramp until officials tried to separate them. Below are videos from the match and the post-match segment:
– There was tension between SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan and SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon on tonight’s show as Bryan was not happy with Shane leading the invasion of Monday’s RAW, especially without informing him and talking it over. Above and below are segments with the blue brand bosses from tonight’s episode.
– WWE previously announced an eight-man match for tonight’s SmackDown with The New Day and SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos facing Chad Gable, Shelton Benjamin, Rusev and Aiden English. That match never happened but Gable and Benjamin did defeat The New Day while The Usos were on commentary. Rusev and English did not appear on tonight’s show. There’s still no word yet on when Gable and Benjamin will get their title shot from The Usos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKJ_9VHFvusx
– Sin Cara picked up another non-title win over WWE United States Baron Corbin on this week’s SmackDown, as seen in the video below. Last week’s show had Cara winning by count out and tonight he won by disqualification. No word yet on if Cara will be granted a title shot on an upcoming episode of SmackDown but Corbin is confirmed to face WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz in a non-title match at the November 19th Survivor Series pay-per-view.
Randy Orton defeated Sami Zayn in the main event of tonight’s WWE SmackDown to become the Team Captain for the men’s 5-on-5 Traditional Elimination Match at WWE Survivor Series.
No word yet on Orton’s 4 partners but as noted, next Tuesday’s SmackDown show will feature Dolph Ziggler vs. Bobby Roode in a 2 of 3 Falls Match plus Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Kevin Owens with the winners of those two matches earning a spot on Team SmackDown.
Below is the updated card for the November 19th Survivor Series pay-per-view from the Toyota Center in Houston coming out of tonight’s blue brand show:
RAW vs. SmackDown
WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. WWE Champion Jinder Mahal
RAW vs. SmackDown
WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz vs. WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin
RAW vs. SmackDown
RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs. SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya
RAW vs. SmackDown
RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos
5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
TBA vs. Randy Orton (Team Captain) and TBA
5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Alicia Fox (Team Captain), Sasha Banks, Bayley, TBA, TBA vs. Becky Lynch (Team Captain), Carmella, Tamina Snuka, Naomi, Charlotte Flair
Becky Lynch won a Fatal 5 Way over Charlotte Flair, Carmella, Naomi and Tamina Snuka on tonight’s WWE SmackDown to become the Team Captain for the RAW vs. SmackDown women’s 5-on-5 Traditional Elimination match at Survivor Series. The other 4 Superstars will join Becky to make up the rest of Team SmackDown.
Survivor Series takes place on November 19th from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Below is the updated card:
RAW vs. SmackDown
WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. WWE Champion Jinder Mahal
RAW vs. SmackDown
WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz vs. WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin
RAW vs. SmackDown
RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs. SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya
RAW vs. SmackDown
RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos
5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Male Superstars TBA
5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Alicia Fox (Team Captain), Sasha Banks, Bayley, TBA, TBA vs. Becky Lynch (Team Captain), Carmella, Tamina Snuka, Naomi, Charlotte Flair
– Below is video of Nikki Bella and partner Artem Chigvintsev dancing the Argentine Tango to “Derniere Danse” by Indila on Monday’s episode of Dancing With The Stars on ABC. As noted, this week’s “Movie Night” performance saw Nikki land her season-high score of 36. Nikki and Artem will now dance twice next Monday night for a Halloween-themed episode that features team dances.
– The dark match before tonight’s WWE SmackDown in Milwaukee saw Tye Dillinger and The Hype Bros defeat Mike Kanellis and The Colons. The finish saw Dillinger hit the Tye Breaker on Kanellis for the pin.
– RAW Tag Team Champion Seth Rollins responded to a tweet from the Kill Cliff sports drink company and revealed the one person he wants to bodyslam right now – SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon, due to the “Under Siege” attack on RAW last night. You can see the tweet below:
Hey @WWERollins you planning on body slamming anyone soon? If u could body slam anyone right now who would it be? #wwe
As noted, SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon led the blue brand roster in an invasion of RAW last night to set up the big RAW vs. SmackDown matches at the November 19th Survivor Series pay-per-view last night.
Below are several post-show Twitter reactions, including new videos from The New Day, Becky Lynch, Dolph Ziggler, Zack Ryder, AJ Styles, Mojo Rawley and WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin:
– Below is video of Asuka talking to the WWE reporter after her Monday night debut on last night’s RAW, which saw her defeat Emma. The Empress of Tomorrow says WWE TLC was fun, this win on RAW was fun and beating Emma was fun.
– WWE Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore was unable to cut a promo on last night’s RAW as he lost his voice over the weekend, which he noted in his promo at WWE TLC on Sunday. Drew Gulak spoke for Enzo on RAW and the storyline is that he has a vocal chord injury. As noted, Enzo will defend the title on tonight’s WWE 205 Live as Kalisto gets his rematch.
– WWE posted this promo for their new Zombie action figures from Mattel:
– Below is a new preview for the WWE 24 special on Bill Goldberg that premieres on the WWE Network Monday, November 13th after RAW goes off the air that night:
– No word yet on when Braun Strowman will be back on RAW but he did not appear this week to sell the attack from Kane at WWE TLC. Michael Cole noted on commentary that The Monster Among Men could be out of action for several weeks or months but it’s likely that he returns next Monday night to set up the planned Braun vs. Kane match at WWE Survivor Series on November 19th.
– As noted, WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman appeared on this week’s RAW to accept the Survivor Series challenge from WWE Champion Jinder Mahal. Heyman’s promo took a shot at The Singh Brothers for stealing his shtick to stand behind Jinder and introduce him each week. The Singh Brothers took to Twitter and tweeted the following in response to Heyman’s promo:
– While RAW General Manager Kurt Angle confirmed WWE Champion Jinder Mahal vs. WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar for Survivor Series during his opening promo on this week’s RAW, Paul Heyman and Lesnar still appeared in the ring later on to officially accept the challenge. The Beast and The Modern Day Maharaja will face off at the November 19th Survivor Series pay-per-view in a non-title match. Below is video from the segment with Heyman and Lesnar:
– John Cena, Brie Bella, mom Kathy and Maryse were in the crowd for Monday’s Dancing With The Stars episode on ABC. Nikki Bella received a season-high 36 score for her Argentine Tango performance on Movie Night with partner Artem Chigvintsev. After surviving another elimination, Nikki and Artem will now dance next twice next Monday night for a Halloween-themed episode that features team dances. WWE announced the following on this week’s performance:
Nikki Bella brings a romantic tango to the “Dancing with the Stars” ballroom
Nikki Bella isn’t hanging up her dancing shoes just yet! The Superstar is still in the hunt for the Mirror Ball Trophy on “Dancing with the Stars” after an Argentine Tango on Movie Night of Season 25 of ABC’s reality hit.
Nikki received a 36 out of 40 for the foreign film-influenced tango with professional partner Artem Chigvintsev, bringing a dreamy, French twist to the ballroom, as John Cena, Brie Bella, Maryse and mom Kathy watched from the audience.
“That was so romantic, what you would expect from a foreign film, from a foreign language – the language of love,” guest judge Shania Twain said of the dance, which was done to a French song. “That was beautiful, very elegant.”
Judge Bruno Tonioli agreed: “You just presented a little side of yourself that you should explore. It was like a French perfume, intriguing, like it never leaves your mind.”
After the judges’ scores and comments, Nikki and Artem were informed early on Monday’s episode that they were safe from elimination!
Nikki still needs your votes to stay in the running for The Mirror Ball Trophy. Call to vote for Nikki toll-free at 1-800-868-3409. (Save this number, as it will be Nikki and Artem’s number to dial each week!) Note, only your first nine votes count, and phonelines stay open for only 60 minutes after the finish of “Dancing with the Stars” in your local time zone. You can also vote nine times online at dwtsvote.abc.go.com.
See Nikki dance twice next Monday when “Dancing with the Stars” returns to ABC at 8/7 C for a special Halloween-theme episode, including team dances.
– As noted, SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya vs. RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss is now official for the Survivor Series pay-per-view. Natalya made the following post-RAW tweet in response to the in-ring promo from Bliss:
– After making her main roster debut at Sunday’s WWE TLC pay-per-view, Asuka remains undefeated after picking up another win over Emma in her Monday night debut on tonight’s RAW, which was a rematch from TLC. Below is video from that match:
– Kalisto will receive his rematch from new WWE Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore on this week’s WWE 205 Live episode.
– The closing segment of tonight’s WWE RAW in Green Bay was supposed to have General Manager Kurt Angle announce the 5 male Superstars that would represent the red brand in the men’s 5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match at the November pay-per-view. SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon appeared instead and brought about a dozen SmackDown Superstars with him, including SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya and WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin. The blue brand then ran wild through the backstage area, taking out several RAW Superstars to send a message ahead of the big Survivor Series pay-per-view. Below are photos and videos from the angle:
Following Monday’s edition of RAW, the card for next month’s WWE Survivor Series pay-per-view has taken shape. The theme for the event is RAW vs. SmackDown, with each brand’s top champions squaring off with one another and two team elimination matches (men’s and women’s) announced.
Here is the updated card:
RAW vs. SmackDown
WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. WWE Champion Jinder Mahal
RAW vs. SmackDown
WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz vs. WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin
RAW vs. SmackDown
RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs. SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya
RAW vs. SmackDown
RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos
5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Male Superstars TBA
5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Alicia Fox (Team Captain), Sasha Banks, Bayley and TBA vs. Carmella, Becky Lynch, Tamina Snuka and TBA
Survivor Series takes place on November 19th from the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
– WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz will be playing a game of WWE 2K18 against musician Zakk Wylde at the Loudwire Music Awards tomorrow night in Los Angeles at The Novo. As noted, Chris Jericho will be hosting the first-ever Loudwire Music Awards, which will air on AXS TV at 7pm PT. Below is a promo for The Miz vs. Zakk Wylde:
– WWE taped the following matches tonight in Green Bay for this week’s Main Event episode:
* Matt Hardy vs. Curt Hawkins
* Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson vs. Titus O’Neil and Apollo Crews
– As noted, The Rock tweeted WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle before Angle’s ring return at last night’s WWE TLC pay-per-view. The RAW General Manager replied this afternoon, as you can see below:
Congrats to my good bud @RealKurtAngle and his return tonight to a @WWE ring. Special athlete and great human being. Have FUN brotha #WWETLC
Sunday night marked Kurt Angle’s return to the ring after an 11 year hiatus. In an interesting bit of trivia, Kurt Angle defeated The Rock to win his first WWE Championship back on October 22, 2000 – with Sunday’s TLC marking the 17 year anniversary of that occasion.
Ahead of Angle’s return to action, The Rock tweeted congratulations to Angle and told him to have fun in the ring.
Congrats to my good bud @RealKurtAngle and his return tonight to a @WWE ring. Special athlete and great human being. Have FUN brotha #WWETLC
– Below is video of Finn Balor speaking to the camera after The Demon defeated AJ Styles at WWE TLC on Sunday night. Balor says he’s admired AJ his whole career and looked up to him, but AJ is also someone who took him to his limits at TLC. Balor says he learned why they call AJ The Phenomenal One and while he did prevail, he thinks, without a shadow of a doubt, that the world needs to see Balor vs. Styles II… Sweet.
– Ms. Money In the Bank Carmella turns 30 years old today.
– As noted, Sasha Banks defeated Alicia Fox in singles action on the WWE TLC Kickoff pre-show. Counting their singles matches on WWE NXT and main roster TV, Banks is now 6-1 against Fox.
– SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan continues to throw out teasers for his return to the ring. He tweeted the following after RAW General Manager Kurt Angle returned to the ring in the TLC main event:
– Below is video of an angry Kalisto being checked on by a WWE trainer after his WWE Cruiserweight Title loss to Enzo Amore at TLC last night in Minneapolis. Kalisto lost the title to Enzo after a cheap shot poke to the eye. Kalisto says Enzo had to cheat to win but he expected something like that to happen. Kalisto tells Enzo to enjoy the title because when he hits him with the Salida del Sol, that’s it. Kalisto reminds us that he has his rematch coming.
– The WWE TLC event marked just the 4th time in WWE history where a 5-on-3 Handicap Match happened on TV or pay-per-view. On a related note, a team of 5 Superstars has never defeated a team of 3 Superstars. For those who missed it, the TLC main event saw RAW General Manager Kurt Angle team with RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose to defeat Kane, Braun Strowman, Cesaro, Sheamus and WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz.
– SmackDown Superstar AJ Styles tweeted the following on his loss to Finn Balor’s Demon at last night’s RAW brand TLC pay-per-view:
Saturday night in Chile w/ #SDLive Sunday night at #WWETLC w/ #Raw I’ll take every opportunity thrown my away…
– As noted, Drew Gulak’s PowerPoint presentation was nixed from the WWE TLC Kickoff pre-show due to time constraints but he did appear in a quick segment where he interrupted Renee Young, Peter Rosenberg and David Otunga on the pre-show panel. Gulak tweeted the following on his segment being pulled:
It looks like Gulak was still planning on hosting the segment just before the pre-show began as he posted the following with less than two hours until the show hit the air:
– As noted, Asuka made her WWE main roster debut at the TLC pay-per-view with a win over Emma in the show opener. In the video below, Emma rants to Kayla Braxton about people stealing her moments as TLC was supposed to be her night. Emma says Asuka doesn’t deserve the moment as she came in thinking it would be easy, thinking she can stay undefeated forever. Emma says the reality is that it’s inevitable Asuka will lose, so she wants her rematch on RAW. Emma says she’s taking her spotlight back.
– Mike Rome handled ring announcing duties at WWE TLC as JoJo is dealing with the same illness that has boyfriend Bray Wyatt, Roman Reigns and others out of action.
– As seen on the WWE TLC Kickoff pre-show, Sasha Banks picked up a win over Alicia Fox. In the video below, Banks talks to Kayla Braxton about the win and says it felt so good. The Boss says while Fox is an amazing athlete, she’s also legit crazy. Banks calls it one of the hardest battles she’s fought and says she got the job done because she is the legit boss of WWE. Regarding her pink gear seen at TLC, Banks says she likes to come up with special gear for each pay-per-view and this look was inspired by Owen Hart. Banks also noted that her husband, WWE seamster Mikaze, hooked her up with the gear.
WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle wrestled his first WWE match in 11 years at tonight’s TLC pay-per-view from the Target Center in Minneapolis, MN.
The RAW General Manager replaced Roman Reigns, who is out of action due to an illness, to team with RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose for a 3-on-5 Tables, Ladders & Chairs win over Kane, Braun Strowman, Cesaro, Sheamus and WWE Intercontinental Champion The Miz. Angle ended up getting the pin on The Miz.
Below are photos and videos from Angle’s return to the ring:
– Michael Cole announced a crowd of 13,381 fans in attendance at the Target Center in Minneapolis, MN for tonight’s TLC pay-per-view.
– As noted, Asuka made her main roster debut at tonight’s WWE TLC pay-per-view and picked up a win over Emma in the opening contest. Triple H tweeted the following on The Empress of Tomorrow arriving on the red brand:
Former WWE NXT Women’s Champion Asuka remains undefeated after making her main roster debut at tonight’s WWE TLC pay-per-view. She defeated Emma in the pay-per-view opener.
Below are photos and videos from Asuka’s red brand debut tonight at the Target Center in Minneapolis:
– Zelina Vega interrupted a backstage interview with WWE NXT Champion Drew McIntyre on tonight’s NXT episode, likely setting up a match between Drew and Andrade “Cien” Almas at the “Takeover: WarGames” event during Survivor Series weekend.
Vega asked McIntyre why he has been avoiding Almas and Drew said he’d fight anyone at any time, he’s just been busy. Drew also told Vega to go to NXT General Manager William Regal and get the match, and that if Almas wants the match he should come face him instead of sending just his business partner.
– It was believed that Ruby Riot may have suffered an injury at the October 4th NXT TV tapings during the Triple Threat Takeover qualifier with Ember Moon and Sonya Deville, which aired tonight and saw Ember win to advance to the NXT Women’s Title Fatal 4 Way at Takeover with Kairi Sane, Peyton Royce and another competitor to be determined next week via Battle Royal. It appeared that Ruby injured her ankle after a top rope crossbody to the floor. Deville then put her ankle lock on Riot and it looked as if she was injured but Riot was back in the ring two nights later at a NXT live event and she’s worked a few live events since then. WWE’s website made mention of the injury in their NXT recap but they have not announced anything on Riot’s status.
– As noted, this week’s NXT show saw The Authors of Pain and WWE Hall of Famer Paul Ellering make their first TV appearance since losing the NXT Tag Team Titles to SAnitY at “Takeover: Brooklyn III” in August. Akam and Rezar attacked Eric Young, Killian Dain and Alexander Wolfe during their six-man main event with Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish of The Undisputed Era, forcing the finish of the match. The Authors then closed the show by standing tall over SAnitY with the titles in the air as The Undisputed Era looked on from the stage.
Below are post-show comments from Akam, Rezar and Ellering, who mentioned the two-ring, three-team main event of next month’s “Takeover: WarGames” event: