– WWE had the #1 most-watched Youtube channel for August 2015 with nearly half a billion views during the month, according to OpenSlate/Tubefilter.
What’s amazing is that viewership has increased over 10x in just two years, when WWE’s channel generated only 41.8 million views and was ranked #53 in August 2013. For August 2014, WWE had already climbed to the 15th most popular channel with 149.4 million views.
– WWE Divas Champion Charlotte is the latest female competitor to show her support for WWE eliminating the butterfly belt in favor of a Women’s Championship.
– JBL and Eric Bischoff are getting rave reviews for part 1 of their Legends With JBL interview that aired on the WWE Network after RAW. Future guests on the show will include Ron Simmons and “Road Dogg” BG James.”
– Total Divas preview for tonight: “The ladies travel to Tulum, Mexico, for a vacation, during which Paige announces her engagement. Meanwhile, the Bellas learn they have a new sibling; and Alicia puts Trinity’s relationship with Jon at risk.”
– WWE Divas Champion Charlotte vs. Paige vs. Nikki Bella is scheduled for next month’s WWE Hell In a Cell pay-per-view, according to Wrestling Observer Radio.
– After Sunday night’s WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view went off the air, Sheamus retreated up the ramp to the backstage area with his “Money In The Bank” briefcase.
In the ring, Seth Rollins sold the attack from the returning, masked Kane for a couple of minutes before slowly making it back to his feet to cut a quick promo. Rollins scolded the crowd and then gloated about being the best WWE World Heavyweight Champion of all-time. Finally, Rollins headed to the back to officially end the show.
– New WWE Divas Champion Charlotte is scheduled to be one of the guests on tonight’s WWE RAW pre-show on the WWE Network.
– WWE.com has a new poll up asking fans if Chris Jericho was a bad choice to be the mystery partner for Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose at Night Of Champions. 69 percent of fans felt that The Wyatt Family would have lost if they had a different partner, while 31 percent of fans believed if Jericho couldn’t help them win, no one could.
– WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross was full of high praise for new WWE Divas Champion Charlotte following her victory over Nikki Bella at Sunday’s WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view. “Good Ole’ JR” took to Twitter after the show to post the following.
Just my opinion but @MsCharlotteWWE ain't no diva…she's all woman and the champion making her the women's champ. Just saying…
– As noted, Scott Hall was among the guests backstage at WWE Night Of Champions on Sunday night in Houston. Here he is backstage at the show with Scott Norton and Big Show.
In addition to former NXT World Champion Kevin Owens defeating Ryback to become the new WWE Intercontinental Champion, former NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte defeated Nikki Bella to become the new WWE Divas Champion, ending Bella’s 301-day record-setting reign as champion.
Charlotte’s father, WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair joined Paige and Becky Lynch in the ring to celebrate the victory, as both Charlotte and Flair had tears in their eyes during what was a very emotional moment for the Flair family.
On Monday, 2K revealed the final members of the WWE 2K16 roster – and there were some glaring omissions. Many fans were outraged that WWE’s “Four Horsewomen” – Sasha Banks, Charlotte, Bayley and Becky Lynch, will not be part of this year’s game. Even more maddening is the fact Divas such as Cameron, Summer Rae and the recently-retired Layla made the cut in lieu of the Divas Revolution leaders.
Back in February, Sasha Banks told a fan on Twitter that she got scanned for the game – adding an extra layer of WTF to the situation.
“@Michael77435101: @SashaBanksWWE did you get scanned for wwe 2k16 because I neeeeeed to be able to play as the #Boss of #NXT” yes I did!
2K has issued the following statement regarding the omissions – and then twisted the knife by confirming that the Four Horsewomen will NOT be available as DLC.
With our final roster reveal this past Monday, it was awesome seeing the excitement for The New Day, Enzo and Cass, Mikey Whipwreck, and more. But it was clear that some in the community are frustrated by the lack of the newer Divas added to the main WWE roster recently
We pushed as hard as we could to include Sasha Banks, Charlotte, Becky Lynch, and Bayley in WWE 2k16, but it simply did not work out for various reasons. While we are not divulging full details on WWE 2K16’s post-launch plans just yet, we can confirm that the Four Horsewomen will not be available as DLC.
We are proud to have and built the largest WWE roster to date featuring the most Divas ever. The WWE 2K16 disc includes all of the Divas on the main roster at the time we locked it in (13 playable in total).
We all agree the Divas Revolution is great for business and look forward to celebrating the Divas even more in future WWE 2K titles.
WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross recently updated his official blog with his latest thoughts and opinions on a number of subjects. Below are some of the highlights.
On the finish to RAW: “The finish of the show was perfect to build to Sunday’s NOC as Sting beating Rollins as tried an true, old school booking. Still curious as to why WWE did not heavily promote Sting’s first ever match on RAW in advance especially going up against the Monday Night Football double header. Nice booking.”
On the finish to the Nikki Bella vs. Charlotte title match: “Had no issue with villain Nikki cheating to retain her title and creating another opportunity to have another title bout in Houston Sunday against a motivated Charlotte. I only hope that Charlotte will never be earmarked to be a umpteen time champion which is one of the more overrated stats in pro wrestling. WWE is blessed with some amazing female talent and if they are not booked liked females have traditionally been more often than not in the biz in the past, they have something special to work with that will be new and fresh.”
“Nonetheless, Charlotte is amazingly athletic and a special talent and she reminds me of a female Kurt Angle.”
On Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman: “Love that @HeymanHustle and Brock Lesnar are not on every RAW as it keeps them special ala Andre the Giant back in the day when he was the most valued attraction in the game. Same goes for Taker which is another reason that I feel that the Deadman isn’t retirement ready.”
On Cesaro: “Damn, I’m a major fan of Cesaro and for the life of me still fee that he is massively underutilized. His in ring work/persona is SO strong that he’s a main eventer waiting to explode. I’d still love to see him some day have a match with Lesnar just for my own old school enjoyment. esaro is money…so please cash the check.”
Check out the complete blog at JRsBarBQ.com. You can also order JR’s Bar-B-Q products online at WWEShop.com.
On Monday’s RAW, Charlotte had the rug pulled out from under her after her Divas Championship win was reversed by Stephanie McMahon, who broke the news that Charlotte had actually pinned Brie, not Nikki. Stephanie announced that this Sunday at Night of Champions, Nikki will defend her title against Charlotte once again – and the title can change hands if Nikki is disqualified or counted out.
Ric Flair tweeted out the following about the finish of the match and the Divas title match set for this Sunday:
Nikki Bella broke AJ Lee’s record as the longest reigning Divas champion in WWE history on Monday night when she managed to retain her title when Charlotte won by disqualification at RAW. Stephanie McMahon announced a rematch between Nikki and Charlotte for the Divas title at this Sunday’s WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view.
Also announced for Sunday’s pay-per-view on RAW is a WWE Intercontinental Championship match between Ryback and Kevin Owens.
Make sure to visit SEScoops.com on Sunday, September 20th for the best WWE Night Of Champions live results coverage on the web!
WWE RAW is scheduled to take place tonight, Monday, September 14, 2015 from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee for a show that WWE is billing as the “season premiere” of RAW.
Tonight’s RAW, which is the second-to-last edition of the show leading into the WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view on September 20th, will feature two advertised title matches.
Nikki Bella will look to break AJ Lee’s record as the longest reigning WWE Divas Champion in history as she defends her title in one-on-one action against former NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte.
Additionally, WWE Tag-Team Champions The New Day will defend their titles against former champions The Prime Time Players.
Make sure to join us here at SEScoops.com later this evening for the best live WWE RAW play-by-play results coverage on the web!
WWE Divas Champion Nikki Bella, who will break AJ Lee’s record as the longest reigning WWE Divas Champion in history tonight if she defeats Charlotte at WWE RAW, took to social media to hype up her potential record-breaking evening.
“In less than an hour I tie for being the longest reigning Divas Champion in WWE History. In less than 25 hours I make history as The Longest Reigning Divas Champion of all time. 4 the people that believe dreams don’t come true, they do. I am living proof of that. The words of my man John Cena are true… Never Give Up. I never did. And I never will.
– Nikki”
Oddly enough, after such confident tweets, she posted the following photo on her Instagram page with a caption that reads, “I pray this isn’t my last night with you.”
Next Monday night on RAW, Charlotte will get her chance to dethrone Nikki Bella and block her from becoming the longest reigning Divas Champion in WWE history.
On this week’s show, Nikki Bella came out with Brie and Alicia Fox and announced that next week, there would be a “Bellabration” to celebrate her breaking AJ Lee’s record. Charlotte’s music hit and out came Team P.C.B. Charlotte said the Authority granted her request to give her the title shot and P, C & B attacked the Bella crew.
Charlotte put Nikki in a Figure 8 in what could a a sign of things to come next week.
Comment below and tell us if you think Charlotte will be able to write herself into the history books and become Divas champion before Nikki Bella sets the record.
– With WWE hyping that Nikki Bella on the verge of breaking AJ Lee’s record of longest Divas Championship reign, there’s speculation that WWE may book Charlotte to beat Nikki before the Night of Champions event. Charlotte cut a promo on last night’s SmackDown and requested that The Authority give her a title shot prior to Night of Champions so Nikki has to defend the gold one more time before breaking the record.
– Renee Young noted on Twitter that she got ‘busted’ once again conducting an interview barefoot.
Charlotte was Michael Cole’s guest for this week’s sit-down interview at WWE.com to discuss her upcoming Divas Championship match against Nikki Bella at Night of Champions.
Charlotte said the past few days do not seem real. She only started at NXT 3 years ago and she remembers watching Paige and Emma at NXT Arrival and wondering how she would ever reach that level. She never pictured herself in this position and she’s honored to have this opportunity.
4 years ago, she was a personal trainer and got emotional when revealing that it was her little brother who made her believe in herself and made her realize that this was a dream of her’s.
Michael Cole asked about her father and what it’s been like coming into this business as the daughter of the legendary Ric Flair. She joked that she’s crying right now and her father has always been an emotional guy. A lot of pepole think that doors have opened easy for her due to her family lineage, but it’s also put a lot of pressure on her to live up to his legacy. She is so proud of her father and she wants to carry on his legacy. She thinks a lot about what people think about her and questions if she’s only here because of who her father is.
All she knows how to do is work hard. Whether it’s been volleyball, cheerleading, basketball, gymnastics, track, diving, tennis. All she’s ever wanted to do is be the best. At the end of the day, she just wants to make her family proud.
Cole brought up Nikki Bella’s comments to WWE.com this week where she stated Charlotte isn’t ready for this and should go back to NXT. Charlotte says she loves NXT and would love to go back whenever she can. She’s disappointed that Nikki doesn’t look at her as competition. She wasn’t raised that way and looks at everyone fairly. Especially with the Divas Revolution, it makes her feel that Nikki doesn’t take her seriously. Nikki doubting her makes her blood boil and fuels her to become champion.
Charlotte was asked what the Divas Revolution means to her. She said she’s been through a lot, she’s seen a lot and the movement is not about fancy clothes or magazine covers. It’s about empowering women all around the world and she hopes that little girls and women around the world look at her as inspiration and follow their dreams.
As reported earlier this week, WWE Diva Charlotte was not the woman involved in the domestic incident this past weekend that saw TNA star Bram get arrested on charges of domestic assault by strangulation and false imprisonment. As noted, the woman involved was Bram’s girlfriend, Ashley Allen.
While it was reported on Monday that Charlotte and Bram quietly broke up a few months ago, they are still legally married. The two currently have a hearing scheduled in Florida on September 10th, which will be the final hearing for the dissolution of their marriage.
– Tonight’s WWE SmackDown and Main Event tapings take place from Miami, Florida. Dolph Ziggler and Lana on Miz TV has been announced for SmackDown. Join us here later tonight for live coverage of the SmackDown tapings.
– Total Divas synopsis for tonight: “Paige lands herself in hot water with the WWE; Nattie sets her sister up with Big E; and Bryan takes issue with Brie’s new sexy wardrobe.”
– On this week’s RAW Fallout videos, Charlotte talks about becoming #1 contender to Nikki Bella’s Divas Championship at Night of Champions and Nikki reacts:
A new title match for the WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view in September was made official on Monday’s edition of WWE RAW in Tampa, Florida.
When Charlotte defeated Brie Bella in one minute and 41 seconds in the Divas “Beat The Clock Challenge” at RAW, she became the new number one contender and earned the right to challenge Nikki Bella for the WWE Divas Championship at the WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view.
The other “Beat The Clock Challenge” match saw Becky Lynch defeat Alicia Fox in three minutes and 21 seconds. The third “Beat The Clock Challenge” match saw Paige and Sasha Banks run out of time, as the one minute 41 second mark hit and there had yet to be a decision.
WWE Night Of Champions takes place on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Make sure to join SEScoops.com on 9/20 for the best WWE Night Of Champions live results coverage on the web!
WWE continues to make announcements regarding Monday’s edition of RAW, as we can now officially report another match for Monday’s show in Tampa, Florida.
Earlier this weekend, WWE announced that Sting will be opening Monday’s RAW to address what happened with Seth Rollins last week, as well as their upcoming WWE Night Of Champions title match.
WWE also announced a first-ever “Divas Beat The Clock Challenge,” where Paige, Charlotte and Becky Lynch will compete to see who wins a WWE Divas title shot against Nikki Bella at Night Of Champions.
On Sunday, WWE announced that in addition to the opening segment with Sting and the “Divas Beat The Clock Challenge,” Dolph Ziggler will go one-on-one with “The Bulgarian Brute” Rusev.
Make sure to visit SEScoops.com on Monday, August 31, 2015 for the best WWE RAW live results coverage on the web!
WWE has announced the first ever “Divas Beat The Clock Challenge” for this coming Monday night’s edition of WWE RAW.
Scheduled to compete in the “Beat The Clock Challenge” on Monday night in Tampa, Florida are Paige, Charlotte and Becky Lynch. There is currently no word regarding their opponents.
The Diva who wins her match in the shortest amount of time will earn a shot at WWE Divas Champion Nikki Bella at the WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
– Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch all received either amended contracts with an increase in pay or new main roster WWE deals the day after all three made their debuts on RAW for the first time.
– Speaking of compensation practices in WWE, a perk that NXT talents get when they work WWE live events is that the company pays for their road expenses, in addition to paying them like a prelim WWE talent. For main roster talents, they have to cover their own road expenses. Also, right now, if you are an NXT star and you are called up to the main roster, WWE pays for your road expenses for the first 90 days after you make the full-time transition.
As reported recently, there have been rumors going around that claim WWE had plans for Charlotte to defeat Nikki Bella for the WWE Divas Championship early into her main roster debut, however Bella’s boyfriend, John Cena, reportedly had those plans squashed.
A fan asked Dave Meltzer about the story on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, however he claimed he did not know if there was any truth to the rumors. He did say that Cena’s relationship with Bella is part of the reason why she is having such a lengthy title reign. He claims to have heard no discussions about the Charlotte rumor, but added that it doesn’t mean there isn’t any truth to the rumors.
It was also mentioned that Cena has spoken up in the past when Bella was set to lose the WWE Divas Championship, however Meltzer noted that he isn’t sure if Cena has done that in the past few weeks.
As it turns out, WWE actually scrambled to try and prevent the crowd takeover that occurred during the Divas match at RAW on Monday night.
As reported earlier, Paige, Nikki Bella, Brie Bella and Alicia Fox took to social media after RAW to vent their frustrations about the negative crowd reactions during their six-Divas tag-team match.
Paige tweeted (and then quickly deleted), “You helped us create change and then did your best to disrespect. Niceeeee jobbbbbbbb!”
To counter the negative crowd reactions, WWE actually inserted an extra commercial break into the West Coast feed of RAW, as they actually suddenly cut to a commercial break right when Paige took Nikki into the corner of the ring and hit a shoulder block.
As a result, WWE effectively prevented most of the “boring” chants, “we are awesome” chants and the wave, from airing on the West Coast feed of the show.
It’s worth noting that unlike the aforementioned four Divas, Becky Lynch and Charlotte did not complain on social media. You can check out their reactions below.
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Well Brooklynch. I'll love you and leave you. You were a beautiful boisterous bunch. #RAW
Several of the WWE Divas who worked last night’s RAW expressed their frustration with the fans in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, particularly with how they reacted during the Team P.C.B. vs. Team Bella match.
Paige tweeted the following comment, but quickly deleted it: “You helped us create change and then did your best to disrespect. Niceeeee jobbbbbbbb!”
Below are some posts from other WWE Divas involved in the match/segment, all of which spoke about the negative fan reaction as well.
WWE Diva and Total Divas star Natalya recently spoke with our friends at Wrestling INC to promote WWE SummerSlam weekend. Below are some of the highlights from the interview.
On WWE’s current “Divas Revolution”: “I think it’s something that’s been long overdue. There have been so many talented Divas in the WWE and it’s really awesome and refreshing that we’re finally getting a real chance to showcase our talent. I think it’s a testament to the fact that WWE fans across the world are pretty much demanding that the girls get treated better.
It’s not like anybody ever intended for the Divas to have one minute matches before, but if you’re silent and don’t stand up for yourself and you don’t have a voice and don’t use your reach? You can get whomped on. Nobody wants to be a doormat. Nobody wants to be treated like a doormat. As far as the voices of the Divas being heard, I think Vince McMahon is listening. I think you can really see that in the last month or so with the Divas’ Revolution. It’s something that’s really awesome. I’m really proud of all the girls.”
On her match with Charlotte at NXT TakeOver 15 months ago: “It meant everything to me. It was somebody actually believing in me and understanding that wrestling is not just in my blood. It’s something that I think about constantly. I have a passion for it, I’ve studied the history of it, I’ve wrestled all over the world before I ever came to WWE. When you look at Nattie, the character is really just someone who embodies wrestling. So, for me, to be able to show the world a masterpiece like the match I had with Charlotte, it wasn’t just about Nattie, it was about paying it forward.
And that’s what life is all about, is giving back. It’s about using what you have, your reach, your equity, and also being able to help somebody else shine, too. I’ve talked to Charlotte about this: The way that I paid it forward to her, she needs to use her skill to pay it forward to someone else down the road. So hopefully, all of the girls get the opportunity to do that at some point. That match meant everything to me and I think that people really started to look at women’s wrestling differently when they were saying ‘This isn’t just the women’s match of the year, this is one of the best matches of the year.”
Check out the complete interview at WrestlingINC.com.