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  • WWE Stars Support “His Life Matters”, Heyman Tweets Lesnar Exclusive, Luke Harper Update

    WWE Stars Support “His Life Matters”, Heyman Tweets Lesnar Exclusive, Luke Harper Update

    – Rue-Morgue.com reports that filming has wrapped on horror-action movie “Mohawk” in upstate NY. The movie features WWE Superstar Luke Harper, billed under his real name – John Huber. Harper, who has been out of action with a leg injury, commented on how filming the movie was an incredible physical challenge for him:

    “This state park where we’ve been shooting is freaking beautiful, but running around and crossing cricks and running up hills and navigating logs and stuff like that has not been the best times for the leg [laughs]. But I’ve survived.”

    – Paul Heyman tweeted this exclusive photo of Brock Lesnar following his UFC 200 victory over Mark Hunt on Saturday:

    – The Dudleyz had fans talking on social media this weekend with the following photo, which responds to the “Lives Matter” discussion going on around the country:

  • Luke Harper Announced For “Mohawk” Movie

    Luke Harper Announced For “Mohawk” Movie

    Source: The Wrap

    Luke Harper, who is currently out of action with an injury, has been cast in new horror/action movie “Mohawk,” which will be directed by Ted Geoghegan.

    The movie stars actress Kaniehtiio Horn in the starring role as Mohawk. Co-stars include Harper, Justin Rain, Noah Segan, Ian Colletti, Robert Longstreet, Sheri Foster, Ezra Buzzington and Andrew Sensenig.

    Mohawk is a horror and action tale. After one of her tribes sets an American soldiers’ camp on fire, a young female Mohawk finds herself in a cat-and-mouse chase. She flees deep into the woods where she confronts Colonel Holt and his soldiers. As American soldiers seem to close in on her and Mohawk youths Oak and Calvin, they must use both real and supernatural resources to fight back.

    Principal photography began today in upstate New York but no word yet on a release date.

  • Luke Harper Talks About Rehabbing ACL Injury, His Ultimate Career Goal

    Luke Harper Talks About Rehabbing ACL Injury, His Ultimate Career Goal

    Luke Harper recently spoke candidly to QwalityTV about his injury, WWE status and future, Twitter use and more.

    Harper confirms he was injured during the March RAW dark match and says he dislocated his patella and tore his MPFL ligament, saying it was a freak occurrence. Harper says he’s expecting to be back some time between August and October but is hoping to use this injury to come back stronger and better. He noted that his ultimate goal in WWE is to become the World Heavyweight Champion.

    Harper also addresses Twitter criticism over he and other Wyatt Family members using social media, spending time with his family while being out with an injury and more.

  • Luke Harper Injury Update, Cena Hosting “Today” Again, Adam Rose’s Next Court Date, More

    Luke Harper Injury Update, Cena Hosting “Today” Again, Adam Rose’s Next Court Date, More

    – John Cena and the Bella Twins appeared on The Blue Carpet prior to this morning’s NBC Upfronts presentation in New York City. It was announced that Cena will be hosting NBC’s “Today” show on Monday May 30th prior to his return to WWE RAW later that evening.

    – Adam Rose is scheduled to appear before Florida’s Hillsborough County Court on Tuesday, June 7th regarding his arrest last week for domestic battery and tampering with a witness. Rose has been suspended indefinitely while the criminal case is pending.

    – Luke Harper dismissed reports of a torn ACL on Twitter this past week but tweeted the following today on his status:

    – WWE posted this video looking at the MSG Curtain Call, which took place 20 years ago this week:

    Partial Source: PWInsider.com

  • Zack Sabre Talks WWE CWC In New Documentary, Luke Harper, Big Cass

    Zack Sabre Talks WWE CWC In New Documentary, Luke Harper, Big Cass

    – Big Cass cut a pre-match promo and then defeated D-Von Dudley at Friday’s WWE house show in Greenville, NC. WWE camera crews were filming Cass during the match and as he went to the back after.

    – Luke Harper tweeted the following today, referencing the unofficial reports that he is out with a torn ACL:

    – Below is a recent documentary from Suplex Apparel on Zack Sabre. He gave these comments on The WWE Cruiserweight Classic to their blog:

    “It’s a genuine honor to be apart of a tournament of this kind. The cruiserweight style of wrestling has always had a profound influence on me, so competing alongside such a high standard of international talent is very special and also being able to represent the British Wrestling scene on a scale of this magnitude is huge for me.”

  • Harper-Zayn Note, What Maryse Said On RAW, Stock Update & More

    Harper-Zayn Note, What Maryse Said On RAW, Stock Update & More

    – WWE stock closed at $18.08 per share today, up 3.73%.

    – Vince McMahon tweeted kudos to Kevin Owens and Tyler Breeze for their GoFundMe campaign for the Ft. McMurray fire victims. They recently upped their goal to $100,000 and are approaching $50,000 as of this writing.

    – Cathy Kelley looks at Kevin Owens vs. Renee Young’s dog and more social media trends in this new video:

    – Luke Harper apparently took a friendly shot at Sami Zayn today when replying to a WWE poll on who has the best Michinoku Driver. Sami is currently leading the poll, as seen here:

    – What did Maryse say to Sami Zayn on Monday’s Raw? WWE translates her insults to Sami in this video:

  • Wyatt Family Member Responds to Criticism Over Twitter Use, WM32 Blu-Ray/DVD News

    – The WrestleMania 32 DVD and Blu-ray will be released in North America this week. WDN reports a special 1000-numbered Box Set will be released in the UK on June 6th. The set will include one of the Shane McMahon $1 million bills from his entrance, a piece of ring canvas and an autographed Sting artcard.

    – Luke Harper has responded to fans who have complained about him being so active on Twitter, with the idea being that swamp people with cellphones is unrealistic. Harper responded:

  • Bray Wyatt Says WWE Didn’t Know How To Use The Wyatt Family, Teases New Members

    Bray Wyatt was a guest on the Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast during WrestleMania 32. Topics discussed include WWE not knowing how to use The Wyatt Family, how he came up with the Bray Wyatt character, Luke Harper’s injury and his plan to face Brock Lesnar in the not too distance future. Here are some highlights of what Bray said about:

    Luke Harper’s knee injury:

    “Without him it’s so weird because it [has] never been without him. He’s my captain. It was mine and his before Rowan and Braun were ever involved. And it’s going to be hard. But a soldier falls and drops his flag, the next soldier comes by, picks it up. Hopefully, we’ll get more Wyatts. They can’t replace Harper. That’s impossible, but just an army of Wyatts. We never need to have any titles. We never need to feud with anyone. We should just come out every show, just 20 Wyatts and just mutilate someone for no reason because that’s who we are.”

    WWE not knowing how to use the Wyatt Family:

    “I don’t think, when we set out and finally got the call up, I don’t know if they really understood what they had. Like, we knew the NXT crowd had responded so well to us and they kind of like attached themselves to us and when we came up here we, never in a million years, thought it was going to explode the way it did. And it did. It exploded. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just that kind of thing, the right place at the right time. And we were so different, man. We were so different that I don’t think the company knew even how to use us. ‘What are these things?’ Like, we were so different and in the promos [and] so different in the way we looked and how we moved. We were big and we would fly and do all this crazy stuff. Like, I don’t think anyone expected us to be so complete. And they still don’t know how to use what we are.”

    H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the quotes

  • Report: Luke Harper Undergoes Knee Surgery

    Report: Luke Harper Undergoes Knee Surgery

    Luke Harper underwent successful knee surgery over the past week, according to Justin LaBar. He was injured last Monday night after RAW (Video) during the dark match main event.

    It’s rumored that he had an ACL tear, which would keep him out of action until the summer. WWE has yet to formally acknowledge the injury.

    Harper was not with the other members of the Wyatt Family when they rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning.

  • Luke Harper’s Knee Injury Could Keep Him Out Until Summer

    Luke Harper’s Knee Injury Could Keep Him Out Until Summer

    Wyatt Family member Luke Harper injured his knee on Monday night after RAW from Philadelphia went off the air. While WWE has yet to acknowledge the injury, the word going around backstage at last night’s live event from Madison Square Garden is that Harper’s knee injury is worse than originally expected.

    The current estimate is that he will miss around 5-6 months, according to a report at PWInsider. This would keep him out of action until around SummerSlam.

  • Video: Luke Harper Injured After RAW

    Video: Luke Harper Injured After RAW

    Video has surfaced of the injury sustained by Luke Harper after Monday’s episode of WWE RAW from Philadelphia went off the air.

    The dark match main event saw The Wyatt Family vs. Roman Reigns, Dolph Ziggler, Dean Ambrose and Sami Zayn. Harper entered the ring and it appears his knee or ankle buckled. He quickly tagged out and was tended to outside of the ring. He was eventually helped to the back by members of the Wyatt Family.

    During the fray, Braun Strowman was actually struck by a fan at ringside and can be seen pointing the fan out to security.

    Buckled knees and rowdy fans – just another night at the office.

  • Luke Harper Injured After RAW

    Luke Harper Injured After RAW

    It appears that Wyatt Family member Luke Harper was injured during the dark match main event that took place after Monday’s RAW.

    The injury took place after Harper was thrown out of the ring. He grabbed his knee and doctors ran over to him immediately. He was helped to the back in a wheelchair pushed by Bray Wyatt.

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  • Luke Harper On His Ambitions As A Singles Superstar, Success Of The Wyatt Family

    Luke Harper On His Ambitions As A Singles Superstar, Success Of The Wyatt Family

    One of the original members of The Wyatt Family, Luke Harper, recently appeared as a guest on the Chad Dukes Wrestling Show and spoke about the level of success The Wyatt Family has achieved this early into their WWE run, as well as some of his own personal ambitions as a singles star one day. Below are some of the highlights from the interview.

    On his WWE career ambitions as a singles star:

    “I want to win every title that this promotion has. I want to be the World Heavyweight Champion, on my own, I want to be the Intercontinental Champion, want to be the U.S. champion, wanna be a Tag Champion, I personally want all of that for myself. But at the same time, I have brothers at arms that we are very successful together and I understand that part of it too. I don’t know why I would be here if I didn’t want a championship.”

    On The Wyatt Family’s success already and how they still have “another level” of success to attain:

    “We’ve dominated lots of people, we’ve beat up lots of people, we’ve sent a lot of messages, we’ve been successful, but there’s another level of success that we have yet to attain and that we want to attain.”

  • Luke Harper On The Wyatt Family Adding A Creepy Female, Getting Yelled At By Vince

    WWE Superstar and Wyatt Family member Luke Harper recently appeared as a guest on Chris Jericho’s “Talk Is Jericho” podcast and spoke about getting yelled at by Vince McMahon, what he feels should be done with The Wyatt Family and more.

    During the interview, The Wyatt Family member spoke about getting yelled at by Vince McMahon the night he won the I-C title due to not using a Southern accent in his pre-match promo.

    “I won the Intercontinental title, I beat Ziggler for it. Yeah, I thought it was great. I thought everything was good. [I] came to the back and Vince yelled at me because I didn’t speak in a southern accent, so [it] kind of put a damper on things for a little bit.” Harper added, “I had to say, ‘I’m a team player’ [in the prematch promo], but I had to say it southern because that was his vision of me and it might still be. I hope not. Yes, and our vision of it is our people come from everywhere. [Bray Wyatt’s] message is nationwide. He’s from the bayou, but us, his followers, aren’t necessarily. We kind of pick and choose where he got us.”

    He also spoke about his feeling that he didn’t get a fair run with the Intercontinental Title.

    “I was pissed because I thought I didn’t get a fair run with [the title], really. I hadn’t really done anything with it.” Harper continued, “I thought ‘this is bulls–t.’ So I remember talking to Dolph and I said, ‘hey man, I want to do something special here because I’m pissed.’ It was in Cleveland [Ohio], his hometown, so it was, like, again, a perfect storm of stuff.”

    Harper also revealed some advice he received from John Cena after he lost the I-C strap.

    “I was told by one of the top guys in the [professional wrestling] business, John Cena, that if you have an at bat and you hit a double or something or you hit a single, you’ll get another at bat, so that [has] always been my mindset now. When I get the ball, do what I can with it. Control what I can control. And if I can go out there and do something special, then, that makes them happy and it makes everybody happy, I’ll get another at bat.”

    Finally, Harper touched on what he feels should be done with the Wyatt Family faction, agreeing with Jericho that they should add a “creepy girl” to the mix.

    “New blood. I’ve always said that, I thought with a cult like that, we should always have kind of [new members joining] and [grow] bigger.” Harper continued, “I think [adding a woman] gives us more diverse things and more ways to go instead of just saying, ‘hey, we’re going to beat you up.’”

  • What Happened After RAW Ended, Tommy Dreamer & The Dudleyz On RAW Fallout

    – Tommy Dreamer and The Dudley Boyz are featured in the above RAW Fallout video talking about their interaction with The Wyatt Family on Monday’s show.

    – The dark match main event following Monday’s RAW at the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania saw Tommy Dreamer, Demon Kane and The Dudley Boyz defeat Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan in eight man tag-team action. The match/segment ended when Harper took the finishing moves of all of the babyfaces.

  • Video: Tommy Dreamer Returns On This Week’s WWE RAW

    Former WWE Superstar and ECW Original Tommy Dreamer made his WWE return on Monday’s edition of RAW at the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Dreamer returned during a promo segment that turned into a match between The Dudley Boyz and The Wyatt Family.

    Bubba Ray and Devon were cutting a promo in the ring when the four Wyatt Family members — Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan — hit the ring. The Dudleyz claimed that they too had family on their side, which led to Dreamer making his way out.

    The ECW Original made his way to the ring with a trash can full of weapons, which led to he and The Dudleyz teaming on to take on The Wyatt Family in a match on RAW. The match ended up finishing in a no contest, with Bubba Ray putting Bray through a table after the match to end the segment.

  • Luke Harper On His First Interaction With Vince, Breaking In To WWE

    Wyatt Family member Luke Harper was Chris Jericho’s guest on the most recent installment of the Talk is Jericho podcast. You can listen to the full interview over at PodcastOne.com.

    Harper spoke about a number of topics, including his previous career as a librarian, his time wrestling on the independent scene, The Wyatt Family, his beard and much more. Here are some highlights of what he said about:

    Almost Missing The Chance To Work For WWE:

    “Two days after I had my child in January [2011], I got called by Johnny Ace. And the other best part about that is that I missed his call because I was in the hospital, so he left a message, his number cuts out. So I instantly called Claudio Castagnoli [Cesaro] to say, ‘Please tell me you have Johnny Ace’s number’ and he said, ‘Yeah, here it is right here.’”

    Cesaro, Rollins & Ambrose Vouching For Him at FCW:

    “I was told again [WWE] were looking for guys over six foot whatever that could work. And so Claudio Castagnoli was down there, Tyler Black who is now Seth Rollins, and Jon Moxley who is Dean Ambrose, kind of all were close to Joey and said, ‘hey, there’s a kid out there that’, I use the term, ‘kid’, loosely, ‘there’s a guy out there who can work and is tall and whatever and no one’s ever called him.’”

    His First Interaction With Vince McMahon:

    “My first real one was, we started doing the Uso feud like maybe a year into our thing. And I don’t know if it was the two out of three falls match or the one before at Money In The Bank, where we killed it. And we came to the back and he stood up and he hugged each one of us and he goes, ‘you go to that locker room and you tell these motherf–kers to follow that!’”

  • John Cena Added To First WWE SmackDown Taping For The USA Network

    WWE has officially added John Cena to the January 5th SmackDown television taping at the Laredo Energy Arena in Laredo, Texas. That will be the first taping for SmackDown on the USA Network.

    With tickets scheduled to go on sale for the taping on November 23rd, there had been some concern that there were not enough big stars advertised for the show. The plan since WWE announced that SmackDown was moving to the USA Network has been to load up the show with star power.

    The updated lineup for the 1/5 SmackDown taping in Laredo now features Cena, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Sheamus, Bray Wyatt, Alberto Del Rio, Kevin Owens, Dolph Ziggler, Luke Harper, Braun Strowman and more.

  • What Happened After Monday’s RAW: Ambrose-Reigns Promo, 8-Man Tag Match

    After Monday night’s WWE Survivor Series “go-home” edition of RAW went off the air, Bray Wyatt came back out. Wyatt spoke about Survivor Series briefly before calling out Roman Reigns.

    This led to an eight-man post-show dark match for the live crowd at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina. The match ended up mostly consisting of guys doing their finishers and other big spots.

    The match featured Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper, Erick Rowan and Braun Strowman taking on Reigns, Cesaro, Dolph Ziggler and Dean Ambrose. Ultimately, everyone fought to the back and in the end, Reigns and Ambrose were left alone in the ring.

    Ambrose took the mic and said the two would win their matches and meet in the finals to determine the next WWE World Heavyweight Champion. Reigns agreed and said they’d always be brothers.

  • Undertaker And Partners To Face The Wyatt Family In Elimination Match At Survivor Series?

    WWE is focusing the advertising for the November 22nd Survivor Series pay-per-view on the fact that it will be The Undertaker’s 25th anniversary at the annual event. You can check out the video promo for Survivor Series 2015 below.

    Based on the finish of last night’s Hell In A Cell pay-per-view, it looks like Undertaker will be facing the four members of The Wyatt Family in a traditional Survivor Series elimination match.

    Last night’s show ended with Taker losing to Brock Lesnar in their “Final Battle” inside Hell In A Cell, and then Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan dragged “The Dead Man” to the back after attacking him.

  • Erick Rowan’s Return, Rumor Killer On Luke Harper Missing RAW

    Erick Rowan was brought back to WWE television this week because the company had booked The Shield vs. The Wyatt Family as the main event for RAW on Monday night in Dallas, Texas.

    That was the storyline that they wanted for the show, and while there were some reports that claimed there was a creative decision to replace Luke Harper on the show, that is not the case. Harper actually had a family issue so WWE was forced to replace him.

    Rowan was already in the process of training for his WWE return. It was reported back in June that Rowan would be out of action for six months, so the fact that he returned after only four months from a torn biceps is considered an impressive accomplishment.

    (Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

  • R-Truth Releases New Single, Sister Abigail/Wyatt Family Note, More

    – WWE is running a new poll on their official website asking fans who the scariest member of The Wyatt Family is. The options include Bray Wyatt, Braun Strowman, Luke Harper and the mysterious Sister Abigail. While Strowman came in first with 47 percent of the vote, the unknown Sister Abigail isn’t far behind with 30 percent of the vote. Oddly enough, Wyatt, the leader of the group only has 17 percent. You can vote on the poll at WWE.com.

    – WWE Superstar R-Truth has released his new single, “Pump It Up,” which is available on iTunes. Truth posted the following tweet on Thursday to promote the song.

  • Original Plans For Mystery Partner In Night Of Champions Six-Man Tag-Team Match

    As reported this weekend, WWE is teasing a six-man tag-team match with a mystery partner at the WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view.

    Originally, the man expected to fulfill the role as the third “mystery” member of the team of Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose to take on The Wyatt Family trio consisting of Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Braun Strowman, was “The Icon” Sting.

    Instead, as noted in our original report, the leading candidate at this point as the mystery member of the Reigns-Ambrose team is none other than former Wyatt Family member Erick Rowan.

    It should be noted that until further notice, this should be taken strictly as speculation at this point.

    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!

    (Credit: F4WOnline.com)

  • Ric Flair/SummerSlam News, Triple H Looks At Warrior’s Book (Video), SmackDown

    – WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair is in town for WWE SummerSlam weekend. Flair is there primarily to watch his daughter Charlotte wrestle at SummerSlam, and apparently other members of the Flair family are also in town for the show. Former WCW star David Flair is among those from the Flair family that made the trip.

    – WWE taped the following matches for tonight’s edition of WWE SmackDown:

    * Ryback vs. Big Show
    * The New Day vs. Los Matadores and El Torito
    * Neville vs. Bo Dallas
    * Brie Bella vs. Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch
    * Randy Orton, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns and Cesaro vs. Sheamus, Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Kevin Owens

    – WWE posted the following video of Triple H looking at the new Ultimate Warrior book, “Ultimate Warrior: A Life Lived Forever.”

  • Luke Harper Talks About His “Dirty Shirts,” Wyatt Family’s Start In NXT & More

    WWE Superstar Luke Harper recently spoke with the Chad Dukes Wrestling Show to promote this month’s WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view. Below are some of the highlights from the interview.

    On The Wyatt Family matches with The Shield: “The first run or match with The Shield always stands out to me, our matches, our wars. The feeling was electric before we even touched and it was my family looking down the line and I’m looking across at three guys that were on top of the hill, the big dogs, and we knew they need to be knocked down. Since we had come to WWE, the Shield and the Wyatts were always on a path to meet, a path to see who was better, and if you look at the results the Wyatt Family actually came out of those quite well and will do it again in Summer Slam and for as long as the Shield boys want to keep doing it. ”

    On The Wyatt Family starting in NXT: “Basically, the Wyatt Family laid the bricks that the NXT house is now built on.”

    On if the tank-tops that he wrestles in are clean: “Obviously, I’m not a Neanderthal, I do do laundry, I am a human being. I can just not do laundry. That’s utterly ridiculous. I have several different shirts. I don’t know if that’s going to disappoint anybody out there, but I was I have a very rigorous warmup where I get a good sweat going before a match to prepare for battle. That is what people see, that is what people mistake for dirtiness.”

    Check out the complete interview at ChadDukesWrestlingShow.com.