– Naomi will apparently be aligned with The Social Outcasts in WWE Studios’ The Marine 5: Battleground, currently filming in Vancouver. Naomi mentioned on Twitter she would be a villain, indicating she would be in the biker gang with Curtis Axel, Bo Dallas and Heath Slater. The Miz will reprise his role as former Marine Jake Carter while Maryse also has a lead role.
– The next season of Renee Young’s “Unfiltered” show on the WWE Network begins this Thursday at 5pm. The synopsis for the first episode of the second season reads like this:
“5pm Season 2 kicks off as Renee talks childbirth and dancing with Roman Reigns and psycho-analyzes the WWE roster with Dr. Phil.”
– NXT Women’s Champion Asuka is featured in the latest Canvas 2 Canvas video from Rob Schamberger, seen below:
WWE Studios and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions partner for ‘The Marine 5: Battleground’
WWE Studios and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) today announced that the two studios will partner on the upcoming action film, “The Marine 5: Battleground.” Directed by James Nunn (“Eliminators”), the film will feature WWE Superstars The Miz, Maryse, Heath Slater, Bo Dallas, Curtis Axel and Naomi. The film will begin production this Tuesday, May 31, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The Miz returns as Jake Carter, an ex-Marine who served in the Middle East and is now saving civilian lives stateside as an EMT. After responding to an emergency call in an abandoned parking lot, Carter finds himself protecting an injured man from a ruthless biker gang. With the odds stacked against him, Carter utilizes his unique Marine skills to stop the bikers’ rampage before any more innocent blood is shed.
“The ‘Marine’ series is a true fan-favorite and we are thrilled to join with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and director James Nunn to launch this next installment,” said Michael Luisi, President of WWE Studios. “For the first time ever, we will have six WWE Superstars in one live action film to ramp up the excitement and thrill audiences worldwide.”
The film is written by Ed McHenry and Rory McHenry.
The news comes just days after it was confirmed that her Team B.A.D. partner Tamina recently underwent surgery to repair torn ligaments. Naomi’s most recent televised match took place on the April 21st edition of Smackdown, when she and Tamina wrestled Natalya and Paige.
– Swig of beer for the working man! Steve Austin’s Broken Skull IPA beer is now available in Philadelphia, PA. There’s a launch party tonight in Philly at the Tattooed Mom bar at 520 South Street.
– Following AJ Styles’ WWE debut at the Royal Rumble and news of Shinsuke Nakamura announcing his departure from NJPW, fans should not forget about Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson. While the Bullet Club members have yet to officially sign with WWE, Mike Johnson told Taz yesterday the word going around is that Gallows & Anderson would be brought directly to the main roster, not NXT.
NXT Champion Finn Balor has a long history with Gallows & Anderson in New Japan Pro Wrestling and has been teasing their arrival since the news broke earlier this month. Comment on this article and tell us if you think Gallows & Anderson would make a good fit in WWE.
– NXT will be holding another round of TV tapings tonight from Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida. After this past Friday night’s tapings and tonight, WWE will have NXT shows that will bring them up to WrestleMania week and NXT Takeover: Dallas.
– “Road Dogg” BG James revealed on Twitter that Naomi is currently out of action due to injury.
@priince_ray @NaomiWWE she's been injured. I feel like if you don't know the facts, you can't cast shade!
– WWE Superstar David Otunga noted on social media that he will begin filming the independent movie “What Happened Last Night?” this week. In the film, Otunga plays a bartender named Tiny.
– Stephanie McMahon, Sin Cara, Kalisto, Ryback, Sasha Banks, Tamina Snuka and Naomi visited children at The Children’s Hospital Of Pittsburgh at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ahead of tonight’s WWE RAW at the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh this evening. Below are some photos:
– John Cena checked in on Twitter today with the following tweet. Cena is scheduled to remain off of WWE television for at least two more weeks, after the TLC pay-per-view.
I never mind analyzation, but it's tough to process complaining. Identify the issue, work towards a resolve. #nevergiveup
– Sasha Banks and her Team BAD buddies Naomi and Tamina are featured in this week’s RAW Fallout video, which you can check out above. Banks tells Eden she did not tap out and insists Naomi and Tamina did not cheat to help her out. The segment ends with Eden running away from Tamina.
– Speaking of the Banks-Lynch match, WWE Hall Of Famer Mick Foley took to Twitter after the match on RAW to express his disappointment in WWE for not giving them enough time to steal the show. Foley noted that he traveled 12 hours to NXT TakeOver six months ago to watch Banks and Lynch and it was “worth every mile.” Foley tweeted the following:
WWE taped the following matches on Tuesday night in Knoxville, Tennessee for this week’s edition of WWE Main Event.
– The Usos def. Adam Rose & Brad Maddox in tag-team action to kick off the show. Rose and Maddox, both of whom had blonde hair, cut a promo before the match. The finish in this one saw The Usos score the pin after a top-rope splash.
– JoJo interviews The Prime Time Players backstage. Titus O’Neil will be in action later against Heath Slater.
– Naomi def. Alicia Fox via submission in Divas action. Tamina Snuka and Sasha Banks were at ringside with Naomi, while Brie Bella was out with Fox.
– Titus O’Neil def. Heath Slater in the final match taped for this week’s show. The Prime Time Players member got the win with his finisher in the end, in a match that was said to be somewhat flat.
– Veteran wrestling journalist Bill Apter released the above video on Sunday to share his thoughts on the passing of wrestling legend Nick Bockwinkel, who passed away this past weekend at age 80.
– The new WWE Studios film, “Santa’s Little Helper” starring The Miz and Paige will be released in stores and on-demand on Tuesday.
– WWE taped the following two matches on Monday night in Greenville, South Carolina prior to RAW for this week’s edition of WWE Superstars.
* Brie Bella def. Naomi in Divas action to kick off the evening at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena. This was said to be a pretty basic Divas match, which Brie won via pinfall.
* Titus O’Neil def. Bo Dallas in the second of two matches taped for this week’s WWE Superstars. The crowd was actually pretty into this match live in the arena.
– WWE.com is running a poll asking fans to vote on who they feel is the true leader of Team B.A.D. With over 3,000 votes cast, Sasha Banks is leading the poll with 74 percent of the vote, while Naomi has 18 percent and Tamina has 8 percent.
– Samoa Joe was at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on Thursday for the WrestleMania 32 ticket party. Joe tweeted a photo of the WrestleMania 32 logo on the massive screen inside the stadium with the caption, “the road begins here” #WrestleMania. Joe’s longtime rival and friend CM Punk responded, reminding Joe that WWE loves when you point at the WrestleMania sign.
@SamoaJoe make sure to point at the sign. They really like that.
Naomi appeared to be upset about the way WWE has been booking her character recently and is re-tweeting messages from fans who share her frustration. The spotlight of the Divas Revolution has focused mainly on Team Bella & PCB, with Team BAD’s Naomi, Sasha Banks and Tamina seemingly lost in the shuffle.
Here are some of the tweets Naomi retweeted .. Comment below and tell us if you think she deserves a better push.
– WWE “Breaking Ground” will premiere on the WWE Network this Sunday night after the WWE Hell In A Cell pay-per-view. The show will also air on the official WWE Facebook and YouTube pages. The narrator for the ten-episode show will be William Shatner. For more on Sunday’s “Breaking Ground” premiere, visit AP.org.
– Below is the full WWE 2K16 “Raise Some Hell” commercial.
– Below are some photos of Team B.A.D.’s Sasha Banks and Naomi out doing promotional work for tonight’s WWE SmackDown television taping in Austin, Texas.
WWE kicked off their tour of Mexico on Friday with an official press conference, which featured among others, WWE Divas Champion Charlotte and King Barrett. You can check out photos of the press conference at WWE.com.
As noted, The Undertaker will make his return during the WWE tour of Mexico, as he is scheduled to team with Kane to take on the likes of Luke Harper and Braun Strowman. This will mark the first WWE live event for The Undertaker in over two years.
WWE Divas Paige and Team B.A.D. (Sasha Banks, Naomi and Tamina) posted the following photos from Mexico. Paige posted a clip of the arena set up for the WWE event in Mexico on Friday night, while the Team B.A.D. ladies posted photos of some of the sights.
WWE taped the following matches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, October 6th for this week’s edition of WWE Main Event.
– Kevin Owens came to the ring for a promo, calling himself Superstar of the Year. Owens brags about his accomplishments and then yells at Byron Saxton for being disrespectful. Jimmy Uso gets up from the commentary table and the two have words but Owens ends up leaving. Owens vs. Uso is announced for later.
– Naomi def. Paige in Divas action. The crowd chanted a lot for Sasha Banks. In the end, Naomi picked up the win via pinfall.
– Kevin Owens def. Jimmy Uso in the final match taped for this week’s show. Owens kicked out of a Samoan Drop to hit his Pop Up Powerbomb for the 1-2-3.
– There is currently no word on where Naomi was on Saturday night, as the WWE Diva and Total Divas star didn’t work the WWE Network special in Madison Square Garden or the WWE live event in Bangor, Maine last night. Team B.A.D. members Sasha Banks and Tamina Snuka worked the live event in Bangor without Naomi, and Jimmy Uso, Naomi’s husband, noted via social media that the two spent the weekend with Uso’s daughter in Niagra Falls.
– There were a lot of issues with the WWE Network stream lagging on Saturday night, as well as some technical problems with full screen playback during the special in Madison Square Garden in New York.
– NXT will be running more matches as part of their “Louder Than Life” festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Both Triple H and Matt Bloom oversaw the matches on Saturday night. As seen below, Triple H then flew from Louisville to New York City for the MSG special last night.
As seen on Monday’s edition of RAW, WWE has given the trio of Paige, Charlotte and Becky Lynch a team name, similar to Sasha Banks, Naomi and Tamina being called “Team B.A.D.” and the team of Nikki Bella, Brie Bella and Alicia Fox being referred to as “Team Bella.”
Unfortunately, the team name for the babyface trio, “The Submission Sorority,” is also the name of an adult website, a fact that WWE quickly found out about after mentioning the name on national television.
A traffic analyst for the BangBros website told TMZ.com that their web traffic shot up 56% overnight, and they saw a 35% rise in subscriptions. The adult movie company plans on sending Vince McMahon a ‘thank you’ gift basket for the spike in business.
As a result of the slip up, WWE is already talking about changing the group name to “The Submission Sisters.” There was actually some discussions about giving the group the name “Horsewomen,” however the belief was that it could be seen as stepping on UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey’s toes.
– As shown in the video above, WWE are holding a SummerSlam raffle with the grand prize including tickets to all three WWE events.
That’s not all as the winner will get a pizza tour with WWE legends, breakfast with WWE Superstars and much much more. More information can be found at this link.
– After the male competitors on Tough Enough came face-to-face with the Big Show, the female competitors will come face-to-face with Team Bad (Sasha Banks, Naomi and Tamina).
It should also be noted that Cesaro will be appearing on the show as well. It’s not yet confirmed who will be taking Hulk Hogan’s place at the judge’s table.
– The new Diva trio of Naomi, Tamina and NXT Women’s Champion Sasha Banks are going by the team name of “Team B.A.D. (Best at Dominating).”
– With Kane suffering a storyline leg injury during RAW last night and J&J Security being out of action indefinitely, the idea is that Seth Rollins has no back-up going into his WWE World Heavyweight Championship match against Brock Lesnar at this Sunday’s WWE Battleground pay-per-view.
– WWE posted the following video of the Tough Enough cast meeting The Bella Twins backstage at Monday’s RAW.
On Monday’s WWE Battleground “go-home” edition of RAW, Stephanie McMahon announced a revolution of women’s wrestling in WWE.
Stephanie brought up the success of women in sports these days and went on to bring Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Sasha Banks to the main roster.
The storyline appears to be three groups of six, as Team Bella consists of The Bella Twins and Alicia Fox, while Becky Lynch, Charlotte and Paige were grouped together, and the trio of Naomi, Tamina and Sasha Banks were paired together.
At today’s WWE live event “Beast In The East” which was shown around the world on the WWE Network, Finn Balor defeated Kevin Owens to become the new WWE NXT Champion.
Following the match, WWE Hall of Famer Tatsumi Fujinami came out to congratulate Balor. After this Owens declined a handshake from Balor.
This is Balor’s first title run within the WWE and Triple H tweeted a photo shortly after the match showing Balor backstage with his title.
– During the WWE Network Special, the Divas Championship match was advertised as being Nikki Bella defending against Naomi and Paige.
As noted Tamina had replaced Naomi and fans began asking Naomi on Twitter why she wasn’t at the show and she explained the tweet below that they were dealing with the loss of a family member:
@SlayQueen128 family and I are dealing with a loss…I'm happy to have my girl @TaminaSnuka representing I know she's kicking a** literally
PWInsider have noted that the WWE have filed to register a trademark for the term “Hard Hitting Reality”
The WWE have also reportedly filed to register the trademark for “Bray Wyatt” for the first time, despite him being part of the company for a few years now.
It’s not great news for WWE Diva Naomi however after the “Slayomi” trademark has been abandoned with Naomi confirming the news via Twitter.
She took to the social media site last week to ask her fans for suggestions for a new name for them revealing that she couldn’t use the term “slay” anymore.
Since the tweet it appears that Naomi is now referring to her fanbase as the “NaoMob” after she compiled a list of potential names with her fans.
WWE taped the following matches for this week’s edition of WWE Main Event prior to taping WWE SmackDown on Tuesday night in Buffalo, New York.
Dark Match
– Zack Ryder def. Brad Maddox in what was apparently a quick, basic opening contest.
WWE Main Event
– The Prime Time Players def. The Ascension in tag-team action to kick off the Main Event taping. Prior to the match, the PTP taught the crowd how to do their “Millions of Dollars” dance, while The Ascension cut a promo welcoming us to “Wasteland.” In the end, Young hit the gut buster on Viktor to score the 1-2-3.
– King Barrett def. Heath Slater in singles competition. Barrett won in what was said to be a good little match. Afterwards, R-Truth came out as “King What’s Up?” He pardoned “Lil’ Jimmy” and declared Barrett “King Jackass.”
– Naomi def. Summer Rae via submission in Divas action. Tamina was in Naomi’s corner during this one.
– Ryback def. Adam Rose in a pretty quick match with Rose surprisingly enough getting in a good bit of offense. Ryback ended up winning with the Shellshock. After the match, Ryback scared Miz to the back and then celebrated with the crowd.
– Luke Harper & Erick Rowan def. The Lucha Dragons with their new 3-D finisher. This was said to be a very face-paced and entertaining tag-team contest.
As announced on this week’s edition of NXT TV, WWE will be holding a live WWE Network special from Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan on July 4th. Below is the full lineup for the show.
– Brock Lesnar vs. Kofi Kingston
– John Cena & Dolph Ziggler vs. Kane & King Barrett
– Kevin Owens vs. Finn Balor (NXT Title)
– Chris Jericho vs. Neville
– The New Day vs. Tyson Kidd & Cesaro*
– Nikki Bella vs. Paige vs. Naomi (WWE Divas Title)
– The Lucha Dragons vs. Los Matadores
* – Tyson Kidd may be pulled from this match due to injury.