-The WWE stock closed today at $9.75, so it has basically leveled off following the big drop on Monday.

-As noted previously, WWE will be running two shows this weekend in Hidalgo, Texas. On Saturday, WWE Superstar Rey Mysterio returns. In addition, WWE will be holding a “WWE Street Party” on Saturday from 2pm to 6pm to kick off the 10-year anniversary of the State Farm Arena. Scheduled to appear at the “WWE Street Party” are WWE Superstars Sin Cara, Big Show, Brodus Clay, R-Truth and Alicia Fox.

-For whatever reason, currently sidelined WWE Superstar John Cena is still being mentioned in the local advertisements as appearing in the dark match at the upcoming WWE RAW television taping in Biloxi, MS on Monday, September 30th. Unless a miracle occurs, obviously Cena will not be wrestling on that show.

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-As reported previously, WWE Superstar Rey Mysterio is advertised for this weekend’s WWE live event in Hidalgo, Texas. WWE will run Hidalgo on both Saturday and Sunday night, with the Mysterio appearance being billed as “one night only” on the Saturday evening show. The advertised main event for Saturday’s event in Hidalgo is Daniel Bryan vs. Randy Orton.

-Part-time WWE Superstar and hardcore legend-turned-comedian Mick Foley is scheduled to take part in a community event in Westport, Connecticut on Wednesday night. Apparently the city of Westport is celebrating 90 years of the Westport-Weston Family Y.M.C.A. For more information, visit Westport.DailyVoice.com.

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-WWE will return to the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, the site of Sunday night’s WWE Night Of Champions pay-per-view, on December 28th. There is currently an online pre-sale for tickets to the WWE event in Detroit on 12/28, with the password: OLYMPIA.

-Speaking of WWE live events, the company will run Nashville, Tennessee for a live RAW television show on November 16th. Tickets for the event will officially go on sale to the public this Saturday, September 21st.

-WWE Superstars and Divas AJ Lee, Daniel Bryan, Kaitlyn and Rob Van Dam will be appearing and signing autographs at the Ringside Fest on October 26th in New York City. For more information, visit RingsideFest.com.

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-WWE Hall Of Famer Bob Backlund was on the WWE live event loop this weekend, taking photos with fans and signing autographs in the lobby for $30 a piece.

-According to reports, with the reduced financial earnings outlook, there is talk of WWE cutting back on live events, such as taking managers and off the shows to save some money.

-Over the next week, 2K Sports will reveal the 45 matches for their “30 Years Of WrestleMania” mode in the new WWE 2K14 video game.

-According to one source, WWE Superstar David Otunga and his family were spotted at the Disney On Ice show in Chicago this weekend.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in Saginaw, Michigan. The event was held on Saturday, September 14, 2013.

-Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns defeated The Prime Time Players to retain the WWE Tag-Team Championships.

-Zack Ryder defeated Curt Hawkins via Pinfall.

-Natalya defeated Brie Bella via Submission after applying The Sharpshooter.

-Tyson Kidd defeated Jack Swagger. Swagger dominated the majority of the match, but Kidd pulled the victory out of nowhere at the end.

–Intermission–

-Rob Van Dam defeated Heath Slater. RVD got an enormous pop from the crowd coming out, as he was in his home-state of Michigan. Surprisingly, Slater dominated most of the match. In the end, Van Dam picked up the pinfall victory after hitting Slater with his Five-Star Frogsplash finishing move.

-Ryback defeated Santino Marella via Pinfall. Santino got a great reaction from the crowd. Another one of the bigger pops of the evening. Ryback picked up the win after hitting Santino with his Shellshock finisher.

-The Miz defeated Fandango via Submission after applying his Figure Four Leglock finishing move.

-Daniel Bryan defeated Dean Ambrose via Disqualification. Big Show was forced to watch the match at ringside. The DQ came when the other members of The Shield interfered, which led to Big Show and Rob Van Dam making the save for Bryan. Ambrose loses via DQ, but retains his WWE United States Championship. The show ended when Big Show hit a Chokeslam on Rollins and Ambrose to send the fans home happy.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in London, Ontario, Canada. The event was held on Saturday, September 14, 2013.

-Dolph Ziggler won a Battle Royal for a shot at Alberto Del Rio and the World Heavyweight Championship later in the show.

-The Funkadactyls defeated AJ Lee & Layla. The fans voted for a Dance Contest, but that turned into a Divas tag-team match, which the Funkadactyls won via a Naomi Cross-Body Block off the top-rope.

-Bo Dallas defeated Justin Gabriel and Hunico to retain the NXT Championship.

-The Wyatt Family defeated The Usos & Kofi Kingston. All three Wyatt Family members competed in this six-man tag match. The finish came when Bray Wyatt hit his Sister Abigail finisher for the pinfall victory.

–Intermission–

-The Great Khali defeated JTG. Match was kept short, thankfully. Pretty much what you would expect here. The finish came when Khali hit his big Chop finisher for the pinfall victory.

-Big E. Langston defeated Damien Sandow. Before the match, Sandow cut an anti-Canada promo to get some heel heat on himself, and to establish Langston as the babyface. The finish came when Langston hit his Big Ending finisher for the pinfall victory.

-Dolph Ziggler defeated Alberto Del Rio via Disqualification in a World Heavyweight Championship match. As noted, Ziggler earned the shot by winning a Battle Royal in the opener. Before the match, Del Rio demanded ring announcer Tony Chimel to introduce him in Spanish. Chimel didn’t know Spanish, so a fan in the front row ended up doing Del Rio’s introduction. The finish came when Del Rio shoved the referee and applied his Cross Armbreaker finisher. That prompted the DQ on Del Rio, giving Ziggler the win, but not the title. After the match, Ziggler hit Del Rio with the Zig-Zag to send the fans home happy.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in East Lansing, Michigan. The event was held on Friday, September 13, 2013.

-Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns defeated The Prime Time Players to retain the WWE Tag-Team Championships.

-Zack Ryder defeated Curt Hawkins

-Natalya defeated Brie Bella via Submission after applying The Sharpshooter.

-Tyson Kidd defeated Antonio Cesaro

-Rob Van Dam defeated Heath Slater. It was said that RVD, who was near his hometown, received a massive pop coming out.

-Ryback defeated Santino Marella

-The Miz defeated Fandango

-Daniel Bryan defeated Dean Ambrose via Disqualification. The DQ happened with the other members of The Shield ran-in and attacked Bryan.

-During the show, MSU basketball coach Tom Izzo was presented with a replica WWE Championship belt.

WWE NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS SPOILERS

WWE will run two live events tonight as the final build to Sunday’s Night Of Champions pay-per-view.

The “A” crew will be in Saginaw, Michigan with an advertised main event of Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett. WWE Champion Randy Orton is not advertised to work this weekend. The co-main event of the show will be Rob Van Dam & Mark Henry & Big Show vs. The Shield in a six-man tag match. That match is subject to change due to Henry’s recent hamstring injury.

The “B” crew will be in London, Ontario, Canada with a scheduled main event of Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian in a World Heavyweight Championship match. Again, that match is subject to change due to Christian’s injury. The other advertised main event is Dolph Ziggler vs. Big E. Langston. Also advertised to appear is The Wyatt Family, Kofi Kingston and Damien Sandow.

Anyone attending either show, feel free to send in a live report to be published here on the website.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in Brooklyn, New York. The event was held on Sunday, September 8, 2013.

-Dean Ambrose defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the WWE United States Championship. Great way to open the show. Great match. Crowd was explosively hot for Van Dam. In the end, Ambrose picked up the win to retain his title.

-Sami Zayn and Bo Dallas defeated Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro. NXT stars Zayn and Dallas worked this match, and the crowd didn’t really seem to know who either guy was, with the slight exception of a select group of die-hard fans who were aware of Zayn, but not Dallas so much. At one point a loud “Ole!” chant broke out, which was started by the die-hard group of Zayn fans and picked up by the rest of the crowd.

-Brie Bella and Natalya were voted by fans to have a Dance Contest. As usual, the heel attacked the face when she started her dancing, which led to an actual match.

-Natalya defeated Brie Bella. Match was kept relatively short, although the match mixed with the dance-off had both Divas in the ring longer than most fans would have liked. In the end, Natalya picked up the submission victory over Brie with the Sharpshooter.

-CM Punk defeated Curtis Axel in a Non-Title match. Same stuff here that these two, along with Paul Heyman, have been doing at every show. Title match changes to non-title, etc. Punk got the win. Crowd was very into Punk, as you would expect.

-Tyson Kidd defeated Drew McIntyre. This match was actually kept pretty short. Kidd got a decent reaction coming out. He didn’t do too much during the match, compared to Kidd of old, but did enough to pick up the win here.

-Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins defeated The Usos. Decent little match. They actually got a decent amount of time, too. Crowd dug both teams, with a slight edge in favortism to The Shield. In the end, Reigns and Rollins picked up the win to retain their WWE Tag-Team Championships.

-Daniel Bryan defeated Randy Orton via Disqualification. The DQ came when The Shield interfered, causing Orton to be DQ’d. Big Show, who was forced to sit at ringside during the match, and warned not to interfere by Brad Maddox, came in to help Bryan after the DQ.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The event was held on Sunday, September 8, 2013.

-Dolph Ziggler wins a Battle Royal to earn a shot at Alberto Del Rio’s World Heavyweight Championship later in the evening. After the Battle Royal, Damien Sandow, who was in the Battle Royal, challenged Big E. Langston, who was also in the match. Langston accepted.

-Big E. Langston defeated Damien Sandow via Pinfall. The finish came when Langston hit his finishing move on Sandow for the 1-2-3.

-The Prime Time Players defeated 3MB. Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal worked the match for 3MB. Crowd was hot for the Prime Time Players. Was said to be a decent match.

-Naomi defeated AJ Lee in a Non-Title Match via Pinfall. AJ got a huge reaction from the fans in Hamilton.

-R-Truth defeated Fandango via Pinfall. This started off as a Dance Contest, via a fan-vote. Ultimately, Fandango attacked Truth while he was dancing, which set up the match, which Truth ended up winning.

-Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper defeated Brodus Clay and Tensai. Erick Rowan was at ringside for The Wyatt Family. The crowd was way into the Wyatt’s, but some of the younger fans, and surprisingly enough, some of the older fans, were also into Tons Of Funk.

-Ryback defeated Xavier Woods via Pinfall. Both guys were in the Battle Royal at the top of the show tonight. Ryback picked up the pin here with his finisher.

-Dolph Ziggler defeated Alberto Del Rio via Disqualification. Before the match, Del Rio tore up a kid’s sign at ringside. Later on, Ziggler gave the same kid his t-shirt, as well as Del Rio’s shirt. During the match, Del Rio shoved the referee and then applied the Cross Armbreaker on Ziggler. It looked as if Ziggler submitted and Del Rio celebrated like he won. However, the referee ended up disqualifying Del Rio for shoving him. Ziggler eventually recovered and hit the Zig Zag on Del Rio on a chair. This was said to be the best match on the show by far.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The event was held on Saturday, September 7th.

-Dean Ambrose defeated Rob Van Dam via Pinfall to retain the WWE U.S. Title. The finish came when Ambrose rolled RVD up and held the tights to get the 1-2-3.

-Sami Zayn and Bo Dallas defeated The Real Americans via Pinfall. The finish came when Dallas pinned Swagger for the 1-2-3.

-Natalya defeated Brie Bella via Submission. Same stuff they’ve been doing with the dance-off that turns into a match. The finish came when Natalya submitted Bella with the Sharpshooter.

-Tyson Kidd defeated Drew McIntyre via Pinfall. This one was kept short.

-Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns defeated The Usos via Pinfall to retain the WWE Tag-Team Titles. Good match.

-CM Punk defeated Curtis Axel via Pinfall. This was a no-DQ, non-title match. Paul Heyman was there and cut a promo before the match. Good match and the crowd was on fire for this one.

-Daniel Bryan defeated Randy Orton via Disqualification. The finish came when The Shield interfered, causing the DQ. Big Show was forced to sit at ringside during the match, and ended up coming to the ring after the match to help Bryan clean house of all the heels.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The event was held on Saturday, September 7, 2013.

-Dolph Ziggler wins a Battle Royal that included The Prime Time Players, Big E. Langston, Ryback, Fandango, NXT’s Xavier Woods, among other names.

-Big E. Langston defeated Damien Sandow via Pinfall after hitting Sandow with his finisher.

-The Prime Time Players defeated 3MB. Not a lot to say here. The crowd was actually pretty behind Young and O’Neil. Decent little match.

-Naomi defeated AJ Lee in Divas action.

-R-Truth defeated Fandango via Pinfall. The fans vote on either a match or a dance-off between R-Truth and Fandango. They pick dance-off, but Fandango attacks Truth anyways. Same stuff they’ve been doing with the Divas recently. In the end, Truth wins the match.

-The Wyatt Family defeated Tons Of Funk. Crowd was way into both teams. Younger fans for Funk, older fans for Wyatt’s. In the end, the Wyatt’s get the win.

-Ryback defeated Xavier Woods. Ryback gets the win here against NXT star Woods, who also worked the Battle Royal. Ryback did as well.

-Dolph Ziggler defeated Alberto Del Rio via Disqualification.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event was held on Friday, September 6, 2013.

-Bo Dallas defeated Tyson Kidd to retain the NXT Title. This was Kidd’s first match back with WWE since surgery. Was said to be a really good match. In the end, Dallas picked up the pinfall victory after hitting a running powerslam.

-Dean Ambrose defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the WWE U.S. Title. Was said to be a really good match that the crowd was very hot for. The finish came when RVD hit a splash on Ambrose, and Ambrose rolled through, held the tights, and picked up the 1-2-3 for the victory.

-Vickie Guerrero comes out to the ring. She does her “Excuse Me” stuff and then calls out Big Show. She tells Big Show not to get involved in the Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan match later, as that’s what’s “best for business.”

-Here they did the same Dance-Off stuff they’ve been doing on recent live events. Some of the girls do some comedic dancing, but ultimately, the bad girls attack the good girls to start an actual match.

-Natalya defeated Brie Bella via Submission. After all the dancing stuff, the actual match gets going. Typical Divas match, nothing much to speak of here. Natalya picked up the victory via submission after applying the Sharpshooter on Bella.

-Curtis Axel appears on the big screen and cuts a promo. He talks down the Montreal fans to garner some cheap heat before building up his match later in the show against CM Punk.

-The Shield defeated The Usos via Pinfall. The finish came when Reigns hits his Blackout finisher on one of the Usos for the pinfall victory. After the match, The Shield continued to attack one of The Usos, but the other Uso eventually made the save.

–Intermission–

-Sami Zayn defeated Antonio Cesaro via Pinfall. As noted, this was Zayn’s official WWE in-ring debut. These two had a very impressive match, as you would expect. The finish came when Zayn caught Cesaro in a small package for the 1-2-3.

-CM Punk defeated Curtis Axel in a Non-Title, No-DQ match. Right before the match, as usual, it was switched to a non-title match. This was no disqualification, so there was a lot of weapons and such. Punk ended up picking up the pin after hitting the GTS on Axel.

-Brad Maddox comes to the ring. Maddox asks Big Show to come out. Big Show obliges. Maddox tells Big Show to sit at ringside and watch the upcoming main event.

-Randy Orton defeated Daniel Bryan to retain the WWE Title. Bryan came out to the loudest pop of the evening. Bryan had a towel that had “Oui” written on it, which is French for “Yes.” At one point, Bryan had the “Yes! Lock” on Orton, but The Shield broke that up. This lead to The Usos and RVD coming out. Big Show remained at ringside during this. However, eventually Big Show came into the ring, speared Reigns and single-handedly took out everyone.

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-WWE is returning to Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky for a live event on Saturday, October 19th. The official online pre-sale for the event begins today. The password for the pre-sale is: VIPER. The regular tickets go on sale on Saturday at 10:00AM.

-The official House Of Hardcore YouTube channel has released a new behind-the-scenes 25-minute documentary of their second event from this past summer. Fans interested in checking that out can do so below:

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Sami Zayn, the former El Generico, is listed in the advertisements for tonight’s WWE live event at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Zayn is a pretty big name pro wrestler who is actually from the Montreal area.

Also listed for the WWE live event in Montreal is WWE Superstar Tyson Kidd, who hasn’t wrestled or appeared on WWE programming (outside of Total Divas) since he underwent knee surgery earlier this year.

The scheduled lineup for the Montreal live event is as follows:

-Randy Orton (c) vs. Daniel Bryan [WWE Championship]
-Curtis Axel (c) vs. CM Punk [WWE Intercontinental Championship]*
-Rob Van Dam & Big Show & Mark Henry vs. The Shield**
-Natalya vs. Brie Bella
-Tyson Kidd vs. Wade Barrett
-Jack Swagger vs. Antonio Cesaro

* – The Axel-Punk matches, although advertised as title matches, have been changed to non-title matches at the last several WWE live events.

** – As noted, Mark Henry was cleared in the middle of the week to return to the ring following his hamstring injury at the Saturday live event in Boston. However, WWE has a tendency to keep guys out longer, especially on non-televised events.

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-The new “WWE’s Top 25 Rivalries” DVD has been added to the instant streaming section of the Netflix website.

-Tickets for the upcoming WWE live event in Louisville, Kentucky on October 19th officially go on sale this Saturday, September 7th.

-WWE Superstar The Miz will be doing a personal appearance at the Valley West Mall in Des Moines, Iowa to promote tonight’s live Labor Day edition of RAW in the city.

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The following are results from the WWE Supershow live event in Washington, D.C. The event was held on Sunday, September 1, 2013.

-Dolph Ziggler defeated Big E. Langston via Pinfall. Ziggler picked up the clean victory via pinfall after hitting Langston with his Zig-Zag finishing move. Ziggler got a big reaction coming out. Langston did more work than we’re accustomed to seeing out of him on television.

-WWE United States Champion Dean Ambrose defeated R-Truth via Pinfall. Was said to be a decent match. In the end, Ambrose retained his U.S. title via pinfall by rolling Truth up for the 1-2-3.

-Vickie Guerrero came out to the ring. She announced that after a fan poll via text-voting, we will have a Divas Dance-Off. The dance competition featured AJ Lee, Layla, Brie Bella, Kaitlyn, Naomi and Natalya. Pretty much the same deal as last week here. AJ Lee refused to dance. The heel girls danced, and when the face girls went to dance, they were attacked by the heel girls, setting up a tag-match.

-Kaitlyn, Naomi and Natalya defeated AJ Lee, Layla and Brie Bella via Pinfall. At one point in the match, Brie Bella, disgusted with AJ due to her promo on RAW last week, simply walked off and left AJ by herself. This allowed Kaitlyn to spear AJ for the 1-2-3.

-Ryback defeated Kofi Kingston via Pinfall. This match was kept relatively short. In the end, the “Bully” picked up the “W” after hitting Kingston with his Shell Shock finishing move for the pinfall.

-Rob Van Dam and The Big Show defeated Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns via Disqualification. RVD filled in for Mark Henry in this one, who couldn’t compete due to a hamstring injury suffered during his run-in at the Boston live event on Saturday. This was a pretty lengthy match, which ended by DQ when Ambrose came back out and interfered with a chair. Van Dam and Show pick up the “W”, but the WWE Tag-Team Championships remain with The Shield.

-The Wyatt Family defeated The Usos via Pinfall. This was kept extremely short, with the Wyatt Family picking up the clean victory in what was basically a squash-match.

-CM Punk defeated Curtis Axel via Pinfall in a Non-Title Match. Paul Heyman was in Axel’s corner for this one. He cut a promo before the match explaining that the bout would not be for Axel’s WWE Intercontinental Championship. In the end, Punk picked up the victory via pinfall and blasted Heyman with a kendo stick-shot after the match.

-WWE Champion Randy Orton defeated Daniel Bryan via Pinfall. Was said to be a very good match that went about 20 minutes. At one point during the match, Orton was stuck in the “Yes! Lock” submission hold. Brad Maddox ran-in and pulled the referee out of the ring so he did not see Orton tapping. This led to The Shield beating down Bryan, setting up a RKO from Orton, which was immediately followed by the 1-2-3. After the match, The Shield continued their beatdown of Bryan. This resulted in all the babyfaces coming out. Orton ran off, leaving The Shield to take a beating from all of the good guys.

NOTES:

-Both Mark Henry and a World Heavyweight Championship match between Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian was scheduled. Henry didn’t appear, and the Del Rio-Christian match never happened.

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WWE Superstar Mark Henry suffered an injury during the WWE live event in Boston on Saturday night. The injury, which was to Henry’s hamstring, occurred when Henry did a run-in at the conclusion of the Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan WWE Championship main event.

After doing his run-in as scheduled, Henry was seen taking his time getting back up. The veteran WWE Superstar seemed to be in pretty bad pain when heading to the back.

WWE.com released the following statement regarding Henry’s injury and current physical condition:

Mark Henry suffered a right hamstring injury at a live event in Boston on Saturday, August 31. This occurred as Henry ran in during the last match of the night. Medical imaging will be obtained to determine the severity of the injury. 

Henry will undergo an MRI later today to determine the extent of the injury.

We will update everyone on this story as soon as more information becomes available.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The event was held on Saturday, August 24, 2013.

-The Prime Time Players (Darren Young & Titus O’Neil) defeated 3MB (Drew McIntyre & Jinder Mahal) via Pinfall. Young and O’Neil got a good babyface reaction from the crowd. The finish saw O’Neil pick up the pinfall after hitting his finishing move.

-The Great Khali defeated Hunico via Pinfall. Hunico, who was basically in his hometown here, got a decent babyface reaction from the fans. The match was said to be pretty slow, and somewhat boring. The finsh saw Khali pick up the pinfall after hitting Hunico with the Karate Chop Of Death.

-Ryback defeated Kofi Kingston via Pinfall. No Shell Shock finisher here. The finish saw Ryback, being a bully, squeezing the referee in the middle of he and Kingston for a meat hook off the top-rope for the 1-2-3.

-Natalya & Kaitlyn defeated AJ Lee & Layla via Submission. The fans got the vote for the stipulation in this one. They chose a Dance Competition over an actual tag-match. AJ refused to participate in the dance-off. Layla went all out, doing a lot of the popular dances from the 1990s for a decent crowd reaction. As much as one could expect, giving the fact it was just chicks dancing. Eventually, AJ and Layla attacked Natalya and Kaitlyn, which led to a match. In the end, Natalya put Layla in the Sharpshooter and got the tap out.

-Dolph Ziggler defeated Big E. Langston via Pinfall. Langston cut a little promo before the match on the video screen. He basically talked about how SummerSlam was a fluke and he wouldn’t lose again. The match started off slow, but eventually picked up and the crowd got with it. In the end, Ziggler hit the Zig-Zag for the 1-2-3.

–Intermission–

-Cody Rhodes defeated Damien Sandow via Pinfall. Sandow cut a small promo on his walk to the ring saying he deserved a better reception when he comes out from the fans here in Las Cruces. He bad mouthed the city a bit and then the match started. The finish came when Rhodes hit his Corss-Rhodes finisher on Sandow for the 1-2-3.

-Christian defeated Alberto Del Rio via Disqualification. Del Rio, due to the pro-Hispanic crowd, got a pretty good pop coming out. Del Rio ended up getting some heat from the crowd by trying to cower away by taking his title and leaving. Christian wouldn’t let him, however. At one point, Del Rio applied his Cross Arm-breaker after throwing the referee into Christian. Christian ended up tapping, and Del Rio started celebrating. However, it was revealed that Del Rio didn’t win. He was DQ’d for throwing the ref at Christian, so the tap that came later didn’t count.

-CM Punk defeated Curtis Axel in a No–DQ Non-Title Match via Pinfall. Paul Heyman came out with Axel and cut a promo. He said the stipulation was unfair, being a no-DQ match for Axel’s WWE Intercontinental Championship. So, Heyman revealed that he had his lawyers make sure that since it was a no-DQ match, it would not be for the title after all. Punk came out to one of the loudest reactions of the night. Punk was selling a knee injury throughout the majority of the bout. In the end, Punk got the win with a simple roll-up pin for the 1-2-3. After the match, Punk nearly got his hands on Heyman, but Axel ultimately prevented that from happening. Punk hit Axel with a GTS and sold the knee injury after hitting it. After Heyman escaped, Punk cut a promo. Punk saw a sign in the crowd and made Tony Chimel go get it for him. The sign read, “Eddie Guerrero Country.” Punk said being here always makes him think of Eddie, and got a loud “Eddie” chant going from the crowd. Punk called Eddie the “Best In The World.”

Notes:

-The arena was said to be approximately 3/4 of the way filled up.

-Crowd wasn’t the hottest in recent memory, but was alive in certain points during the show.

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The following are results from the WWE live event in San Diego, California. The event was held on Saturday, August 24, 2013.

-Zack Ryder defeated Jack Swagger (with Zeb Colter)

-Alicia Fox defeated Tamina Snuka in Divas action.

-Dean Ambrose of The Shield defeated Rob Van Dam (with Ricardo Rodriguez) to retain the WWE United States Championship.

-Justin Roberts brings out Rey Mysterio. The Shield ends up coming down to interupt him, which leads to Big Show and Mark Henry coming out to make the save. This sets up a WWE Tag-Team Championship match.

-Big Show & Mark Henry def. Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns via Disqualification. Show and Henry got the DQ victory when Dean Ambrose did a run-in. Van Dam came back out and made the save.

-The Wyatt Family (Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) defeated The Usos and Justin Gabriel in a Six-Man Tag match.

-The Miz defeated Fandango via Submission. Miz picked up the victory with the Figure-Four leglock.

-Daniel Bryan defeated Randy Orton via Disqualification. Bryan got the DQ victory when The Shield did yet another run-in. Van Dam once again came to make the save, along with Big Show and Mark Henry.

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-The main event of the WWE live event in Fresno, California on Friday featured Randy Orton defending the WWE Championship against Daniel Bryan. The finish saw Orton nearly tapping to the “Yes! Lock” submission hold by Bryan until The Shield did a run-in, causing a disqualification. This led to Big Show and Mark Henry coming in to make the save, while Orton scurried off and escaped up the aisle while all three members of The Shield ate the finishing moves of Show and Henry. With John Cena on the shelf for the remainder of 2013, this will likely be the main event finish on the “A” live events from WWE going forward.

-Speaking of the WWE live event in Fresno, WWE Superstar Rey Mysterio made an appearance, as advertised, and announced during the show that he would be back to in-ring action in September.

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-The following is a non-spoiler match listing for tonight’s edition of WWE SmackDown:

–Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett [Steel Cage Match]
–Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian [WWE Championship]
–Curtis Axel vs. Cody Rhodes [WWE Intercontinental Championship]
–Mark Henry & Big Show vs. 3MB
–Darren Young vs. Antonio Cesaro
–Dolph Ziggler vs. Big E. Langston

-The WWE crew hits the road this weekend for a normal live event schedule, following a lighter load due to SummerSlam last week. There will be tour simaltaneous tours, one which begins tonight in Fresno, CA., continues on Saturday at the Valley View Casino near San Diego, CA., and wraps up in Ontario, CA. on Sunday. The crew advertised for those three shows are: The Shield, The Wyatt Family, Mark Henry, Jack Swagger, Fandango, R-Truth and The Usos.

-The other will be in New Mexico this weekend, performing live shows in Las Cruces on Saturday and Rio Rancho on Sunday. The advertised crew for those shows includes: CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio, Dolph Ziggler, Curtis Axel, Christian, Cody Rhodes, Damien Sandow, Big E. Langston, AJ Lee, Kaitlyn and Paul Heyman.

WWE News

-WWE is advertising a main event of Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship at the upcoming live event in Montreal on September 6th. The semi-main event of the card features CM Punk vs. Curtis Axel in a no disqualification match. Also advertised to appear are Rob Van Dam, Big Show, Mark Henry and The Shield.

SESCOOPS.COM reader Phil Johnson sent along the following:

-Former ECW Champion Justin Credible has posted a new blog. This week Credible talks on Darren Young “coming out,” Sunday’s WWE SummerSlam, Monday’s Raw, being 9 months sober, among other topics. Jason Knight is this week’s special guest on Justin Credible’s Pro Wrestling 101 video series. Here is an extract from “The Justin Credible Report:”

“What a week for the WWE. Summer Slam is in the books, and there is so much to talk about. First leading into the PPV in LA, Darren Young comes out to TMZ that he is gay.

As you know WWE got a ton of free mainstream press heading into their second biggest PPV of the year. I’m happy for Darren, and I applaud his courage. On the other hand, there is no way that this was just a spur of the moment statement. I have been told that this was carefully thought out, and Darren and the WWE had this planned the whole time. There is just no way that Darren was conveniently asked that specific question and he just happened to decide now is as good a time as any to come out.”

You can read “The Justin Credible Report” in its entirety at PWMania.com.

24WRESTLING.COM – WWE News and Results

The following are results from the WWE live event in Portland, Oregon. The event was held on Friday, August 16, 2013.

-WWE RAW General Manager Brad Maddox was the host and ring announcer for the evening. At the top of the show, Maddox announced that WWE Champion John Cena would not be appearing as advertised for the second consecutive WWE live event. He told fans they could receive refunds upon request. He then announced a Battle Royal where the winner would receive a title shot against World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio later in the show.

-Daniel Bryan won the Battle Royal. The match featured R-Truth, Rob Van Dam, Ryback, Daniel Bryan, Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Dolph Ziggler, Big E. Langston, Mark Henry and Christian. As noted, with the victory, Bryan earns himself a title shot later in the show against World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio.

-Kane defeated Luke Harper via Disqualification. Fun match. Crowd was very into the Wyatt Family here in Portland. The finish came when Bray Wyatt and Erick Rowan interfered, causing the disqualification. The match was kept relatively short.

-AJ Lee defeated Kaitlyn via Submission to retain the WWE Divas Championship. The crowd was surprisingly very into this match. AJ got a lot of heat as the heel, and Kaitlyn got a lot of cheers as the babyface. Needless to say, the finish in this one wasn’t botched nearly as bad as it was on RAW this past Monday night.

-R-Truth defeated Ryback via Pinfall. Shocking upset here. Ryback basically dominated Truth throughout the entire duration of the match. The finish came when Truth simply managed to roll-up Ryback for the 1-2-3.

-Christian, Mark Henry & Rob Van Dam defeated The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns) via Pinfall. Very fun match. The crowd was very hot for Van Dam. The finish came when Henry hit Rollins with the World’s Strongest Slam, and Van Dam followed up with his Five Star Frog Splash for the 1-2-3. This was said to be the match of the night.

-Dolph Ziggler defeated Big E. Langston via Pinfall in a No-Disqualification Match. The fans were allowed to vote on the stipulation in this one, thus the No-DQ rules. Due to the fact that neither man could be disqualified, there was use of a lot of “foreign objects,” such as kendo sticks and steel chairs. The finish came when Ziggler hit his Zig-Zag finisher on Langston for the 1-2-3.

-CM Punk defeated Curtis Axel (with Paul Heyman) via Pinfall. Heyman got, by far, the loudest heel response from the fans in Portland. Crowd didn’t seem to care much about Axel either way. Finish came when Punk hit his finisher for the 1-2-3. The heat for Heyman at one point was so loud that fans were having trouble hearing him cut his promo.

-Daniel Bryan defeated Alberto Del Rio via Disqualification. Because of the DQ win for Bryan, Del Rio managed to walk out of Portland as the World Heavyweight Champion. Crowd was very into Bryan as a babyface, to the surprise of no one. Was said to be a very good technical match that the crowd thoroughly enjoyed.

WWE SummerSlam Spoilers

-Yahoo! Sports has an article up on their website today featuring the “straight-edge” WWE performer himself, CM Punk, ripping baseball star Ryan Braun for his announced performance-enhancing drug use during baseball season. You can check out that story online at Yahoo.com.

-To add one note to the story we reported earlier today regarding John Cena being pulled from the WWE live event in Portland on Friday, despite being advertised by the company up until the day of the show, apparently WWE again offered refunds to fans who attended the show that felt ripped off with Cena not appearing as advertised.

Cena missed last week’s WWE weekend live event due to his elbow injury as well, and WWE offered refunds to those fans as well.

WWE SummerSlam 2013 Results