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A Match Made In Entertainment. Backstage Details On WWEs First Project
With Netflix.

Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:55 PM PDT https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/a-match-made-in-entertainment-backstage-details-on-wwes-first-project-with-netflix/


They’re an entertainment company. WWE has had its hands in a lot of things over the years. They’ve dabbled in a little bit of everything from music
to television to books to video games to toys, but one of the biggest
things they’ve done has been film. However, they haven’t done it all that well as WWE Studios hasn’t been the strongest thing in the world. WWE is
at it again now though and they’re going about things differently.

According to PWInsider Elite by way of 411mania.com, WWE Studios will be working on its first film project with Netflix, entitled The Main Event.
The film will focus on a kid who is bullied but gains the power of super strength due to his breakfast cereal, allowing him to become a wrestler. Various WWE stars, including John Cena, the Miz, Sheamus and Bray Wyatt are scheduled to appear in the film. There is no word on when WWE will be announcing the film, or its partnership with Netflix.

WWE has made some films before. Check out a look at one of their better
known efforts:
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Opinion: I’m not sure about this, but that has been the case with so many
WWE Studios films over the years. This isn’t something that works very
well most of the time but going with a wrestling story is something they haven’t gone with very often before. Maybe this one will be a success, though the studio’s luck has been mixed to say the least so far. Having wrestlers involved helps a bit, but it isn’t likely to help with mass
appeal.

Do you think the film will be a success? Which wrestlers make the best
actors? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.

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Take Two. Full NXT Taping Results For July/August From Thursday Night *SPOILERS*

Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:51 PM PDT https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/take-two-full-nxt-taping-results-july-august-thursday-night-spoilers/


They’re at it again. There is a lot of television time to fill with WWE and that means a lot of television needs to be filmed. This could be either in
the form of live shows or episodes being taped in advance, but either form
can work out just fine. It all depends on how the shows are put together
and WWE was right back in some very familiar stomping grounds on Thursday night.

NXT was back at Full Sail University to tape television on Thursday night,
with more shows for July and August. These shows will take the show up
until Takeover: Toronto in early August. There is a chance that these shows were taped out of order, as was the case at last night’s set of tapings. These shows should air from July 17 – August 7. Here are the results, courtesy of Wrestlinginc.com:

July 17 Episode:

* The tapings start with a video recap of last nights NXT Womens Title
Steel Cage match between champion Shayna Baszler and Io Shirai, and Shirais heel turn on Candice LeRae after the match. Shirai comes out with a new entrance and an evil leather look. The crowd wont let her speak for nearly
5 minutes. She says she doesnt have any friends, and she doesnt need any of
us. She drops the mic

* Matt Riddle defeated Arturo Ruas. Ruas is the former Adrian Jaoude.
Really fun shoot-style fight. Ruas with a takedown and Riddle fights from
the ground with elbows. Riddle hits a huge knee and starts hammering away
with punches, and the referee calls for the bell. After the match, a masked
man runs in and attacks Riddle. He unmasks and its Killian Dain. Dain beats Riddle all over the ringside area and does a running senton to Riddle on
the stage that sends Riddle through the stage

* Kushida defeated Apollo Crews. Heros welcome home for Apollo. Great
match. Apollo with the delayed vertical suplex for a one count. Kushida
fights back. Apollo with an overhead belly to belly. Kushida with a tornado
DDT for 2. Apollo with the standing moonsault. Kushida hits a hurricanrana
that Apollo turns into a pin for 2. Kushida and Apollo come off the top
rope and Kushida has an arm bar when they land. Apollo tries for a one arm powerbomb, but Kushida turns it into the Hoverboard Lock for the win. They shake hands after the match

* NXT Champion Adam Cole out for a promo. Cole says hes been out on the
BayBay World Tour while his boys have been holding it down here at NXT. He
says hes going to be a fighting champion and hes going to defend his belt tonight against this man — he pitches to the video of Johnny Gargano
putting the championship on his friends in Cleveland. Adam introduces Twan Tucker. Cole says its just the two of them for this opportunity. Tucker
says thats too bad, because he didnt come alone. Johnny Gargano comes out
and he and Cole brawl all over the building and in the crowd, ending with Johnny diving off the stage onto Adam

* NXT Tag Team Champions The Street Profits retained over Oney Lorcan and
Danny Burch. Good match. Fast-paced. Profits go for the Doomsday, but Oney fights out and they take control. Everything breaks down and were down to
Oney and Montez Ford. Montez dives over Oney and wipes out Burch. Oney goes
to dive but Angelo Dawkins nails him with a punch. Profits hit the spinebuster/frog splash combo to retain. After the match, Kyle OReilly and Bobby Fish come out and clap at the Profits from the stage

July 24, July 31 and August 7 Episodes:

* Johnny Gargano and NXT Champion Adam Cole come brawling from the back. Gargano gets a superkick and locks on the GargaNo Escape until Cole taps. Gargano leaves holding up 3 fingers

* NXT Breakout Tournament Semifinal: Jordan Myles defeated Angel Garza.
Garza is over as a star already. Garza rips Myles off the apron with a
scary bump. Garza tears the pants off to a huge reaction. Stiff match.
Myles fights back with kicks. Myles goes for a springboard but Garza
dropkicks him out of the air for 2. Myles hits the Heros Grip for the win. Shane Thorne stormed out to commentary as the match ended as well

* Bianca Belair defeated Xia Li. Bianca dominates to start. Delayed
vertical with squats attempt by Bianca, but Xia fights out. Bianca dodges a corner attack and hits the Belair Driver for the win

* NXT North American Champion The Velveteen Dream comes out for a promo. Velveteen says the day he steps down as champion is the day the experience
dies and hell go straight to hell. Dream says Roderick Strong sold his soul
to Satan himself to beat him in the six man tag. He says Roddy isnt big
enough to ride this ride and challenges anyone else to step up. Roddy interrupts. Says he can see it in his eyes and challenges him to a match at Takeover: Toronto. Pete Dunne interrupts to a giant reaction. Dunne lays
out Strong and stares down Dream

* Io Shirai vs. Kacy Catanzaro ends in a disqualification. Io runs wild and
has Kacy up for a Fairytale Ending when Candice LeRae runs out for the DQ. Candice brawls with Io and sends her running away

* Damian Priest defeated Keith Lee. Athletic big man stuff to start ending
with the usual stand off after reversing moves. Priest takes control after kicking Lees knee on a charge in the corner. Priest with a rope walk into a crossbody. Lee starts firing up and gets a huge clothesline for 2. Priest
hits a big suplex on Lee for a near fall. Lee with a huge pounce. Priest
rolls out of the ring. Lee rolls him back in but Priest hits a knee and
knocks Lee outside. Priest with a big flip dive, but Lee catches him and
goes for a powerbomb, but Priest gets out and pushes him into the stairs.
Lee gets angry and goes after Priest, but Priest grabs the referee. While
Lee is distracted, Priest hits a kick and his version of Crossroads for the
win

* Tyler Breeze defeated Jaxson Ryker. Ryker in control to start. Breeze
fights back and gets a roll up for the shock win. The Forgotten Sons attack post match when Fandango comes out for the save to a huge reaction. They
clear the ring and celebrate and pose to the audience

* NXT Breakout Tournament Semifinal: Cameron Grimes defeated Bronson Reed. Weird match. Grimes wins with the running double stomp. Cameron Grimes vs. Jordan Myles in the finals at Takeover: Toronto

* NXT Womens Champion Shayna Baszler comes out for a promo. She says Mia
Yim delivered a message on commentary and she heard it. Says Mia attacked Jessamyn and Marina from behind and says this isnt the streets, and that on
the biggest stage, shes gonna put her to sleep, because street rats like
her dont survive. Mia interrupts and talks trash. Mia asks if shes scared,
and says at Takeover shes bringing a fight Shayna cant train for. Shayna
holds up the belt and they jawjack

* Matt Riddle out for a match, but he gets blindsided by Killian Dain at ringside. Dain hits a cannonball into Riddle against the steps and leaves
him laying

* Kushida defeated Scott Parker. Looks like re-tape of Wednesdays tapings,
but more of a squash. Kushida wins with the Hoverboard Lock

* NXT General Manager William Regal comes out for a contract signing for
the NXT Tag Team Titles match at Takeover: Toronto between champions The
Street Profits and The Undisputed Era. Regal goes to introduce UE, but the Profits do the introductions, doing the New Age Outlaws schtick,
introducing the next tag team to get their ass kicked by the Street
Profits: OReilly Auto Parts and Lawrence Fishburn Jr. Undisputed out, Bobby Fish says that was funny, but he forgot to laugh. Kyle OReilly says he remembered to laugh, but didnt because it wasnt funny. Bobby says theyre funnier than them, and asks Kyle to tell him the joke he heard earlier.
Kyle says the joke is the Street Profits are NXT Tag Team Champions.
Everyone, including the Profits, laughs. The Profits run down Undisputeds accomplishments, but then asks them what makes them think losing is an
option for the Street Profits. They say there is only one option and thats
to win. The crowd chants win with them. Dawkins says in Toronto, the Street Profits are gonna beat that ass, and that is Undisputed. Everyone signs the contract and Regal makes the match official

* Shane Thorne defeated Joaquin Wilde. Good back and forth for most of the match. Wilde with a big powerbomb out of the corner for 2. Shane with a big uppercut. Wilde with a popup boot, the through the middle rope DDT and a
flip dive. Shane rolls in at 9, then rolls back out. Shane tosses Wilde
into the ring post, the steps, the ramp, and the apron, rolls him in the
ring, and hits a running grounded knee for the win

* Pete Dunne defeated Roderick Strong. Grappling to start. Roddy with an enziguri and he goes to town with chops and stops in the corner. Pete with
a huge clothesline and he hits the arm stomp. Pete bends the fingers and
kicks the arm. Roddy with a torture rack backbreaker to regain control.
Roddy with a dropkick for 2. Pete with a dropkick off the top and Pete runs wild on Roddy. Pete fights off a suplex and hits a big head kick. Pete goes
for the moonsault, but Roddy cuts him off and drops him on the apron with a backbreaker, but only gets a 2. Roddy gets out of a Bitter End attempt and
gets an Angle Slam, but Pete gets a DDT on the End of Heartache attempt.
They trade chops. Roddy with an enziguri to the knee on the top rope. They
go for a sunset flip and have a nasty landing. Roddy with a powerbomb for 2
and transitions to the Stronghold on the kickout. Pete gets a submission
for the win. After the match, NXT North American Champion The Velveteen
Dream sneaks in and faces off with Dunne. Strong yells at Dream that at Takeover, the title is his. Dunne grabs Dreams fingers as he poses and
snaps them, and lays him out with Bitter End to end the tapings

You might see something similar to this. Check out the most recent NXT main event:
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Opinion: That sounds like quite the card for Toronto and that shouldn’t be the biggest surprise in the world. NXT knows how to make some awesome cards
for their Takeover series and that seems to be the case again here. Some of
the matches could steal the show, but that seems to be what happens with
every match on every card. Hopefully things go as well as they could, which seems to be a strong possibility.

Which of the matches sound best? How do you see Takeover going? Let us know
in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since
2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.

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Did It Matter? Something Very Important Was Missing From This Weeks WWE Television.

Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:46 PM PDT https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/matter-something-important-missing-weeks-monday-night-raw/


Maybe it’s the lack of leadership? WWE is not in the best of places at the moment and it is hard to really pin down why. While the smaller shows have been a lot better, Monday Night Raw and SmackDown live have been some of
the weaker offerings that WWE has presented in a long time. While it isn’t clear what the main problem is, something very different took place this
week.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the main WWE bosses were nowhere to be seen at this week’s major television tapings. Vince McMahon was gone with corporate issues that had to be solved, meaning Kevin Dunn
was gone as well. At the same time, Stephanie McMahon did not show up
because she was not needed and Triple H was in Florida to help with this week’s NXT tapings. Shane McMahon was present but has no creative force in the company. In their absence, writer Ed Koskey was mostly in charge.

So yeah, ignore all of this. Check out one of the last times the McMahons
were all in one place:
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Opinion: I’m not sure what to think about this. There is no secret to the fact that fans aren’t thrilled with what WWE has been presenting of late
and a lot of that seems to be blamed on Vince. However, if he isn’t there and the shows still aren’t all that great, what exactly are you supposed to blame the product on instead? The shows still aren’t great, but what does
it say when the bosses being gone changes so little?

What do you think is wrong with WWE? What can be done to fix things? Let
us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.

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Weeks WWE Television. appeared first on WrestlingRumors.net.


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Its A Numbers Game. How Big Was The Live Crowd For Super ShowDown?

Posted: 13 Jun 2019 10:45 PM PDT https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/numbers-game-big-live-crowd-super-showdown/


We need a head count. Last week, WWE went back to Saudi Arabia for their
third event of a ten year contract with Super ShowDown. While not exactly popular with a large portion of the fan base, the show certainly got people talking, albeit not in the most glowing of terms. At the same time though,
the show offered a very different perspective in Saudi Arabia. How well
did things do there?

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Super ShowDown drew a live audience of about 21,000 people. The stadium can hold about 30,000 people, though the number may be higher for a wrestling event. The event did not
draw a large walk up audience, though the initial ticket sales did well.
It should also be noted that WWE did not receive any money from ticket
sales as the entire event was a paid show.

Things were rather interesting last week. Check out what happened at Super ShowDown:
[This post contains video, click to play]


Opinion: Super ShowDown was one of those shows that didn’t work in
execution but it did seem to draw some interest from the live crowd. While
the audience wasn’t the biggest in the world, it’s not like there was no one in the stadium. Hopefully things get a little bit better as the shows continue, but more importantly, hopefully the shows get better overall,
which would be rather nice to see.

What did you think of Super ShowDown? Can you picture the shows being canceled? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.

Get the latest and greatest in professional wrestling news by signing up
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ShowDown? appeared first on WrestlingRumors.net.


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What Now? Another WWE Superstar Is On The Injured List.

Posted: 13 Jun 2019 10:42 PM PDT https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/now-another-wwe-superstar-injured-list/


Can anything go right for this guy? Over the last few weeks, Lars Sullivan
has been one of the most discussed names in all of professional wrestling. Whether it is his potential, his previous comments that offended just about everyone at the same time or the booking of his in-ring debut, there is
always something going on with him. Now, there is something else to deal
with.

According to F4WOnline.com, Sullivan is currently dealing with a knee
injury and will be undergoing an MRI to see how bad things are. Sullivan
was originally scheduled to face Matt Hardy on this week’s SmackDown Live
but the match had to be pulled due to his knee. There is no word on how
much time he could miss, or if he will be missing any time whatsoever as he could appear on Monday Night Raw.

Sullivan was dominant on Monday. Check out his destruction of the Lucha
House Party:
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Opinion: Egads man how many more things can Sullivan have go wrong? There comes a point where it’s becoming too much, and while that isn’t the case yet, I’m not sure how long Sullivan is going to be a priority for WWE. Coupling his issues with the baggage that comes with him, I’m not sure how well things are going to go for him in the future. Hopefully he’s fine,
but it’s getting rather tiresome in a hurry.

What do you think of Sullivan? How good can he be? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.

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Not So Fast. Rumor Killer On Recent Backstage Argument In WWE.

Posted: 13 Jun 2019 10:39 PM PDT https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/not-fast-rumor-killer-recent-backstage-argument-wwe/


You can’t believe everything you hear. Sometimes, WWE rumors are just
that: rumors, which didn’t actually take place. That can be the case with all kinds of things and sometimes it’s hard to say what is real and what isn’t. As it turns out, that was the case last week at Super ShowDown,
when something allegedly happened after the show was over but it wasn’t
quite the truth.

According to Mike Johnson of PWInsider, there is no truth to the rumor of Goldberg and Undertaker getting into a shouting match after Super ShowDown
went off the air. Goldberg was knocked out during the match and was in no continue to argue with anyone after the show was over. The match headlined
the show and saw several botched spots, with Undertaker looking visibly
upset after the match was over.

Instead of the terrible, let’s go with something that worked. Check out Goldberg and Undertaker’s SmackDown Live staredown:
[This post contains video, click to play]


Opinion: This isn’t exactly surprising and is something that didn’t make sense when you thought about it. The match was indeed a disaster but if Goldberg was as out of it as he seemed, it would have been surprising to
see the two of them argue after the show was over. Besides, if Goldberg
was knocked silly, it’s a little harder to blame him for everything that happened.

How bad was the match? When will either of them wrestle again? Let us
know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen
over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28
wrestling books. His latest book is the History Of In Your House.

Get the latest and greatest in professional wrestling news by signing up
for our daily email newsletter. Just look below for GET EXCLUSIVE UPDATES
to sign up. We are proud to offer our popular Wrestling Rumors app and encourage you to download it for an optimized user experience. It is
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