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Shock and awe shock and awe. We’re coming up on Summerslam 2018 and the featured match on the show will be Universal Champion Brock Lesnar defending against Roman Reigns. This is a match that hasn’t gotten the strongest reaction from the fans so something special will be needed in order to get a more positive reaction. It turns out that WWE has a plan, and then a second option.
According to Bryan Alvarez of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE is considering two paths for the Reigns vs. Lesnar match at Summerslam. One option would be to have the match be “rather short” and the other is a long match. There are no time ranges given for the two matches or speculation on who will be leaving with the title. This is the second year in a row where Reigns vs. Lesnar will main event Summerslam, although the previous version was in a four way match.
Here are Alvarez’s comments courtesy of Sportskeeda.com:
“Right now there are apparently two ideas for the Lesnar/Roman match. One of them is a..

Nineteen years is a long time. Back in August 1999, SmackDown debuted as the official second show of WWE, replacing Sunday Night Heat as the second major television program. The show is still going strong in 2018 and next year it will be moving to the FOX Network to really turn it into something special. It’s also coming up on a big time milestone and it looks like WWE is pulling out all the stops.
According to the Capital One Center’s website, the 1000th episode of SmackDown Live will be taking place at the arena October 16. The arena has also announced three matches and a host of names making appearances. Already announced for the show are AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe in a WWE Championship match (neither is designated as champion), Daniel Bryan vs. The Miz and Randy Orton vs. Jeff Hardy. Also announced as appearing are the Undertaker, Shinsuke Nakamura, the Bludgeon Brothers and Carmella.
Check out how Raw 1000 started out.
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Opinion: They’re w..

I mean….really? Last week news broke that Colt Cabana was suing CM Punk over legal fees from their trial against WWE doctor Chris Amman. The issue seemed to see the end of their long running friendship, which was one of the most well known in wrestling today. However, as bad as it would be to have the two of them split, there may be one entity that is very happy with the news: the WWE.
According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, there is a chance that WWE brought Cabana into the lawsuit in the hopes that he and Punk would have issues during the trial. If that was the plan, it seems to have worked as Cabana and Punk did in fact split, causing the lawsuit that Cabana filed against him. The idea was to have Punk lose in the end, with Cabana playing a role in causing the issues. WWE wasn’t concerned with Cabana and its main target was always Punk.
Here’s part of where it all started.
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Opinion: I have no idea if this is true or not, b..

Double your SmackDown pleasure. Every week, you’re almost guaranteed to see some good dark matches from WWE. While some of them are going to be repetitive, they’re still matches that are worth seeing at least once. It helps if the match is a solid pairing in the first place, but there is also fun to be had in a match that you haven’t seen before. Both were true in this week’s offerings.
Make sure to check out what happened between the dark matches with our full SmackDown Live results.
According to Wrestlinginc.com, there was a match both before and after this week’s SmackDown Live and 205 Live tapings. Before the show went on the air, the Usos defeated the Bar in a rematch from two weeks ago during the Tag Team Title Tournament, which the Bar won. After the show was over, AJ Styles teamed up with Luke Gallows/Karl Anderson to defeat Samoa Joe/Randy Orton/Shinsuke Nakamura when Styles hit a Styles Clash on Nakamura after about three and a half minutes.
Here’s the original first match..

No one said it was sin danger. You never know when you might see a wrestler get injured. It could come at any time in a match, or it could be the result of years of built up damage to the body. At some point it happens to almost everyone and that can throw a wrench into the plans. Even if it’s someone who doesn’t get much time on TV, that’s still one less person to put on house shows, which seems to be the case at the moment.
According to PWInsider.com by way of 411mania.com, Sin Cara has posted on Instagram that he is in Birmingham, Alabama to deal with some kind of an injury which may require surger. At the moment, Sin Cara hasn’t provided any kind of details on what the nature of the injury may be. Sin Cara has been wrestling recently, with his most recent match coming at a SmackDown Live house show on August 5.
He looks healthy here:
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Opinion: There aren’t many details to Sin Cara’s status but hopefully it’s not a serious injury. I know..

It’s a new year yes it is. Like so many other fields, wrestling has a fair share of different levels of performers. Some people are main eventers, some people are midcarders, some people make others look good, and some people are able to do all of them. That’s a rare breed, but Kofi Kingston fits the mold. WWE agrees, and that’s worthy of a career flashback.
Leave the memories alone.
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In honor of his 36th birthday, WWE has posted a video looking at the five greatest moments of Kofi Kingston’s career. The majority of these moments are from Kingston’s singles career with only one of them being from his time as part of the New Day. Kingston made his main roster debut in 2009 and has won fourteen championships over the course of his career, with seven singles and seven tag team titles.
Opinion: I know a lot of fans think of New Day but Kingston had a heck of a singles career. Were it not for the mess with Randy Orton in 2009, there was almost n..

Just…why? Last week, some stories started to come out about things Randy Orton has done over the years. To put it mildly, these stories aren’t the most pleasant things in the world and there’s a good chance that nothing good is going to come out of them. It turns out that a lot of these were known in the past and since the internet is everywhere, it’s hard to get away from these stories.
The boot couldn’t be reached for comments.
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In a clip from a shoot interview filmed in 2016, Ken Anderson (Mr. Anderson/Kennedy) tells a story about Orton doing something else rather odd. Anderson talks about being alone with Orton in a locker room after everyone else had left the building. With only Anderson in the room, a naked Orton did some questionable things to Anderson’s boot. Anderson pointed out that there was no one around to find it funny, which Orton didn’t seem to mind.
Here are Anderson’s comments:
“One time I was in the locker room. Everyone..

Main Event
Date: August 9, 2018
Location: Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville, Florida
Commentators: Vic Joseph, Nigel McGuinness, Percy Watson
We’re coming up on Summerslam and since he was on Raw last week, there’s no Brock Lesnar to be seen this time around. There is however Roman Reigns, who I have a feeling we’ll be hearing from here. Hopefully there’s some more stuff from Smackdown though, as that show was great. Let’s get to it.
Here are last week’s results if you need a recap.
Opening sequence.
No Way Jose vs. Curt Hawkins Jose has the Conga Line with him. Hawkins’ shoulder doesn’t do much good as Jose headlocks him and grabs an atomic drop. A shot to the ribs puts Jose on the floor and Hawkins is rather pleased. Back in and we hit the chinlock, followed by a snap suplex into the second chinlock. Hawkins misses the elbow though and Jose slugs away, followed by a fireman’s carry flapjack for two. The Pop Up right hand finishes Hawkins at 5:30.
Result: No Way ..

Dean Ambrose has finally returned to WWE. The Lunatic Fringe came out on the August 13 edition of Monday Night Raw and joined Seth Rollins in a physical confrontation with Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre. The two former Shield teammates stood tall in the ring and fought side by side against the Intercontinental champion and his Scottish enforcer. Rollins is booked against Dolph for the IC title at SummerSlam on August 19 and Ambrose will be in his corner. But will Dean do the unthinkable and turn on his best friend?
It seems like a long shot perhaps but the timing may be right for Ambrose to turn heel once again. Dean’s mission at SummerSlam is to bring his unique level of insanity to Seth’s corner. He can even the odds for Rollins against Ziggler and McIntyre, which is something Seth has needed for quite some time. The Kingslayer has been trying to find a way to fend off both Drew and Dolph but to no avail. Rollins wants his Intercontinental Championship back but so far, he has been ..

Let’s get it started. While a lot of fans are going to remember one specific match from a wrestling show, a lot more might remember the opening video. If there’s one thing that WWE knows how to do, it’s put together a video package that makes you want to see what they have coming up for the rest of the evening. This is an area where WWE shines and that’s what they did again this time around.
And we get a sneak preview.
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WWE has released the opening video to this year’s Summerslam six days before the show airs. The video features actor Terry Crews outside the Barclays Center (the location for Sunday’s show), talking in rhyme about how this year’s show is about achieving your dreams, no matter how high they might be. As is usually the case with WWE videos, things then shifts into a set of clips about this year’s major matches.
Check out the changes to the Summerslam card announced this week.
Opinion: Hiring a well known actor like Crews is a..