Dana Brooke announced on Instagram that she is officially entering the Women’s Royal Rumble match.

According to my statistics, and running the numbers…. it seems to be that there is an opening for me to be in the #womensroyalrumble @wwe this is my year my opportunity and I will show everyone #playtimeisover & represent #titusworldwide in the women’s division! #Wwe #royalrumble #raw #smackdown #glasses #hairstyles #mua @mrs_lindysue #blondehair #bun #danabrooke

A post shared by ashasebera Dana Brooke WWE (@ashasebera_danabrooke) on Jan 12, 2018 at 3:14am PST

Dana joins Asuka, Bayley, Becky Lynch, Carmella, Lana, Liv Morgan, Mandy Rose, Mickie James, Naomi, Natalya, Nia Jax, Paige, Ruby Riott, Sarah Logan, Sasha Banks, Sonya Deville and Tamina.

The Royal Rumble will take place on January 28, 2018, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As always, we will have live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya expressed her thoughts about her new co-stars on the return of Total Divas in her latest column for the Calgary Sun.

Three new WWE Superstars will be introduced in the seventh season of Total Divas. Alexa Bliss, Nia Jax and Carmella will join the cast along with the Bella Twins, Naomi, Lana, Maryse and Natalya.

Natalya said the following about the RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss:

“Alexa Bliss is your feisty and adorable Raw Women’s Champion, and when we were on SmackDown together, she, Carmella and I would refer to each other as “Three disgruntled blondes.” In other words, we were bad girls having a whole lot of fun! Alexa is very open about her troubles with body image and balancing home life and work. She and Nia Jax hilariously remind me of Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie “Twins.” Just watch and you will see.”

On Nia Jax:

“Nia Jax is bold, bright and beautiful. She is not your “average girl,” as she wears her heart on her sleeve and says what she feels. Nia is a force in the ring, but she also shows a much softer side outside the squared circle, especially when she searches for love in NYC. You need to be one strong man to handle Nia, and that’s a good thing.”

Natalya then spoke of Carmella, who she compares with Rachel Green from the “Friends.”

“Carmella is like Jennifer Aniston as Rachel on “Friends.” I adore this girl. She is there for you when you need her, but she finds herself in quirky situations quite often. One of the coolest aspects of this upcoming season is getting to witness the women of SmackDown Live make history in the ring competing in the first ever Money in the Bank ladder match. Carmella wins the briefcase and becomes “Miss Money in the Bank.” However, in winning this accolade, she nearly costs me my dreams of becoming the WWE Women’s Champion.”

Total Divas will premiere with its seventh season on 1 November on the E! Network.

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There is a lot of speculation that Carmella is going to win the SmackDown Women’s Championship sooner or later as the company is building towards her as the champion.

Dave Meltzer indicated in the latest issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that her loss on television recently is an indication of just that.

Meltzer wrote, “Lynch beat Carmella in 2:57 with the disarmer. What’s so cool about WWE booking is that every Carmella loss means that she’s one step closer to cashing in and winning the title.”

Typically when a Money in the Bank contract holder loses a series of matches, WWE books them to cash in shortly after.

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WWE heads to the the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. Here are the focus points for the show:

* Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura battle for a WWE Championship opportunity tonight on SmackDown Live

* Natalya takes on Carmella tonight on SmackDown Live

* Will Kevin Owens continue to rail against Shane McMahon?

* Will Dolph Ziggler finally show off his star power?

* Corey Graves to take over as new SmackDown Live commentator

Check back here at 8PM ET for our live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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If you missed WWE Monday Night RAW this week, Big Cass suffered a legitimate anterior cruciate ligament, or commonly referred to as ACL, injury during a spot in his match with Enzo Amore. He went for a big boot, and when Amore dodged, Cass went through the ropes and landed awkwardly outside the ring. Cass was heard screaming expletives due to his pain and frustration.

On Thursday, Carmella posted pictures of Cass recovering from surgery. She tweeted he’s in more agony over the lack of pizza than the surgery itself.

He's in more agony over the lack of pizza than he is over the surgery pic.twitter.com/5RtidhMmDX

— MS Money in the BANK (@CarmellaWWE) August 25, 2017

On Friday morning, Carmella posted a new photo where she’s laying next to him on the hospital bed watching what is likely the sitcom Friends, while drinking Starbucks beverages.

Even in the hospital.. friends & starbies pic.twitter.com/keDLCFcwSn

— MS Money in the BANK (@CarmellaWWE) August 25, 2017

As a result of the injury, Cass could miss several months of action. Top Rope Press reported earlier this week about WWE ringside physician Dr. Chris Robinson’s estimate that a typical ACL tear takes about nine months to recover from, therefore we might not see Cass until sometime after WrestleMania.

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This year’s SummerSlam is expected to run for at least six hours, according to multiple sources. The kickoff show is scheduled to start at 5PM and run for two hours with the main pay-per-view beginning at 7PM and lasting approximately four hours.

The pre-show is expected to feature at least three pre-show matches. Rumored matches include The Usos vs. The New Day, The Hardy Boys vs Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson and/or the Cruiserweight match or Big Cass vs. Big Show.

The Smackdown Women’s Championship match between Naomi and Natalya is also a possibility, but if there are plans to have Carmella cash in her Money in the Bank contract, it wouldn’t make sense for it to happen before the event officially starts.

We will keep you updated once an announcement is made.

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Lana’s Rule For Fans

It was a rough night for SmackDown Live’s Lana last night. She teamed with Tamina in a losing effort against Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair, and the Richmond, West Virginia, crowd were heard chanting “You Can’t Wrestle” to the Ravishing Russian. In a series of tweets last night, she did delete one that originally stated:

“Come at me with your ignorant pathetic villager tweets & I’ll CRUSH your pathetic soul! WIN or LOSE I AM STILL RAVISHING!”

The other tweets she has yet to delete called fans “cowards” who hide behind their iPhones and tweet negativity towards her. She said these are the same people who would still ask her for an autograph or picture. Likely sticking to kayfabe, Lana says she will no longer abide to fans’ requests.

You cowards that hide behind your iPhone & tweet how I'm not good. You'll NEVER become the Ravishing STAR that I am. Keep talking about me

— CJ (Lana) Perry (@LanaWWE) July 26, 2017

The same people that are bashing me are the same people begging for autographs & pictures so NO MORE pictures or signing autographs

— CJ (Lana) Perry (@LanaWWE) July 26, 2017

Carmella on New “Total Divas” Season

The new upcoming season of E!’s Total Divas will feature three new female superstars: Nia Jax, Alexa Bliss, and Carmella. To promote the new season, Carmella chatted with Muscle and Fitness: Hers about the new opportunities in the WWE including Total Divas. Speaking about hanging out more with fellow SmackDown Live superstars Natalya and Naomi, Carmella said,

“I mean, we’re actually always all together on the road, so you know it wouldn’t hurt to just add a camera in front of us. I’m excited because I think this is such an amazing time for the women in the WWE and female wrestlers in general. There’s so much going on in women’s wrestling right now, and I was just excited to kind of show what we do and what we’re all about and I know that Total Divas is about six seasons now and there’s Total Bellas and everything. So I’m excited to kind of share, you know, my story and what I am all about here in the WWE.”

“It’s definitely not something I’m used to. Being a WWE superstar, I mean…there’s a difference between Carmella on Smackdown Live and Carmella in real life. But, I mean I guess that is what you sign up for when doing a reality show. So, you know, one of the struggles I’m facing this season is a real-life struggle, with my boyfriend Big Cass, who’s on Raw, and I’m on Smackdown. So, you know, we see each other one day a week if we’re lucky. Sometimes we have to go a few weeks without seeing each other, sometimes we’re traveling on different, separate tours, to different countries. But, I mean, it is what it is, so there’s nothing we can do about it, we make do and we make the most of our time together that we do get. So again that is something that we struggle with, and I’m excited because I think you can kind of get to know us because we’ve been very private with our relationship, a lot of people don’t realize we’ve been together for almost four years. So, I’m excited for people to kind of get to know us and see, you know, what we’re all about.”

The start date for Total Divas hasn’t been announced, but it will air this fall. While Carmella, Bliss, and Jax enter the next season, fans will no longer see Eva Marie, Paige and Renee Young as main characters on the E! program.

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Ryback is joined on today’s show by his co-host Pat Buck.

Ryback opens today’s show speaking about the finish of the Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match from last Sunday. There has been plenty of fan backlash since James Ellsworth scaled the ladder and retrieved the briefcase for Carmella, but Ryback believes that means the finish was a success.

He believes that people need to realize that this is a fake scenario, and the events that transpire in the ring are meant to elicit a response from viewers, whether they be positive or negative. With this in mind, WWE succeeded last Sunday because the finish of this match has been a hot topic of discussion ever since.

Buck believes that the Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match should have went on later in the show instead of going first. WWE could have taken advantage of the crowd’s energy early on by having a less impactful match go on first, which would have saved the historic women’s match for later on in the show. Ryback points out that WWE needed to separate those two main event ladder matches, so that’s probably why they started the night with the women’s match and closed the night with the men’s match.

Buck also points out that this finish made James Ellsworth relevant again. It looked to be fairly certain that Ellsworth’s WWE contract wouldn’t be renewed after his one year deal was up, but now WWE creative has some options with Ellsworth moving forward. They might be able to stretch this angle out long enough to secure another contract for Ellsworth.

Quite simply, Ryback calls the finish of that match ‘perfect’.

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WWE announced that Daniel Bryan would be returning to tonight’s episode of SmackdDown Live for the first time in a while. He took time off from WWE programming because his wife Brie gave birth to their new child. Bryan is expected to address the controversial finish in the Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match that saw James Ellsworth capture the briefcase only to give it to Carmella.

Bryan Alvarez discussed Daniel Bryan’s return on yesterday’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live. Alvarez speculates that Carmella will be stripped of the briefcase. There is a possibility that they may even have another match to determine a new holder of the contract that allows a shot at the Women’s Championship anytime they want.

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Block 1:

Taz gets right into his analysis of last night’s Money in the Bank PPV.

He thought the opening package before the Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match was terrific. It did a wonderful job of paying tribute to women who paved the way for today’s performers, while also highlighting each woman who was participating in last night’s ladder match.

He thought all five women worked hard in the match, but in the end, Taz questions whether this match lived up to it’s ‘historic’ nature. Carmella’s victory is tainted by the fact that James Ellsworth physically climbed the ladder and unhooked the briefcase for her. Taz thinks it’s a shame that in the first ever Women’s Money in the Bank ladder match, a man was the one to retrieve the briefcase.

Taz thinks that WWE needs to address Carmella’s victory on this Tuesday’s episode of Smackdown Live and he truly believes that they will. He suggests that Shane McMahon should appear on RAW tonight to announce a Money in the Bank rematch for tomorrow night’s Smackdown Live. Having Shane appear on the opposing brand to make this announcement will make this feel like a very important moment, and Taz ultimately thinks that Carmella will lose this briefcase one way or another on Tuesday night.

In spite of all the controversy surrounding the finish, Taz thought that these five women earned a lot of people’s respect last night, and they raised the bar for all women entering a WWE ring moving forward.

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