WWE heads to the Allstate Arena in Chicago IL for tonight’s episode of RAW. Here are the focus points for tonight’s show:

– John Cena returns

– The Women’s division prepares to make history

– Who will gain momentum en route to a battle with The Beast?

– How will Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins get payback for Dean Ambrose?

– Who else will declare for the Men’s Royal Rumble Match?

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

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While answering questions in a new Q&A video, Ric Flair was asked about which current WWE Superstars he’d like to work with if he had one last match in WWE. Ric Flair named off Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose, but revealed he’d have to be at a much younger age.

“Well, I’ve never wrestled John Cena in a single match, but if I could have one more match, and I could be say 35 again, I would love to work with Roman Reigns. Yeah Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns. I never got to work with Seth Rollins or Dean Ambrose. If I was 35 years old I’d love to work with one of those guys. Even 45, 55.”

Flair was also asked about tattoos, favorite road stories with Hulk Hogan and more. You can check out the footage below:

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WWE announced on Monday’s episode of RAW that both Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar will return on next week’s episode of RAW.

It’s being speculated that Reigns may pair up with Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose to take on The New Day at Survivor Series. WWE did an angle on RAW where the New Day showed up and distracted Ambrose & Rollins, which ultimately caused them to lose their tag-team titles. This could be the angle they work in storyline to announce the match.

In regards to Lesnar, he is expected to appear to address Jinder Mahal ahead of their match at Survivor Series.

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During today’s WWE Live Event in Glasgow, Scotland, Triple H appeared alongside Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins while wearing The Shield’s gear. The team went up against The Bar and Bray Wyatt at the show. The match concluded when Triple H did The Shield’s triple powerbomb spot with Rollins & Ambrose onto Cesaro.

Here is footage of the triple powerbomb:

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WWE has announced that Dean Ambrose will be opening RAW tonight. Tonight’s show is live from Nashville, Tennessee, and it appears that The Lunatic Fringe has some things to get off his chest. The move is curious timing as Ambrose’s real-life wife Renee Young recently had two of her shows canceled (Talking Smack and Unfiltered), leading some to speculate her romance with the former Shield member may have been a cause for her shows being taken off WWE Network. Could the WWE be trying to get fans to tune in to see if Ambrose will comment upon his wife’s demotion back to “welcoming her guest at this time”?

Really disappointed about #TalkingSmack. We tried to make that show great. Guess I'll go back to welcoming my guest at this time.

— Renee Young (@ReneeYoungWWE) July 14, 2017

Regardless of whether or not Dean Ambrose addresses Renee Young’s situation, this should be an important segment in moving along the Seth Rollins storyline. After last week’s run-in with his former Shield brother-in-arms, will Ambrose continue to put distance between himself and the Kingslayer, or will he have a change of heart? Will the two mend fences and join up against a common enemy (The Miz and his Miztourage) or will we see a renewed Ambrose/Rollins rivalry, only with a flipped heel/face alignment?

Tune into RAW tonight to find out.

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Dean Ambrose On The Shield

Ahead of the WWE’s live event in Huntington, West Virginia, this Saturday night, Dean Ambrose spoke about the early days of The Shield, staying on top of the roster, and the benefits of performing non-televised live events. Ambrose told The Herald-Dispatch that the benefits performing in a house show is the freedom and intimacy between the audience and performers, adding, “You go out there for the audience, and it’s just them for one night.”

In regards to The Shield, Ambrose said:

“They threw us right to the wolves. We clicked immediately. We go week to week. We’d figure it out, did a lot on the fly. It all worked out. It’s a means to an end. Three new guys come in and kick the door down. It’s very rare three personalities work like that. You could tell we resonate with people. I’ve made way more money, got a lot more things done, a lot more work without them.”

When it comes to staying on top of the main roster:

“It’s tough in any line of work to get to the top. You can’t quit when times get rough. Things are going to happen to you. You have to believe in your abilities to do the stuff and put your nose to the grindstone. I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. I’ve had an incredible journey. I love to do what I’m doing. I’ve been fortunate to travel the world. All kinds of memories, stories.”

Brie Bella At Comic-Con

As Top Rope Press reported last week, the WWE Women’s Evolution will have a presence at San Diego Comic-Con. For the WWE and Mattel Fan Panel on July 20, Bayley, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, and Nikki Bella were confirmed for the one-hour chat. On Friday, Brie Bella was confirmed to also attend the panel, and it will be her first major public appearance since giving birth to Birdie Joe Danielson.

Renee Young will moderate the panel, which will feature “some special surprises,” according to the WWE, for all ages.

BREAKING: Brie @BellaTwins to make her first major public appearance since Birdie's birth at #SDCC. https://t.co/liCfjmzIjw pic.twitter.com/9A9kD4fuKP

— WWE (@WWE) July 14, 2017

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

Russo says that he’s absolutely sick of the millennials in this world, who are completely stuck up and can’t take a joke. During the Alexa Bliss/Bayley match on Sunday night, Russo tweeted out joking that he’d let Bliss hit him with that pole. For the next few hours he was shelled with backlash online. He says that these people just take the fun out of life, and the world is going to be a scary place when these people have to run it in 10-20 years time.

Speaking about the Intercontinental match between The Miz and Dean Ambrose, Russo thought these two guys did a poor job of making the match feel realistic. Most fans look right past these subtleties, but there were a couple occasions during the match where one of them stood still and let the other attack them when it was obvious they could have moved (Daniel Bryan kick spot for example).

He says that with the rise of MMA and legitimate fights, it’s almost as if wrestling has gone the opposite direction and has become less believable. Russo also says that the finish of this match was poorly executed, with the referee taking an awfully long time before making a decision to disqualify Ambrose. This allowed Miz to attack Ambrose from behind and pick up the pin-fall win.

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An Evening With John Cena

John Cena took to Twitter recently to announce that he is set to embark on an Australian tour as part of a live event series entitled “An Evening With John Cena: The Untold Story, In His Own Words”. The three separate events take place in early July, on the Gold Coast 7/7, in Melbourne 7/8, and Sydney 7/9. Australian TV personality, Karl Stefanovic, is expected to host the events which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. The tour’s promotional details read:

A world exclusive event, Live on stage! A Global Superstar who’s adored by millions around the world. Philanthropist, Pro Wrestler, Rapper, Actor, and TV Host. John Cena is a modern day success story, hear his story live on stage

Tickets for the events range from $99 and $599, with a special “champion package” at The Star Gold Coast costing $1,795. You can purchase tickets from this link.

Dean Ambrose Ready To Swap WWE For UFC?

In other news, current WWE Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose was recently interviewed by British tabloid, The Sun. The Intercontinental Champion noted that he’d happily try has hand at an MMA crossover and fight in the UFC if the money was right. Outlining $500,000 as his price, Ambrose stated:

I’ll fight anyone for enough money. Give me half-a-million dollars. Put them in the ring, I’ll do it right now, I’ll do it tonight.

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Russo says that WWE’s brand split is ‘atrocious’ in his opinion. When he almost returned to WWE in 2002, the first thing he said to Vince McMahon was, ‘You have to get rid of the brand split”. Eventually WWE took Russo’s advice and eliminated the brand split, but now a decade later they’ve returned to this failed concept yet again.

When he worked for TNA, he told Dixie Carter on multiple occasions that there were several performers on the roster that didn’t deserve to be there. He never thought he’d be saying that about WWE, but all these years later that’s the situation he finds himself in.

Russo decided to do a list of the 30 names that he’d want to work with, if he was writing a wrestling television show today. All of these people are stars, have the ‘It’ factor, and deserve to be on National television, unlike a lot of today’s performers.

Brock Lesnar & John Cena – He says that these two guys would have been just as popular in the attitude area as they are today, and they’re clearly in a league of their own right now. He does admit that he has an issue with the fact that Lesnar only shows up for a handful of dates a year, especially since he’s the Champion right now.

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The competitors for the WWE Championship are

• John Cena (C)
• Dean Ambrose
• The Miz
• Bray Wyatt
• Baron Corbin
• AJ Styles

Now remember this is not going to be AJ Styles rematch for the gold as he made it clear to the Smackdown live commissioner Shane Mcmahon. Randy Orton is not a part of the list as he is guaranteed to main event Wrestlemania 33.

A lot of hush hush there on part of the creatives but they can’t help it but to do it that way as their boss is not so wise.