Dave Meltzer reported on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that Roman Reigns will be off this weekend WWE Live Events. Braun Strowman vs. Samoa Joe and The Bar vs. Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins will headline those events.

While Meltzer couldn’t elaborate why Reigns is off this weekends WWE Live Events, he did point out that Reigns is also off Monday’s episode of RAW. We will keep you updated if there is anything more to Reigns taking days off.

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Dave Meltzer discussed Sheamus’ issues with spin stenosis on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio and mentioned that WWE is protecting Sheamus in his matches.

Meltzer pointed out that Sheamus was barely taking any bumps at all while working the WWE Live Events in Dubai. The company also had him in six-man matches as a way to protect him.

“They are definitely protecting him right now,” Meltzer explained.

As previously noted, spinal stenosis led to the end of former WWE Superstars Steve Austin and Edge’s careers and Sheamus’ career could be in jeopardy. Sheamus has been rehabbing the injury while also working WWE events.

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There was speculation among several websites (not us) that The Singh Brothers may have been injured recently and that’s the reason why they missed this weekend’s WWE Live Events that they were previously advertised for.

According to The Wrestling Observer, the duo is not injured and the company decided to not have them appear on the events. What’s next for the Singh Brothers remains to be seen. We noted last week that there futures are in question now that they are no longer aligned with Jinder Mahal. There is a chance that they could end up back in NXT to develop new characters.

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Ever wondered what Ric Flair’s asking price is to make appearances at non-WWE wrestling events?

According to Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Flair is currently asking $15,000 for two hours of autograph signings. Anything over three hours is $20,000.

“Ric Flair is now taking limited bookings. Currently his asking price is $15,000 for two hours of signing or $20,000 for three hours,” Meltzer wrote in this week’s Observer Newsletter.

To book Flair to an event, you can contact his management at ric@getengagedmedia.com.

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WWE apparently had problems selling tickets for WWE events during Survivor Series week.

Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that only Survivor Series sold out in the past few days they ran events. NXT Takeover: WarGames, RAW and SmackDown all failed to be complete sellouts. The other three shows averages between 5,700 to 6,000 while Survivor Series did around 12,000 fans.

Takeover probably performed the worst out of all four events as the top deck was completely empty and much of the hard camera side was empty as well. You can see in the photo below that these claims are true, as when Ember Moon won the NXT Women’s Championship, a good portion of the section was empty:

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WWE and Ring of Honor both held live events in San Antonio, TX, Friday night. Cody Rhodes decided to point out that ROH sold out while the NXT show didn’t during an in-ring promo at the event.

Cody’s wife brand also weighed in on the matter on Twitter:

ROH San Antonio sold out and I’m hearing the meet and greet line was one for the record books. So fun! Heck of a time to be both a wrestler and a wrestling fan. Options are good! #ROHsanantonio #WOH #BulletClub #AmericanNightmare

— Brandi Rhodes (@TheBrandiRhodes) November 18, 2017

Meanwhile at the NXT show, fans were yelling “f*ck Ring of Honor” during Triple H’s speech.

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The following are backstage notes from tonight’s Bound for Glory event, courtesy of PWInsider:

– While the event was announced as a sell out, there will still be standing room tickets for tonight’s Bound for Glory available at the TD Place box office.

– There are still tickets are still available for all the Impact tapings this week at the TD Place box office and TDPlace.ca.

– Tonight’s BFG show and this week’s television tapings will be the first events booked under John Gaburick, Scott D’Amore, Sonjay Dutt, Jeremy Borash, and Abyss. All the television leading up to tonight was filmed under Jeff Jarrett.

– There has been some concern among wrestlers that they will be asked to renegotiate deals to take lesser money at some point over the course of this week’s tapings.

– No one in Canada has told me they’ve seen Bob Ryder and it appears he’s doing his duties from Nashville.

– The company’s seamstress Jolene George was scheduled for this week and then at the last minute was told the company was not bringing her in.

– The company didn’t bring in at least part of the production team that handled pre-tapes.

– There were also several company staffers who were not able to get into Canada, including the person who drives the merchandise to the shows.

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WWE Champion Jinder Mahal has been working with a shoulder injury, which has been bothering him in recent weeks.

According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Mahal has been wearing Kinesio Tape at WWE Live Events but not on WWE television or pay-per-view events. The belief is WWE doesn’t want fans to see him taped up on television.

Here is a photo of Jinder at a recent event wearing the tape:

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Block 1:

Taz opens today’s show speaking about last night’s Hell In A Cell PPV.

Taz says he really loved last night’s PPV, and he gives it a 9/10 rating. The final match of the night between Kevin Owens and Shane McMahon was fantastic, and WWE swerved everyone with Sami Zayn’s heel turn at the end of the show. Taz never saw that coming at all, and he thinks it’s a credit to WWE when they can surprise their audience in this day and age with all the online spoilers.

He points out that this is a big opportunity for Sami Zayn, and he now has the spotlight firmly placed on him on Smackdown Live. Taz thinks Zayn deserves this spot, and he praises Zayn for the timing of his run-in last night. He says it’s no easy task to pull someone from an announce table when someone is plummeting towards you from the sky, 20 feet above.

He continues to speak about the main event match, saying that he loved Kevin Owens standing over the edge of the cage, searching for the courage to jump. Taz admits that WWE would have to pay him a lot of money to jump from that cage. In addition, by booking Owens to appear nervous while looking down from the cage, WWE gives even more legitimacy to Shane McMahon’s bravery.

Taz says that there was really no series of events in which McMahon would emerge victorious here. Kevin Owens is the future right now and Shane McMahon is a 47-year old who wrestles part-time. This was a must-win for Owens, and WWE did the right thing by putting him over while also protecting McMahon by having Zayn interfere.

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Block 1:

Taz opens today’s show speaking about last night’s episode of Monday Night RAW. He tips his cap to WWE for putting on a great show last night which featured a number of significant matches, and all of those matches delivered on all accounts.

He thought WWE showed a great amount of class by opening last night’s show with a moment of silence after the tragic events that occurred in Las Vegas on Sunday night. He says that WWE always does the right thing when these kind of tragedies occur, and last night was no exception.

Taz says that while he had no issue with the backstage interview featuring Enzo Amore, he didn’t like the fact that WWE completely ignored all the events that occurred on 205 last week when Amore attacked Neville with his crutch. For the second straight week Amore and the cruiserweights main-evented RAW, and this tells Taz that Amore’s closing segment from last week probably drew a reasonable number of viewers.

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