Samir Singh revealed on Instagram that he suffered a torn ACL during the angle on last week’s episode of SmackDown Live. The injury occurred at ringside angle during the Bobby Roode vs. Jinder Mahal US Championship tournament match.

While Sing did not reveal how long he’s expected to be out of action for, it’s believe that it could be six to nine months for the recovery of that injury.

Last week I tore my ACL and it goes without saying that this past week has been very emotional. The more I think about it, the less it makes sense. All I know is that God is the sovereign of my life and that everything that comes to pass is his blessing. I thank you all for the continued love and support. I can’t wait to be back.

A post shared by Samir Singh – WWE Superstar (@harvsihra_wwe) on Jan 23, 2018 at 6:47pm PST

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WWE has announced that both WWE US Title tournament matches will broadcast on next week’s episode of SmackDown Live. Those matches are Bobby Roode vs. Mojo Rawley and Xavier Woods vs. Jinder Mahal. The winners of those matches will face will face off in the finals at the Royal Rumble even on January 28th.

WWE also confirmed Becky Lynch, Naomi and Charlotte Flair vs. Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan will take place on the show.

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Pro Wrestling Illustrated has named AJ Styles the “Wrestler of the Year” for the second time in a row. Styles joins Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Steve Austin, John Cena and CM Punk as the only wrestlers to do that in consecutive years.

Styles earned 38% of the vote, ahead of Kazuchika Okada (21%), Kenny Omega (11%), and Cody Rhodes (9%), among others.

The rest of the awards are as followed:

Rookie: Otis Drozovic

Inspirational: Christopher Daniels

Most Improved: Jinder Mahal

Comeback: The Hardys

Woman: Asuka

Feud: Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada

Hated: Jinder Mahal

Popular: AJ Styles

Match: Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada (1/4)

Tag Team: Young Bucks

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Below are the most “disliked” WWE YouTube videos of 2017 from both the RAW and SmackDown Live brand, courtesy of Forbes:

RAW Air Date / Video / Dislikes / Likes / Dislike Percentage
April 3, 2017 / Roman Reigns Declares that WWE is his Yard Now / 35,000 / 27,000 / 56%
April 10, 2017 / Braun Strowman Savagely Attacks Roman Reigns / 23,000 / 124,000 / 16%
January 23, 2017 / Emmalina Can’t Wait to Reward Your Patience / 15,000 / 2,000 / 88%
February 13, 2017 / Emmalina Finally Premieres / 15,000 / 8,000 / 65%
January 16, 2017 / You Won’t Want to Miss Emmalina’s Premiere / 11,000 / 1,000 / 92%

Smackdown Live Air Date / Video / Dislikes / Likes / Dislike Percentage
August 5, 2017 / John Cena vs. Jinder Mahal / 11,000 / 28,000 / 28%
May 23, 2017 / Witness Jinder Mahal’s Punjabi Celebration / 7,000 / 58,000 / 11%
April 18, 2017 / WWE Championship No. 1 Contender Six-Pack Challenge / 7,000 30,000 / 19%
May 16, 2017 / AJ Styles vs. Jinder Mahal / 5,000 23,000 / 18%
August 1, 2017 / John Cena vs. Shinsuke Nakamura / 5,000 46,000 / 10%

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Here are the early betting odds for Sunday’s WWE Clash of Champions event, courtesy of Bet Wrestling:

WWE Championship
AJ Styles(c) -415 vs Jinder Mahal +295

WWE Smackdown Women’s Championship
Charlotte Flair(c) -675 vs Natalya +425

WWE Smackdown Tag Team Championship
The Usos(c) -245 vs The Field(The New Day, Shelton Benjamin/Chad Gable and Rusev/Aiden English) +175

Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn -300 vs Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura +220

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WWE is at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, OH for tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. Here are some highlights from the show:

* AJ Styles opens up the show talking about his title match against Jinder Mahal at Sunday’s Clash of Champions. The Singh Brothers interrupt. They say they won’t be introducing Mahal. Replay is shown of Mahal’s attack on them. AJ invites them down to the ring, so they can hung it out. The Singh Brothers announce they are done with Mahal and they want to be in AJ’s corner on Sunday. AJ calls them out for being in Jinder’s corner over the weekend at the event in India.

The Singh Brothers announce they are done with Mahal and they want to be in AJ's corner on Sunday.#WWE #SDLive Highlights – https://t.co/bJrpNODGbU pic.twitter.com/oAoc92qkkm

— Ringside News (@RingsideNewscom) December 13, 2017

* Out comes Jinder Mahal. Styles says he’s not buying it and he wants his match at Sunday a one-on-one match. He then attcks The Singh Brothers and toss them out of the ring. Mahal steps up on the apron while Styles taunts him to come into the ring. “Jinder Sucks” chants break out. One guy yells, “I Love You Jinder.” Jinder checks on The Singh Brothers. Styles holds up the WWE Title as Jinder looks on.

Mahal comes out but Styles says he's not buying it. He attacks The Singhs.#WWE #SDLive Highlights – https://t.co/bJrpNODGbU pic.twitter.com/WLQSBaXV9x

— Ringside News (@RingsideNewscom) December 13, 2017

* Charlotte defeats Ruby Riott by disqualification. After the match, Charlotte is attacked by The Riott Squad. Noami makes the save.v

Charlotte defeats Ruby Riott by disqualification. After the match, Charlotte is attacked by The Riott Squad.#WWE #SDLive Highlights – https://t.co/bJrpNODGbU pic.twitter.com/Cw1vQFzBc5

— Ringside News (@RingsideNewscom) December 13, 2017

* Dolph Ziggler defeats Baron Corbin by disqualification when Bobby Roode comes in and takes them both out. The entrances were longer than the match.

* The Bludgeon Brothers defeat two enhancement talents.

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

On one of his shows this past week, Dave Meltzer discussed the merchandise sales of Finn Balor. He said that Balor has to be one of the top merchandise sellers in WWE because there are plenty of ‘Balor Club’ shirts at each WWE event. However, he doesn’t see many Balor shirts outside of WWE events.

Russo says that’s because there aren’t any wrestling shirts outside WWE events anymore. Back during the attitude era there were several wrestlers whose merchandise could be seen anywhere in public including Austin, The Rock and the NWO. Nowadays, you don’t see anyone wearing wrestling merchandise unless you’re at a WWE show.

Meltzer also adressed the Brock Lesnar/A.J. Styles Survivor Series match, calling it a success while pointing out that nobody would have cared about a Lesnar/Jinder Mahal match. Russo says, “Screw you, Meltzer”, adding that Meltzer’s problem is that he talks out of place, putting words in everybody else’s mouths. Russo says he would have much rather watched a Lesnar/Mahal match.

At another point last week Meltzer discussed RAW’s 3-hour run-time, saying that it doesn’t matter what WWE writes, fans are always going to tune out towards the end of a 3-hour program. Russo disagrees entirely, saying that he and Ed Ferrera wrote several 3-hour episodes of Monday Nitro and those shows held their audience right until the end.

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While speaking to Times of India, Kane talked about former WWE Champion Jinder Mahal and mentioned that WWE Superstars should strive to be more like him.

“He was in the WWE years ago, then left company. And then really improved both in his wrestling and his body and came back and became a world champion. I think a guy like Jinder Mahal is really what every WWE superstar should strive to become.”

Kane also talked about Braun Strowman and predicts that he will be one of the greatest big men ever.

“Braun Strowman is doing a great job and he is going to have great career in WWE. I think at the end of the career he will be known as one of the great big men ever.”

You can check out the full interview here.

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– Sin Cara, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson are scheduled for the November 25th Starrcade event in Greensboro, NC.

– Jeff Hardy will be performing acoustic musical show after Starrcade at The Blind Tiger in Greensboro, NC. Tickets are available here.

– WWE plans to have back-to-back RAW and SmackDown tapings in the same market and venue next year.

– AJ Styles posted the following in regards to his upcoming WWE Championship Title defense against Jinder Mahal at Clash of Champions:

Being a champion isn’t a one day job. You can’t take shortcuts to be the man.
So you and your mini Maharajas better be ready for #WWEClash…

….for a forearm to the face.

— AJStyles.Org (@AJStylesOrg) November 22, 2017

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PWInsinsider has confirmed that the main event the upcoming WWE Clash of Champions will be WWE Champion AJ Styles defending the title against Jinder Mahal. It’s very possible they set this match up on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live.

WWE Clash of Champions takes place on December 17th, 2017. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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