Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that the following matches will probably take place at NXT Takeover: New Orleans:

* Andrade Almas vs. Aleister Black
* Johny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
* Sanity (Young, Dain, & Wolfe) vs. Undisputed Era (Cole, Fish, & O’Reilly)
* Ember Moon vs. Shayna Baszler

NXT Takeover: New Orleans takes place at the Smoothie King Center on Saturday, April 7th, 2018.

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WWE announced today that The Dudley Boyz will be going into the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame class.

BREAKING: As first reported by @CBSSports, @bullyray5150 and @TestifyDVon are the next inductees into the @WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018! #WWEHOF https://t.co/ZaLsW20GWt

— WWE (@WWE) January 29, 2018

The Dudleyz join Bill Goldberg as confirmed names for this year’s class. The induction ceremony will take place on Friday, April 6th from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans during WrestleMania 34 weekend.

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In celebration of the upcoming 25th Anniversary of RAW episode, WWE uploaded this Attitude Era intro with current WWE Superstars:

We prefer the original, which can be seen below:

The RAW 25th Anniversary show takes place on January 22nd, 2018. Several big names are confirmed for the show including “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, X-Pac and many others.

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WWE published a preview for tonight’s new episode of “Straight to the Source” that features Enzo Amore being asked about the rumors of being kicked off a tour bus by Roman Reigns last year. Enzo seemingly denies that he was kicked off the bus but also mentioned that you can’t kick him out of someplace he doesn’t want to be.

“If that’s the case, you wouldn’t have seen me on the next show, correct? I have to get from point A to point B and they have to provide those accommodations because we work for a Fortune 500 company, so it’s impossible to kick me off a bus.”

Enzo continued, “They ain’t stupid and neither am I, they’re not going to put themselves in jeopardy by not providing transportation to one of their biggest stars. If I can’t get from point A to point B not on a bus, how am I getting there? How could you kick me off of some place… you can’t kick me out of someplace I don’t want to be.”

You can listen to Enzo’s remarks embedded below:

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X-Pac opens today’s show by wishing a happy birthday to his long-time friend, Jim Ross. Ross turns 66 years old today, and X-Pac reinforces how much Ross has meant to him over the years as a mentor and a friend.

X-Pac talks about a recent video he saw of Brian Pillman Jr., son of former WWE Superstar, Brian Pillman. He points out that Pillman Jr. looks and works just like his father, and he has no issue at all with Pillman Jr. using the Pillman name throughout his wrestling career. He thinks Pillman Jr. should continue to use his family name and get every advantage that he can get out of it. He points out that Curtis Axel probably could have benefitted from utilizing the Henning name.

He mentions that Wrestle Kingdom 12 will take place is just a matter of hours, and he thinks this will be the biggest NJPW event ever internationally, mostly due to having Chris Jericho involved in the show. On the other hand, he doubts that this will be the biggest show NJPW has put off locally in Japan.

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As previously reported, Dean Ambrose is out of action with an injury and is expected to miss up to nine months of in-ring action. Since Ambrose’s injury, there have been significant amount of changes to several television storylines and it now looks like one plan the company had in mind could be nixed altogether.

WWE was originally planning a Shield reunion tour at WWE Live Events, which has already been pushed back once after Roman Reigns caught the mumps a couple months back. Ambrose’s recent injury may have now halted those plans altogether now.

The belief is once Ambrose returns from his injury in nine months, Roman Reigns will already be WWE Universal Champion, so it wouldn’t make much sense to do the tour because the idea behind The Shield’s reunion in the first place was to help get Reigns over more before they decided to put the title on him.

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Starting January 16th and for the next 12 weeks after, 205 Live will be moving to a new start time of 10:30PM. In it’s place, WWE Mix Match Challenge will air in it’s spot until the new Facebook Watch series concludes.

More details about WWE’s new Mix Match Challenge show can be read at this link.

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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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CM Punk is apparently meeting with UFC President Dana White to discuss future plans. There has been talk that he’s been training for his next MMA fight.

"CM Punk is coming to Detroit and wants to talk to me. I love the guy. We'll see what he's doing." – Dana White

— Adam Hill (@AdamHillLVRJ) November 28, 2017

There is no exact word yet on when exactly it will take place or if it will even take place at all. Dana questioned if Punk should even fight for the UFC after his debut loss against Mickie Gail.

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Impact Wrestling announced on twitter that Rosemary vs. Taya Valkyrie “Red Wedding” will not take place at Sunday’s Bound for Glory event. They said that Valkyrie will be unable to make the show and the TV tapings next week.

Due to circumstances beyond our control @TheTayaValkyrie will not be at #BFG2017 or the tapings. We look forward to seeing Taya in 2018.

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) November 4, 2017

Taya Valkyrie reacted to the announcement with the following remarks:

I’ll post a video this afternoon and chat w all of you. 2 say I’m disappointed is an understatement. I’m devastated, but I’ll be back in Jan https://t.co/n8HCEueKHW

— Lucha Royalty (@TheTayaValkyrie) November 4, 2017

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