WWE के सबसे बड़े सालाना इवेंट, रेसलमेनिया (Wrestle Mania), का आयोजन दुनिया भर के रेसलिंग फैंस के लिए एक बड़ा आकर्षण होता है। अगला रेसलमेनिया, Wrestle Mania 41, लास वेगास में होने वाला है, और इसके टिकट की कीमतों को लेकर अभी से चर्चाएं शुरू हो गई हैं। इन ऊंची कीमतों पर अब WWE के सबसे बड़े और सम्मानित रेसलर्स में से एक, 14 बार के वर्ल्ड चैंपियन रैंडी ऑर्टन (Randy Orton) ने अपनी प्रतिक्रिया दी है, जिसमें उन्होंने फैंस के प्रति गहरी सहानुभूति व्यक्त की है।

हाल ही में यूट्यूबर और WWE सुपरस्टार लोगन पॉल (Logan Paul) के लोकप्रिय पॉडकास्ट ‘इम्पाल्सिव’ (Impulsive) पर बातचीत के दौरान, रैंडी ऑर्टन से रेसलमेनिया जैसे बड़े इवेंट्स के टिकट की कीमतों के बारे में पूछा गया। ऑर्टन ने बिजनेस के नजरिए से इन कीमतों को समझने की बात स्वीकार की, लेकिन साफ तौर पर कहा कि उन्हें फैंस के लिए दुख होता है, जो इन इवेंट्स में शामिल होने के लिए इतनी बड़ी रकम खर्च करते हैं।

ऑर्टन ने कहा:
“मुझे फैंस के लिए बहुत बुरा लगता है,” ऑर्टन ने पॉडकास्ट पर कहा। “मैं बिजनेस साइड को समझता हूं… आप इन इवेंट्स में जो देखते हैं, उसकी क्वालिटी और स्केल को देखते हुए ये समझ आता है कि कीमतें इतनी ऊंची क्यों हैं। यह एक अविश्वसनीय प्रोडक्शन होता है। लेकिन हां, फैंस के लिए यह मुश्किल है। उन्हें अपनी जेब ढीली करनी पड़ती है।”

रैंडी ऑर्टन का यह बयान ऐसे समय में आया है जब सोशल मीडिया पर कई फैंस रेसलमेनिया के टिकटों, खास तौर पर प्रीमियम सीटों की अत्यधिक कीमतों को लेकर शिकायत कर रहे हैं। कई लोगों का कहना है कि कीमतें इतनी ज्यादा हो गई हैं कि औसत प्रशंसक के लिए इवेंट में शामिल होना लगभग नामुमकिन हो गया है।

WWE, जो अब TKO ग्रुप होल्डिंग्स के तहत काम करती है, रेसलमेनिया को सिर्फ एक रेसलिंग शो नहीं, बल्कि एक विशाल एंटरटेनमेंट वीकेंड के तौर पर प्रमोट करती है। इसमें कई इवेंट्स शामिल होते हैं और यह दुनिया भर से दर्शकों को आकर्षित करता है। इस स्केल और डिमांड को देखते हुए कंपनी टिकटों की कीमतें प्रीमियम रखती है।

हालांकि, रैंडी ऑर्टन जैसे दिग्गज का फैंस के प्रति सहानुभूति दिखाना महत्वपूर्ण है। ऑर्टन ने दो दशकों से अधिक समय तक WWE में काम किया है और वह जानते हैं कि ये इवेंट्स फैंस के लिए कितने खास होते हैं। उनका बयान यह दर्शाता है कि रेसलर्स भी फैंस के सामने आने वाली वित्तीय चुनौतियों से अवगत हैं। एक ऐसे व्यक्ति के तौर पर जिसका करियर काफी हद तक फैंस के समर्थन पर निर्भर रहा है, ऑर्टन का यह दृष्टिकोण कई लोगों द्वारा सराहा जा रहा है।

रेसलमेनिया 41 अगले साल लास वेगास के एलीगेंट स्टेडियम (Allegiant Stadium) में आयोजित होने वाला है। यह स्टेडियम सुपर बाउल जैसे बड़े इवेंट्स की मेजबानी कर चुका है और इसकी क्षमता हजारों दर्शकों की है। इवेंट का वेन्यू और लास वेगास जैसे महंगे शहर में होना भी स्वाभाविक रूप से टिकट की कीमतों को प्रभावित करता है।

कुल मिलाकर, रैंडी ऑर्टन ने बिजनेस की वास्तविकता को स्वीकार करते हुए भी, रेसलमेनिया जैसे बड़े इवेंट्स के महंगे टिकटों का बोझ उठाने वाले फैंस के प्रति अपनी चिंता व्यक्त की है। उनका बयान इस चल रही बहस में एक महत्वपूर्ण दृष्टिकोण जोड़ता है और फैंस की भावनाओं को दर्शाता है, जो अपने पसंदीदा रेसलर्स को सबसे बड़े मंच पर देखने के लिए मोटी रकम चुकाने को मजबूर हैं। यह देखना होगा कि क्या टिकटों की कीमतें भविष्य में फैंस के लिए अधिक सुलभ हो पाती हैं, या फिर बड़े इवेंट्स में शामिल होना एक महंगे शौक के तौर पर ही जारी रहेगा।

Russo is absent from today’s show, so Jeff Lane and former WWE Superstars, Bin Hamin and Stevie Richards will handle the RAW25 and Smackdown review show without him.

Beginning with their thoughts on Smackdown, Hamin points out that he has no idea who’s writing the promos on Smackdown Live recently, because they’ve been absolutely brutal. He feels that the creative team has taken great performers such as Kevin Owens and A.J. Styles and turned them into ‘D’ players with some of the content they’ve provided them.

Hamin also wonders what Sami Zayn is supposed to be right now. They’re trying to make him a main-event talent by pairing him with Owens and having him jump up and down during his entrance, but it’s just not working. He says that Zayn is just an annoying heel right now, and not in a good way.

Richards points out that WWE continues to book Nakamura in strange positions. They had him cut another uncomfortable backstage promo during this show, and he wasn’t able to understand a word that Nakamura said. He also didn’t understand Randy Orton attacking Nakamura during his match with Baron Corbin because it was only a couple of weeks ago that those two guys were tagging together.

Moving over to RAW, Hamin thought The Manhattan Center looked great and he had high hopes for the event until roughly 10 minutes into the show. He thought WWE really paid respect to old school programming with how much effort they put into the decoration of The Manhattan Center but after the Austin segment the show took a nose dive rather quickly.

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Taz is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Seth.

Taz opens today’s show by speaking about last night’s 25th Anniversary episode of RAW. He points out that The Manhattan Center crowd had to deal with long breaks between in-ring action, and this resulted in the live audience getting very agitated. Most fans paid hundreds of dollars to be live at The Manhattan Center, and he thinks WWE failed to book this event properly.

Seth says that the Undertaker promo was very open-ended and it didn’t really impress him. He would have preferred seeing Undertaker get physical with a full-time talent. Taz points out that WWE prostitutes their younger talent to the aging veterans enough as it is, so Undertaker cutting a promo was not a bad idea in his mind. He also adds that Undertaker may not have been physically able to have an in-ring confrontation.

Taz believes that Randy Orton definitely should have been on this show and Orton’s wife obviously agreed, since she sent out a social media post yesterday saying so. Taz informs that he wasn’t invited back for this show, and he adds that he’s too critical of WWE’s current product to be invited back for this type of show.

He informs that he was present backstage at a recent commemorative episode of Smackdown, and they didn’t even use him on camera then when he was live in the building. He adds that he’s almost happy that he wasn’t invited to this show because they would have had him walking backstage with a towel over his head or playing poker with the APA. He wouldn’t have been interested in anything like that, especially if they weren’t going to pay him.

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The topic of which talents WWE will bring in for the RAW 25th anniversary show has been a hot topic of late among individuals within WWE. PWInsider reports that there was “a lot of talk” internally about which talents would be appearing over the last week.

As of this writing, the following names are confirmed legends for the event:

* The Undertaker
* Shawn Michaels
* Kevin Nash
* John Cena
* Brock Lesnar
* Jim Ross
* Jerry Lawler
* X-Pac

Active RAW Superstars being advertised include:

* Roman Reigns
* Seth Rollins
* Dean Ambrose
* Asuka
* Braun Strowman
* Alexa Bliss
* Samoa Joe
* Sheamus
* Cesaro
* Kane
* Kurt Angle

Active SmackDown Superstars advertised:

* AJ Styles
* Randy Orton
* Jinder Mahal

We will keep you updated if more names are “rumored” or confirmed for the event.

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Taz opens today’s show by saying that he thinks WWE is mishandling Nakamura right now. Nakamura and Asuka are special in Taz’s opinion and while Asuka is being treated the right way by WWE, Nakamura is not. He knows that the laugauge barrier probably a problem for Vince McMahon, but with some creative writing that wouldn’t be an issue.

Taz points out that Nakamura had a good run when he first debuted on the main roster, but now he’s losing clean on Smackdown Live to Kevin Owens and being booked in tag matches on PPVs. He adds that there’s no shame in losing to Owens or tagging with Randy Orton for that matter, but sometime losing clean on television can hurt you, and this is one of those times in Taz’s opinion.

He liked the A.J. Styles/Singh Brothers segment last night, even though some of the lines in the Singh Brother’s promo came off lame and corny. Taz was happy that WWE at least handled their Champion well here, having Styles get the better of the Singh Brothers before standing tall to end the segment.

Taz mentions that Colin Delaney made his return to Smackdown after a decade’s absence last night, losing a tag team match to the Bludgeon Brothers. Taz says that Delaney is a nice kid and it was cool to see him back on Smackdown all these years later, even if it was just for a one-off appearance like Mike Johnson of PWInsider reported.

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Shane McMahon announced before SmackDown Live went off the air tonight that he will be the special guest referee in Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn’s match at WWE Clash of Champions. If Owens & Zayn lose the match, they will be fired from WWE.

Not only will #SDLive Commissioner @shanemcmahon be special guest referee for @FightOwensFight & @SamiZayn's #WWEClash match… if they lose, they'll be fired from ALL of @WWE! pic.twitter.com/H3e9XWIiaj

— WWE (@WWE) December 6, 2017

Here is the updated card for the December 17th event:

WWE Title
AJ Styles (c) vs. Jinder Mahal

Lumberjack Match: Women’s Title
Charlotte (c) vs. Natalya

US Title
Baron Corbin (c) vs. Bobby Rodde vs. Dolph Ziggler

Tag Team Titles
Rusev & Aiden English vs. The Usos (c) vs. The New Day vs. Shelton Benjamin and Chad Gable

Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn vs. Randy Orton & TBA.
(If Owens & Zayn loses, they will be fired from WWE)

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As previously noted, Randy Orton posted a photo on Instagram about his food from McDonalds while referencing Kevin Owens and his diet.

“Don’t judge me @metabolicmelas @1stphorm @emergfitnesstraining I needed the calories. Also I’m training for a potential confrontation with @fightowensfight,” Orton wrote.

Owens caught wind of Orton’s remarks and responded by taking a jab at how boring Orton is by making a  reference to paint drying.

“I’ve been preparing for a potential battle between us too, buddy. I watched paint dry today. I’ve got you all figured out.”

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WWE released backstage interviews featuring Rusev and The Hype Bros ahead of tonight’s Hell in a Cell match. You can check them out below:

WWE also released a video featuring Dasha Fuentes promoting tonight’s Hell in a Cell event from the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

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Hell in a Cell has been around for 20 years now. Between 1997 and today, nearly 40 matches have been contested inside Satan’s Structure. While the stipulation has produced many classics (who can forget Undertaker v. the Big Boss Man?), there have been a fair share of stinkers as well.

Obviously the older Cell matches are better (blood and brutality really add to the match), but there have also been some real classics in recent history. Since 2010, nearly 20 matches took place inside the Devil’s Playground. Which of these newer matches is the best? I’ll try my best to rank them.

4. Daniel Bryan v. Randy Orton (Hell in a Cell, 2013)

This was the sort-of culmination of the feud between Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton. After Bryan won the title at Summerslam, Orton cashed in his Money in the Bank contract, and the rest is history. Bryan won the title back at Night of Champions, but then he was stripped of it after a supposed fast count. After a draw at Battleground, the duo were set to settle their differences inside Hell in a Cell.

They went to war inside the structure. There were chairs involved. Lots of chairs. Also Shawn Michaels was there, for some reason. While Orton and Bryan failed to truly set the world on fire in previous bouts, they delivered here. There was lots of violence and barbarism on display here.

Shawn Michaels eventually kicked Bryan’s head off, which allowed Orton to pick up the win. Many believed this was the end of Bryan’s story, but he would get his win back at Wrestlemania the following year.

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Below are the betting odds for Sunday’ WWE Hell in a Cell event. These numbers will most-likely change over the next few days.

(Note: The favorites have the “-” symbol and the underdogs have the “+” symbol)

Falls Count Anywhere: Hell In a Cell Match
Shane McMahon (+225) vs. Kevin Owens (-350)

WWE Title Championship
Shinsuke Nakamura (+150) vs. Jinder Mahal (-200)

WWE United States Championship
Baron Corbin (+150) vs. AJ Styles (-225)

SmackDown Women’s Championship
Natalya (-150) vs. Charlotte (+110)

Hell In a Cell Tag Team Championship
The Usos (+110) vs. The New Day (-137)

Rusev (+110) vs. Randy Orton (-150)

Dolph Ziggler (+175) vs. Bobby Roode (-250)

Kickoff Pre-show:
The Hype Bros (+500) vs. Chad Gable and Shelton Benjamin (-1200)

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