WWE could be setting up Sami Zayn vs. Tye Dillinger for tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. As seen at Sunday’s Royal Rumble event, Zayn & Owens attacked Dillinger as he was was making his entrance into The Rumble match. Zayn ended up taking his spot.

Zayn and Dillinger had the following exchange on Twitter ahead of tonight’s show:

We're all gonna get what we have coming to us.

We're all gonna get what we deserve.

— Sami Zayn (@SamiZayn) January 29, 2018

Yeah, you will. https://t.co/28PdvRfRWR

— TEN (@WWEDillinger) January 30, 2018

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Ringside News will have a special giveaway available during the Royal Rumble weekend in celebration of our new t-shirt line with Pro Wrestling Tees and the Royal Rumble pay-per-view event.

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Bobby Roode defeated Jinder Mahal in the finals of the United States Championship tournament on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live to be crowned the new US Champion.

Our NEW #USChampion is nothing less than #GLORIOUS!!! #AndNew #USTitle #SDLive @REALBobbyRoode pic.twitter.com/k7WtbVyEsK

— WWE (@WWE) January 17, 2018

The match was originally scheduled to take place on next week’s show, however WWE did an angle after Roode defeated Mojo Rawley to set up the match on tonight’s show.

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WWE announced the Mixed Match Challenge brackets for the upcoming Facebook Watch series. Here is what they sent out:

“WWE Mixed Match Challenge will premiere this Tuesday night at 10 ET/7 PT, exclusively on Facebook Watch. As first revealed by Cathy Kelley on Facebook, the full bracket has now been established.

All six first-round matches will feature a Raw team taking on a SmackDown LIVE team. On the Jan. 16 premiere, Finn Bálor & Sasha Banks will go head-to-head against Shinsuke Nakamura & Natalya.

In the ensuing weeks, the remaining first-round matches will be carried out as follows:

Week 2: The Miz & Asuka vs. Big E & Carmella

Week 3: Braun Strowman & Raw Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs. Sami Zayn & Becky Lynch

Week 4: Goldust & Alicia Fox vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champion Jimmy Uso and Naomi

Week 5: Elias & Bayley vs. Rusev & Lana

Week 6: Apollo Crews & Nia Jax vs. Bobby Roode & SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair

The semi-finals will include a special “second chance fan vote” in which the WWE Universe will have the ability to give an eliminated team a second chance in the tournament.

Don’t miss a moment of the ground-breaking tournament when it premieres this Tuesday, Jan. 16, exclusively on Facebook Watch at 10 ET/7 PT. Follow the official WWE Mixed Match Challenge Facebook page for all updates.”

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Bobby Roode defeated Baron Corbin and Jinder Mahal defeated Tye Dillinger to advance in the US Title tournament on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live.

WWE Has announced that Zack Ryder will face Mojo Rawley and Aiden English will face Xavier Woods in the remaining tournament matches. The winner of Ryder vs. Rawley will face Roode and the winner of English vs. Woods will face Mahal.

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Dave Meltzer reported in the latest issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE is planning on holding an NXT Takeover event during Money in the Bank weekend.

The event will be held at the Allstate Arena in Chicago on June 16th the day before the MITB event. Traditionally, WWE only holds four Takeover events a year during the same weekend as their “big 4” pay-per-view events. With the Money an the Bank event now being a “dual brand” show, the company now has plans to add a fifth Takeover event next year.

Here is the pay-per-view schedule for 2018:

January 28th — Royal Rumble (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
February 25th — Elimination Chamber (Raw PPV in Las Vegas. Nevada)
March 11th — Fastlane (SmackDown PPV in Columbus, Ohio)
April 8th — WrestleMania 34 (New Orleans, Louisiana)
May 6th — Backlash (Raw PPV in Newark, New Jersey)
May 27th — Payback (SmackDown PPV in Baltimore, Maryland)
June 17th — Money in the Bank (Chicago, Illinois)
July 15th — Battleground (Raw PPV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
August 19th — SummerSlam (Brooklyn, New York)
September 16th — Extreme Rules (Raw PPV in San Antonio, Texas)
September 30th — Hell in a Cell (SmackDown PPV in Nashville, Tennessee)
October 21st — TLC (Raw PPV in Boston, Massachusetts)
November 18th — Survivor Series (Los Angeles, California)
December 16th — Clash of Champions (SmackDown PPV in San Jose, California)

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WWE announced that the first hour of RAW and Smackdown Live next week will be airing commercial-free. Here is the announcement:

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM USA NETWORK AND WWE®
STAMFORD, Conn., December 21, 2017 – Celebrate the holidays with WWE as USA Network airs the first hour of both Monday Night Raw® and SmackDown Live® commercial-free this Monday, December 25 at 8/7c and Tuesday, December 26 at 8/7c. This also marks the first time that USA Network will air Raw live on Christmas.

Raw and SmackDown Live are the #1 and #2 longest running weekly episodic programs in U.S. primetime TV history and two of the most-watched, regularly scheduled programs on cable, airing live every Monday and Tuesday nights on USA.

Averaging more viewers than any cable network in primetime, WWE programming is among the most socially active shows on TV, trending on Twitter 52 weeks per year. Raw and SmackDown Live have aired more original episodes than some of the most popular television series of all time, including The Simpsons, Gunsmoke, Lassie and Monday Night Football.

The 25th anniversary of Raw will emanate from Barclays Center and Manhattan Center in New York City on Monday, January 22, 2018, and air live on USA Network at 8/7c. WWE Superstars from both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown® Live will be at Barclays Center, while the event at Manhattan Center, the site of the first episode of Raw in 1993, will feature both WWE Superstars competing, and special appearances by WWE Legends Undertaker®, Shawn Michaels® and Kevin Nash®, amongst others.

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Former Impact Wrestling talent James Michael Curtin (Rockstar Spud) just arrived at the SmackDown Live tapings in Newark, NJ. Here is a photo of his arrival:

As previously noted, Spud is expected to be part of the 205 Live brand and may be debuting on tonight’s show. It’s also worth noting that he was backstage for last night’s RAW event as well.

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During the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed WWE advertising Daniel Bryan as a special guest referee for the SmackDown Live event on December 26th from the Allstate Arena in Chicago IL.

According the Meltzer, WWE is advertising Bryan because it’s been difficult as of late to push ticket sales in markets the feature double events. With RAW being taped at the same arena the night before, ticket sales may not be as strong the next night for SmackDown.

Meltzer believes that WWE could also be trying to capitalize on that market by placing Bryan as the special the guest referee with the idea that fans will “speculate” that Bryan will somehow be involved in some sort of shenanigans in the match. This will likely not happen because Bryan hasn’t been cleared and he’s considered “hands off” until he is (which may never happen under WWE’s watch).

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We reported earlier today that Luke Harper left the SmackDown tour this week but at the time of press there was no explanation as to why.

PWInsider reports that the reason Harper left the tour early after Thursday’s WWE Live Event in Lima, Peru was due to his wife going into early labor and giving birth to their son.

Harper is currently scheduled for the television tapings this week, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if he was given additional time off to spend with his family.

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