WWE announced today that Maria Menounos will serve as the special guest ring announcer for the Women’s Royal Rumble match this Sunday.

Here is the announcement:

“The first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble Match already has a special guest commentator in Raw Commissioner Stephanie McMahon. Now, it has a special ring announcer: Maria Menounos.

The “Extra” host (and WrestleMania veteran) filled in for Kelly Ripa on “Live with Kelly and Michael” earlier today and let slip during an interview with Golden Globe Award winner Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) that she will serve as the guest announcer for the inaugural contest.

“Maybe we can throw you in last-minute,” she quipped to Brosnahan. As to whether that happens, there’s only one way to find out. The Royal Rumble event airs at a special start time of 7 ET/4 PT this Sunday, streaming live on the award-winning WWE Network. “

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WWE announced Mojo Rawley vs. Zack Ryder for the Kicoff Pre-show at Sundday’s Clash of Champions event. Here is the updated card for the 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 & Nakamura
(If Owens & Zayn loses, they will be fired from WWE)
Special Guest Referees: Shane McMahon & Daniel Breyan

The Fashion Police vs. The Bludgeon Brothers

Kickoff Pre-show: Mojo Rawley vs. Zack Ryder

Check back here this Sunday for our live play-by-play coverage of the show.

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The Singh Brothers are still actively working alongside Jinder Mahal at WWE Live Events even though they split on WWE television. Mahal and The Singhs are currently set to work together at Saturday’s Live Event in New Delhi.

While reports earlier this week suggest that the alliance is over, it appears that they are only teaming up under a special circumstance only and they probably won’t be getting back together on television.

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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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WWE heads to the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina for tonight’s WWE Starrcade event. Here are the results from the show courtesy of Cassidy Haynes of BodySlam.net:

* The arena was asked use to vote for a match at Starrcade and everyone cheered and voted for Sting and Ric Flair however ended up getting Lex Luger and Flair. The match got booed out the building.

* Our correspondent sent word that the place is packed for being a “house show.”

* Starrcade video package opens the show.

* Bobby Roode vs. Dolph Ziggler. Roode comes out first, followed by Ziggler. Arn Anderson is the special enforcer for this match. Ziggler takes out AA after trying to take away a chair. Roode gets the victory after a spinbuster and an assist from Arn.

* Breezango, Tye Dillinger, The Ascension, Sin Cara vs. Rusev, Mike Kanellis, The Colons, The Bludgeon Brothers. The Bludgeon brothers get the victory for their team after they perform their finisher on Dillinger. After the match, Kanellis got the finisher as well from the Bludgeon Brothers.

* Naomi vs. Tamina. Lana is out with Tamina. Some fans in one section attempt a CM Punk chant. Naomi gets the victory.

* Tribute to Dusty Rhodes is shown.

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As reported earlier today, there is a promotional poster floating around on social media that indicated that John Cena would serve as the special guest referee in Brock Lesnar’s match against Jinder Mahal at the upcoming Survivor Series event.

According to PWInsider, the poster for Survivor Series is correct and Cena will serve as the special referee for the match.

As many are aware, Cena has been absent from WWE television to film for his role in the upcoming Bumblebee movie. No official announcement has been made regarding his return to WWE television. It’s also unknown if he will appear on SmackDown before Survivor Series or if the company will just make the announcement of Cena’s involvement on television and/or online. Time is running short as Survivor Series is just a few weeks away. Hopefully there is some sort of storyline to go with his involvement.

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While speaking to The Associated Press while promoting his new 30 For 30 special, Ric Flair joked that The Undertaker “contributed” to his drinking problem.

“He’s one of those guys that contributed to my problem,” Flair said with a big laugh. “He’s tough to hang with, man.”

Speaking of The Undertaker, he attended Flair’s special screening last week for the special. You can check out a photo of the two together below.

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It was previously reported that Alberto El Patron would have a role of sorts at next month’s Bound for Glory event.

Apparently there has been a lot of debate regarding how exactly the company will utilize him on the show. One idea being tossed around is to add him to the Eli Drake vs. Johnny Impact match. There has also been talk of making him the special guest referee for the bout. Nothing has been announced yet.

Impact Wrestling is hopeful that El Patron’s return will make a big splash and the company is looking to get as much as possible out of it.

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As previously reported, Ric Flair claimed while shooting the upcoming “30 for 30” special for ESPN he slept with roughly 10,000 women during his wrestling career.

Ric Flair’s fiancee Wendy reacted to that claim that Flair slept with 10,000 with the following remarks on her Facebook account:

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Even though there are reports of Baron Corbin being in the doghouse, that won’t stop the company from featuring him in a prominent role on WWE television.

According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE has plans to have Corbin work a program with AJ Styles over the United States Championship. This is part of the reason why he was featured as the special guest referee on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live. While Styles feuds with Corbin, Kevin Owens is slowly moving into his storyline with Shane McMahon, which should lead to Team Owens vs. Team McMahon at Survivor Series.

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