Daniel Bryan announced in the closing segment of tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live that AJ Styles will defend his WWE Championship Title against Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn in a handicap match at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view event.

Here is the updated card for the show:

* WWE Universal Championship Triple Threat Match: Kane vs. Braun Strowman vs. Brock Lesnar

* WWE Championship Match: Kevin Owens & Sami Zayn vs. AJ Styles (Handicap match)

* 30-Man Men’s Royal Rumble Match

* Women’s Royal Rumble Match

The Royal Rumble takes place on January 28th in Philadelphia. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

The post Title Match Announced for The Royal Rumble appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

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.

The post Dean Ambrose’s Injury Cause More Changes appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

While speaking to Sports Illustrated, Daniel Cormier predicted that the main even of WrestleMania 34 will not be Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns, but instead he believes Braun Strowman will face Reign instead.

“A lot of people boo him (Roman) because they think he’s pushed too hard, but WWE is smart. Now they’ve spun it–they’ve stuck Roman back with The Shield, and now people cheer him again. They’ll find a way to make him the good guy, and I believe that he will get the championship back in New Orleans, but not from Brock Lesnar. I think Braun Strowman will be carrying the belt by then.”

Brock Lesnar is scheduled to defend his WWE Universal Championship against Braun Strowman and Kane at next month’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view event. It Cormier is correct in his prediction, that means Strowman will leave The Rumble as the new Universal Champion.

The post Daniel Cormier Predicts the Main Event for WrestleMania 34 appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

Stephanie McMahon returned on tonight’s episode of RAW and announced the first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match for next month’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view. Stephanie didn’t elaborate exactly how many participants will compete in the match, but many are speculating that it will be 20 women.

Here is the updated card for the show:

WWE Universal Championship Match
Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman vs. Kane

30-Man Royal Rumble Match

Women Royal Rumble Match

The Royal Rumble will take place on January 28, 2018, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The post First-Ever Women’s Royal Rumble Match Announced appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

Vince McMahon is “pulling out all the stops” for the new Facebook Watch show, WWE Mixed Match Challenge.

According to Pro Wrestling Sheet, McMahon wants to impress Facebook’s top executives and get attention of other streaming services so that WWE can have more doors open to them in 2019 when their TV contract with NBC Universal expires.

Mixed Match Challenge is not expected to tie into on-going storylines on RAW or SmackDown.

Nix Jax and Enzo Amore are expected to team up on the show and it’s very possible that other real-life couples such as Jimmy Uso & Noami and Lana & Rusev team up on the show.

Facebook will be paying WWE for the distribution rights to the show, which will have a 12 week run. WWE wants to see how the revenue pans out for this show.

The post Vince McMahon “Pulling Out All The Stops” for WWE Mixed Match Challenge appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

Ross is intrigued by the upcoming TLC card. He doesn’t think he’s ever seen a handicap TLC match before so the main event of Sunday’s card should be very interesting to say the least. He also thinks there’s a lot of hype surrounding Asuka’s main roster debut and he’s just as interested in that match as he is the main event match.

Ross is also interested in the rumoured Survivor Series match between Brock Lesnar and Jinder Mahal. He points out that when he first heard these rumours he was automatically wondering how WWE was going to book this finish and that’s always a good thing. He suspects that Lesnar will emerge victorious because WWE needs to keep him strong if he’s going to pass the Universal Title to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania.

Ross welcomes ‘The Million Dollar Man’ Ted DiBiase to the show.

DiBiase informs that his new documentary ‘The Price of Fame’ will air next month. The documentary will talk about his career in the business of professional wrestling and the trials and tribulations that accompanied it. Ross says he was happy to lend some time to DiBiase as he was interviewed for this film, and DiBiase’s son narrates the whole film.

The post The Ross Report Recap w/ Ted DiBiase – Massive Heat for the ‘Basketball Skit’, Getting Caught up in the Wrestling Lifestyle, The Undertaker’s Debut, More! appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

Even though plans were changed and Finn Balor is no longer challenging Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship at Survivor Series, he is still lobbying for the match to take place.

While speaking to metro.co.uk, Balor mentioned that he wants to go after Lesnar once his feud with Bray Wyatt comes to an end.

“Once I handle Bray Wyatt, I need to be going after the Universal Championship which I was never beaten for. Yes, Brock Lesnar is the current champion, but make sure you don’t forget that I relinquished the title due to injury, I was never beaten, and I definitely think that I deserve a title shot.”

Balor continued, “Right now, there’s a lot of interesting matches that could happen in WWE right now, but for me personally I think that Finn Balor vs Brock Lesnar is the most interesting match from a fans perspective that can happen right now. It’s something that has never happened before, with completely different styles inside and out of the ring. This could be a really big spectacle.”

Do you want to see the match take place? Sound off in the comment section below…

The post Finn Balor Continues to Lobby for Match Against Brock Lesnar appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

It was reported over the weekend via Dave Meltzer of F4Wonline that WWE has been planning for Universal Champion Brock Lesnar to face WWE Champion Jinder Mahal in a non-title match at the upcoming Survivor Series event.

Meltzer discussed the match on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio and said that WWE has been planning this idea for a long time. Meltzer added that there may be more RAW vs. SmackDown matches at the show but didn’t elaborate which matches those could be.

WWE Survivor Series will take place on November 19, 2017 at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

The post WWE Planning Additional RAW vs. SmackDown Matches for Survivor Series? appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

It was reported last month that WWE was planning on a Team Shane McMahon vs. Team Kevin Owens match for the upcoming Survivor Series event.

Bryan Alvarez indicated on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live that those plans still appear to be in place. Sami Zayn will be on Owens’ team, while AJ Styles will be on Shane’s team. Alvarez was unable to confirm, but it’s possible each team will have either four or five Superstars. Alvarez didn’t elaborate if the match would be elimination style or not.

Finn Balor vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship is also being rumored for the match. At one point there were plans for a WWE Four Horsewomen vs. UFC Four Horsewomen match, but those plans may have been nixed.

The post Backstage Plans for the Upcoming WWE Survivor Series Event appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.

WWE announced that Elias will face Apollo Crews on Sunday’s WWE Kickoff Pre-show for the No Mercy event.

BREAKING: #TitusWorldwide's @ApolloCrews will go one-on-one with @IAmEliasWWE THIS SUNDAY on #WWENoMercy Kickoff! https://t.co/m8X04y97Gd pic.twitter.com/C7VJ8jefJy

— WWE (@WWE) September 22, 2017

Here is the updated card:

WWE Universal Championship
Braun Strowman vs. Brock Lesnar

WWE Intercontinental Championship
Jason Jordan vs. The Miz

Fatal 5-Way for the RAW Women’s Championship
Sasha Banks vs. Bayley vs. Nia Jax vs. Emma vs. Alexa Bliss

RAW Tag Team Championship
Cesaro and Sheamus vs. Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins

WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Enzo Amore vs. Neville

John Cena vs. Roman Reigns

Bray Wyatt vs. Finn Balor

Kickoff match
Elias vs. Apollo Crews

WWE No Mercy will take place on September 24, 2017 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

The post New Match Announced for Sunday’s WWE No Mercy Event appeared first on Wrestling News & WWE News, Rumors & Spoilers.