Here is the updated card for the upcoming NXT Takeover: Philadelphia show coming out of this week’s NXT television:

Extreme Rules Match
Adam Cole vs. Aleister Black

NXT Women’s Title Match
Ember Moon vs. Shayna Baszler

NXT Tag Team Title Match
The Authors of Pain vs. Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish

NXT Title Match
Andrade “Cien” Almas vs. the winner of next week’s Johnny Gargano vs. Velveteen Dream match

NXT Takeover: Philadelphia takes place on January 27, 2018 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The following WWE Superstars are currently the early favorites to win the men’s Royal Rumble 30-Man Battle Royal match, according to betting sites like Paddy Power:

John Cena
Roman Reigns
Nakamura
AJ Styles
Seth Rollins

The Royal Rumble will take place on January 28, 2018, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It will be the thirty-first event under the Royal Rumble chronology and the first to feature a Women’s Royal Rumble match.

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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.

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Here are the early betting odds for the upcoming WWE Battleground event:

• Flag match between John Cena and Rusev. Cena is favored at -400, meaning it would take a successful $400 bet to win +100. Rusev is a +280 underdog in this match.
• The WWE Championship match, a Punjabi Prisonmatch, sees the champion Jinder Mahal as a projected -200 favorite. The underdog, Randy Orton, is a +250 underdog.

WWE Battleground takes place on July 23rd from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. As always, we will have live play-by-play coverage.

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The following card is being rumored for the upcoming SmackDown-brand WWE Battleground event:

Punjabi Prison Match for the WWE Championship
Jinder Mahal (C) vs. Randy Orton

Tag Team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships
The New Day (C) vs. The Usos

WWE the United States Championship
Kevin Owens (C) vs. AJ Styles

SmackDown Women’s Championship
Lana vs. Naomi

Rusev vs. John Cena

Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Baron Corbin

Sami Zayn vs. Mike Kanellis

WWE Battleground takes place on July 23rd from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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Dave Meltzer discussed the upcoming WWE Backlash event on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio. As of this writing there are only two matches confirmed for the show. Those matches are Jinder Mahal defending his WWE World Title against Randy Orton in a Punjabi Prison match and The Usos defending their tag team championships against The New Day.

Meltzer revealed that two other matches that will take place on the card. Those matches are:

• Sami Zayn vs. Mike Kanellis
• Nakamura vs. Baron Corbin

WWE Battleground takes place on July 23rd from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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The New Day challenged The Usos to a shot at the SmackDown Tag Team Championships on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. Usos accepted the challenge and will defend their titles on the card. No other matches have been announced for the show yet.

Battleground takes place on July 23rd from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

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It looks like the Punjabi Prison match may be making a return to WWE very soon.

There has been speculation that the upcoming match that is rumored to take place at July 29th WWE Battleground event between Randy Orton and Jinder Mahal will be a Punjabi Prison match. It’s being said that staff workers at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia did measurements in the arena to fit a large bamboo structure. Word also going around is that employees of WWE have been instructed to take the Punjabi Prison structure out of storage.

Pro Wrestling Sheet’s Ryan Satin mentioned on Twitter that Orton is expected to take time off but he will still be around for the Punjabi match at Battleground:

Not sure if he's taking any time off to film the movie, but he'll at least be around until next month's Punjabi Prison match at Battleground https://t.co/SERcF1DVLs

— Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) June 22, 2017

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