Ross welcomes Josh Barnett to the show.

Barnett and Ross will voiceover the NJPW WrestleKingdom 12 event in January and they’re both very exited about the opportunity to do so. Barnett informs that he never watches matches or clips before calling the action because he wants to watch the action for the first time as he’s making the call. Ross agrees entirely and says he does the exact same thing.

Barnett says if he was Conor McGregor he’d definitely fight again. For him, having made the money that McGregor has recently would take the pressure off and he’d just be able to fight for the love of fighting. Perhaps, McGregor has different motivations however, and he mighn’t be interested in fighting unless he’s paid what he feels he’s deserved.

He also wouldn’t be surprised to see Conor McGregor make an appearance in WWE in the near future, but he hopes that McGregor appreciates and respects the business if he’s lucky enough to work for WWE at some point.

Barnett also thinks Ronda Rousey will make a great addition to WWE’s roster and he feels her training in Judo will make for a natural transition to professional wrestling.

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WWE announced at Survivor Series that Jinder Mahal will invoke his WWE Championship rematch against AJ Styles on Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live. Also announced for for the show is the debut of The Bludgeon Brothers.

Check back here on Tuesaday at 8PM ET for our live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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AJ Styles defeated Jinder Mahal to win the WWE Championship Title at today’s SmackDown Live tapings in Manchester. You can check out our full spoiler report at this link.

Styles will now face Brock Lesnar at next Sunday’s WWE Survivor Series event.

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While speaking with News 18, Triple H provided an update on The Great Khali’s status with WWE and indicated that he could be used again in the future.

“Great Khali is a legend in the industry and he is always welcome to the WWE and we look forward to appearances by him in the future if that is something he wants to do. I know right now he is here in India and he is enjoying and kind of helping to train the next generation of superstars as well and being very successful at that. But you know, Great Khali is always going to be a legendary figure to the WWE and that means he is welcome at any time he wants to.”

Great Khali has been off WWE television since his interference in the WWE Championship match between Randy Orton and Jinder Mahal at WWE Battleground back on July 23rd. His appearance was originally planned for a one-and-done.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

Russo points out that WWE’s viewership continues to decline and is regularly under 3 Million people now. They’re getting dangerously close to an average viewership of 2.5 Million, and Russo has no idea why anybody would watch RAW or Smackdown Live right now. He believes the only people who are watching WWE right now are people who are watching it out of habit, simply because they’ve always watched wrestling.

After Lesnar beat Strowman with one F5 at No Mercy, WWE is now attempting to build him up again. Strowman has defeated Ambrose and Rollins on back-to-back weeks, but both matches were lengthy and competitive.

He believes that WWE has booked these matches to be longer because there are some conditioning issues with Strowman, and this is their way of getting him used to working longer matches. However, ‘The Monster’ should never be working matches of this length with a guy the size of Rollins and although Strowman won, this match hurt him in Russo’s opinion.

Russo is glad WWE is doing something with Mickie James because he’s a very big fan of hers, but this has become a very predictable storyline. The ‘old woman/man’ angle has been done a million times before in professional wrestling, and there’s nothing new to see here.

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PWInsider reports that Nakamura is being booked to go over Randy Orton in the #1 contenders match on tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. Nakamura will then move on to face Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship at the upcoming WWE Heel in a Cell event.

Smackdown takes place tonight from Omaha, Nebraska and airs live on USA Network. Check back here at 8PM ET for our live play-by-play coverage of tonight’s show.

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WWE heads to the the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. Here are the focus points for the show:

* Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura battle for a WWE Championship opportunity tonight on SmackDown Live

* Natalya takes on Carmella tonight on SmackDown Live

* Will Kevin Owens continue to rail against Shane McMahon?

* Will Dolph Ziggler finally show off his star power?

* Corey Graves to take over as new SmackDown Live commentator

Check back here at 8PM ET for our live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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Ross opens today’s show by expressing his excitement at the news that Ric Flair is improving after being hospitalized last weekend. He says that for a few days last week things could have went either way, as doctors were unsure of Flair’s fate. Luckily for all of us, Flair kicked out at two and appears to be recovering as we speak. Ross is sure that Flair will be up and back in action sooner rather than later.

Ross says that he had a terrific time in Brooklyn last week. He informs that he and Lita had to re-do the commentary for 16 matches of the Mae Young Classic after a change was made in the the show’s creative/direction. Ross was surprised to hear that they had to re-do that much content, but he looked at it as an opportunity to improve upon his work and he believes he and Lita accomplished that.

He says that he thoroughly enjoyed his guest appearance on NXT Takeover on Saturday night, and he says it’s hard to put into words the distinct atmosphere that exists at NXT events. He thought Aleister Black and Hideo Itami had a great, physical bout on Saturday and he was proud to be a part of it.

Ross thinks that Lesnar is a ‘man amongst men’, and he took an awful beating on Sunday night in an effort to make the other three men look good. There’s no doubt that this match was booked around making Braun Strowman look like a destructive force, and the work of all four men certainly helped in accomplishing that goal.

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Ross opens today’s show by sending his best wishes and prayers to Ric Flair and his family after Flair was hospitalized over the weekend. He says he loves Flair, and he considers Flair to be the greatest professional wrestler of all time. Flair is a fighter and even survived a plane crash at one point, so there’s no way Flair is going to give up easily in this case either.

Ross says he has high expectations for SummerSlam, and he expects it to be an outstanding presentation. He’s anxious to see how Nakamura and Jinder Mahal mesh bell to bell, and he thinks this match has the potential to be a ‘shocker’ because he doesn’t believe many fans are giving it a chance to succeed.

He also thinks Lesnar is going to retain his Universal Title at SummerSlam, and this Fatal 4-way will set up a feud going forward between Lesnar and Braun Strowman. Ross still believes that Strowman is WWE’s next top star because he turns head wherever he goes, and his size allows him to be impressive in the ring without having to execute dangerous, risky move. This leads one to believe that he has a long shelf life as a WWE Superstar and that’s very inviting for WWE officials.

Ross urges his listeners to sign up to the WWE Network if they can afford it because the Network provides terrific value at its $9.99 price. Ross says that while he’s in town for SummerSlam he’s going to be filming something for a new WWE Network show and he’s not even sure what it’s going to be yet. Whatever it turns out to be, he’s looking forward to it.

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It looks like Shinsuke Nakamura may have a special entrance of sorts at this month’s WWE SummerSlam event.

WWE shared the video below on Instagram that features CFO$ and Lee England Jr, the violinist that has performed Nakamura’s theme song at previous events. It’s being speculated that he could perform again before Nakamura’s match against Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXYnUDqA159/

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