1/11/2017

Survivor Series:

Shane McMahon has named himself as a team member, and captain, of team blue for this months Survivor Series. Bobby Roode and Shinsuke Nakamura earner spots 3 & 4 by winning qualification matches. AJ Styles vs Rusev will determine the last member next week.

Enzo Amore vs Kalisto for the Cruiserweight is now official.

Announcer returns:

Tom Phillips was back at work last night.

HOF'er unretires:

Tony Atlas will wrestle in Canada, for Elite, later this month.

Young Bucks on board:

The Young Bucks have signed up for Chris Jericho's Rock 'N' Wrestling cruise.

Best friends for-never:

Former best friends Hulk Hogan and Brutus The Barber are friends no more. Their fall out went public in spectacular fashion with a huge Twitter war this week. Brutus is angry that Hulk has started some kind of relationship with his ex wife. She then went on to take pride in reciting every negative word Hulk said about Bruti to him in a series of e-mails. Brutus, slighted by being stabbed in the front and the back, replied to a fan comment on a Hogan tweet, revealing the relationship between HH and his ex, Hogan threatened him with legal action, and things degenerated into a pretty ugly spat which included Brutus publishing the messages from his wife. Barber also claimed that Hogan tried to make a move on his current wife, before moving onto his ex, and got put in his place by her.

Tour starts:

Raw have arrived in the UK for the pre Survivor Series Euro tour. HHH is working as the third man in the Shield, and Bray Wyatt is back at work for the tour.

Bella business:

The Bella's have launched a sports and fitness clothes line, named after Brie's daughter.

Legend at PC:

Les Thatcher is coaching at the PC this week.

Rock names 3 matches he wants before he stops:

"One would be Triple H, The Game. The other would be The Beast Brock Lesnar. The other one would be a guy that actually just needs my foot in his ass, Roman Reigns. Yeah."

Jerry Lawler recalls early days of Raw:

"One of the things about was amazing about it, was the Manhattan Center wasn't a very big venue. At the time, they didn't know how successful this thing was going to become. It was in the very early stages. Just an infant being born at the Manhattan Center. And this place was small compared to the Barclays Center. It was a very small venue. The main thing I remember is having to dress, get ready for the matches, and get ready for the show in the stairwells. There was just not enough dressing rooms. And guys were dressing every little nook and cranny and broom closets to get ready for the show."

SD grope resolved:

Natalya and Zack Ryder have confirmed they are still friends after an inadvertent grope on Raw last week. Natalya grabbed Zack's junk as she pushed past him to brawl with the Raw women during the siege and with the media storm going on now with sexual harassment and abuse, the story got more legs than it probably deserved, or would have gotten otherwise.

Why Emma was cut:

Emma was fired by WWE to make an example of her. She had real heat with the writing and creative team for being outspoken on social media, particularly in relation to the awful Emmalina debacle, which has dragged on for some time. Being one of the most respected workers in the women's locker room could not save her, as WWE wanted to stamp down on talent shooting on angles they are not happy with, and talent fighting against creative when presented with stuff they did not want to do. The door is said to still be open for a return, but her release was described as subtraction to gain addition.

Vince McMahon made the decision to make some cuts on Friday during the WWE quarterly shareholders meeting.

Charlotte talks domestic violence abuse:

"At that time, we were young, and he had family issues as well, and I was constantly trying to make up for those - but when, in reality, we were both in unhealthy situations. And I kept thinking, 'Well maybe if I looked a certain way or acted a certain way, or if I did this better he wouldn't do xyz.' But it really had nothing to do with me, so I was continuing to make excuses. And when you're in a codependent relationship like that, you're listening to what the person says, but even though they do something else and say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. It will never happen again,' but that's not really how it is if the behavior never changes."