Daily Update: Khashoggi, NXT UK, LA Confidential

By Joseph Currier
Published: 17 Nov 2018, 15:21

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F4W NEWSLETTER: Figure Four Weekly: Looking at the WWE-EVOLVE relationship

The evolution of WWE’s relationships with promotions they’re friendly with continued to take shape this past weekend. Five WWE-contracted wrestlers were in action for EVOLVE last Friday and Saturday: The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford), Fabian Aichner, Kassius Ohno, and Mustafa Ali. Killian Dain made a surprise appearance for ICW in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday, defeating Mikey Whiplash after it had been advertised that Whiplash would be facing a wrestler from WWE.

WON NEWSLETTER: November 19, 2018 Observer Newsletter: Survivor Series shake up, more

One week ago, the Survivor Series was to be headlined by Brock Lesnar vs. A.J. Styles and Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch in battles of the Raw and Smackdown brand champions.

But just days before the show, two unrelated incidents saw both main events that were heavily-looked forward to change.

And in doing so, one of the key matches at WrestleMania, possibly the main event, was also established.

Right now the plan is for Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch to headline WrestleMania. After the injury to Lynch on 11/12, a fractured nose and a concussion from a punch by Nia Jax during an in-ring Raw vs. Smackdown women’s brawl, she was out of the match that, due to the promos on both sides, was the most looked-forward to match on the show.

The next day, both Vince McMahon and Rousey decided that the best course of action was to do the match at WrestleMania. Rousey and Lynch immediately went at it hard on social media, even though Rousey’s new opponent on the PPV is Charlotte Flair.

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SATURDAY NEWS UPDATE

WWE

The Washington Post reported yesterday that the CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
As WWE continues to catch up to their current tapings, two episodes of NXT UK are again scheduled to air on the WWE Network this Wednesday. They’ll premiere at 3 p.m. Eastern time and 4 p.m. Eastern, with the Women’s title tournament continuing on the episodes.
The WWE Performance Center’s YouTube account live streamed the WarGames cage being built for tonight’s TakeOver show.
WWE uploaded last year’s WarGames match between The Undisputed Era, SAnitY, and AOP & Roderick Strong to YouTube.
WWE posted a 12-minute clip from the Chronicle episode on Dean Ambrose that’s airing after TakeOver.
In a bonus clip from the WWE 365 special on him that’s airing after Survivor Series, AJ Styles talked about his obsession with video games.
WWE stock closed the week at $65.50 per share yesterday, which was down 3.68 percent on the day.
Becky Lynch responded to a clip of Big Show saying he got goosebumps from her performance on Monday’s Raw: “Getting goosebumps from my face lumps. Hey, @WWETheBigShow see can you pull some strings to get The Man out of doctor jail. I’m down in the supermarket picking fights with randos just to feel alive.”
Mike Mooneyham wrote about Lynch’s breakout week in his column for the Charleston Post and Courier.
With gaming pros as their coaches, Team WWE (Seth Rollins, Ruby Riott, Cesaro & Tyler Breeze) faced Team NXT (Adam Cole, Shayna Baszler, Dakota Kai & Johnny Gargano) in a League of Legends match.
John Cena will be appearing on The Graham Norton Show in December.

Pro Wrestling

Patricia Arquette tweeted after David Arquette’s match with Nick Gage at Joey Janela’s LA Confidential: “Thank you God that my brother @DavidArquette is alive today. David is the heart of our family… none of us could bear that…” She also wrote “Prolific post. Never again. I beg of you” today while responding to a tweet from earlier in the week where David asked what his last meal should be before he faces Gage.
Marko Stunt’s surgery has been moved to tomorrow morning. He noted that he suffered a bad break in his leg at LA Confidential.
Stunt will be replaced in the four-way ladder match for the Middleweight title at MLW’s tapings in Miami on December 14. Middleweight Champion MJF, Kotto Brazil, and Jason Cade are also in the match.
NXT’s Kassius Ohno was giving out free T-shirts at LA Confidential.
Amazing Red tweeted about having to miss his scheduled match against The Great Sasuke at LA Confidential: “Sorry 2 say I won’t be at #JJLAC..I was at the airport for 24hrs, Delay after delay. Not @GCWrestling_’s fault or my own. I apologize to fans/@the_greatsasuke. Definitely was looking forward to this. The coolest thing that happened was finally meeting [Paul Heyman] for 2 seconds.” Sasuke ended up facing DJZ at the show.
CZW announced Atsushi Onita for their Cage of Death XX show at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia on December 9.
The Great Muta is set for House of Glory’s Culture Clash 19 in Queens during WrestleMania weekend next April.
Enzo Amore told TMZ that he wasn’t vaping on the flight that he got kicked off, someone else was. Amore said someone in street clothes asked if he was vaping, and the person ended up being a flight attendant.
Sami Callihan vs. Tom Lawlor in a Chicago Street Fight. Joey Ryan & Swoggle vs. The Dirty Blondes, and Ricky Martinez vs. Dr. Rex Bacchus took place on this week’s MLW Fusion episode.

UFC/MMA

Dana White responded to Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone’s post about fighting Conor McGregor: “That’s not true. Absolutely not true. Obviously that’s the fight that Cowboy Cerrone wants but that’s not true. We haven’t even thought about an opponent for either one of those guys yet, meaning Khabib or Conor.” White said it’s not worth thinking about what’s next for McGregor or Khabib Nurmagomedov until they know what their punishments will be for the UFC 229 brawl.
White also said Floyd Mayweather has to come to the UFC if he wants to fight Nurmagomedov.
Cynthia Calvillo issued a statement following the scary footage of her failing to make weight for tonight’s UFC Fight Night show.
WGN released a first look video of CM Punk in the horror movie “Girl on the Third Floor.”
ESPN’s Brett Okamoto tweeted that the UFC is working on signing Kron Gracie and having him fight at UFC 233 in Anaheim on January 26.

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