London’s O2 Arena is set to host WWE Raw and SmackDown on back-to-back days this summer.
WWE announced today that it has added a new SmackDown date to its June calendar. One night after Raw takes place at the venue, the O2 Arena in London will host SmackDown on Tuesday, June 23. Broadcast plans for the show were not disclosed. If it airs live on Netflix overseas, there would be a three-day gap between that airing and when the episode debuts in its normal Friday time slot in the United States.
This is SmackDown’s go-home show for WWE’s Night of Champions PLE that’s being held in Saudi Arabia the following weekend.
In addition to the SmackDown date, WWE has added a house show in Sheffield, England to the tour. That show is happening on Wednesday, June 24.
There are now 16 shows in total set for the tour, which has stops in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal. It includes WWE’s Clash in Italy PLE being held in Turin on May 31.
WWE summer 2026 European tour dates —
Thursday, May 28: House show at M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England
Friday, May 29: SmackDown at Olimpic Arena Badalona in Barcelona, Spain
Sunday, May 31: WWE Clash in Italy at Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy
Monday, June 1: Raw at Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy
Tuesday, June 2: House show at Zenith de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France
Wednesday, June 3: House show at MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday, June 4: House show at Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid, Spain
Friday, June 5: SmackDown at Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy
Saturday, June 6: House show at Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, Italy
Sunday, June 7: House show at Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence, Italy
Monday, June 8: Raw at Accor Arena in Paris, France
Saturday, June 20: House show at Utilita Arena in Cardiff, Wales
Sunday, June 21: House show at Utilita Arena in Birmingham, England
Monday, June 22: Raw at O2 Arena in London, England
Tuesday, June 23: SmackDown at O2 Arena in London, England
Wednesday, June 24: House show at Utilita Arena in Sheffield, England
Tickets for the two newly announced shows are going on sale to the general public on Thursday, May 14 at 10 a.m. BST. A pre-sale will begin two days prior to that at the same time.
Three new dates have been added to WWE’s summer 2026 European tour.
At the end of May, WWE heads to Europe for a slate of events surrounding the company’s Clash in Italy PLE. There are now 14 shows scheduled following the addition of stops in Liverpool, Cardiff, and Birmingham. All three of those events are house shows, with the Liverpool event now set to kick off the tour on May 28. The other two shows are happening near the end of the tour on June 20-21.
Tickets for the new events are going on sale to the general public this Friday (April 10) at 10 a.m. local time.
Cody Rhodes, CM Punk, Drew McIntyre, Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley, Stephanie Vaquer, Jade Cargill, and Gunther are some of the names advertised to compete on the tour. It consists of eight house shows, five TV dates, and one PLE.
Here are the full list of dates:
Thursday, May 28: House show at M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England
Friday, May 29: SmackDown at Olimpic Arena Badalona in Barcelona, Spain
Sunday, May 31: WWE Clash in Italy at Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy
Monday, June 1: Raw at Inalpi Arena in Turin, Italy
Tuesday, June 2: House show at Zenith de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France
Wednesday, June 3: House show at MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday, June 4: House show at Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid, Spain
Friday, June 5: SmackDown at Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy
Saturday, June 6: House show at Palazzo dello Sport in Rome, Italy
Sunday, June 7: House show at Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence, Italy
Monday, June 8: Raw at Accor Arena in Paris, France
Saturday, June 20: House show at Utilita Arena in Cardiff, Wales
Sunday, June 21: House show at Utilita Arena in Birmingham, England
Monday, June 22: Raw at O2 Arena in London, England
Following the June 8 episode of Raw, WWE briefly heads back to the United States before then returning for the final three stops of the tour.
🚨 Three NEW dates have been added on the WWE European Summer Tour, going through Liverpool (May 28), Cardiff (June 20) & Birmingham (June 21).
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Cody Rhodes hopes WWE brings WrestleMania to the United Kingdom within the next five years.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been actively campaigning for his city to host WrestleMania, including meeting with WWE executives Nick Khan and Paul “Triple H” Levesque this summer. If it happens, this would be the first WrestleMania to ever take place outside of North America.
“If I’m aiming, it would be cool to get it [in the UK] in the next five years,” Rhodes said. “There’s some really big venues over here that could host a WrestleMania. I think American fans would jump at the chance to come to a WrestleMania [overseas], whether that that be in Manchester or London, I think they’d go nuts for it.”
John Cena has also been vocal in his belief that WrestleMania should come to the UK. Though his in-ring career will be over by then, Cena promised that he will be there as a fan if a UK WrestleMania happens.
“When the greatest of all time, as we like to call John [Cena], goes out there and says it, it almost wills itself into existence,” Rhodes told BBC News. “I’m very much looking forward to watching that situation unfold.”
Las Vegas will be the host city for WrestleMania 41 in April 2025. Beyond that, we know that Indianapolis is getting a future WrestleMania as part of a deal between WWE and Indiana Sports Corp, but the year for that event has not been confirmed.
Rhodes — the current Undisputed WWE Champion — has headlined WrestleMania each of the past two years. He’s currently in the UK for a WWE house show tour.
This fall, WWE is heading back to the United Kingdom and Ireland for some house show dates.
WWE will hold four house shows in the U.K. from October 13-16. There will then be four more tour dates in November, including one stop in Ireland. Those shows are taking place from November 3-6. The full list of events can be seen below:
Sunday, October 13, 2024: Utilita Arena in Cardiff, Wales
Monday, October 14, 2024: M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England
Tuesday, October 15, 2024: Utilita Arena in Newcastle, England
Wednesday, October 16, 2024: Co-op Live in Manchester, England
Sunday, November 3, 2024: 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland
Monday, November 4, 2024: The O2 Arena in London, England
Tuesday, November 5, 2024: Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England
Wednesday, November 6, 2024: Utilita Arena in Sheffield, England
Members of the SmackDown roster will be competing on the tour. Cody Rhodes, Bayley, Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill, Randy Orton, LA Knight, AJ Styles, Nia Jax, Kevin Owens, The Bloodline, Bobby Lashley, and The Street Profits are advertised.
The Manchester event will be WWE’s first show at the newly opened Co-op Live arena.
Aside from the Manchester date, tickets for the shows are going on sale next Friday (June 21). Ticket information for Manchester will be announced at a later date.
The announcement of the tour comes as WWE is in Scotland this weekend for Clash at the Castle.
WWE has announced a slate of United Kingdom tour dates for April 2024.
The dates run from April 17 through April 20. All four events are house shows. There are stops in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. WWE noted that tickets for the events will go on sale “very soon.”
Wednesday, April 17: Resorts World Arena in Birmingham, England
Thursday, April 18: Cardiff International Arena in Cardiff, Wales
Friday, April 19: The O2 in London, England
Saturday, April 20: SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Wrestlers from the Raw roster will be featured on the shows. Seth Rollins, Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley, Damian Priest, Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods, Gunther, Ludwig Kaiser, and Giovanni Vinci are advertised.
The tour is taking place in the aftermath of WrestleMania 40, which is being held in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7.
WWE is currently in the midst of a European house show tour. In conjunction with that, WWE announced last week that it will hold a premium live event in Berlin, Germany in August 2024.
WWE is heading back to Europe for a house show tour in April 2023.
It was announced today that WWE will return to the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, and France for a house show tour that will run through April 26-29, 2023. The dates and locations for the events are listed below:
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 — Birmingham, UK (Utilita Arena)
Thursday, April 27, 2023 — Manchester, UK (AO Arena)
Friday, April 28, 2023 — Belfast, Northern Ireland (SSE Arena)
Saturday, April 29, 2023 — Paris, France (Accor Arena)
It’s advertised that the shows will feature Bobby Lashley, Seth Rollins, Bianca Belair, Matt Riddle, Bayley, Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, Finn Balor, and more.
Ticket pre-sales for the UK and Northern Ireland events will begin at 9 a.m. BST this Wednesday (October 26). The general public on-sales will start this Friday (October 28) at 9 a.m. BST.
The pre-sale for the Paris event begins at 10 a.m. CEST this Thursday (October 27), with the general public on-sale starting at 10 a.m. CEST on Friday (October 28).
A dream matchup between two of WWE’s best in-ring wrestlers is set for November’s house show tour of the United Kingdom.
WWE has announced that WALTER vs. Cesaro will be taking place at their UK tour house shows in Liverpool (Sunday, November 7), Leeds (Monday, November 8), Nottingham (Tuesday, November 9), and Manchester (Wednesday, November 10). All four events are SmackDown-brand house shows.
WALTER will be returning to action for the first time since losing the NXT United Kingdom Championship to Ilja Dragunov at NXT TakeOver 36 this August.
The UK tour features eight events in total. There are Raw house shows in Brighton (Wednesday, November 3), Sheffield (Thursday, November 4), and Birmingham (Friday, November 5), along with a dual-branded supershow house show in London (Saturday, November 6).
The full lineups for the house shows are listed below. Universal Champion Roman Reigns and SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos won’t be on the tour.
Brighton, Sheffield & Birmingham —
Street fight: Big E vs. Bobby Lashley for the WWE Championship
Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair vs. Doudrop in a triple threat match for the Raw Women’s Championship
RK-Bro vs. The Street Profits vs. Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode in a triple threat match for the Raw Tag Team titles
Damian Priest vs. Finn Balor vs. Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins in a fatal four-way match for the United States title
Reggie vs. John Morrison for the 24/7 Championship
Liv Morgan vs. Carmella
London —
Street fight: Big E vs. Bobby Lashley for the WWE Championship
Becky Lynch vs. Bianca Belair vs. Doudrop in a triple threat match for the Raw Women’s Championship
Charlotte Flair vs. Sasha Banks for the SmackDown Women’s Championship
RK-Bro vs. The Street Profits vs. Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode in a triple threat match for the Raw Tag Team titles
Damian Priest vs. Finn Balor vs. Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins in a fatal four-way match for the United States title
Shinsuke Nakamura (w/ Rick Boogs) vs. Jinder Mahal for the Intercontinental title
Tommaso Ciampa vs. Bron Breakker for the NXT Championship
Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham & Manchester —
Charlotte Flair vs. Sasha Banks for the SmackDown Women’s Championship
Drew McIntyre vs. Happy Corbin
Shinsuke Nakamura (w/ Rick Boogs) vs. Jinder Mahal for the Intercontinental title
Tommaso Ciampa vs. Bron Breakker vs. Sami Zayn in a triple threat match for the NXT Championship
Two of NXT’s top stars will be working dates on WWE’s next tour of the United Kingdom.
It was announced today that NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa and Bron Breakker will be appearing at WWE’s house shows in Liverpool (Sunday, November 7), Leeds (Monday, November 8), Nottingham, (Tuesday, November 9), and Manchester (Wednesday, November 10). Ciampa, Breakker, and Sami Zayn will be wrestling in triple threat matches for the NXT Championship at the shows.
All four of the events Ciampa and Breakker are wrestling at are SmackDown-brand house shows.
Ciampa defeated Breakker to retain the NXT Championship when they faced off in the main event of Halloween Havoc this Tuesday. It’s the first time Breakker has lost in NXT. He made his debut on the premiere of NXT 2.0 last month.
Ciampa also became NXT Champion on the NXT 2.0 premiere, defeating LA Knight, Pete Dunne, and Von Wagner in a fatal four-way match. The title was vacant going into that match after being vacated by Samoa Joe.
WWE’s tour of the UK starts in Brighton on Wednesday, November 3 and ends with the Manchester event. There are three Raw house shows, one event that’s branded as a supershow house show, and four SmackDown house shows.
Former NXT United Kingdom Champion WALTER and Raw’s Finn Balor are also advertised for the events in Liverpool, Leeds, and Nottingham. Universal Champion Roman Reigns and SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos aren’t advertised for the tour.
United States Champion Damian Priest will defend his title against Balor, Seth Rollins, and Kevin Owens at the supershow in London on Saturday, November 6.
Former NXT United Kingdom Champion WALTER is advertised for multiple dates on WWE’s tour of the United Kingdom next month.
WALTER is currently among the wrestlers listed for WWE’s house shows in Liverpool (Sunday, November 7), Leeds (Monday, November 8), and Nottingham (Tuesday, November 9). All three events are SmackDown-brand house shows.
WALTER hasn’t wrestled since losing the NXT United Kingdom Championship to Ilja Dragunov at NXT TakeOver 36 this August.
The WWE UK tour features eight house shows, beginning in Brighton on Wednesday, November 3 and ending in Manchester on Wednesday, November 10. It features three Raw house shows, one event that is branded as a supershow house show, and four SmackDown house shows.
Raw’s Finn Balor is also advertised to appear at the Liverpool, Leeds, and Nottingham events.
WALTER’s Imperium stablemates Marcel Barthel & Fabian Aichner defeated MSK to win the NXT Tag Team titles at Halloween Havoc last night.
It appears that next year’s WWE Labor Day weekend pay-per-view will be taking place in the United Kingdom.
On the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer reported that WWE is planning to hold next September’s Labor Day weekend PPV in the UK. Meltzer added that the plan isn’t definite, but WWE has been talking to Principality Stadium in Cardiff and Wembley Stadium in London to run the show in one of those buildings.
While announcing the company’s 2022 PPV schedule yesterday, WWE revealed that there would be an event taking place on either Saturday, September 3 or Sunday, September 4 at a to be determined location. AEW All Out is also traditionally held during Labor Day weekend.
“The September show, they’re going to go Labor Day weekend, which is the same weekend as AEW does All Out. And it will not go head-to-head most likely, almost for sure — I would say for sure because of the time zone difference,” Meltzer said
“The plan is to run it — I mean this is not a definite — but I know that they were talking to [Principality] Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, and Wembley in London to run in one of those two buildings.”
Fightful first reported yesterday that the Labor Day weekend PPV was tentatively slated for the UK.
TalkSport had reported last month that WWE was working on bringing SummerSlam to the UK in 2022, which would have marked the 30th anniversary of SummerSlam 1992 taking place in the country. But SummerSlam will instead be held at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday, July 30. TalkSport’s report did note that it was possible WWE would be bringing a stadium show to the UK that wasn’t SummerSlam.
WWE’s announced PPV schedule for 2022 is listed below:
Saturday, January 1: Day 1at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday, January 29: Royal Rumble at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri
Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, April 3: WrestleMania 38 at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas
Sunday, May 8: Pay-per-view at Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island
Sunday, June 5: Pay-per-view at Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois
Saturday, July 2: Money in the Bankat Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada
Saturday, July 30: SummerSlam at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee
Saturday, September 3 or Sunday, September 4: Pay-per-view at TBD location
Saturday, November 26: Survivor Seriesat TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
In February and October, there will be PPVs in Saudi Arabia that have yet to be announced. There are no PPVs scheduled for March, August, or December.
WWE is reportedly working on bringing SummerSlam to the United Kingdom next year.
TalkSport reported today that SummerSlam 2022 taking place in the UK is in the works, with Principality Stadium in Cardiff being the leading candidate to host the show. The event would mark the 30th anniversary of SummerSlam 1992 being held at Wembley Stadium in London.
TalkSport wrote that it’s believed that Principality Stadium’s retractable roof is an attractive feature for hosting the show. The report also states that nothing is final right now, and it’s possible that there will be a stadium show in the UK that isn’t SummerSlam:
Cardiff’s Principality Stadium is WWE’s front-runner to hold the event and they’ve been working on that venue for a number of months.
It’s believed the retractable roof is an attractive feature. The venue can hold 74,500 people, but Anthony Joshua fought in front of 78,000 when he battled Carlos Takam back in 2017, a layout more closely linked to wrestling.
Sources tell talkSPORT that although it’s WWE’s preferred venue, nothing is final right now. It’s even possible that WWE will hold a stadium show in the UK that isn’t SummerSlam.
Either way, plans for a WWE pay-per-view in the UK are looking ‘very positive’ after last week.
It’s understood that WWE held meetings regarding the plans last week during their UK tour and Drew McIntyre was even a part of them.
It was announced yesterday that Royal Rumble 2022 will take place at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis on Saturday, January 29. WrestleMania 38 and Money in the Bank 2022 will also be stadium shows. WrestleMania 38 is being held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, while Money in the Bank will take place at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Big E cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on the 9/13 Raw to win the WWE championship from Bobby Lashley, signifying his switching brands and reuniting The New Day.
Born Ettore Ewen, the 35-year-old Tampa product was a state heavyweight champion wrestler at Wharton High School and football player, who went to the University of Iowa, and after college, became a powerlifter.
A mutual friend contacted Jim Ross, and he was given a WWE tryout in 2009 and WWE signed him to a deal at that time. He started as Big E Langston in Florida Championship Wrestling, which was shortened to Big E. He was popular due to his personality and those in developmental thought he could be a groundbreaking performer with his leaping ability and agility and power combination.
In 2012, he was brought up to the main roster, and on November 18, 2013, won the IC title from Curtis Axel. But his career took off in 2014 as part of the New Day tag team. The idea started out silly but ended up being tweaked by the three guys in it and the group held the Raw tag team titles twice and Smackdown version of the titles six times.
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SUNDAY NEWS UPDATE
Our weekend show is up on the site right now. We did two shows this weekend, one with Garrett Gonzalez on Dark Side of the Ring and the AEW & WWE trends and what they say about the future and last night we talked about the weekend shows and the first two nights of G-1.
I’d say go out of your way to see Shingo Takagi vs. Tomohiro Ishii from night one of G-1. It’s easily one of the best matches of this year.
For this past week, the only thing that trended on Google in combat sports was UFC yesterday being No. 9 with 100,000 searches yesterday. Notable that nothing from Dark Side on Thursday cracked the list on Friday.
G1 returns for more A block matches on Thursday at Ota Ward Gym in Tokyo and the next B block show is Friday in the same gym. We are looking for your thoughts on the first two nights of the tournament, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match for each show to [email protected]. We’re also looking for reports on Friday’s Game Changer show, last night’s WWE in North Charleston, SC, tonight’s WWE in Augusta, GA and tomorrow’s WWE show in London at the O2 Arena.
To attend the WWE show in London tomorrow you need proof of a COVID-19 vaccination.
The Stardom Five Star Grand Prix ends tomorrow at Korakuen Hall.
Raw tomorrow has announced Natalya & Tamina defending the tag titles against Rhea Ripley & Nikki ASH, Nia Jax vs. Shayna Baszler, Sheamus vs. Jeff Hardy and if Hardy wins the U.S. title match at Extreme Rules becomes a three-way, Alexa Bliss welcomes Charlotte Flair t the playground, the hotshot match of Roman Reigns & Usos vs. New Day and the celebration of Big E’s title win.
Results from WWE in Newcastle, UK today:
Street Profits b Chad Gable & Otis
Kevin Owens b Happy Corbin
Rey & Dominik Mysterio NC Robert Roode & Dolph Ziggler
Finn Balor & Mysterios b Roode & Ziggler & Seth Rollins
Shinsuke Nakamura b Apollo Crews to keep the IC title
Drew McIntyre b Jinder Mahal in a street fight
Becky Lynch b Bianca Belair to keep the women’s title. Lynch was cheered more than Belair. Both were cheered. McIntyre gave a great speech about his journey and talked about independent shows in newcastle. (thanks to Rob Coll)
Former Florida & Carolinas referee Stu Schwartz passed away this weekend.
If you’ve seen the news about the death of Roger Brown, who was one of the best NFL defensive linemen of the 1960s and part of two different versions of the Fearsome Foursome, Brown did wrestle during the off season for The Sheik and for Mike LeBell in the Michigan-Ohio territory and Southern California territory during the off-season from football in 1967-70.
Julius Anglickas was named the newest person in the Bellator light heavyweight Grand Prix tournament replacing Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. Johnson pulled out of the 10/16 title fight with champion Vadim Nemkov due to an undisclosed illness and Anglickas will be getting the title shot and a spot in the tournament’s final four.
RevPro from today in London. Aussie Open vs. Destination Everywhere where Aussie Open won the tag titles got a standing ovation and tore the house down. Will Ospreay retained the British title over RKJ in 35 minutes. Ethan Allen & Luke Jacobs b Doug Williams & Brendan White, Kenneth Halfpenny & Shaun Jackson ad Chuck Mambo &* TK Cooper in four-way, Shota Umino b Dan Moloney, Michael Oku won three-way to keep the cruiserweight title over Chris Ridgeway & Robbie X, Yota Tsuji b Mark Haskins, Gisele Shaw b Hyan to keep the British women’s title in a 2/3 fall match, Mark Davis & Kyle Fletcher won the tag titles over Michael Oku & Connor Mills, Will Ospreay b RKJ to keep the British title. After the match, Ospreay was beating down RKJ when Umino made the save. Oku & Mills helped Ospreay and then Aussie Open came out to apparently save, and attacked Umino first but then helped Ospreay and were announced as the newest member of the United Empire group in New Japan. (thanks to David Hayter, Spencer Bentley, Gary Sweetapple and @HashtagWrest)
WWE
Raw is locally advertising for 9/27 in Cincinnati a main event of Big E & Randy Orton & Riddle vs. Bobby Lashley & AJ Styles & Omos.
MVP had knee surgery this week so he’ll be out of action for a while.
An update on the UBS Arena ticket sales. The Raw show on 11/19 is now at 2,365 tickets out (sales plus comps) while the 12/9 AEW Dynamite in the same arena was at about 6,200.
UFC
On last night’s show they did a very nice tribute to Suzy Friton, the make-up woman who passed away from cancer this past week. They also announced that the make-up room at UFC events will be called the Suzy Friton Room.
Also on the show they noted that Raquel Pennington was hospitalized for more than 30 days with COVID-19 and was in really bad shape.
Ryan Hall vs. Derrick Minner has been added to the 12/11 show.
Adrian Yanez vs. Davey Grant has been added to the 11/20 show.
OTHER NEWS
Ron Fuller, Les Thatcher and Jimmy Golden will be doing a live Q&A podcast on 10/13 in Knoxville at Calhoun’s on the river. Tickets are $30 and come with two free autographs and door prizes and a buffet dinner is included in the price. Fuller is also putting up on YouTube his USA Wrestling shows from 1988, weekly, in order, every Sunday at 3 p.m. on the Southeastern Rewind Channel. The shows are then reviewed by Fuller and Thatcher later in the week. They will also put up old Southeastern clips every two weeks. The first clip was of a Michael Hayes vs. Terry Gordy cage match from 1978.
Southern Illinois Championship Wrestling from last night in East Carondelet, IL: Waco b Richard Shaw, Shawn Santel & Mauler McDarby b Billy McNeil & Sean Vincent, Big Texan DCOR Kowalski, Bobby D b Rick Ruby, Derek Stone b Ax Allwardt, Christopher Hargas & Ken Kasa b Gary Jackson to win tag titles (Jackson & Gil Rogers were the champions and Rogers wasn’t there), Attila Khan b Flash Flanagan in a no DQ match (thanks to Patrick Brandmeyer)
Tri City Wrestling from last night in Quincy, MI: Solo b Kyler Coleman, Adam Wick b Alex Taylor, Hornswoggle & El Ridiculoso b Christopher Saint & Nick Xero, Chuck Wagon & Maynard R Nek b Brutus Dylan & Let Er Rip to win tag titles, Jack Price b Aaron Orion to win the TCW title, Zach Gowen b Tommy Vendetta to win the lightweight title.
WWE has announced 19 wrestlers for this month’s tour of the United Kingdom.
The house show tour is taking place from Sunday, September 19 to Wednesday, September 22. It will feature stops in Newcastle, London, Cardiff, and Glasgow. The Newcastle show is taking place at Utilita Arena Newcastle, the London show is being held at The O2 London, the Cardiff show is at Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, and the Glasgow show is at The SSE Hydro.
This will be the first time the WWE main roster has been to the UK since the COVID-19 pandemic began. WWE was set to hold a UK tour in May 2020, but the pandemic prevented that from happening.
In addition to featuring wrestlers from the SmackDown roster, the tour will be a homecoming for Raw’s Drew McIntyre. Raw’s Jinder Mahal is also set for the tour and is advertised to face McIntyre in street fights.
Universal Champion Roman Reigns and SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos aren’t listed for the tour. They’ll instead be appearing at Raw’s events while the UK tour is going on.
Cards are currently being advertised for the Newcastle, London, and Glasgow shows. The same lineup is listed for all three nights:
SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch defends against Bianca Belair
Street fight: Drew McIntyre vs. Jinder Mahal
Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (w/ Rick Boogs) defends against Apollo Crews
Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins
Rey & Dominik Mysterio vs. Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode
WWE announced this morning a new television deal in the United Kingdom that brings them back to free-to-air television in the country.
They have partnered with ViacomCBS’s Channel 5 to broadcast one hour versions of Raw and SmackDown on the network starting on February 2. Raw will air on Sundays starting at 10:30 a.m., while SmackDown will air Saturdays at 10:30 a.m.
Under the deal, NXT UK will also have a new broadcast home. It will air on the Paramount Network each Wednesday at midnight.
Content will also be added to Channel 5’s streaming service called My5. Full seasons of reality shows Total Divas and Miz and Mrs. will air both on My5 and Pluto TV, which is also owned by ViacomCBS.
WWE has been making many moves regarding their television situation in the United Kingdom since their departure from Sky Sports. Earlier this month, WWE moved from Sky Sports to pay channel BT Sport, which now airs Raw, SmackDown, NXT and NXT UK, as well as WWE’s pay-per-view events.
Taped at The Brentwood Centre in Brentwood, England on October 4
Quick results:
– Ilja Dragunov beat Saxon Huxley and was intently watched by Alexander Wolfe, his actual former trainer.
– Aichner & Barthel beat The Hunt in a very good match.
– Xia Brookside scored an upset win over Nina Samuels.
– Gallus conquered the NXT UK tag team titles, beating Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster in a tremendous match.
Full rundown:
The show opened with a video recapping Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster at TakeOver and then focused on their history with Gallus, leading up to their title defense tonight.
Ilja Dragunov pinned Saxon Huxley (5:23)
Dragunov started off strong with an elbow and a senton. He was in control until Huxley caught him off a bodypress and applied a chin lock. Dragunov came back with hard chops and punches in the corner. He suplexed Huxley into the ring as he was on the apron and then hit a high angle German suplex off a body lock. Alexander Wolfe of Imperium came out at that point to watch the match.
Huxley caught Dragunov off a Konstantin Special attempt and suplexed him and then covered him for a near fall. Dragunov sent Huxley to the outside and then hit a top rope clothesline to the outside. He followed that up with a senton off the top and followed with Torpedo Moskau for the win. Wolfe smiled and applauded him from the aisle when Dragunov noticed him.
At that point, Imperium’s music played and Wolfe’s smile vanished. Marcel Barthel & Fabian Aichner came out and it looked like the three men would face off with Dragunov. However, Barthel and Aichner just walked to Dragunov’s left and right and went into the ring for their upcoming match.
Imperium (Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel) beat The Hunt (Primate & Wild Boar) (7:54)
Primate and Aichner started and got into a battle of hard hits. Barthel and Wild Boar were in next and The Hunt quickly sent both members of Imperium to ringside. Barthel slammed Boar as Primate went for a dive but got caught by Aichner who slammed him into the stairs and hit the running knee ot the face. Barthel kicked a mud hole into Boar as Aichner took over. They hung Boar upside down in the ropes and hit stereo dropkicks on him from in and outside the ring.
Barthel worked over Boar until he managed to make the hot tag. Primate took out both members of Imperium but the Europeans quickly foiled his plans and Barthel hit an Air Raid Crash for a two count. Primate hit a spear on Aichner as Boar hit a senton into the corner on Barthel. They hit stereo diving headbutts on Aichner.
Barthel pulled him out of the ring and they quickly regrouped, hitting the European Bomb on Primate for the win.
— Alicia tried to interview Rhea Ripley when Piper Niven came up and asked her about interfering in her match last week. Ripley said she didn’t like Niven but could co-exist with her if they could make a tag team match with Jinny and Jazzy Gabert happen. Niven was left speechless.
— Gallus were shown warming up backstage.
Xia Brookside pinned Nina Samuels (4:06)
Samuels applied a wrist lock but Brookside quickly escaped and applied one of her own. They went back and forth for a bit until Xia got the upper hand and sent Samuels to the outside. Nina came back with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, then slammed Xia into the corner and went for a cover. Samuels locked in a full nelson and then worked over Xia’s back. They traded roll-ups, leading to Xia using her quickness to evade some more offense. Samuels went for a roll up off a whip-in, but Xia countered and sat down on Samuels, hooking the legs for the surprise win.
— We saw a hype video for A-Kid, promising we would soon see the young Spaniard in action.
— Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster were shown warming up backstage.
Jordan Devlin in-ring segment
Devlin came out in street clothes. He said many people called him arrogant, but he was here to set the record straight. He said that arrogant meant that he thought that he was better than he was, but he knew he was better than anyone else. He ran down a few names in the back when Dave Mastiff came out. Devlin kept berating him on the mic. As Mastiff grabbed the mic from him, Devlin decked him with a hard right, then tried to it Devlinside him, but could not get him off the mat. Mastiff then came back with a senton and talked down to Devlin who was writhing on the mat in pain.
— A video recapped the storyline between Noam Dar and Trent Seven from the past couple of weeks.
— Travis Banks vs. Ligero and Noam Dar vs. Trent Seven were announced for next week.
Gallus (Mark Coffey & Wolfgang) beat Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster to win the NXT tag team titles (12:30)
The champs hit dropkicks to the challengers right away, sending them to the outside where they followed up with somersault planchas. Andrews then hit a suicide dive on Coffey and tagged in Webster. They sent Wolfgang over the top and then Andrews hit a dropkick off a pounce attempt by Coffey and tagged Webster. They hit their somersault senton/moonsault combo. Wolfgang eventually came back in and evened the odds, attacking Andrews.
Gallus worked over Andrews with Wolfgang ramming him into the corner off his shoulders and Coffey decking him with a hard shot. He took out Webster on the apron and locked in a chinbar as Joe Coffey walked out and watched the match from the entrance. Andrews finally got the hot tag and Webster ran wild, hitting a quebrada on Wolfgang and disposing of Coffey before hitting a dive on Wolfgang.
He hit a somersault dive on both members of Gallus as Joe Coffey frantically paced the aisle. Andrews hit the assisted standing 450 on Coffey. Coffey kicked out and Gallus cae back with a uranage and choke slam on Webster. They hit an assisted slingshot/Samoan Drop followed by a moonsault by Wolfgang but Andrews made the save, nicking the referee in the head in the process. Andrews hit a barrage of strikes on both men, then tagged out. Webster hit Wolfgang with a knee to the jaw and a head butt, but Wolfgang came back with a double clothesline and collapsed as Joe Coffey continued to look on.
Both teams regrouped in their corners until they clashed again. Andrews turned a slingshot into the Stunt Dog Millionaire and then proceeded to kill Wolfgang with a knee assisted poison rana, followed by a somersault senton by Webster on Coffey for a near fall. On the outside, Wolfgang launched Andrews horizontally into the ring post as Webster (in the ring) went for a Welsh Dragon which missed.
Wolfgang hit the Glasgow Sendoff, followed by their enzuigir/powerslam finish for the pin, win, and title change. Joe Coffey entered the ring and Gallus shook hands and posed as the show went off the air.
Next week:
Travis Banks faces off with Ligero while Noam Dar and Trent Seven continue their ongoing feud with another match.
