WED. UPDATE: Vince McMahon gets a Hall of Fame induction, Ronda Rousey book tour continues, and more
by David Bixenspan | [email protected] | Follow @davidbix
TV and major show notes for tonight:
NXT on WWE Network at 8:00 p.m. ET is the go home show for next week’s Takeover special, with Hideo Itami & Finn Balor vs. Tyler Breeze & Adam Rose, Alexa Bliss vs. Carmella, Sasha Banks in action, Solomon Crowe vs. Baron Corbin, Kalisto vs. Tye Dillinger, and more.
Lucha Underground on El Rey at 8:00 p.m. ET has Aerostar vs. Jack Evans, Fenix vs. Sexy Star vs. Killshot vs. The Mack vs. Cage vs. King Cuerno vs. Pentagon Jr. in an Ancient Aztec Medallion Match,Alberto El Patron vs. Hernandez in a submission match to determine the number one contender to the Lucha Underground Championship. Official description from El Rey:
The Temple gets heated when some of Lucha Underground’s top competitors go to battle over a mysterious medallion in a monumental match. The madness doesn’t stop there when Alberto El Patron fights Hernandez for the #1 Contender Title, and Aerostar goes head-to-head with Jack Evans. The only way to win will be by pin fall or submission! This huge main event all takes place on Wednesday, May 13th at 8:00PM ET/PT on El Rey Network.
The Ultimate Fighter has a new episode, “Boiling Point,” at 10:00 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1. The big push for the episode is that a fighter has what looks like a seizure in the house and has to be rushd to the hospital.
Ring of Honor has War of the Worlds Night 2 with various NJPW guest stars at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia. The card, which is sold out and will be sold as a video on demand title, is:
AJ Styles & The Young Bucks vs. IThe Kingdom & Adam Cole
ROH Title: Jay Briscoe (c) vs. Bobby Fish
Jay Lethal vs. Jushin Liger vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Mark Briscoe
The Addiction vs. Kazuchida Okada & Gedo
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Roderick Strong
Kyle O’Reily vs. Tetsuya Naito
KUSHIDA vs. Michael Elgin
Adam Page vs. Watanabe
Please send any live reports from the show to [email protected].
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Wednesday Daily Update
— Elsewhere on the site:
– WWE officially cancelled the May 31st house show in Greenville, South Carolina to avoid having any issues conflicts with the Elimination Chamber WWE Network special from Corpus Christi, Texas.
– Raw ratings were up this week, at least relative to the last few shows, with a 3.68 million viewer average, but overall viewership is still down.
– Bray Wyatt vs. Ryback has officially been added to this Sunday’s WWE Payback pay-per-view.
– ROH Final Battle 2015 was announced for Philadelphia, the first time the show has been in the city since 2004. The year-end show has been a New York City fixture since 2006. Right now, ROH has three New York shows scheduled, which are Best in the World on June 19th at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, a TV taping the next night in the same building, and Field of Honor on August 22nd in Brooklyn at MCU Park.
– It didn’t take long for UFC to announce that they will be able to stream this Saturday’s Shooto Brazil 54 card will in fact be the first card from the promotion to be streamed on Fight Pass. At least as of yesterday, it was still touch and go if UFC would be able to get a reliable stream arranged in time.
— WWE issued a press release announcing that Cheif Financian and Strategy Officer George Barrios will be participating in the J.P. Morgan 43rd Annual Technology, Media and Telecom Conference next Tuesday (May 19th; so they should make sure that nobody tells the Director of Operations) in Boston. WWE’s corporate website will be streaming the event live. Sometimes, it’s possible to glean more information from these outside events than it is from WWE’s investor calls…but not always. Worth listening to either way.
— WWE also announced that Vince McMahon will be inducted into the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) Alumni Hall of Fame tonight. From the press release:
The Elizabeth City Boys & Girls Club provided McMahon with a sense of belonging and a vision of what is possible, both of which were lacking in his home environment. He looked up to Club staff, who mentored and cared about kids. The feeling that somebody cared about him meant the world. Meeting other kids and teens from all walks of life showed McMahon there was a whole world of possibilities out there beyond what he knew.
— After a long delay, WWE announced that WWE Network customers in the UK and Ireland can now access the service on AppleTV.
— This kind of flew under the radar after he casually tweeted about it, but CM Punk did an interview with Fighting Spirit Magazine in the issue that comes out tomorrow. The digital version is usually released at about midnight U.K. time, A.K.A. 7:00 p.m. ET. The best way to get it digitially is from PocketMags, as it can be synced to a number of difference device platforms, and print copies are available at FSM’s website.
– Today’s guest on Ric Flair’s podcast is noneother than our own Dave Meltzer. Really good show with some great stories from both, including how Ray Stevens taught Flair to throw a great working punch. Dave also has an article at MMAFighting.com about the historical significance of Ronda Rousey’s Sports Illustrated cover.
— If you’re curious about the UFC/Reebok deal fallout since the payment structure for the fighters has been announced, Marc Raimondi has a must-read article at MMAFighting with a lot of comments from managers about what their fighters are losing in sponsorship money.
— One story that’s been getting a lot of attention is that the first look preview video for video game Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, there’s a scene of two men fighting who appear to be very obviously modeled after Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir, right down to the tattoos. Most likely, an artist used a photo of one of their fights as references and, being that the game isn’t close to complete yet, didn’t remove the identifying marks that made it obvious. This comes about a month after the release of Mortal Kombat X, which has a character, Cassie Cage, that Felice Herrig believes looks and acts suspiciously like her. In that case, there are also promo shots of the character that match common photos of Herrig.
— Ronda Rousey was on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show this morning for a long interview as part of her book tour for “My Fight / Your Fight.” Best recap you’ll find is probably this one, but it’s kind of buried in the middle of the recaps for the whole week of shows, so you should do an in-page search for “Rousey” to get to it quickly.
— If you ever wanted to know all of the technical errors made with regards to the miltary content in the first five minutes of John Cena’s “The Marine,” then military-themed website We Are The Mighty has dissected it all for you.
— Daily Mail Australia caught up with Nathan Jones, who seems to be getting decently steady work as an actor these days.
— A “world champion heavyweight” wrestler from Blackpool, England stopped a thief and made the local paper as a result.