WWE Star Tops PWI 500 List

WWE Superstar Daniel Bryan was the #1 ranked wrestler on the 24th annual “PWI 500″ list.

Pro Wrestling Illustrated selected this year’s list by evulating all pro wrestlers between July 1st, 2013, and July 31st, 2014. The rules state wrestlers must have competed in a minimum of twenty matches, or at least one match in seven separate months in the specified time frame.

The top ten of the PWI 500 list is as follows:

Daniel Bryan
Randy Orton
John Cena
AJ Styles
Kazuchika Okada
Bray Wyatt
Roman Reigns
Magnus
Adam Cole
Bully Ray

NXT Wrestlers Confirmed for WWE 2K15 Video Game

Triple H hosted a WWE 2K15 media event today at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, to promote the career mode, where a wrestler starts out his career at NXT. The official Instagram account of 2K confirmed that Adrian Neville, Bo Dallas and Sami Zayn, who were on hand for the event, will be in the game.

TNA Interested In Holding a Live NYC TV Taping, Rumor on Another Network They've Talked With

TNA President Dixie Carter reportedly told talent at last week's TV tapings that she guarantees Impact Wrestling will be on TV on January 7th, 2015, which is the first Wednesday after the deal with Spike TV is done.

TV industry sources indicate that TNA likely has not signed a deal but is in very serious talks. It's expected that they will get a deal and will remain on Wednesday nights.

If everything goes as planned, TNA is looking at doing a live TV taping on January 7th from the Manhattan Center in New York City.

There's no word yet on which network TNA is in very serious talks with but they were talking with 4 stations - WGN America, Velocity and one other that was not a cable station. The other station is believed to be CMT. Jason Hervey of Bischoff Hervey Entertainment with Eric Bischoff, which has worked close with TNA in the past, teased something with WGN on his Twitter today.

Prince Devitt's New WWE Ring Name Revealed

>br>Prince Devitt will be using the name Finn Balor in WWE NXT. There was talk of letting him use his real name, Fergal Devitt, but that is not the case. Devitt may be in action at tonight's NXT tapings from Full Sail University.

Rumor Mill - Backstage Talk on a Power Struggle Involving Triple H, Stephanie McMahon and Other Execs

There's talk within WWE of a power struggle involving Stephanie McMahon and Triple H on one side, and Chief Strategy & Financial Officer George Barrios and Chief Revenue & Marketing Officer Michelle Wilson on the other side.

Barrios and Wilson were the ones in charge of the WWE Network launch and WWE's new TV contract. Both deals were nowhere near as successful as the company hoped for.

Happy Birthday Stephanie

Stephanie McMahon Levesque
September 24, 1976

This Day in Wrestling History

Greg Valentine defeated Tito Santana for the WWWF(WWE) Intercontinental title.
September 24, 1984

Shawn Michaels & Diesel defeated Owen Hart & Yokozuna for the WWF(E) Tag Team title.
September 24, 1995

At the conclusion of TNA's No Surrender Pay-per-view, a video package announces that former WWF World Champion and Olympic Gold Medallist Kurt Angle would be coming to the company. TNA issued a press release, announcing the signing of Angle and the fact that SpikeTV had decided to give the company a prime time slot on Thursday nights.
September 24, 2006

WWE Wins Media Awards for WWE Network

WWE announced today that the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) has awarded the company with four W3 Gold Awards and 13 Silver Awards for the WWE Network, WWE.com and several other endeavors. The WWE Network took a Gold Award in Media Streaming, and several Silver Awards for entertainment, sports websites, and visual appeal.

The Slam City website was recognized for children’s programming, WrestleMania 29 was recognized for its dedicated website, and several WWE video packages including Daniel Bryan winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship were also awarded.

Triple H to Host the Mr. Olympia Competition

Triple H, who has been a fan of bodybuilding for a long time, will provide commentary with Shawn Perine for this year’s Mr. Olympia event. It happened over the weekend in Las Vegas and will air on NBC Sports on October 18 and 25.

Special Edition of WWE SmackDown Coming Up

WWE announced that the October 10th episode of Friday Night SmackDown will be a special 15th anniversary episode. That show will be taped on October 7th from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA.

Total Divas Recap 9/21/14

This Day In Wrestling History

Happy Birthday to Ricky Morton of the Rock 'n Roll Express.
September 21, 1956

Fred Blassie and Bobo Brazil took their famous feud to Madison Square Garden in New York City, where the two battled to a draw. In the main event, WWWF World Champion Bruno Sammartino defeated Waldo Von Erich via countout.
September 21, 1964

During a SmackDown taping in Dallas, Texas, Triple H wrestles five times in order to earn a spot in the Six-Pack Challenge at Unforgiven. He loses to Big Show in a Chokeslam match, defeats Kane in an Inferno match, loses to Mideon & Viscera in a Casket Match, defeats Mankind in a Boiler Room Brawl, and defeats the Rock in a Brahma Bullrope Match.
September 21, 1999

Bill Goldberg defeated Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship at Unforgiven.
September 21, 2003