WWE Officially Announces Next NXT Takeover

Get ready, NXT Universe: The next NXT TakeOver live special will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 7!

During the live NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn broadcast, NXT General Manager William Regal announced that the Oct. 7 event will feature the finals of the first Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament.

WWE NXT Will Tour The UK In December

The evolution of @WWENXT continues as we cross the Atlantic for a tour of the UK Dec.10-16th. #StayTuned #WeAreNXT pic.twitter.com/uSCmlstkdf

— Triple H (@TripleH) August 23, 2015

William Regal announces NXT’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament

During the historic NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn broadcast on WWE Network, NXT General Manager William Regal announced that NXT will be paying tribute to the late WWE Hall of Famer “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes with a tag team tournament to be held in his honor.

The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic will feature the best of NXT’s past, present and future, duking it out for tag team supremacy, with the finals taking place at the next NXT TakeOver, live on WWE Network on Wednesday, Oct. 7.

Rhodes himself was no stranger to tag team competition during his illustrious career. The American Dream was a multiple-time tag team champion, holding titles with the likes of Dick Murdoch, Dick Slater and “Raging Bull” Manny Fernandez. Rhodes and Nikita Koloff also survived through a field of 24 teams to win the 1987 Jim Crockett, Sr. Memorial Cup.

Though he made an incredible impact inside the squared circle, The American Dream made, perhaps, an even greater impact during his time with NXT. Rhodes served as a mentor to the entire NXT roster, helping them to find the Superstar or Diva within. It is because of his profound contributions to the future of WWE that NXT is honoring his legacy with this tournament, ensuring that The American Dream will live on.

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Attendance For WWE NXT Takeover: Brooklyn

In an update on attendance for last night's NXT "Takeover: Brooklyn" event from the Barclays Center, Stephanie McMahon announced that there were 15,589 fans in attendance.

WWE NXT Takeover: Brooklyn Results

25 registered WWE e-mail accounts found on Ashley Madison data dump

Deadspin is reporting that there are 25 WWE registered e-mail address accounts on the Ashley Madison data dump that hackers uploaded on the Internet. Usually only WWE corporate employees have e-mails bearing the wwecorp.com domain.

Millions and millions of stolen personal information – including names, e-mails, addresses, credit card information, and other PII – were compromised when the company behind AshleyMadison.com failed to close the website after it was blackmailed. Ashley Madison is a website where both single and married individuals can post their information to find affairs with the company’s tag line being, “Life is short. Have an affair.”

It’s important to know that the registered accounts might not be of the real people as e-mails are not verified. Deadspin adds that ESPN has 39 accounts registered, NBA has 25, NFL has 18, and both NHL and MLB have 4.

Daniel Bryan Says A 'Respectable Doctor' Has Cleared Him

Daniel Bryan did a Q&A at Wizard World in Chicago yesterday and said if he could have one more match it would be against Brock Lesnar.

Regarding a return, Bryan said a "respectable doctor" has cleared him to wrestle but WWE won't clear him because they are worried about his concussion history. Bryan said WWE officials have not given him any indication if or when they will clear him to return. He said he could main event SummerSlam right now if they would let him and is training for when he gets the call to return.

WWE Files Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Overseas Television Partner

WWE has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against CTH, their TV partner in Malaysia and Thailand. Apparently the network has stopped paying their rights fees to WWE.

WWE signed a five-year deal that was to run from 2014 through 2018 for RAW, SmackDown, NXT, Superstars, Main Event, Bottom Line, Afterburn, Vintage Collection and This Week In WWE to air. The deal also included pay-per-view events.

The annual rights were to escalate after starting at $2.8 million in 2014, going to $3.64 million in 2015, then $4.55 million, then $5.69 million and finally $6.83 million for a total of $23.5 million.

WWE Donates One Million Dollars to the Make-A-Wish Foundation

The WWE Tough Enough finalists, Sheamus, Stephanie McMahon and The Bella Twins also attended John Cena's 500th Make-A-Wish party at Dave & Buster's in New York City today. WWE presented a check for $1 million to Make-A-Wish.

Thank you @DaveandBusters for helping us celebrate @JohnCena 's 500th Wish! @MakeAWish #WWE #Cena500Wishes pic.twitter.com/SCtYdl441E

— Stephanie McMahon (@StephMcMahon) August 21, 2015

Could This Year's SummerSlam Finally Break WWE Out Of Its Summer Slump?

WWE invades New York City this Sunday, when its annual SummerSlam pay-per-view event takes over Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. SummerSlam is widely considered WWE’s second-biggest event of the year, behind only WrestleMania. That might lead fans to think the mega-event is a big part of WWE’s annual business just like its spring counterpart - last year’s WrestleMania accounted for more than one-third of WWE’s total pay-per-view revenue - but it turns out that summer is actually the company’s worst financial season of the year.

WWE’s third quarter, in which SummerSlam falls, is traditionally home to the company’s least impressive performance in terms of revenue. Last year the company generated $120 million in Q3 revenue, $6 million less than any other quarter. In 2012, the company had income of $104 million during the summer months, while no other quarter had revenue under $115 million. And it’s been a consistent trend for nearly a decade.

From 2007 through 2014, Q3 has provided an average 22% of WWE’s annual revenue. The first and last quarters pull their weight at around 25% of yearly income apiece, while Q2, the usual home of WrestleMania, has averaged 28% in those years. After looking through the revenue segment breakdowns, it doesn’t seem like the income dip is driven by any single area, but is rather a general summer slowdown in the business.

This year’s event offers some reason for hope, though. With a much-anticipated rematch between Brock Lesnar and the Undertaker on the card and demand clearly up in a big way – the average SummerSlam ticket costs nearly $540 on the secondary market, the highest for any WWE event since 2010 – this may finally be the year that WWE is able to break out of its summer slump.

source: forbes.com

Sean Waltman On What Triple H Told Him Regarding Chyna Incident At Roddy Piper's Funeral

Recently on You're Welcome with Chael Sonnen, Sonnen spoke with Sean 'X-Pac' Waltman to set the record straight regarding Joanie 'Chyna' Laurer approaching Triple H at 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper's funeral.

Although Waltman did not see the exchange between Chyna and Triple H firsthand, Waltman claims that Triple H told him what happened after the fact. According to Waltman, Triple H said that the encounter lasted no more than twenty seconds. Chyna approached Triple H as he was leaving the funeral. As he turned, she grabbed him, hugged him, and whispered that she was sorry for everything.

Waltman stated that Triple H's security was about to "pounce" on Chyna, even though nobody saw the security crew in action.

"You've got to understand, Hunter's security, and he's the COO of a publicly traded company, his security is like secret service type security," Waltman said. "They are very discrete - they're not going to make a scene, especially at somebody's funeral."

Given the "serious accusations" Chyna made against Triple H and the "threats" she has made to Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, Waltman is of the opinion that Chyna owes Triple H an apology, but Piper's funeral was not the appropriate forum. He said that it was a tacky place to do it, and felt as if there were ulterior motives besides paying tribute to Piper.

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Waltman suggested that Triple H suspected that Chyna was having the exchanged secretly filmed, though no evidence has surfaced indicating as much.

In addition to chatting with Waltman, Sonnen welcomed Rampage Jackson to the show. To listen to the entire podcast, click here.