Clash of Champions airs Sunday
WWE presents Clash of Champions Sunday on the WWE Network and 11 matches have been announced.
In a Universal title match between tag champion partners, Seth Rollins defends against Braun Strowman and the duo will defend the tag belts against Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode.
Kofi Kingston defends the WWE title against Randy Orton, The New Day defends the Smackdown tag titles against The Revival, Becky Lynch puts the Raw women鈥檚 title on the line against Sasha Banks, Bayley defends the Smackdown women鈥檚 crown against Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross defend the women鈥檚 tag titles against Fire and Desire, Cedric Alexander challenges AJ Styles for the US belt, Shinsuke Nakamura puts his Intercontinental crown on the line against The Miz, Drew Gulak puts the Cruiserweight title on the line against Lince Dorado and Humberto Carrillo and Roman Reigns takes on Erick Rowan in a No DQ match.
King finals on Raw
Because of the number of matches on the Clash card, WWE has pushed back the finals of the King of the Ring tournament to Raw on Monday. Baron Corbin takes on Chad Gable to see who is crowned the winner.
WWE recently trademarked the name Shorty G, so look for Gable to take that on as a new nickname shortly.
Several wrestlers have made fun of Gable鈥檚 lack of height in recent weeks on TV, and it is a build to the new name.
Smackdown special on Fox
WWE鈥檚 first show on Fox will be Smackdown鈥檚 Greatest Hits, which will air Friday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m.
NXT cable debut Wednesday
NXT makes its official USA Network debut Wednesday. The show begins at 8 p.m. with the second hour airing on the WWE Network.
Announced so far include a street fight between Matt Riddle and Killian Dane, The Velveteen Dream defends the North American crown against Roderick Strong, The Undisputed Era defends the tag titles against The Street Profits and a fatal four-way will take place to crown the new number-one contender for the women鈥檚 title when Candice LeRae, Io Shirai, Bianca Belair and Mia Yim do battle.
Will Kevin Owens, recently fired from Smackdown, show up?
AEW numbers
AEW鈥檚 All Out PPV saw it sells drop domestically from the All In PPV a few months prior. However, PPV sales overseas went up for All Out.
Big Impact news
It was announced Monday that Impact Wrestling鈥檚 parent company, Anthem, had taken over majority ownership of AXS TV.
The deal means, that for the first time in years, Impact will soon have a TV home that a good percentage of the cable and satellite viewing audience has the ability to watch.
It has been a long time since Impact has received good news, and time will tell if this moves saves the promotion.
AEW to Pittsburgh
Tickets remain for the AEW TV taping at the Petersen Events Center on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Oct. 23.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com.
On This Day 鈥�
In 1999, Vince McMahon defeated Triple H to win the WWE championship on Smackdown.
In 2001, WWE runs the first live televised event after the attacks of Sept. 11. The episode of Smackdown was to be taped on that fateful day, but WWE canceled the event and aired the show live.
Storylines were not used as the full two-hour show simply had wrestling matches.
This week鈥檚 question:
What will WWE do with the announce team once Smackdown goes to Fox? Eric, Smock.
The word is that Michael Cole will lead one announce team while Vic Joseph will head the other. It looks as if Corey Graves will only be on one show, and one of the broadcast teams may only use two announcers.
WWE will also have a weekly studio show on FS1.