WWE News & Notes
As previously reported, Roman Reigns is currently expected to make his return to the WWE during next week’s episode of RAW in Atlanta, Georgia which is also the go-home show for Survivor Series. Besides Reigns, Brock Lesnar is also scheduled to make an appearance and likely address his new challenger, AJ Styles, for their match at Survivor Series. Alicia Fox is also expected to officially reveal who will be the final member for Team RAW’s Women’s Survivor Series team.
Besides Pete Dunne versus Johnny Gargano for the United Kingdom Championship at NXT Takeover: WarGames, WWE also announced Dunne will be making an appearance on November 17th for a NXT house show in San Antonio, Texas. Dunne will be teaming up with Mark Andrews in a tag team match against Trent Seven and Tyler Bate.
PWInsider reported former United Kingdom wrestler Johnny Moss has recently moved to the United Stares and became WWE’s newest full-time trainer for their Performance Center.
ROH News & Notes
Ring of Honor recently announced Kenny Omega’s match at Survival of the Fittest pay-per-view event in San Antonio, Texas will be a tag team match. Omega will be teaming up with Cody to face off against Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian. This pay-per-view takes places on November 17th and will be directly competing against WWE’s NXT house show.
ROH also announced the star of television series “Arrow” and friend of Cody, Stephen Amell, will be making a special guest appearance at next week’s Survival of the Fittest event.
In regards to upcoming television tapings, ROH announced they have rescheduled their ROH TV tapings in Nashville, Tennesse from January 4th to now a January 20th date. Tickets for the tapings will go on sale starting on November 15th.
NJPW News & Notes
New Japan Pro Wrestling will be airing the first show of their upcoming World Tag League tour for free on NJPW World on November 18th.
Following last Sunday’s Power Struggle event, NJPW officially revealed the partial card for next year’s Wrestle Kingdom 12 event. The initial card features six matches with more expected to be officially announced within the upcoming weeks.
Current card for Wrestle Kingdom 12:
* IWGP Heavyweight Championship – Tetsuya Naito versus champion Kazuchika Okada
* IWGP Intercontinental Championship – “Switchblade” Jay White versus champion Hiroshi Tanahashi
* IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship – Chris Jericho versus champion Kenny Omega
* IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship Fatal 4-Way Match – Will Ospreay versus KUSHIDA versus Hiromu Takahashi versus champion Marty Scurll
* ROH World Championship – Kota Ibushi versus champion Cody
* IWGP Junior Tag Team Championship – The Young Bucks versus champions Sho & Yoh
Note on ESPN’s 30 For 30 Documentary on Ric Flair
While ESPN’s documentary on Ric Flair aired in the United States on Tuesday night after the end of this week’s episode of WWE Smackdown, those in Canada will be able to watch the documentary on TSN on November 10th at 7PM EST.