WWE: Roman Reigns Appearance Set for 8/9 SmackDown, Kendal Grey vs. Wren Sinclair Match Set for NXT Great American Bash 2024 Week 2 Show, More News

Aug 6, 2024

Roman Reigns Appearance Announced for This Friday’s SmackDown Show

As noted before, Roman Reigns made his surprise return to WWE at this past Saturday’s SummerSlam 2024 event in Cleveland, Ohio.

During Monday’s RAW show, WWE officially announced that Reigns will be making an appearance at this Friday’s SmackDown show on August 9th at Tulsa, Oklahoma.

ROMAN REIGNS, The Original Tribal Chief, Returns to FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN #WWERaw pic.twitter.com/DJT8QxRDCZ
— esme ❤️‍🔥 (@redthndr) August 6, 2024

Current card for August 6th WWE SmackDown show:

Roman Reigns to appear

Kendal Grey vs. Wren Sinclair Match Set for Tuesday’s NXT Great American Bash 2024 Week 2 Show

WWE recently announced one new match for the card of tonight’s NXT Great American Bash 2024 Week 2 show.

This new match announced was a singles match of Kendal Grey vs. Wren Sinclair.

Current card for August 6th WWE NXT Great American Bash 2024 Week 2 show:

NXT Championship – Oro Mensah vs. Ethan Page (c)
NXT Tag Team Championship – MSK (Zachary Wentz & Wes Lee) vs. Axiom & Nathan Frazer (c)
NXT Women’s North American Championship – Tatum Paxley vs. Kelani Jordan (c)
Joe Hendry vs. Joe Coffey
Trick Williams vs. Pete Dunne
Kendal Grey vs. Wren Sinclair

WWE News & Notes

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Baltimore, Maryland featured the Wyatt Sicks making their official in-ring debut and defeated American Made in a six-man tag team match. Following the show, Bo Dallas and Erick Rowan paid tribute to the late Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper (also known as Brodie Lee).

Monday’s WWE RAW show in Baltimore also featured Odyssey Jones making his official RAW brand debut and joined New Day. Following Jones’ appearance, Big E reflected on Twitter stating “The big man looked phenomenal!!! A star is born! Odyssey made a lot of new fans tonight! #WWERaw“

This past Saturday’s WWE SummerSlam 2024 event featured LA Knight destroying the window of Logan Paul’s PRIME branded truck as part of his entrance for his match against Paul for the United States Championship. In a recent post on Twitter, Paul stated that he recently filed a “lawsuit” against Knight claiming Knight committed theft and property damage to his truck.

In a recent interview with the Unlikely podcast, Bayley gave her thoughts about Stephanie Vaquer’s recent signing with WWE and Giulia being expected to join WWE soon. Bayley stated “I love that we have a division that women from all around the world want to come to and that they all want a piece of, and I feel like it was like that a lot when NXT, when we were in NXT and we were coming up to Raw and SmackDown, and then it got a little kind of [holds arm in a straight line] this for a little bit, and now it’s peaking again. I think that now we’re putting out the kind of competition that women want to be a part of and test themselves with. Obviously, there’s companies all over the world that they can have their choice of, and they chose us. I really need to step my game up, that’s really what it’s come to, and I’ve had that conversation with myself. There’s been a long time where I’m like, okay, well, I’m here, I’m a locker room leader, I’m a champion, but with these new girls coming in, they don’t care. They’re gonna take everything from me, and I have to fight for it.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the Gabby AF podcast, Cody Rhodes gave his thoughts about the potential of WWE Hall of Famer “Stone Cold” Steve Austin making an appearance at next year’s WrestleMania 41 event in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rhodes stated “Steve Austin is, from a dollars and cents standpoint, the most profitable wrestler ever. From guys who like and study the business of it, that’s the benchmark and where you want to get. In addition to being all that, more memories than anyone could possibly provide. WWE at the time needed, WWE doesn’t need things that often, at that time they needed Stone Cold Steve Austin, and he pulled [WWE] out of the spot it was in and made everybody rich and brought a whole new flavor to the industry. I’d love to see him in any capacity. He over-delivered with Kevin Owens. If that was the end, that’s a great end. Kevin Owens did an incredible job there too. I feel like he hasn’t punched his legends card enough. He could just come in and tag with somebody. I know he probably wants it to be at the highest of levels, but you’re a legend, you can do whatever you want. I’ll be crying because if I hear the glass break, I’m going to look at a merch sheet the next day. ‘Vegas 3:16’ sold more than the Pharaoh plushy.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced two new matches for the card of next week’s WWE RAW show on August 12th in Austin, Texas:

WWE Intercontinental Championship Best 2-out-of-3 Falls match – Sami Zayn vs. Bron Breakker (c)
WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship #1 Contender match – Damage CTRL (Kairi Sane & IYO SKY) vs. Zoey Stark & Shayna Baszler