WWE: First Half Hour of 9/13 SmackDown to be Commercial Free, Greg Gagne Claims WWE has Plans for Jesse Ventura for Saturday Night’s Main Event, Update on MGK & Randy Orton Backstage Incident

First Half Hour of Friday’s WWE SmackDown Season Premiere Show to be Commercial Free

WWE announced that the first thirty minutes of tonight’s WWE SmackDown season premiere and return to USA Network show in Seattle, Washington will be commercial free.

🚨 🚨 🚨 @RealNickAldis has just announced the first 30 MINUTES of tonight's #SmackDown premiere on @USANetwork will be COMMERCIAL-FREE!!!

📺 8/7c on @USANetwork pic.twitter.com/jKqXvE8LyK

— WWE (@WWE) September 13, 2024

WWE also recently announced that the Undisputed WWE Championship Steel Cage match of Solo Sikoa vs. Cody Rhodes (c) will be opening tonight’s show.

Tomorrow night, LIVE from Seattle, @CodyRhodes vs. Solo Sikoa in a Steel Cage for the Undisputed WWE Championship will kick off #SmackDown’s monumental return to @USANetwork at 8/7c.

As for the rest of the show… you’ll just have to wait and see. pic.twitter.com/l32zCEvdwc

— Triple H (@TripleH) September 12, 2024

Current card for September 13th WWE SmackDown show:

• Undisputed WWE Championship Steel Cage match – Solo Sikoa vs. Cody Rhodes (c)
• A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory & Grayson Waller) vs. Kevin Owens & mystery partner
• Andrade vs. Carmelo Hayes

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Greg Gange Comments on WWE Has Plans to Use Jesse Ventura for Return of WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event

As noted before, WWE is currently expected to announce a new live primetime special on NBC very soon that is expected to be the return of WWE’s classic Saturday Night’s Main Event series.

A recent episode of the Straight Talk with The Boss w/ Magnum TA and Greg Gagne podcast featured co-host Greg Gagne clamming that WWE currently has plans to use WWE Hall of Famer Jesse “The Body” Ventura for the revival of their Saturday Night’s Main Event series.

“I mean, with what they’re paying those guys to come in, I think Jesse’s going to do the — they’re doing some NBC Saturday night shows, about four of them, they’re gonna use Jesse for that.

If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all. I’m done talking about Jesse.”

Ventura made a special appearance backstage at the July 29th WWE RAW show that took place in his home state of Minnesota.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Backstage Update on MGK & Randy Orton Backstage Incident at SummerSlam 2024

As noted before, rapper Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) recently claimed that he was involved in a backstage incident with Randy Orton at this past August’s WWE SummerSlam 2024 event in Cleveland, Ohio. Orton has denied Kelly’s claims being true.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that no footage exists that corroborates MGK’s account of the alleged incident. It was reported that people have tried looking for footage of it but nothing has been found.

It was reported that every WWE talent and staff member spoken to stated that they never heard about this alleged incident taking place until MGK made the comments on Logan Paul’s Impaulsive podcast. Those spoken to reportedly stated that they currently assume that MGK was working an angle with his comments and people close to him stated that it appears that MGK was enjoying himself.

It was also reported that people who had asked Orton about the situation were outright told by Orton that it didn’t happen.