WWE: Jesse Ventura Announces He Will Be on Commentary for All Four Saturday Night’s Main Event Shows Per Year, Bronson Reed Undergoing Foot Surgery Today, More News

Dec 11, 2024

Jesse Ventura Announces He Will Be on Commentary for All Saturday Night’s Main Event Per Year

As noted before, WWE recently announced that WWE Hall of Famer Jesse “The Body” Ventura will be making his official return to WWE commentary for their Saturday Night’s Main Event Show on December 14th in Uniondale, New York.

A recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast featured Ventura as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Ventura revealing that he will be working on commentary for all four Saturday Night’s Main Events shows per year.

“Handcuffs are off, I can say anything I want about anyone. I am, I’m very excited about it. I don’t discuss finances, but it’s acceptable and I’ll be doing four a year.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Bronson Reed Underwent Surgery on Wednesday

As noted before, Bronson Reed suffered a broken foot injury during the Men’s WarGames match at WWE’s Survivor Series WarGames 2024 event this past November in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. Reed is currently expected to miss next year’s WrestleMania 41 event due to his injury situation.

Reed recently provided an update on Twitter stating that he would be undergoing surgery on Wednesday in Birmingham, Alabama to repair his broken foot.

Surgery tomorrow 🙏🏽
— BIG BRONSON REED (@BRONSONISHERE) December 11, 2024

WWE News & Notes

Heritage Auctions announced that a Hulk Hogan Wrestling All-Stars trading card that was graded a PSA 9 mint recently sold for $132,000. It was also stated that this card was one of 18 cards rated as “mint” but none had a higher grade. This card broke the record for largest sale ever generated for a wrestling card in an auction.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that WWE is currently scheduled to hold a double tapings on December 17th and a new tapings on December 19th for the remainder of their NXT shows this month. Johnson reported that the December 17th set of tapings will be for the live episode on December 17th and taped December 24th show in Lowell, Massachusetts. The December 19th taping reportedly will be for the December 31st show.

This past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Wichita, Kansas featured Paul Ellering making his surprise return. During the Eight-Man Tag Team match between The Final Testament and Wyatt Sicks, Ellering came out to ringside and threw powder in the face of Bo Dallas while the referee was distracted to help Final Testament pick up the victory. This was Ellering’s first appearance since the October 21st episode of WWE RAW after being taken out at the hands of Uncle Howdy.

WWE held one dark match following this past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Wichita. This was a singles match of Cody Rhodes defeating Carmelo Hayes.

WWE recently released a new video featuring Otis, Akira Tozawa, and Maxxine Dupri announcing open enrollment for their Alpha Academy group.

WWE also recently released four new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a singles match of Abyss vs. Eddie Colon for World Wrestling Council in 2004. The second new video was a WWE Intercontinental Championship match of Andre The Giant vs. The Ultimate Warrior (c) from the November 25, 1989 episode of WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event. The third new video was a tag team match of Hulk Hogan & Sid Justice vs. Ric Flair & Undertaker from the February 8, 1992 episode of WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event. The fourth new video was a “Kurt Angle’s earliest match in Funkin’ Dojo showcase.”

In a recent interview with Covalent TV, ECW legend Sabu gave his thoughts about WWE’s ECW themed NXT show this past November at the 2300 Arena. Sabus stated “I thought it was lame. Even though it’s a good show, good wrestlers, it was lame for a nostalgia ECW thing. The building doesn’t look the same. It’s not the same. It’s not really a reunion or a top-notch thing, without me or Sandman. Both of us or one or the other. It’s kind of a must, I think.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

As noted before, Drew McIntyre made his surprise return to WWE’s RAW brand earlier this month. In a recent interview with KWCH 12 Morning News, McIntyre gave his thoughts about his recent absence from WWE. McIntyre stated “I was off the past two months. My last match was a Hell in a Cell match, a very brutal match. I got hit in the head at one point and needed sixteen staples to close a wound at the top of my head. I suffered a family loss as well so I went back to Scotland to deal with that and re-evaluate my priorities and realize that I have probably given a bit too much to my profession, to my colleagues, and not enough to my family. I kind of realized I’ve been giving a bit too much for the past 17 years and it’s time to start taking a little more. My mentality is I’m going to take what’s mine, I’m going to beat up the people who deserve to get beat up.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

This past Monday’s UBS Global Media & Communications Conference event featured TKO Group Mark Shapiro as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Shapiro’s thoughts about the future of WWE PLEs on streaming platforms. Shapiro stated “The PLEs are seeing significant audiences. The marketing around the events have been terrific. That one in particular lends itself to even more suitors than the UFC, dare I say, because the nature of the PLEs, which are once a month. There are a lot of platforms out there that are looking for premium and also looking for volume. Other platforms are just looking for volume and even a smaller subset, but still enough for us, are looking for low volume but high premium. That is exactly what the PLEs are. Once a month, somewhere around the globe, we can schedule it with our partner depending on what is the strategic interest to them in terms of sub-growth, broadband growth, a new series they’re launching, or a new event on the ground. The PLEs are attractive in the sense that you’re getting high quality, very high premium, but just once a month. Obviously, we’ll start those conversations at some point in the first half of next year with Peacock, exclusively, but we’re interested to talk to other suitors. They know that, by the way.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced one new match for the card of next week’s WWE RAW show on December 16th in Boston, Massachusetts:

WWE Intercontinental Championship – Ludwig Kaiser vs. Bron Breakker (c)