WWE: Triple H on WWE ID Program, CM Punk Appearance & Two New Matches Set for 11/2 RAW Show, More News

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Dec 1, 2024

Triple Comments on WWE’s New WWE ID Program & How They Will Support WWE ID Prospects

WWE held a post-show press conference following Saturday’s Survivor Series WarGames 2024 event at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.

During his portion of the post-shoe press conference, WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque gave his thoughts about WWE’s new WWE ID program and how the company will support WWE ID prospects.

“There is a lot made of our NIL program and where we do that. There is also a group of men and women that are out there that, for whatever reason, found their way to professional wrestling whether it was after college, before college, whatever that is. They went a different route than college athletes did. We don’t want to negate any of them. We’re keeping our eye on all of them. The independent scene is very difficult. That’s a long hard road. We’re trying to make that easier. We’re trying to pay attention to the people at the top of those lists. The people that have the most potential within that grouping. We’re going to support them in their careers. Financially, we’re going to support them in their careers. From an education standpoint, as they are going through their journey, as long as they are continuing to progress, we stay with them. They send us their matches. We’re helping to guide them with what they’re doing right, what they’re doing wrong, how they can progress, how we can make them pros. They can make their way to the Performance Center. There will be some other announcements about content and things we will do with them. It’s all geared towards helping those kids as these college athletes get their opportunities to try to make it in this business, that they get their opportunities to make it in this business.
If somebody is working really hard and busting their ass every week and they are progressing and continuing to grow, they stay in our system until it’s time for them to outgrow that system. If they are not, we’ll make moves and change some people around and we’ll get to the people that we feel like that long-term investment can pay off. Not just for us but for the industry itself. The strength of our business is built on the strength of the athletes across all things. While we’re extremely excited about NIL and our college recruiting and everything we’re doing there. When you look at NXT, you can see a system that is churning out athletes, incredible athletes, at a very rapid pace. This is another way for us to amplify that. It’s to strengthen that independent scene.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

CM Punk & Two New Matches Announced for Dec. 2nd RAW Show

WWE announced two new matches and one new segment for the card of this Monday’s WWE RAW show at the Angels of the Winds Arena in Everett, Washington.

In regards to the new matches, the first new match announced was a WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship Tournament First Round Triple Threat match of Dakota Kai vs. Katana Chance vs. Shayna Baszler.

The second new match was a tag team match of Damage CTRL (Kairi Sane & IYO SKY) vs. Judgement Day (Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez).

In regards to the new segment, this was announced to be CM Punk making an appearance.

#WWERaw General Manager @ScrapDaddyAP has some OFFICIAL announcements ahead of tomorrow night! pic.twitter.com/4LmD2kEF0I
— WWE (@WWE) December 1, 2024

Current card for December 2nd WWE RAW show:

WWE Women’s Intercontinental Championship Tournament First Round Triple Threat match – Dakota Kai vs. Katana Chance vs. Shayna Baszler
Damage CTRL (Kairi Sane & IYO SKY) vs. Judgement Day (Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez)
Pete Dunne vs. R-Truth
New Day 10th Anniversary celebration
CM Punk to appear

WWE News & Notes

As noted before, Bronson Reed suffered an undisclosed injury at Saturday’s Survivor Series WarGames 2024 event in Vancouver, Canada and his status going forward was “questionable.” Reed provided an update earlier today on Twitter stating “Injuries are temporary. Moments are forever.“

During Saturday’s WWE Survivor Series WarGames 2024 post-shot press conference, WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque stated that this year’s event had set a new all-time record for largest gate for a WWE event in North American. While no gate figure was given by Levesque, he stated that they had an attendance of 17,828 for the event. WrestleTix reported that WWE had sold and distributed around 17,249 tickets prior to the start of the event.

WWE released a video of a parking lot brawl between Damian Priest and Finn Balor following Saturday’s Survivor Series WarGames event in Vancouver. Priest attacked Balor in retaliation for Balor interfering in his match against Gunther for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and costing him the chance at the title.

This past Friday’s WWE Speed show on Twitter featured Natalya defeating B-Fab to advance to the next round of WWE’s newest #1 Contender’s tournament for the WWE Women’s Speed Championship. Natalya will be facing off against Zelina Vega in the next round of WWE’s current tournament.

In a recent interview with Noticias 24, Stephanie Vaquer gave her reason for signing with WWE. Vaquer stated “I’ll be very honest. Since I was a child, my dream was to sign for WWE. But you grow up, you can’t be guided by the dreams you had when you were 9 years old. When I did what I did in Mexico and Japan, I had already fulfilled a dream. I was missing this extra. Not everything is money. I received another very juicy offer financially. To be a complete wrestler, I was missing being in WWE. I came to NXT because it was the best women’s division in existence.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced one new match for the card of this week’s WWE SmackDown show on December 6th in Minneapolis, Minnesota: