Fight-Size Update: Bella Twins On Celebrity Family Feud, Defiant Wrestling Shuts Down, Bruno
Your fight-size update:
– Nikki and Brie Bella will be competing on an upcoming episode of “Celebrity Family Feud,” airing August 18. They will be playing alongside their brother JJ Garcia, mother Kathy Laurinaitis and cousin Lauren Jennifer Garcia for The V Foundation and Connor’s Cure while their opponents — Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, Tyron Woodley, Ilima Lei Macfarlane and Ryan Bader — will be competing for the Andy Vargas Foundation.
– British promotion Defiant Wrestling, which originally opened its doors in 2016 as WCPW, has now shut down. The company made it official on Twitter.
It has been an absolutely incredible journey over the past three years, but it is with a heavy heart that we today announce that the journey must come to an end.⁰⁰
To each and every one of you who worked on a show, attended a show, or watched a show… thank you. pic.twitter.com/ox6G9cNWAH
— DEFIANT Wrestling (@DEFIANTwres) August 1, 2019
– Finn Balor made an appearance on FOX Sports 1’s coverage of the Major League Soccer All-Star Game to promote SmackDown’s move to FOX in October, which you can see in the tweet below.
— Who’s ready for SmackDown?! @WWE superstar and soccer superfan @FinnBalor joins our #MLSAllStar pregame show to talk Tottenham, his alter ego, and gives @MauriceEdu some advice for next time he runs into the Bella Twins —
WWE SmackDown is coming to FOX on October 4! pic.twitter.com/iEqzjmhq7R
— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) August 1, 2019
– Northeast Wrestling will have a fundraiser event on August 2 where proceeds of the event will go to the Bruno and Carol Sammartino Foundation. The event, taking place at Pro Sports Monroeville in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, will feature appearances from Mick Foley, Chad Gable and Jerry Lawler
– WWE posted a video of Kofi Kingston and R-Truth watching their SummerSlam 2012 match against The Prime Time Players for the WWE Tag Team Titles.
– Lacey Evans is set to appear in an episode on the next season of the Montel Williams-hosted show “Military Makeover” on Lifetime.
– Starting today, the WWE Network app will no longer be available by watch on the TiVo platform from Xtream.
– Pete Dunne explains why he wants to win the NXT North American title in the video posted by WWE at this link.
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