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During tonight’s edition of WWE RAW, it was announced that John Cena will defend his WWE Championship against Ryback in an Ambulance Match. WWE Payback will take place on June 16th, 2013 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois.

WWE Champion Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson appeared on Live With Kelly And Michael this morning promoting the opening of his film GI Joe: Retaliation.  During the interview, The Rock also promoted his WrestleMania 29 championship match against John Cena, which is of note, since it is the first time he has done so during his media promotion  Continue Reading »

During tonight’s WWE tapings at the Allen County Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, The Shield (Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose & Roman Reigns) issued a challenge to Randy Orton and Sheamus to find an opponent for a 6 Man Tag Team Match on April 7th, which Orton & Sheamus accepted and later revealed that Ryback  Continue Reading »

The following image, courtesy of iNDemand, features the promotional poster for the upcoming WWE WrestleMania 29 pay-per-view. The poster features WWE Champion The Rock and #1 Contender John Cena on the poster. The sypnosis for the event reads, “A night defined by destiny, where history is made and legends live forever. The Rock, John Cena,  Continue Reading »

Speaking through his official Twitter account, WWE superstar Sheamus commented on the new WWE Championship design and noted that the only change he would make would be to remove The Rock’s “Brahma Bull” side plates and have a shamrock in its place instead. Here’s the only improvement I’d make to the new #WWE Championship belt.  Continue Reading »

In addition to the Brahma Bull logos, the WWE have also made side plates for both CM Punk and John Cena to be used on the new WWE Championship design, as well as an original WWE sideplate for use also. The idea behind this was to give the company control and prevent it from leaking  Continue Reading »

WWE.com posted an article today about the new WWE Championship belt. The article mentions that the Orange County Choppers assisted in making the new belt. It also mentions the idea of the new belt came about 18 months ago and about $50,000 went into the production of the new belt. You can read the full  Continue Reading »

The new WWE Championship that the Rock debuted last night is now for sale at WWE Shop. The replica belt shown on WWE Shop does not have the bulls on the side plates, giving speculation that they might change after The Rock drops the WWE Championship. You can get a better look at the new  Continue Reading »

The major news coming out of last nights Elimination Chamber pay-per-view was the confirmation of two Championship matches for WrestleMania 29: The Rock defending the WWE Championship against Royal Rumble winner John Cena, and Alberto Del Rio defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Elimination Chamber winner Jack Swagger.  With two matches confirmed seven weeks ahead  Continue Reading »

Speaking through his official Twitter account, The Rock hyped his WWE Championship match against CM Punk at tonight’s WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. Pre-match clanging & banging. #EliminationChamber Walk in. Bring it. Walk out. @wwe Champion #GameDay twitter.com/TheRock/status… — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) February 17, 2013

WrestlingDVDNews.com have confirmed the official match listing for the upcoming WWE: Best of In Your House DVD, scheduled to be released on April 30th in the United States & Canada and on May 27th across Europe. DISC 1 Simplistic Yet Brilliant Bret Hart vs. Hakushi In Your House • May 14, 1995 Intercontinental Championship Match  Continue Reading »

CM Punk’s manager Paul Heyman, just posted an interesting tweet moments ago directed at The Rock.   Heyman congratulated The Rock on his victory, and then hinted that he will have to defend the WWE Championship, teasing that Punk could envoke his rematch clause tonight. Speaking through his official Twitter account, Heyman said: @therock Congratulations.  Continue Reading »

In an update on WWE’s plans for the WrestleMania 29 pay-per-view, it is said that between 4 to 6 matches are already set in stone for the April 7th event, which takes place at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The current planned matches for this year’s WrestleMania are John Cena vs. The  Continue Reading »

In an interview with The Phoenix New Times to promote the 2013 WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view on January 27th, WWE superstar Ryback commented on the potential of him becoming WWE Champion, if he was a fan of Goldberg and the comparisons made between the two, as well as his match at the recent WWE: Tables,  Continue Reading »

Fourteen years ago today, Mick Foley won his first WWE Championship, defeating The Rock in a no disqualification match for the title, much to the dismay of Mr. McMahon who was at ringside. WWE’s official website has a special interview with him today, discussing that infamous night: Foley:  “It was all surreal. Until I actually  Continue Reading »

With CM Punk’s reign as WWE Champion currently standing at 408 days (as of today), the WWE Champion has broken more records with his historic reign. As previously mentioned on the website, Punk’s reign has beaten John Cena’s 380 day reign which started on September 17th, 2006 and ended on October 2nd, 2007 due to  Continue Reading »

WWE superstar CM Punk has today hit another milestone as he currently stands 400 days as the WWE Champion. As mentioned previously, Punk’s reign is the longest reign in the modern-era of the WWE Championship and the longest since John Cena’s 380-day reign which began back on September 17th, 2006 at the Unforgiven pay-per-view and  Continue Reading »

WWE Champion CM Punk attended yesterday’s Ohio Comic-Con prior to boarding a plane and appearing at the WWE RAW World Tour in Topeka, Kansas that night. In a question and answer session, Punk was asked about the new WWE Title redesign and when it would be unveiled on television, to which Punk said that he  Continue Reading »

The following photos, courtesy of our sister-site WWE DVD News, features footage of CM Punk’s past days in Ring of Honor, which is featured in his upcoming WWE DVD. WWEDVDNews had a chance to watch the 2-hour documentary in advance of the October 9th release.

The following photo, features constructual work on a potential new WWE Championship belt. The photo was tweeted out by Rick Petko of Orange County Choppers on TLC fame based out of Newburgh, New York. Petko noted that the belt is made out aluminum noting, “Annealing aluminum for a WWE Championship belt” You can view the  Continue Reading »