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WWE will present a live Raw broadcast tonight from Portland, Oregon featuring a Seth Rollins injury update, Samoa Joe's second appearance on the Raw roster and Bill Goldberg responding to Brock Lesnar's challenge for a Wrestlemania match. Given that Goldberg is being pushed as the main event attraction locally for the Fast Lane PPV, it makes sense WWE will start to set that up as well tonight. WWE will also be taping Main Event. If anyone is attending the taping, we are seeking live reports.
Smackdown will have a live event tonight in Abbortsford, British Columbia with WWE Intercontinental champion Dean Ambrose vs. The Miz vs. AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt vs. Luke Harper and American Alpha defending the WWE Smackdown Tag Team championships in a Tag Team Turmoil match on top.
WWE champion John Cena vs. Randy Orton will headline Tuesday's episode of Smackdown Live from Seattle, Washington. This is their first singles bout in several years. Smackdown will double as the go-home show for this Sunday's Elimination Chamber PPV.
The WWE Network will debut a new episode of "Legends with JBL" tomorrow at 3 PM, featuring JBL interviewing Stan Hansen. Hansen ties into a piece of PWInsider.com history as when Dave Scherer first published The Wrestling Lariat newsletter back in July 1995, the name of the publication was inspired by Hansen's lariat.
This Wednesday 2/8, David Otunga will have a small role on CBS' "Criminal Minds", playing a nightclub bouncer.
Set for this Wednesday's WWE NXT:
*WWE NXT champion Bobby Roode's first appearance as champion.
*Sanity vs. The Bollywood Boyz.
*Liv Morgan vs. Billie Kay.
*The Revival vs. Heavy Machinery.
*Sanity (w/ Nikki Cross) vs. Tye Dillinger & Roderick Strong & No Way Jose.
NXT has live events this weekend in Philadelphia, Asbury Park, NJ and Albany, NY. We are seeking live reports from all three.
Sonjay Dutt worked as a guest trainer last week at the WWE Performance Center. We reported in the Elite section of PWInsider.com a month or so ago there had been talk of Dutt being used in that capacity. At the time, we reported that Terry Taylor had pitched bringing him in. While he is a top lieutenant for Jeff Jarrett in Global Force Wrestling, he is not under contract there. Interestingly enough, his name was pitched within Ring of Honor back in December as a potential announcer for the company when it became clear Steve Corino was leaving for WWE.
Yoshihiro Tajiri is in Oregon for tonight's Raw, so he is cleared and back on the road for the Cruiserweight division.
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