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WWE HALL OF FAMER BRINGING WRESTLING BACK TO NORTH KOREA, MORE GREAT 'GUARDIANS' NEWS, BATISTA, WHAT'S NEXT FOR ORTON VS. REIGNS AND MORE

WWE Hall of Famer Antonio Inoki will be bringing a professional wrestling event to North Korea, again, to try and promote peace through sports. Inoki, using talents from WCW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, presented two events in North Korea in April 1995 that WCW later aired as a taped PPV in August of that year. Bob Sapp is the biggest name going over this year that has been announced. For more, click here for a Japan Times article on the event.

WWE will be taping Smackdown in Houston, TX on 10/28 and on 11/4 in Albany, NY. Tickets will go on sale this weekend.

Dave Bautista took part in a panel discussion on "Guardians of the Galaxy" at the Wizardworld event in Chicago over the weekend. You can check out the complete talk below:

Speaking of "Guardians", there's a lot of people watching to see what the film does when it's finally done with it's theatrical run. With all the big summer hits now out, "Guardians" returned to the top of the box office over the weekend and there's a feeling it could end up in the top three best grossing Marvel film releases to date, which is pretty massive. The film, which was Marvel's biggest chance since the first "Iron Man" film was released, has pretty much became a massive franchise with tons of licensing deals and a sequel already being written.

The top advertised matches for the 9/26 WWE event at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, NJ are John Cena vs. Kane and Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton in a Street Fight.

Zack Ryder, who worked the house shows over the weekend in California, noted he was flying home to NY today on Twitter. So, he obviously won't be working the TV tapings this week.

The group of Xavier Woods, Big E. and Kofi Kingston were together on the house shows this weekend, so that idea hasn't been dropped after all.

Add Layla to those taking part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge:

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