Two new title matches announced for Royal Rumble

As expected tonight's Raw was all about building the upcoming Royal Rumble ppv with two new championship matches and new obstacles for Roman Reigns into his road to Wrestlemania.

First of all it was announced that Kalisto will get his rematch for the United States championship in the ppv. However it's highly unlikely that WWE creatives will let the title change happen 3rd time in 2 weeks.

Also The New Day will defend their Tag Team Championship against The Usos. A Divas title match is also expected to be added but hasn't been announced yet.

It was also revealed Roman Reigns who will be defending his World Heavyweight championship into the Royal Rumble will be entering the Rumble on #1 spot.

As if this wasn't enough for Reigns to handle, mr. McMahon decided that Roman will have to go through a handicap tag match against Sheamus, King Barrett, Rusev and WWE United States Champion Alberto Del Rio in Smackdown before reaching the Rumble.

Big title match announced for Royal Rumble, Title Change takes place at Smackdown

Breaking the 2-3 weeks myth that WWE creatives are really caring about story lines again, we saw a big title change in this week's episode of Smackdown.

(Spoiler) WWE Superstar Kalisto lost his newly won WWE United States Championship to Alberto Del Rio.

It's notable that Kalisto won the championship on this past Raw. That makes his championship reign just 24 hours long. King Barret was in the ring side with Del Rio to help him win the title.

Also Kevin Owens accepted the challenge of Dean Ambrose for a 'Last Man Standing' match at Royal Rumble.

The match will be contested for the Intercontinental Championship. This is Owen's third title shot since losing the title to Ambrose.

Biggest Royal Rumble entrance revealed, big Title match announced for Smackdown

Lots of interesting developments were made on tonight's episode of WWE Raw. Along with a title match which will surely be a contestant of WTF moment Slammy of 2016.

First of all the biggest upset in recent months Kalisto defeated United States Champion Alberto Del Rio for US title.

While I do really like Kalisto, that makes the title less relevant as Alberto just won it 2 months ago. It means that we now have all face champions which Vince doesn't really like. That means we'll gonna be seeing another title change very soon.

After this it was announced that Alberto will be cashing in his rematch clause in tomorrow's Smackdown. Several Other matches were also announced for the show:

* The Dudley Boyz vs. The Wyatt Family in a Tables Match

*Neville and WWE Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose vs. Sheamus and Kevin Owens

*Alberto Del Rio vs. WWE United States Champion Kalisto

Also Brock Lesnar made his anticipated return and made his claim on the current World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns after giving him an F-5.

While he certainly didn't announced his entrance in the Rumble by himself, Michael Cole made it for him saying that he thinks Brock is entering the Rumble.

Two Cage matches announced for future Smackdown, Roman Reigns reveals match for Raw?

WWE is advertising two cage matches locally for the January 5th episode of Smackdown. The competitors for the match are not revealed yet. We will keep you updated on any further detail.

It's notable that SmackDown will be moving to USA network from 5th January. WWE is trying to make it an important event so many big stars including the likes of John Cena will be on the show.

Roman Reigns revealed match for next Raw?

WWE released a backstage follow out a video after this week's super Smackdown in which Roman Reigns is seen with Usos.

In the video Reigns says that he is tired of the League of Nations and wants to end this once in for all. He indicated that there could be a possible 3on3 or 4on4 match between his family (Usos and Ambrose) vs. The league of Nations on next Raw.

John Cena comments on his return, two more matches announced for him

WWE announced that John Cena will be facing Alberto Del Rio on next week's Raw. Alberto noted that he and League of Nations group is ready to face John Cena:

#LeagueOfNations #sisisi we are ready for you juantino...I'm ready for you #johncena Listo para el próximo lunes en #raw con #thelads a mi lado

- Alberto El Patron (@el_patron_alberto) on Dec 22, 2015 at 1:54pm PST

John Cena's last match in WWE was in October at the Hell In a Cell ppv. in which he lost his US title to Del Rio. John Cena also commented on this:

Ok interweb, you know the when and where, fire up the vortex of disdain, make sure to bring your A game to #RAW I'll bring the potato salad

— John Cena (@JohnCena) December 22, 2015

Also WrestlingInc has reported that John Cena will be competing in two more matches before Raw. He will be fighting in Saturday's Live event at Madison Square Garden and Sunday's show at the XL Center in Hartford, CT. He will face Alberto in both matches

Dark match before Raw, John Cena Return date revealed

WWE did not tape any matches for WWE Superstar this week before Raw. Most likely this week's episode will be a recap of 2015.

Also we Saw the Lucha Dragons defeating The Ascension in a Drak match before Raw started. It was announced on tonight's show that the Lucha Dragons will face The New Day for WWE Tag team Championship on tomorrow's WWE Smackdown supershow.

John Cena's return date revealed

John Cena has been away from the WWE Ring from few weeks. He was busy filming his latest TV reality Show American Grint which will air on Fox sometimes in 2016.

People expected Cena to be back on WWE TV after TLC ppv but for some reasons (most likely for Roman Reigns Crowning as WWE Champion) WWE kept him away for some more times.

It was announced on Raw tonight that John will be finally returning to WWE TV on next Week's Raw from Brooklyn at the Barclays Center.

John will be facing the current United States Champion Alberto Del Rio for his return match. Alberto defeated him for the US title on WWE Hell in a Cell Ppv.

Dorian Pena talks about Alberto Del Rio leaving AAA for WWE

Dorian Roldan Peña who is the founder of Lucha underground and AAA's Executive Vice President of Business Development spoke with Sam Roberts' Wrestling Podcast. Here are some highlights from the interview:

He said that he got to know that Del Rio was leaving to join WWE only 3 days before the Hell In a Cell PPV:

"[Del Rio] was our champion and we were in negotiations and after that WWE arrives at the table and you cannot compete with a company like WWE when you're talking about that amount of money. we were closing his [new] deal in Mexico and he was just finishing his deal in Lucha Underground, so the timing for him was perfect to do whatever he wants. And he had this offer from WWE. [It] was a really good offer. I think he [made] a smart decision."

He said that they offered Del Rio to work with them till the end of the year, but WWE didn't agree:

"We were trying to figure out with Alberto if we can have [him] for the next two shows. we asked Alberto if he can work with us until the end of the year, for two or three more shows that we have on television, and he was like, 'I think, yes. Let me ask the WWE.' And the answer was, 'no, I can't.'"

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He talked about protecting the young talent:

"I think that there are two expenses that you cannot cut in your company, and [it is] even more [true] in a [professional] wrestling company: [accountants] and the lawyers. [They are] the two most important things in a wrestling company. right now, for example, with the legal department that we have in Mexico and that we have in the United States, of course, we are trying to protect all of our talents and I think we are not the only ones. If you are going to invest in your talent and young talent, the thing you want to do is to be really protective. And, of course, if they have a better opportunity, they are [free] to take it, so I think the only thing you want is in soccer or another sport, if you want to take one of our talents, come and tell us."

He also talked about the unexpected death of Aguayo, who died during a match which involved Rey Mysterio, Manik and Xtreme Tiger in Tijuana:

"I don't like to throw out bad answers about things, but, for example, the thing about Perro Aguayo, it was an accident. It happened in an indy show. It was the only show in Mexico that wasn't promoted by AAA with Rey Mysterio. It was the first show, so when Perro called us to tell us that he wants to have this fight with Rey Mysterio because he was the first fight of Rey Mysterio in Mexico, we were like, 'you can do it!' We weren't expecting to have an accident like that. It's something really tragic and something that you don't know how to handle."

He said that they talked to the family of unfortunate wrestler:

"We had this conversation with his family and his family understands really well that there are accidents in this business and it [was] a really sad moment. It's one of the saddest weeks in AAA [history], in all this 23 years."

When asked about which WWE Talent he would like to add to AAA roster,  He said that Prince Devitt would be the one. Prince Devitt is the former name of WWE superstar Finn Balor.

This interview comes from Sam Roberts' Wrestling Podcast and was first published on WrestlingInc.com