– As noted, tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live will feature a bBattle royal to determine who faces WWE Champion Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania 33 after Royal Rumble winner Randy Orton refused to take his championship shot. As a reminder, this is just part of the storyline, and the plan is still for Orton to challenge Wyatt for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 33. WWE has announced that John Cena, Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose, AJ Styles, The Miz, Luke Harper, Baron Corbin, Dolph Ziggler, Mojo Rawley, Apollo Crews and Kalisto will take part in the battle royal.
– WWE has announced that Goldberg will be appearing on next Monday’s episode of RAW in Saint Paul, MN at the Xcel Energy Center to hype his WWE Universal Championship match against Kevin Owens at the upcoming Fastlane pay-per-view event. It was also announced that Seth Rollins, who has been out of action for a couple of weeks with a knee injury, will do a sit-down interview with Michael Cole to address his storyline with Triple H and Samoa Joe. Rollins is expected to be able to return in time for WrestleMania 33 to wrestle Triple H.
NEXT WEEK: @Goldberg returns to #RAW just six days before challenging @FightOwensFight for the @WWE #UniversalTitle at #WWEFastlane! #RAW pic.twitter.com/hlrzil6How
— WWE (@WWE) February 21, 2017
ALSO NEXT WEEK: We'll have an exclusive sit-down interview with @WWERollins as he addresses @TripleH @SamoaJoe and more! #RAW pic.twitter.com/lQ3R2nbbgN
— WWE (@WWE) February 21, 2017
– Former WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia was backstage at Monday’s RAW in Los Angeles. It appears she was recording new episodes of her “Making Their Way To The Ring” podcast. Garcia posted the following on Twitter:
Blast bkstage at #Raw 2nite! Hard at work in my room doing more future interviews of amazing @WWE SS 4 my show #ToTheRing ! 🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/hQ8xvr1QKg
— Lilian Garcia (@LilianGarcia) February 21, 2017
