Kofi v Orton, Jerry lawler tryna get paid from some sheriff, Summerslam close to sold out

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Following Saturday's Smackville event, WWE champion Kofi Kingston posted on Twitter that he's now on the road to SummerSlam, and is preparing for his title defense against long-time rival, Randy Orton. The Viper would respond to Kingston, stating that he'd won three of his 14 championships at SummerSlam in the past, and he plans on doing it again. Kingston would fire right back, claiming that he's not the same man that Orton tried to bury back in 2009. "SummerSlam will be different...stupidly different," says Kingston. Check out the exchange below.

According to TMZ, Jerry "The King" Lawler is suing the Tennessee Sheriff for $3 million in the death of his son, Brian Christopher Lawler, which occurred exactly one year ago today. Christopher died after hanging himself in his cell after being arrested for DUI, but Lawler claims that his death could have been prevented if officials had followed the proper procedures.

-- Lawler's attorney claims that Brian - who suffered from depression and had previously tried to take his own life while in custody of law enforcement officials back in 2013 and 2015 - was not protected from himself, especially after he was attacked by another inmate. The suit argues that apart from not giving Brian any support for his substance abuse, they also did not provide Brian any medical help for his injuries, while placing him in solitary confinement with both his shoes and shoelaces, which he used to commit suicide by hanging himself from two bolts on the wall.

-- The lawyer adds that the family has filed a lawsuit in the hopes of holding officials accountable -- and any money they are awarded will go toward supporting Brian's son. He also wants an apology from the Sheriff's Dept. and changes to be made at the jail so tragedies like this don't happen again. Lawler also said that he met with the Sheriff while Brian was in custody, explaining to the official that his son needed help for alcohol and drugs which they promised they would give him treatment for. The King says that is why he did not pay any money to bail Brian out, assuming he was better off in custody getting the help he needed.

As noted, WWE returns to the Verizon Arena in Little Rock, Arkansas this evening for this week's episode of WWE RAW on the USA Network.

The post-show dark match main event for tonight's red brand show, according to advertisements on the official Verizon Arena website, are Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch vs. Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans in an Inter-gender Tag-Team Match, and A.J. Styles vs. Ricochet for the WWE United States Championship.

why are they always in little rock

Dolph Ziggler is expected to wrestle at SummerSlam but current creative plans are not for it to be against The Miz or even Shawn Michaels as was recently teased, reports the Wrestling Observer NewsletteR. Michaels is not expected to be wrestling again anytime soon and he is definitely off of SummerSlam.

— SummerSlam on 8/11 in Toronto is close to sold out and the cheapest secondary market ticket is $127.50 with approximately 1700 left as of this week. For WWE NXT TakeOver the night before, the event is not even close to a sellout, including 1000 secondary market tickets with a low price of $32.

i'm still debating on going

 

[RammerJammer]

Savio Vega selling out SummerSlam before he takes his talents to MLW

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

The following are injury updates on various WWE and NXT wrestlers, as per wwe.com, f4wonline.com and fightful.com:

• Peyton Royce was listed as "inactive" for last week's house show on Monday as well as the Smackville show over the weekend. She was scheduled to wrestle last night so her absence does not appear to be serious or perhaps even injury related.
• Ricochet continues to be listed as out with no timetable for a return. He is believed to be dealing with an elbow infection.
• Ruby Riott has undergone shoulder surgery and isn't expected back until the beginning of 2020.
• Bobby Lashley is listed as "inactive" on WWE's injury list and he hasn't wrestled since the middle of July. It's unclear what he is dealing with.
• Tommaso Ciampa is currently expected to return from a neck injury sometime in the middle of next month.
• Finn Balor was hospitalized with a stomach flu this past weekend. He's scheduled to face Dolph Ziggler on Tuesday's Smackdown and it's unclear if he will be healthy by then.
• Rachel Evers (Rachael Ellering) suffered a left knee injury on Saturday and its severity is currently unknown.
• Karen Q suffered a broken left leg and is out indefinitely.

 

[Heelish]

why are they always in little rock

 

[Breh Obama]

Jerry Lawler needs to sue himself for being such a piece of shyt trash father

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Grand Master Sexay was my favourite of the three.

Why couldn't it have been Scotty 2 Hotty? I hope the sheriff sues him back and he gets no money.

 

[Huda2daf]

Grand Master Sexay was my favourite of the three.

Why couldn't it have been Scotty 2 Hotty? I hope the sheriff sues him back and he gets no money.

Man u can tell Brian Christopher LIVED for that shyt back then.

 

[Breh Obama]

Man u can tell Brian Christopher LIVED for that shyt back then.

 

[White City Black]

Man u can tell Brian Christopher LIVED for that shyt back then.

My man probably had one last in ring dance with Rikishi and Scotty-in his head-before committing that.

Sorry y’all

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Man u can tell Brian Christopher LIVED for that shyt back then.

Watch his old matches on WWF. Even mid-card he would steal the show for the moment.

Grand Master Sexay was fukking hilarious.

Only good childhood memories watching him with my mum and brother.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

My man probably had one last in ring dance with Rikishi and Scotty-in his head-before committing that.

Sorry y’all

LOOK AT THE CORNROWS!!!!!!!

Grand Master Sexay made me laugh something crazy back in the days. He was the funniest out of the three.

 

[Chris Cool]

Grandmaster >>>>> scotty

Hip hop drop >>>>>>> the worm

Grandmaster laugh >>>>> anything Scotty too hot did.

 

[Chris Cool]

I was watching attitude era though a couple years ago. None of them dudes had any rhythm. The first month or so of too cool was.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

I was watching attitude era though a couple years ago. None of them dudes had any rhythm. The first month or so of too cool was.