Zeb Colter Hopes To Be Back Soon, Randy Orton Pulled From WWE's Weekend Events?, & More

Birthdate: 04/01/1980 (age 34) Height: 6'5" Weight: 235 Ib Randy Orton is a third-generation professional ...

-- WWE has pulled Randy Orton from the advertisements for the live events this coming weekend, however he is still listed, including in new ads, for the 30-man Royal Rumble match on Sunday in Philadelphia, as well as next week's RAW in Hartford and SmackDown in Boston.

-- Zeb Colter, who has been off of WWE television dealing with an injury, recently posted the following update on his status on social media.

HELLO... @WWE UNIVERSE. HAPPY MLK DAY. MY RECOVERY IS DOING WELL. HOPE TO BE BACK ON THE FIELD SOON. THANKS FOR ALL THE MSGS. @JCLayfield

— Zeb Colter (@WWEZeb) January 19, 2015

-- Diamond Dallas Page is the guest on the latest edition of Steve Austin's podcast. The official description for the show reads as follows:

SASc - EP187 - Diamond Dallas Page

"Diamond Dallas Page sits down with his close, personal friend Steve Austin. DDP's taking his "Resurrection of Jake The Snake" documentary to the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah! He's talking about the finished doc, the new DDP Yoga performance center in Atlanta, Georgia, the new videos he's shooting... and he's telling some pretty fantastic wrestling stories - getting ribbed by Mick Foley, what Dusty Rhodes did for his career, and the promo he cut by phone to land a gig!"

You can download the show right now at PodcastOne.com.

Justin Gabriel Was Pulled From The WWE Royal Rumble, & More News & Notes Inside Here

Birthdate: 03/03/1981 (age 33) Height: 6'1" Weight: 213 Ib A second-generation wrestler, Lloyd was initial...

-- As noted earlier, Dolph Ziggler, Ryback and WWE Tag Team Champions The Usos have been added to the Royal Rumble match. Ziggler and Ryback won qualifying matches on SmackDown, while Erick Rowan lost his qualifier against Luke Harper.

We noted earlier that WWE.com had removed the listing of three names of the entrants for tonight’s WWE Royal Rumble match at the Royal Rumble event. Justin Gabriel and Los Matadores are no longer on the list of participants. Hour after this post, word came out that Justin Gabriel had quit WWE. We hope to have more on why he quit shortly. The number of official entrants is now 17.

-- WWE.com is running a poll asking fans who they will be rooting for in the WWE Championship match at tonight's Royal Rumble pay-per-view. 

With over 15,000 votes cast, John Cena has 48% of the vote, while Lesnar has 34% and Rollins has only 18%.

-- Check out this video of Dean Ambrose, Goldust, Stardust and Fandango picking their numbers for the Royal Rumble:

John Cena Pulled From Monday's Raw - Title Change At Battleground?

Partial Source: PWInsider

- As of a few days ago, WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena was still being advertised for this Monday’s post-Battleground RAW from Miami. But now he has been removed from the advertised listings. The reason for this is because he is in the middle of filming the Trainwreck movie for WWE Films.

With Brock Lesnar set to return on Monday’s RAW, and both Cena and Lesnar being advertised for Summerslam, there is a speculation that there will be a new World Heavyweight Champion crowned on Sunday at the Battleground PPV.

This is not confirmed, but there are people within WWE that feels it's time to give Roman Reigns the title on Sunday. It's described as a “pull the trigger” moment for Reigns.

Also read: The Very Latest On John Cena Missing RAW This Monday And A Major Possible **SPOILER**

More as we get.

- Down below is the cover for WWE’s “John Cena – Greatest Rivalries” DVD and Blu-ray, courtesy of WrestlingDVDNews.com. The DVD will be released on October 14th:

Backstage News: Ric Flair Pulled From WWE Smackdown Tapings - Why?

Source: PWInsider

WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair was originally scheduled to be at Tuesday’s WWE SmackDown tapings in Fayetteville, North Carolina. However, plans were changed and the show was re-written on Tuesday morning that did not include him.

Also read: ?**SPOILER** - Big Return Set For Next Week's RAW

As we reported earlier here on the site, WWE was planning on using Flair on a weekly basis. It's said that WWE Creative has nothing for him right now.

Flair has signed a new deal with the company that will see on him on WWE TV from now until Summerslam. It's possible he could stay longer.

MVP Reacts To Being Pulled From TNA Slammiversary

UPDATE: MVP posted the following, commenting on being pulled from the Slammiversary pay-per-view…

My knee injury is legit. I'm very disappointed by the timing of this injury and the unfortunate repercussions that accompany it.

— MVP (@The305MVP) June 13, 2014

Now to "business". I'm still the Director of Wrestling Operations for TNA. AND.... "the board of directors" want a FAIR main event match!

— MVP (@The305MVP) June 13, 2014

ORIGINAL: John Gaburick posted the following on Twitter, announcing that MVP is officially out of Sunday's Slammiversary main event…

#Breaking

@The305MVP suffered a torn meniscus during his last match.

Also read: ?Breaking News: MVP Out Of Slammiversary Main Event

This morning, doctors deemed him unable to compete this Sunday!

— John Gaburick (@JohnGaburick) June 13, 2014

A fair replacement main event for #Slammiversary will be announced later today.

More details ASAP at http://t.co/43MMygRZlB.

— John Gaburick (@JohnGaburick) June 13, 2014

Here is the updated card...

* Kurt Angle Announces The Next TNA Hall of Fame Inductee
* The Von Erichs in Action
* Austin Aries vs. Kenny King
* James Storm vs. Mr. Anderson
* Willow w/Abyss vs. Magnus w/Bram
* Samoa Joe vs. Bobby Lashley
* X-Division Title Ladder Match: Sanada © vs. Manik vs. Tigre Uno vs. Crazy Steve vs. Eddie Edwards vs. Davey Richards
* Knockouts Title Match: Angelina Love © vs. Gail Kim
* Texas Death Match: EC3 vs. Bully Ray
* TNA World Title Steel Cage Match: Eric Young © vs. To Be Announced

Kurt Angle Pulled From TNAs Lockdown Pay-Per-V...

Kurt Angle has announced that he will not be working TNA's Lockdown pay-per-view on Sunday. The storyline reason is that EC3 attacked him on iMPACT!, and now he needs surgery. The truth is that he's already had the surgery scheduled for after TNA's European tour. It was set before the tour but pushed back so Angle could work through it. It's believed that he will feud with EC3 when he returns.Angle wasn't advertised locally for Lockdown outside of TNA's storylines and he wasn't expected to d...