{"id":4818,"date":"2015-12-05T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2015-12-06T04:03:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T10:03:04","slug":"4818","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/05\/4818\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Torch Today &#8211; Ambrose &#038; Reigns headline WWE tours (Reports Wanted), ROH in Florida, huge indies night &#8211; Kliq, Chikara finale, Cabana, Chyna at Blizzard Brawl, more; Charlotte quoted on Reid Flair angle, Big E. &#038; Titus O&#8217;Neil talk Championship Saturday football, Luther Reigns in new movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-970960728\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><strong>TORCH TODAY &#8211; Saturday, December 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Torch Reader Alert: If you attend an event this weekend, we&#8217;re looking for reports sent to <strong><a href=\"mailto:pwtorch@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">pwtorch@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; WWE has a split crew Saturday night in Fayetteville, N.C. and Augusta, Georgia. <strong>Dean Ambrose<\/strong> headlines the show at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/news\/local\/going-to-hall-and-oates-or-wwe-better-get-their\/article_fb141118-26e3-57e6-b079-bfc1b728f44a.html\" target=\"_blank\">with tight security<\/a>. Also scheduled are IC champion Kevin Owens, Dolph Ziggler, Kane, Ryback,\u00a0Bray Wyatt, Rusev, and Tyler Breeze.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong> headlines James Brown Arena in Augusta&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WWE Title match: Sheamus vs. Roman Reigns<\/li>\n<li>WWE Tag Title match: New Day vs. Dudleys vs. Lucha Dragons<\/li>\n<li>Big Show vs. The Ascension<\/li>\n<li>Divas Title match: Charlotte vs. Paige<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; Ring of Honor&#8217;s final show before Final Battle is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rohwrestling.com\/live\/events\/2015\/dec\/5\/120515-road-final-battle-15-ft-lauderdale-florida\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday night in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida<\/a>. There is one title match &#8211; <strong>Roderick Strong<\/strong> defending the TV Title against <strong>Delirious<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Main Event: ROH World champion Jay Lethal &amp; Donovan Dijak vs. The Young Bucks<\/li>\n<li>ROH TV Title match: Roderick Strong vs. Delirious<\/li>\n<li>Jay Briscoe vs. Matt Sydal<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Fish vs. A.C.H.<\/li>\n<li>Adam Cole vs. Kenny King<\/li>\n<li>Mark Briscoe vs. Will Ferrara<\/li>\n<li>Four Corners: Rhett Titus vs. Moose vs. Dalton Castle vs. Cheeseburger<\/li>\n<li>War Machine and Kyle O&#8217;Reilly in action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s another huge night on the independents. <strong>The Kliq<\/strong> continues its Big Time Wrestling tour in Danbury, Conn. &#8230; <strong>Chikara<\/strong> has their 2015 season finale at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/ticket\/2015\/12\/04\/chikara-wrestling-mini-golf-charity-philabundance\/#StHejGryEPFbjSej.03\" target=\"_blank\">former ECW Arena in Philadelphia<\/a>. &#8230; AIW tours Cleveland with <strong>Colt Cabana vs. Kikutaro<\/strong> &#8230; the annual &#8220;Blizzard Brawl&#8221; has a loaded line-up with <strong>Booker T, Abyss, Tommy Dreamer, Chyna<\/strong>, and more stars. &#8230; <strong>Val Venis<\/strong> and <strong>A.R. 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The newspaper\u00a0also ran a one-line quote on the distasteful Reid Flair angle last month. &#8220;It\u2019s not the first time people\u2019s real lives have come into play,&#8221; Charlotte was quoted.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte also talked about wanting to be the female version of The Rock. &#8220;Honestly I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m here today. Where I\u2019m going to be in three years, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be blown away,&#8221; Charlotte said.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-141024999\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8211; WWE NETWORK HIGHLIGHTS: A new episode of &#8220;<strong>This Week in WWE<\/strong>&#8221; premieres at 3:00 p.m. EST. The rest of the streaming content on Saturday is programming from earlier this week and select tape library shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; WWE tag champion <strong>Big E.<\/strong> talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/sport-news\/4686736-wwe-star-big-e-iowa-michigan-state-big-ten-championship-new-day\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Fritz of Sporting News<\/a> about Iowa competing in the Big 10 college football championship against Michigan State on Saturday night. Big\u00a0E., who played for the Hawkeyes a decade ago, said he&#8217;s proud of the current team proving people wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think a lot of people really predicted it to be a 12-0-type season, but it&#8217;s very cool to see. It&#8217;s one of the toughest Iowa teams that I can remember seeing. 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O&#8217;Neil talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/fighting\/article48086830.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Varsallone of the Miami Herald<\/a> about all of the\u00a0big football match-ups, coaching changes, and WWE locker room allegiances.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/unnamed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Prescription Thugs\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>&#8211; Former WWE star <strong>Luther Reigns<\/strong> (Matthew Wiese) is set to appear in a new documentary called &#8220;Prescription Thugs.&#8221; The movie was directed by Chris Bell of the 2008 &#8220;Bigger, Stronger, Faster&#8221; documentary.<\/p>\n<p>The new movie, which includes MMA fighter <strong>Chris Leben<\/strong>, is scheduled for theatrical and on-demand release on January 22.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PRESCRIPTION THUGS - Official Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/anDTez2fVVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2264960380\"><div id=\"pwtor-2984510460\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TORCH TODAY &#8211; Saturday, December 5 Torch Reader Alert: If you attend an event this weekend, we&#8217;re looking for reports sent to pwtorch@gmail.com. &#8211; WWE has a split crew Saturday night in Fayetteville, N.C. and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/05\/4818\/\" title=\"Saturday Torch Today &#8211; Ambrose &#038; Reigns headline WWE tours (Reports Wanted), ROH in Florida, huge indies night &#8211; Kliq, Chikara finale, Cabana, Chyna at Blizzard Brawl, more; Charlotte quoted on Reid Flair angle, Big E. &#038; Titus O&#8217;Neil talk Championship Saturday football, Luther Reigns in new movie\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[569,467,108,257,1223,586,74,1212,280,71,866,251],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quicknews","tag-big-e","tag-charlotte","tag-chikara","tag-dean-ambrose","tag-luther-reigns","tag-reid-flair","tag-roman-reigns","tag-the-kliq","tag-titus-oneil","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-live","tag-wwe-network"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2015\/12\/AmbroseRing_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}