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Edge Announces WWE Royal Rumble Ring Return

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WWE Hall of Famer Edge will be making his ring return at the upcoming Royal Rumble pay-per-view.

Tonight’s Rumble go-home edition of RAW saw Edge deliver a pre-recorded promo where he announced that he will be returning to action in the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match next Sunday.

There are now 14 open spots for the 30-Man Royal Rumble Match. Edge joins Daniel Bryan, WWE United States Champion Bobby Lashley, AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Otis, The Miz, Jey Uso, Cesaro, Jeff Hardy, Shinsuke Nakamura, Sami Zayn, SmackDown Tag Team Champion Dolph Ziggler, WWE Intercontinental Champion Big E, Sheamus, and John Morrison as confirmed entrants.

The Rated R Superstar has been out of action since suffering a torn triceps during the loss to Randy Orton at the 2020 WWE Backlash pay-per-view last June. Edge came out of retirement at the 2020 Royal Rumble, and then made his in-ring return to singles action at WrestleMania 36, where he defeated Orton in a Last Man Standing match.

The 2021 Royal Rumble pay-per-view will take place on January 31 from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL. Below is the current card, along with shots and video from Edge’s promo:

WWE Title Match
Bill Goldberg vs. Drew McIntyre (c)

Last Man Standing Match for the WWE Universal Title
Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns (c)

WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles Match
Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler vs. Charlotte Flair and RAW Women’s Champion Asuka (c)

30-Man Royal Rumble Match
Daniel Bryan, WWE United States Champion Bobby Lashley, AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Otis, The Miz, Jey Uso, Cesaro, Jeff Hardy, Shinsuke Nakamura, Sami Zayn, SmackDown Tag Team Champion Dolph Ziggler, WWE Intercontinental Champion Big E, Sheamus, John Morrison, Edge, 14 Superstars TBA
Winner earns a title shot at WrestleMania 37

30-Woman Royal Rumble Match
Nia Jax, WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Charlotte Flair, Bayley, Bianca Belair, Mandy Rose, Dana Brooke, Peyton Royce, Alexa Bliss, Shayna Baszler, Liv Morgan, Ruby Riott, Tamina Snuka, 18 Superstars TBA
Winner earns a title shot at WrestleMania 37



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Rapper Bad Bunny To Perform ‘Booker T’ Single At WWE Royal Rumble

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Rapper Bad Bunny is set to perform his “Booker T” single at the WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view this Sunday.

We noted a few months back that the Grammy Award nominated rapper had released the “Booker T” single to pay tribute to the WWE Hall of Famer. Booker even appears in a new music video for the single, which you can see above. WWE announced this afternoon that Bad Bunny will make his first-ever live performance of the single, from his history-making album, at Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view.

“Performing at the Royal Rumble is a childhood dream come true,” Bad Bunny said in a press release. “I have been a lifelong fan of WWE and I am excited to take the stage and entertain fans around the world.”

Stay tuned for more on Sunday’s WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, FL. Below is WWE’s announcement on the Bad Bunny performance:

Bad Bunny to perform live at Royal Rumble this Sunday

STAMFORD, Conn., January 25, 2020 – Multi-platinum recording artist and international superstar Bad Bunny will perform his hit single “Booker T” off his new album “El Último Tour Del Mundo” live for the first time at Royal Rumble this Sunday, Jan. 31 streaming live on WWE Network at 7 pm ET, as early reported by Billboard.

“Performing at the Royal Rumble is a childhood dream come true,” said Bad Bunny. “I have been a lifelong fan of WWE and I am excited to take the stage and entertain fans around the world.”

“Bad Bunny is at the top of the music industry, and a pop culture icon with strong ties to WWE and our fans around the world,” said Neil Lawi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, WWE Music Group. “We are thrilled to provide a global platform for his first-ever live performance of ‘Booker T’ as we kick off the road to WrestleMania.”

Bad Bunny has taken over the global music scene as one of the most respected and talented singer-songwriters and producers of this generation. Declared the #1 artist globally of 2020 by Spotify, he has won multiple Latin Grammy Awards, American Music Awards and Billboard Music Awards for Best Reggaeton Performance, Artist of the Year and Top Latin Album of the Year among others.

Bad Bunny’s most recent and third album of 2020, “El Último Tour Del Mundo” debuted at #1 on the “Billboard 200” chart, the first all-Spanish-language album to reach #1 in the 64-year history of the all-genre chart, as well as #1 on Apple Music’s global “Top Albums” chart for all genres.

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Why Norwegian Cruise, Carnival Corporation, and Royal Caribbean Stocks All Sank Monday

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What happened

Cruise line stocks are tanking as the trading week gets under way. As of noon EST Monday, shares of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NYSE:NCLH) are down 4%, Carnival Corporation (NYSE:CCL) (NYSE:CUK) is down 5.9%, and Royal Caribbean (NYSE:RCL) is down an even 6%.

But it’s Carnival pulling the whole sector lower.

Image source: Getty Images.

So what

This morning, the world’s biggest publicly traded cruise line announced a new slew of “ship-specific cruise cancellations and movements.” Among the new developments, three cruise ships — Carnival Magic, Carnival Paradise, and Carnival Valor — are going to be laid up in dry dock until November 2021, and cruises aboard these ships that were slated to begin as early as June will now be canceled.  

And that’s the good news.

Carnival may be the catalyst for today’s sell-off, but it’s not the only cruise line encountering difficulties. As Barron’s noted on Friday, cruises aboard all three major cruise lines are now not expected to resume before the fourth quarter of 2021, or even early 2022.  

Now what

Carnival’s announcement this morning appears to support that bearish prognosis.

Throwing cold water on bullish investors who’ve cited increases in bookings for 2021 cruises as a reason for optimism, Barron’s quoted analysts at Truist Securities warning that “we now see July as the best case for restart” (emphasis added). This suggests that cruise lines, which have now uniformly canceled all cruises out of U.S. ports through the end of April, could very well be forced to postpone cruising repeatedly even as spring and summer approach.

What does this mean for investors? Choppy waters, to borrow a phrase. If Truist and Barron’s are right, then we seem to be looking at a scenario in which cruise stocks may repeatedly be bid up in anticipation of an approaching end to cruise suspensions, and/or updates on bookings numbers, only to have the rug pulled out from under investors as those cruise suspensions stretch farther and farther back into the calendar year.

Adding to investors’ dismay, as cruise lines come to the realization that they won’t resume cruising as soon as they had hoped, they may need to issue more stock to raise more cash — diluting shareholders in the process.

By the time cruising does resume, and Carnival, Norwegian, and Royal Caribbean turn profitable again, those profits may turn out to be a whole lot thinner than investors today expect.



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