Dolph Ziggler will pull double duty for the second consecutive WWE pay-per-view event as he is now slated to defend the United States Championship against Zack Ryder this Sunday at Survivor Series. He will also compete in the 5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Tag Team Match featuring Team Orton vs. Team Barrett.

The updated card is as follows:

John Cena and The Rock vs. The Miz and R-Truth

World Heavyweight Championship Match
Mark Henry (c) vs. Big Show

WWE Championship Match
Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk

5-on-5 Traditional Survivor Series Tag Team Match
Team Orton (Randy Orton, Sheamus, Mason Ryan, Kofi Kingston and Sin Cara) vs. Team Barrett (Cody Rhodes, Jack Swagger, Hunico and Dolph Ziggler)

Divas Championship Match
Beth Phoenix (c) vs. Eve

United States Championship Match
Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Zack Ryder

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Posted by Matt Loede at 12:53 AM | Permalink | Comments

WWE United States Champion Dolph Ziggler indicated on Twitter that he is suffering from a pulled groin. Ziggler didn't wrestle on Monday's RAW but defeated Alex Riley in the SummerSlam dark match.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 9:24 PM | Permalink | Comments

John Cena vs. Alberto Del Rio, Dolph Ziggler vs. Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston vs. The Miz in a Canadian Street Fight are matches advertised for WWE's tour of Canada from September 9th until the 11th. Rey Mysterio and CM Punk are not advertised for the shows.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 2:47 PM | Permalink | Comments

The original plan for the WWE Intercontinental Title match at last night’s pay-per-view was for Dolph Ziggler to actually catch the belt when it fell from Kofi Kingston and Jack Swagger on the ladder. Instead, the finish was botched a bit as Dolph picked the belt up after it had fallen.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 1:43 PM | Permalink | Comments

Source: F4Wonline

- For those keeping track, Dolph Ziggler has taken part in twenty-six Intercontinental title matches at various events (televised and non-televised) within the past few months, losing all but two. He won one match via count-out with another match being ruled a double count-out. Furthermore, he has come up short in retrieving the title on television on seven different occasions including Night of Champions, SummerSlam, Hell in the Cell and four separate episodes of Friday Night SmackDown.

Ziggler was at one point scheduled to win the title from Rey Mysterio over the summer, but the high-flying Superstar vetoed dropping the title to him on more than one occasion. When push came to shove as a result of a 30-day suspension for violating the company’s drug testing policy in early September, Mysterio agreed to drop the title to John Morrison.

Now it appears that the ship has sailed on Ziggler nabbing the gold as WWE officials have reportedly “given up on him.”

On a related noted, Ziggler was voted the “Most Deserving of a Title Shot” among his peers in the “Superstar Survey” taken for the latest issue of WWE Magazine.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 4:51 PM | Permalink | Comments

WWE officials are said to be very unhappy with Rey Mysterio over comments he made to a Mexican newspaper regarding his recent drug test failure where he said had a prescription for the drug he failed for but was suspended before he could give proof of his prescription.

A number of ideas are being discussed for Tuesday's SmackDown taping in Cleveland including Dolph Ziggler beating him for the Intercontinental title and Ziggler interfering and costing him the title against another wrestler. Although, WWE would have to explain why Ziggler didn't receive the title shot after winning a number one contender's match on last week's episode of Superstars if they go in the latter direction.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 10:49 PM | Permalink | Comments

WWE issued the following statement: “In accordance with WWE’s Wellness Program, effective Wednesday, September 2, Oscar Gutierrez (Rey Mysterio) is suspended for 30 days for a violation of the company’s policy.”

Rey Mysterios’s suspension doesn’t start until September 2nd, this Wednesday. This gives WWE time to take the title off of him next Tuesday night. Dolph Ziggler is expected to end up with the belt because those were the original plans for Night of Champions, which was scrapped at the last minute.

There are some rumblings that the WWE Wellness test that Rey Mysterio failed took place three to four weeks ago, around the time of his vacation.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 9:58 PM | Permalink | Comments

Here is the updated card for WWE’s SummerSlam pay-per-view after this past Friday’s SmackDown:

WWE Title Match
Randy Orton vs. John Cena

TLC Match for the World Heavyweight Title
Jeff Hardy vs. CM Punk

WWE Unified Tag Team Title Match
Big Show & Chris Jericho vs. Cryme Tyme

WWE Intercontinental Title Match
Rey Mysterio vs. Dolph Ziggler

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Posted by Matt Loede at 11:21 PM | Permalink | Comments

The specific details on the changed Rey Mysterio/Dolph Ziggler match finish have not yet emerged, but the decision was definitely political in nature. All that is known is that Ziggler was scheduled to win the Intercontinental Championship as of Sunday afternoon, but WWE ultimately decided to keep the belt on Mysterio. Mysterio had been promised a significant championship run when he made rumblings of leaving the company earlier this summer, but the exact nature regarding if and how that played into the decision is not clear.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 8:55 PM | Permalink | Comments

A member of the WWE SmackDown creative team pitched an angle for the Dolph Ziggler and Maria storyline which would have had Ziggler blackmailing Maria with video footage. It would have been heavily implied that the footage was a sex tape, although they never would have come right out and said it.

The proposed angle called for Ziggler threatening that he would show it to her family and friends, but not any of the fans. The angle was rejected.

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Posted by Matt Loede at 9:22 PM | Permalink | Comments