Photo Credit- AEW, RingsideNews All Elite Wrestling recently announced that their weekly show “Dynamite” will be moving from TNT to TBS in 2022, this news made fans either excited or worried about the show’s future as many believe TNT is their rightful home since its inception two years ago. AEW’s move to TBS Is good for two main reasons and within this article, I want to explain why this is the best decision for a growing company like All Elite Wrestling. No More Schedule Changes: AEW’s schedule has had problems due to the NBA playoffs as they’ve had to change…
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In a cryptic Instagram post, Indie Star ACH has seemingly retired from Professional Wrestling. A Statement by him read; “No need for the dramatic or emotional wordplay. As of today, I will officially step away from professional wrestling. Thank you all for the support and love.” ACH has competed in various promotions, including WWE, NJPW, ROH, and Impact. He has won many titles, most notably the AAW Heavyweight Championship, and the Evolve Tag Team Championship. ACH is a great wrestler, and will be dearly missed in the wrestling scene. It is currently unknown the reasoning that led to his retirement.
Photo Credit: Braun Strowman twitter Strowman was released by WWE on June 2 due to apparent budget cuts. Since his release, there have been plenty of rumors on which wrestling companies will sign a force like Braun Strowman, besides his 90-day no-compete clause with WWE, meaning that he still gets a check from WWE until the end of August, conversations between the fighter and other promotions have emerged. Early this week reports and rumors began to circulate about the numbers Strowman ask for an appearance on the independent scene. According to PWInsider in an update on their story, Strowman´s manager has said in…
Photo Credit – AEW, WWE It is no secret that the way we as humans live changed on the 30th of January of 2020 when the WHO declared the Coronavirus outbreak as a critical emergency, a couple of months later we would see many sports events get canceled while countries went into lockdowns. The wrestling world was at its crossroads due to how unpredictable the situation was at the time, some companies such as WWE conducted their events on their performance center without crowds until they eventually started the idea of the “Thunderdome” while other companies like Warrior Wrestling did…
Photo Credit – WWE On the newest edition of Jim Ross’s Grilling JR podcast, he discussed Mick Foley’s WWE career, and during the conversation, he disclosed the genesis of a famous Vince McMahon remark. The former WWE commentator was referring to a June 1997 interview with the WWE Hall Of Famer. “We didn’t know Vince was even going to be there, we had no idea, That’s where the famous line that came from Vince, where we got to a certain stopping point and heard this voice and it’s unmistakably Vince saying ‘This is good s–t.’ At that point, Mick is…
After a strange episode last week that was partially the result of poor pacing, NXT UK looks to bounce back and have a good episode with a gauntlet main eventing. GOOD: Noam Dar defeated Nathan Frazer in a really fast paced & entertaining Heritage Cup Rules match to open up the show. Considering Dar had been losing a lot recently, he needed a win. Both men looked great. Result – Dar wins 2 falls to 1 Dakota Cohen WR Star Rating – 3.5 Stars GREAT: An intense backstage confrontation took place after Sam Gradwell got in the face of Trent…
After last week’s very good episode, we look to see if NXT UK can put on another banger of a show which included a Loser Leaves NXT UK match! AVERAGE SQUASH: Ilja Dragunov defeated Dave Mastiff via referee stoppage after Mastiff got busted open. This was very strange, but not necessarily terrible. GOOD: After the match, Dragunov was shown backstage and said that he needs to work on his self control. This was good storytelling. GOOD: Gallus, minus Joe Coffey, were backstage & Rampage Brown walked up and asked where Joe was & when Wolfgang said he wasn’t there, Brown…
Earlier this week, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide held their 24th Rey de Reyes event on Sunday, May 1st. One of the highlights of the show was a video package shown featuring former NXT Champion and recently released WWE Superstar, Andrade. This would mark his first appearance in wrestling since October 12, 2020. In this video package Andrade challenged current AAA Mega Champion, Kenny Omega, to a match for the title at AAA’s TripleMania XXIX in August. You can watch the video below. https://twitter.com/luchalibreaaa/status/1388696706317967363?s=19 Kenny Omega, who won the title back at Héroes Inmortales XIII in 2019, has only defended the…
Starz have announced that the highly anticipated Professional Wrestling drama ‘Heels’ will be premiering on August 15th at 9PM ET. It has previously been confirmed that the show will consist of 8 one hour episodes and started being filmed back in the summer of 2020, and wrapped a few weeks ago. The show follows two brothers, one a ‘face’ with the other a ‘heel’, as they attempt to bring more attention to the Georgian based wrestling promotion their late father left them called ‘Duffy League Wrestling’. One brother is played by Stephen Amell, while the other is played by Alexander…