WWE announced the remainder of the tag teams which will form part of this year’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament.
The five remaining tag teams are Tokyo Bad Boys, Sean Legacy and Dorian Van Dux, Harley Riggins and Jax Presley, Shido Ash and Viktor Zanov, and Hank and Tank.
These tag teams join BirthRight, Mini Vikingo and Starboy Charlie, Fraxiom, DarkState, Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno, Los Americanos, Vanity Project, The Creed Brothers, and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Galeno.
The 14-team tournament kicks off this coming Tuesday on NXT.
A couple of more matches were added to the All Out 2026 pay-per-view for next week.
In the pre-show, which is being marketed as the Tailgate Brawl, Jack Perry takes on Katsuyori Shibata, joining the other match on the pre-show featuring Bang Bang Gang vs The Dogs and The Death Riders in an eight-man tag team match.
On the actual pay-per-view, the AEW National champion Andrade El Idolo will defend his title against Pac.
There are eight matches on the PPV and two on the pre-show so far, with a few more expected to join the line-up next week.
WWE announced six more tag teams who will be part of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament on NXT, a tournament which kicks off in the coming week.
Joining the tournament are Uriah Connors and Stacks of BirthRight, Mini Vikingo and Starboy Charlie from AAA, Nathan Frazer and Axiom of Fraxiom, Cutler James and Osiris Griffin of DarkState, Noam Rad and Romeo Moreno, and Ray and Bravo Americano of Los Americanos.
They join the already-announced NXT Tag Team champions Vanity Project, AAA Tag Team champions El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. and Galeno, and The Creed Brothers.
Mercedes Mone seems like she enjoyed DJing for Sweet Chin Disco after All In last month and is returning for another round of music next month in Paris, France.
The AEW Grand Slam after party was announced by Sweet Chin Disco and will take place on Tuesday, October 6 starting at 11PM and running till 3AM local time. The event comes to you from Central Chapelle at 4 Esp. Alice Milliat, Paris with Mone in the DJ booth.
Tickets are available now starting from €40.99 for general admission or €100.99 for VIP tickets which includes a meet and greet with Mone herself and a photo as well.
Several AEW stars participated in last night’s CMLL 93rd anniversary show at a sold-out Arena Mexico in Mexico City.
In the matches, Blue Panther defeated Jeff Jarrett, Titan defeated Komander to retain the CMLL World Welterweight title, Soberano Jr defeated Bandido, Persephone retained the CMLL Women’s title against Starlight Kid, Mina Shirakawa, and Tessa Blanchard, Andrade El Idolo defeated Volador Jr., and Hechicero defeated Claudio Castagnoli to retain the CMLL World title.
AEW and CMLL do share some wrestlers with dual contracts, including Persephone, Hechicero, and Castagnoli, himself a former CMLL World champion.
After suffering the wrath of the NFL last week, Dynamite rebounded in the ratings this week, drawing 723,000 viewers, up 152,000 viewers from the prior week. The show had a 0.16 rating in 18-49, up 0.06 from the last episode. (Ratings credit: F4WOnline)
Former WWE and AEW star Jake Hager underwent emergency eye surgery following a devastating loss at a Power Slap event.
Hager lost to Johnny Magna via TKO after his slap resulted in his eye bleeding, with UFC President Dana White describing it one of the worst injuries in contact sport he’s ever seen. White even prevented the replay from airing and promised the company will do whatever it can to provide medical care for Hager.
Patricia Blackburn, Hager’s partner, shared the news yesterday that Hager underwent successful eye surgery and is now recovering.
“Thank you to the UFC and Power Slap family for the incredible love and support you’ve shown Jake during this difficult time.
Jake is currently recovering from an emergency eye surgery. We’re taking things one day at a time and keeping the details private, but your kindness, support, and genuine concern have meant more than you know,” she wrote. “Thank you for being there for Jake. We’re so grateful to be part of a community that shows up when it matters most.”
Hager departed AEW in 2014 and his last wrestling match was less than a month ago, losing to Alberto El Patron for World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico.
Money In The Bank qualifying matches continued last night on Smackdown.
In the men’s qualifier, United States champion Trick Williams defeated AAA Cruiserweight champion Rey Fenix and Randy Orton in a triple threat match, with Williams pinning Fenix for the win.
Later in the broadcast, Women’s United States champion Jacy Jayne overcame Alexa Bliss and Jade Cargill in another triple threat, with Jayne stealing the pin on Bliss to advance.
Qualifiers continue this coming Monday on Raw, with AAA Reina de Reinas champion La Catalina vs Roxanne Perez vs Iyo Sky and Solo Sikoa vs Dominik Mysterio vs Dragon Lee.
On yesterday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Nikki and Brie Show, Nikki Garcia addresses the short match on Smackdown and says she came in fully prepared for PLE match.
Nikki Garcia addresses the short Smackdown match (8:08-9:20)
Nikki Garcia: Our numbers ended up being the most talked about from Friday Night Smackdown.
Brie Garcia: That’s great.
Nikki Garcia: Isn’t that amazing? So it was like even though you know we thought we were gonna have this like PLE match and I came in like super prepped for that and you know it turned in, and I love storytelling so like let’s continue this and it was…
Brie Garcia: But maybe that’s why people are talking because they want more.
Nikki Garcia: You didn’t let me finish. Yeah, that’s what I was saying is that I’m all about the story. So like take it away and then you put in that and it’s great heat, right? And it gets people talking and now are like when’s this going to happen? What’s next?
Brie Garcia: You left them wanting more.
Nikki Garcia: Yeah. And I love that I get to blame her. Blame her. You know what I mean? But yeah, no, it was amazing. Even though so you know the fam was there and Ezekiel was you know told dad in Spanish to tell me like “My friends were texting me we all want to know like why was that only two minutes,” like he literally and I’m like well…
Brie Bella: You should have pointed out the bosses.
Nikki Garcia: No I was like it’s her fault go tell Paige it’s her fault she came out like an angry woman but yeah I was it was awesome.
The Nikki & Brie Show hosted by Nikki & Brie Garcia is available anytime on the SiriusXM app. New episodes every Monday and Thursday. Listen to the full episode here.
TNA has a serious problem for Bound For Glory as less than 1,000 tickets have been sold so far with the event just 24 days away.
The show will take place on Sunday, October 11 at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida, but the usually wrestling-friendly city is not turning up for TNA this time around.
According to WrestleTix, the show is at 700 tickets sold, with the arena set up for 2,444 seats. The Yuengling Center, a favorite stop for WWE shows, seats almost 10,000.
Bound For Glory, which is typically TNA’s biggest show of the year, will be headlined by Nic Nemeth vs Leon Slater for the TNA World title.
Tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com starting from $59.35.
Ilja Dragunov has signed with AEW according to the latest Wrestling Observer by Dave Meltzer.
The 33-year-old, who was born in Russia, departed WWE last month after his contract expired and opted not to renew it. That gives him the ability to appear any time since there are no notice periods he has to go through.
The signing was largely expected as the former NXT champion fits the AEW mold so to speak. His departure from WWE was met with some surprise considering he was a very hard working individual who always had tremendous matches.
Dragunov is expected to start with AEW imminently.
In his latest episode of Grilling JR, Jim Ross detailed a new health issue after his daughter pointed out several moles on his back.
Ross said that when he went to get them checked, doctors said there were “seven or eight” moles which they were concerned about and took biopsies from all of them.
“I’m hoping it’s not the bad stuff, because I’ve gone through 22 radiation treatments on my ankle that still isn’t healed,” Ross said. “I hear I’m going to be recommended to go to a full-time wound doctor and try to get this son of a bitch healed.”
The AEW commentator is also waiting on results from a kidney mass which was discovered a few weeks ago although he did say that doctors are optimistic it’s nothing serious.
It’s been a rough few years for the WWE Hall of Famer, going through multiple rounds of cancer treatments plus brain surgery.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Major League Wrestling (MLW) has signed a new television deal with FOX-owned Tubi, a deal which kicks off today.
The MLW Fusion weekly television series will stream on Tube for free every week at 8PM, with the first episode set for today, September 17. New episodes will premiere each Thursday in the same time slot.
The Tubi deal was the subject of a lawsuit by MLW against WWE after MLW claimed that WWE put pressure on FOX officials to cancel a deal originally agreed to five years ago. WWE and MLW eventually settled out of court, with WWE paying $20 million to MLW.
“Wrestling should be easy to find and free to watch,” said Court Bauer, the founder and CEO of Major League Wrestling. “We built MLW around that, no paywalls, no subscription barriers, nothing standing between a fan and the show, and Tubi shares that same fan-first philosophy at scale. Starting Sept. 17, Tubi’s 110 million monthly active users have a front row seat on Thursday nights to the hardest hitting hour in pro wrestling, and it won’t cost a dime.”
Tubi says it has 110 million monthly active users to their streaming platform.
Collision drew 344,000 viewers this past weekend, down 5,000 viewers from the previous week. Collision had the same 0.06 rating in 18-49 as it did from the previous four weeks. (Ratings credit: Wrestlenomics)
There seems to be rumblings that the upcoming World Collide event from Chicago will not be streamed live and will simply be like a house show.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful is reporting that currently, there are no indications that suggest Worlds Collide will air live anywhere, but that could change at any minute.
The last Worlds Collide aired on YouTube worldwide in September 2025 but with just over a week to go, there are no entries on the live section of the WWE YouTube account that backs that up and WWE made no effort in advancing any storylines on television for the event.
Instead, the Allstate Arena published four of the matches on their website which will be taking place, headlined by a six-man tag team match between CM Punk, Rey Mysterio, and El Grande Americano vs Dominik Mysterio, JD McDonagh, and Omos.
The show is going head-to-head with AEW’s All Out pay-per-view in Hoffman Estates, just a few miles away.
The event will be recorded by WWE but the 11,000-plus in attendance so far will not be seeing themselves on live television!
Smackdown on September 11 from Mexico drew 1,220,000 viewers, down 80,000 viewers despite a big main event which saw Sami Zayn defeat CM Punk for the WWE title. Smackdown had a 0.29 rating in 18-49, which is the same number it did the prior week. (Ratings credit: Wrestlenomics)
Samoa Joe’s return to AEW was teased last night on Dynamite, with Jack Perry calling out the former AEW World champion in a promo where he challenged Joe to return and face him in the squared circle.
Joe has been missing from AEW television since the Double or Nothing pay-per-view, with his last match being against current AEW World champion Will Ospreay.
Joe’s absence is not due to an injury, but he had to go film the new season of Twisted Metal, which airs on Peacock. Joe portrays the character of the killer clown Sweet Tooth in the series.
While Joe’s return date was not announced, All Out on pay-per-view next week would be a pretty good event to make a return!
