The Hollywood Reporter is carrying an extensive story on the future of AEW on a Netflix-owned Warner Bros. after a 519-page joint proxy statement was filed yesterday with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
AEW programming like Dynamite and Collision will remain with the Global Linear Networks company controlled by Discovery once the split is done and streaming will remain on HBO Max throughout the rest of the current AEW/WBD contract.
If AEW renews its media rights deal with Discovery’s TNT and TBS, their streaming will depart HBO Max and join the TNT Sports streaming app which will launch once the WBD separates.
The report also confirm that WBD owns a minority stake in AEW, a stake which is valued less than 10% otherwise they would have to legally report it. The stake will remain with Global Linear Networks once the split takes place, taking Warner Bros. out of the picture.
The Impact debut on AMC last week drew just 174,000 viewers, and while it was double the audience they were pulling on AXS TV, it’s on the lower end of what many have predicted. The number is their best one since February 16, 2021. In 18-49, Impact had a 0.04 rating, which is way more than the 0.01 it was pulling on AXS. (Ratings credit: PWTorch)
The number one contenders for the TNA Knockouts Tag Team titles were decided last night on NXT.
The team of Sol Ruca and Zaria will be taking on The Elegance Brand next, with Ash and Heather by Elegance winning the titles from The IInspiration on last week’s Impact debut on AMC.
Ruca and Zaria defeated Kendal Gray and Wren Sinclair and Laney Reid and Fallon Henley in a triple threat tag match to earn the title shot, with Zaria pinning Henley with an F5 for the victory.
This is the second reign of The Elegance Brand with the titles, having previously held the belts for 197 days.
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The first three participants in the six-man ladder match to determine the next NXT champion were announced last night on NXT.
Shiloh Hill advanced first by defeating Josh Briggs and then Sean Legacy defeated Eli Knight in the second qualifier to advance. Legacy and Knight are NXT’s newest arrivals after previously having WWE ID contracts.
Former champion Ricky Saints, who was the champion before Oba Femi won it, gets a free pass and was automatically inserted into the match, leaving three empty spots.
Those spots will be determined by three more qualifying matches which will feature Dion Lennox vs Myles Borne, Keanu Carver vs Andre Chase, and Joe Hendry vs Jackson Drake.
The ladder match will take place on the February 3 episode of NXT on The CW.
Trey Miguel of The Rascalz released another statement on X following his release from AEW just days after he signed a contract along with the rest of the group.
Rumors are that Miguel’s release came from “high up” and while the exact reason for his release isn’t known, Miguel might have hinted at why in a post on X.
“I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my time. I’ve always apologized and did my best to put a better foot forward after,” he wrote. “I don’t preach hate and I don’t take any pride in being hateful. I’m a man of faith, I believe in forgiveness and only ever preach that. I’m a different man today.”
A few years ago, Miguel made some online comments which would not fly in today’s world. It’s the same situation that the late Jay Briscoe had with the company, where he was not allowed on AEW television by WBD due to his past comments. Jay never appeared on AEW TV and it was only after his untimely death that his brother was allowed to be featured on television.
Buff Bagwell sat down with Chris Van Vliet at the DDP Yoga Performance Center in Atlanta, Georgia to discuss what led to his leg needing to be amputated and why he let Maven document the surgery, his battles with addiction and what led to him getting sober, possibly competing in one more match, how DDP helped him turn his life around, having one of the best physiques in wrestling, inventing the Blockbuster, and more!
For people who don’t know what happened with your leg, that car accident was kind of what started this?
“Absolutely. So in 2020, I had a car wreck where I was under the influence of pills and alcohol, and I drove through a bus station, it’s a bus station bathroom, men’s and women’s and nobody was in it, thank God. In that car wreck, my right knee cap exploded. So with it exploding, 40 surgeries over the next 3 or 4 years trying to fix it. Infections in and out. Knee replacement, I think it was 41 surgeries total. Then I was just going to deal with this leg that didn’t bend anymore, and it got infected again. And the doctor goes, ‘Let’s cut it off.’ And I went, ‘Whoa, wait a minute, brother, we did 40 something surgeries. Let’s try to fix it one more time. I can’t just cut my leg off.’ So I went to that appointment to see what it was like to save my leg. In that appointment is where I stopped the doctor, as he was explaining, he was talking about pulling a skin graft off of this shoulder to close it up. I said, Whoa, what? So it was so devastating what I was hearing. I said, ‘What’s the percentages of all that working?’ And he said, about 20%. I said, ‘Let’s cut it off.’”
Were you able to come to peace with that decision?
“No, not at all. I was devastated. I did not, and you cannot see this. I tried to see it, but I just don’t think you have the eyes to see this part of it. The truth is, I should have done this two years earlier. I really believe if it would have been proposed to me two years ago, I would have thought they were crazy. I’d have said no, no, no, like I did this time. But if I would have done it, I’d have been two years ahead. So this has been with my situation of the leg I had, this is unbelievably good what happened to me, but you just don’t see that when you’re going through it.”
I’ve heard you say you want to wrestle again?
“I know I could wrestle again, another match or two, but if I can’t do it, I’m not going to do it. And I’m not sure that’s possible. I don’t want to be ugly. If it’s ugly at all, I’m not going to do it. So, for example, this $135,000 leg. Because of this, there’s no way to make [using the ring] steps look good. So that will be the first thing you got to conquer, is getting in [the ring] or sliding in and getting up fast. But again, if I can’t do those things without them being I’m not going to do it, but I think I can. I think I can do it where it’s not ugly. I just don’t know yet, so we’re definitely going to, in the next couple of months, I’m going to get in the ring and just see what I can do. But I really do think no matter what I will do one match just because that’s one of my goals.”
It seems like you’ve been able to now make the distinction between Marcus and Buff, and for a long time, you were just Buff:
“That’s a perfect, perfect analogy. It’s funny you say that I remember the boys, Disco Inferno in particular, we would be talking, and he’d be like, ‘Is that Buff or is that Marcus?’ We would laugh and joke about it because it was funny. After all, back then, there was a Buff and a Marcus, and then somewhere in there, those lines get cloudy, they get not so clear. That happens, you live the gimmick. I didn’t think I was doing that, but obviously I was, but I do believe that comes with also the alcohol and the pills just really clouded it up. It’s not just, you know, Macho Man lived his character. I could care less about living my character. I just believe that your character ain’t far from who you are anyway. Buff, when you saw Marcus Alexander Bagwell in the wrestling ring, Buff’s there too. I’m just a babyface. I’m a good guy. But when you’re Buff, you got to turn it up. It’s just turned up a little. But I think that gets confused even more with alcohol and pills.”
Hall of Fame announcer Jim Ross suffered another fall at home and will not be traveling to Orlando for tomorrow’s Dynamite.
Ross wrote on X that he fell and was stuck lying on his living room floor for five hours before help arrived.
“My trip to Orlando for @AEW Dynamite is postponed due to an untimely fall that saw me lying on my living room floor for 5 hours,” JR wrote. “I’ll be watching!”
JR returned to commentary on Dynamite a few weeks ago when the show aired from his home state of Oklahoma and was planned to do Orlando as well tomorrow.
This is not the first time that Ross suffered a fall. He also fell in his hotel room in Arlington before All In last year although he still managed to go to work that weekend.
Season two of WWE: Unreal was uploaded on Netflix worldwide today.
Consisting of five episodes of approximately an hour each, season two will look at the road to SummerSlam and features Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, Cody Rhodes, Rhea Ripley, Pat McAfee, Jelly Roll, R-Truth, Iyo Sky, Naomi, Chelsea Green, Penta, and Lyra Valkyria as part of the cast.
A prominent part of this season will include behind-the-scenes of how WWE tried to fool everyone with the Seth Rollins injury which led him to be out for a few months, only to cash in his MITB briefcase at SummerSlam on CM Punk.
The five episodes are titled No Days Off, The Truth, The Vision, Performance Art, and The Pop.
WWE: Unreal is produced by Omaha Productions, NFL Films, Skydance Sports, and WWE with Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ross Ketover, Keith Cossrow, Ken Rodgers, Jessica Boddy, Lee Fitting, Ben Houser, and Marc Pomarico serving as executive producers.
AJ Styles will be putting up his career on the line against Gunther at the Royal Rumble.
The Ring General is looking to make it three out of three in ending careers, following his wins against Goldberg and John Cena in their retirement matches.
Gunther did not want to wrestle Styles at the Rumble and told him he had no incentive to do so since he already beat him, but he changed his mind after he told Styles he would reconsider if he put his career on the line.
Styles, who already said that 2026 will be his last year wrestling, had until the end of the night to consider the high-stakes match.
In a backstage segment towards the end of the broadcast, Styles found Raw GM Adam Pearce and told him that he talked to his wife who told him to go kick Gunther’s ass.
Pearce then made the match official for the Royal Rumble.
The January WWE European tour comes to a close today with one final non-televised live event in Brussels, Belgium.
This tour took WWE Superstars and crew across seven countries, participating in a total of 12 events including four television tapings.
Germany, Scotland, Denmark, England, Poland, Northern Ireland, and Belgium were the selected ones to play a role in the Road to the Royal Rumble, with everyone soon boarding a plane again to travel to Saudi Arabia for Smackdown and the Royal Rumble premium live event later next week.
WWE did not announce another tour yet, with only a live Raw from London’s O2 Arena on the calendar for June 22.
Finn Balor received a proper Superstar homecoming in Northern Ireland last night on Raw, even though he came up short in his quest to win the WWE World Heavyweight title from CM Punk.
With Punk out first, the arena lights went dark and fans started the “Ole” chant while fireflies filled up the SSE Arena.
Balor came out to his original NXT theme song with “Balor Country” on the video screen, and the Belfast crowd greeting the former leader of the Bullet Club with a thunderous ovation.
The 20-minute match ended with Punk victorious after a GTS. Following the win, Punk extended his hand to Balor and helped him back up, talked to him, and raised his arm. He then gave Balor a hug with fans applauding in the background.
When Raw went off the air, Balor was able to address the crowd.
“I just want to say that I feel very privileged to be here tonight. I’ve done a lot in my 25-year career in this business. And tonight is, without question, the most memorable night of my career so far,” he said. “You know, I don’t get to come home very often. And this week was very special because yesterday, for the first time in almost 15 years, I got to celebrate my mother’s birthday with her!”
Following the customary happy birthday song from the crowd, Balor thanked them for being able to do this on his home turf in front of his family and his people.
“You know what, it’s true what they say, there is no place like home. Thank you very much, Belfast,” he concluded.
The match between Je’Von Evans and El Grande Americano on Raw yesterday was cut off early after the match was stopped by the referee following an injury to Evans.
The Young OG was checked by a doctor at ringside and after Raw came back from a commercial, the bell rang, with the match awarded to Americano because Evans was unable to continue.
He was helped to the back by the referee and the doctor and he kept holding his right arm and shoulder while walking.
But PWInsider.com is now reporting that the match was actually stopped due to a possible concussion, although Evans was later cleared to travel back home with the rest of the crew.
It’s unclear when the injury happened throughout the match as Evans hit a springboard clothesline before the show went to commercial and then the bell was rang when Raw returned.
AJ Styles challenged Gunther for a match at the Royal Rumble in Riyadh, a match which Gunther rejected…unless Styles was ready to put his career on the line.
Kicking off Monday Night Raw from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gunther addressed the crowd but was swiftly interrupted by Styles, who last week lost to Gunther in a one-on-one match.
Styles asked Gunther for another match, but the former two-time WWE World Heavyweight champion said he had no incentive to wrestle Styles again, and seeing that he had just declared himself for the Rumble match, he had no intention of doing double duty.
Styles reminder Gunther that last week he tapped out “like a little bitch” and if he’s scared, then they should move on.
Gunther said that there might be something that would tempt him to wrestle Styles, and that is if Styles agrees to put his career on the line.
The Austrian gave Styles till the end of the night to decide if that was a hill worth dying on.
AJ has repeatedly said that 2026 would be his last year as an in-ring competitor.
Daria Rae, the artist formerly known as Sonya Deville in WWE, told the Busted Open Radio hosts that she only signed a six-month contract with TNA.
Rae made her debut with the company on the debut episode of Impact on AMC, taking the role of the on-screen Director of Operations.
Asked if she plans on making it longer, she replied, “As long as it’s a continuously mutually beneficial situation, meaning I’m adding value, and I feel good about what I’m getting in return, then I don’t see why it wouldn’t continue long term.”
The 32-year-old spent 10 years working for WWE, both as a wrestler and as authority figure. Her contract was not renewed in February of last year.
John Pollock from POST Wrestling is reporting that Smackdown is moving to SyFy for two weeks in February due to USA Network’s coverage of the Winter Olympics.
Both the February 13 and February 20 episodes will air on SyFy, keeping their regular 8PM ET start time and still going for three hours. The show will return to USA Network on February 27 on the eve of the Elimination Chamber premium live event.
The Winter Olympics, from Lombardy and Northeast Italy, will broadcast between February 6 and February 22, with coverage on NBC, USA Network, and other sister properties.
The Rascalz in AEW quickly went from four to three as Trey Miguel announced that he is taking a break from professional wrestling and was released from his AEW contract days after he signed it.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful reports that both sides are still on good terms and this was something that Miguel wanted for now. The other members of the group, who made their on-screen AEW debut during Collision in a backstage segment, are still there.
“Taking a break from wrestling. Please respect my space and don’t tag me in any posts or comments,” Miguel wrote on social media. “Go support the Rascalz still.”
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For the last time in this European tour, Raw starts early on Netflix around the world, with a kickoff time of 3PM ET / 12PM PT in the United States, and 8PM GMT local time or 9PM CET for those in Central Europe.
The show will take place from the sold out SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and it’s the second to last show in Europe for this round.
Headlining the broadcast is a WWE World Heavyweight title match between champion CM Punk and his challenger, Finn Balor of The Judgment Day.
Also on the broadcast, Becky Lynch defends the WWE Women’s Intercontinental title against Maxxine Dupri, Je’Von Evans battles El Grande Americano, and a six-man tag team match with Rey Mysterio, Penta, and Dragon Lee vs. Bronson Reed, Austin Theory, and Logan Paul.
In a video which aired on the AAA premiere on FOX this past Saturday, current AAA Mega champion Dominik Mysterio was shown talking about winning the AAA title in Las Vegas and his history with AAA.
The video kept jumping, from Mysterio talking in a car, to illustrations of what happened, and freezing the video exactly at 52:33 on the WWE YouTube feed, you can see the title around his waist morphing to one with an AEW logo.
Clearly done with the help of AI, the mistake went unnoticed, mainly because you have to freeze-frame it to catch it, and aired on FOX as part of the program.
The center place of the title kept switching to different shapes in the illustration video, at one point even showing a lion.
