While she does not have a match at WrestleDream, Mercedes Mone has been announced for the broadcast, celebrating becoming the longest-ever AEW TBS champion.
Mone hit 508 days as champion today, matching Jade Cargill’s inaugural run and will become the longest champ as the clock hits Midnight tonight.
She won the title back in May 2024 at Double or Nothing from Willow Nightingale and has since collected 10 title belts from around the world, matching Ultimo Dragon’s record.
Mone has been featured in practically every AEW pay-per-view since joining and this is a rare show where she won’t have a match on…at least for now.
There will be three hours of AEW action tonight on TNT as Dynamite will be followed by a one-hour episode of Collision immediately following its conclusion.
Because of this Saturday’s WrestleDream pay-per-view, there will not be a Collision, with the other hour at 7PM being billed as Tailgate Brawl leading into the pay-per-view.
Seven matches have been announced for the broadcast including an AEW Trios title match between The Opps and La Faccion Ingobernable, plus Kenny Omega teams with Jurassic Express vs Josh Alexander, Hechicero, and Mark Davis in another trios match, The Hurt Syndicate vs GOA, Wheeler Yuta and Daniel Garcia vs Orange Cassidy and Kyle O’Reilly, Claudio Castagnoli vs Roderick Strong, Skye Blue vs Jamie Hayter, and Megan Bayne vs Harley Cameron.
Also, Kris Statlander and Toni Storm will meet before their title match and Darby Allin comes face-to-face with Jon Moxley.
All this live tonight on TBS starting at 8PM ET and streaming also on HBO Max.
It was another bad night for Smackdown on Friday as the WNBA Playoffs, college football, and MLB left a huge dent on the Smackdown audience, drawing just 1,025,000 viewers, down 5,000 from last week’s show and a new record-low. Smackdown aired on a 12-hour tape delay since it was from Australia. The show had a 0.22 rating in 18-49, down 0.01 from the previous one and was #4 on cable and #5 overall. (Ratings credit: Programming Insider)
CM Punk put over Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky big time at the conclusion of the non-televised event in Melbourne, Australia.
Punk main evented the show, defeating Dominik Mysterio via disqualification, but despite the bad finish, the fans still went home happy after Ripley and Sky joined Punk in the ring for the save and some parting words.
“They like to call me the best in the world, but these two, ladies and gentlemen, these two badass ladies…if I’m in this ring, I cannot say I’m the best in the world, especially if I’m standing next to the Australian-born,” Punk said.
Punk then took things a little bit R-rated and said he wanted to do this for a long, long time, describing Ripley as “always serving ‘cuntinous’ brutality!”
CM Punk added that coming back after 14 years was a real treat and it was his pleasure and honor to share the locker room and do fun things like this with two gigantic superstars who he loves and respects very much.
Punk said that on other occasions, he would have Cult of Personalty play but they’re in Australia, so he handed the mic to Ripley and sat down in the corner, with Sky also doing the same in the opposite corner, leaving Ripley with the final words.
CM Punk speech after #WWEMelbourne giving Rhea and Iyo their flowers ❤️
Crown Jewel: Perth did not chart in the global top 10 on Netflix and the Royal Rumble, the first PLE to air on Netflix, remains so far the only show which did.
The PLE from Australia was also down from previous shows comparing top 10 charts, with Crown Jewel only making the top 10 in nine countries including Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Egypt, India, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and United Kingdom.
With PLEs not airing on Netflix in the United States, it’s harder for them to show up on the global chart since the bulk of the viewers would be from there.
Kota Ibushi said it will take two years for him to return to the ring after undergoing successful surgery to repair a fractured femur.
The Japanese star suffered the injury last week when he was wrestling Josh Alexander at the Collision tapings, breaking the strongest bone in the human body after falling from the top rope to the outside.
“My current condition. One year to fully recover. Two years until I can step into the ring again,” Ibushi wrote in a post on Instagram.
“I believe in myself more than the doctors,” he continued. “I know I have amazing DNA that gives me the ability to heal!”
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WWE wrapped up their week in Australia today with one final non-televised live event in Melbourne.
The Rod Laver Arena had over 12,000 tickets out and the attendance almost matched what was in Perth for each of the three shows held during the Crown Jewel weekend.
While the Smackdown crew will depart for the United States from Melbourne due to Friday’s television show in San Jose, the Raw crew will stop in Japan for two back-to-back shows at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Friday and Saturday. They will then head back home immediately after the Saturday show and travel to Sacramento, California for Raw.
As expected, Seth Rollins is not traveling to Japan and his involvement in the two matches have been taken off the card.
The men’s Speed title is being revived just like the women’s version and it will also be defended on NXT.
NXT General Manager Ava announced that a mini tournament will kick off next week with Axiom vs Sean Legacy and Zachary Wentz from TNA vs Jasper Troy, with the winners facing each other to determine who will go on to face the current champion, El Grande Americano.
The Speed titles were moved to NXT after WWE’s deal with X expired. All Speed-related matches on NXT are held under previous Speed rules.
The October 6 episode of Raw on Netflix had 2,400,000 global views, up 100,000 from the previous two weeks but still on the lower-end of what the show had been doing on the streaming service.
Raw was #9 on the top 10 global chart with 4,800,000 viewing hours off a running time of 1 hour and 57 minutes.
The show was in the top 10 charts in just four countries this time, which is a new record low including Bolivia, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, and United States.
The Halloween Havoc premium live event card started to take shape last night on NXT with a total of four matches announced for the card.
Ricky Saints will be defending his NXT title against former TNA champion Trick Williams. It’s yet another title shot for Williams who seems to have unlimited amounts of title matches in his bag!
Three more title matches were also set, with new NXT Tag Team champions The Hardys defending their gold against former champs Dark State in a rematch from NXT Showdown, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner faces Ethan Page for the NXT North American title in a Day of the Dead match, and NXT Women’s champion Jacy Jayne defends against Tatum Paxley, who last night won a number one contenders battle royal.
The show will take place from the Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona and tickets start from just $32.50 on Ticketmaster.com.
Halloween Havoc airs live on Peacock in the United States and Netflix internationally on Saturday, October 25.
Fatal Influence has their third person back – Lainey Reid – who replaced Jazmyn Nyx in the group following her departure from the company.
Reid was welcomed to the faction by the leader and NXT Women’s champion Jacy Jayne during last night’s episode of NXT on The CW.
Reid helped Jayne defend her title against Lola Vice at No Mercy last month, coming out in a hoodie to attack Vice. She was later revealed as Reid, who also attacked Nyx backstage.
The faction formed in July of last year and stuck to the original three members until Nyx rejected a new NXT contract last month.
Reid has been signed to WWE since late 2023 and was a regular on the Level Up show until it was canceled. She performs at NXT non-televised live events and made sporadic appearances on TV until now.
The pre-sale for Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13 which will have John Cena’s final match kicked off this morning on Ticketmaster to a massive queue way larger than that of when WrestleMania 42 tickets went on pre-sale.
Most of the tickets on pre-sale were quickly snatched up and the cheapest remaining tickets for now start at $831.90 plus fees.
Ringside seats start at a whopping $4,607.90 and even those were mostly sold.
More tickets will be released when the general on-sale kicks off on Friday, October 17 at 10AM ET.
The show will take place from the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC.
Tatum Paxley became the number one contender for the NXT Women’s title after she outlasted 19 other women last night in a battle royal on NXT.
Stars from both NXT and TNA were also involved in the match including Arianna Grace, Cassie Lee, Heather by Elegance, Izzi Dame, Jaida Parker, Jessica McKay, Jordynne Grace, Karmen Petrovic, Kelani Jordan, Kendal Grey, Lash Legend, Lei Ying Lee, Lola Vice, Mara Sadé, Sol Ruca, Thea Hail, Victoria Crawford, Wren Sinclair, and Xia Brookside.
The final three were Paxley, Jordynne Grace, and Izzi Dame. Paxley, who was on the outside of the apron, was trying to eliminate Grace while she was on the ropes and Dame ran in to clothesline Grace over the rope but ended up going over herself as well, with Paxley holding on for the win.
After the match, Lyra Valkyria ran down to celebrate with her as Jacy Jayne and Fatal Influence looked on.
NXT tonight will be headlined by a 20-woman battle royal to crown the #1 contender for the NXT Women’s title at Halloween Havoc.
Stars from both NXT and TNA will be part of this battle royal which includes Arianna Grace, Cassie Lee, Heather by Elegance, Izzi Dame, Jaida Parker, Jessica McKay, Jordynne Grace, Karmen Petrovic, Kelani Jordan, Kendal Grey, Lash Legend, Lei Ying Lee, Lola Vice, Mara Sadé, Sol Ruca, Tatum Paxley, Thea Hail, Victoria Crawford, Wren Sinclair, Xia Brookside.
Also, Matt Cardona returns to a WWE ring for the first time since 2020 in a match against Josh Briggs, Blake Monroe battles Zaria, and AAA Latin American champion El Hijo del Wagner Jr takes on Lexis King.
NXT airs at 8PM ET on The CW in the United States and on Netflix internationally.
Chris Jericho announced his seventh Rock N Wrestling Rager cruise, titled Seventh Cruise of a Seventh Cruise.
Sailing from November 7 to 11 departing from Miami to Bimini onboard the Norwegian Jewel, the cruise has several wrestling stars as guests including Jeff Hardy, Saraya, The Great Muta, Ted DiBiase, Carlito, Shotzi Blackheart, AJ Francis, Indi Hartwell, The Blue Meanie, Elayna Black, and others.
Busted Open Radio’s Dave LaGreca, Nic Nemeth, and Bully Ray will also be there along with several bands such as Fozzy, Downstait, The Iron Maidens, and others.
What is interesting is that for the first time since he launched the cruise, there are no AEW talent involved. Previous cruises included several AEW talent and even AEW television was taped from the boat.
Jericho’s deal with AEW is expected to come to a close at the end of the year and a return to WWE is looking more likely.
There is growing belief internally in WWE that Seth Rollins will have to undergo surgery for a shoulder problem according to PWInsider.com.
Rollins has been sporting a sling on his left arm ever since his match against Cody Rhodes this past Saturday at Crown Jewel, an injury he sustained after doing the coast-to-coast dive.
The WWE World Heavyweight champion posed for photos with fans in Perth with the sling, and unlike last time around when he faked the knee injury, irony looks like it came to haunt Rollins.
Creative plans shifted quickly on Monday when Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed turned on Rollins in a shock ending, with many thinking that if the injury wasn’t serious, they would not have pulled the trigger on the turn so soon. The Vision was only formed the day after WrestleMania 41.
It remains unclear if Rollins will grind it out until the next title defense at Saturday Night’s Main Event against CM Punk or if the title will be surrendered before that.
Iyo Sky sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Indianapolis, Indiana to discuss her match of the year with Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 41, winning Money in the Bank and cashing in to become Women’s Champion, the trash can dive at Survivor Series, how her pointing taunt began, future dream matches, and more!
On winning at WrestleMania 41:
“It meant so much to me, of course, also so much to Japanese people as well. Because for a long time Japanese wrestlers didn’t win at WrestleMania, even for women’s wrestling, Japanese wrestler, first time ever in WWE to win at WrestleMania. So I’m so honored, and even kind of unexpected. I walk in as a champion, walk out as a champion.”
On having a bad first match:
“My debut match was awful, everything was so bad. I didn’t know anything about wrestling. I was 16 years old, high school student. At that time, I feel like I was just so embarrassed because my debut match was so bad, and maybe the audience was only 30 people, but I felt so embarrassed. So I thought I want to quit, but actually I was so frustrated as well. So maybe I have to become stronger. I have to get better to change their mind, because 30 people think Io Shirai is a bad wrestler. I want to change something like that, to become Io Shirai is not a bad wrestler. So that’s why I want to quit but I should keep [going] until they are thinking, Io Shirai is not bad wrestler, and they just keep going, keep going, keep going. Then three years later, I become full enough to wrestle.”
On the moonsault trash can spot in WarGames:
“Yes, totally [I practiced it]. Because in my head, I think of course I can do that. Yeah, put on the trash can and do the back flip. Feels easy, but actually it is such a dangerous move. I went to the WWE Performance Center, and they have a normal trash can. I took off the plastic bag and clean up myself, and make it a little bit cleaner, and I hope nobody was watching what I’m doing. I put on my head, and I did my own practice thing, and it worked. That was only from the top rope, but I made it, so that’s why I thought it should be fine from the cage. Make it double high.”
On the trash can dive:
“I know I am crazy, that’s why I thought at that time, I won’t practice it. So I just think in my head, oh, maybe I can do that, because cross-body is my familiar move. Even putting on the trash can doesn’t make me nervous, or make me scared, or something like that. But actually, I was standing on the edge and tried to put my head in the trash can, and I realized at that time, oh my gosh, I can’t see anything. So I didn’t think about I would be blind. I just think about putting it on my head and jumping off. I didn’t think about my vision. And, of course, in the trash can it was so dark and I couldn’t see anything, and oh my gosh, I started to get scared. Wow, I might have to jump off from here. Oh my gosh. I can’t do that. Maybe I will get injured. One second, two seconds, you know, oh my gosh, I can’t. No, I have to just jump. So first time, I was so scared. But no, because camera is here, so show must go on. I have to jump off. I did it, and second time I was relaxed. I could do it because, yeah, I knew it.”
On having great chemistry with Rhea Ripley:
“We are totally different people. She’s tall, she’s muscle, she’s so cool. I’m not as cool as Rhea Ripley, she’s super cool. I think [the great chemistry is because we are opposites], because she has muscle. I’m running fast. I’m so small, but I can flip and she’s not much of a flipping wrestler, like so much the opposite. So that’s why I think we have great chemistry.”
Appearing on the New Heights Podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was asked who should be the final opponent of John Cena come December.
Johnson said at the end of the day, it’s whoever John wants it to be because he has earned that right.
“You know, I have a tiny bit of influence in the booking of it, but it really, it’s just, it’s who it’s, whoever John wants really, that’s what it comes down to,” Johnson replied. “Whoever he wants, that should be right. It’s not me, or Nick Khan, or Triple H. It’s just, it’s whoever John wants.”
The Rock said the best part about Cena is that he comes as advertised and so we think he is, that’s who he really is.
“And he’s a good dude. And I love that guy. It feels like it, man. And everything that guy does, he is like so authentic,” he continued.
Cena is scheduled for his last match on Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13.
NXT is returning to Chicago for a non-televised live event on Saturday, November 15.
The Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom will be hosting the show and tickets go on sale to the general public tomorrow, October 15 at https://livemu.sc/4nLO5V4. A pre-sale kicked off at 10AM ET today.
Ricky Saints, Jacy Jayne, Oba Femi, Sol Ruca, Ethan Page, and Lola Vice are being advertised plus Superstars from Raw and Smackdown as well.
