Reacting to the online backlash regarding his taped promo at Rampage where he invited 18-28 year-old women to join him in his hotel room after the show, Ric Flair said that he is “tired of hearing all this negativity” and pointed out how he doesn’t need to work or the money.
“Can’t I simply enjoy being by my dear friend @Sting’s side for the next few months without so much hatred?” the Nature Boy asked.
He said he knows he’s old but that does not mean he can’t enjoy life and has earned the right to do whatever he wants and he’s exactly where he wants to be.
“I appreciate everything @TonyKhan, but I’m more than willing to walk away if I am embarrassing you and your company,” Flair added. “All I can say is I’m sorry!”
Several people such as Steve Austin, Kevin Nash, Chris Jericho, Miro, and others, jumped to Flair’s defense as well.
It will be interesting to see if the comments from the promo will make the final cut for tonight’s Rampage!
Speaking to Peter Rosenberg of Cheap Heat Podcast, WWE’s Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative Shawn Michaels discussed the return of CM Punk.
HBK said that he is happy and thrilled knowing that Punk is now on their team and understands the problems that come with Punk because he too wasn’t the most popular guy back in the day so he can speak from experience.
“But I was really good at my job and I feel like that’s one of the reasons I’ve had one here in the WWE for almost four years,” Michaels said. “I’m dependable, and I’m good at my job. I think if you are that, there’s always an opportunity here, especially if you if you want one.”
The WWE Hall of Famer said that he’s happy for CM Punk, happy for WWE, and happy for the fans who get to witness this.
“Stories like this are always fantastic. Even if they’re controversial. That’s part of what makes them fantastic,” Michaels continued.
At a recent media call with reporters before Punk returned, Michaels expressed his wish to have CM Punk on NXT if it would be possible and said he’d love to work with him on the brand.
WWE just announced that the WWE Undisputed Universal champion Roman Reigns will be appearing on the December 15, January 5, and January 19 episodes of Friday Night Smackdown.
Tickets for all three events – in Greenbay, Wisconsin, in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Atlanta, Georgia – are all available now on Ticketmaster.com.
Reigns last appeared at the Crown Jewel premium live event earlier this month where he successfully defended the championship against LA Knight. Reigns’ next match is scheduled to be at the Royal Rumble in late January.
It’s unclear who his next opponent will be but whoever that might be, it’s unlikely that Reigns will drop the title on any show unless it’s WrestleMania.
NXT this week drew 659,000 viewers, up 37,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast but way down in the average compared to the past couple of months. The show drew a 0.18 rating in 18-49, down 0.01 from last week and the lowest since September 26. It placed #8 on the top 50 cable chart for the night. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)
A Ric Flair promo taped for tomorrow’s Rampage might have to be edited after receiving a lot of backlash online following the publication of spoilers.
The Nature Boy appeared with Sting on Rampage and during the promo, the 74-year-old Flair invited those women between 18 and 28 who have no boyfriends and no husbands to go meet him in his hotel room.
While some have defended Flair for being, well, the usual Ric Flair, many did not like what they heard or read and are hoping that Flair’s comments do not make it on the air.
Flair recently signed a multi-year deal with AEW and has his Wooooo! Energy Drink plastered all over AEW events.
AEW is not waiting for a pay-per-view to give fans Adam Copeland vs Christian Cage because the match for the TNT title will take place next week on Dynamite live from Montreal, Quebec, Canada!
The two had an in-ring promo last night where Christian tried to nail Copeland with the title from behind. But the Rated-R Superstar turned around and hit a low blow instead.
“Nice try dumbass,” Copeland said. “Shine this up real nice, hell, sleep with it you want to, because next week, she’s coming home with me,” he continued, referring to the TNT title.
And then came the big one, which aired uncensored on TNT as it looks like someone forgot to bleep it.
“Oh, and I almost forgot…go f*ck yourself,” Copeland said.
Next week’s show will be the company’s debut in Quebec at Centre Bell.
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Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer has reported that Sammy Guevara is now cleared to compete following two months out due to a concussion.
Guevara suffered the concussion during a trios match at WrestleDream on October 1 and has not wrestled since. Guevara teamed with Konosuke Takeshita and Will Ospreay to take on Chris Jericho, Kenny Omega, and Kota Ibushi on that pay-per-view.
Guevara and his wife Tay Melo announced the birth of their daughter yesterday, writing that their life is now complete.
The AEW Revolution 2024 pay-per-view will be held on Sunday, March 3 live from the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.
This will be the event featuring Sting’s final match and the location is very familiar to Sting, as the Hall of Famer wrestled there several times during his NWA/WCW days and actually competed in a 45-minute draw against Ric Flair at the first Clash of the Champions there.
It’s unknown yet who will be Sting’s final opponent or if this will be a tag team match. Sting remains undefeated in AEW in all of his tag team matches, although he never wrestled in a one-on-one match since his return.
WWE Superstar Alexa Bliss and her husband Ryan Cabrera welcomed a baby girl on November 27, the first child for both. The two named their daughter Hendrix.
“Breakin Hearts since 11.27.23,” Cabrera wrote on Instagram, along with a video carrying his daughter.
Alexa has been off WWE television since January of this year, losing her last match against Bianca Belair. She publicly announced her pregnancy a couple of months later. She recently said that she would be returning to the ring when it’s possible after her pregnancy.
‘Arrr matey, it be Bryan Danielson out to join the landlubbers on comms.
They ran through the rules again and showed the standings in both leagues. That’s an improvement, still be nice to discuss strategy a little – ‘both Rush and Briscoe really need a win tonight…’ – make it seem real.
Jon Moxley vs Jay Lethal (Gold League)
Backstory: Match 2 of Tourney
Mox soaked about two rows of people when chucking his drink. And for the second week in a row Jay Lethal is opening the show in a match he has no hope of winning. Casual viewers, stay tuned!
Right to the mat: headlocks and headscissor counters, crowd chanting for Mox as he ran through Lethal with his shoulder. Lethal got an early figure four, Mox rolled under the ropes still in the hold to break it, both crashed to the floor, Lethal landed a tope after staggering Mox, stopped to strut on the apron and Danielson pointed out it isn’t what he should be doing.
Thank you Bryan.
Mox came back with a tope of his own but seemed to hurt his knee, probably selling as he was quickly back on top until Lethal targeted the joint via dragon screw. Crowd very quiet with the heel on offense. Exchange of forearms in the middle, Mox getting the better until wildly missing a KKL, both countered finishers: Lethal Injection and Bulldog Choke , Lethal got a kneebreaker then headed upstairs.
Landing an elbow for two then smashing Moxley off the apron as the ads arrived.
Fairly good start. But will anyone care?
Back to Mox staggering on his weakened knee to hit a cutter, pounding his chest, piledriver attempt – Lethal backed him to the corner, set him atop the buckle, dragon screw off the top, Mox struggling to get up, Lethal waiting until missing a dropkick to the knee. Mox chops and strikes, yay/boo, Mox getting the better until a Lethal back elbow – Mox responded with one of his own and a KKL which looked like it hurt.
Death Rider attempt, Lethal countered into Lethal combination and barely got one with a late cover. Then smashed Mox’s knee against the mat, tried a figure four, cradle as Mox got two, and again via rollup, missed a KKL, both slipped between rollups and chokes for two ending in Lethal putting on the figure four, dead center, crowd didn’t care, cause Mox isn’t going to tap.
After getting the ropes, Lethal tagrted the knee with a kick, setup the Lethal Injection, Moxley conned him by selling his knee then snatched him into the Paradigm Shift, KKL, piledriver, Lethal kicked out. Why??? Right into the choke, Lethal tried to fight free by smashing the knee but tapped as Mox became the first guy to bag six points.
Pretty good clash if you can ignore how uninteresting the outcome was. Will be interesting to see if they do something like having Mox sell the knee going forward and it getting weaker as he goes.
They showed both groups again in much-improved coverage of the tournament.
Winner: Jon Moxley
Then showed Eddie Kingston after Saturday’s loss. He said Tony Khan hadn’t put any scrubs in the tournament. Maybe he’d been too cocky. Maybe he’d thought he deserves to win when everything has to be earned. He sounded very emotional as he talked about facing Danielson next and being ‘behind the eight-ball’ then talking himself round about getting right for that match.
Crowd chanted ‘Eddie’ as we returned, Danielson promo’d back in fiery fashion, vowing to become the first triple crown champion and saying he was impressed with Eddie’s confidence putting his belts up but that if one loss is all it takes for him to feel like this…
They then showed all the tournament matches for tonight and Saturday again. Could not have done more to keep fans up to date or make this feel important here.
Except perhaps for not having Jay Lethal in it. Sorry, couldn’t help it.
Some nice promo work too – Kingston clearly loves these tournaments since he knows exactly what to say within the context. He sounds like a guy in a real tournament.
*****
Tony Schiavone told us Sting’s last match is March 3rd 2024. And the venue will be the Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina. He talked about the Flair/Sting match at that venue then both guys entered. Flair looked like an aging pimp sans cup. Which isn’t far off the mark.
Sting again talked about that match with Flair. For a long time. Flair said he didn’t make Sting, Sting made himself. And turned bright red just talking – the point of all of which was to say he’s honored to be there at Sting’s last match.
Erm, any new material? We heard all this last time. Nice they decided to start hyping it properly but not a lot to it. Crowd certainly weren’t screaming their lungs out as we came back. In fact they were quiet till Mark Briscoe hit the ramp.
Mark Briscoe vs Rush (Gold League)
Backstory: Match 2 of Tourney
Both guys charged to the middle, right to a fight, chops, splashes and leg lariats in the corner. Back to the chops, Briscoe on top, Rush ducked and fired back, stiff kick to the spine, stomp to the chest, then mimicked kicking a football or something, posed and was booed. He’s supposed to be a face.
Danielson’s still on comms btw.
Rush took too long posing and Briscoe charged him outside, more chops against the barricade, taking turns until the Mexican flung him round ringside.
Briscoe hit back and landed an elbow off the apron. Before waiting for Rush to re-enter. Back to the chops, crowd pretty into this, Briscoe ran in, Rush avoided him and hit a release German right on Briscoes head, thrust kick, Mark popped up via lariat, both down.
Ads. Man that German was a gnarly bump, almost became an overhead throw.
Back to Briscoe in a leglock, crawling and bagging the ropes, Rush selling his leg, seemingly legitimately since they said it happened during the break and didn’t show it. Back to the fight, rights in the middle, Briscoe took one to the chin and hit the deck, ran at Rush, catching him in an overhead throw (Rush was using the ropes to hold himself up), Rush hit back with a throw into the ropes after Briscoe ran at him, he can’t seem to move easily or run.
Briscoe speared him out his boots mid-Bull’s Horns, neckbreaker, count of two.
Rush missed a ripcord lariat, Briscoe got a waist lock, Rush tried to fight out, Briscoe landed a turn-around enziguri, both down, Rush ending up on the apron. Briscoe went after him, more chops until Briscoe was hurled off the apron via another throw. Nasty spill.
Rush now awaiting Briscoe inside, the latter rolled back in, Rush set him atop the buckle, Briscoe fought off a superplex with a big overhand, froggy bow, Rush just kicked out, back dropped out of the Jay Driller, flung Briscoe into the ropes again, hit a stiff elbow strike, running dropkick in the corner, win.
Guessing that knee injury really is legit since he hit a dropkick rather than going to his knees for the Bull’s Horns. And didn’t move a lot following break, Briscoe moved for both guys, frequently running at Rush so the latter didn’t have to move.
Still a nice match, they worked around it pretty well.
They again showed the standings with Rush now on the board.
Winner: Rush
Backstage, again black and white, Toni Storm was using her belt like an ice pack, as if she had a hangover. Mariah May and Luther were with her. RJ City was there to interview her.
Toni said she’d had a party to celebrate her win and JFK had been there and that she had ‘a touch of the gout’. City asked if she were worried about an upcoming title defence, she listed a bunch of people from the old days such as Fatty Arbuckle who hadn’t been worried then asked City to remove her shoe cause she was uncomfortable, presumably on account of the gout.
‘That gout can be rough,’ said Taz the second we returned and everybody laughed, yours truly included.
All fairly entertaining but didn’t see a lot of point to it or much evolution. She and May aren’t really interacting so that’s either being done very slowly or badly.
*****
MJF came out to a nice pop, again with his cane. He addressed Joe and said he doesn’t like him but respects him. How original.
He said Joe had come here ‘cause he believes in ‘those three letters’, pointing to the AEW logo. Brief ‘A-E-Dub’ chant. Max said he once tuned into TNA and saw a lot of good stuff but above all the others was Joe. He might have looked ‘unconventional’ but Joe didn’t care ‘and neither did any of us’, because he was the baddest man on the planet.
Others didn’t appreciate his talents and he wasn’t afforded the chance to be a champion in WWE (please stop).
He said Joe broke the mold and allowed others to flourish: people like him, and companies like AEW. So Max said ‘Thank you’, even though it pains him. A brief ‘Thank you Joe’ chant started.
Max said he wasn’t too shabby himself though. And helped build a new alternative. He’s helped build this place brick by brick. Crowd chanted his name. He listed all the guys he beaten including Punk and Cody. He was lucky to beat Joe last time, he might have been his toughest opponent. But World’s End is about Max’s legacy.
‘I’m going to make a promise to everybody watching at home and everybody in this arena…’, whether his knee, hip or shoulder give out… if Joe’s Godzilla incarnate… he did the dog in the fight/fight in the dog line (again, very original). ‘At World’s End you are gonna have to put. me. down.’
The lights went out then flickered and the guys in black attacked with a baseball bat. Joe’s music hit even though he was immediately there and ran them off. The screen went blank and things went silent for several seconds before a message appeared on the big screen:
In the shadows, our game begins. Next week, MJF & Samoa Joe, you will face the unknown in a tag match. Are you a hero, Max?
Crowd chanted that he was their scumbag.
MJF said he was sick of ‘Scooby Doo bullshit’, a furious Skye Blue marched out (I kid). But especially when he’s already dealing with Joe. So he’s going to take out all his men and unmask him. Max’s music started but went static-y again and the commentators came back.
Joe didn’t seem pumped on being signed up for a tag he didn’t agree to.
This was weird. The Devil stuff’s beginning to tilt toward corny – altered voices, flickering lights, goons in masks and bodysuits, it’s feeling very Black Scorpion.
And any production snafus now just feel like the company’s f’d up again, which is exactly what I thought here, that the audio had gone because of a screw up. They need to stay away from things like that until they’re competent enough that fans know it’s an angle.
We came back to the announcers talking about this being an internal issue and security are on it. Tony Khan’s made that tag official.
Wardlow vs AR Fox
Backstory: NONE
Not coincidence that Wardlow’s out right after that is it? We’re supposed to think he’s involved. He needs new music btw to make fans forget his last run.
Fox attacked through the ropes after not getting an entrance. Wardlow shook off his offense and dragged him in over the ropes as a brief ‘Wardlow’ chant kicked up. Beal out of the corner – Taz explained the difference between that and a hip toss.
Fox ended up outside and Wardlow bealed him back in under the ropes. Press slam, Fox slipped out, tripped Wardlow into the buckle, low dropkick through the ropes, 450 off the top briefly woke the crowd, Wardlow kicked out at one, Fox looked shocked.
The big guy also shook off some kicks, hit a chokeslam, his very lame cock-back lariat, powerbomb, senton bomb, second powerbomb, referee stoppage.
Erm, I guess Fox is a little higher on the food chain than Wardlow’s usual victims? Like too many in this company, it wasn’t clear if he’s a heel or not. Because what kind of heel stops to hit a friggin senton bomb between powerbombs?
Winner: Wardlow
They finally showed us Dante Martin’s injury from this past March and advised us to look away. Which I did, hate seeing stuff like that. Then pushed his return match, the one happening in mere seconds.
Hardys & Brother Zay vs Action Andretti & Top Flight
Backstory: NONE
Top Flight got a really nice pop coming out. Possibly the best on the show, they’re on their home turf too. It’s amazing this kid is back so soon from that injury. Hope he’s not rushing. Big fan of the team.
Matt and Andretti to start, Action hit a dropkick, shoulder to the gut and sunset flip from the apron for two. Hardy landed a hip toss then tagged Jeff to hit a double team legdrop for two of their own.
The pair exchanged hammer locks as the fans chanted ‘We want Dante’ and ended up in a stalemate after Andretti flipped free. Darius and Zay in, they crashed together, very athletic series of avoidances and counters, hiptoss, legsweep, Darius dropkick right to the mush, tag to his brother, lariat in the corner, Darius suplex and kip up, Dante stalling senton from the apron.
Ads.
Matt working over Andretti, see-sawing his neck into the ropes, Jeff in for a dropkick to the back, cover for two. Andretti in the wrong corner, quick tags in and out, the Hardys working the majority of this for their side. Action briefly fought back but was drilled via Side Effect for another two.
Andretti slipped behind a suplex, pair of kicks and enziguri leaving both down, Action making the crawl to Dante, who flipped over Zay, pair of elbows, cover for two. Matt Hardy in, Darius hit a facebuster in through the ropes, Zay hit a pair of lariats to leave Top Flight down, Jeff knocked Andretti off the apron, Zay used Matt’s back to dropkick Darius off the apron, all six are in a lot, a ton of stuff’s happening, it’s very hard to keep up.
Zay hit a dropkick as the Hardys held Dante up in Domesday Device position. Kickout at two. Outside, Darius launched off Matt’s back into Jeff, Andretti moonsault off the barricade to Matt, the faces tripled up on Zay and Dante got the win via some kind of uranage.
Strange to have Dante face faces on his return. Went a bit long and was spots on spots on spots but the crowd were hype for this, liveliest they’ve been all night. Sure makes a difference to the feel of a show.
Winner: Top Flight & Action Andretti
Renee with the winners to ask Dante how his leg felt. Penta rolled up before he could answer, offered a handshake and counted the trio: ‘1, 2, 3’. Then ushered in Vikingo and Komander, counting ‘1, 2, 3’ again for their side. Sounds good to me.
Julia Hart vs Emi Sakura (TBS Title, No Submission)
Backstory: God knows, maybe Sakura did a funny dance backstage?
Julia got a nice reaction too; she’s also from the area. Sakura got barely any.
Loud ‘Julia’ chants as both stood in opposing corners. Sakura laughed, Julia smirked, Sakura ducked a lockup but was grabbed from behind, forced to the corner and attacked. Handspring lariat in the opposite one, hip attack, snapmare out, kick to the spine.
Skye Blue should be watching: Hart has intensity, doesn’t run in place and looks like she’s trying to hurt her opponent.
The attack continued in the ropes with more kicks before things spilled outside where the vet sent Hart to the steps then absolutely squashed her against them with a body splash. Brutal.
Ads. Short but nice start.
The champ struggling in the ropes, Sakura standing over her, big smile on her face, double underhook, long delay as she displayed Hart to all four sides of the ring before finally dropping her into a backbreaker.
Then tried another, Hart slipped behind into a sleeper then down into a headscissors; Sakura slipped out into a Romero Special before dumping Hart off then heading upstairs, missing a moonsault, right into Hartless. But there are no submissions.
So she let go, hit a lariat to the back, stomped the ribs, moonsault from the top, barely hit it and that was with Sakura rolling to try to get underneath. For the win. Otherwise a solid match. Julia’s another character who I’d love to know is heel or face. The HOB certainly seem to be bad guys after Collision.
Winner: Julia Hart
Mariah May with RJ City. She’s ‘dying’ to show what she can do. And was flirting hard with City till he said Tony Khan was the guy who made things happen and she was immediately uninterested in him.
She knocked on Khan’s door and went in. Good thing Tony’s not married based on all that.
*****
Christian Cage came out. I’m amazed they haven’t played Copeland’s excellent promo from Collision to set this up. At least in clip form. Since this is Cage’s ‘response’. He had a bunch of security with him and started by inviting Copeland to the ring.
He asked twice and Copeland didn’t come. Me smells a backstage attack.
The more he asked, the more the crowd yelled ‘ADAAAAAAAM’ a la Roderick Strong.
Copeland’s music finally hit and he came right down. Little weird that took so long. Cage immediately went to the corner, security forming a wall in front. Cage said the security was ‘management’s idea. So asked them to leave. They did.
Cage said they’re not going to make it to Montreal next week. Going face-to-face to say the reason they won’t is because… ‘I’m sorry’. Cage said everyone might think this is because he’s been left alone – crowd loudly chanted ‘Bullshit’. Cage called Luchasaurus Luchasaurus and had to correct himself – ‘Killswitch’ – he played it well, crowd laughed and chanted ‘You F’d Up’.
And after Copeland took out Killswitch on Saturday, Cage took a drive and it turned into a long soul-searching expedition. How did he become the guy who did such horrible things? He recalled fun times from their past and talked about how far they’d come, Copeland remained stoic. Cage called them the greatest tag team ever, two of the best singles of all time. But their friendship is even deeper.
He brought up that Copeland didn’t have a dad growing up– crowd howled laughing – ‘I am your brother’, and Cage’s dad became Copeland’s dad. He became part of the family. To this day his dad’s still Copeland’s biggest fan. ‘I love you man’.
This is superb.
He then talked about Copeland’s mum dying. She’d regretted not seeing them team one more time. ‘Let’s do this for her’. ‘For Judy, for the Jude-meister, for your mom’. This is such supreme heel bullshit.
Copeland now seemed to be torn, emotional. He turned his back, Cage tried to whack him with the belt, Copeland kicked him in the nuts.
‘Nice try dumbass, sit up when I’m talkin to you, shine this (title) up real nice, sleep with it if you want to, cause she’s comin’ home with me.’ He started to leave then turned back – ‘Oh, I almost forgot, go fuck yourself!’, crowd cheered this wildly. Copeland posed atop the ramp. Such a turnaround for his character. And nice to see a babyface who isn’t a moron.
This was killer. I was totally out on Copeland, totally out on this match and feud, and after two promo segments, I’m right back in. Could be these were great, could be I’m a slut. It was a little dumb for Cage to try the cheapshot when Copeland appeared to be wavering but, hey, he’s a heel.
Swerve Strickland vs Jay White (Gold League)
Backstory: Match 2 of Tourney
Now this is a fun one. Not just for the quality of match but because the winner’s tough to predict. Hopefully they don’t do a lame finish again. White out first, Danielson’s rejoined on comms. Nana joined Swerve and was using a single crutch but managed to do his dance.
‘Whose house…?’ chant as the two circled. Lockup, White forced Swerve to the corner, driving shoulders to the gut then took things outside, introducing Strickland to the barricade. Until Swerve countered.
Nice to mix things up with a fast start, White usually does a bunch of heel BS.
White countered back, Swerve almost ended up in the front row, White took things back inside and yelled ‘Whose House?’, the crowd answered. He took Swerve down again then asked again, crowd still answered Swerve. Who was sent to the apron, countered a White baseball slide then belly to backed him into the front row. One of the fans was getting a little too involved and drew the attention of security.
As Swerve hit a leaping stomp to the back off the barricade, fought off a dragon screw coming back through the ropes but was caught into a draping ddt.
Ads. Quiet so far outside of the ‘Whose House?’ stuff. Danielson adds a lot of believability on comms.
Back to Swerve caught in a double overhook, fighting to his feet, stinging right, big chop, White nailed a saito suplex after ducking a back elbow, throw into the ropes for two; Swerve blocked a chop, slipped behind, hammerlock into a belly to back, awkward landing for White.
More rights and bodyshots, rolling flatliner countered into uranage only to be countered back as Swerve rolled through into a tejeiras, back into the rolling flatliner, back up into a brainbuster as Danielson marvelled at how smooth Swerve is. And god damn is he. And he got two.
White landed kicks to the knees, flatliner, deadlift German, Strickland popped up with a smacking lariat, both down, Danielson raving about each. TiA from the crowd as they went head-to-head on their knees, fighting to their feet, big rights, staggering away only to return fire, yay/boo, White dropped.
And suckered Swerve in, targeting the knee, uranage, two only. Sleeper suplex hooked, Swerve tried to elbow free, White caught it into an armbar, still in the hold Strickland climbed to his feet, rolled through and behind into a killshot. He’s trying so hard to be a heel here but the crowd love him.
White nearly crushed the ref in the corner like last week, tried a low blow, Swerve saw it coming, caught the boot, hit house call, to the top, Stomp, White kicked out. Wow.
Going to a draw?
White still down, Swerve dragging him up, the Kiwi played dead to land a Bladerunner, Swerve spilled outside. White dragged him back in, tried a sleeper suplex, got two via rollup, Swerve got two via jackknife pin, dragged back up into a Bladerunner but Swerve slipped behind, White blocked the JML driver, landed chops, Justin spoiled things by announcing five mins left. HATE IT!!!!
White hit a sleeper suplex, Swerve countered another Bladerunner into a cradle to win. Nice, very nice, got me there. Nice touch doing the announcement which usually always means a draw. AEW are behind Swerve Strickland. And they should be.
Really good match btw, full of slick counters, feints, finisher attempts and even a nice spot playing in to last week’s crappy finish between White and Rush.
They showed the updated standings, Mox and Swerve topping the group and presumably facing next week?
Maybe not? All they advertised was Copeland vs Cage.
Copeland/Cage segment, one of the better AEW promo segs all year
Show was well-paced and largely enjoyable
Strickland vs White, and a clean, decisive win by one name wrestler over another (it’s embarrassing that AEW allow Rush to refuse to do clean jobs)
Much better job pushing the tournament
*****
Can you please tell us where the hell Hangman is? It’s so damaging to your product and wrestlers when it doesn’t matter that they aren’t there
Flair/Sting segment – Sting said it felt like the 80s and while a little nostalgia never hurt, this felt like it started in the 80s and was repetitive to boot
It’s not totally a thumbs down but this Devil stuff better pick up quickly, that was awkward tonight
Three more Continental Classic matches will be part of Dynamo tonight which will have Bryan Danielson as the special guest commentator.
Set for tonight are Mark Briscoe vs Rush, Jon Moxley vs Jay Lethal, and Jay White vs Swerve Strickland, all part of the Gold League in the Continental Classic tournament.
The only other thing announced for the show so far is Christian Cage responding to Adam Copeland.
The post-Survivor Series episode of Monday Night Raw with the return of Randy Orton and CM Punk drew 1,884,000 viewers, up 426,000 viewers from the prior week and the best number since August 7.
Raw started with 1,998,000 viewers for Orton’s return and commercial-free first hour, then dropped to 1,888,000 viewers in the second hour, and then wrapped up the night with 1,766,000 viewers for the third hour with CM Punk return’s promo in the last eight minutes of the show.
In the 18-49 demo, Raw was #4, #5, and #7 in the top 50 cable chart for the night with 0.69, 0.65, and 0.63 ratings respectively for an average of 0.65, up a whopping 0.16 from the prior week and the best number since April 3.
Collision on Saturday night going head-to-head with the Survivor Series drew 317,000 viewers, up 47,000 viewers from last Friday’s show which aired against Smackdown. This was the least-watched Collision in its regular Saturday night time slot so far. The show drew a 0.09 rating in 18-49, up 0.01 from last week and was #28 on the top 50 cable chart for the night. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)
AEW stars Tay Melo and Sammy Guevara are proud new parents of baby girl they named Luna.
“11/28/23 8.4 lbs and 24+ hours of labor,” Guevara tweeted. “Our life is complete.”
Sammy and Tay announced their relationship in November 2021 and seven months later they got engaged in Paris. Their engagement quickly turned into a wedding two months later as they got married in August 2022 in Orlando.
The duo announced that they are expecting their first child together at AEW’s Double or Nothing pay-per-view earlier this year.
WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H was not at Monday Night Raw this week which left Bruce Prichard as the man in charge at the television tapings in Nashville, Tennessee.
PWInsider.com reports that Triple H, along with WWE President Nick Khan, were in Los Angeles attending to other important WWE business, notably the Raw television rights which are still being shopped around to networks.
Raw is expected to leave USA Network after 19 consecutive years after USA splashed all their money on the Smackdown rights. Smackdown moves to USA in October 2024 from FOX, returning to cable after five years on network TV.
Monday Night Raw is expected to fetch more money than Smackdown, mainly due to the three-hour running time, but insiders are predicting that it will get less than what WWE was hoping for, although still a large bump from their previous deal.
Rampage on TNT, which aired in an unfamiliar Saturday at 7PM time slot, drew 264,000 viewers, down 16,000 viewers from the prior week. This has been the least-watched episode of Rampage ever. The show drew a 0.08 rating in 18-49, down 0.01 from the prior week and was #32 on the top 50 cable chart for the night. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)
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Mercedes Mone has posted a video training in the ring and running the ropes, suggesting a return is close on the horizon. The title of the video is “The countdown begins.”
The former IWGP Women’s champion suffered a broken ankle in May while wrestling Willow Nightingale for the inaugural NJPW Strong Women’s championship and has not wrestled since.
In a video earlier this month, Mone said that she would be returning in 2024 with “some wrestling company” and is looking forward to stepping back in the ring.
Mone was at AEW All In at Wembley where she was a guest of the company. It’s expected that she will be returning to do some matches for NJPW/Stardom and her likely final destination is with AEW.
Smackdown on FS1 this past Friday drew its lowest number to date, with just 789,000 viewers tuning in on a night where several sports on all four major networks and ESPN dominated the ratings. Smackdown’s number is down 356,000 viewers from the last time it aired on FS1 and its 18-49 demo came to a 0.26, down also 0.09 from the last show on FS1 on October 27. Smackdown was #4 on the top 50 cable chart for the night with NBA and college football taking all the top spots. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)
