Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair shook hands after Smackdown went off the air last night, their first public friendly interaction since a very, also public, fallout a few years ago.
As the faces cleared the heels from the ring, Bianca, Shotzi, Charlotte, and Becky stood tall and Charlotte and Becky looked at each other. Charlotte extended her hand for a handshake and Becky got her hand out, but it was Charlotte who went in for the shake. Becky then hilariously wiped her hands multiple times and mouthed off some words.
All four then posed at the top of the stage with Shotzi putting her hand around Bianca’s shoulder and Bianca putting her hand around Becky’s shoulder. Becky then extended her hand to do the same to Charlotte and Charlotte obliged. Again, Becky jokingly then wiped the side of her body where Charlotte was touching.
The former best friends had a massive fallout in 2021 which continued when the two had to swap their respective titles after they were drafted to opposing brands. The swap, which aired on Smackdown, went down the drain with very obvious problems between the two and those problems continued backstage after they got into a confrontation over what happened in the ring and in front of cameras.
Over the past few years, the two also made it very known that they’re not friends anymore although as professionals, they would still work together if necessary. Both Charlotte and Becky spoke candidly about their fallout and admitted they don’t know if they could ever be as close friends anymore.
The Continental Classic AEW tournament has its second entrant as yesterday it was revealed that Andrade El Idolo was added to the mix by his manager CJ Perry.
Andrade was surprised at the news as he was not aware of it and then Perry whispered a few words which made Andrade happy.
The only other entrant known so far is Bryan Danielson and AEW President Tony Khan is expected to reveal the other 10 tonight during the post-Full Gear press conference.
The Continental Classic round-robin tournament will feature 12 AEW stars divided in two groups, similar to that of G1 Climax. Matches will take place on all three AEW television shows: Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision.
Ronda Rousey made her surprise debut for Ring of Honor during yesterday’s tapings in Inglewood, California, teaming up with Marina Shafir to take on Athena and Billie Starkz in a match that the four also did for Wrestling Revolver a few days earlier.
Rousey came out to her Bad Reputation song which she used while in WWE and received a good ovation from the crowd followed by some “Holy shit” chants.
It’s unclear if this is a one-time thing or if Rousey has signed some sort of a deal with the company.
She left WWE in August after putting over Shayna Baszler in a match at SummerSlam.
The women’s WarGames match was officially set up last night at Smackdown with Damage CTRL – the team of Bayley, IYO SKY, Asuka, and Kairi Sane – taking on Bianca Belair, Charlotte Flair, Shotzi, and Becky Lynch.
The show featured a long angle where Damage CTRL beat up other women backstage who could have been partners for the face team and Charlotte Flair ended up having to make a phone call to somebody who wasn’t sure she was going to show up.
In the main event segment, Belair, Flair, and Shotzi accepted the challenge and as the trio stood in the ring, Damage CTRL came out to surround them.
The fans then went crazy as Becky Lynch came through the crowd and stood side-by-side her frenemy Charlotte Flair. Lynch nodded to Flair and a massive brawl erupted as all eight women took the action inside and outside the ring.
This is the second WarGames match in a row for Belair, Lynch, Asuka, Bayley, and SKY as they were all involved in the same match last year.
AEW Collision tonight comes to us from the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, CA. After last week drawing 396,000 & 0.11 in the 18-49 demo. Both of which are show lows on non-WWE PLE days. Neither of which should surprise anyone at AEW HQ.
I’ll be back with a PPV preview later btw. This show didn’t give me too much to add.
*****
Kelly introduced the show as we threw to Schiavone in the ring. To introduce Christian Cage. Nigel was excited. And whenever’s Nigel’s excited, I’m excited. Ric Flair is going to be in Sting’s corner at the ppv apparently. Always good to add an aging ‘Legend’ to a match with three other aging ‘Legends’.
There’ll be a four-way later here and the winner will face Cage for the TNT Title on Rampage. Nice they remembered the belt exists. Schiavone went to leave after Cage took the mic but Cage admonished him to do his job and come hold the mic for him. Crowd laughed.
He insisted that Full Gear would be Sting’s last match. He wondered what’d happy to Darby when that happened and he’s available if Allin needs some ‘fatherly guidance’. Cage then said Flair already looks like the Crypt keeper and it’ll be his ‘literal Come to Jesus’ moment if he gets involved.
Then addressed Copeland – crowd chanted ‘Adam’ – who might claim to have come to team with him but Cage knows better. Copeland came to steal his thunder like he always does. He hasn’t been coddled like Copeland and we’ll find out who’s more ready to fight. He told ‘Beth’ (Phoenix) to keep the girls up late to watch because ‘Adam, I am gonna break your neck’.
Finally, he addressed having to defend his title later. He quoted James Harden (just signed for the Clippers, the Lakers’ rivals): ‘I don’t work within the system, I am the system’, which is a fantastic heel line since Harden’s oblivious to how he comes across. Then left.
This was fine but nowhere close to being a good enough ‘go home’ segment. Cage always talks well but had too many issues to address in too short a period. There wasn’t even time for Schiavone to react to Cage threatening to break Copeland’s neck while his kids watched, the announcer just breezed right on to his next question. Kelly picked up a little of the slack afterwards by being disgusted at this threat.
Doesn’t help that only the ring is lit and there are clearly very few fans here.
*****
Backstage, Lexy with the tag champs. Who have an announcement – they’re the BTTEIHNQ (Best Tag Team Ever In History No Question) yet don’t have to be pinned to lose their belts. So they went to Tony Khan who allowed them to pick a stip. So that’s now going to be a ladder match.
That’s called a booking shortcut folks. We’ve done nothing to build the match so we’ll ask the guys to kill themselves. On one day’s build.
Starks did a dead-on Dax impression which was very amusing. And vowed to walk out of Full Gear as the champs and best team we’ve ever seen.
Fun when heels are deliberately uncool and that acronym fits the bill.
Miro vs Daniel Garcia
Backstory: Garcia danced at CJ Perry last week, Miro ‘s happy with neither and promised Garcia would bear the brunt
Kelly did a nice job trying to explain Garcia – being caught between Sports Entertainment and Wrestling, dragged different ways by the ex-JAS etc. Garcia danced on the ramp, Miro stomped the crap out of him in the corner = fair. Suplex out, ripcord lariat, Miro played to the crowd before a gut wrench throw.
He posed as if about to do Garcia’s dance and the youngster struck from behind, snapping jabs, punt when Miro lowered his head, but caught and spiked out of a cross body.
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Back to a chinlock, it’s totally unclear who’s supposed to be what here. Garcia slipped out, slipped behind, chop block, dropkick to the knee, some fans in the crowd were singing some of the weird sounds they play in NBA arenas when it’s quiet. He forced Miro to the corner, stomping away, Miro down, running knees in the corner, running dropkick after a whip, another, a third, Miro remained standing and caught the youngster coming in for a fourth with a machka kick.
‘Game ovaaaa!’.
Except Garcia grabbed his foot on the pre-hold stomp, to his feet, slaps to the face, Miro paintbrushed him, Garcia ducked a kick, belly to back, Miro down. So he danced. Or was going to when Matt Menard hit the apron to tell him not to. Garcia flung Miro into Menard for a near fall via roll-up. Then got a cross face, Miro rolled through, Garcia took him down into the Dragon Tamer, torquing right back, dead center, allowing Miro to grab him by the head and slam it against the mat to free himself.
Machka kick, stomp, Game Over, Garcia passed out.
Pretty fun while it lasted.
Winner: Miro
CJ and Andrade with Lexy. Who asked if Andrade was happy with his new representation. El Idolo said he was… because she’s hot (Perry must be so proud). She put over Andrade as being ‘born to do this’ so she’s entered him into the Continental Classic. Andrade wasn’t happy about this at first, Perry whispered in his ear, Andrade said he trusted her and they shook hands.
Having a new alliance instantly bicker is something Russo would do so let’s hope that was simply to establish Perry’s powers of persuasion. Decent segment.
Kings of the Black Throne vs the Boys
Backstory: NONE
Kelly very honestly said ‘it may not matter’ which of the Boys is in the ring as he tried to identify who was who. It was Brent I think. Malakai worked the arm a bit before blasting him with a back elbow. Then tagged Brody; Brandon came in too – he tried a cazadora and got slammed on his tailbone instead.
Malakai hit a knee strike, Dante’s Inferno, win.
Winner: Kings of the Black Throne
They played a package of Julia Hart saying Skye Blue turned her back on her and will pay for it. And re: Statlander, the best revenge is success. She called herself ‘the Princess of the Black Throne’ and next TBS champion
Skye warned Julia not to get in her way then told Stat ‘I’m coming for you’. Both very unconvincingly. Don’t know if that’s the gimmick or what.
The champ said the other two had had to change themselves totally to come after her. She gets stronger everyday and ‘It’s gonna take more than just that to beat Stat’.
Julia’s really coming along – she has that vacant/dismissive voice down while speaking with conviction.
Trent Beretta vs Penta vs Komander vs Brian Cage
Backstory: Winner gets a shot at the TNT Title
Digging Cage’s new theme (sorry if it’s not ‘new’ but it’s new to me). Crowd were pretty dead until Penta came out. Continues to baffle how little they do with him and his brother.
A ‘zero miedo’ chant played, duelling with a Trent chant by a section of the crowd. Penta went round doing ‘zero miedo’ to the others till a big boot from Cage. Komander took the big man down via springboard rana, Penta thrust kick off the apron then launched Komander into a tornijo on the big man at ringside.
Penta was prepping a dive when Trent caught him via back elbow to boos. They chopped it up, Trent leaping knee, half and half, Komander in via sboard dropkick, to the top – he tried his rope-walk but Cage tripped him then suplexed him off the apron onto the other two. Looked really dangerous, wouldn’t fancy being a crash mat for a guy that big.
(About forty minutes in, Kelly mentioned that ‘we’ll talk about that as best we can’. ‘That’ being the Swerve/Page story and segment from Dynamite. And that’s the problem with this show. It’s been entertaining enough; you’d barely know there was a pay-per-view tomorrow. They even added a TNT Title defense to Cage’s list of things to address at the top of the show when Full Gear should have been his sole focus.)
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Cage nailed a flipping facebuster to Trent, posed and got no reaction – poor guy he’s so good. Penta kicked at his legs, propelled Komander into a dropkick on Cage, leaving him down in the corner – the youngster propelled Penta into a cannonball/splash on the big man.
Then got two on Trent via roll up but saw a cazadora turned into a pair of high-angle Germans, Penta tried to free him via thrust kick but nailed his partner instead then ate a Trent German too. And another, Trent maintaining his grip as Cage got to his feet, Trent tried to German him too, no dice, too strong, the big man took him to his shoulders, Trent countered into a poisonrana, Cage popped up to nail a lariat, both down.
Cage blocked a Komander tornado ddt into a face-first slam from a reverse ddt position, cover, Penta punted him in the head to a big ‘oooh’ from the crowd. Backcracker to Trent went a little awry, cazadora to Cage rolling through into a destroyer on Komander, slingblade to Cage, MIP on Trent, near fall. Nice flurry.
Penta hit kicks to Komander leaving him on all fours then used him as a springboard into a tope con hiro to Cage outside, Komander followed to take out Penta, ran back in, to the top, Trent avoided the rope-walk shooting star, Komander landed on his feet, Trent hooked Strong Zero to win here and lose later.
Fast, athletic, spot-filled match which the crowd enjoyed. Yet it was still quiet so empty is this building.
Winner: Trent
They replayed Paul Wight being slammed onto the hood of a car Wednesday. Then went backstage to Lexy with Callis and Hobbs. She was disgusted at what they’d done: ‘the word that comes to mind is… brutal’ (more babyfaces need to react to angles like this).
Callis said the real word is ‘out’. Because Wight is done, gone. Hobbs slammed a giant of a man, a living legend, through the hood of a car and broke him, ended him. Lexy asked what that meant going forward. Hobbs said it meant ‘Anyone can get it… I’m 6’3’’, I’m 270 pounds, I’m big, I’m black, I’m jacked’ (crowd popped at that line). He knows Wight’s probably watching from the hospital but warned him to stay away, repeating his ‘anyone can get it’ line.
Nice segment. Be better if he had a ppv match, but that’s good follow-up.
Wardlow vs Evan Daniels (per Kelly, they didn’t announce him)
Backstory: NONE
Wardlow stormed the ring, rushed the dude into a powerbomb, pitch perfect senton bomb (which Schiavone’s never seen him do – somehow it’s endearing when Tony says this), Symphony, ref stoppage.
Not only did he hit the aerial but he accepted the ref stoppage and didn’t continue the beating so clearly they’re going with ‘edgy babyface’. Which is the right call. He needs an edge.
Hard to tell since this crowd’s so small but it seemed he was pretty over here.
Winner: Wardlow
They finally got to running down the Full Gear card. Even Toni Storm’s image is now shown in black and white which is a nice touch.
*****
Ricky Starks got his entrance to join on comms. Bill came with.
Dax Harwood vs Rush
Backstory: 2 of the 8 guys competing for the tag titles Saturday
Kelly and Starks did a nice job on comms talking Ladder Match strategy.
Right to the chops, Rush unloaded, Dax took a step back then fired back, Rush smiled. Lockup, Dax slipped under but took a shoulder block, avoided a senton splash, ducked a lariat, both guys crashed together, Rush rolled outside.
Harwood followed, chopping the Mexican up the ramp until taking a back body drop on it. More chops before Rush did his run the guy round ringside smashing him into every barricade thing. Crowd liked it. Starks did more of his dead-on Dax impression, Nigel thought Harwood had joined them on comms.
Back in the ring, they were exchanging more big chops, Harwood hit a flurry of rights in the corner, ran into a big boot, more chops from Rush to Harwood’s already blistered chest. Then his fake-out Bull’s Horns, rolling back into his tranquillo pose, crowd chanted his name.
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Rush got two via suplex, Dax blocked a second, dropping behind to land a pair of Germans, standing switch before Rush threw another chop. And an open hand with Dax placed atop the buckle. Dax slapped his face repeatedly, stiffly (these guys ain’t holding back), Rush plummeted to the mat. But popped up to crotch Harwood then superplex him down for two.
TiA from the crowd, Starks tried to take credit for it.
As Rush and Dax just belted each other with open-hands while they had each other’s wrist clutched, fans the loudest they’ve been all night. Dax swung wildly, Rush ducked then just punched Harwood in the face, least that’s what it looked like. Both down, ref counting, at eight as they dragged themselves up via the ropes, opposite corners, they locked eyes and raced into simultaneous lariats until each dropped the other, both popped up, Rush ducked under, belly to back, two only.
‘Let’s go Rush’ as he was up first, seeking a suplex, Dax countered out thinking piledriver, elevated over, tried a sunset flip, ducked a punt, backslide, Rush rolled through, pulled back into the piledriver for a very near fall. Really nice sequence.
They fought to the outside where Rush got in Starks’ face. He held his belt in the Mexican’s which wasn’t smart. Rush shoved him. Back in the ring, Dax was slunk in the corner, Bull’s Horns coming, Rush really milked it, meaning you knew he wasn’t going to hit – and didn’t as Starks nailed him with a Spear. Bill hit the scene too as the rest of the tag guys hit the scene.
Schiavone said that ‘Tony Khan has thrown this thing out’. Are AEW’s refs not even allowed to decide that? They’re the most impotent officials ever.
They built to Brody and Bill staring one another down, each grabbing for the same ladder which just so happened to be there. Kelly did a nice job covering by explaining the ring crew use it to check the lights.
They all brawled, a bunch of refs and security came out to break it up. Decent angle, shame they’ve done absolutely nothing else to build it.
Rush and Dax beat the crap out of each other btw.
Winner: No contest
Lexy was with Action Andretti to get an update on Darius Martin. I can’t even remember what happened and they didn’t show it. The Kingdom wheeled Strong in to say the update is Martin has a weak neck.
Andretti shouted back at them, Strong said he’d found his next victim then shouted ‘ACTION!’. And Andretti just stood there. Until muttering ‘victim, my ass’ as they left. Between this and being mauled by Miro they’ve just killed this kid even deader than he already was.
Buddy Matthews vs Wheeler Yuta
Backstory: NONE
This’ll probably be a belter. But once again it’s time that could be used building and pushing the ppv.
Buddy slipped behind, they wrestled in and out of waistlocks – standing switches and etc, until Matthews began working the arm. Yuta reversed things, working over Buddy’s arm until being taken over via headlock, crowd damn near silent here as they ran through a quick sequence of dodges and counters.
Yuta mocked Buddy and kept offering his leg then pulling it away, bagging a roll-up for barely one then dropkicking the Aussie out though the ropes. He again baited Buddy by offering his leg then dropkicked him back out as he tried to return.
Matthews came back by hurling him into the barricade. Then pump kicked him after perching him on a chair. Back inside, Yuta avoided a rush in the corner by slipping to the apron, shoulder to the gut caught into a draping ddt attempt before elevating Buddy over to join him.
They fought until Matthews had enough and just flung Yuta off to crash against the announce desk.
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Buddy nailed a series of kicks until being caught with a forearm which staggered him. Yuta kept nailing him and ducking responses until a flurry left Matthews on his knees. He struck back with a knee, Yuta slipped behind, Buddy fought free but turned into a rolling elbow, hit a bicycle knee, Yuta did his skin the cat back in, countered a slam into a roll-up for two, did his skin the cat again, slipping behind into a German then firing thrust kicks, Matthews again left outside where Yuta dived onto him.
Right back in, Olympic Slam from Yuta for two. It’s good action but hard to get into cause there’s no atmosphere. So quiet.
Yuta took Buddy to the apron, the latter blocked a German then dropped Yuta across the buckle via suplex. Duelling chant re: Yuta as Matthews tried a superplex, Yuta fought him off then booted him down to the apron, firing kicks to the face, leaving Matthews draped over the middle rope, Yuta dived off onto him and bagged two.
Wrists captured, stomps coming, Yuta looked around for a reaction and got none, Matthews avoided the first stomp, rolling him up for two, they exchanged more kicks until Yuta went for a superplex, Matthews slipped under, pair of thrust kicks into a running powerbomb off the top, Curb Stomp, win.
Actually wasn’t sure who was winning this. Refreshing. Good action which would’ve felt much better before a larger, more receptive crowd.
Matthews grabbed a chair until Claudio’s music played and he came out. Again to almost no reaction. ‘Hey there Buddy boy,’ he addressed Matthews, if he wants the attention of the BCC he doesn’t have to cut some ‘spooky promo’ all he has to do is ask. And Claudio likes to make his challenges face to face, in the light.
So challenged Buddy – though wondered if he’d have to get Malakai’s approval first – for Full Gear. Tony Khan just never knows when enough is enough. More is not more. Especially when it’s a match which wouldn’t be anything special – as an attraction – on your average Dynamite.
Winner: Buddy Matthews
Mox/Orange package. Moxley’s sick of showing respect and not getting it in return. Cassidy thought he’d achieved his goal when he won his title back but it didn’t feel the same and won’t till he beats Mox. Mox said he ‘hits like a bitch’ as they showed him shaking off the Punch. ‘It’s gonna be me/I have to beat you’ (Mox/Orange respectively) ended the package, which was short but good.
Ruby Soho & Saraya vs Hikaru Shida & Kris Statlander
Backstory: NONE
Re: the Outcasts, what’s the opposite of don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
Fair amount of time left considering the heels’ limitations. Statlander doesn’t always come across well on the mic but the way she puts over her partners and etc. is good.
Ruby countered an early slam into a headlock takeover, Shida headscissored free, dropkicked her to the corner, went for ten punches, Soho slipped under and tripped her but took a slap. They talked about something going on between Soho and Angelo Parker or something?
Tag to Stat, the faces both in, Saraya was shrieking relentlessly as usual while Soho took a bump despite a Statlander trip coming nowhere near her legs, Shida followed up with a running back elbow, Stat handstand legdrop for two.
Soho scrambled under Statlander’s legs to tag Saraya, they ran a bunch of dropdown/ leapfrogs until Stat ran her through via shoulder block. Julia Hart was shown watching backstage, from an angle people actually watch tv from too. Statlander countered a double-team suplex into a double suplex, tag to Shida as Skye Blue was shown watching as well.
Shida hit ten punches in the corner to Saraya, both heels were underneath her, Soho rolled out behind and the heels slammed Shida down off the buckle.
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Angelo Parker was shown watching in the front row, applauding Ruby. They’ve certainly done what they can to not show the in-ring here. Shida got an enziguri to Saraya and tagged out, Statlander ran through the heels with lariats, running uppercut in the corner to Soho, running boot/knee too, fisherman buster for two. Easily the best sequence so far, fast and crisp.
Soho and Statlander dragged each other all the way outside and just happened to end up in front of Parker, very contrived. He was wearing a Soho shirt. Right back in having totally inorganically done the ‘spot’ they needed to do, Soho hit a poisonrana but took a Shida missile dropkick: Saraya in, forearms and kicks, Shida fought off a double suplex and took out Ruby via question mark kick, Shida and Saraya crashed together thinking cross body.
Shida hit a rising knee to knock Soho off the buckle, hit another to Saraya. Parker hit ringside to help Ruby up, Saraya caught Shida off the top with a kick to the face, Knightcap, Statlander saved the pin, Saraya threw her out and saw Ruby and Parker all lovey dovey, Statlander walloped Parker with a lariat in easily the hardest hitting move of the match, Shida hit a Katana to a distracted Saraya.
Not a fan of making Shida look that weak when she has no momentum whatsoever – she basically lost except for their 2:1 advantage. Blue and Julia were shown watching again as the champs celebrated. It was fine.
And AEW are becoming obsessed with friendship and relationship angles, Ruby Soho and Angelo Parker is not one worthy of interrupting any match, let alone a main event.
Winner: Hikaru Shida & Kris Statlander
We went to a sitdown with MJF and Schiavone. ‘Thanks for havin me ya fat old prick, Renee was busy today?’. He said he was just messing around and ‘having fun’. This after Schiavone had said earlier in the show that Max is at the lowest he’s ever seen him mentally.
Tony asked why he was defending the tag belts. Max said he’d made a promise to Cole and as ugly as the Gunns are they’re also that good. He promised to do ‘literally anything’ to keep the belts (so that means Joe’s helping), Cole’s injury is his fault and he’s ‘not gonna let him down no matter what’.
He said the world title means everything to him and when White stole it he was furious. But then remembered White reminded him a lot of himself – White’s insecure, that’s why he stole the belt, trying to prove to himself that he’s worth it. The championship doesn’t make the man, the main makes the championship. He vowed to win cause no one’s on the level of the Devil.
Full Gear marks one year as champ – MJF says he feels pride about that but talked about ‘likelihood’: that of him being conceived right after his mum had just bought a new contraceptive device, that of a guy with several mental disorders being a success, a Jew becoming an pro-athlete, a pro wrestler, of beating all these men, becoming a top guy, becoming the longest reigning champ. ‘All slim-to-none’.
So what’s the likelihood of him coming through Saturday with both belts, becoming the best champ of all time? ‘Slim-to-none… but unfortunately for Jay White and all my detractors, I just so happen to like those odds’.
Pretty good promo to end the show, setting up the odds being against the champ but him promising to come out swinging.
Road Dogg is on commentary tonight as Damage Control come to the ring first. Dakota proposes Iyo, Kairi, Asuka, and Bayley challenge Charlotte, Shotzi, Bianca and a partner of their choosing for War Games. Bayley agreed and Shotzi came out and attacked Damage Control. Charlotte and Bianca then joined as well.
Charlotte, Bianca and Shotzi backstage talking about who they can get as a partner and Nick Aldis comes in and says they have to pick a partner before the end of tonight.
The Street Profits VS. Pretty Deadly VS. The Brawling Brutes
Butch accidentally kicked Ridge, the Profits throw Wilson out of the ring and hit Ridge with the Revelation.
Winners and get a tag team title opportunity: The Street Profits
We are shown Bianca talking to Mia Yim.
Back from break and Damage Control attacked Mia Yim.
Dragon Lee VS. Axiom
Lee hits Operation Dragon for the win. This was an incredible match and suggest you watch it.
Winner: Dragon Lee
Santos Escobar comes out and trashed Rey. Zelina comes out and they argue in the ring. Santos yells they are done, and Zelina slapped him. Del Toro and Wilde come out and Santos told them to leave and then attacked them. Carlito then comes out to chase Santos off.
Grayson Waller VS. Cameron Grimes
Austin Theory, who was on commentary, helped Waller up and distracts Grimes and Waller hit a flip into a kill switch maneuver and pinned Grimes.
Winner: Grayson Waller
They show Bianca Belair talking with Zelina in the back.
Back from break Zelina is now down from Damage Control.
Paul Heyman is out to the ring with Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa. Paul says Cena is not there and will never be back in a WWE ring thanks to Solo. After Paul went on and on and finally LA Knight comes out to interrupt. Knight says he isn’t stopping till they are all down and it’s just him and Roman with no one to interfere and tonight he will start with Jimmy Uso.
Bianca tells Shotzi and Charlotte they are out of options, so Charlotte needs to make that call and she leaves with her phone in her hand.
LA Knight VS. Jimmy Uso
As the match starts Paul Heyman gets a phone call and he and Solo walk away.
Knight hit BFT.
Winner: LA Knight
After the match Solo Sikoa comes back out and lays out Knight with the Samoan Spike and goes to put him through the announce table until Cody Rhodes comes out and helps and Knight gets back up and starts fighting back.
Bianca and Shotzi catch up with Charlotte and Charlotte says she called her but doesn’t know if she is going to make it on time.
Nick Aldis kicks Cody out.
Bianca Belair, Shotzi and Charlotte Flair come to the ring to announce their partner for War Games. Charlotte says there is only one woman she wants on her team and Damage Control come out and interrupt her and say they are not making it to War Games because they are not making it out of the building. Just as they go to get into the ring the fans erupt and it is The Man Becky Lynch who slides in the ring and stands with Charlotte, Bianca and Shotzi and a fight starts and continues as we go off the air.
AEW will have its penultimate pay-per-view of 2023 tomorrow night with Full Gear. We will give you the early odds for the show and tomorrow night we will update the numbers with the latest ones.
MJF’s reign as AEW World champion looks as secure as ever as the champion is getting those Roman and Brock odds, with his numbers at 1/50 favorite against Jay White who seems to be dead on arrival with 10/1 odds.
Jon Moxley has a chance to regain the AEW International title against Orange Cassidy and Mox is favorite with 4/7 odds while champion Cassidy is 6/5 to retain.
Toni Storm is set for a timeless title reign as bookies has placed her the favorite to walk out with the AEW Women’s title tomorrow with odds of 1/3 while Hikaru Shida is 2/1 to retain it.
The AEW Tag Team titles are up for grabs in a four-way match and champions Ricky Starks and Big Bill are favorites with 2/5 odds. FTR are 3/1, House of Black are 9/2, and Rush and Dralistico are outsiders with 8/1 odds.
Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho are favorite to beat The Young Bucks in a match which will see the Bucks’ shot for the AEW Tag Team titles on the line as well. The Golden Jets are 1/5 favorites while the Bucks are 3/1.
Adam Page and Swerve Strickland will have their WrestleDream rematch and this time around, Page is 1/3 favorite to win against Swerve who is 2/1 underdog.
The team of Sting, Adam Copeland, and Darby Allin face Christian Cage, Luchasaurus, and Nick Wayne in a trios match and the faces are 2/9 favorites to win while the heels are 11/4.
Will there be new ROH Tag Team champions during the Zero Hour show? Bookmakers think so as they placed The Gunns favorites to beat MJF and his mystery partner with 8/11 vs 1/1 odds.
AEW Collision will be airing tonight on TNT instead of tomorrow in its regular time slot of 8PM ET, going head-to-head with WWE’s Friday Night Smackdown.
Taking place from the Kia Forum, the site of tomorrow’s Full Gear, Collision has three matches already scheduled for the live broadcast. These are Dax Harwood vs Rush, Miro vs Daniel Garcia, and Saraya teams with Ruby Soho to take on Hikaru Shida and Kris Statlander.
A live episode of Rampage will follow, also on TNT, headlined by Toni Storm vs Emi Sakura and interviews with MJF and Jay White.
In partnership with the Rotunda family, the Bray Wyatt Legacy Collection will benefit his four children – Hyrie, Knash, Kendyl, and Cadyn.
Speaking to Forbes, his father Mike Rotunda said that what WWE is doing will keep Windham’s spirit alive, and praised the company for the initiative.
“It’s awesome what they’re doing,” the WWE Hall of Famer said. “I go do some autograph signings here and there and I’ve had so many people come up to my table supporting Windham with firefly shirts and guys with tattoos on their arms, it’s pretty cool.”
Rotunda also said that keeping Windham’s memory alive will help his children, especially the younger ones.
“Especially for Knash and Hyrie, this is important,” he added. “Kendyl and Cadyn know who their dad is because they’re a little older, but you don’t remember everything when you’re 3 or 4 years old. With the stuff WWE is putting out there, they’ll be able to look back and see exactly who their dad was. It’s awesome that they’re going to get a chance to relive some of their moments that their dad did.”
Becky Lynch appeared on Celebrity Jeopardy! this week and as the saying goes, she “shat the bed” by setting a brand new Jeopardy! record for all the wrong reasons.
According to The Jeopardy! Fan X account, the former Raw and Smackdown Women’s champion became the first player to fail to give a single correct answer out of the 60 questions that were part of the broadcast.
The Man reacted on X to the news writing, “I never stop making history!”
Lynch went in a three-way against Macaulay Culkin and Rachel Dratch, with Dratch winning the competition by just a $1 difference.
The game was for charity and Lynch still walked out with $30,000 for Connor’s Cure.
The episode was a ratings hit, with 4,200,000 viewers tuning in and a 0.51 rating in 18-49. It was the highest Celebrity Jeopardy! episode this season so far.
The ROH Final Battle pay-per-view set for December 15 is having difficulties when it comes to distribution of tickets as with under one month away, less than 900 tickets have been purchased.
The show, on Friday, December 15, will take place at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas and will be followed by a live Collision on Saturday in the same location. AEW is also hosting Dynamite a few days earlier just 40 miles away in Arlington.
Ticket numbers will obviously increase over the next few weeks but this show had a very slow start and according to @WrestleTix, only sold 67 tickets in a week.
Hangman Page and Swerve Strickland got into a huge fight at the Wrestling Revolver Unreal event last night in Los Angeles after Page made a surprise appearance.
Strickland did a promo during the show to hype their Texas Death match at Full Gear and talked trash about Page. Eventually, Page came out from the crowd and took Strickland down, resulting in several security coming in the ring to break it up.
The two were not allowed to get physical with one another on Dynamite this past Wednesday and Page took out Prince Nana, with Swerve looking on and unable to lay his hands on the former AEW champion.
This is not the first time that AEW stars took their feud to indie shows before a major pay-per-view, with Chris Jericho doing it multiple times, including in August when he attacked Will Ospreay in England at an indie event before their All In match.
AEW President Tony Khan said in a media call promoting Full Gear that the All In pay-per-view in London, England drew 200,000 buys, which is the second-best number in the company’s history.
The number is just 5,000 buys shy of the record, which is All Out in 2021 which featured the first match of CM Punk.
The 200,000 number is an even-more fantastic number when you take into consideration that the show started early afternoon on the East Coast and in the morning on the West Coast.
AEW returns to Wembley Stadium in August 2024 for another All In show. Tickets for this show go on sale on December 1.
Dynamite drew 823,000 viewers this week on TBS for the Full Gear go-home episode, up 19,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast. The show had a 0.28 rating in 18-49, up 0.01 from last week and placed #4 in the top 50 cable chart for the night behind NBA broadcasts on ESPN. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)
Ronda Rousey participated in the Wrestling Revolver: Unreal show yesterday, teaming up with her friend Marina Shafir to take on ROH Women’s champion Athena and Billie Starkz. All four main evented the show.
After entering the ring, Rousey went immediately for a face-to-face with Athena, and the ROH Women’s champ lifted her title in front of Ronda’s face while Ronda lifted her black belt.
Billie Starkz did welcome Rousey to the indie scene with a nasty suplex where the former Raw and Smackdown Women’s champion landed right on her head, but she shook it off and continued the match. The match finished after Athena attacked Rousey with the title.
Rousey showed up at the Lucha VaVoom event last month in Los Angeles for her first post-WWE match and this was her second match on the indie scene.
WWE and Panini has settled their lawsuit out of court and the case was dismissed without costs and without prejudice.
No settlement terms were released.
A document filed with the Southern District Court of New York yesterday states, “WHEREAS, the Court has been informed that the parties have reached a settlement in principle in this consolidated case. Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that this action is dismissed without costs and without prejudice to restoring the action to the Court’s calendar, provided the application to restore the action is made within thirty (30) days of this Order. Any application to reopen filed after thirty (30) days from the date of this Order may be denied solely on that basis. Any pending motions are DENIED as moot, and all conferences and deadlines are CANCELLED.”
WWE dumped the Italian trading card giant citing breach of contract and Panini sued for termination of contract with no warning and wanted the court to determine that WWE’s action was invalid.
WWE already has an agreement with Fanatics to take over as the new trading card license holder.
Ticketmaster has updated the Survivor Series: WarGames seating chart to accommodate for two rings and bumped up the seating capacity to over 17,000!
According to @WrestleTix, Survivor Series is now under 1,000 tickets away to reach its current maximum setup of 17,218 seats.
With the new chart, several new seats on the floor have been made available with prices from $495 to $675 plus additional fees and taxes. The $495 ticket carries an extra $96.54 in fees. Tickets can be purchased from Ticketmaster.com.
The cheapest verified resale ticket is at $115 at the moment which is pretty much in the rafters.
NXT drew 703,000 viewers this week, down 91,000 viewers from the prior week. In the 18-49 demo, the show pulled a 0.21 rating, down 0.05 from last week and placed #7 on the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demo. College and NBA basketball occupied all the top spots for the night. (Ratings credit: SpoilerTV)
Live sports games have been rampant in online sports betting. Hang on with your favorite sports team in football, soccer, or any sports games that you want to bet on online. Therefore, sports betting sites or sportsbooks have been broadcasting live game shows to give chance to bettors who can’t go out from their offices or workplace, yet they can still bet. There are different sports games available in sports betting sites where you can freely bet on.
How to win in sports betting? It is one question among bettors online that still dream of bagging the big prize in the sports event. Sports games are not the only trending live game shows online, it also includes:
Roulette
Dice
Slots
Blackjack
The trend here is how to beat the live dealers from these live games. It is your challenge to beat the live dealers and bag in the pot of the pool prize.
How to beat blackjack live dealers
Black is one of the popular casino games known as a game of chance. In the live casino, blackjack is one of the most appealing card games to the bettors. The basic blackjack strategies and rules are easy and quick to learn. Experienced players look for tips with which they can increase the chances of winning in the live blackjack game.
There is no secret when you are trying to find strategies that lead to greater success in live blackjack. But, there are helpful tricks that helped many live blackjack bettors to beat the live dealers. You can follow these tips to get a win in live blackjack game:
When you get an 8s pair or set of aces, it is split
10 or 6 pairs are split
Always analyze whether you take out insurance
Card counting
Know when to choose stand and hit
Choose a correct live blackjack
All these are useful for the live blackjack bettors.
How can you beat the online slot live dealer?
Keep in mind that there is no way to increase the chances to win in the online slot game, but only your knowledge to look for a casino site with great bonuses of online slot games. It is not to say you can’t win. There are tips on the UK casino sites to lock your profit when getting it, and apply some rules to find the best slots to bet on.
Here is an effective trick to beat the online slot live dealer:
Use the casino offers
Look for low bonus turnover terms
You should understand the bonus win limits
You must stop losing strategy
You should stop when getting good profit
Never play in branded slots
You should bet max on the progressive jackpots – many don’t know about it.
You should select the right volatility
Choose a slot machine with the right RTP
One more thing, use techniques associated with the knowledge of the game statistics to improve the chances of winning. The RTP will predetermine the probability, the result can’t be affected. What they can do is to help build a strategy to play online slots on the casino website or app, which becomes affordable.
The streaming platform Roku today announced that it has greenlit celebrity talk series What Drives You, hosted by 16-time world champion John Cena.
The new series expands Roku Originals’ existing relationship with John Cena which includes Cena’s prior role in the comedy series Die Hart 2: Die Harter and the upcoming docuseries WWE Superstars of Tomorrow, featuring and executive produced by Cena.
What Drives You features a breakthrough talk show format, where he’ll hit the road with his celebrity friends in their favorite vehicles that hold a special meaning to them. In each episode, he’ll hitch a ride with a new guest for an in-depth interview and curiosity-fueled excursion, as they discuss a wide variety of both laugh-out-loud and deeply personal topics, all the while reminiscing about some of the guest’s favorite memories associated with their prized ride.
“The car you drive and where you drive it can say a lot about who you are, from your personality type to what you value and prioritize the most,” said Cena. “What Drives You is all about tapping into this and each guest’s unique connection to their car, and a destination close to their heart, as the crux of a candid and wide-ranging conversation. It’s a great opportunity for me to ride shotgun and learn from some of the world’s most entertaining and inspiring individuals.”
Brian Tannenbaum, Head of Originals, Roku Media, said, “We’re thrilled to partner with John Cena and Leftfield Pictures to bring our audience What Drives You, a talk series that converges John’s passions of cars, conversation and entertainment. John infuses extraordinary energy into every conversation he has, giving viewers an under-the-hood look into the lives of each guest.”
“We’ve always felt that John’s quick wit, sincere curiosity and charm would make him a terrific host for a talk format, and What Drives You is the perfect vehicle (sorry) to showcase his talent and genuine obsession with all things automotive,” said Leftfield Pictures President Shawn Witt. “We’re stoked to bring this series to life with him and our partners at Roku.”
What Drives You is produced by ITV America’s Leftfield Pictures. David George, Shawn Witt, Sean Moran, Jay Bienstock, John Cena and Dan Baime are the series’ executive producers. Sean Boyle oversees the series on behalf of Roku Originals.
