An unexpected death within the wrestling family has brought everyone together as a GoFundMe campaign has been launched in memory of Sara Lee, with every cent raised going directly to her husband Cory, former NXT star Wesley Blake, and their three very young children.
An initial $20,000 goal was swiftly surpassed and it’s nearly three times as much at the moment, with many of her former colleagues and friends donating. On Twitter, most wrestlers are using their vast reach to promote the campaign to reach as much people as possible.
Lee’s death came out of nowhere and just two days ago, she posted a selfie on her Instagram writing, “Celebrating finally being healthy enough to go to the gym 2 days in a row. First ever sinus infection kicked my butt.”
In some tragic news, former WWE Tough Enough winner Sara Lee, passed away yesterday at the age of 30. No cause of death was announced.
It was her mother Terri who broke the news of her daughter’s death in a post on social media.
“It is with heavy hearts we wanted to share that our Sara Weston has gone to be with Jesus,” the post said. “We are all in shock and arrangements are not complete. We ask that you respectfully let our family mourn. We all need prayers especially Cory and her children.”
Sara married former WWE Superstar Wesley Blake and had three children together.
Lee spent a year in WWE after winning the 2015 edition of Tough Enough, which earned her a year-long contract with the company and $250,000 prize money. She was let go in 2016.
Cathy Kelley, the former NXT backstage interviewer, has returned to WWE and will be taking a similar position with the Raw brand.
Kelley announced her departure from WWE in February 2020 and at the time she wrote, “If you know me, you know this was more than a job, you know how much I loved it and how difficult this decision was. But sometimes in order to have room for growth, you have to step away.”
Kelley started with WWE in February 2016, first as a backstage correspondent for NXT before moving to hosting WWE Now and other shows. In January 2020 she was also promoted to be the backstage interviewer on Smackdown.
After her last NXT show, Triple H and The Undisputed Era paid tribute to a very emotional Kelley who was hosting the post-show Q&A with Triple H.
“The one thing about this is when I say we are NXT, it’s all of us. The great thing about NXT also is you can’t get away from us,” HHH said as Kelley smiled and cried at the same time. “So, we are NXT. You will always be NXT. This is not goodbye, this is see you down the road.”
Ahead of the season premieres, Variety is reporting that WWE has done a major shakeup to the commentary teams of Raw, Smackdown, and NXT.
Starting with tomorrow’s Smackdown, the new commentary team will consist of Michael Cole and Wade Barrett, who moves over from NXT. Joining Cole and Barrett will be Samantha Irvin as ring announcer, Kayla Braxton, and Megan Morant who will be backstage interviewers.
On Monday Night Raw, Kevin Patrick takes the lead commentary role and will be joined by Corey Graves. Raw goes back to a two-man commentary team as Jimmy Smith has called his last show. Mike Rome will be the ring announcer while Bryon Saxton will move to backstage interviews along with the returning Cathy Kelley.
NXT will have Vic Joseph as the lead play-by-play and will be joined by WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. Alicia Taylor remains the ring announcer while McKenzie Mitchell stays as backstage interviewer.
Pat McAfee is expected to return to Smackdown once his College Gameday duties are over in January.
Former ROH champion Bandido has signed a full-time deal with All Elite Wrestling according to Fightful Wrestling, becoming the second Mexican ROH champ to have signed a deal in two weeks following Rush.
The 27-year-old main evented Dynamite last week with Chris Jericho but failed to win back the ROH title which he lost to Jonathan Gresham at the Supercard of Honor XV in Texas earlier this year.
He made his wrestling debut in 2011 and had stints with PWG, NJPW, CMLL, and others.
UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier revealed that it was Seth Rollins who reached out to him to see if he would be interested in being a potential guest referee for the Fight Pit match on Saturday night at Extreme Rules.
Speaking to ESPN’s Marc Raimondi, Cormier said that while he spoke to WWE for years, they could never find a role that worked until this one.
Cormier and Becky Lynch share the same agent so making a deal became easier once both parties agreed.
“I have always wanted to do something with the WWE, but it can be intimidating with all the people, the fans. But now my career has groomed me for this moment,” the life-long wrestling fan said.
Asked about future appearances, Cormier said that this was a one-time thing for now and he’ll see how it goes and then move on from there.
Cormier’s appearance at Extreme Rules came with the blessing of UFC President Dana White, who OK’d his employee to work the night.
Further details were released by Dave Meltzer of the Observer regarding the backstage confrontation between Andrade and Guevara yesterday at Dynamite.
According to Meltzer, three of the five eye witness accounts had their stories match while another one was pretty close. All agreed that it was El Idolo who was waiting for the former TNT champion and Andrade threw the first punch. Guevara did not retaliate back even after he got hit repeatedly, probably knowing that firing another punch in return he would have been in serious trouble as well.
Guevara was headlining Dynamite with Chris Jericho vs Bryan Danielson and Daniel Garcia so he had more to lose whereas El Idolo is reportedly very unhappy in AEW and wanted to quit to go back to WWE.
Meltzer also added that both El Idolo and Guevara were warned by AEW on Tuesday that if they fight, they will be both sent home, and in the case of Andrade, he wouldn’t be fired in case he was using this as an excuse to get out of his contract.
NXT drew its lowest viewership number since August 9, getting a total of 625,000 viewers, down 35,000 viewers from the prior week. The show did a 0.13 in the 18-49 demo, down 0.03 from the last one and placed #30 for the night on the top 50 cable chart. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
AEW President Tony Khan had a near 80-minute sit-down interview with Ariel Helwani on the Ariel Helwani Show.
In this interview, Khan talked about everything, from the Jacksonville Jaguars to Fulham FC to All Elite Wrestling and everything in between, with Helwani highlighting the insane amount of work that Khan does managing sports teams, a wrestling company, and other work.
Khan also discussed WWE but at often times came very coy with answers about pressing topics, avoiding answering questions about MJF, the fight that broke backstage after All Out, Cody Rhodes, and other controversial topics.
Arena: Entertainment & Sports Arena (Did Jericho buy it?)
City: Washington DC
Last Week’s Rating: 990,000 overall; 0.34 in 18-49 demo
More backstage drama. This is really getting ridiculous. Khan can’t fire Andrade, because that’s what he wants. But he has to do something. And something meaningful.
It’s Wednesday night, it’s Dynamite. Let’s go.
A fired-up Excalibur welcomed us; Justin was ready in the ring. Taz, Schiavone and lastly, William Regal were also bringing us the action: Yuta/MJF kicking us off.
Wheeler Yuta vs MJF
Backstory: MJF interrupted Yuta two weeks ago, beginning his feud w/ the BCC ahead of eventually facing Mox for the title; Yuta did the same last week, attacking MJF
The love for MJF did not continue here, he was booed heavily as he made his entrance, though some fans did chant along as Justin announced him. Regal talked about how announcers and people like Schiavone should be ‘off limits’ for the wrestlers.
Loud ‘Yuta’ chant as MJF ducked the grapple, strutting to the opposite corner. Missing with a cheap shot, Yuta lit him up with strikes, hit a pair of armdrags, then strutted himself as the crowd roared. MJF bit on the bait, storming in and eating a dropkick to the jaw.
With Yuta up top, MJF rolled away, using the ref to send Wheeler face-first to the buckle. Leaving MJF in control. Yuta kept fighting back; MJF kept cutting him off by stomping the foot etc.
Continuing the theme, after a jawbreaker by Yuta he was caught running in, dropped into a backbreaker then hoisted straight back up into a gut-wrench drop. Very smooth. A two count the result as MJF complained to the ref and the ads arrived.
Returning to both guys down, MJF was up first, walking into a cradle as Yuta grabbed a two. Max did all he could to fight off a German, grabbing the ropes, trying to stamp the feet, sending Wheeler to the outside but he reversed his way back in, slipping behind to give Max three nasty landings.
Again Yuta headed to the top; again MJF rolled away, drawing Yuta in and attacking the arm as he headed towards the Salt of the Earth, then snatching him out of the air into a powerbomb/backbreaker combo which brought another two count.
Slaps to the face fired Yuta up as he blasted Max with an enizguri, Max responded with a sunset flip as both rolled in and out of a bunch of one and two counts. Easily double figures. Adding to the total after both slipped in and out of tombstones, both finally snapping up at the same time, landing synchronized clotheslines as both hit the deck.
The crowd loved that whole sequence.
Bryce had reached eight as the pair stumbled to their feet, Yuta snapping off a right, heading to the top again, MJF crotching him or as Taz called it – ‘Yambag Yahtzee’. Joining him up there, MJF set-up for the avalanche tombstone, Yuta slipped out, copying Moxley’s biting atop the buckle, culminating in a springboard hurracanrana, taking Max all the way to the outside, Yuta following with a suicide dive.
Bringing Max back in, the crowd chanted ‘Yuta’ as he again headed upstairs. Max again rolled away, flipping him off: Yuta responded by splashing him anyway, covering two-thirds of the ring. Hammer and anvils followed, Yuta looking for the seatbelt pin, MJF transitioning into Salt of the Earth.
After fighting all the way to the ropes, MJF quickly snatched Yuta in a more highly-torqued version, right in the middle, nowhere to go. Tap out.
Post-match, Yuta offered his hand. Max thought about it, really built it up, seemed about to accept, when Lee Moriarty blindsided Yuta. Max was pissed, screaming: ‘I didn’t tell you to do that!’ But seemingly about to blast Wheeler with the diamond ring anyway, when Regal stood up, slowly and deliberately applying a knuckle duster/brass knucks.
‘You f***** up’ chants played as Max backed-off.
Excellent opener.
WINNER: MJF
Hype video played for a main event ‘three years in the making’, showing Jericho/Sammy in the early days of Dynamite, Danielson arriving, Anarchy in the Arena, and finally Garcia’s agonizing decision. This was good and something they don’t do enough of.
Cut to Schiavone with the JAS. Hager was wearing that ridiculous purple bucket hat, screaming with all the intensity he could muster that ‘I like this hat!!’ as Menard criticized Garcia for turning down the gift.
Jericho said they’d taught Garcia how to be a sports entertainer. ‘You’re talking about the systematic cheating right?’ Tony interjected.
The Ocho warned Garcia to make the right choice before Sammy – who got easily the most heat on the show so far – threatened to ‘end’ him if he didn’t. Lastly, Jericho vowed to remain ‘The Ocho’ after his match with Danielson next week.
You have to watch Jake Hager mean-mug all the way through this in that hat. Genius.
Jay Lethal vs Darby Allin, One-on-One
Backstory: Both men agreed to fight one-on-one, much to Sonjay Dutt’s chagrin
Excalibur sent best wishes to Bobby Cruise, still recovering from the Judas Effect.
Nice response for Allin as usual as Taz really put him over. Crowd dead as this began however.
In keeping with the tenor of the match, this began very ‘honorably’ with lots of mat wrestling: exchanges, switches, both reversing whips to the ropes, ending when Darby nearly lost his footing but held on to soar off the ropes into an armdrag, a quick pen attempt, both snapping to their feet as things re-set. This was rapid.
Darby offered a handshake, Lethal stamped the foot, monkey-flipping Allin out of the corner, nearly into Paul Turner. Taking advantage, Lethal immediately went to work on the knee, Allin collapsing, into a HOLD, Jay hoisting him up for a suplex, Allin slipping out into a Scorpion Death Drop.
Cool little thing so far that two younger wrestlers have used the moves of their mentors.
Wicked overhead throw by Lethal, Darby landing on his bad knee, to the top for a superplex, Allin fighting back, Lethal settling for a dragon-screw off the top, straight into the Figure 4 after landing.
After fighting out, Allin caught Lethal with an elbow, but then his knee gave out, Jay preparing for the Lethal Injection but Darby propelling him up and over his back, where the vet almost broke his neck on a horrible landing, straight into a Code Red as Darby grabbed two.
Boos from the crowd as Sonjay came to the ramp with Lethal well in control, Allin with a hurracanrana into a pin, Lethal rolling through, a series of pins and counters, into the Last Supper for the win.
In terms of the action, good match with a simple story: Darby was too fast for him; Lethal attacked the leg. In terms of the execution and result, not so good. There’d already been a wild series of roll-ups in the last match far succeeding what they did here for the finish.
More importantly, Darby Allin was beaten pillar-to-post all match and only won because Lethal was distracted.
Post-match, Darby offered a handshake. Again, I’m getting déjà vu. Do they not watch each other’s matches? Not to mention, Lethal had spent the match attacking Allin’s knee after taking advantage of his good nature. Why would Darby want to shake his hand?
It ended with Lethal accepting to Dutt and co.’s chagrin.
WINNER: Darby Allin
An Embassy promo hyping Brian Cage ahead of his match with Wardlow.
Wardlow vs Brian Cage, TNT Title
Backstory: None
Excalibur told us who the Embassy and Prince Nana were.
Neither guy could budge the other; neither guy could get the advantage with their fists. Leading to Wardlow taking to the air for a headscissors which brought the crowd to their feet, before Cage responded with a tejeiras.
Even here they were evenly matched.
Wardlow went for the Symphony, Nana took the ref and Cage shook him off as the break beckoned.
We returned to Wardlow running the buckle, grabbing his balance, then flipping back out onto Cage with a beautiful senton. Crowd loving the aerials from these two behemoths. A release German, another, Cage staggering, throwing elbows but eating a belly-to-belly. Before fighting back, hauling Wardlow back inside from the apron via suplex.
Thinking Drillclaw, Wardlow shoved him off, spiking Cage with a spinebuster/chokeslam for two slaps of the mat. Cage responded with two of his own, setting up for a powerbomb but fought off via headbutts before the straps came down, the champ easily hoisting Cage up into four powerbombs to retain his title.
Crowd going wild by the end for what seemed a pointless match at the outset but was turned into a spectacular display of athleticism from two guys who shouldn’t be able to do the things they do. Not to mention, it was much different to most AEW matches. There were no endless chops fests here.
Imagine if it’d been built correctly.
After his victory, the Gates of Agony attacked, bringing Samoa Joe, who got an awesome response from the crowd before finally being overwhelmed by the heels’ numerical advantage. Until FTR’s music blared, the heels heading for the hills as the crowd again lit up. The ROH tag champs had a stare-down with the Gates as they left.
WINNER: Wardlow
On a slightly sour note, it’s about halfway through the show and I’m beyond sick of talk of the code of honor.
Britt backstage promo. Announced that Saraya would not be wrestling, the doctors hadn’t cleared her. Which officially makes it ‘my house’. Excalibur poured cold water on the idea that Saraya wasn’t cleared.
Toni Storm, Athena & Willow Nightingale w/ Saraya vs Jamie Hayter, Penelope Ford & Serena Deeb
Backstory: Saraya is trying to ‘revolutionize’ the division; Storm & Deeb, Hayter & Willow, have squared off in recent weeks
Hayter got her usual big pop, coming out last among the heels.
Question – why does Athena’s video show the Pyramids?
Hayter faked squaring off with Willow but immediately tagged out, Ford and Athena starting, perhaps the two best athletes in the match. Caught coming off the top, Ford was blasted with a powerslam for an early two.
Then tagging in Serena who got a loud ‘Deeb’ chant and was on top until Storm tagged in, hammering relentlessly at Serena’s spine, following her into the corner with an elbow, all the faces coming in to continue the attack in the corner, culminating with Storm’s hip attack as Taz noted that it ‘looked like it hurt a ton’. Sure did.
Storm turned her back; Deeb attacked with a chop-block. Breaktime.
The two were still squaring off as we came back. Deeb had Toni in a deathlock, both faces came in to help but were planted with stereo suplexes by her and Hayter, with Storm still in the deathlock, wrecking her knee.
An enziguri finally bought Storm a tag to Willow, who ran wild on Jamie Hayter, culminating with a spinebuster. Sensing the danger, Deeb quickly tagged herself back in, going to work on Willow in the ropes, Rebel about to use the crutch until Saraya interrupted. Though it took an age.
Back in the ring, Nightingale hit a pounce on Serena but was dropped by Ford, who was dropped by Athena, who was dropped by Deeb, who was dropped by Storm, who was dropped by Hayter, who was dropped by Willow, who was dropped by Penelope.
Big moves by all, ending with the Matrix/arched cutter by Penelope for two.
Who was then planted with a dropkick to the mush mid-handstand, Nightingale landing a Dr Bomb for the win.
Lots of action, also very busy. Serena did most of the work here, which is never a bad idea.
Immediately afterwards, Baker got in Saraya’s face and was slapped, the two breaking into a brawl as all eight fought, leaving Rebel alone with the former Paige to eat a kick to the face.
This was piled so quickly on top of the match that Willow’s music was still playing. Not what you want for something supposed to be so momentous. It feels like they’re trying to blur the lines with Saraya. If she can wrestle, let us know. Because at the moment, she feels less special every week.
WINNER: Storm, Nightingale and Athena
More tension between Andrade and Private Party, Jose pointing out that they hadn’t come out to help on Friday when Hangman attacked. If they don’t ‘do the right thing’ tonight, they’ll be sued since Hardy’s been contract tampering.
National Scissoring Day w/ Acclaimed & ‘Daddy Ass’
Podium and all that in the ring. Acclaimed put themselves over: best homegrown tag team, AEW stands for Acclaimed Every Wednesday. Bowens explained that scissoring was a handshake, something a real team does. Unlike Keith Lee and ‘Sneaky Swerve’, who were ‘thrown together’.
At which point Daddy Ass took the mic, noting that he’d been asked by ‘City Hall’ to present the Acclaimed with something – a giant gold pair of scissors – that was funny. Caster then got all solemn and asked the crowd to exchange scissors as if in a church service. Afterwards revealing that his dad was on the Washington team which won the SuperBowl. It’s their duty to bring everyone together – ‘a bi-partisan scissor to unite this country’. Genuinely nice message.
All three about to scissor, Swerve’s music hit the airwaves. He wasn’t impressed. Those belts should be on Billy’s shoulders since it was he who won them. Challenged him for next week in Toronto. Bringing a rock from his pocket, he threatened that Bily better not try to scissor him because ‘rock beats scissors.’ Strickland was booed but the crowd still chanted ‘Swerve’s House!’ along with him.
This brought out Mark Sterling, continuing the ridiculous story about getting Swerve fired. Sterling offered to help the Acclaimed. They declined via legdrop to the ‘Yambag’. Before they left, Gunn accepted Swerve’s challenge, then the three finished the interrupted scissor from earlier.
Pretty entertaining.
Video Package. Dark Order will face Death Triangle on the anniversary of Brody Lee’s last match. Silver mimicked Pac’s accent.
Tony was with Madison Rayne and Skye Blue. Anna Jay and Tay interrupted, saying that Blue needed a sports entertainer, rather than a wrestler, as a coach, to work on her charisma. Blue responded that they needed to work on their wrestling, so why don’t they wrestle Friday?
Rush vs ‘Hangman’ Adam Page
Backstory: The final two in in the battle royal for an AEW title shot, Page eliminated Rush, who, along with Andrade, has been messing with the Dark Order
Big pop for Hangman. Crowd tonight small but very enthusiastic. Page offered a scissor to start the match. At least he’s watching the other segments.
This was a fight from the get-go between two heavy hitters. Hangman hit the apron looking for the Buckshot, Rush rolled backwards into his pose. Jose’s interference led to El Toro Blanco literally whipping the cowboy on the outside with a cable, then choking the former champ as the ads arrived.
Rush continued his dominance post-break, until caught on a cross body, a fallaway slam his reward as both lay out on the mat, Hangman kipping up but met with another shot from Rush. MJF was shown watching backstage.
Avoiding Rush in the corner, Page landed his springboard clothesline, sending the heel to the outside, planting him with a vaulting cross body, hard landing on that one. Again caught in mid-air, the Mexican ate a DVD for a Hangman two. The fight continued as Rush beckoned Page to bring it, forcing him to the corner, stomping the neck with Page slumped against the bottom buckle.
From where Hangman powered up, Rush still on his shoulders, into a powerbomb/jackknife pin combo.
Loud ‘Cowboy Shit’ chants as Page headed to the apron, thinking Buckshot, Jose again grabbing the leg, Rush meeting him with a headbutt, jumping knee, straightjacket piledriver for a close two. Rush was now bleeding from the nose; Hangman again slumped in the corner. Bull’s Horns on its way, met with a clothesline as Page sprang up, straight to the apron, Buckshot Lariat, 1, 2, 3.
Not the best match but a good win over a credible opponent. Exactly what was needed.
Private Party then emerged, still unsure what to do. The Champ made their decision for them, Moxley arriving with a shake of the head. Loud ‘Moxley’ chants as he entered the ring.
He’d been waiting for this for three years. Three years of watching and studying Page, knowing they’d inevitably meet. They’ve beaten just about everyone there is to beat… except each other. After October 18th, there will be ‘one last man standing’. ‘I’m gonna break your face, choke you ‘till you turn blue, because you’re in the way… of me being the best in the world. I have all the respect in the world for your abilities… I admire you as a person…’
You knew there was a ‘but’ coming.
‘But when that bell rings with the world championshop on the line, I aint got any god damn respect for anything’.
About to leave, Page called him back. If he’d been waiting so long, where was he going?
More ‘Cowboy Shit’ chants as the pair circled. Mox called him a ‘sweet kid, but like a lot of kids around here you say a lotta stupid s*** and your mouth gets you in trouble. This is your final warning. You got thirteen days’.
I f****** love Jon Moxley. He’s so intense, so believable, completely draws you in, makes you think the belt is the most important thing in the world and put over his opponent to boot. Now that’s a promo.
This was fantastic.
WINNER: Hangman Page
Willow with Tony. Challenged Jade, who just happened to be stood two yards away, for Battle of the Belts. Wow, this is really shaping up
Luchasaurus vs Fuego del Sol
Backstory: None
About thirty seconds. Cut-throat for the win.
About to dump Fuego on the ramp, ‘Jungleboy Jack Perry’ – which seems to be his new name – attacked with a chair. LS was his ‘best friend’ and yet he ‘chose him (Christian)’ and ‘broke my heart’. So JB is going to ‘break ‘Saurus piece by piece, until I break you!’
Challenged him for anytime and place. Christian picked next week in Canada.
Good fire from Jungleboy. Best he’s been with a live mic. Kept short, which is a good idea.
WINNER: Luchasaurus
Pac/trent video package. This was very good. Pac’s so intense.
Le Sex Gods (Jericho & Guevara) vs Bryan Danielson & Daniel Garcia
Backstory: Garcia has been torn between his ‘sports entertainer’ mentor Jericho & his ‘wrestling’ idol Danielson, which side will he choose?
Ian Riccaboni again joined on comms. The faces came out together.
All four debated who’d start. Jericho and Garcia began, the vet offering a sarcastic handshake as the crowd bellowed ‘f*** you Sammy!’. Though on this occasion Jericho did keep things ‘honorable’. At least for now.
Garcia embarrassed Jericho early, riding the vet and slapping him. A pissed Jericho popped up; an exchange of chops followed, Garcia again getting the better until Sammy tripped him from the outside.
Tagging in, Sammy was hit with a dropkick to the knee, Danielson in, cutting off the tag with a dropkick. Very stiff chop, yes! kicks in the corner, the flip out, suicide dive through the ropes onto Jericho, BD then caught Guevara following him with a shot to the face.
Final break.
Arriving back as Danielson headed to the top, Jericho cut him off, allowing Sammy to hit a top-rope Spanish Fly for two. Grabbing a chinlock, Sammy hit a couple stomps, then Le Sex Gods hit their vintage pose in the middle. A stiff mid-ring collision knocked the wind out of both legal men, leaving Garcia and Jericho to get the tags, both rushing in but slowing as they locked eyes mid-ring.
Finally, a brawl broke out, Garcia ‘stomping a mudhole’ in the corner, following with a running PK, trying for another but Jericho grabbed the legs, looking for the Walls only for the youngster to counter through into the Dragon Slayer. Guevara interrupted with a superkick, then flipped onto Danielson on the outside.
More stiff chops from the vet until Garcia fired back, Jericho avoiding a shotgun dropkick but caught going for the Lionsault, Garcia getting the knees up. So far, everytime Jericho counters, Garcia counters back.
Tagging out, Sammy came off the top but was caught, Jericho trying for the save but snatched into the same hold by Danielson, the two then landing hammer and anvils as the crowd chanted ‘yes!’ for each shot.
Taking Sammy to the top for a double-team belly to back, he flipped out: hitting a Spanish Fly then a kick to the spine for two on Garcia. Hoisted up for the GTH, Garcia grabbed the knee on the way down, into a piledriver for two as Jericho grabbed the leg to make the save.
The two youngsters collided in the middle, both down as Jericho suplexed Danielson through a table at ringside. Sammy again thought GTH but didn’t go for the pin. Instead heading to the top for a shooting star, Garcia again getting the knees up, straight into the Dragon Tamer, Sammy about to quit until Garcia was blasted with the belt by Jericho.
Allowing Sammy to steal the win. Perfect finish in terms of Jericho cheating to beat the guy who’s been complaining about him cheating.
On the subject of which, as much as I enjoy the story of Jericho/Garcia, I don’t care about Ring of Honor or its codes. And they’re relying heavily on fans doing so. They never shut up about it tonight.
WINNER: Le Sex Gods
……
Next Rampage:
Andrade vs Ten, Ten’s Mask/Andrade’s AEW career on the line (this match was removed after Andrade was sent home due to a backstage fight with Sammy)
Moxley, Claudio, Yuta vs Rush & Private Party (Replacing the above)
Dark Order vs Death Triangle, Trios Titles
Anna Jay & Tay Melo vs Madison Rayne & Skye Blue
Varsity Blonds vs Tony Nese & Josh Woods
Battle of the Belts (Immediately following Rampage on Friday):
Pac vs Trent, All-Atlantic Title (So Pac’s wrestling twice in two hours)
Willow Nightingale vs Jade Cargill, TBS Title
FTR vs Gates of Agony, ROH Tag Titles
Next Dynamite:
Jericho vs Danielson, ROH Title
Jungleboy vs Luchasaurus
Billy Gunn vs Swerve Strickland
Dynamite Tuesday 18th Oct:
Moxley vs Hangman, AEW Title
Overall impressions
Considering this was an AEW anniversary there was far too much ROH. Every match referenced the handshake and the commentators never shut up about the code, which the main event was built around.
Not only do I not care about that company, but I can’t help but feel that AEW’d be in much better shape if Tony Khan had left ROH to Vince McMahon. Much of the frustration backstage stems from a lack of tv time, which stems from the purchase of ROH.
An enjoyable show but boy those extra fifteen minutes made it feel long.
Battle of the Belts IV which takes place this Friday has two new matches added and the one-hour card has a total of three bouts.
FTR vs Kaun and Toa Liona of Gates of Agony will be fighting for the ROH Tag Team titles while Willow Nightingale will get a shot at Jade Cargill’s TBS championship.
Gates of Agony made an appearance on Dynamite last night, attacking Wardlow and Samoa Joe. FTR, who hasn’t wrestled in a regular tag match in quite a while, came out to save the day.
The other match announced for Battle of the Belts is PAC vs Trent Beretta for the All-Atlantic title.
Battle of the Belts will air live on TNT this Friday at 11PM EST immediately following the conclusion of Rampage. While it usually airs on Saturday night at 8PM, this time it would have clashed with WWE’s Extreme Rules.
When Andrade El Idolo told Sammy Guevara that he would see him on Wednesday following their Twitter exchange, he didn’t lie. In fact, TMZ.COM is reporting that Andrade and Sammy were involved in a heated backstage confrontation which turned physical and Andrade was sent home from the show.
According to TMZ, Sammy first pushed Andrade off and then punches were thrown. After the two were separated, the decision was made to send the former NXT champion home and Guevara stayed there and main evented Dynamite, even getting the winning pin in the tag team match.
TMZ.COM adds that several wrestlers were very angry with Guevara for continuing to air personal issues in public which keep resulting in these kind of situations.
Recently, Sammy was also involved in a heated exchange with Eddie Kingston and Kingston was suspended for two weeks.
With Andrade out, the planned match vs 10 in a mask vs career match set for this Friday’s Rampage has been postponed.
Tonight’s Dynamite is the third-year anniversary special and will take place from Washington, D.C., at the Entertainment & Sports Arena, a much smaller location than the Capital One Arena also in Washington where AEW held their first-ever Dynamite on October 2, 2019.
As you can expect, it’s a loaded card and just for tonight, TBS has granted AEW an extra 15 minutes to the broadcast, with Dynamite scheduled to end at 10:15PM.
Headlining the show will be ROH Pure champion Daniel Garcia teaming up with Bryan Danielson to take on ROH World champion Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara. The TNT champion Wardlow will put his title on the line against Brian Cage, MJF battles Wheeler Yuta, Rush takes on Hangman Page, Darby Allin wrestles Jay Lethal and a trios women’s match with Toni Storm, Athena, and Willow Nightingale vs Jamie Hayter, Serena Deeb, and Penelope Ford. Luchasaurus is also listed in action but no opponent was named.
Plus, the AEW World Tag Team champions The Acclaimed and Billy “Daddy Ass” Gunn will celebrate National Scissoring Day!
Former WWE Diva Alicia Fox got engaged to musician Michael Fitzgerald yesterday.
“Yesterday was a perfect day. She said Yes,” Fitzgerald wrote on his Instagram account, accompanied by a few photos from the proposal.
The 39-year old singer and guitar player is part of the Jacksonville-based rock trio Darkhorse Saloon. Fox, 36, had a few rough years after fighting alcoholism but earlier this year she celebrated 3 years of sobriety.
Fox has remained inactive on social media since 2020.
For ages, gambling has been popular worldwide; in recent times, online gambling has taken over and is no exception. You will find that gambling is a pastime in countries all over the globe and different countries approach gambling differently depending on their various laws and regulations.
If you’re keen to learn more about how gambling works all around the world, keep reading because, in this blog post, we will be detailing how online gambling works in some of the major gambling countries around the world.
Asia
In Asia, you will find some of the best online casinos, which is great for travellers and locals on the continent. In China, most forms of gambling are illegal on the mainland, with Hong Kong being very restrictive.
Different Asian countries regulate gambling differently. For example, in Singapore, gambling is regulated by the GRA or The Gambling Regulatory Authority, while in Malaysia, gambling is regulated by the Ministry of Finance.
When it comes to taxes on winnings, the regulations will vary from country to country. In Singapore, for example, it was voted by Parliament that gambling taxes will be raised from 15% to 18%. In Japan, online gambling, although still illegal, is very popular, and it has been estimated that there are more than 2 million online casino users. This increase has been driven partly by online gambling being easily accessible and often anonymous.
It is also difficult to track and regulate, and if you want to discover more, read BizLady opinion about online casino in Japan. Any decision to legalize online gambling in Japan would need to be made with careful consideration. If you want to visit an Asian country and experience gambling, avoid countries such as Thailand, where gambling is illegal.
Europe
In Europe, online gambling is mostly embraced all around. Countries in Europe are free to regulate gambling services as long as they comply with the general provisions and fundamental freedoms established under the TFEU, also known as the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Most countries in Europe allow at least a few games to be offered at online casinos, and when it comes to taxes, there are taxation brackets for winnings that are deprived of online games. The ministry of Finance has established each percentage that is assigned to each bracket of winnings and they go as follows:
Up to 24, 450 Euros = 19%
From 12,450 Euros to 20,200 Euros = 24%
From 20,200 Euros to 35,200 Euros = 30%
Not all countries in Europe have embraced online gambling. Although most countries allow at least some games of chance online, countries such as Poland have prohibited or otherwise restricted online gambling. Other countries such as Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy are some of the leading European gambling sites.
North America
In North America, each state has the liberty to regulate or prohibit gambling within its borders, and gambling is legal under US federal law. Everything you win from gambling is also fully taxable, and you are obligated to report your gambling income winnings on your tax return.
In North America, gambling is legal in 48 states, with only Utah and Hawaii banning it completely. That said, social poker games are allowed in private residences in Hawaii.
South America
Lastly, we have South America, where gambling is regulated on a province-by-province basis. Gambling operators are only allowed to offer their services to residents of their particular province, and operators can offer all forms of gambling.
Gambling is taxed differently in different countries. For example, in Mexico, winners are meant to pay income tax on any income they have received throughout the year from any prizes generated by gambling that has been legally authorized.
If you head to South America looking for some gambling fun, stay clear of countries such as Brazil and Ecuador, which have prohibited all forms of gambling except for state lotteries. However, gambling activities and facilities are available in countries such as Argentina, Columbia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Chile.
Gambling has been enjoyed all over the world for many centuries now. Although land-based casinos have enjoyed enormous success ever since they came about, people are now shifting more towards technology and online casinos. Some countries have partially or wholly banned gambling, while others have opened their arms and embraced this popular pastime. So, if you are a fan of gambling, research the laws and regulations of each country you are visiting regarding gambling.
The card for NXT Halloween Havoc premium live event continued to take shape last night with an additional two gimmick matches.
Former NXT Women’s Tag Team champions Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade will be wrestling each other in a weapons wild match, a match which was determined by the Spin the Wheel, Make a Deal last night on the show. Both were on the Grayson Waller Effect talking segment and Waller spun the wheel to reveal the match.
Also, Julius Creed will be taking on Damon Kemp in an ambulance match with the stipulation being that if Kemp won, Brutus Creed will have to leave NXT and if Julius wins, Brutus gets Kemp next.
Apart from the NXT title match between Breakker, Dragunov, and McDonagh, the other match listed currently is the ladder match for the NXT North American title with the participants being Carmelo Hayes, Oro Mensah, Wes Lee, Von Wagner, and the final opponent will be determined in a match between Axiom and Nathan Frazer.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Wrestling is reporting through his Select service that WWE has hired Rob Fee, a former writer for Marvel Comics, as the new Director of Long-term Creative. While Lee officially starts this month, he already got his hands involved in the White Rabbit storyline.
Lee is a longtime wrestling fan and according to Sapp, he once pitched a movie for The Fiend to WWE before Wyatt got his eventual release.
Addressing the news of his hiring, Lee wrote, “Well this is the most excited I’ve ever been to post on LinkedIn. This is my absolute dream job and the entire team is fantastic. If you think it’s been wild so far, just wait.”
According to his LinkedIn, Lee has penned comics for Spider-Man, Daredevil, and The Avengers. He was head writer on multiple Disney shows, including 100 episodes of Disney XD’s top rated series Player Select. Recently he produced several series for Will Smith including The Fresh Prince Reunion and Will From Home, the most watched Snapchat series. Previous he was a producer for The Ellen Show, MTV’s Ridiculousness, and a creative consultant for Netflix, CryptTV, and several esports organizations.
It was not a good night for Raw on Monday as the show drew just 1,600,000 viewers despite the NFL doing much less than the previous two weeks. The show dropped 74,000 viewers largely thanks to a big drop in the third hour.
Hour one started with 1,701,000 viewers and then dropped slightly to 1,683,000 viewers in the second hour, before tanking to 1,413,000 viewers in the third hour for the women’s main event. That was nearly a 300,000-viewer drop from the first to the third hour. The NFL did a combine of over 12 million, down from the 19 million of last week.
Raw was #7, #8, and #9 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demo with 0.43, 0.43, and a low 0.35 respectively for an average of 0.40, down 0.05 from last week. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Twitch has rapidly turned into a popular real-time online streaming platform. Simply speaking, it is such a website that allows anyone to become an anchor, a presenter, or sort of a broadcaster. Content creators or in other words streamers actively interact live with the audience that is keen on esports tournaments, computer games, cooking, performing music on request, chatting, etc.
Commercials available on Twitch
Advertising here has turned into an important way to earn money. Simultaneously, it is also an appropriate technique to maintain any channel. Yet if you are a frequent Twitch streamer, you doubtlessly come across commercials. And, sure, you as a lot of other streamers find them irritating, annoying, even aggressive. They can let you down, frustrate, and distract you from watching the content you find of great importance or interest to you.
Therefore, the desire of streamers to seek the appropriate way how to block Twitch ads is increasingly huge. The viewer can’t wait for half an hour when the commercial ends up. While being totally exhausted by the flood of commercials streamers and common viewers are in an active search for a high-end technique that helps to get rid of or cut down on catchy ads.
Ad blockers: general information on how they work
You should know that the way the blockers function is easy to comprehend. They usually block the video roll you are just watching or the URL of the site you have just clicked on and are willing to go on with reading or watching something. They block any source you have started to stream on. First, you can come to the idea that despite the easy way of blockers work, it’ll be complicated to find some proper technique to block commercials. Yet experts name some opportunities to successfully block them.
Mobile app: ad blocking
Some viewers really enjoy watching commercials. Don’t take them off the streaming. This kind of viewer can easily swap their activity and happily switch to watching some exciting content. Nevertheless, this type of viewer is usually in the minority. Therefore, most streamers who opt for blocking commercials distinguish 4 basic kinds of them:
Pre-rolls that usually tend to turn up even before streaming starts
Banners are noticeable throughout any streaming around the screen surface
Promotional advertising that the advertisers or even streamers launch following various goals
The way of advertising is called Pay-Per-Click.
Turbo
It may seem incredible but Twitch possesses its own way to restrict commercials while streaming. It is just one kind of subscription available. It refers to Turbo. This subscription is unfortunately expensive. Nevertheless, it gives an opportunity to get rid of any commercials forever or at least for the long term.
Another way of subscription
Whenever a perfect way to do away with commercials Turbo was, if you find it cost-based, you’d better to opt for any other opportunity less money-gobbling. Therefore, it is much more reasonable to subscribe to a streamer. But you ought to select the one who is your favorite. The commercials will stop appearing automatically.
Android/iOs: the techniques of blocking commercials
Your mobile browser (it doesn’t matter which precisely you get set up) will be a good blocker while you are watching streams. In case you belong to those viewers who prefer the app, you need to get AdLock downloaded. You can even benefit from it since it is free and available for over 5 devices.
When it comes to iOS, the way of blocking is different. It doesn’t refer to the app. Unfortunately, blocking is not available for it. It is possible to apply a blocker due to the browser. You just need to download AdGuard or maybe even more preferable AdLock. Whichever you opt for, the result will be positive in both cases. Your stream will be safely protected against catchy and irritating commercials.
You should bear in mind that Twitch is constantly changing and tend to find ways that can help to avoid any blockers or even get them around. Therefore, you should be ready to take the necessary steps not to get caught in a bind:
Regularly update your software
Occasionally alter the browser
Control your blocker so that it works without breaks
If the situation tends to be dramatic just try another blocker.
Extension
In search of an appropriate way to block commercials, many streamers and viewers tend to fall back on VPNs. The strictness of advertising rules often depends on the exact country. Commercials are prohibited in some European and South-American countries, for instance, Colombia or Russia. If you live there where commercials easily appear on the streams, you can just use VPN to hide your real location while opting for another country.
The issue is which VNP to select. The choice seems to be not wide enough. Nevertheless, if you really desire to watch streaming without being concerned about irritating commercials, so, high time you selected one of the VPNs with commercial blockers:
Nord
Proton
NetShield.
The ways to make away with the commercials mentioned above will doubtlessly help you out with watching favorite streams without any annoying interference from ads.
Andrade El Idolo and Sammy Guevara are the latest to have their real-life problems brought to social media for the world to read and despite the two not being involved in any kind of storyline together at the moment, shit hit the fan on Twitter.
Andrade, speaking in an interview with Más Lucha, said that Guevara complained before that during a previous match, he was hit hard. Andrade later then went to confront Guevara face-to-face to see if there’s a problem and Guevara said there wasn’t any.
But yesterday on Twitter, Guevara fired the first reply. “You are a jobber. A favor hire. Be grateful bitch,” he wrote. At that point it was unclear who he was exactly referring to but Andrade took notice and replied.
“I said it to your FACE if you had a problem with me and you said NOTHING,” El Idolo wrote. “I won’t beat your ass because I’m a professional, don’t be scared. When I say something I name names, and I’m not scared to get fired,” he added, writing #Sammy to end the tweet.
Guevara refuted the claims that Andrade went to confront him and called him a liar, an ungrateful prick, and someone who would be jobless if it wasn’t for his dad-in-law.
“Are you really mad at me or mad at yourself for failing to get over for a SECOND time,” Guevara wrote. “Just go back to WWE like we all know you want to do & f*ck off.”
Andrade told him that he’ll see him Wednesday and he’ll tell him to his face again.
Meanwhile, Jose The Assistant, who accompanies Andrade in AEW, said he was there for this “incident” when it happened, backing his colleague.
“Good thing (no one) in AEW can translate Spanish to English!” he added, with an emoji with hands to cover his mouth.
