The Creed Brothers returned to NXT on last night’s episode on The CW, attacking Romeo Moreno and Noam Dar after the two successfully defeated Dorian Van Dux and Sean Legacy.
Brutus and Julius Creed were part of the El Grande Americano storyline, siding with Chad Gable along the way. That association came to an end after Gable lost to Ludwig Kaiser’s Americano in a mask vs mask match a couple of months ago.
The brothers will now work for NXT full time for the time being and will explain their return on next week’s episode of NXT.
They last wrestled on Raw in May of this year and participated in a couple of matches on WWE Main Event last month.
They are former NXT Tag Team champions and winners of the Men’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
Appearing on The Ariel Helwani Show, Kofi and Austin Creed discussed leaving WWE, with Kofi revealing that TKO wanted them to take more than the 50% pay cut which was reported online.
“I will say, it was more than 50%, it was more,” Kofi told Helwani.
“Like the compensation is a big part of it for sure but again the bigger part of it is being able to go out and live your dream in the way you want to live it out and be appreciated for it,” he continued.
He said that both he and Creed took everything under consideration and they knew leaving was the only path they had to take.
“It was scary at times with the uncertainty and everything but sometimes you gotta do, you just gotta go through and face the fear and you have to keep on going and believe in yourself,” Kofi said.
Creed added that when he was at his kids’ football practice, he received a call with a 203 area code, which covers Stamford as well. At first he thought nothing about it and then he remembered it was just after Mania and usually releases take place during that time of the year.
Eventually, he got a call from Kofi who explained TKO called with the news and what they offered, after which they decided they gotta go as the offer did not work out for them.
Brandon Thurston of POST Wrestling is reporting that data provided by the Brent Council, which Wembley Stadium forms a part of, shows that AEW All In had an attendance of 41,102 in the stadium this past Sunday.
The number does not represent the actual number of tickets sold but the total number of people who scanned their ticket to go inside the building.
The show had thousands of visible empty seats in the 500 Level, seats which were mostly given away for free via Ticketmaster in the lead up to the show.
The 41,102 number represents a drop from the 53,385 turnstile count All In registered in 2024, the last time the show was at Wembley Stadium. It was, however, a major increase from last year’s All In in Texas which had 23,759 in attendance.
AEW President Tony Khan pulled a WWE trick during the post-show press conference and said that nearly 50,000 people attended the show with a gate of around $6 million. Even if you take his 50,000 figure, that would represent $120 per ticket average, which definitely was not the case as the tickets were slashed 50% in June due to slow ticket sales, not to mention the thousands of tickets given away.
AEW never announced an attendance during the show.
Former WWE Superstar Dexter Lumis sat down with Chris Van Vliet in Nashville, Tennessee to discuss why he didn’t talk in WWE, the inspiration behind his psychotic character, how he became a part of The Wyatt Sicks, being in one of the few wrestling weddings that did not end in disaster, working with The Miz, getting released by WWE, what’s next, and more!
I was just thinking before we hit record, this is going to be the first time that a lot of people hear your voice. You didn’t talk a lot in WWE.
“I sure didn’t. It’s funny because fans come to me, like last weekend at WrestleCon, or this appearance I did in Phoenix. Randoms will come up to me and be like, ‘I loved you on Tacoma FD.’ I’m like, ‘You watched that, so you heard me speak.’ People are blown away by that. I do actually speak, I was playing a character.”
Why didn’t that character speak?
“I don’t really know why they decided, hey, this is great if he just doesn’t speak. But I had my mentality on it, and I think what I was looking at is everybody talks, almost, in my opinion, too much. So how can I be different? I’m always thinking about that. How can I present myself on TV differently than everybody else to catch the attention of the fans in a different way? So I think it was striking in a way: this guy, he’s just got a cold stare, and he doesn’t speak. Then it became a challenge. Can I elicit emotion from the fans without saying a word? Can I make them feel a certain way? Can I get my emotion that I’m trying to get across to these fans without saying anything? That became kind of the goal, the mission.”
How are you feeling now, a few months removed from being let go?
“I mean, I went through all the emotions, I guess you could say. But my mentality is like, okay, that’s maybe done for now, or forever. I can’t change what’s happened in the past. The right now is what I’m focused on, and the future. I don’t want to dwell on any negativity in that arena, but yeah, it’s disheartening. I was there for seven years, and I feel like I had a really unique, very fun career. I got to see the world. I was in Poland on my birthday this year, and I’m just sitting in the locker room. I had some downtime by myself, and I’m just like, this is pretty amazing. I feel like a real wrestler, like a real WWE Superstar. It’s those things that really hit you. You’re so far away from your family, but yet you still feel connected to this family.”
Does this release feel more final than that first one?
“It does feel a little more final. You always hear, you know, the door could always still be open. Never say never; those types of things. But I feel like now, as opposed to back then, I got to go out and prove myself a little bit more.”
In NXT, the wedding with Indi Hartwell may be one of the most successful wrestling weddings ever. Most of them end disastrously.
“This one was not disastrous.”
Yeah, it was just like you said your first words in WWE.
“That’s it. ‘I do.’ That never happens. It could have gone differently. There were ideas that were thrown around that was going to go off way different, but I’m really happy with that 10-minute wedding segment. I still have a little script saved, so does Indi, because it was a very special thing for us. Because how many people can say they were in WWE and they had a wedding on TV that went off without a hitch, or just had a wedding in general? You got to be, I think, perceived a certain way to get that for yourself on a TV that they’re giving you that time on TV because it’s entertaining. We were entertaining enough to pull that off, and we had a connection with the fans, and we had a connection with each other. She would try and break me, man.”
She ever get you?
“Close, but she was like the only one that could almost do it because she was so ridiculous. I’d have to be in character, like this stoic [person]. If we’re out there with Johnny, for instance, and he’s having a match, and I’m just standing there watching my friend wrestle, she’d be on the apron just staring at me. I’m just like trying not to look over there. During rehearsals, I’d break, but I’m like all right, this is the time to get it out. When the red light’s on, and we’re live, pal, you ain’t gonna break me.”
I don’t feel like you got the chance to show your full potential in the seven years you were in WWE. I feel like there’s so much more that you could do.
“I agree. I don’t know what else to say about that. I feel like I could go with anybody you put me in front of. As a matter of fact, I wish Brock Lesnar wasn’t retired because that has been my absolute epitome of the match that I want.”
Why is that the dream match?
“Who’s more intimidating in the wrestling business that’s still somewhat active? I know he just retired, but when that guy comes out to the ring, everybody’s just floored. There is a presence, and if he likes you, and you have a good match with him, and you show him that you can carry the ball. I feel like that’s the standard, you know. That’s the guy. You should want your career to be like his. To get the limited schedule, to get the money, to get the notoriety, to be a badass, to be legit, but also to be so giving. I’ve had conversations with Brock, and he might just be like oh, I don’t remember that kid. But I feel like I was right there, and I respect the hell out of him. I’m very happy that he’s had such a great career. Oba Femi, what a great story those two had. I’m not mad. I’m very happy for that situation and Brock’s retiring and everything, but you know, I always think, what if?”
Was there something that was supposed to happen, or were you just hopeful that it could have?
“Well, I mentioned Paul Heyman earlier, and it’s having conversations with him. I just didn’t beat around the bush. I just said, ‘Hey, I want to wrestle Brock Lesnar. How do we do that?’ And that’s when the conversation started shifting towards you need to be a singles guy. I wanted the Wyatt six to work, but how long can it last? You always kind of got to be mindful of that.”
WWE has confirmed that the NXT Halloween Havoc premium live event will take place on Saturday, October 31.
That falls exactly on Halloween night, which is not exactly the greatest day to hold a wrestling event on television.
No location has been announced and the event has not been added to the WWE tickets page, suggesting it will be from the WWE Performance Center. WWE does not sell tickets to NXT, or any show, held inside their PC.
WWE brought back the popular WCW pay-per-view name in 2020 and has held a Halloween Havoc every year since then.
Sunday Night’s Main Event will have quite a different opening than usual as WWE announced that a musical performance by Quavo will kick things off on September 6.
The big WWE fan will be performing an unreleased track from his upcoming album titled QROMELIFE.
Quavo made several appearances on WWE television before especially when the company is in Atlanta, his hometown.
Sunday Night’s Main Event airs exclusively on Peacock for fans in the United States and on YouTube everywhere else.
Glenn Jacobs, who for many years wrestled in WWE under the name of Kane, wraps up his role as mayor of Knox County today.
Jacobs spent eight years in office and cannot run for a third term. He was first elected in 2018 and remained in office ever since.
It’s unclear if the WWE Hall of Famer will stay in politics after this and told WATE News that his family will come first in whatever decision he makes.
While in office, Jacobs wrestled in a WWE ring a couple of times, with his last involvement in the ring coming at the 2021 Royal Rumble.
Qualifying matches for this year’s Money In The Bank matches will kick off next week on Raw and Smackdown.
The winners of these qualifying matches will then advance to the ladder matches for the briefcase, where the winner will get to cash in on the title at any time.
Six WWE Superstars are usually in these men’s and women’s ladder matches so there will be 12 qualifying matches in total for both matches.
Naomi and Seth Rollins were the winners last year, both of whom successfully cashed in their respective briefcase.
Money In The Bank takes place on Saturday, October 10 live from the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Take a second today to recognize your own progress. You’ve made it farther than you think.”
That’s what Big E wrote in a post on Instagram, 24 hours after his best friends made their debut in AEW as The New Level. The post included a sign which read, “Look how far you’ve come” along with footprints.
Kofi and Austin Creed were joined by Swerve Strickland as the wildcard entrants in the Trios Roulette match which started on the Buy In pre-show but spilled over the PPV portion for their arrival.
“If you’re two living legends that are undervalued, sometimes you have to go to London,” Big E wrote in one of the replies when someone asked if it was “All the way to London.”
E also wrote that he would be “absolutely” watching Kofi and Creed in AEW as they are his brothers.
He added that he is immensely happy for the duo and called them “two of the best men to ever grace this industry.”
Big E remains part of the WWE broadcast team, doing pre-show panels for all the premium live events.
The New Level will be appearing on Dynamite tomorrow.
Professional wrestling depends on a strange agreement: the audience knows the result is arranged, then judges every second by whether it feels true. The agreement becomes unstable when injury, workplace politics or an unexpectedly final three-count enters the picture. Four moments explain the effect. Bret Hart heard a bell he had not agreed to. Mick Foley kept moving after two terrifying falls. CM Punk turned grievances into television. Brock Lesnar broke a record many viewers treated as permanent. Each event made fans question where performance stopped and consequence began. They also changed forever what audiences expected from the industry afterward.
Montreal: One Performer Never Saw the Finish Coming
On November 9, 1997, Bret Hart defended the WWE Championship against Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series in Montreal. Hart was leaving for WCW and had not agreed to lose the title to Michaels in Canada. During the match, Michaels applied Hart’s own Sharpshooter; referee Earl Hebner called for the bell even though Hart had not submitted.
The betrayal did more than change a champion. McMahon soon became the on-screen Mr. McMahon villain, while contract politics became wrestling mythology. The incident still resists a clean category. It was a planned match with an ending hidden from one of its performers.
Two Falls, Then the Match Somehow Continued
King of the Ring on June 28, 1998 produced images that commentary could barely process. The Undertaker threw Mankind from the roof of Hell in a Cell onto the announce table. Mankind returned to the roof, then crashed into the ring when a panel gave way during a chokeslam.
Mick Foley continued, took a fall onto thumbtacks and eventually lost to a Tombstone. The sequence is remembered as spectacle, yet its force comes from visible disorder: shoes on the floor, officials gathering, Terry Funk entering the cell, commentary abandoning its usual polish. Foley’s later accounts describe lasting repercussions. A memorable moment is not proof that the risk should be repeated.
Controlled Uncertainty Has Rules; Wrestling Sometimes Loses Them
Wrestling suspense comes from concealment, while a regulated casino game should derive results from disclosed mathematical rules and randomized systems. Mixing those ideas leads to poor decisions. The tower rush bet game uses Galaxsys mechanics in which players stack floors as the displayed odds rise and decide when to stop. Its published RTP range is 96.2% to 97.6%, a long-run measure that does not make the next floor predictable. Continuing exposes more of the stake to a failed build; leaving earlier accepts a smaller multiplier. A preset stake and session limit matter more than any feeling that the next attempt is “due.”
One Microphone Turned Workplace Frustration into Plot
CM Punk sat cross-legged on the Raw stage on June 27, 2011 and spoke with the cadence of an employee who had stopped protecting the company. He criticized Vince McMahon, John Cena, The Rock and WWE’s hierarchy before his microphone was cut. WWE presented the segment as part of Raw; its power came from recognizable backstage tensions without marking which lines belonged to the storyline.
The speech changed how wrestling promos sounded. Corporate language, contract expiry and perceived favoritism became story material rather than subjects kept outside the broadcast. Punk did not merely insult an opponent. He challenged the institution presenting the show, and viewers supplied years of their own frustration to the gaps.
The Graphic Said 21-1, and the Building Went Quiet
At WrestleMania 30 on April 6, 2014, Brock Lesnar countered The Undertaker’s Tombstone attempt and delivered a third F5. The referee counted three. For a moment, the audience in New Orleans reacted as if the production had malfunctioned; then the stadium screen displayed 21-1.
The finish worked because WWE had trained viewers to expect an annual escape. The Undertaker entered with 21 WrestleMania victories and no defeats, surviving opponents who appeared equally credible. Lesnar’s win did not blur fiction and reality in the Montreal sense. It broke a storytelling pattern so durable that fans had promoted it into fact.
The Second Screen Needs Its Own Rules
Live wrestling now unfolds beside reaction feeds, clips, statistics and mobile entertainment. That second screen can enrich a show, though it also encourages impulsive decisions during the loudest moments. Anyone using the Melbet download ios route should verify the app source, current version, account permissions and local availability before installation. Casino players should read each game’s paytable or rules panel and separate a session balance from everyday funds. Sports markets require an additional check: professional wrestling outcomes are predetermined, so availability, limits and settlement terms can differ sharply from conventional sports. Notifications are best disabled once the main event starts. The point of the screen is access, not interruption.
Rewatch the Edges of the Frame
The revealing detail often sits away from the move:
Montreal: watch Hebner leave and Hart look toward ringside.
King of the Ring: follow the officials rather than the replay.
The Pipe Bomb: listen for the point at which the microphone disappears.
WrestleMania 30: study the delay before the crowd accepts the 21-1 graphic.
Those edges show how wrestling manufactures order—and what happens when order cracks. The bell, the production truck, the referee and the audience are performers too. Sometimes one of them misses the cue. Sometimes the missed cue becomes history.
WWE is returning to Saudi Arabia in November for the annual Crown Jewel premium live event.
Riyadh will once again host the show which is set to air live on Saturday, November 7 from the Riyadh Season Stadium at KAFD.
“Riyadh is set for a night like no other,” wrote Turki Alalshikh, the Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority. “WWE’s biggest Superstars collide in the capital for an action-packed Crown Jewel you won’t want to miss.”
This will be the third WWE event in the Kingdom this year, following the Royal Rumble and Night of Champions.
The two top matches of Crown Jewel pits the WWE World Heavyweight champion against the WWE champion and the WWE Women’s World champion against the WWE Women’s champion.
Penta and Rey Fenix had one of the most incredible matches on Raw in recent memory much to the surprise of nobody which ended with Penta getting the win over his brother.
The win means that the former WWE Intercontinental champion will now face WWE World Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns on Raw in Mexico City on September 14.
The match was the culmination of an eight-man tournament between Raw and AAA stars which kicked off on the August 10 episode of Raw.
Penta went through Laredo Kid and La Parka to reach the final while Fenix went through El Fiscal and Dragon Lee. Psycho Clown and El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. were the other two participants in the tournament.
Raw tonight is not live as the show was taped this past Friday night along with this coming Friday’s episode of Smackdown. The show airs in its regular 8PM ET time slot on Netflix worldwide.
Five matches have been taped for the show including:
Penta vs Rey Fenix in the WWE World Heavyweight title #1 contender’s tournament final
Raquel Rodriguez vs Sol Ruca for the WWE Women’s Intercontinental title
Dragon Lee vs Ethan Page
Je’Von Evans vs Dominik Mysterio
Je’Von Evans and Joe Hendry vs Dominik Mysterio and JD McDonagh
Plus, WWE World Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns is in the house along with Solo Sikoa, LA Knight, and more.
After winning the AEW Women’s title at All In, Mercedes Mone did not go to celebrate at any expensive restaurant in the city, but headed to Crystal Club at Wembley to perform her first-ever DJ set at the Sweet Chin Disco All In After party.
With a broken nose, stitches on her face, and title on her shoulder, Mone vibed with hundreds of fans who had just spent hours inside Wembley Stadium watching the AEW pay-per-view.
But as things came to a close, Mone had one final song to play and interestingly enough it was Sky’s The Limit, her old WWE theme song where she performed for years as Sasha Banks.
The partygoers popped big and sang along to the theme, as her WWE TitanTron video played in the background. Mone also sang along the whole theme and did her usual Sasha Bank poses much to the delight of the crowd.
Appearing at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto, 17-time world champion John Cena said that there is “no Khan” in the world of wrestling who is rich enough to tempt him back to a wrestling ring following his retirement.
The “no Khan” was obviously referring to WWE President Nick Khan and AEW President Tony Khan.
“No Khan has got the pocketbook…Nick, Tony…they ain’t got the money. I’’m out!” Cena told the crowd after they started chanting ‘one more match.’
He said a lot of people spent their hard earned money on his farewell tour and if he decides to selfishly return for ego-driven reasons, it would be him lying to everyone.
“You might not mind, but there are people who paid a fortune to sit at that last match. And for me to be like, ‘Just kidding…’ I met so many families that put so much effort into saving just to see those moments,” Cena continued.
Cena added that he walked out with his health and feels good and has closure about it and will not be bumping again when he makes any WWE appearances.
AAA General Manager Rey Mysterio booked himself in a match at the upcoming Triplemania 34 night one show in Las Vegas against none other than Omos!
Omos appeared at the Ola de Calor event yesterday even though he was storyline suspended by Mysterio. The Nigerian giant showed up at ringside behind the barricade during the contract signing segment between Dominik Mysterio and El Grande Americano.
Despite showing Rey that he purchased a ticket to the show, Mysterio still attacked him and hit him several times with the microphone. El Grande Americano eventually pulled Rey off of him but Dom attacked Americano in the process.
After the dust settled, Rey got in the ring and agreed that suspending Omos was not the right answer and he will let him return to AAA if he can beat him at Triplemania. But if he fails, Omos will have to leave AAA forever.
It was a pretty bad night for NXT champions last night as five titles on the line changed hands by the end of the broadcast.
Zaria, the NXT Women’s North American champion was the only one to keep her belt, but also added the WWE Speed Women’s title to her collection in a winner-takes-all unification triple threat match which also involved Wren Sinclair and Kali Armstrong.
The Vanity Project, the team of Brad Baylor and Ricky Smokes, then defeated Myles Borne and Tavion Heights to regain the NXT Tag Team titles for the second time, ending their opponent’s reign after just 25 days.
Kelani Jordan, who has been part of NXT since 2022, finally won the big one, defeating Kendal Grey. Jordan is a former TNA Knockout champion as well and halted Grey’s reign after 63 days.
The title changes continued when Jackson Drake beat Myles Borne, who was wrestling his second match of the night, to become the new NXT North American champion, with Vanity Project now holding more gold.
And in the main event of the show, Grayson Waller defeated champion Tony D’Angelo, Cruz Montana, and Zilla Fatu in a fatal four-way match to win the NXT title. Waller spent three years in NXT but never won a title there until last night.
Kofi and Austin Creed took part in the post-All In press conference and talked about their shock departure from WWE.
Creed, who at one point was referred to as “Woods” by Kofi, said that their relationship with WWE was just like every other relationship, as in people have different personalities and sometimes they grow together or they grow apart.
“There’s no bad, there’s no good. You are excited about the opportunities you had, the things that you learned, but that relationship no longer was one that we felt we needed to be in,” Creed explained.
He also said that coming here as a tag team will allow them to battle with some incredible teams and AEW is a place where tag team wrestling is given importance.
The two were joined by Swerve Strickland who are now the AEW Trios champions. Creed and Kofi became the first two wrestlers to win AEW titles on the first day on the job.
Mercedes Mone made history last night at All In by becoming the first person to win major titles in WWE, AEW, NJPW, and CMLL, cementing her place as one of the greatest female wrestlers of all time.
Her win against Willow Nightingale had a price though, a broken nose at the beginning of the match, but the new champion still made it to the post-show press conference with stitches on her face and still bleeding!
Mone won the WWE Women’s title on six different occasions, five on Raw and one on Smackdown, and also won the IWGP Women’s title in New Japan and the CMLL Women’s title in the Mexican promotion.
It was her second attempt at the AEW Women’s title, a title which had evaded her despite a title-winning year last year where she held over a dozen titles simultaneously.
Mone said that she was in AEW to make history and change the game for women’s wrestling, and the AEW Women’s title was another accolade.
Kevin Owens was helped to the back following a match at a non-televised event in North Charleston, South Carolina yesterday.
Owens wrestled The Miz in the second match of the night and won, but was in visible pain and was limping at ringside. Before heading to the back, Owens looked around and motioned for the WWE medic to come over and help him as he limped to the back.
The former champion has just returned at SummerSlam after a very lengthy neck injury which required surgery.
It’s unclear how bad his injury is at this point as neither him nor WWE has acknowledged what happened last night.
