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Adam Cole shoots down rumor of managerial role on main WWE roster

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Colin Vassallo
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In an interview with TVInsider.com, Adam Cole has rubbished the rumors which said that the plan was for him to be a manager on the main roster if he re-signed with WWE. Dave Meltzer of the Observer reported last week that WWE’s decision was for Cole to be a manager of a heel Keith Lee on the main roster as McMahon was only interested in Cole’s verbal game.

Asked point blank by TVInsider about the rumor, Cole said he never heard anything regarding that.

“I touched base a little bit on how my meeting with Vince McMahon went really well. We talked for about 30 minutes. He had a lot of complimentary things to say. As far as hearing that specific thing, that was not something I heard about,” Cole said.

The former NXT champion added, “My four years with NXT was fantastic. My four years with WWE was awesome, but at the end of the day, I wanted to end up with AEW. Now that I’m here, I’m stoked.”

Cole also put over Shawn Michaels, calling him his idol and the greatest professional wrestler of all time, and Triple H, who ran NXT.

“To have the chance to work under him [Michaels] was really cool. Triple H as well treated me with nothing but respect and is someone I learned so much from, whether it be things that may seem small but are a big deal in the ring or a work ethic. I feel like the pro wrestler I am today is a lot better than Adam Cole was four years ago. A lot of that is because of my time in NXT,” he said.

In the interview, Cole also discussed how the relationship with Omega and the Bucks is similar to what he had with The Undisputed Era, saying the closeness is real and that’s why both The Undisputed Era and The Elite work.

“I’m excited to get back in there with those guys. I think it’s going to be the best work we’ve ever done,” Cole said.

Dynamite rating for 09/15/2021

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Colin Vassallo
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This week’s Dynamite on TNT drew 1,175,000 viewers, down 144,000 viewers from the post-All Out broadcast last week. The show did 0.44 in the 18-49 demo, topping the cable chart despite a 0.08 drop from last week. This was the fourth week in a row where Dynamite topped a million viewers and the third most-watched show for 2021 so far. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

Dark Side of the Ring season 3 continues tonight with The Plane Ride From Hell

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Colin Vassallo
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The second half of the third season of Dark Side of the Ring returns tonight starting at 9PM ET on VICE.

Tonight’s episode will focus on The Plane Ride From Hell, a well-known WWE trip from the United Kingdom back to the United States after a tour in May 2002. The infamous trip involved a number of fights and incidents onboard thanks to an excessive amount of alcohol which was consumed by those who were on the chartered flight.

The rest of the new episodes which will make up the remainder of season three are Chris Kanyon, FMW, Johnny K9, Luna Vachon, XPW, and The Steroid Trials.

Rampage next week to run for two hours

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Colin Vassallo
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Next week’s Rampage will run for two hours and will be taped following Dynamite at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York in front of over 18,000 fans. Despite the two-hour broadcast, Rampage will still start at 10PM ET on TNT.

Headlining the broadcast will be CM Punk, who will have his first match on regular television since 2014 against Powerhouse Hobbs of Team Taz. The promotion is beefing up the lineup for the show by also having The Young Bucks team up with Adam Cole to take on Christian Cage and Jurassic Express and a tag team match between Chris Jericho and Jake Hager vs Men of the Year.

Rampage has decreased in viewership over the past three weeks with last week’s show getting 670,000 viewers. The stacked card and the location will certainly put a hold on that decrease, at least for a week.

Politician Andrew Yang says fight against WWE over “corrupt labor practices” started

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Colin Vassallo
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Andrew Yang, the former U.S. presidential candidate who last year promised to look at WWE’s “corrupt labor practices” if Democrats win the election, resurrected the subject today in a tweet and urged current and former WWE Superstars to get in touch.

“Had a call with the Department of Labor. If you are a current or former @WWE performer who feels you were misclassified as an independent contractor contact @lkmiddleb and let’s get you what Vince owes you,” Yang wrote. “Been a long time coming but this storyline is real.”

The man who Yang urged wrestlers to contact is Lucas Middlebrook, a union labor attorney representing airline and professional sports related labor groups including professional fighters who works for Seham, Seham, Meltz & Petersen, LLP with offices in White Plains, New York.

Yang got irritated when WWE refused to let its Superstars engage with third party services such as Twitch and Cameo and warned WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon that he would go after him.

“If I’m not the Secretary of Labor I’m pretty confident I’ll have his or her number to talk about the ridiculous classification of WWE wrestlers as independent contractors while controlling their name and likeness for years, even for something as benign as Cameo,” Yang wrote in September 2020. “Vince you’d better hope your old friend Donald wins because change is in the air and changes are long overdue where your corrupt labor practices are concerned. It would give me great pleasure. The people know.”

Announcers confirmed for the Knockouts Knockdown Impact Plus event

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Colin Vassallo
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With the Knockouts Knockdown Impact Plus event close to start taping this weekend, the promotion has announced who will be calling the action at this all-female show.

Veda Scott, who also did commentary for the AEW Women’s Tag Team Cup tournament, will be the lead play-by-play for the show and will be helped by Mickie James as the color commentator. Impact’s Melissa Santos will be handling the in-ring announcing for the whole event.

Knockouts Knockdown will be recorded this coming weekend as part of Impact’s three-day television tapings at Skyway Studios starting tomorrow. Tickets are still available for the shows. It will then air on October 9 as a stand alone show exclusively on the Impact Plus streaming service.

The only women announced for the show so far are Impact Knockouts champion Deonna Purrazzo, Mercedes Martinez, Lady Frost, and Renee Michelle. A Monster’s Ball match will be held to honor Daffney, who recently passed away.

NXT rating for 09/14/2021

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Colin Vassallo
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This week’s episode of NXT, which served as the relaunch of the brand, drew 770,000 viewers, up 169,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast. This was the most-watched NXT since April 20. The show did 0.21 in the 18-49 demo, up 0.07 from last week, and placed #10 in the top 50 cable chart. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

Best way to watch live Cricket on Crictime free in HD

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Daniel Street
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Crictime is an online website that allows you to watch live cricket matches for free. Not only can you watch international cricket matches including Test, ODI and T20 matches, but also T20 League matches such as PSL, IPL, BPL, BBL, CPL, APL and Canada Premier League as well. Apart from it, Crictime is also providing live cricket streaming during T20 World Cup 2021, which is starting from 17th October 2021 in UAE and Oman.

Though, there are many websites online that offer live cricket matches to the cricket fans for free. But, no one can beat the standards of Crictime when it comes to offering live cricket matches. They have been offering Live Cricket matches since 2012.

After 9 years in the market, they have now become a giant in the business. More and More cricket fans rush to enjoy live cricket matches on Crictime every day. Crictime offers 1080p HD Quality Live Cricket streaming without any delay. This is why Crictime has become a popular site online to watch live cricket matches. They have gained the trust of cricket over this period and their popularity is at an all time high.

Best Way to watch live cricket

Though you can watch Live Cricket matches on the official streaming sites like Star Star, Sonyliv, Now TV, Sky Go, Willow TV, and Supers port live. But some of these official streaming sites do not offer free cricket streaming. Therefore, you have to subscribe to their monthly packages to watch live cricket matches. However, it costs a lot of your hard earned money.

This is why, Crictime is one of the best ways to watch live cricket matches. As the site does not charge a single penny for their service.

However, Crictime is not the official site to watch live cricket matches. Their site is filled with irritating ads that sometimes can bring harmful viruses to your PC and Mobile devices.

Therefore, we always recommend our users to only watch live cricket matches on the official cricket streaming sites.

Crictime Servers

Crictime has six dedicated servers to offer live cricket streaming services to the cricket fans. Hence, if one of these servers is not working due to the heavy load of traffic, you can always move to the other servers.

Crictime believes in providing live cricket streaming with HD quality and no delay. This is the reason they receive hundreds of thousands of cricket fans on their site that love to watch cricket matches.

Server 1 

ICC T20 World Cup 2021 is starting from 17th October in UAE and Oman. Cricket fans can watch live cricket matches on Crictime Server 1. This is the first option for watching live cricket matches on Crictime. However, if the server is not streaming, you can always move to Server 2 and Server 3.

Is it legal to watch live cricket on Crictime?

Due to the protected Broadcast and streaming rights for each cricket match, it is not a legal way to watch smartcric live cricket matches on Crictime. In fact, the site is banned in many countries due to violation of copy right content. However, still many cricket lovers use VPN software to access the website.

Actress Rosario Dawson gets physical on Dynamite as Cody returns

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Colin Vassallo
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Actress Rosario Dawson, who serves also as one of the judges with Cody Rhodes on TNT’s Go Big Show, got physical on Dynamite last night, attacking Malakai Black.

Dawson was ringside during the show and Black – who wrestles Cody next week on Dynamite – confronted her because she was sporting a Nightmare Family jacket. Cody, dressed in a red suit, came down through the crowd from the stands and while Black turned around to set his sights on Cody, Dawson jumped on Black and held on until Cody reached ringside.

The two then started brawling and went through the crowd again, exiting from the same place that Cody came out.

Rhodes was out due to filming of the TNT series. He last wrestled Black and lost, placing his boots in the middle of the ring hinting at leaving. A similar angle was done last year when Rhodes lost the TNT title to the late Brodie Lee to go and film Go Big Show and returned to recapture the title.

Dawson retweeted AEW’s clip of her involvement and wrote, “Go big or go home.”

You can check it out below.

Omega vs Danielson booked for Dynamite: Grand Slam next week

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Colin Vassallo
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AEW is giving away one of their biggest matches on free television next week at their Dynamite: Grand Slam episode as Bryan Danielson will be taking on Kenny Omega in a non-title match.

The match was set up yesterday during an in-ring segment where Danielson issued the challenge saying this match will be about who is better between the two and to give people what they want rather than for the title.

Fans at the Prudential Center quickly got on the “Yes!” chants while Don Callis repeatedly said no. After Danielson called Callis a “piece of shit,” Danielson got in Omega’s face and asked him if it will be a yes or a no. Omega, much to Callis’ raging, said yes.

Over 18,000 fans will be in attendance at the Arthur Ashe Stadium for AEW’s biggest event so far. Originally, this event was supposed to have been the debut of Bryan Danielson but it was pushed up due to the uncertainty over coronavirus restrictions in the city. The show will now serve as Danielson’s in-ring debut for the promotion.

Adam Cole makes in-ring debut on Dynamite tonight

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Colin Vassallo
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All Elite Wrestling will present Dynamite live from the sold out Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey tonight where over 12,000 fans will be in attendance.

Tonight’s episode will feature the in-ring debut of Adam Cole…Bay Bay…as he takes on Frankie Kazarian in his first AEW match. Three other matches announced for the broadcast include Jade Cargill vs Leyla Hirsch, Darby Allin vs Shawn Spears, and a tag team match between Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston vs 2point0.

Plus, Bryan Danielson will be addressing AEW champion Kenny Omega and CM Punk will be on commentary throughout the show.

Heels S1 E5 rating

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Colin Vassallo
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The fifth episode of Heels on STARZ, titled Swerve, pulled in 79,000 viewers, the same number that the show did for episode four. It had a 0.02 in 18-49 demo. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

Pete Dunne agrees to new, three-year WWE deal

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Colin Vassallo
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Fightful Wrestling’s Sean Ross Sapp is reporting that former WWE UK champion Pete Dunne has decided to stay with WWE and agreed to a new, three-year deal with the promotion.

Dunne reportedly received the contract offer personally from Triple H, who did not want to lose another top star following the departure of Adam Cole to All Elite Wrestling.

Dunne has been with WWE since 2016 and was one of the original stars as part of the WWE UK launch. He officially joined NXT in 2017 and has been a staple ever since. Dunne is a former NXT Tag Team title holder and a WWE UK champion, holding that title for a whopping 685 days.

Six new debuts in NXT, including two in high profile positions

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Colin Vassallo
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Bronson Rechsteiner, the son of former WWE and WCW Tag Team champion Rick Steiner, made his debut on NXT last night, but did not use the name Rex Steiner.

The 23-year-old opened NXT with a match against LA Knight using the name Bron Breakker and defeated the former Million Dollar champion after he lifted him up for a press slam and dropped him in a powerslam. He then had a stare down with new NXT champion Tommaso Ciampa to end the show.

Rechsteiner was signed to WWE in February of this year and has been training at the WWE Performance Center ever since. He is a former football player for Kennesaw State University and had a short stint with the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent last year.

The launch of NXT 2.0 not only saw the debut of Bron Breakker, but also that of Von Wagner in a high profile match.

Wagner, real name Cal Bloom, is the son of former WWE Superstar Wayne Bloom, who was one half of the Beverly Brothers.

Bloom, who is 6’5″, was signed to WWE in March 2019 and wrestled in a couple of non-televised NXT live events that year. He is also a former college football player and played for the University of Central Florida.

This episode of NXT also saw four more debuts: Brooks Jensen, the son of former WWE Superstar Bull Buchanan; Trick Williams, who trained with CZW; Tony D’Angelo, a former amateur wrestler whose real name is Joe Ariola; and Ivy Nile, former contestant of NBC’s Titan Games, who is now part of Diamond Mine.

Tommaso Ciampa wins the NXT title

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Colin Vassallo
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Tommaso Ciampa has reclaimed the NXT title on last night’s premiere episode of NXT 2.0 on USA Network, days after Samoa Joe surrendered the title due to an undisclosed injury.

Ciampa won a fatal four-way match against Pete Dunne, LA Knight, and Von Wagner, who replaced Kyle O’Reilly who was attacked backstage by Dunne and Ridge Holland. Ciampa pinned LA Knight – who earlier had lost to Bron Breakker – after delivering the Fairy Tale Ending for the win, reclaiming Goldie.

This is Ciampa’s second run with the NXT title, having previously held it in July 2018. He surrendered the title in March of the following year due to his neck injury.

Raw rating for 09/13/2021

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Colin Vassallo
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Monday Night Raw felt the wrath of Monday Night Football as there was no match to the football game with Raw falling to an average of 1,670,000 viewers, down 237,000 viewers from last week’s show. This was the least-watched Raw since July 5.

Raw opened with 1,672,000 viewers, then dropped to 1,634,000 viewers in the second hour, before recovering in the third hour with 1,703,000 viewers with the Big E win. In comparison, the NFL kickoff show on drew 8.4 million viewers while the actual game drew 6.9 million viewers on ABC and an additional 7.5 million viewers on ESPN. The same game was broadcast on both ESPN and ABC.

Raw had a 0.40, 0.42, and 0.45 in the 18-49 ratings for an average of 0.42, down from 0.54 of last week. Raw placed #6, #7m, and #8 on the cable chart for the night behind football-related shows. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)

Fans and peers congratulate Big E on WWE title win

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Colin Vassallo
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Big E always asks his fans not to dare to be sour and Twitterverse was not sour at all as fans – and peers – seem to have approved Big E finally winning the WWE title.

The outpouring support that Big E got on social media, especially from his co-workers and those who know him, really showcases what kind of man Ettore Ewen really is.

“I’m on cloud 9 right now! Words cannot describe how incredibly proud of my brother,” wrote Kofi Kingston, who went through something similar in 2019. “So well deserved! The BIGGEST congratulations to Big E. Hard work pays off!”

His other partner in The New Day, Xavier Woods, added, “Big E winning the title is really good for pro wrestling. He’s a genuine person who loves what he does and wants nothing but the best for everyone around him. Top tier human and I’m proud to call him my brother.”

Roman Reigns, who is the Universal champion and also a target of the MITB cash in, retweeted the news of the new champion crowned and simply said, “Smart decision,” although that probably is for Big E cashing in on Lashley rather than himself!

“This. is. awesome,” wrote Raw Women’s champion Charlotte Flair while Smackdown Women’s champion Becky Lynch wrote, “The best. Congratulation Big E. My Ma also says congrats!”

“When WWE gets it right…they really get it right,” wrote WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray. “ps…Its a long way to the top if ya wanna Rock-n-Roll…Congrats Big E.”

Support also came from those in AEW, with both Jade Cargill and and Evil Uno of The Dark Order both congratulating the new WWE champion.

AEW returning to Chicago on Thanksgiving Eve

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Colin Vassallo
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AEW will be back in Chicago for Dynamite and Rampage episodes on Thanksgiving Eve on November 24, just two-and-a-half months after running four highly-successful shows in the area, including the All Out pay-per-view.

This time, the tapings will be held at the Wintrust Arena, a 10,000-seater arena located on E Cermak Rd. The Wintrust Arena played host to the Revolution pay-per-view in February 2020 and AEW sold out the place in less than an hour.

Tickets will go on sale this Friday, September 17 at 11AM ET at Ticketmaster.com. Prices start from $29 plus fees.

NXT 2.0 kicks off tonight on USA with new NXT champion to be crowned

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Colin Vassallo
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The revamped NXT, or NXT 2.0 as it is being referred to, will start with a bang on USA Network as the fatal four-way match originally announced as a number one contender’s match has now changed into an NXT title match where the winner will become the new NXT champion.

With Samoa Joe out injured and surrendering the title on Sunday, Tommaso Ciampa, Pete Dunne, LA Knight and Kyle O’Reilly will now face each other for higher stakes tonight. Only Ciampa is a former NXT champion while Dunne was the WWE UK champion.

The live broadcast will also feature the wedding of Dexter Lumis and Indi Hartwell in what will be the first wedding segment on NXT television. Wrestling weddings never go according to plan and this one has the possibility of a train wreck as well!

The Capitol Wrestling Center inside the WWE Performance Center was given a complete overhaul as NXT begins a new era – a brighter, more colorful era – in hopes of attracting young viewers.

Impact announces Knockouts Knockdown all-women event for October 9

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Colin Vassallo
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Following the success of the NWA Empower women’s only pay-per-view, Impact Wrestling announced a new Impact Plus exclusive event titled Knockouts Knockdown which will air on October 9.

The announcement was made yesterday by Gail Kim and Christy Hemme on the Impact Wrestling social media channels.

Kim also announced that a Monster’s Ball match will be taking place during the show in honor of former Impact star Daffney, who passed away at the beginning of this month. Daffney – along with Taylor Wilde – were the first two females to participate in that gimmick match several years ago.

Deonna Purrazzo, Renee Michelle, Lady Frost, and Mercedes Martinez are the first individuals announced for this event.

Knockouts Knockdown will be taped as part of the three-day filming sessions this coming weekend at the Skyway Studios. Tickets are still available at ImpactWrestling.com.

“There is so much planned, so much excitement for Knockouts Knockdown – I know the fans will be excited to watch it live this weekend, starting Friday afternoon, at The IMPACT Zone in Nashville,” Kim said. “Doing something to honor Daffney’s memory is something that everyone involved with the event and others are thrilled to be able to do.”

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