Tonight’s episode of Dynamite on TNT will be titled Tag Team Appreciation Night.
Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard, who wrestled as The Brain Busters in WWE and were part of the Four Horsemen for a long time, will be on the show together along with the Rock ‘N’ Roll Express. All four will be sharing the ring at the same time during the broadcast.
Two tag team matches are already set for the show, including The Dark Order vs The Young Bucks and Adam Page and Kenny Omega vs Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy for the AEW World Tag Team titles.
The AEW Tag Team Appreciation Night will be hosted by FTR.
Monday Night Raw drew an average of 1,722,000 viewers, up 8,000 viewers from last week’s broadcast.
Hour one drew 1,811,000 viewers, followed by 1,754,000 viewers in the second hour, and 1,601,000 viewers in the third and final hour.
Raw was #4, #6, and #7 in the top 50 cable chart among the 18-49 demographic with 0.50, 0.46, and 0.46 in ratings and was #24 in overall viewership for the night on cable. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
The Raw Underground concept has gotten the attention of a former WWE and UFC legend…Ken Shamrock!
Shamrock, who now wrestles for Impact Wrestling, sent a tweet addressed to WWE and Shane McMahon. “Next time you guys want to do some worked shoots on #RawUnderground and actually make them look good, you got my number, give me a call,” Shamrock wrote.
The former Intercontinental champion has not been seen on WWE television in 21 years and last appeared for the company in late 1999.
Since departing WWE, Shamrock wrestled on the indie circuit as well as TNA and NJPW. Last August he returned to Impact Wrestling for the first time since 2004.
Shamrock holds a 28-17-2 record in mixed martial arts and was part of the first ever UFC event in November 1993.
NXT star Shotzi Blackheart was the victim of car theft as someone stole her car at around 5AM.
Blackheart wrote on Twitter that her white Honda Civic car with license plate LYTP77 was stolen from in front of her apartment in Orlando. The car was last seen driving down S Chickasaw Trail.
The 28-year-old said that her gear bag – with all her wrestling gear, boots, entrance jacket, and helmet – was in the trunk. “If you are wondering why I’m wrestling in street clothes and don’t have my helmet, that is why,” Blackheart wrote.
She added that she’s mostly sad about her helmet, explains how seven years ago on her first day of training she saw it hung up on the wall next to the ring. “I looked at it everyday I went to training. Finally when it was time for me to start having matches I asked my trainers if I could have it. RIP HELMET.”
In London alone, there are over 400,000 students. Because University life can be expensive, many students would wish to search for part-time jobs that fit within socializing and studying. Fortunately, as the capital city, London has plenty of gigs for students to engage without jeopardizing their studies.
Waitressing
London has many hospitality jobs for grab, such as eateries, pubs, and exotic cuisine. To quickly land hospitality opportunities, visit indeed and Gumtree. Also, strolling around your locality of residence with updated CV on hand is an excellent idea since they pin such jobs on pub and restaurant windows.
Mystery shopper
According to Writerformypaper.com, with this job, you can earn extra out of pocket money as a student. It entails shopping on behalf of a client, later on, you paid back for the purchase with some extra 5 to 10 pounds.
Babysitting jobs
It is among the best way to earn some easy cash. To land this job opportunity, asks family and friends because people use people they trust. Indeed and Gumtree do also has a listing of babysitting jobs.
Delivery jobs
These types of jobs are many with companies such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo. You get paid to deliver and get to select your shifts. Requirements are scooter or bicycle, smartphone, and the permit to do work in the UK.
Tutoring jobs
Those who love teaching, and did master their University units well, then tutoring is a great way to make quick money. Platforms like MyTutor allow you to work from the comfort of your room. The pay starts from as low as 20 pounds.
Promoter jobs
Promoter jobs are in plenty; look for local parties or nightclubs. If you have a salesperson attitude, then this job is a perfect match for you.
Retail jobs
It is a type of job familiar to students, especially over Christmas, when shops need extra workers to handle enormous demand. These jobs are part-time, and often attract pay of between 7.50 to 10.50 pounds per hour. You can search them on Totaljobs and Indeed and retail shops windows.
Receptionist
If you can act professionally and you are an excellent communicator, then the receptionist is an opportunity for you to develop experience and administrative skills. These jobs are available at large offices, gyms, dentists, and doctor’s surgeries.
Care assistant or carer
This job is a preserve for the big-hearted and willing to help. There is a demand for people to stay with the elderly and or physically challenged people.
Stewarding
Concert venues, theatres, and football stadiums require stewards to control crowds and give people directions to a seat. London is home to such places. Search for these opportunities using local bulletins.
Temping
Agencies like Attic Recruitment and Office Angels offer temping opportunities for those who need to earn cash, gain office experience, and work flexibly. Temping jobs include project support, data entry, editorial, project and office administration, and receptionist.
Event agency staff
From weddings to corporate work and sporting events, there is much work in the capital city. Such activities require a considerable group of people to assist with stewardship, setting up, cleaning, bar work, and waitressing.
Tour staff
London welcomes over 20 million global visitors per annum, so guide roles are prevalent. To be successful in this role, you must be friendly, confident, and willing to learn to expand knowledge in an area.
Fruit picking
The majority of farms in the UK need people to pick fruits during summer and spring. Since the job is strenuous, you need to be healthy and fit.
Two title matches were added to the SummerSlam card yesterday, bringing the total number of matches to six so far.
The Universal title will be on the line as Braun Strowman will take on The Fiend. Strowman defeated Bray Wyatt at Money In The Bank, then lost to Wyatt at Extreme Rules in the Wyatt swamp fight which was a non-title match. This is the first time that Strowman will be facing Wyatt in his Fiend character.
Also, Asuka defeated Bayley last night to earn her shot at Sasha Banks’ Raw Women’s title. Banks won the title from Asuka on Raw a few weeks ago via countout after Bayley attacked Kairi Sane backstage and Asuka preferred to go help her friend instead of defending the title.
Randy Orton made a massive statement on Raw last night and turned on two-time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair.
After Orton successfully defeated Kevin Owens in the main event of Raw, Orton ran down Flair first but then said that he’s still competing because he learned a lot from the Nature Boy.
Orton recounted a story of how he got in trouble in Illinois once when he was 22 years old and Ric was the only person who helped him out.
But despite all this, Orton told Flair that he does not respect him anymore and doesn’t love him anymore, calling him a liability. He mentioned how he is the son Flair wished he wanted and called him a “junkie” who is past his time.
Responding to Orton, Flair said that he admits he likes being in the spotlight and at 71 years of age, he still gets to appear on Raw and old friends like Hulk Hogan call him to see what it feels like to still have that spotlight on him after all these years.
Flair said he wanted to be by Orton’s side when he brakes his record of 16 title wins and called Orton the best performer in professional wrestling.
Orton then took the mic away from Flair and hugged him but then gave the HOFer a low blow. After he delivered the low blow, Orton held Flair and eased him on the mat. Orton then set up Flair for the punt but the kick to the head was never shown as the lights went out, presumably to really be careful with Flair. The lights came back up to show Flair completely knocked out from the punt.
Former WWE Women’s champion Mickie James made her return on Monday Night Raw last night after more than a year on the sidelines.
James was interviewed by Sarah Schreiber and told her that she has returned to be the leader of the locker room but is also thinking about the gold.
Her interview was interrupted by Lana and Natalya, who made fun of James for not even having a TikTok. What? James told Natalya that she’s been riding her family’s coattails for a long time.
Mickie has been out of action since June of last year when she tore her ACL during a live event. She underwent successful surgery a month later and during her time out, she did commentary for Main Event.
Rachael Ellering, the former NXT star who wrestled under the name Rachel Evers, will be part of the AEW Deadly Draw tournament which continues tonight at 7PM ET on YouTube.
Ellering was one of the many who was released in April and May due to COVID-19 cost-cutting measures. She had signed with WWE in January of last year but in July she suffered a torn ACL during an NXT live event which kept her out for several months. She participated in both Mae Young Classic tournaments while in WWE.
Rachael, who is the daughter of WWE Hall of Famer Paul Ellering, will be teaming up with Dasha Kuret, the backstage interviewer who also was in WWE under the name of Dasha Fuentes. Madusa broke the news to Kuret when she told her its time to pick a color in a backstage segment. This will be Dasha’s first time wrestling for AEW.
As it’s customary when someone associated with professional wrestling passes away, the wrestling world reacts on social media, and it was no different when Kamala passed away yesterday.
WWE, Impact Wrestling, and All Elite Wrestling all put out their own graphic announcing the death of the 70-year-old.
“Very sadden by the passing of Big Jim ‘Kamala’, like everyone else I would always ask if it was ok to take the leg drop for the finish as requested by the office,” Hulk Hogan wrote. “Jim would always say ‘let’s just keep making that money’, he was such a kind soul, RIP big brother.”
Several of Kamala’s former colleagues also wrote on Twitter remembering him. “A character that you created and a nice, nice man. Athletic Big Man,” wrote Jim Ross, now the lead voice for All Elite Wrestling. Fellow AEW personality Taz wrote that he had the pleasure of meeting Kamala a couple of times and was always a “tremendously nice man.”
WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart said he was heartbroken to hear about the passing of Kamala. He said he met Kamala in 1981 in London and then caught up with him three years later in WWE. “Unlike his heel character, he was one of the friendliest, nicest, happy-go-lucky guys I ever knew in pro wrestling,” Bret wrote, adding that he had the pleasure of working with him in 1992 when he was WWE champion. “He always had a big smile despite all his challenges, including the loss of both legs. Always a kind and happy gentle soul. I’ll miss him for always being so good to me. R.I.P. Big Jim Harris.”
NXT General Manager William Regal also mentioned how he first saw Kamala on TV when he was a kid in the UK and at live shows as The Missisippi Mauler. He described him as a lovely man.
The Iron Sheik, in a typical all caps tweet, wrote, “GOD BLESS THE KAMALA HE ALWAYS PUT ON A SHOW FOR THE FANS GOOD BIG MAN WHO WORKED THE GIMMICK BETTER THEN MOST IT BREAK MY HEART.”
Missy Hyatt wrote that before she was involved in professional wrestling herself, she used to keep his pin up in her bartending locker in the early 80s. “One of the best old school gimmicks,” Hyatt added.
Another WWE Hall of Famer, Goldberg, also took note of Kamala’s passing. He said that Kamala was the first wrestler he had the pleasure of seeing live. “I was a believer,” Goldberg wrote, adding that he was saddened when he heard the news.
Chris Jericho drew the wrath of wrestling fans after several people posted photos of the former AEW champion in a concert with Fozzy this past weekend.
One particular photo showed Jericho and his band performing in Sturgis, South Dakota, with tons of people not wearing masks and obviously not obeying any social distancing rules. The 2020 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is expected to draw over 200,000 fans during the week.
Jericho said that the building that they performed in was at 35% capacity and said that masks were given at the door and temperatures were checked before every single person went in. As history shows, temperature checks does not really tell you if you have coronavirus or not and WWE suffered an outbreak when they did that kind of testing months ago.
AEW does COVID-19 testing prior to every show so Jericho is somewhat playing with fire as his match against Orange Cassidy on Wednesday will be live and the focus of the show.
James Harris, better known to wrestling fans as Kamala, passed away yesterday at the age of 70.
Harris, who suffered from multiple health issues, tested positive for COVID-19 last week according to his wife. ESPN reporter Jason King wrote that Harris was feeling fine in the morning but then went into cardiac arrest and never recovered from it.
Harris made his wrestling career in 1978 and remained active until 2010. During his time in the ring, he wrestled for a ton of promotions including the WWF, WCW, Mid-South Wrestling, WCCW, USWA, and many others.
Perhaps his most popular time was in the WWF where he made his debut at Kamala, and was managed by Freddie Blassie, The Wizard, Harvey Wippleman, and Kim Chee.
Harris had a string of health-related problems and in November 2011, he had his left leg amputated below the knee due to high blood pressure and diabetes. A few months later, his right leg was amputated as well. In late 2017, Harris also underwent emergency surgery to clear fluid from around his heart and lungs and was on life support for a few days due to complications.
Zelina Vega and Bianca Belair took their feud to another level when Belair showed up at Vega’s house and attacked her while she was doing a live stream on Twitch!
Vega was talking with fellow WWE personality Kayla Braxton, chatting about games when all of a sudden you hear someone knocking on her door. Vega instructs her cousin to go open the door and then, while off camera, Belair said “Hey Thea,” referring to Vega with her real name.
“What the hell are you doing in my house?” she replies. And Belair immediately shows her what she’s doing at her house as she tackles her, knocking the camera off as Braxton looks on in disbelief.
“Thea? Thea? Hello? Thea?” Braxton says as the connection eventually drops.
Vega and Belair are currently part of a feud which involves The Street Profits and Andrade and Garza.
Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com is reporting that starting from August 21, which would be the Smackdown before SummerSlam, WWE will resume live broadcasts for Raw, Smackdown, and NXT.
In late April, WWE announced that all programming would be filmed in advance at the Performance Center. In early July, WWE extended that policy to run through SummerSlam.
The original taping schedule called for the August 21 episode of Smackdown to be taped on August 17 along with an episode of Monday Night Raw that was supposed to air later in the night.
WWE has saved millions in production and travel expenses by filming two weeks worth of shows in a span of three days every fortnight.
Brandi Rhodes, the AEW Chief Brand Officer, has disabled her Twitter account following several criticism from fans regarding the launch of AEW Heels, a membership platform designed for female wrestling fans.
Fans tore into Brandi, who is heading the project, for the $50 a year membership fee when the women’s division in the company continues to lack and the latest Deadly Draw women’s tournament was placed on YouTube rather than having matches every week on Dynamite.
Brandi’s husband and AEW EVP Cody said that this is a fun project and the company is completely behind it. “Doing something and making moves to push the division further as we grow is paramount, and will always be better than not trying at all,” Cody wrote replying to a fan on Twitter who asked why would he pay $50 a year when they barely feature women.
Friday Night Smackdown on FOX did 1,956,000 viewers yesterday, an increase of 64,000 viewers over last week’s broadcast. This was the most-watched episode since the June 26 broadcast. Smackdown had 1,924,000 viewers in the first hour and 1,988,000 in the second hour. It did a 0.5 in the 18-49 demographic, beating all programming on network TV and also topped the 25-54 demo while tied first in the 18-34. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
MVP, who since returning at the Royal Rumble has become one of the MVPs – pun intended – on the roster, has signed a multi-year deal with the company.
In a post on social media, MVP said that he’s drinking “the good stuff” after he came to terms with WWE on a new contract. “MVP is in #thehurtbusiness for the foreseeable future! NOW… it’s official,” he wrote.
MVP was one of the surprise entrants at the Royal Rumble and was only supposed to make a few appearances before transitioning to a backstage role as a producer. He eventually got moved to in front of cameras again and is now the leader of The Hurt Business with Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin…and who knows, with more to come.
This is the 46-year-old’s second stint with WWE, having previously worked for the promotion between 2005 and 2010.
Bayley’s next opponent for SummerSlam will be determined next week on Smackdown with a battle royal involving females from Raw, Smackdown, and even NXT.
The announcement of the match was made last night by WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, who joined the broadcast via video. McMahon said she’s not sure about the two of them being role models but they did get her attention that’s for sure.
Bayley and Banks tried to suck up to Stephanie, telling her that they are trying to follow her footsteps and how they’re fans of her and her husband and watch them every day on the WWE Network…for $9.99. Banks said the things they’re doing is what’s best for business, something that both Triple H and Steph used a lot in the past.
Stephanie said she’s not there to lecture or punish them but she’s there to challenge Bayley. She said Bayley has been making enemies for the past several months across all the WWE brands and one of them will be able to get payback at SummerSlam.
The Smackdown Women’s champion has crossed the 300-day mark as champion and also holds the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles along with her friend and Raw Women’s champion Sasha Banks.
RETRIBUTION, the faction who made its debut on Raw earlier this week, wrecked havoc on Smackdown, destroying everything at the end of the broadcast.
The masked group came out and tried to attack Michael Cole and Corey Graves and then scared the cameramen away. They moved where the stand-in fans stay behind the plexiglass and attacked several of them with baseball bats before heading back in the ring, cutting the ropes with a chainsaw, spray painting the ring and plexiglass. Two of the men then flipped over the broadcast table as they continued to destroy ringside.
The identities of the members of the group remain unknown but there is at least one female individual part of it. A lot of profanity was used during the attack but everything was bleeped out.
While the attack looked similar to what Nexus did a decade ago, RETRIBUTION had no Smackdown stars to beat up on as they decided to attack when the broadcast was seemingly over.
Kevin Reilly, the man who green-lit All Elite Wrestling while serving as President of TNT and TBS, has been removed from his position at WarnerMedia.
Reilly joined Bob Greenblatt, the Chairman of WarnerMedia who oversaw HBO, Cinemax, TBS, TNT, and TruTV, out of the door in a major shakeup in the organization that has sent shock waves in the industry.
How this affects All Elite Wrestling moving forward remains to be seen although it’s unlikely to change things for now as AEW is doing pretty damn good for TNT. The promotion was supposed to get a third hour on television for a second show and Cody said that internal confirmation was expected within a month.
Losing a key ally like Reilly is a big blow for AEW President Tony Khan, considering that the birth of All Elite Wrestling came during a conversation the two had a couple of years ago.
