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NXT Wrestler Missing Time Due To Knee Injury

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Another reason. One of the bigger stories of the week has been the Coronavirus outbreak in NXT which has seemingly left a lot of wrestlers out of action. That is the kind of thing you can only plan for to a certain extent and it has been causing problems for NXT. What matters most is keeping the wrestlers healthy, but another wrestler is missing some time for another reason. This week’s NXT featured a rather interesting match with Danny Burch/Roderick Strong teaming up to face Fabian Aichner/Raul Mendoza. The four of them are all parts of different tag teams and the winners’ teams would later face off for the #1 contendership to the Tag Team Titles. It would seem that the regular partners’ absences may have been due to the Coronavirus but that is not the case at least for one name. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Bobby Fish, Strong’s regular partner in the Undisputed Era, missed the show because of a knee injury suffered when training Brazilian ju-jitsu and kickboxing..

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Interesting New Poll Explores Why Wrestling Fans Quit Watching

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That explains things. The Wednesday Night Wars have been an interesting study to follow as NXT and AEW Dynamite have been going head to head once a week. Fans have been curious to see which show draws the higher audience and ratings. That was the case during the original Monday Night Wars from 1995 until 2001, when Monday Night Raw defeated Monday Nitro. That was a long time ago, and things have changed a good bit. Now we may know why. There is no secret to the fact that the television audience for wrestling has gone consistently down over the years. The Monday Night Wars saw millions of fans watching the shows at once, while now it is rare to see anything other than Monday Night Raw or SmackDown regularly draw over a million fans. There is something to be learned there, and someone has tried to find out why. YouGov has released a poll, courtesy of the Variety Intelligence Platform, which looked at why wrestling fans have stopped watching. The poll was conducted with 471 people over ..

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Florida Governor Changes Coronavirus Policy, How Wrestling Could Be Affected

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The more things change. The biggest story in the world over the course of the summer has been the Coronavirus, which has certainly been the case in the wrestling industry. Wrestling companies can have events without fans, but there are only so many ways that such a thing can be done. At some point you need to have fans in the arena to add the extra energy as well as money. That might be the case in the near future. Over the last few months, both AEW and WWE have been running their events exclusively in Florida. WWE has been in Orlando at either the Performance Center or the Amway Center while AEW has been in Jacksonville at Daily’s Place. Only AEW has been able to bring in some fans, with about 15% capacity for their events. Those numbers might be about to expand in a big way. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered that all restrictions on businesses be removed as Florida enters Phase Three of its recovery efforts. This means that crowds could be ..

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What Caused The NXT Coronavirus Outbreak

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Oh that won’t go over well. The Coronavirus has changed the way the wrestling world (and everything else) works in a major way. You can only do so many things like back in the normal days whether you are a fan or a wrestler, which has certainly been the case in WWE. NXT has suffered from multiple Coronavirus outbreaks and we know what caused the most recent. NXT is a unique place in wrestling as it is a mixture of the WWE’s official developmental territory as well as being its own wrestling show. Not many promotions have had that double responsibility, but now things have become more complicated thanks to the various Coronavirus outbreaks. NXT is currently going through another and there may be a place to start. According to PWInsider.com, the recent NXT Coronavirus outbreak was believed to have been started at a party thrown by an NXT wrestler. The party was attended by someone who was asymptomatic and the virus spread as a result. There are few further details on the situation, inc..

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Furloughed WWE Employee Back At Work At SmackDown

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Welcome back. There have been all kinds of stories around the wrestling world this year and very few of them have been positive. WWE has been through a lot of trouble of their own and some of it has been brought on themselves. One of the biggest stories that made WWE look a little less flattering was the company releasing dozens of talents within a few days. They also released some backstage workers, but at least one of them is now back. A backstage producer is one of the most important parts of any wrestling shows. They are in charge of making a match play out as planned by talking to the wrestlers and figuring out what they need to do. A good producer can make things a lot better and someone who has figured out the right kind of style for various wrestlers is incredibly valuable. Now one of the recently released WWE producers is back at work. According to PWInsider.com, WWE backstage producer Billy Kidman returned to work for WWE at this week’s SmackDown taping. There is no word on..

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REVIEW: Clash Of The Champion #22: Clash Gets All Thundercagey

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Clash of the Champions XXII Date: January 13, 1993 Location: The Mecca, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Attendance: 4,000 Commentators: Jim Ross, Jesse Ventura The main event tonight sees Sting/Ron Simmons/Dustin Rhodes/Van Hammer vs. Vader/Barbarian/Barry Windham/Paul Orndorff (substitute for an injured Rick Rude) inside the Thunder Cage. We’re nearing the end of an era here in WCW as Bill Watts’ job is already on the brink and would be ended soon thereafter. In other words, most of the matches tonight don’t mean much, especially with a few changes coming soon. Let’s get to it. Bill Watts welcomes us to the show and talks about his history wrestling in Milwaukee. Also Van Hammer is injured and out of the main event tonight. There will be a replacement in his arm wrestling match later. No mention of the main event. Also, Erik Watts has been arrested (kayfabe) and is out of his match tonight. It’s another new set with the entrance being under a metal frame like last time, but no long curtain be..

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NXT’s Tegan Nox May Have Torn Her ACL

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Please not again. There are a lot of wrestlers who have all the potential in the world but for some reason they can’t stay healthy. It can be one of the most frustrating things in the world for a wrestler and to a lesser extent the fans, but it happens to a lot of wrestlers in any generation. Unfortunately, it may have happened again and that’s a horrible thing to see. It’s easy to see why WWE would want to push Tegan Nox to the moon. She is young, talented, has an international background and comes off like a star every time she is in on camera. Nox has gotten a heck of a push in NXT and seemed ready to have a major showdown with Candice LeRae. However, Nox also has a horrible history of knee injuries and the list might be growing. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Nox has possibly suffered another knee injury, which may be another torn ACL. Nox was scheduled to take part in a battle royal on this week’s NXT to crown a new #1 contender. However, a video aired showing L..

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Good News On Missing WWE Tag Team’s Future

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That’s a little better. Tag teams have been a part of wrestling for a long time now and that will be the case for the foreseeable future. However, some promotions present them in a better way than others and WWE does not have the best history with them. The company rather enjoys splitting teams up, and that seems to be the case again, albeit for a rather different reason. Earlier this year, the Forgotten Sons were called up to SmackDown and immediately made an impact. The team got involved with the New Day soon after they debuted and seemed ready to be moved on to something bigger in a hurry. However, that did not wind up happening though as Jaxson Ryker made some controversial statements, resulting in the team being pulled from television. The other members, Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake, have been away as well, but that might be changing soon. According to Fightful.com, WWE has added Cutler and Blake back to their internal roster while Ryker has been left off. This would mean that ..

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Vince McMahon’s Secret Rule Caused Monday Night Raw Ending

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Ok then. The biggest story of the week in WWE was Retribution coming up to the next level on Monday Night Raw. The team not only unmasked, but were also announced as having signed contracts with WWE. This meant that they were suddenly allowed to wrestle on the show, which took place in Monday’s main event. However, it ended in a weird way and now we know why. This week’s Monday Night Raw main event featured Retribution vs. the Hurt Business in a six man tag. The match ended with Retribution being disqualified when T-Bar attacked Bobby Lashley from the apron. As soon as the match was over, the reset of the masked members of Retribution came in and attacked the Hurt Business to end the show. It was a strange ending to the match and there was a reason for that. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the match was ended due to an unwritten rule of Vince McMahon’s. The rule states that a tag match automatically ends in a disqualification if an illegal wrestler attacks a legal wre..

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Coronavirus Postpones Another Important NXT UK Event

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The hits keep on coming. The Coronavirus has changed the way the wrestling world has worked and that is not just in the United States. Other promotions around the world have been messed up as well, including WWE’s NXT UK. The promotion has only started running TV shows again in recent weeks and now they are already taking another hit in a much bigger way. Much like their American counterpart, NXT UK has been built up around Takeover specials. The shows feature the major matches the promotion has to offer, including various titles being on the line. That is the kind of thing that can make things feel all the more special and NXT UK has done rather well with them so far. However, that might not be the case for a good while. According to PWInsider.com, the upcoming Takeover: Dublin has been postponed from October 25 until June 20, 2021. This is the second postponement of the show, which was originally scheduled for April 26, 2020 but had to be postponed due to the Coronavirus. There is ..

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SmackDown Live Coverage And Results – September 25, 2020

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Smackdown Date: September 25, 2020 Location: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida Commentators: Corey Graves, Michael Cole It’s the go home show for Clash Of Champions though the Smackdown side of things might not interest you the most. The blue main event for Sunday’s show will feature Roman Reigns defending against Jey Uso, which kind of slows down the interest that the show is going to have. Maybe the last show before Sunday can help things out. Let’s get to it. In Memory of Road Warrior Animal. Here are AJ Styles, Sami Zayn and Jeff Hardy for a Championship Ascension ceremony to set up the ladder match. Corey Graves, the emcee, explains the match and says there is no champion’s advantage. AJ says Jeff must think the title feels heavy because it’s the last time he’ll be holding it. As for Sami, why are you here? He took six months off to grow a neck beard and still thinks he’s champion. Sami accuses AJ of being stupid for winning a tournament and calls Jeff’s title a shampionship. Jef..

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NXT UK Results – September 24, 2020

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NXT UK Date: September 24, 2020 Location: BT Studios, London, England Commentators: Andy Shepherd, Nigel McGuinness We’re back to the second week of the restart and it’s time to fight over a title. In this case that would be the NXT UK Women’s Title as Kay Lee Ray defends against Piper Niven in a match several months in the making. Other than that, we get the brackets for the Heritage Cup. Let’s get to it. Opening recap/preview. Opening sequence. Earlier today, the Heritage Cup participants almost came to blows in the back. Andy runs down the card. Walter vs. Saxon Huxley Non-title. Huxley charges at him but has to fight out of an early sleeper. Some shots in the corner just annoy Walter so he sends Huxley outside early on. Huxley comes back in with right hands and a big boot, plus a powerslam. The top rope clothesline gives Huxley two as commentary is stunned at the offense. They head outside with Huxley hitting a Thesz press but making sure to break up the count. Walter gets s..

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Cody vs. Brodie Lee: Old School Feuding Done Right In AEW

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Cody returned to AEW on the September 23 edition of Dynamite. The company founder and former TNT champion had been out of the picture since August 13, when he was destroyed by Mr. Brodie Lee. In one night, Cody lost his championship and his dignity. He was squashed and left for dead, causing many fans to wonder what was next for The American Nightmare. Cody’s return was imminent and his mission is now clear. Cody wants to destroy The Dark Order. That mission was highly achievable just one year ago. The Dark Order was Evil Uno and Stu Grayson, two guys who were less than relevant. They were at the forefront of a faction that was a punchline at best and no matter how often AEW spotlighted them, most fans weren’t buying it. But this is not the same Dark Order. The organization has increased from two members to nine. Their influence is far-reaching and is felt throughout the entire company. Uno and Grayson have never looked better as a team and their recruitment efforts regarding the A..

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Two AEW Names Missing Time Due To Coronavirus

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It’s hitting everywhere. The Coronavirus has spread throughout the world and there is no indication that it will be slowing down in the upcoming months. That is the kind of thing that can change the way the wrestling industry works at the drop of a hat and that is what has happened recently. There have been outbreaks in both major companies and it seems that two more names are going to be gone for a bit. One of the best things that you can see on a wrestling show is someone making their debut with a highly successful performance. Someone can catch your eye in a hurry and it seems that they sky is the limit from the second they arrive. That was the case with two recently debuting AEW names, one of which has been signed to the company. However, it might be awhile before you get to see them again. Both Ben Carter and Serena Deeb will be missing time due to the Coronavirus. Carter sent out a tweet saying that he had been diagnosed with the virus. Deeb has announced, via the NWA, that she..

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Mystery Retribution Member Reveals Identity

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There it is. One of the biggest WWE stories of the week has been the reveal of Retribution. The team had been terrorizing Monday Night Raw for weeks now but were suddenly announced as being official parts of the show. That did not exactly go well and then it got even worse when the team members were named. One of them was not the easiest to identify but he has since rectified that problem. One of the biggest criticisms of the Retribution reveal was the team’s masks. The masks did not exactly hide the team’s identities and that made it a little strange to have the announcers seemingly not know who the wrestlers were. All of them have been part of NXT, which is not only part of WWE but also advertised on Monday Night Raw, but they are suddenly in half masks and wrestling under different names. The only member with a full mask has made his own identity known. NXT wrestler Shane Throne has changed his Twitter handle to ShaneSLAPJACKThorne, with the “Shane” and “Thorne” crossed out. Thorn..

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WATCH: Trailer For New Wrestling Animated Series Takes Shots At WWE

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It’s easy to parody. As seriously as some fans take it, wrestling is something that can easily be mocked. It is a bunch of people doing a bunch of completely insane things a lot of the time but when you are inside the wrestling bubble, it works out rather well. However, if you change things up a little bit and take a look from outside the bubble, you can have a lot of laughs. That is what some wrestlers are hoping to do. Back in July, the Good Brothers (Doc Gallows/Karl Anderson) made their Impact Wrestling debuts as a big featured attraction at Slammiversary. The team was one of the biggest prizes after so many wrestlers were released from WWE back in April. As a result, Impact Wrestling suddenly had some big names on their hands with a lot of entertainment potential. Some of that potential will be on display, albeit with nothing taking place in the ring. The Good Brothers, along with Rocky Romero and NZO (formerly Enzo Amore) are working on a new series called The Gimmicks, an anim..

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WWE RUMOR: Behind The Scenes Shakeup Takes Place In NXT UK

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It’s time to shake things up a bit. NXT UK debuted just under two years ago and went on to become a rather entertaining weekly wrestling show. Their Takeover main events have been outstanding and there is no reason to believe they can’t pick things up where they left off before the Coronavirus hit. Hopefully that is the case, but things are already changing in a big way. Every now and then, you need some kind of a shakeup on any wrestling show. At some point, no matter how good things are going, it can start to get a little stale, either in front of or behind the camera. At that point it is time to mix things up a bit and if it is done right, the show can get a lot better in a hurry. If it doesn’t go so well though, it can be a quick fall from grace. Hopefully it is the former this time around. According to the Inside The Ropes podcast, NXT UK producer and former Progress Wrestling co-owner Glen Joseph has left the company due to personal reasons. As a result, Jim Smallman, also the ..

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How Paul Heyman And Roman Reigns Will Be Presented On SmackDown

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That’s a little different. We are in a different world on SmackDown these days as the combination of Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman have taken the show over. The new pairing has already risen up to the top with Reigns winning the Universal Title in his first match back after five months. Reigns and Heyman are an instant smash and it turns out that there are some special plans for them. Part of the appeal of the relationship is how fast Heyman was allowed to make Reigns into a villain. The Reigns heel turn is something fans have been wanting to see for a long time now and for we are finally seeing it take place. Heyman being paired with Reigns makes him an instant villain and what might make it even more interesting is how much differently things are going to be presented. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the plan for the Heyman and Reigns pairing is to have Heyman indebted to Reigns for saving his career after Brock Lesnar left the company. The idea will see Reigns havin..

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Possible Spoiler For WWE Draft Spoiler

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Switch it up? There are a lot of wrestlers on the WWE roster and they are split up into two different rosters with very little crossover. The Monday Night Raw wrestlers almost never interact with their SmackDown counterparts and vice versa. While this sounds like a good idea a lot of the time, there are only so many ways to book the same wrestlers. Sometimes you need to shake things up and one big name might be making a move soon. We are coming up on the WWE Draft, which will take place at some point later this year. The event will be a way to shake things up a bit and switch some wrestlers up between Monday Night Raw and SmackDown. There are a few names who fans are suspecting to move, and one of them seems rather interested in moving, mainly because of someone else on the roster. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, AJ Styles may use his backstage pull to get moved from SmackDown over to Monday Night Raw to avoid being around Paul Heyman. Styles and Heyman have had issue..

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WWE Dropping Hints Drew McIntyre Is Losing WWE Championship

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So much for that? Back at WrestleMania 36, Drew McIntyre defeated Brock Lesnar in the main event to become the new WWE Champion. He has gone on to hold the title for five months since, during which he has become one of the biggest stars that WWE has to offer. As positive as the reign has been, McIntyre has to lose the title at some point and WWE may be hinting at just that. McIntyre is currently in the middle of a heck of a feud with Randy orton, who he defeated to retain the title at Summerslam. Orton was not done with McIntyre yet though and went on to Punt him three times in one night. McIntyre responded with a trio of Claymores a few weeks later. Both attacks resulted in someone being taken away in an ambulance, resulting in an ambulance match at Clash Of Champions. This may go badly for McIntyre. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE has been setting up McIntyre to lose his title at Clash Of Champions. This includes Orton losing back to back pay per view matches an..