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He Did What? More On Huge Upset This Week On AEW Dynamite

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He’s new. Wrestlers can have a very long shelf life in their careers as they are able to stay in the ring for several years. They can move up and down the card at various points in their career but at some point, someone has to get a special win over another star. We saw that this week on national television and now we know something else about how the whole thing came together. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Back Soon: AEW Star Reveals Recent Knee Surgery This week on AEW Dynamite, Action Andretti made his debut on the she and defeated Chris Jericho in an upset. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, Jericho himself came up with the idea for Andretti to defeat him. Jericho saw Andretti face QT Marshall on the October 11 edition of Dark and decided to help Andretti become a star. However, Jericho was forced to wait until the end of his feud with Claudio Castagnoli before he could go through with his plans. AEW has since announced that Andretti has been signed to the company. Congratulations..

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Ouch: WWE Star Out Of Action With Injury

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That explains it. Injuries are one of the most common problems that a wrestler faces, as you never know when someone is going to be put on the shelf. Wrestlers can get injured at any time and occasionally you won’t see it happen. That can require a promotion to write them off television and now that seems to have happened again with a current WWE star who was recently attacked. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: That’s Scary: Hangman Page Reveals How Messed Up He Was After Recent Concussion Earlier this month, Shotzi was attacked by Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler on SmackDown. The two slammed a car door on Shotzi’s hand, breaking it in the process and putting Shotzi on the shelf. According to PWInsider.com, Shotzi is dealing with a legitimate injury, resulting in the angle being shot. There is no word on what kind of injury Shotzi has suffered or how long she will be out of action. Shotzi is quite good whens he is healthy. Check out what she can do in the ring: [This post contains video, clic..

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That’s Scary: Hangman Page Reveals How Messed Up He Was After Recent Concussion

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That’s a scary thought. Injuries are the kind of things that you cannot avoid in wrestling as no matter how talented or experienced you are, there is always the chance of getting hurt. Certain injuries can be worse than others, with few being scarier than things happening to someone’s head. That was the case earlier this year, and now we know just how bad things might have been. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Back Soon: AEW Star Reveals Recent Knee Surgery Back on the October 18 edition of AEW Dynamite, Hangman Page challenged Jon Moxley for the AEW World Title. During the match, Page was knocked unconscious by a clothesline and the match was stopped as a result. Page has not wrestled since after suffering a concussion. This week on Dynamite, Page spoke about the night he was injured, revealing that he could not remember his son’s name for an hour after he woke up. Page has also said that while he is not medically cleared to wrestle, but he will be appearing on Rampage to fight Moxley. Page..

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Homecoming: WWE Legend Confirms Invitation To Monday Night Raw 30th Anniversary Special

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Welcome home. There have been all kinds of stars throughout WWE’s history, several of which are still remembered to this day. Several of those memories took place on Monday Night Raw, which will be celebrating its thirty year anniversary next month. WWE will be bringing in various legends for the show, and now we know at least one name who has been invited to appear. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Ouch: Wrestling Legend Slams SmackDown Star, Would Fire All But Two WWE Women In a post on his Facebook page, WWE legend Tatanka revealed that he has been invited to the 30th anniversary of Monday Night Raw special on January 23 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tatanka did not say whether or not he had accepted the invitation. Tatanka wrestled for WWE from 1991-1996 and again from 2005-2007. He has since made various one off appearances, including at WrestleMania 32. You might remember Tatanka. Check out some if his time on Monday Night Raw: [This post contains video, click to play] [This post co..

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REVIEW: Mayhem 2000: When The Cell Isn’t Enough

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Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over ten years now and have reviewed over 5,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net, starting today. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be? Mayhem 2000 Date: November 26, 2000 Location: Wisconsin Center Arena, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Attendance: 3,800 Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Stevie Ray, Mark Madden These dying days of WCW are a scary place. Things are about as bad as they’ve been since Russo left, including a rather uninteresting main event of Booker T. defending his World Title against Scott Steiner (again) in a match that really isn’t the biggest secret. Let’s get to it. We open with Booker arriving and being mobbed by the fans that..

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Ouch: Wrestling Legend Slams SmackDown Star, Would Fire All But Two WWE Women

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That would be extreme. Wrestling today is nothing close to what it was twenty years ago. The industry has completely changed with several aspects being nothing close to what it was before. This includes women’s wrestling, which has gone from little more than a side show to one of the focal points of WWE’s product. However, one wrestling legend has a certain thought process on modern WWE women’s wrestling and it’s rather different. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: She’s Missed: Backstage Reaction To Mandy Rose’s Surprise WWE Release During a recent edition of the Smack Talk podcast, wrestling legend Dutch Mantel criticized Tegan Nox’s return to WWE, saying she was unsure of herself. Mantel did say that the issue could have been attributed to ring rust but was not impressed with Nox’s armdrags. He also said that he would fire everyone in the division, save for Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler, only to hire them back five minutes later, just to show that he could. Nox didn’t seem to impress Mante..

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She’s Missed: Backstage Reaction To Mandy Rose’s Surprise WWE Release

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People are going to talk. There have been a lot of WWE roster moves throughout the year and some of them have been more than a bit surprising. You never know when you are going to see a wrestler leave out of nowhere and that was the case again earlier this week with a surprise release. It was enough of a surprise that it was going to get a reaction, and now we have the important ones. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: If At First You Succeed: Kevin Owens Pitched Dream Match vs. Shawn Michaels Earlier this week, Mandy Rose was suddenly released from her WWE contract, reportedly due to Rose posting risque content online. According to Bryan Alvarez’s subscription feed by way of Wrestlingnews.co, the release took Rose by surprise and she was caught off guard. In addition, Rose’s Toxic Attraction teammate Jacy Jayne seemingly responded to the news with a series of broken heart images. Neither Rose nor Gigi Dolin, the third member of the team, has commented on the release. Per Bryan Alvarez on Mandy..

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If At First You Succeed: Kevin Owens Pitched Dream Match vs. Shawn Michaels

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What could have been. There are certain matches in wrestling that are so special that they are described as “dream matches”. These can often include wrestlers who you might not see face off at any other time, making it a very rare occurrence. Occasionally the matches are not things you would have thought of seeing in the first place, and one star pitched another such match. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: That’s A No: Backstage Reaction To Possible Vince McMahon Return (And It’s Not Happy) Earlier this year at WrestleMania 38, Steve Austin came out of retirement for one last match, facing Kevin Owens in an impromptu no holds barred match. Owens recently appeared on the French language Sans Restrictions podcast and revealed that after his WrestleMania match with Austin, he personally asked Shawn Michaels about a possible match between the two. While Michaels, 57 years old, said that he did think about another match, he felt that he shouldn’t do so. There is nothing to suggest that Michaels wil..

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That’s A No: Backstage Reaction To Possible Vince McMahon Return (And It’s Not Happy)

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They seem to be a no. There have been a lot of changes to the wrestling world this year and the biggest of them all seems to have been that of Vince McMahon retiring from WWE. McMahon was accused of various relationships with women and paying them off using company funds. The shakeup was felt throughout the company as well as the wrestling world. McMahon had been the force in WWE for such a long time, though a recent report suggested that might be changing again. It just seems that some people are not pleased. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WRESTLING RUMORS: NXT Set To Change Title Belt Designs Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that McMahon was planning a comeback to WWE at some point in the future, believing that he was given bad advice when he was told to retire. According to Fightful Select, over a dozen people in WWE spoke about the situation and the “rarely unanimous” reaction was not wanting McMahon back. One wrestler said they would be worried about the recently rehi..

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WRESTLING RUMORS: NXT Set To Change Title Belt Designs

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An old look. Titles are some of the most important things in a wrestling promotion. A wrestler holding a title is one of the signs that the company has made an investment into them and it makes them feel like more important deals. The titles themselves are easy to identify as they are big shiny belts, but sometimes they need to be replaced. Now that is the case again, albeit with an old taste. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: BREAKING: Mandy Rose Released By WWE According to Belt Fan Dan on Twitter, NXT is planning on replacing their current collection of championship belts. NXT’s rainbow championships will be replaced by their previous non-colored designs. There is no word on when the change will take place or when the titles will be switched back to their previous designs. The older versions had been in use since March 2017. Word on the street is the rainbow NXT belts are going to be replaced with the prior non-colored ones. — Dan Beltzer (@BeltFanDan) December 14, 2022 There have been so..

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Scarlett Competes At WWE Live Event

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Fall and pray. This past weekend, Scarlett competed in a WWE ring for the first time on the main roster. She and Karrion Kross battled the team of Emma and Madcap Moss in a tag team match at a live event in Wheeling, West Virginia. You can see footage of the match below: Scarlett and Emma Ate pic.twitter.com/LLpqbPusT7 — sameeha | Fan Account (@mcedeslynch) December 11, 2022 Kross and Scarlett were the winners of the match. Scarlett has only been featured as Kross’ valet since their debut with the company in 2020. She has been used primarily to bring Kross to the ring and remained mostly on the outside, occasionally interfering in matches. Scarlett is not new to the ring; she has competed in several other promotions, including WWE before. It is unknown if this will be a regular occurrence on the main roster, or if this was just for this live event. Editor’s Opinion: This is very cool to see! I always knew that she had talent in the ring, but with her current gimmick, she had ne..

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AEW Dynamite Results – December 14, 2022

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Dynamite Date: December 14, 2022 Location: Curtis Culwell Center, Garland, Texas Commentators: Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, Taz It’s time for Winter Is Coming and in this case that means a pair of big matches. First up, we have the battle for the World Title and the Dynamite Diamond Ring with Ricky Starks challenging MJF. Other than that, it’s the fourth match in the best of seven series between the Elite and the Death Triangle. Let’s get to it. Opening sequence. Elite vs. Death Triangle Match #4 in a Best Of 7 series with Death Triangle up 2-1 and Don Callis on commentary. Matt and Penta start things off with neither being able to get the better of things. Instead everything breaks down and the Elite hits a bunch of dives to take over. We settle back down to Omega working on Pac’s arm as Nick Jackson seems to have hurt his ankle on a dive. With the actual tag match going on again, Fenix takes over on Matt as Nick is taken to the back. We take a break and come back with Matt beating ..

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Triple H is “Underwhelmed” by Returning WWE Stars

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Perhaps not everyone knows how to play the game. According to a new report by WrestleVotes, Triple H has not been pleased with several of the talents that he brought back when he took over for Vince McMahon earlier this year. The report is as follows: I’m told a handful of talent brought back in the “rehiring wave” over the summer have underperformed and severely underwhelmed Triple H & others since returning to the company. I’m told a handful of talent brought back in the “rehiring wave” over the summer have underperformed and severely underwhelmed Triple H & others since returning to the company. — WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) December 14, 2022 The list of superstars that have been rehired since the regime change is as follows: Karrion Kross Scarlett Dexter Lumis Candice LeRae Hit Row (B-Fab, Ashante “Thee” Adonis, Top Dolla) The Good Brothers (Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson) Braun Strowman Johnny Gargano Dakota Kai Bray Wyatt Tegan Nox Emma Editor’s Opinion: I don’t think this is..

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BREAKING: Mandy Rose Released By WWE

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So much for that. There are all kinds of wrestlers on the WWE roster and it can be quite the competition to see who can make it to the top. You can see a star in the making when WWE decides to push someone to the moon. That can be the case on the main roster or in NXT, but every now and then someone has the rug pulled out from underneath them, which seems to have been done again. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WATCH: Wrestling Fans Make Roman Reigns Part Of Their Wedding Reception According to Fightful.com, Mandy Rose has been released from WWE. The release was possibly due to risque content posted to her FanTime page, which WWE felt was outside the parameters of her contract. Rose, who has been with WWE since 2015, lost the NXT Women’s Title to Roxanne Perez this week on NXT, ending her title reign after 413 days. The title change was said to have been an “abrupt” decision. Rose had a heck of a run. Check out some of her time in WWE: [This post contains video, click to play] [This post ..

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WATCH: Wrestling Fans Make Roman Reigns Part Of Their Wedding Reception

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That’s a high honor. Over nearly the last two and a half years, there has been no one in WWE close to the level of Roman Reigns. After winning the Universal Title in August 2020, Reigns is climbing the ranks of the longest World Champions in the company’s history. He has become one of the most dominant stars in the company’s history and now he is being acknowledged in another way. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Catch You Later? WWE Star Hints She Might Be Leaving For A Bit A man named Jared Hill has posted a video to TikTok showing he and his new wife walking into their wedding reception. Hill and his wife come into the reception hall as Reigns’ theme music plays, with Hill being handed a late 1990s WWE World Title belt to raise. The bride raises her flowers up at the same time and there is nothing else wrestling related in the video. This is pretty unique. Check out the video, plus what Reigns has been doing lately: [This post contains video, click to play] [This post contains video, cli..

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Catch You Later? WWE Star Hints She Might Be Leaving For A Bit

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There’s the next step? WWE wrestlers appear on television on such a regular basis that eventually they are going to start feeling a bit stale. There are only so many ways to keep things fresh and sometimes one of the best ways is to have them go away for a bit. That seems to be the case with a current Monday Night Raw star, who is hinting at taking a break of her own. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WATCH: Major Update To Bobby Lashley’s Monday Night Raw Status Over the last few weeks, Monday Night Raw’s Asuka has been hinting at making a change in her career. This week, she wrestled without wearing face paint for the first time in years. Now, following her loss to Rhea Ripley on this week’s Monday Night Raw, Asuka has sent out a tweet saying that “I’ll be on a trip for a while.” There is no word on if this means Asuka will be missing time from WWE television or what she will be doing when she gets back. I'll be on a trip for a while. — ASUKA / ??? (@WWEAsuka) December 13, 2022 Asuka ..

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Vince McMahon Reportedly Faces New Financial Demands Over Sexual Assault Allegations

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Even more. Earlier this year, the wrestling world was rocked by the announcement that Vince McMahon was under an official WWE investigation over allegations of inappropriate relationships with various women. McMahon was accused of using company funds to pay the women for their silence, spending millions of dollars in the process. McMahon officially retired from WWE in July, but things are not done yet. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: How Much? Sasha Banks’ New Japan Contract Reportedly Beats Chris Jericho’s According to the Wall Street Journal, two more women are seeking payment from McMahon over allegations of sexual assault. First, former WWE referee Rita Chatterton is demanding $11.75 million from McMahon. Chatterton accused McMahon of sexual assault in 1986 though no charges were ever filed. In addition, an attorney for a second, unnamed woman is demanding payment over an alleged assault by McMahon at a California spa in 2011. The woman’s husband attempted to confront McMahon at a WWE li..

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How Much? Sasha Banks’ New Japan Contract Reportedly Beats Chris Jericho’s

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That’s a lot. One of the most up and down stories of this year has been that of Sasha Banks. After walking out on WWE in May, Banks has still yet to return and as of last week, was reportedly “done” with the company. Instead she will be heading to New Japan Pro Wrestling beginning in January, and now we know some more interesting details about the entire situation. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WATCH: Major Update To Bobby Lashley’s Monday Night Raw Status According to Voices Of Wrestling, Banks will be appearing for New Japan on a per appearance basis, “at the highest price” that the company has ever paid anyone. This includes even more than Chris Jericho, who according to Wrestling Observer Radio, was making $100,000 per appearance, starting in 2018. Banks is set for multiple dates with New Japan, but she will be able to work on other projects, including AEW if she likes. There is no word on Banks working in any American promotions at the moment. New Japan is getting a major star. Check ..

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WATCH: Major Update To Bobby Lashley’s Monday Night Raw Status

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Not so fast? Monday Night Raw is coming up on thirty years of weekly wrestling television and that is quite the accomplishment. The show has had all kinds of moments throughout its history, some of which have been more memorable than others. There have also been several stories that start up and are then dropped, which seems to have been the case again this week. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: BREAKING: Surprise Title Change Takes Place In NXT Main Event The main event of this week’s Monday Night Raw saw Seth Rollins defeat Bobby Lashley to become #1 contender for the United States Title. The referee was bumped during the match though, meaning Lashley was unable to pin a downed Rollins. Following the match, Adam Pearce fired Lashley to end the show. Pearce has since posted a video to Twitter, saying that Lashley is not fired but there will be repercussions for his actions. The two will meet later this week to see how they can work together. It was a quick announcement. Check out the match, ..

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NXT Results – December 13, 2022

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NXT Date: December 13, 2022 Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida Commentators: Vic Joseph, Booker T We’re done with Deadline and that means it is time to start the rather long road to Vengeance Day in February. Deadline saw the crowning of new Tag Team Champions and a pair of new #1 contenders. That should give us some places to go for the next few weeks and we should be in for some fun, though maybe not so soon after Deadline. Let’s get to it. We open with a long recap of Deadline. Here is Roxanne Perez to get thing going….but Grayson Waller interrupts from the parking lot. Waller has the camera walk us into the arena where he brags about everything he can think of until Perez cuts him off. She says he wasn’t the only Iron Survivor but Waller isn’t impressed. Cue Bron Breakker to say Perez did a great job at Deadline and promises she’ll be the next Women’s Champion. Waller brags about outsmarting Breakker, who he’ll outsmart again for the title at Vengeance Day. Bre..