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Mark your calendars. NXT was completely shaken up back in September 2021 when it was relaunched as NXT 2.0. The new version of the show featured a new look, a fresh roster and basically sent everything in a new direction. That means they had to start from scratch in a lot of ways, but things have gotten back to normal in some areas, which will be on display again next month.
According to PWInsider.com, the next NXT special will take place on June 4, with In Your House. There is no location announced for the event, though the previous special event, Stand & Deliver, took place in Dallas, Texas as part of WrestleMania 38 weekend. In Your House will take place the day before Hell In A Cell near Chicago, Illinois but it is not clear if the show will take place nearby. This will be the third NXT edition of In Your House.
Opinion: In your House is one of those shows that NXT can dust off every year and do just fine, as the show isn’t one that needs a lot of hype. The show has a history in ..

NXT UK
Date: May 5, 2022
Location: BT Sports Studios, London, England
Commentators: Nigel McGuinness, Andy Shepherd
We’re back to the title picture this week with Meiko Satomura defending the Women’s Title against Isla Dawn in a World of Darkness match. I’m not sure what that means but NXT UK has enough of a track record that I can believe they’ll pull it off. On top of that, we get more of the build towards next week’s 200th show. Let’s get to it.
Lash Legend arrived earlier today and conscripted Emilia McKenzie to take care of her bag.
Opening sequence.
It’s time for Supernova Sessions, this time in the ring. Noam Dar says this is the first edition of Supernova Sessions 2.0, which makes me scared for this place’s future. This week’s guest is international superstar Lash Legend and, after taking some time to get her seated, Dar gives her something resembling a plant. Hold on though, as Samuel Sha brings in a much nicer bouquet, which she puts in the Heritage Cup.
Legend rhymes ab..

That would be a moment. Tag teams have a bit of a strange history in WWE, as the company almost seems to put them together for the sole reason of splitting them up. While it might not work every time, there are moments where the idea is quite the success. Now WWE may be planting the seeds for the split of one of the most popular teams the company has seen in quite some time.
This week’s Monday Night Raw featured Raw Tag Team Champions RKBro successfully defending the Tag Team Titles against the Street Profits. During the match, Riddle accidentally took out Randy Orton with a mistimed RKBro. According to Wrestlingnews.co, this may be the beginning of a split between the team. In addition, following the show, the team appeared on Raw Talk, where Orton brought up Riddle using his RKO finisher and suggesting that he wanted Riddle to stop. Orton said that he needed to keep the RKO and said he might have Riddle use the Bro Derek again.
Opinion: This would not surprise me in the slightest a..

I guess that’s the price. Wrestlers are larger than life characters who get to appear on television and try to convince fans that everything they are seeing is real. That can often cause the lines between reality and fantasy to blur, but these same wrestlers have problems that they have to deal with just like regular people. That is the case again, as a wrestling family is having to face some legal issues.
Back in 2020, Brett DiBiase, the son of WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase, pleaded guilty to taking part in the largest embezzlement scheme in the history of Mississippi. Ted’s Heart of David Ministries is alleged to have received $2.1 million from the state as part of the scheme, though Ted did not face any criminal charges. According to 411mania.com, the state of Mississippi has filed a civil lawsuit against 38 people, including the DiBiase family, alleged to have been part of the scheme or received some of the funds. The DiBiase family has not commented on the lawsuit. You can see th..

So that’s where he went. One of the more surprising stories of the last few weeks has been WWE’s latest batch of releases. While WWE releasing names might not be a surprise, some of the names who were let go night have been. There were a few names who left the company despite being in the middle of a story. Now we have a storyline explanation of where they went.
One of the names released from WWE on April 29 was Dexter Lumis, who had been a regular in NXT before he was let go. Lumis had been in a storyline marriage to Indi Hartwell, who is still with the company. This week on NXT, Toxic Attraction was talking to Hartwell and mentioned that Lumis left her. No more details were given and Lumis’ name was never used.
Opinion: As simple as it is, I kind of like the explanation being so simple. It wraps things up for Lumis and Hartwell while being the kind of emotional moment that could get Hartwell some sympathy. Lumis looks like a jerk, but he isn’t around any longer to have that mean an..

Join the club. There have been all kinds of stables in WWE history and some of them have been a lot more successful than others. They are the kind of thing that can do a lot of good things for several people at once and that makes them all the more interesting. WWE has a few of them going at the moment and now one of them might be about to get another member added.
Back at WrestleMania 38, Damian Priest joined forces with Edge in a new team. The group would later become known as The Judgment Day, with Rhea Ripley being added to the team at WrestleMania Backlash. According to PWInsider.com, there has been talk of adding a fourth member to the team, though no name was mentioned. When the stable was originally considered, Ciampa was mentioned as a possible member along with Ripley but he has not yet joined the team. There is no word on if he still will in the future.
Opinion: I’m not sure what is going to happen with the team but they have done well enough so far. What matters most is t..

Mix it up a bit. There are a lot of ways to present a wrestler and most of them have been done before. That is not necessarily a bad thing as you will often see something that you have seen before. What matters is finding the right person to use that gimmick and make it work as well as possible. Now we might be seeing someone else try something that has been done, at least under the same name.
Adam Scherr, formerly known as Braun Strowman in WWE, has posted a new video to Twitter, showing him holding a blade and saying “why so serious”. The line is from the movie The Dark Knight, where it was said by the Joker. This could be a new character that Scherr is using in Control Your Narrative, or perhaps in another promotion. There is no word on Scherr debuting for another major company.
It’s a different way to go. Check out what Scherr is doing:
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Opinion: I’m not sure what Scherr is doing here, but maybe he is playing off of the idea of the Joker..

That’s a great thing to see. There have been a lot of wrestlers throughout history and several of the legends are still around today. It can be rather sad to see them go through one issue after another, especially when health comes into play. That has been the case with one of the more famous tag wrestlers in recent months but now we have a very good update.
Back in November, wrestling legend Brian Knobbs of the Nasty Boys was hospitalized with several health issues. Knobbs had been undergoing issues with his stomach and had suffered a fall which resulted in some broken bones. He has since lost 60 pounds and is said to be in better health. A video has now been uploaded to Twitter, showing Knobbs at Hogan’s Hangout in Tampa, Florida, where he sings the theme to the Wonder Years. Hulk Hogan and his daughter Brooke can be seen watching in the background.
This is pretty cool. Check out Knobbs looking better:
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Opinion: Knobbs looks a heck of a lo..

NXT
Date: May 10, 2022
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Wade Barrett, Vic Joseph
While things should have changed last week with NXT Champion Bron Breakker beating Joe Gacy at Spring Breakin, Gacy’s minions beat Breakker down and kidnapped him. Since wins and losses don’t matter around here, Gacy vs. Breakker continues while the women’s Breakout Tournament begins. Let’s get to it.
We open with a recap of last week’s title match, plus the post show beatdown and Gacy and Company taking Breakker into a field with a sack of his head. They seem to leave him there as Gacy is all nutty.
Women’s Tag Team Titles: Toxic Attraction vs. Roxanne Perez/Wendy Choo Toxic Attraction is defending. Choo dives in off the top from behind to take the champs down and it’s Perez starting with Jayne. That’s fine with the champ as Perez gets sent into the corner, allowing Jayne to grab a headlock to keep her in trouble
Jayne makes the mistake of talking too much trash thoug..

It’s no secret that WWE has considered Roman Reigns their top superstar for several years. He has headlined several Wrestlemanias, won multiple championships, and has been involved with every significant storyline in the company’s recent history. That has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic; in the Thunderdome era, he became allied with Paul Heyman and had a fantastic feud with his cousins, The Usos. As a result, the Bloodline has become the most dominant faction in professional wrestling.
Reigns is the longest reigning Universal Champion of all time, the Big Dog, the Tribal Chief, the Head of the Table, The One, and in my opinion, has established himself amongst the greatest of all time. I lump him in with Stone Cold Steve Austin, the rock, Triple H, the undertaker, John Cena, Randy Orton, and others of that caliber. He is that good.
However, as we know, all things and professional wrestling must come to an end, and at some point, he will lose the universal championship. But..

There is more to it than that. WWE presents a lot of wrestling content every week, including three hours every Monday night with Monday Night Raw. That means you are going to see a lot of wrestlers on any given show, with some of them often appearing more than once. This was the case this week, as two stars got to do even more after the show was over.
The main event of this week’s Monday Night Raw was a Champions Contenders match between Raw Women’s Champion Bianca Belair and Asuka. Belair won when Becky Lynch interfered, followed by Lynch attacking Asuka to end the show. The post show dark match saw Belair defeat Lynch to retain her title with the KOD. Belair defeated Lynch to win the title in the same way at WrestleMania 38.
Bianca Belair vs. Becky Lynch is the post-show dark match! #WWERaw pic.twitter.com/U4aBRmgbc7
— Graham “GSM” Matthews (@WrestleRant) May 10, 2022
This was cool. Check out how the match ended:
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Opinion: It’s always sm..

They do have a plan. There are a lot of titles in WWE at the moment and that can cause some issues as having too many people carrying championships can water down their status. That seems to be the case again in WWE, at least in a certain division, so WWE seems to be doing something about it. At least in theory that is, as they might have a way out of the change.
One of the original main events for WrestleMania Backlash was to have seen Raw Tag Team Champions RKBro vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions the Usos in a title unification match. The match was eventually changed to a non-title six man tag, though RKBro mentioned the match again on Monday Night Raw after WrestleMania Backlash. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, WWE is still planning to have the match, but no title change is planned, meaning some sort of no contest or double countout/double disqualification is expected. There is no word on when the match will take place.
Opinion: I would like to believe that WWE has something..