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One more time? There are a lot of regular wrestling shows throughout the week, but there are very few which really seem to stand out from the rest. As a result, it makes a difference when you see them take place, as you get to see something you do not usually see. There are a few on the WWE calendar, and now they are going to be bringing back a fan favorite.
According to PWInsider.com, NXT will be bringing back the Halloween Havoc special this October. There is no word on when the show would air, though the final episode of the month would air on October 26. The special debuted in October 2020 with Shotzi Blackheart as host, bringing back the concept after a twenty year absence. WWE has yet to announce the event.
It’s a pretty cool idea. Check out Halloween Havoc from years past:
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Opinion: Now this is the kind of thing that I can get behind, as Halloween..

That’s never good. There are always going to be injuries in wrestling but what matters most is how bad things really are. Some of them are going to be much worse than others, and that is going to determine how long it takes to get them back in the ring. Unfortunately one of the latest injuries seems to be worse than others, as a star is going to be on the shelf for a good while.
Ring of Honor has announced that former World Champion Rush will miss the remainder of the year due to knee surgery. This comes after Rush reportedly underwent emergency surgery earlier in the week, though the specific issue was not mentioned. Rush was injured during a tag match at Glory By Honor in August and has been pulled from Death Before Dishonor as a result. There is no word on when he will be back in the ring.
Rush is a force. Check out what will be returning to Ring of Honor:
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The more things change. There are all kinds of talented wrestlers on the AEW roster and you never know when one of them is going to be given their big chance. The roster is a great mixture of veterans, current stars and up and comers, all of whom are often given a shot by AEW. That seems to be the case again, as two big moments took place this week on television.
A turn and a return took place during this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite. First up, Billy Gunn, and possible the rest of the Gunn Club, turned heel by attacking Paul Wight. The Gunn Club had run to the ring to help Wight fight off the Factory, only to have Billy attack Wight with a chair. This included shots to the head and hip, while QT Marshall looked on, seemingly not knowing the attack was coming.
Later in the show, Anna Jay made her return to the company following a five month layoff due to shoulder surgery. Following Tay Conti’s victory over Penelope Ford, the Bunny and Ford attacked Conti in the ring. Jay ran in for ..

Dynamite
Date: September 1, 2021
Location: Now Arena, Chicago, Illinois
Commentators: Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, Excalibur
It’s the go home show for All Out and that means it’s time for the big push to the show. As you might have guessed, CM Punk is back in the house and the ovation should crazy all over again. It’s also the 100th edition of Dynamite and that means we might be seeing something of a look back. AEW has always done those well so let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
Santana/Ortiz vs. FTR Tully Blanchard is here with FTR, who have Bobby Eaton themed trunks for a very nice moment. Harwood headlocks Santana down to start and then shoulders him down for a bonus. They chop it out and Santana gets knocked into the ropes. Everything breaks down in a hurry with FTR being sent outside, where Wheeler holds his bad arm. The big flip dives take FTR down and the springboard flip dives do it again.
Back in and Harwood tags his way out of a belly to back suplex so Wheeler can send Ortiz..

I have loved NXT for a very long time now, and that is not likely to change at any time in the future. For years now, it has felt like my wrestling show, as it has been the show I have looked forward to seeing more than any other in a given week. That is still true from time to time, but it is clear that the show is going to be shaken up in a pretty big way in the near future. The more I think about that, the more of a good idea it seems, though only if certain issues are addressed.
NXT became special to me on January 2, 2013. In that particular show’s main event, NXT Champion Seth Rollins was defending the title against Corey Graves (dang that makes it seem even longer) when the rest of the newly formed Shield ran in for the DQ. A huge beatdown followed and General Manager Dusty Rhodes sent out the rest of the locker room to deal with the Shield. That didn’t work either, and all hope seemed to be lost.
As I was watching at home, I said out loud “in a good promotion, this is where th..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. 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?
Double Or Nothing
Date: May 23, 2020
Location: Daily’s Place, Jacksonville, Florida
Commentators: Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, Excalibur
It’s back to the pay per view calendar, which isn’t somewhere AEW goes all that often. It’s a triple main event with the Stadium Stampede, Jon Moxley defending the World Title against Brodie Lee and Cody vs. Lance Archer for the inaugural TNT Title. They’ve done well on pay per view before so let’s get to it.
Pre-Show: Best Friends vs. Private Party
For the #1 contendership. Chuck..

Spread it out. There are big wrestling shows and then there is WrestleMania. It is the biggest wrestling show of the year and that is not likely to change for a long time. WrestleMania has been around for nearly forty years and WWE mostly has the formula down to a science. There is still some room to tinker though and that seems to be the case again next year.
According to Fightful Select, WWE has begun internal discussions of making WrestleMania 38 into a two night event, which would be held April 2 and April 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. WWE had previously announced the event for just April 3 and there is still a chance that it only lasts one night. The WWE roster is said to unanimously behind the idea of a two night event. This would be the third straight year WrestleMania would be held over two nights.
WWE has done this before. Check out the two night formula and how WrestleMania looks in the stadium:
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There it goes. The recent changes to the WWE roster have shaken up all kinds of things around the company and it does not seem like they will be changing anytime soon. Some of the biggest changes have been taking place in NXT, mainly due to the insistence of Vince McMahon. It turns out that there is another major change coming and McMahon himself will be involved.
According to Wrestling Observer Live, McMahon and Bruce Prichard will produce NXT when it relaunches on September 14. The show will be shifting back to how it was in the original era of the Full Sail University shows with a new logo and new theme song. There will also be a focus on younger talent and homegrown stars with less attention paid to independent wrestling names.
Call it a flashback. Check out what NXT is heading back to:
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Opinion: Just in case Monday Night Raw wasn’t long enough you s..

Chris Jericho’s upcoming match against MJF is currently one of the hot topics AEW fans are discussing online. Much of that discussion centers on the stipulation that exists with the bout. If Jericho loses, he will supposedly never wrestle in AEW again.
This stipulation doesn’t really come as a surprise. Longtime fans know that when it comes to Chris’s career, he has more years behind him than ahead of him. It’s only a matter of time before the pro wrestling great calls it a day and hangs up the boots. So is that day coming on September 5?
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A Stacked Card There is admittedly more than enough on the All Out card to keep the fans talking. The in-ring return of CM Punk against Darby Allin is the hottest story of the moment and the anticipation for it is driving the event for many fans.
Of course, there’s also the Steel Cage Match pitting The Young Bucks against The Lucha Brothers for the AEW World Tag Team Championships. Jon Moxley will face N..

Everyone does it eventually. Wrestlers are not like most people, but they are like most athletes. As amazing as they may seem most of the time, at some point they are not going to be able to get in the ring any longer. That means something has to change, and their career is going to end in one way or another. We saw that again with a wrestler, but not in the way you might think.
According to MMA Fighting, AEW’s CM Punk has officially announced his retirement from the UFC and mixed martial arts. Punk has been removed from the USADA drug testing pool and will be moving back into his professional wrestling career. Punk fought twice in the UFC, losing via submission at UFC 203 in September 2016 and fighting to a no contest at UFC 225 in 2018. There had been nothing to suggest that Punk would be fighting again prior to his announcement.
Punk did indeed try. Check out some of his MMA work, plus his pretty awesome return to wrestling:
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You need to fill in the gaps. We are less than a week away before AEW All Out and most of the card seems to have already been set in stone. You know what matches you are going to see on Sunday night and the card does look to be fairly strong. However, there is still time to make some adjustments, especially since one of the matches has multiple entrants. Now we know some more of those names.
At All Out, AEW will present one of its signature matches with the Casino Battle Royal. Twenty women will enter the match, plus one Joker, who will enter last. In a new video, AEW has announced that Kiera Hogan has been added to the match. So far, Hogan, Nyla Rose, Big Swole, Diamante, Julia Hart, Penelope Ford, Red Velvet, Tay Conti, Thunder Rosa, The Bunny, Emi Sakura, and Hikaru Shida have been announced, with more names being announced this week on Dynamite.
Hogan is a nice addition. Check out the announcement plus some of the other favorites:
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It’s better than no explanation. This week’s Monday Night Raw was another hit or miss edition, but there was one part that got almost everyone’s attention. One match did not exactly go over all that well, and a lot of that was due to how the participants were not exactly seeming to be on the same page. Now we know a bit more about what happened and things are still a little hazy.
Monday Night Raw’s match between Charlotte and Nia Jax broke down on multiple occasions, with the two seemingly not on the same page more than once. There were a few instances where it seems the two were not cooperating, including Charlotte hitting Jax harder than usual and Jax dropping Charlotte several times. There are multiple explanations for what happened.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, the match may have been an attempt at a worked shoot, with both women attempting to make the match feel like it fell apart while being planned the entire time. However, according to PWInsider.com, the match was “..