Does Anyone Watch Wrestling? (WWE, AEW, TNA, NWA, etc)

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The Miz vs. Gunther was such wasted potential.

Matches were good but the story couldve delved more into the legacy of the Intercontinental Championship with the twos history of it and now thats impossible anymore.

I know everyone likes to talk about how bad face Miz is but aside from his first face run in 2013, it really hasn't been his fault. The storylines just have him take Ls in extremely underwhelming matters. (Not saying Miz shouldve beaten Gunther like he shouldve beaten Shane McMahon but shouldve been a more grand L with more story weight into it instead of just Gunther strong)
 
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So last night was the last Raw of 2023, no Raw next Monday as its Christmas Day so they have given everyone the week off, they will be showing a best of compilation instead.

They did go out with a bit of a bang with an entertaining street fight between Truth and McDonagh, the opening promo between Truth and the Judgment Day was gold with Damien Priest trying so hard not to laugh, Gunther retained the IC title, Kayden Carter and Katana Chance are new women's tag champs after beating Green and Niven, Priest and Balor did retain the men's tag titles against the Creeds but Julius did kick out just after the three count so that was interesting. McIntyre and Rollins had a good promo battle and Nakamura called Dusty Rhodes an inbred! No CM Punk last night.

When they come back in a couple of weeks it will be January 1st Raw and its Day 1 with some big matches already, Rollins v McIntyre for the WH title, Rhea Ripley defending her women's title against Ivy Nile, Becky Lynch v Nia Jax and maybe Rhodes v Nakamura with some sort of stipulation.
 




Stardom's casually dropping a few events from behhind their streaming service paywall from the Ryōgoku Kokugikan arena last year (and technically the very tail end of 2021), phrasing in video titles suggests a limited time thing. As good a chance as any to watch a full event of theirs.
 
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Remember the last batch of WWE releases in September? Well the 90 day no compete clause came to an end today, so the likes of Dolph Ziggler, Mustafa Ali, Dana Brooke, Elias etc are now free agents and can take bookings, Ali has already announced a bunch and Matt Riddle is joining MLW.
 
Smackdown was really good for a taped show, good matches and plenty of news from it.

The biggest news really is that the Friday 5th January show will be New Years Revolution with a triple threat match between Orton, LA knight and AJ Styles with the winner facing Reigns for the title at the Rumble, Styles faced Solo Sikoa in the SD main event which went to a DQ following an interruption from Reigns. There was also a really good backstage interaction between Nick Aldis and Roman in which Aldis stood his ground and proved that he wont be a pushover like Adam Pearce was.

Elsewhere in the US title tournament, Kevin Owens beat Carmelo Hayes in a really good match to advance to the final where he will face Santos Escobar who beat Bobby Lashley, that match had interference from Humberto and Angel who are back from a stint in NXT to align with Santos. There was a eight women tag team tornado match was good fun, Mia Yim pinned women's champ IYO Sky and she will now face Sky for the title next week, Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn made an appearance to take out Asuka and Sane, Dragon Lee defended his NXT North American title against Butch in a great match, Butch needs to find a tag partner to face Pretty Deadly at NYR, I think it would be cool if it was Tyler Bate.

It looks like Authors Of Pain will return to align with Karrion Kross, it was teased in a Kross promo video and Paul Ellering with be back with AOP, apparently AOP have been back for a year.
 



Super casual NXT/All Japan one shot crossover on January 3rd as AJPW Triple Crown Champion Katsuhiko Nakajima (although could change as there's a prior defense against Kento Miyahara on New Year's Eve) defends against William Regal's boy Charlie Dempsey
 
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WWE are now having their traditional December 26th show at Madison Square Garden, the show features CM Punk in his first match since his return against Dominik plus Rhodes v Nakamura which I think will be a bull rope match, nearly 16,000 tickets sold.
 
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That Best of Raw 2023 compilation that WWE showed on Christmas Day was the lowest rated Raw in the shows history. :lol:

Not really surprising thought but still quite funny.

ESPN have named Cody Rhodes and Rhea Ripley WWE male and female superstars of the year.
 
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That Best of Raw 2023 compilation that WWE showed on Christmas Day was the lowest rated Raw in the shows history. :lol:

Not really surprising thought but still quite funny.

ESPN have named Cody Rhodes and Rhea Ripley WWE male and female superstars of the year.
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I think its for the best long term. Bleed once a year in the ratings to give your wrestlers much more morale.
 
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Tonight's Smackdown is also a best of 2023 compilation episode, I thought it was a regular episode but guess will have to wait till next week.
 



Apparently there were issues with the feed for Stardom's Dream Queendom 2023 even from the other day, so ended up uploading the last two matches on the show.
 
So a former WWE Champion looks set to be on Raw Day 1 this Monday, there were reports about this last night and Triple H tweeted that he can't confirm or deny but to stay tuned to the show, since then there has been a lot of suggestions to whom it might be from Big E to Dave Bautista, the Batista thing is because Triple H is in charge of the Hall Of Fame next year for the first time ever, Batista would be an obvious first inductee.

There have apparently been talks between WWE and Mercedes Mone but those talks have broken down.
 
Happy New Year guys.

Its the first Raw of 2024 tonight and this week is a big one for WWE with three big shows starting with Day 1 tonight.

Here are the advertised matches for tonight.

Seth Rollins v Drew McIntyre for the WH title.
Rhea Ripley v Ivy Nile for the Women's WH title.
Becky Lynch v Nia Jax first time ever match.
Tegan Nox & Natalya v Shayna Baszler & Zoey Stark

Tomorrow night is NXT New Years Evil and to round of the week is Smackdown's New Years Revolution.
 
What I think will happen:

  • Reigns vs Orton at Royal Rumble
  • Reigns vs Rock at Elimination Chamber/Wrestlemania
  • Reigns vs Rhodes at Wrestlemania/Summerslam
 
Pretty great show last night with a great main event, shame it was a bit distraction filled but still a really good match

A lot of debate about the Rock and how he will fit in on the road to Mania. Reigns v Rock at Elimination Chamber would make sense but maybe they don't want to do Reigns v Rhodes at Mania for the second year in a row. Anyway credit to Jinder Mahal for being a good sport last night.

Elsewhere, Nia Jax beat Becky Lynch, Rhea Ripley beat Ivy Nile to retain her title but Nile did have a some offense and did pretty well, Jey Uso & Kofi Kingston v Imperium was cut short as it looked like Gio Vinci banged his head hard so the ref stopped it and Uso/Kofi won via stoppage, Vinci got some treatment but was able to walk to the back.
 
Smackdown New Years Revolution is tonight, here is the advertised stuff.

Roman Reigns.
Logan Paul.
Triple threat match between AJ Styles, LA Knight and Randy Orton, winner will face Roman for the title at Royal Rumble.
Santos Escobar v Kevin Owens, US title tournament final.

A few bits of WWE news too.

Becky Lynch and Shinsuke Nakamura have both declared for their respective Rumble matches.
Money In The Bank will be held in Toronto this year.
Charlotte Flair has had successful surgery for the injury she picked up a few weeks ago, I don't know what the surgery was but it was a massive knee injury so she is going to be out for quite a while sadly.
Its been reported that Naomi, Kamille and Giulia will be joining WWE soon.
 
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Shotzi got married in Vegas the other day and actually showed up at a live show in her wedding dress. I think she had a match too.
 
Roman Reigns will defend his WWE Undisputed title against Randy Orton, LA Knight and AJ Styles in a fatal four way match at the Royal Rumble, this is after Reigns, Jimmy and Solo attacked and took out Orton, Styles and Knight during their triple threat match, it was a really good match before all that in which LA knight got busted open, Nick Aldis was at ringside and after the attack he informed Heyman of the match, Heyman then told Roman backstage.

Elsewhere Kevin Owens will face Logan Paul for the US title at the Rumble after he pinned Escobar clean in the tournament final, he then knocked Paul out with his cast, IYO Sky beat Michin to retain her women's title, The AOP and Paul Ellering return to align with Karrion Kross and Scarlett as they attacked Lashley & the Street Profits, Tyler Bate was Butch' mystery partner as they beat Pretty Deadly, There was no Michael Cole on commentary as they moved to a two-man comms booth.
 
You know, I was shocked to see AOP return on the latest SmackDown!. The AOP, or Authors of Pain, was a pretty powerful two-person faction. All these two guys do is wreck people. The AOP sided with the likes of Karrion Kross. If this keeps up, we may have a new team vying for strongest faction in the WWE, going up against the likes of the Judgment Day, whatever's left of The Bloodline, and even Damage CTRL.
 
Advertised stuff for Raw tonight.

CM Punk.
Rhodes v Nakamura
Chance & Carter v Green & Niven, women's tag title rematch.
Balor v Ciampa
Kofi v Kaiser
Miz v JD McDonagh
Sit down interview with R-Truth, that could be brilliant! :lol:
 
The awkward silence of the commentators when The Miz started doing Daniel Bryans "Yes" Kicks with the crowd chanting it with Michael Cole coming in with the save with "The Miz calls them, "it" kicks" :lol::lol::lol:
 
Really good main event between Rhodes and Nakamura, it turned into a street fight after a brawl between the two earlier in the show and Cody ended up winning clean in the middle of the ring.

Show opened with Drew and Punk having a little verbal back and forth, Seth Rollins got interrupted by Jinder Mahal and will now defend his title against Mahal next week, Ludwig Kaiser took out Kofi Kingston, that little interview thing with R-Truth was amazing and its so good to have him back.
 

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