In this interview Natalya praises Becky Lynch for going full heel: “I love the dynamic, I love the parallels, and I love that now everybody is clamoring to see Becky get her ass whipped. And that’s what a great heel is. And I love that Becky wants to be booed. I will say that despite the conflicts that we’ve had over the last few weeks, Becky and I, she’s doing a great job in the sense that she wants to be booed. She wants to be a bad guy. She wants to make sure that when she’s facing off against her opponent, a good girl, that there’s good storytelling there.”
Jay Lethal, Karl Fredericks, Big Mama, VSK, UWN Tag Team Champions The Wolf Zaddies and Brett Ryan Gosselin have all been added to UWN’s Oct. 16th taping in Nyack, New York.
Apologies for missing this news before now but Typhoon (Fred Ottman) had vascular surgery last week. Best wishes to him for a full recovery!
Two wrestling promotions — Lucha Libre Rebelión and Tyris Wrestling — have announced they are cutting ties with the wrestler El Ibérico over online accusations he was inappropriately flirting with a minor on Instagram. This was so obviously the correct decision I can’t add anything else to the story other than to thank them for doing the right thing.
El Grande Americano has been added to WWE 2K25 with the latest patch. (2K)
Enhancement wrestler Chuck Coates has passed away at 63 years old with no cause of death revealed. It speaks to both his reputation and reliability that he found work in both WCW and WWF in the 1980’s, 90’s and 2000’s. He worked his last match this March at MATW’s Smashville Showdown in a tag team bout. My condolences to his friends, family and fans.
An intriguing match has just been signed — Zack Sabre Jr. will face Tatsumi Fujinami at Dradition DRAGON EXPO 1995〜Muga〜 on Nov. 14th at the legendary Korakuen Hall,
Sarah Logan a/k/a Valhalla has officially been moved to the Alumni section on WWE’s website. (WWE)
It seems the story has changed and Cody Rhodes will be available for Wrestlepalooza. (WO)
Bea Priestly f/k/a Blair Davenport in WWE says there were creative plans before her release back in February of this year. “I go to SmackDown. SmackDown, you’re lucky if you get two girls’ matches on one SmackDown anyway, because SmackDown was only two hours at the time, and Raw is three. Lyra, straight away, is doing the Queen of the Ring tournament stuff, and that was awesome for her. They did have some idea with me, but two weeks after I got moved to SmackDown, the head writer changed to a different head writer, so all of my initial conversations weren’t known. The general writer that I had, she had only just been promoted to a writer, so I think she was a little worried to push for me because she was new in that role. I think she was going with the flow rather than being like, ‘Why don’t we do something with Bea.’ No disrespect to anyone, because I was the same way on SmackDown. I wasn’t going to step on anyone’s toes. I was going to do as I was told because I’m new here. There were times when I was like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on.’ There were talks about tagging with Isla and Alba and us being a trio in the Unholy Union because we were doing six-woman tags against Bianca, Jade, and Naomi. That was a conversation. ‘We might put you with these guys, but we’re not sure.’ It got to the end of the year and I had a triple threat with Bianca and Chelsea, that was my last match. I did a backstage with Piper in January and that was alluding to me doing stuff with Chelsea and Piper in the Secret Hervice. I was basically told I would be on the Europe tour in March. I had all my flights, (WWE) came to me and was like, ‘You’re going to be super busy doing stuff with Chelsea and Piper. Get ready for it.’ I had one of the writers come to me, talking to us about what they wanted me and Piper to be wearing, how they wanted us to behave, all the gimmicks. It was happening. ‘In two weeks, we’re doing Chelsea and Michin, you’re coming in to cost Michin and joining Chelsea.’ It was exactly how they did it with Alba. I was like, ‘Cool.’ Six days later, I’m out of a job.”
Apparently Wardlow suffered a torn pectoral muscle right after his return at Forbidden Door. (FF) I swear it seems like if that guy didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any luck at all.
Kenny Omega and Swerve Strickland are both expected back for AEW by next January. (WO)
An AEW tag title match has been added to Viernes Espectacular this Friday. (CMLL)
- AEW World Tag Team Championship Match: Brodido vs. Galeón Fantasma
- Atlantis, Blue Panther, Titan, & Templario vs. Euforia, Mephisto, Max Star, & Futuro
- La Catalina vs. Zeuxis
- Magia Blanca, Xelhua, & H. Del Pantera vs. Calavera Jr., Infarto & Calavera Jr. II
- Galaxy & Shockercito vs. Pequeño Polvora & Full Metal
ICYMI Jey Uso speared LA Knight and turned heel on Raw last night.
Hechicero says he has a dual contract with AEW and CMLL: “I thank everyone from the media & the fans who had been asking: yes, I can confirm I am part of All Elite Wrestling. I am still linked with CMLL, which is something I want to thank Salvador Lutteroth & Tony Khan for the trust given to me. I am the first wrestler to have a double multi-year deal, and I take that with a lot of responsibility because it reinforces the alliance, how CMLL keeps expanding its wrestling, and of course the global dominance that AEW has.”
SmackDown rose from 1.147 million to 1.585 million viewers for the return of AJ Lee last Friday. The 18-49 demo also rose from 0.28 to 0.51. (Wrestlenomics)
Here’s the card for NXT tonight. (WWE)
- WWE NXT Tag Team Championship: DarkState (c) vs. Hank and Tank
- WWE Speed Women’s Title #1 Contenders Tournament: Faby Apache vs. Lainey Reid
- WWE Women’s Tag Team Title #1 Contenders Match, Elimination Rules: Fatal Influence vs. The Culling vs. ZaRuca
- Flag Match: Ethan Page vs. Tavion Heights
- Je’Von Evans vs. Josh Briggs
- Trick Williams says he’ll see DIY
Here’s an early card for Raw next week. (WWE)
- Lyra Valkyria vs. Roxanne Perez
- CM Punk & AJ Lee have a face-to-face with Becky Lynch & Seth Rollins
- John Cena appears
Max The Impaler has announced their departure from NWA. Best wishes to them going forward!
The updated card for Wrestlepalooza on September 20th is below. (WWE)
- Women’s World Championship Match: Iyo Sky vs. Stephanie Vaquer
- John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar
- The Usos vs. Bronson Reed and Bron Breakker
- CM Punk and AJ Lee vs. Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch
Ricky Saints on what it would mean to win the NXT Title: “The legacy of that belt is so rich. If you really go back and see the people who have held that title, it’s an insane amount of names on there, and you see them to this day still killing it. I am a former NXT North American Champion. I know in my heart that I can beat Oba and I do believe that when I beat Oba Femi, once I’m NXT Champion, I’m going to be put in a very special class of people that were North American Champion and NXT Champion.”
Tickets for Raw at MSG on 11/17 are now on sale with the code WWEMSG. (PWI)
From MLW: “Major League Wrestling today announced 2025 Opera Cup Opening Round match: Paul London vs. Okumura as part of the 7PM TV taping at MLW FIGHTLAND on Saturday, September 13 at the NYTEX Sports Centre in North Richland Hills, TX. The match will air at a later date as part of MLW’s televised programming.”
