Good news everyone! Liv Morgan’s stalker lost his appeal for a pre-trial release.
Wesley Eisold of the band American Nightmare filed an 11th hour request for the court to push back the date of his response to WWE’s motion to dismiss from September 12th to November 14th. As of the 16th they hadn’t ruled on his request yet. If it’s granted the new date for WWE, Rhodes and Fanatics to respond to his response would be December 5th. All of this comes as a “pending resolution” by all parties outside of court is still being mulled over. This is all because Eisold gave them permission to use American Nightmare in merchandise as long as it was clearly associated with Cody Rhodes “or other wrestling indica” and WWE started selling Cody Rhodes merch with only that phrase on it. (PWI)
If you weren’t already feeling insulted by WWE sending WrestleMania 43 to Saudi Arabia this news won’t help — WWE wants Wrestlepalooza to be their “secondary WrestleMania” for the years when WrestleMania is overseas. In fact they might have actually called it “WrestleMania” too had the Saudis not insisted they wanted the one and THE ONLY WrestleMania that year, and they would not accept any other event being called WrestleMania and making it seem like theirs wasn’t the real one. (FF)
Zelina Vega is streaming with Twitch personality Cinna today at 3 PM ET.
Here’s the updated card for Impact this Thursday. (TNA)
- TNA World Tag Team Championship Match: The Hardys vs. The Nemeths
- The Elegance Brand vs. Masha Slamovich, Cassie Lee & Jessica McKay
- Mustafa Ali vs. Brian Myers
- Dani Luna vs. Indi Hartwell
- Eric Young vs. Judas Icarus
The last Collision did a 0.04 and 235,000 viewers, down from 0.07 and 300,000 the week before. (Wrestlenomics)
Steve Maclin talks about the relationship between TNA and WWE: “It’s given us so many moments now that we never thought would happen, with AJ (Styles) coming home at Slammiversary after 11 years. We never expected that to happen, and there he was in front of a sell-out crowd in UBS Arena, New York, in Long Island. It was a moment that I won’t forget, and it was just so cool to talk to him behind the scenes and get to talk to him for the first time in a while. To see him back in a TNA ring, which we never thought would happen, but with that partnership, that’s what has happened, and it has given us a ton of exposure. Granted, Trick Williams is our World Champion right now, but I’m not a big fan of that as well. It has given us across the board, some great moments with Jordynne Grace when she was the Knockouts Champion, and then you have Joe Hendry in the Royal Rumble, Jordynne in the Royal Rumble and then Joe Hendry at WrestleMania and the crossover with NXT, and hopefully that RAW and SmackDown crossover at some point would be awesome for TNA to get that exposure but it’s also just everybody’s getting to know what TNA Wrestling is once again from that rebrand that we had about a year ago, over a year ago. It’s really cool to be a part of, just because I went through that boom in NXT, when it was happening in 2014, and it feels the exact same way.”
The September 8th Raw did 2.6 million viewers, up from 2.4 the week before. (Netflix)
El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Dragon Lee vs. El Grande Americano is official for AAA on Saturday, September 27 at the Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera in Mexico City. (AAA)
Here’s the early lineup for NXT next week. (WWE)
- TNA World Championship & NXT Championship Match: Oba Femi vs. Trick Williams
- WWE Speed Women’s Championship #1 Contender’s Match: Candice LeRae vs. Lainey Reid
- Lights Out Match: Lexis King vs. Myles Bourne
Allegedly GCW’s Brett Lauderdale has been contacted about running some version of The Collective in Saudi Arabia for WrestleMania 43.
Here are New Japan Road to Destruction night five results. (CMN)
- Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Zane Jay went to a Time Limit Draw
- Shoma Kato & Tiger Mask def. Katsuya Murashima & Masatora Yasuda
- House Of Torture (Dick Togo, Don Fale & EVIL) def. Oleg Boltin, Tomoaki Honma & Yuya Uemura
- BULLET CLUB War Dogs (David Finlay & Gabe Kidd) def. Daiki Nagai & Shingo Takagi
- BULLET CLUB War Dogs (OSKAR, Taiji Ishimori & Yuto-Ice) def. Taichi, TAKA Michinoku & Tomohiro Ishii
- El Desperado, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Ryusuke Taguchi & Shota Umino def. Master Wato, Togi Makabe, Toru Yano & YOH
- House Of Torture (DOUKI, Ren Narita, SANADA, SHO & Yujiro Takahashi) def. TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Kosei Fujita, Robbie Eagles, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.)
Here’s the card for “September to Remember” on Dynamite tonight. (AEW)
- AEW World Tag Team Championship 4-Way Ladder Match Qualifier: Bang Bang Gang vs. The Young Bucks
- AEW World Tag Team Championship 4-Way Ladder Match Qualifier: Hechicero & Josh Alexander vs. Top Flight
- AEW World Tag Team Championship 4-Way Ladder Match Qualifier: JetSpeed vs. Kip Sabian and Killswitch
- AEW Unified Championship Eliminator: The Beast Mortos vs. Mascara Dorada
- No Holds Barred: Queen Aminata vs. Thekla
- Bobby Lashley vs. Toa Liona
- Jon Moxley vs. Roderick Strong
- Riho vs. Robyn Renegade
- FTR face-off with Adam Copeland and Christian Cage
- Spotlight on Toni Storm
- Hangman Page & Kyle Fletcher contract signing
Here are last night’s dark match results from NXT Homecoming. (PWI)
- Thea Hail def. Kendal Grey
- Andre Chase def. Stacks Lorenzo
Here’s the updated card for NXT No Mercy on September 27th. (WWE)
- NXT & TNA World Championship Match: Oba Femi OR Trick Williams vs. Ricky Saints
- NXT Women’s Championship Match: Jacy Jayne vs. Lola Vice
- WWE Women’s Speed Championship Match: Sol Ruca vs. Candice LeRae OR Lainey Reid
- NXT North American Championship Match: Ethan Page vs. Tavion Heights
