The plan was for Gabe Kidd to win the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship months ago, but due to an injury he suffered at AEW Dynasty, those plans were pushed back. (FF)
Similarly Kenny Omega vs. MJF at Beach Break was in the works for months and not intended in any way as a response to CM Punk beating Cody Rhodes on Raw two days earlier. (FF)
The new TNA contracts people have signed are now said to be measured in “months” not years. (FF)
A contract signing between Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins has been added to Raw tonight. (WWE)
- Men’s Intercontinental Championship No. 1 Contender’s Gauntlet Match: Chad Gable vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Dragon Lee vs. Joe Hendry vs. Dominik Mysterio vs. Rusev vs. Ethan Page (winner earns an Intercontinental Title shot against Penta at SummerSlam)
- IYO SKY vs. Roxanne Perez
- World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins’ SummerSlam contract signing
- Brock Lesnar returns to WWE Raw
- Bayley and Lyra Valkyria come face-to-face
Sami Zayn is matching donations to Sami for Syria up to $20,000 for his 42nd birthday.
Here are the updated standings for G1 Climax 36 after night one in Chicago. (NJPW)
A Block:
- Jake Lee (1-0, 2 points)
- Yuto-Ice (1-0, 2 points)
- Hirooki Goto (1-0, 2 points)
- Ryohei Oiwa (1-0, 2 points)
- Yota Tsuji (1-0, 2 points)
- Konosuke Takeshita (0-1, 0 points)
- Oleg Boltin (0-1, 0 points)
- SANADA (0-1, 0 points)
- Great-O-Khan (0-1, 0 points)
- Shingo Takagi (0-1, 0 points)
B Block:
- Aaron Wolf (1-0, 2 points)
- OSKAR (1-0, 2 points)
- Zack Sabre Jr (1-0, 2 points)
- Callum Newman (1-0, 2 points)
- Gabe Kidd (0-0, 0 points)
- Drilla Moloney (0-0, 0 points)
- Yuya Uemura (0-1, 0 points)
- Shota Umino (0-1, 0 points)
- Ren Narita (0-1, 0 points)
- HENARE (0-1, 0 points)
Here are NXT house show results from Sebring, Florida. (WBS)
- Drake Morreaux def. Harley Riggins
- Myka Lockwood def. Lacey Simon
- Uriah Connors & Channing Lorenzo def. Elijah Holyfield & Jasper Troy
- Naraku def. Ulka Sasaki
- Nikkita Lyons def. Lizzy Rain via DQ
- EK Prosper was laid out by Uriah Connors before he was supposed to take on Lexis King
- Lexis King def. Tate Wilder
- Shiloh Hill def. Viktor Zanov
- DarkState def. Saquon Shugars, Shawn Spears, & Brooks Jensen
- NXT North American Women’s Championship Match: Zaria def. Layla Diggs
And here are WWE house show results from Las Cruces, NM. (WBS)
- WWE Intercontinental Championship Match: Penta def. Ethan Page
- Charlotte Flair def. Jacy Jayne by DQ
- Charlotte Flair, Tiffany Stratton, & Chelsea Green def. Fatal Influence
- Danhausen def. Kit Wilson
- Oba Femi & Seth Rollins def. The Vision by DQ due to Maxxine Dupri interfering
- Chad Gable def. Rusev
- WWE United States Championship Match: Trick Williams def. Carmelo Hayes
- CM Punk & Cody Rhodes def. Gunther & Ricky Saints
Callum Newman didn’t get medically cleared for NJPW G1 Climax 36 until last Monday. (WO)
It’s official — Jalen Brunson will be at MSG for SNME this weekend.
CM Punk talks about his new fitness regimen: “Six weeks before WrestleMania – and I can’t really tell you what set it in motion. I know I would always see Chad Gable posting his workouts and it’s programmed by Jay Ferruggia and all this other stuff, And I was just motivated to go into WrestleMania looking physically different, looking like, ‘Oh, wow, okay, he really busted his ass.’ That was my only goal. It wasn’t a weight. It wasn’t ‘I need a six pack. I need to do this, whatever.’ I called up Jay and he was like, ‘I wish you would have got to me sooner, man. We only got six weeks.’ He’s like, ‘But if you listen to me and you do what I say and you eat what I tell you to eat, I think we can do some damage.’ I did tell Jay to start, I was like, ‘I will get obsessive with this, and I don’t want that to affect my relationship with my wife.’ Because I will get crabby and I would rather just eat a doughnut and shut the fuck up than not say something snippy that doesn’t mean anything just because I’m cranky.”
Richard Holliday left his boots in the ring at his last GCW appearance amid rumors of WWE interest.
Survivor Series 2026 will be at Daikin Park in Houston on November 28th.
