This week's edition of AEW Dark: Elevation was taped last Wednesday before Dynamite in Worcester, MA, with the wonderful Tony Schiavone and Mark Henry on the call. Julia Hart defeated LMK ** Thumbs Up In the second AEW match of her career, Little Mean Kathleen (LMK) from Beyond Wrestling faced the menacing Hart. LMK started with a huge slap that really seemed to tick off the newest member of the House of Black. Hart used her gymnastics background to hit a cartwheel clotheslin

Becky Lynch kicked off Raw. She entered wearing an arm sling and they cut to a video package of Bianca Belair’s win followed by the post-match angle. Lynch spoke in the past about hitting rock bottom and not knowing who she was without the championship but at SummerSlam, she finally remembered who the hell she was. It wasn’t in the fancy clothes but it was in the relentlessness and the pursuit to be better today than she was yesterday. She could have given up at SummerSlam wh

KICK-OFF SHOW The panel was hosted by Kayla Braxton, Jerry Lawler, Booker T, Kevin Patrick and Peter Rosenberg. They ran down the card. (As usual, I don’t plan on recapping the entire pre-show, just whatever seems somewhat notable.) Lawler and Booker buried Pat McAfee because he isn’t a real wrestler sports entertainer like Baron Corbin. One of the other panellists suggested that Lawler face McAfee if he felt so little of him and Lawler was fine with that. Theory explained hi

Kyle Davis opened the show talking with Marti Belle, Paola Blaze, and The Pope, who talked about what women’s wrestling meant to them. I’m not sure why Pope was there, but he cut a great promo on why women’s wrestling was important. Belle was passionate in her speech about women’s wrestling while Blaze spoke in Spanish with no subtitles, It what was still clear with which the passion she spoke. Kenzie Paige defeated Kaci Lennox **3/4 Thumbs Up Paige and Lennox worked at a qui

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This week's AEW Dark featured several matches taped at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, as well as an AEW All-Atlantic Championship bout between PAC and LJ Cleary that was great. Kiera Hogan defeated Allie Recks ** Thumbs Up Hogan made quick work of Recks, basing her entire offensive strategy around beating down Recks with leg-based offense. After nailing Recks with a nasty roundhouse kick, Hogan pinned her. Alex Reynolds (w/ -1) defeated Ryan Nemeth ** Thumbs In The Mi

In an understatement that opens the show, Vic Joseph on commentary opens the show saying "it has been newsworthy few days in WWE." Tonight the show begins with someone that made news on NXT last week. Zoey Stark comes to the ring with fanfare after she won a battle royal in her return match on the previous episode. Stark is amped as she says it feels good to be back in the ring. Stark was not sure she could ever feel this moment again. She tore her ACL and MCL "straight off t

This week's edition of AEW Dark: Elevation was filmed before last week's Dynamite in Duluth, Georgia. Excalibur, Mark Henry, and Caprice Coleman were on the call. Angelico & Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) defeated Adrian Alanis, AR Fox & Liam Gray ** Thumbs Up Angelico started with Gray, showing off his technical prowess. The team of Alanis, Fox & Gray got some offense in, but things changed when Kassidy hit a tope onto Alanis. Eventually, Fox and Angelico got the

Things quickly settled and they showed a clip of Miz charging out to the ring before they went on the air because Paul had called him out. (Jimmy Smith, Corey Graves and Byron Saxton are on commentary as usual.) Roman Reigns, the Usos and Paul Heyman entered to officially kick things off at Madison Square Garden. They received a big mixed reaction including chants for Roman. Reigns told MSG to acknowledge him. They did. Reigns said he didn’t feel like talking anymore so he ha

Saturday's show emanates live from Lowell. Massachusetts. ROH Zero Hour Preshow Ian Riccaboni and Caprice Coleman welcomed us to the show before pitching us to Bobby Cruise. Colt Cabana defeated Anthony Henry w/ JD Drake ** Thumbs Up Cabana used wristlocks on Henry, which got a pop and “Colt Cabana.” There were some issues with the FITE stream here, so I had to switch to the ROH YouTube to watch the preshow, causing me to miss part of the match. Henry did a neck twist with hi

The show started with Butcher and Blade in the ring with John Silver and Hangman Page. Hangman Page & John Silver defeated Butcher & Blade w/ The Bunny *** Thumbs In The Middle Pointing Up Butcher and Blade dominated Silver in the early part of the show, but it wasn’t long before Hangman Page got a fantastic hot tag, hitting dives onto Butcher and Blade on the floor before hitting a flying lariat for a 2-count on Blade. Butcher pulled Hangman to the floor and whipped him into

Stephanie McMahon Thanks Vince McMahon Segment This was a short segment. Stephanie McMahon discussed her father's retirement. Stephanie McMahon was already in the ring to start SmackDown. She welcomed everyone and emotionally announced Vince McMahon's retirement earlier. The fans erupted in loud boos. She noted he thanked the fans and everyone in the back. The fans broke into a loud "Thank you, Vince" chant. She spoke for a few more minutes and then started a "Thank you, Vinc

The show opens with what happened previously on NXT, when Cora Jade turned heel on Roxanne Perez. The melodramatic storyline recap of the cliffhanger angle is set to music, but it leaves out what may be the most talked about aspect of the turn -- the now infamously gimmicked skateboard. Kicking off NXT live inside the Performance Center soundstage is a match that has the makings to be really good. JD McDonagh defeats Cameron Grimes ***1/4 Thumbs Up McDonagh pins Grimes after

This week's AEW Dark: Elevation was taped before last week's Dynamite in Savannah, Georgia, at the EnMarket Arena. Excalibur, Mark Henry and Caprice Coleman were on the call. Bobby Fish defeated Blake Li ** Thumbs Down This was Fish’s first match in a month due to being out with an injury and Li’s fourth AEW match overall (0-4). (You might recognize Li as Shoot Taylor from the indies.) The reDRagon veteran got the contest started with his amazing technical wrestling, later hi

Florida’s Titus O’Neil was in the ring to start the show. (His chyron noted that he’d be at the ESPYs this week.) O’Neil said he has accomplished a lot in his career but he reached his peak by becoming a WWE ambassador. He said they needed goodwill now more than ever. It was their jobs to put smiles on faces — whether that meant helping the less fortunate, entertaining U.S. servicemen and women across the world or assisting families. O’Neil said you will never hear them (WWE)

Here are results from night two of the G1 Climax 32 tournament in blank. Non-tournament matches: YOSHI-HASHI and David Finlay defeated Filthy Tom Lawlor and Royce Issacs. Finlay pinned Issacs. ***1/4 Thumbs Up El Phantasmo and Bad Luck Fale defeated Lance Archer and Taka Michinoku. Phantasmo pinned Michinoku. *** Thumbs Up Will Ospreay, Great-O-Khan, Aaron Henare, and Jeff Cobb defeated EVIL, Yujiro Takahashi, SHO, and Dick Togo. Henare submitted Togo with a full nelson. ***

I know what I said in my last article but, here are results from the first night of NJPW's G1 Climax 32 tournament, which was held in Hokkaido. Non-tournament matches: Tom Lawlor (with Royce Issacs) defeated Yohei Fujita with the NKOTB. ***1/4 Thumbs Up JONAH and Bad Dude Tito defeated Toru Yano and Ryohei Oiwa. JONAH pinned Oiwa with a powerbomb. ** Thumbs In The Middle Pointing Down EVIL, SHO, and Yujiro Takahashi defeated Jado, David Finlay, and Tama Tonga. Yujiro pinned J

STRONG Openweight Tag Team Tournament Round One: *** Thumbs Up Stray Dog Army (Barrett Brown & Misterioso) defeated Midnight Heat (Eddie Pearl & Ricky Gibson) Pearl and Brown kept missing elbow drops on each other early on. Misterioso did a giant swing to Gibson later, and Brown caught Gibson in the face with a low dropkick mid-swing. When Brown was running off the ropes, Eddie Pearl, who was on the ground outside the ring, pulled at Brown's ankle, tripping him up. This allow

This week’s WWE Main Event was taped at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas, before Monday’s Raw. Tamina defeated Jazmin Allure (5:23) **1/4 Thumbs In The Middle Pointing Down This was just an extended squash, but certainly showed off what free agent Allure can do. Main Event booking was curious here to say the least -- not the first time I have typed those words. They clearly wanted Tamina to squash somebody, but they clearly wanted to see what Allure could do. They never

Ikemen Jiro defeated Quincy Elliott Thumbs Down 1/4* This was a match of Level Up regulars. As goofy as this was, they both have a lot of charisma, which is more than a lot of the NXT roster can say. The start of the match was the two trading hand signals and dances. Jiro struggled to get Elliott to the ground. Elliott turned around a body slam for the upper hand. Every offensive move by Elliott was followed by kind of dance or gyration. Jiro turned things around with a super