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NXT UK
Date: February 10, 2022
Location: BT Sports Studios, London, England
Commentators: Nigel McGuinness, Andy Shepherd
For once, we don’t have a title on the line and after last week, that might be a good thing. Last week’s Women’s Title match ended with a fluke injury to Blair Davenport and she is likely to be gone for a long time. This week’s show is about revenge though as Nathan Frazer gets his hands on Teoman. Let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
Amale vs. Nina Samuels Fallout for Samuels taking over Amale’s interview and mocking her. Amale slugs away with forearms to start but Samuels grabs a hiptoss. Back up and Amale grabs a butterfly suplex but they head to the apron where Samuels trips her down. A high kick into a slingshot splash gives Samuels two and she rakes Amale’s face into the mat.
The chinlock puts Amale in trouble for a bit until she fights up for the clothesline comeback. A backsplash crushes Samuels for two but she is right back with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker..

It was worth the wait. There are some wrestlers who do not last long in the industry for one reason or another. Maybe they do not like it or maybe they aren’t cut out for what they are doing, but for some reason it just doesn’t work. At the same time, there are some people who feel like lifers and eventually make it big. It can be a long road to get there, but the eventual win can make it worth the wait. That might have been the case this weekend.
Matt Cardona, better known as Zack Ryder, won the NWA World Title from Trevor Murdoch Saturday night at the NWA Super Powerrr event, which will air next Tuesday. Cardona has been wrestling on the independent circuit as well as in Impact Wrestling since his release from WWE in April 2020. Since then, he has also won the Game Changer Wrestling World Title, defeating Nick Gage for the title in July 2021.
I did it.
I am the @nwa World’s Heavyweight Champion!#NWAPowerrrTrip #AlwayzReady #StillHere pic.twitter.com/x6THyEh1de
— Matt Cardona (@T..

They do have a plan. WWE has changed up its roster over and over in recent years and that seems to be continuing. Since the company has released dozens of wrestlers, they are going to need to bring in some new ones to fill in those gaps. There are more than a few places to find the wrestlers who can fill those gaps, and now we know a bit more about the path that WWE will be taking for them.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE will be holding another tryout camp in Dallas over WrestleMania 38 weekend. The plan is to sign “no more independent wrestlers than can be counted on one hand” and even fewer than that from camps in the future. WWE’s goal is to sign as many non-wrestling athletes as possible in an effort to mold them into stars in the future. WWE is holding another tryout camp this weekend and seems to have signed former Ring of Honor Women’s Champion Rok-C, who participated in the camp.
Opinion: This is one of those ideas where WWE seems to keep swinging from ex..

They let you know in advance. WWE is in currently on the Road To WrestleMania and that means things are going to start to get bigger in a hurry. We are less than a week away from Elimination Chamber and less than two months away from WrestleMania 38, but there are a few more shows to get through on the way there. That includes a few television shows, one of which was taped in advance. WWE has actually acknowledged something that happened on the show.
WWE has revealed that Sami Zayn defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the Intercontinental Title during this weekend’s SmackDown television taping. The match was taped in advance and will air on the February 18 SmackDown, as WWE will be in Saudi Arabia on February 19 for Elimination Chamber. Zayn had been #1 contender for several weeks before the title match eventually took place.
Opinion: This is something that was almost bound to happen as there was little reason to keep the title on Nakamura any longer. He had been champion for over six m..

I guess they’re on the same page. WWE is less than a week away from returning to Saudi Arabia for their latest special event, with Elimination Chamber taking place on February 19. As is usually the case with a Saudi Arabia event, the card is absolutely stacked, but in this case, there is a certain group of matches on the card that has gotten some extra attention. Now WWE is acknowledging that in a very certain way.
Elimination Chamber will feature three women’s matches, marking the most ever for a Saudi Arabia show. The three matches include an Elimination Chamber match, Charlotte/Sonya Deville vs. Ronda Rousey/Naomi, and Becky Lynch defending the raw Women’s Title against Lita. The title match is important enough that it has been advertised on several billboards in the country. Several WWE names have tweeted out an image of the billboards, with a near identical message of “WWE Continues To Influence The World” or something similar. There is no word on if this is a WWE mandate or the ..

205 Live
Date: February 11, 2022
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Sudu Shah, Nigel McGuinness
We’re back to this show and last week actually gave me a bit of hope. There are a lot of NXT stars who have nothing going on at the moment so give some more of them some time instead of these lower level prospects. I know they need ring time, but if you are going for the entertaining, get some better stars out here. Let’s get to it.
Ikemen Jiro vs. Trick Williams Kushida and Carmelo Hayes are here too. Williams spins out of a wristlock to start but Jiro takes him down, meaning it’s time for some showboating. A cravate has Jiro in some more trouble and a dropkick to the back of the head makes it even worse. The crossarm choke goes on but Jiro slips through the legs and flips him over for the escape. Jiro runs him over and hits a double springboard moonsault for two but Williams drops him face first onto the top. A running neckbreaker finishes Jiro at 5:13.
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They’re good at that. Wrestlers have a difficult task, as they are asked to make fans believe what they are doing is real while also having a fully cooperative match. This is in addition to building up a character, which is often best done through promos and segments. Sometimes a wrestler makes it work very well, which is the case with some modern stars. However, some of them broke character for a rather nice reason recently.
Jarrius Robertson, a WWE fan with a chronic live disease who has undergone two liver transplants, was in attendance at this week’s SmackDown. Various wrestlers acknowledged him throughout the night, including Roman Reigns, Big E. and Jimmy Uso, the latter of whom gave Robertson his shirt. Robertson is a longtime WWE fan and received the Warrior Award at the 2018 WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
This was pretty awesome. Check out some of the WWE roster interacting with Robertson:
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That’s a long time. There have been a lot of departures from WWE in the last year and a half and several of them have come from mass releases. WWE has let go all kinds of wrestlers at once in multiple groups, leaving the roster a bit weakened. However, there is one wrestler who is sticking around, even if he does not seem to want to. Now we know a bit more about what is going on.
Over the last few months, Mustafa Ali has been attempting to gain his release from WWE, but the company refuses to let him go. This stems from an argument between Ali and Vince McMahon over Ali not agreeing to some kind of an idea that McMahon had for him, as well as a lack of being used. Ali sent out a tweet over the weekend, saying that he will see us in “about two and a half years”, suggesting the length of time that he has left on his current WWE contract.
i’ll see ya all in like 2 1/2 years
— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) February 12, 2022
Opinion: This is a situation where I can see both sides, ..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be?
Elimination Chamber 2015
Date: May 31, 2015
Location: American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas
Commentators: Michael Cole, Booker T., Jerry Lawler
It’s another pay per view just two weeks after Payback but the card has been put together fairly well this time. The main event this time is WWE World Champion Seth Rollins defending against Dean Ambrose, plus the Tag Team Titles and Intercontinental Title being decided inside the Chamber, both for the first time ever. Let’s get to it.
Pre-Show: Zack Ryder vs. Stard..

Next woman up. The AEW roster has been built up rather well over the company’s three year history and that is a great thing to see. Above all else, AEW has done a great job of choosing who will be on the roster and that has made for some great moments. WWE knows what it is doing when it comes to making decisions and now they have picked up another promising star.
This week’s edition of AEW Dynamite included a match between TBS Champion Jade Cargill and AQA. Following the match, AEW has announced that AQA has been signed to a contract with the company. AQA has wrestled several matches for the company on Dark and was trained by WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. There is no word on when AQA will be wrestling her next match in AEW.
She’s a shooting star, and now @_AQA10 is All Elite! #AEW #AEWDynamite #AEWRampage pic.twitter.com/LZ7ocHROhC
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) February 11, 2022
Opinion: I’m a bit surprised at AQA getting signed after the match on Dynamite as it was not exactly the smoothe..

They must protect their house. WWE has been around for a very long time now and the company has been through a lot. The company has grown to levels that almost no one would have believed possible but they have managed to make it work. At the same time though, the company still wants to keep some of the traditions that they have had before. Now that means they are going out of their way to make something better this time around.
WWE will be returning to Madison Square Garden in New York City on March 5 for a live event. There are two matches advertised for the show, including Brock Lesnar challenging Bobby Lashley for the WWE Title and Seth Rollins challenging Roman Reigns for the Universal Title. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE is hoping to draw a higher attendance for the show because the previous show in the city did not do well. The arena is considered WWE’s home base and has been for several decades.
Opinion: This isn’t the biggest surprise, but there were a f..

Well that’s clever. There are a lot of wrestlers in the world but only a few manage to stand out. Some of them do this because of their ability to talk while others are able to get over because of what they can do in the ring. One thing that will always get some attention is an impressive physical accomplishment, and now one of the more awe inspiring moves is getting a pretty funny name.
This week’s edition of AEW Dynamite featured the surprise debut of Keith Lee, who signed with the company after being released from WWE last year. Lee defeated Isiah Kassidy in his debut match, which featured Lee bieling Kassidy across the ring. The match has received some attention online, which prompted Lee to officially dub the move the Uncle Phil Biel. The move is named after the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, where Uncle Phil would throw Jazz out of his house as a running gag.
Opinion: That is the kind of thing that I like about non-WWE promotions as WWE would never allow some kind of a pop culture re..