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Royal Rumble 2000
Date: January 23, 2000
Location: Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York
Attendance: 19,231
Commentators: Jerry Lawler, Jim Ross
This is the first of the two redos of the year and you picked a good one. What we have here is one of the better one two punches in WWF history, as it’s a double main event. Of course there is the Rumble, but we also have Cactus Jack vs. HHH for the WWF Title in a street fight, which should work out fairly well. Let’s get to it.
The opening video looks at some of Cactus Jack’s most violent moments over the years, with HHH still thinking he knows what he is getting into. Some of the Japanese deathmatch stuff here is rather insane looking and wasn’t something you would see on WWF (or American) TV at the time (or in modern times either really).
The set is really cool, as it has the entrance opposite the hard camera. There is a taxi hanging over the aisle, which is painted like a street for the street fight. Remember when they put in a..

I’ve been watching wrestling for a pretty long time now and it is rare that things really get to me in a negative way. Of course there are bad parts to almost every show, but most of them come and go without too much trouble. That is not always the case though and unfortunately we saw something like that again this week. To make it even worse, it was the second similar instance in just a few weeks.
Back in November, Charlotte hit Toni Storm in the face with a pie. It was the night after Thanksgiving and WWE felt the need to have a Thanksgiving Leftovers match earlier in the show. Charlotte and Storm came out, with Charlotte hitting her in the face with the pie. Since this is modern WWE, Storm stood there and took it, only to come back the next week with a pie to Charlotte. Then Charlotte beat her up twice in a row and Storm left the company, probably because she just lost a feud that started with a pie being shoved into her face.
Now that was bad enough, but at least it was designed ..

That could be a big deal. WWE is the biggest and most powerful wrestling promotion in the world and that has been the case for a very long time. It is fair to say that it holds a monopoly over the industry, which has made it difficult for another promotion to truly rise up. Things have changed a bit though, and now another promotion is not exactly happy with how WWE runs things.
Major League Wrestling (MLW) has issued a press release, by way of 411mania.com, announcing that they are suing WWE over antitrust issues. The suit claims that WWE has disrupted a potential streaming deal for the company, as well as attempted to keep them off of Vice TV because Vince McMahon did not want their content on the network. MLW claims that the streaming deal would have been “transformative” for the company.
PWInsider.com has obtained a copy of the lawsuit, which accuses WWE of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. WWE is also accused of using anticompetitive business practices to maintain its dominan..

They need more people. We are less than a month away from the Royal Rumble and the show’s two thirty person Royal Rumble matches are starting to fill up. There are only so many people on the active WWE roster to fill in those spots, meaning they might need to bring in some replacements. Now we might know who two more of those people are going to be.
According to PWInsider Elite, Cameron and Melina are likely returning to WWE to compete in the women’s Royal Rumble. Should the two of them be included, they would bring the total entrants in the women’s match 21, leaving nine spots remaining. There is nothing to indicate that either would be more than a one off appearance. Cameron and Melina’s most recent WWE matches took place in 2016 and 2011 respectively.
This could be an important move for the match. Check out what the two can do in the ring and what a women’s Royal Rumble looks like:
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They aren’t quite done. WWE gets a lot of television time every single week and a lot of it is spent on the matches themselves. There is quite a bit more to it than that though, as wrestling often involves a good deal of talking. Sometimes that is the most important thing that you can see, and that is why there was more talking to be said after one of this week’s TV shows ended.
WWE has released a video from after this week’s edition of NXT went off the air, showing AJ Styles and LA Knight in the ring. Styles praised Knight for being a great star in NXT, with Knight saying that he was just getting started with Grayson Waller and praising Styles for defeating him. This week’s show was headlined by Styles defeating Waller and Knight returning after missing a few weeks due to Waller attacking him.
It was a busy night. Check out what happened after the show, and how it ended:
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That’s never good to hear. Injuries are one of the true constants in wrestling as any wrestler can be hurt at any time. It can make for some terrible moments, as you might see someone go down after almost nothing seemed to be going wrong. There have been several in recent weeks, and now we have another one with a slightly bigger member of a roster.
According to Wrestlingnews.co, fans in attendance have reported that Odyssey Jones was injured during a match for this week’s 205 Live. While the nature of his injury was not disclosed, the match included a “weird” finish and Jones was helped to the back. Jones’ most recent televised appearance took place on the December 28 edition of NXT, when he lost to Grayson Waller.
Jones is quite the force. Check out what he can do in the ring:
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Opinion: That is never good to hear and hopefully Jones is not in bad shape…

It’s a different career. There are all kinds of wrestlers under the WWE banner and every one of them is talented in some way. Some of them are talented in more than one way and that can make for some interesting situations as you see what they can do outside of the ring. There have been wrestlers who have been doing their other things for years, and now we are seeing something new.
Monday Night Raw’s R-Truth, under his real name Ron Killings, has released a music video for his new single “Out The Window”. The song is the second single off of his album Legacy, which was released in December. The video features an animated version of R-Truth doing various things, such as rapping in a studio, arm wrestling a monster and dancing on a car. R-Truth has been releasing music for over twenty years, including his own theme song.
It’s a cool video. Check out R-Truth’s latest release, plus some of his other offerings:
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It’s all about control. WWE is a huge company and has varying levels of authority. While Vince McMahon has the final say in everything, there are several people beneath him with various responsibilities. Some of those are rather important names, and now two of them will be taking charge of something rather big, which we can see every single week on television.
According to PWInsider.com, Bruce Prichard and Christine Lubrano (Senior Vice President of Creative Writing Operations) will now officially oversee NXT’s creative, as is the case with Monday Night Raw and SmackDown. Johnny Russo will serve as NXT’s head of creative after serving as lead writer since July 2020. This comes after most of Triple H’s creative team was let go from the company last week in the latest round of releases.
There are three of the same. Check out all of the shows Prichard and Lubrano oversee:
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They could be on their way up. There have been a lot of changes in WWE over the last year and those changes seem to be continuing. NXT has seen some of the biggest changes of them all, as several of its wrestlers have been released from the company. That does not leave a lot of depth on the roster, but things might be about to get even weaker still, as some big names could be leaving.
According to Wrestlinginc.com, NXT’s Tommaso Ciampa and Pete Dunne were both in action on this week’s edition of Main Event. While not confirmed, this could suggest that the two of them are on their way to the main roster. Ciampa lost the NXT Title to Bron Breakker last week, while Dunne was defeated by Tony D’Angelo on this week’s show. They have both been wrestling on recent WWE live events.
Those are some talented people. Check out who might be coming to the main roster:
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NXT
Date: January 11, 2022
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Vic Joseph, Wade Barrett
We’re officially in a new era, as Bron Breakker won the NXT Title last week at New Year’s Evil. That is the kind of change you do not see take place very often and now we get to see what happens with Breakker as the star of the show. We should be in for some good stuff, which is long overdue around here. Let’s get to it.
We open with a recap of Bron Breakker winning the NXT Title.
Here is Breakker to get things going. The title looks good around his waist but the fans are split on whether or not he deserves it. Breakker thanks Tommaso Ciampa for being a great champion and a respectable human being. Last week, Ciampa told him it was his time and went over to shake his father’s hand.
We don’t have any days off around here though so if anyone wants some, come get it. Just remember that if you come in to train, he’s already trained. If you’re watching film, he’s alread..

That’s never good to hear. The Coronavirus pandemic has shaken up the world in a huge way, including the professional wrestling industry. You regularly see wrestlers confirming their positive diagnoses and that is likely to be the case for the foreseeable future. That is never good to hear, and now we are hearing it again, with one of the bigger stars in wrestling today.
Over the weekend, AEW’s Kenny Omega and Jim Cornette had a brief exchange on Twitter, with Omega mentioning Cornette in a response to a fan. Cornette responded, seemingly not taking kindly to Omega bringing him up. Omega responded as well, apologizing for his comments and revealing that he has tested positive for the Coronavirus. There is no word on Omega’s health at the moment, but he has been out of action since November due to a variety of injuries.
Will you bump up Corny’s oxygen so he can maybe get through a podcast without wheezing through every word? It’s harsh on the ears from what a I hear
— Kenny Omega (@K..

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?
Monday Night Raw
Date: January 11, 1993
Location: Manhattan Center, Manhattan, New York
Commentators: Vince McMahon, Rob Bartlett, Randy Savage
This is the first ever Monday Night Raw, making it the start of the most important weekly wrestling show ever. It’s also not the best time for the company, as things are getting rather dull as we move towards the 1993 Royal Rumble. Bret Hart is WWF Champion but there is a certain monster called Yokozuna on the horizon. Let’s get to it.

Sean Mooney is on the streets of Ma..