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One more time? There are very few stars in wrestling history on the same level as John Cena. While he certainly has his detractors, Cena is still one of the biggest stars in the world. Cena is back in WWE for another run with the company and is still feeling like a top draw. It is clear that he will not be around for very long, but now we do know one more date for him.
WWE has announced that Cena will be in attendance for the September 10 SmackDown from Madison Square Garden in New York City. This is a change from the expected plan, which would see Cena’s final appearance at Summerslam on August 21. Cena is expected to report to Europe to begin a new movie shoot at some point in August. There is no word on what Cena will be doing on the show, or if he will be appearing on television.
Cena has a long history in the Garden. Check out some of his time there:
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He keeps mixing it up. Every now and then you see a wrestler who changes the game. There might be something about him which you just cannot ignore because they are different than anyone else. That is the case with a certain wrestler who is currently waiting to return to WWE, but he has been shaking things up a little bit while he is away from the ring.
Brock Lesnar appeared at the Twin Cities Summer Jam in Shakopee, Minnesota over the weekend, including showing up in various photos. Lesnar is seen wearing a cowboy hat in the photos, taken by fans and with various local celebrities. Lesnar is also sporting the goatee that he was first seen with earlier this month in a video on the Butcher Brothers YouTube channel. Lesnar’s wife Rena, better known as Sable, appears with him in one photo.
Met the one, the only, Brock Lesnar backstage last night at @TCSummerJam! pic.twitter.com/Rk8jaaSJW9
— Dubs (@MikeDubsRadio) July 25, 2021
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You hate to see this. Wrestling fans are some of the most passionate in all of sports. While their energy and enthusiasm is a wonderful thing, sometimes they go to far. This was the case this past weekend, and garbage was a part of it.
Over the weekend, at GCW: Homecoming night one, former WWE and current Impact Wrestling star Matt Cardona defeated Nick Gage in the main event to win the GCW World Championship. Gage had held the GCW World Championship for over 100 days.
During the match, Ricky Shane Page’s faction, 44OH!, ran in and attacked Gage. Former GCW World Champion RSP ran in to stop the attack, and he and Gage fought them off. However, it ended up being a ruse as RSP gave Gage a low blow allowing Cardona to hit the Rough Ryder on Gage to win the title. Immediately after winning the title, the GCW fans threw garbage and other debris into the ring, including pizza cutters. Cardona, who wrestled as Zack Ryder in WWE, ran off leaving Gage in the ring in disappointment and in disb..

Welcome back? WWE is the biggest wrestling promotion in the world and as a result, they are going to have their hands in as many different areas as anyone else. That opens up a lot of doors for the promotion and they have walked through most of them. As a result, WWE has been able to expand internationally. Now we know when they are heading somewhere else again.
According to Andrew Zarian of the Mat Men podcast, WWE is planning to return to Saudi Arabia at some point in October, with Thursday October 21 as a possible date. This is assuming that there are no travel restrictions between the United States and Saudi Arabia in October. There is no word on the name of the show, though the company has traditionally presented Crown Jewel around this time of the year. No announcement has been made about any show in the country.
WWE began running events in Saudi Arabia in 2018 as part of a ten year agreement with the Kingdom. The company would run two shows a year in Saudi Arabia, with the Kin..

When heavyweights collide. WWE has posted a new video to its YouTube channel in which they show the full match between Roman Reigns and Samoa Joe from WWE Backlash 2018.
You can see the match in its entirety below:
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From WWE.com:
Joe ambushed Reigns before the bell and sent him crashing through the Spanish announce table with a Uranage, kicking off a strategy that began with Reigns trapped in holds that targeted his shoulders for minutes on end and culminated in a series of Coquina Clutch attempts that The Big Dog narrowly managed to avoid.
Joe’s strategy was as rudimentary as it was effective. Even when Reigns landed a thunderous Spear, Joe was close enough to the ropes to stop the pinfall, and The Samoan Submission Machine only turned up the heat when he felt it was time to lock in his near-ironclad submission hold. When Joe finally applied the Clutch, grapevine legs and all, Reigns seemed to be drifting into unconsciousness before he ro..

That didn’t look good. WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Natalya appeared to have suffered a leg injury during tonight’s episode of Raw, during a match with Eva Marie and Doudrop.
She and her partner, Tamina, were in the match, when Natalya appeared to suffer a right leg injury on either a roll-over or a foot stomp from Doudrop. Natalya tagged out and immediately had trouble putting weight on her right leg. The referee then apparently called an audible as Tamina took over, and after a distraction by Lilly on the big screen, hit a superkick on Eva for the pin to win.
After the match, a ringside medic immediately helped Natalya to the back. Tamina joined the medic in helping Natalya, who was still unable to put weight on her right leg.
You can see a clip of the potential injury below:
@RajGiri_303 It appears here is where she injured her ankle or leg. @WrestlingInc pic.twitter.com/jOrMKv38il
— Ethan Cramer (@EthanCramer) July 27, 2021
Here’s another clip from the match:
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Keep the card going. There are a lot of ways to present a title match as you can come up with several different options. That is the case with WWE, as they have a lot of titles to choose from at any given time. Sometimes they can come up with a few different ideas here and there, and this time around they have dusted off one of the old classics for next month.
This week’s Monday Night Raw opened with new Raw Women’s Champion Nikki Ash talking about how she overcame the odds to win the title. Former champion Charlotte and Rhea Ripley interrupted, saying they wanted the title back. As a result, Adam Pearce and Sonya Deville made a triple threat match between the three of them for the title at Summerslam. This is the same match that has taken place at the two WWE live events over the weekend.
These three are going to be interesting. Check out all of them in action:
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Monday Night Raw
Date: July 26, 2021
Location: T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Commentators: Jimmy Smith, Byron Saxton, Corey Graves
It’s time to find out how bad Raw can get this week, which tends to be the new low every week. Last week’s show was one of the biggest head scratchers I’ve seen in a very long time and it could be terrifying to see just how low things can get. We are less than a month away from Summerslam and it’s time to build things up. Let’s get to it.
We open with a recap of last week’s Women’s Title match and Nikki Ash cashing in Money in the Bank to win the title.
Here is Nikki Ash to get things going. She finally gets to welcome us to Raw and talks about how she didn’t believe she could get here. Nikki has worked to get here and once she finally started believing in herself, she accomplished her goals. If she can do it, everyone can do it and we can all be almost superheroes. Cue Charlotte to talk about how last week wasn’t fair and she is getting her rem..

He’s pretty interesting. There is no one in the wrestling world like Vince McMahon and that might be a great thing. McMahon is a lot of things, including the most powerful person in the wrestling world, but he does not have the cleanest past in the world. There are several scandals and situations throughout McMahon’s history. Now we are about to see a closer look at one of the bigger ones.
WWE has announced that it will partner with Blumhouse Studios on a limited scripted series called “The United States Of America vs. Vince McMahon.” The series will focus on McMahon being charged with steroid distribution in 1994. McMahon himself will serve as an executive producer on the series. There is no word on when the series will air or which network will air it.
This could go a lot of different ways. Check out McMahon doing his thing over the years in WWE:
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You can always depend on your friends. WWE has posted a new video to its YouTube channel in which they show the full match between Sasha Banks & Bayley vs. Charlotte & Dana Brooke from Battleground 2016.
You can watch the match in its entirety below:
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From WWE.com:
The champion and her enforcer seemed confident that Banks wouldn’t be able to find a partner, but The Boss proved them wrong as the WWE Network event started. The WWE Universe was ecstatic to see Bayley, erupting in cheers as her trademark wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men soared toward the Verizon Center’s rafters. The rapturous cheers quickly turned to jeers as Charlotte and Dana ambushed their opponents before the bell. The WWE Women’s Champion pounced on Bayley, but the resilient NXT Superstar fought out of the corner with a diving elbow and sent Banks into action.
A fired-up Boss charged at Charlotte and unleashed a hurricanrana off the ropes. However, the steel..

He may not be done yet. A debut is one of the most important parts of a wrestler’s career. If they do not come in hot, or at least respectable, it could make for a horrible problem to their career. WWE has a rather hit and miss history with this sort of thing and that was the case again last week. Now it seems that we might not be all the way to the end, and there may still be a chance.
According to Andrew Zarian of the Mat Men Podcast, WWE has a planned direction for Karrion Kross and the loss in his debut was only the start of the angle. There is no word on where the angle is expected to go, though Hardy tested positive for the Coronavirus in the last few days, meaning that he will be forced to quarantine for two weeks. It is not clear if the angle will continue as Hardy quarantines.
Kross is the reigning NXT Champion and the loss to Hardy was his first pinfall defeat at any level in WWE. The loss was not mentioned during Kross’ appearance the following night on NXT, though his app..