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That would be a big get. There are top names in wrestling history and then there is The Rock. After an all time wrestling career, The Rock moved on to Hollywood and became the biggest name in the movie industry. Either one of these things is amazingly impressive but he managed to do them both at a relatively young age. Every now and then, Rock will return to wrestling and now we might know where he will be next.
According to the Mat Men Wrestling Podcast, The Rock is expected to appear at this year’s Survivor Series, though there is no word on what he will be doing on the show. In addition, the Rock is expected to appear on WWE television shows leading up to the event. This will be the Rock’s first appearance on WWE programming since the September 4, 2019 SmackDown. The event will also mark twenty five years since the Rock’s WWE debut, which took place at Survivor Series 1996.
After making his debut at Survivor Series 1996, the Rock went on to join the Nation of Domination and become..

Sometimes you need to move on. The wrestling world has been changing a lot as of late and some of the moves have made things a lot more interesting. One of the biggest changes has been the movement of wrestlers from one promotion to another as it can be fascinating to see where someone winds up. We might be finding that out again as someone is taking their leave.
Former Impact Wrestling Knockouts Tag Team Champion Kiera Hogan has announced that she is finishing up with Impact Wrestling after this week’s television tapings. The announcement was made on her OnlyFans account courtesy of Wrestlinginc.com. There was no reason given for her departure, other than Hogan saying she wanted to see what else is out there. Hogan is best known for her time as part of Fire N Flava with Tasha Steelz, with the team becoming the only two time Knockouts Tag Team Champions. She has been with Impact Wrestling since 2017.
Hogan was good in Impact Wrestling. Check out what she did there:
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The roster continues to grow. According to a Tweet from AEW’s official Twitter account, the company has officially signed Thunder Rosa to a long-term deal. Even though she has appeared multiple times with the company, she was officially a member of NWA’s roster.
Welcome to the team…@ThunderRosa22 is #AllElite pic.twitter.com/GcvAds6ANx
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) July 22, 2021
According to a report from Wrestling Inc., AEW was able able to sign with the company, even though her NWA contract ran through the year. Rosa was to become a free agent in 2022 and was excited about this possibility.
Rosa made her AEW debut back on the September 2, 2020 episode of Dynamite, while she was still the NWA World Women’s Champion. She defeated Serena Deeb that night, but then would lose to then-AEW Women’s World Champion Hikaru Shida at All Out just three days later. She has continued to work for AEW and the NWA since then, while also making a few indie appearances.
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That’s how you get them to stay. WWE has been in a bit of a weird place as of late, as they now have fans back in attendance but also need to come up with a way to keep them watching. The honeymoon period is only going to last for so long and it does not help when the promotion makes some interesting decisions. That was the case this week and WWE had a bit of an odd solution.
Earlier this week on Monday Night Raw, Jeff Hardy defeated reigning NXT Champion Karrion Kross in one minute and forty seconds. This was Kross’ first pinfall loss in WWE, either on NXT or a main roster show. According to Bodyslam.net, a Kross segment had to be retaped at this week’s NXT, as the fans chanted HARDY throughout the interview. A source said that the segment was shot at the end of the night, with a member of the production crew telling him that something special was going to happen as a surprise, though nothing happened after Kross’ segment.
Kross is worth a look. Check out what happened to him on Mon..

That’s a new one. One of the biggest WWE stories of the year has been the amount of changes made to the roster. The company has moved all kinds of people in and out of the roster, making it look a good bit different than it did at the start of the year. Some of those wrestlers have since moved on to other promotions, but now one is moving on to something entirely different.
According to Deadline.com, CJ Perry, formerly known as Lana in WWE, will be a part of the cast for a reboot of the Surreal Life on VH1. The show will see Perry and the rest of the cast living together in a mansion and completing tasks. The rest of the cast will include Dennis Rodman, August Alsina, Stormy Daniels, Tamar Braxton, Frankie Muniz, Kim Coles and Manny Mua. There is no word on when the show will premiere.
Perry certainly has personality. Check out her better moments in WWE:
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That’s a huge one. If there is one thing you can almost guarantee in today’s WWE, it is the success of a Takeover card. NXT has figured out the Takeover formula to near perfection, to the point where it seems impossible for them to put on a bad edition. That is a nice situation to have and it seems that we are seeing it again, as the first match has been confirmed for the next Takeover.
This week on NXT UK, NXT officials Triple H, William Regal and Shawn Michaels announced that Ilja Dragunov will challenge United Kingdom Champion Walter at Takeover 36 on August 22. This will be a rematch from their original title match in October 2020 where Walter successfully defended his title. The match was originally scheduled for this week but was postponed due to Walter suffering a hand injury. Takeover 36 will be held at the Capitol Wrestling Center in Orlando, Florida.
I would say this works. Check out the announcement and how we got here:
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Three’s a crowd? WWE is the biggest and more powerful wrestling promotion in the world, to the point that they are regularly running four television shows, all with their own unique rosters. That alone is going to be tricky, as it can be difficult to keep track of everyone on every show. There is also a pecking order to the whole thing, and WWE has certainly figured it out.
According to Jon Alba of Living The Gimmick, NXT is still considered the developmental show rather than the third brand of WWE. This comes after several instances of NXT being presented as a third brand, including winning the Battle For Brand Supremacy at Survivor Series 2019. Earlier this week, NXT Champion Karrion Kross made his Monday Night Raw debut, losing to Jeff Hardy in less than two minutes.
Sources in #WWE tell me #WWENXT is officially viewed internally as “developmental,” rather than the third brand as Paul Levesque's team has promoted over the past few years.
Read more now on @theLTGpodcast Patre..

It has to start somewhere. There are a few different kinds of stories that are always going to work in wrestling and they can get some nice reactions. Every now and then, you see something that works even better than expected and everyone comes out looking better than they did coming in. That was the case last year and it turns out that it only started because of a joke.
One of the biggest stories at last year’s WrestleMania 36 was the budding romance between Mandy Rose and Otis. The two of them had seemed ready to get together for months but the combined forces of Dolph Ziggler and Sonya Deville kept them apart. It all came together at WrestleMania, but how did the whole thing get started? Now we know the surprising answer.
In an interview with the Wrestling Inc. Daily, Levi Cooper, formerly known as Tucker in WWE and Otis’ former partner, revealed that the Otis and Rose romance storyline began as a rib on Rose’s then boyfriend Tino Sabbatelli. Otis would post jokes on social media,..

Maybe later? We are on the way to Summerslam and you can already see some of the card coming together. While nothing has been officially announced yet, the show is in less than a month and that means it is time to start getting ready for the show. Some matches are all but made already, though for one of the biggest, we might be having a little bit of a delay on the way there.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Goldberg returned and issued a challenge to Bobby Lashley for a WWE Championship match, with the match expected to take place at Summerslam. Later in the week, Lashley said that Goldberg did not belong in the same ring as him and said “no thanks, old man”. Should the match take place, it would be Goldberg’s second title shot this year, following a Royal Rumble title match.
You don’t belong in the same world as me, let alone the same ring. Get that close again, @The305MVP won’t be able to hold me back.
No thanks, old man.
#WWERaw @WWE pic.twitter.com/OcIL2e9j6t
— Bobby Lashley (..

You (slightly) older fans might remember Rob Van Dam’s theme song from the Forcible Entry CD. The song was called One Of A Kind and the name summed up Van Dam perfectly: there was only one of him and no one else was like him. For the most part, that was absolutely correct. No one talked like him, no one acted like him and no one wrestled like him, especially with the jumps and kicks. One of a Kind was the perfect name for him, and it is a phrase that you have probably heard in a lot of different places. Now let’s tweak that just a little bit.
Imagine if the phrase instead was twenty seven of a kind. That doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, as the more you have of something the less unique or special each one is. It is true in wrestling just like anything else, which should explain one of the bigger current problems (out of many) in WWE.
Right now, twenty seven people hold titles in WWE. That’s three shy of a Royal Rumble or five shy of the amount of people who wrestled at the fir..

Dream off. Every now and then, a wrestler becomes far more infamous than famous. For one reason or another, something bad happens to someone and it becomes a lot bigger than whatever it is that they are going to be doing in the ring. Often times, this is something from outside of the ring, which was the case with a wrestler who almost got back in the ring.
On Wednesday, SWF Wrestling announced that former NXT star the Velveteen Dream would be appearing at their September 11 Home Sweet Home event. Later in the same day, the promotion sent out another tweet saying that despite the promotion’s owner, Rob Fury, believing that any man can be slandered for something untrue, Dream will no longer be appearing at the show.
Dream was released from WWE earlier this year, following a period of inactivity due to allegations of inappropriate contact with underage fans. WWE said that they had investigated Dream but found no evidence of any wrongdoing. While WWE did not find anything, Dream was rele..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over ten years now and have reviewed over 5,000 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?
Saturday Night’s Main Event #32
Date: March 18, 2006
Location: Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan
Attendance: 7,000
Commentators: Jerry Lawler, Jim Ross, Tazz
And then there’s this, as we need a two hour commercial for Wrestlemania. The main event is a handicap match between the John Cena/HHH (the Raw main event) and Rey Mysterio/Kurt Angle/Randy Orton (the Smackdown main event), though it could wind up at any part of the show. There’s also Shawn Michaels vs. Shane McMahon in a street fight, which could have some strong p..