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We are less than a month away from Tables, Ladders And Chairs and that means we are going to be seeing a lot of different gimmick matches taking place on the same show. Ignoring how kind of insane it is to run at least four special matches like that on one card, there is one match in particular that has yet to be announced just yet but you can all but guarantee it being set up in one form or another. We are going to be looking at that one match today, along with the big problem that comes along with it.
Over the last few months, Nia Jax has shown her continuing ability to be quite the bully around Monday Night Raw. This time around, her targets have been set on Lana, who Jax put through a table nine straight times. That’s quite the level of overkill and it was almost a relief to see Lana not go through a table for a tenth time. It was time for a change, but the new direction isn’t quite the big upgrade.
Lana has been fighting back, or at least she has been having Asuka do the fightin..

Fusion #111
Date: November 18, 2020
Location: Gilt Nightclub, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Jared Saint Laurent, Rich Bocchini
I’m not sure what to make of things around here. Last week’s show wasn’t the worst but it also didn’t exactly live up to the expectations that had been built up during the hiatus. It’s time to start the Opera Cup again and while it’s a nice idea, it’s not like the first one was a blow away idea. Let’s get to it.
We open with a quick preview of tonight’s first round Opera Cup matches.
Opening sequence.
We look at the end of last week’s show with a new member of Contra attacking Alex Hammerstone.
Earlier today, Richard Holliday didn’t think much of Contra and promises that Hammerstone will be fine. He runs into Gino Medina, who claims he quit the Dynasty while Holliday insisted he was fired. Medina implies violence by the end of the night.
Opera Cup First Round: TJP vs. Richard Holliday Holliday has the Caribbean Title held up but makes it clear that this ..

Shine them up. While there are a lot of them in WWE today, titles are still what drives a good portion of the stories in wrestling. In theory, winning championships are why wrestlers compete in the first place and that makes them as important as anything else. Some people would do a lot of things to get a title, and now we might know where one such title is heading.
One of the more discussed stories on Monday Night Raw over the last few weeks has been that of Nia Jax bullying Lana. Jax has put Lana through the announcers’ table nine times in a row and Lana has only recently started to fight back. The endgame of the story seems to be Lana getting her revenge, and now she might have some help in doing just that, while possibly picking up some gold along the way.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, this week’s Monday Night Raw match with Asuka and Lana defeating Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler in a non-title match could set up a Women’s Tag Team Title match at Tables, Ladders And Chairs. ..

Already? Wrestling retirements are a funny thing as they have a tendency to not stick. Terry Funk’s first retirement match took place in 1983 and his most recent match took place in 2017, with Funk working around the wrestling world since then. It is very rare to see someone actually stay retired in wrestling and this time around, someone did not wait long before changing their mind.
Bringing a wrestler out of retirement is not the world thing that can be done, as it can be fascinating to see if someone still has it after their time away from the ring. This is a tricky balance to find though, as someone being gone for a long time can make them a shell of their former self, but if someone has not been gone very long in the first place, the comeback does not matter all that much. There is another comeback taking place, and the name may surprise you.
During this week’s Impact Wrestling, former WWE, ECW and NWA star Jazz was unveiled as Jordynne Grace’s tag team partner in the Impact Wre..

You would be surprised too. This past weekend, WWE said goodbye to Undertaker after a thirty year in-ring career. That is the kind of thing that you don’t expect to see but it finally had to happen. Undertaker has been a bit past his prime for a good many years now but there is still something to be said about that gong going off. At the same time though, there is something else Undertaker can do and now we are getting to see just that.
One of the more interesting things to see over the last several months has been the other side of the Undertaker. Instead of being the character, it has been a lot more Mark Calaway in recent months, as he has given several interviews and shown the man behind the character. It takes some getting used to and now we are seeing a slightly funnier side of him as well.
Well that’s just awesome. Check out what Undertaker is up to:

WWE and Omaze are taking part in a contest with the grand prize of a tour of the Performance Center with Undertaker. At the sa..

Ring of Honor
Date: November 18, 2020
Location: UMBC Events Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Commentators: Ian Riccaboni, Caprice Coleman
Things are starting to get back to normal here and that is the kind of thing that could be a good or bad situation. The stories are starting to slip back into place though and now we get to find out what the creative department has put together in the last few months. I’m as scared as you are. Let’s get to it.
Amy Rose narrates a video about La Faccion Ingobernable, who is back soon.
Opening sequence.
Quinn McKay welcomes us to the show and throws it to the end of Brody King beating Dalton Castle last week.
King says a fire of violence has been lit inside him. His comments were about ten seconds after two minutes of the match.
The Briscoes and the Soldiers of Savagery talk trash to each other and are ready to fight.
Soldiers of Savagery vs. Briscoes EC3 is on commentary. The Briscoes have new music and someone managed to count that they are 199-80 ..

NWA time. Wrestling fans are rather spoiled today when it comes to available content. There is so much wrestling available that it is impossible to see everything that is being aired and that is a nice problem to have. With so many things running around, you have to pick and choose what you want to see and that is going to get a little more complicated next week.
One of the biggest wrestling surprises of 2019 was the resurgence of the NWA. As NWA World Champion Nick Aldis said, the company went from a punchline to a powerhouse, nearly entirely based on the strength of the NWA Powerrr show. The weekly series was only around for a few months but it changed the way people looked at the company. The show has been gone for several months, but now we are going to be seeing a spiritual successor.
It’s kind of a big deal. Check out the NWA’s surprise:

The NWA has announced a new series called Shockwave debuting on Tuesday December 1 at 6pm EST. The show will be produced in conjunction with..

Impact Wrestling
Date: November 22, 2020
Location: Skyway Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Commentators: Madison Rayne, Josh Matthews
We’re done with Turning Point and now things are starting to get a little more interesting. There were two title changes on the show as the Good Brothers and Deonna Purrazzo won the Tag Team and Knockouts Titles (you can figure out which did which). Other than that, the hunt is still on for John E. Bravo’s shooter. Let’s get to it.
The opening video looks at Turning Point.
Opening sequence.
Moose vs. Willie Mack Non-title, No DQ and a rematch from Turning Point where Moose won but had the decision overturned for attacking after the bell. They charge at each other to start with Mack hammering away and hitting a dropkick into the corner. There’s the Cannonball to send Moose outside but he tosses Mack over the barricade. Moose whips him into the barricade for a bonus and says this is for Rich Swann. Back in and Moose misses a dropkick but nips right back u..

See you in a bit. We are finally done with Survivor Series and that means it is time to move forward towards some other things down the road. WWE is starting the build towards the Royal Rumble and ultimately the Road to WrestleMania, meaning we are about to reach the most important part of WWE’s calendar. However, one of the bigger stars in WWE will not be around for a bit.
This week’s Monday Night Raw served as a fallout show from Survivor Series as things started to get a bit more back to normal. There were no more qualifying matches for Survivor Series and it was time for Monday Night Raw to celebrate their great victory. The members of the men’s Monday Night Raw team was rather pleased, but that won’t be the case for one member soon after the show.
WWE has announced that Braun Strowman has been indefinitely suspended for attacking WWE official Adam Pearce on this week’s Monday Night Raw. During the show, Strowman attacked Pearce for saying that Strowman was “last but not least”. ..

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?
Vengeance 2006
Date: June 25, 2006
Location: Charlotte Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina
Attendance: 6,800
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
It’s time for another Raw pay per view but this time around we have ECW invading as WWE continues to try to turn it into something again. This time around that means Edge challenging ECW/WWE Champion Rob Van Dam and John Cena vs. Sabu in an EXTREME Lumberjack match. I’m not sure how EXTREME you can make a lumberjack match but maybe Cena can make it work. Let’s get to i..

A slight delay. There are stars in WWE and then there are THE stars in WWE. The company’s biggest names are the people that you know by sight or even by nickname and those are the people that WWE is going to push the hardest. Those wrestlers have star power that can’t be manufactured but one of those big names is not going to be around for a little longer than expected.
Back in June, Charlotte took a hiatus from WWE, which really did shake things up a bit. The timing did not help things as Charlotte’s departure came only about a month after Becky Lynch went on maternity leave, meaning that the two biggest stars of the women’s division were both gone within a few weeks of each other. Neither are back yet and it might be a bit longer before we Charlotte again.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, there is no word on when Charlotte will be back. While Charlotte initially left to have a cosmetic procedure, she is also missing time due to work outside of WWE. Charlotte has signed with t..

Welcome home. There are a lot of wrestling promotions in the world other than WWE, even though it has a tendency to get a lot of the attention. That does not mean that there are not very talented wrestlers there doing some very interesting things and that is certainly the case with Ring Of Honor, which has picked up another star who could be quite the asset to them going forward.
Back in April, WWE released several dozen wrestlers at the same time. That is the kind of thing that can shake up the wrestling world in a heartbeat and that is exactly what happened, as a lot of those wrestlers were able to find work elsewhere. Some of these wrestlers went back to promotions where they had worked before, and that is the case with one in particular.
Glad to see you again. Check out a nice return:
https://media.wrestlingrumors.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/24044604/Mike-Bennett.mp4 Ring Of Honor has posted a clip from their most recent television show, which featured the return of Mike Benn..