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Just do it. For well over thirty years, pay per view content has been one of the cornerstones of professional wrestling. The bigger promotions have spent years using their television shows to build up to pay per views that can be purchased nationwide, allowing them the chance to bring in all kinds of money if they can convince fans to buy the show. However, that model might be changing in WWE.
Back in February 2014, the WWE Network officially launched and everything changed for the wrestling world. Fans could suddenly have access to everything that they wanted to see from WWE for a rather low price. This not only included the pay per view archives, but also the new monthly pay per views. WWE even went so far as to mock fans who would still pay the full price for a pay per view event. Now they are changing their philosophy overall and it might make things rather different.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the new plan for WWE is to pump out as much content as possible i..

Well that’s a little different. There is little way to deny that WWE is the biggest wrestling promotion in the world. While it might not be the most popular in some ways, WWE is still the highest level of wrestling from a business standpoint. There are other promotions out there though, and one of them might be getting involved with one of the biggest names in entertainment today.
Even when he was still in wrestling, there was no hiding the fact that the Rock was destined for something more. He had all the charisma that you could ask for and made everything he touched look easy. That is not the kind of thing you are lucky to see once in a generation at most and WWE is lucky that Rock is willing to do some things with them from time to time. However, Rock might be doing something else with a rather different wrestling promotion.
Earlier this year, Ken Shamrock was announced as the latest inductee into the Impact Wrestling Hall Of Fame. His induction will take place next month, so Sham..

The card keeps growing. We are just over a week away from NXT Takeover and that means things are starting to come together in a hurry. This time the show is going to be a little bit different though as there are only so many wrestlers available due to a Coronavirus outbreak. NXT still has a pretty deep bench though and some of them are going to be able to make the show. Two more of those names have been confirmed.
One area where NXT tends to thrive is building up a feud in the midcard. They have figured out how to take people and a story with little business in a featured role and make it into something fans want to see. That has become a staple of Takeover and it is what we are likely to see again this time around. This one is in the form of a grudge match which has been built up over the last several weeks.
WWE has announced that Kushida will meet the Velveteen Dream at Takeover on October 4. This comes after the two have traded attacks on each other, beginning with Dream attacking..

Another reason. One of the bigger stories of the week has been the Coronavirus outbreak in NXT which has seemingly left a lot of wrestlers out of action. That is the kind of thing you can only plan for to a certain extent and it has been causing problems for NXT. What matters most is keeping the wrestlers healthy, but another wrestler is missing some time for another reason.
This week’s NXT featured a rather interesting match with Danny Burch/Roderick Strong teaming up to face Fabian Aichner/Raul Mendoza. The four of them are all parts of different tag teams and the winners’ teams would later face off for the #1 contendership to the Tag Team Titles. It would seem that the regular partners’ absences may have been due to the Coronavirus but that is not the case at least for one name.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Bobby Fish, Strong’s regular partner in the Undisputed Era, missed the show because of a knee injury suffered when training Brazilian ju-jitsu and kickboxing..

That explains things. The Wednesday Night Wars have been an interesting study to follow as NXT and AEW Dynamite have been going head to head once a week. Fans have been curious to see which show draws the higher audience and ratings. That was the case during the original Monday Night Wars from 1995 until 2001, when Monday Night Raw defeated Monday Nitro. That was a long time ago, and things have changed a good bit. Now we may know why.
There is no secret to the fact that the television audience for wrestling has gone consistently down over the years. The Monday Night Wars saw millions of fans watching the shows at once, while now it is rare to see anything other than Monday Night Raw or SmackDown regularly draw over a million fans. There is something to be learned there, and someone has tried to find out why.
YouGov has released a poll, courtesy of the Variety Intelligence Platform, which looked at why wrestling fans have stopped watching. The poll was conducted with 471 people over ..

The more things change. The biggest story in the world over the course of the summer has been the Coronavirus, which has certainly been the case in the wrestling industry. Wrestling companies can have events without fans, but there are only so many ways that such a thing can be done. At some point you need to have fans in the arena to add the extra energy as well as money. That might be the case in the near future.
Over the last few months, both AEW and WWE have been running their events exclusively in Florida. WWE has been in Orlando at either the Performance Center or the Amway Center while AEW has been in Jacksonville at Daily’s Place. Only AEW has been able to bring in some fans, with about 15% capacity for their events. Those numbers might be about to expand in a big way.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered that all restrictions on businesses be removed as Florida enters Phase Three of its recovery efforts. This means that crowds could be ..

Oh that won’t go over well. The Coronavirus has changed the way the wrestling world (and everything else) works in a major way. You can only do so many things like back in the normal days whether you are a fan or a wrestler, which has certainly been the case in WWE. NXT has suffered from multiple Coronavirus outbreaks and we know what caused the most recent.
NXT is a unique place in wrestling as it is a mixture of the WWE’s official developmental territory as well as being its own wrestling show. Not many promotions have had that double responsibility, but now things have become more complicated thanks to the various Coronavirus outbreaks. NXT is currently going through another and there may be a place to start.
According to PWInsider.com, the recent NXT Coronavirus outbreak was believed to have been started at a party thrown by an NXT wrestler. The party was attended by someone who was asymptomatic and the virus spread as a result. There are few further details on the situation, inc..

Welcome back. There have been all kinds of stories around the wrestling world this year and very few of them have been positive. WWE has been through a lot of trouble of their own and some of it has been brought on themselves. One of the biggest stories that made WWE look a little less flattering was the company releasing dozens of talents within a few days. They also released some backstage workers, but at least one of them is now back.
A backstage producer is one of the most important parts of any wrestling shows. They are in charge of making a match play out as planned by talking to the wrestlers and figuring out what they need to do. A good producer can make things a lot better and someone who has figured out the right kind of style for various wrestlers is incredibly valuable. Now one of the recently released WWE producers is back at work.
According to PWInsider.com, WWE backstage producer Billy Kidman returned to work for WWE at this week’s SmackDown taping. There is no word on..

Clash of the Champions XXII
Date: January 13, 1993
Location: The Mecca, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Attendance: 4,000
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jesse Ventura
The main event tonight sees Sting/Ron Simmons/Dustin Rhodes/Van Hammer vs. Vader/Barbarian/Barry Windham/Paul Orndorff (substitute for an injured Rick Rude) inside the Thunder Cage. We’re nearing the end of an era here in WCW as Bill Watts’ job is already on the brink and would be ended soon thereafter. In other words, most of the matches tonight don’t mean much, especially with a few changes coming soon. Let’s get to it.
Bill Watts welcomes us to the show and talks about his history wrestling in Milwaukee. Also Van Hammer is injured and out of the main event tonight. There will be a replacement in his arm wrestling match later. No mention of the main event. Also, Erik Watts has been arrested (kayfabe) and is out of his match tonight.
It’s another new set with the entrance being under a metal frame like last time, but no long curtain be..

Please not again. There are a lot of wrestlers who have all the potential in the world but for some reason they can’t stay healthy. It can be one of the most frustrating things in the world for a wrestler and to a lesser extent the fans, but it happens to a lot of wrestlers in any generation. Unfortunately, it may have happened again and that’s a horrible thing to see.
It’s easy to see why WWE would want to push Tegan Nox to the moon. She is young, talented, has an international background and comes off like a star every time she is in on camera. Nox has gotten a heck of a push in NXT and seemed ready to have a major showdown with Candice LeRae. However, Nox also has a horrible history of knee injuries and the list might be growing.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Nox has possibly suffered another knee injury, which may be another torn ACL. Nox was scheduled to take part in a battle royal on this week’s NXT to crown a new #1 contender. However, a video aired showing L..

That’s a little better. Tag teams have been a part of wrestling for a long time now and that will be the case for the foreseeable future. However, some promotions present them in a better way than others and WWE does not have the best history with them. The company rather enjoys splitting teams up, and that seems to be the case again, albeit for a rather different reason.
Earlier this year, the Forgotten Sons were called up to SmackDown and immediately made an impact. The team got involved with the New Day soon after they debuted and seemed ready to be moved on to something bigger in a hurry. However, that did not wind up happening though as Jaxson Ryker made some controversial statements, resulting in the team being pulled from television. The other members, Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake, have been away as well, but that might be changing soon.
According to Fightful.com, WWE has added Cutler and Blake back to their internal roster while Ryker has been left off. This would mean that ..

Ok then. The biggest story of the week in WWE was Retribution coming up to the next level on Monday Night Raw. The team not only unmasked, but were also announced as having signed contracts with WWE. This meant that they were suddenly allowed to wrestle on the show, which took place in Monday’s main event. However, it ended in a weird way and now we know why.
This week’s Monday Night Raw main event featured Retribution vs. the Hurt Business in a six man tag. The match ended with Retribution being disqualified when T-Bar attacked Bobby Lashley from the apron. As soon as the match was over, the reset of the masked members of Retribution came in and attacked the Hurt Business to end the show. It was a strange ending to the match and there was a reason for that.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the match was ended due to an unwritten rule of Vince McMahon’s. The rule states that a tag match automatically ends in a disqualification if an illegal wrestler attacks a legal wre..