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That’s some high praise. There is no bigger name in all of wrestling than Vince McMahon. An endorsement from him can make a wrestler’s career and that is the kind of thing you can only hope for at some point. Some wrestlers are going to impress him right off the bat though and that seems to be the case with someone who is still quite the newcomer to WWE.
Earlier this year, Rey Mysterio’s son Dominik began his in-ring career and immediately jumped into the deep end by feuding with former World Champion Seth Rollins. Dominik fought alongside and with his father against Rollins and Murphy while finding some success of his own. The results have been fairly strong and he has impressed the person whose opinion matters the most.
This is pretty impressive. Check out what McMahon had to say:
https://media.wrestlingrumors.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/14013117/Dominik-Mysterio-Vince-McMahon.mp4 WWE has released a clip from the WWE Network Special The Day: Summerslam 2020, which features Domi..

That didn’t take long. SmackDown has gotten a lot better in a short amount of time and the fans seem to be responding to the changes that they have been making. The show still has a long way to go, but they have some intriguing storylines that have caught the fans’ attention. One of them has been set up for a long time now and will be taking another step forward next week.
Last week on SmackDown, Bayley and Sasha Banks failed in their attempt to regain the Women’s Tag Team Titles. Banks was injured during the match and as she was being tended to, Bayley turned on her and injured Banks even worse. This included a bad knee injury and Bayley Pillmaniazing Banks’ neck. That would seem to put someone out for a long time, but it might not be as long as you would expect.
According to Wrestlingnews.co, FOX has been airing commercials advertising Banks returning to SmackDown on next week’s show. The ads say that she will be addressing the situation with Bayley after last week’s attack. It is ..

AHA! Wrestling fans often do not get the credit that they deserve. The stereotype about wrestling fan is often that they are not very intelligent, which could not be further from the truth in a lot of cases. Like any other sport or field of entertainment, there are some very intelligent wrestling fans out there and some of them can find out a few things that a lot of regular fans might miss.
Over the last two weeks, SmackDown has been airing vignettes of a mystery woman coming to the show. The woman’s face is never seen but she has long blonde hair and is carrying a fur coat. Her identity has been up in the air, but the question is whether she is someone who has been in WWE before or someone brand new. Now we might know a bit more, thanks to some eagle eyed fans.
A fan on Twitter has posted photos of the mystery woman, followed by a photo of Carmella. Both photos feature a distinct tattoo on the left arm, making it almost certain that, assuming that the woman in the vignettes will be..

I’d call it a hit. WWE television has not been at its strongest in recent months and that is not the biggest surprise. After several months of not so great stories and angles, WWE was then confined to the Performance Center due to Coronavirus. The venue did not serve them very well, though it could have been much worse. However, things have gotten a bit better since their move to the Amway Center in August, and now they have a nice reward as a result.
Back at Summerslam in August, Roman Reigns made his surprise return to WWE television after about five months off. Soon after that, Reigns joined forces with Paul Heyman in a major heel turn, which resulted in Reigns getting the Universal Title back. It has been a successful story and now we know a little bit more about just how popular the show has been getting lately.
According to Showbuzz Daily, this week’s SmackDown drew the highest viewership since the WrestleMania 36 fallout show on April 10. The show’s overnight audience was 2.26..

He made it work. There are very few wrestlers who have been able to defy the laws of time like R-Truth. He started in the WWF all the way back in 1999 and came back after a lengthy hiatus, only to reach some incredible heights all over again. He has since moved on to become one of the more popular comedy wrestlers in WWE and those comedy skills were on display in a lucrative way earlier this year.
R-Truth has gone from a serious wrestler to someone who is not always exactly on top of everything and is often confused. This has been a big part of his dominance of the 24/7 Title but he has also had some higher goals in mind. One such goal was winning the Royal Rumble, but Brock Lesnar entering the match had R-Truth a bit scared. The moment also had Lesnar in stitches of laughter, and that was worth something to someone.
In a new interview with TalkSport, R-Truth spoke about his in-ring segment with Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar from January of this year. R-Truth says there was a bet betw..

Ring of Honor
Date: September 9, 2020
Back when the Best Of shows began, I jokingly suggested that we would be getting the Best Of The Bouncers one day if this went on long enough and now that is exactly what we are getting. The team is a fun goofy act, but I’m not sure if we need to see a full show about them. Let’s get to it.
Bouncers video.
The Bouncers join us via Zoom with both guys being rather pleased with being on the big screen for once. They’re excited that Ring of Honor is going to be back but for now, they’re happy with drinking beer and watching their best fights. They’ll start off with a big match for some titles. From ROH TV, October 3, 2018.
Six Man Tag Team Titles: Cody/Young Bucks vs. Silas Young/Bouncers Cody, with Brandi and Bernard, and the Bucks are defending. Matt tries his luck with the massive Milonas to start and gets knocked into the corner without much effort. Bruiser comes in to overpower Nick so everything breaks down with the champs triple dropkicking..

205 Live
Date: September 11, 2020
Location: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Vic Joseph, Drew Gulak
I’ve been liking this three match structure as of late, which makes me think that it isn’t going to last much longer. The show is still just half an hour long so it’s not like I can get too annoyed about it in the first place. We even had a bit of a cliffhanger last week when Legado del Fantasma interfered in the main event. Let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
Ashante Adonis vs. Brian Kendrick
That would be Tehuti Miles. Kendrick works on a wristlock to start but misses a charge into the corner, allowing Adonis to hit a dropkick for two. A boot to the face gives Kendrick the same and we hit a seated neck crank. Back up and Miles misses a crossbody, meaning it’s right back to the same crank. This time Miles fights up and drives him into the corner and blasts Kendrick with a clothesline.
The comeback is on with a series of strikes and a spinebuster gives Miles two. There’s ..

That’s some fine print. Money In The Bank is one of the longer running concept in WWE, having now lasted more than fifteen years with several more wrestlers winning the briefcase over the years. The idea is pretty simple: win the ladder match by pulling down the briefcase and you get to challenge for the World Title at any time. That is the kind of thing that can make WWE turn rather hard in a hurry, but one wrestler’s contract is not what he thought.
Back in May, Otis won the Money in the Bank contract, becoming one of the more surprising winners in the match’s history. Otis has gone on to hold the briefcase for the four months in between, with no indication of when he will be cashing it in. The contract is good for one year after Otis won it in the first place, or at least that is the idea in theory. The actual wording varies a bit.
This week on SmackDown, Otis held up the contract in front of the camera, which allowed for a look at what it actually said. The text of the contract s..

Welcome to your new home. There are a lot of wrestlers under the WWE banner and that means there are a lot of ways to present several of them. That can mean different things for different people involved, but with the WWE roster split into two different brands, there are two distinct places for both groups to go. One name is going to be heading to a different show.
Back at Summerslam, Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville faced off in a No DQ Loser Leaves WWE match. This was a last second change from a Hair vs. Hair match, seemingly due to Deville’s real life issues with a stalker, which nearly ended far worse. Rose defeated Deville to get her out of the company, but now things have changed for her again in a pretty big way.
During Saturday’s edition of Talking Smack, the Miz revealed that Rose has been traded to Monday Night Raw. WWE.com made an official announcement about the move later in the day. The move is being presented as Miz continuing his issues with Otis, who is being split up fro..

That’s where we’re going. Two weeks ago, Roman Reigns joined forces with Paul Heyman to become WWE’s new big bad. That is the kind of pairing that you can almost never imagine really happening but here it was right in front of us. Two days later Reigns became the new Universal Champion and it seems like it could be a long time before he loses the title. Now we might have a few more details about how that is going to happen.
Reigns won the title by taking it away from the Fiend, who had only held it for a week. The loss ended Fiend’s second reign with the title, which was quite the surprise after how long it had been since he held it in the first place. Fiend seems to be someone WWE is heavily invested in though and the Reigns vs. Fiend feud has seemed to be on the books for a long time now. It’s not over with yet by a long shot.
According to Tom Colohue on the Dropkick DiSKussion podcast, WWE would like to wait on the Fiend vs. Reigns match for the Universal Title, though it is not c..