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It was nice while it lasted. Stables are one of the best ways to get a lot of people on television at once. With so many wrestlers around WWE, you can only get so many people doing something at the same time. Even the most famous stable in history, the Four Horsemen, were created because they were thrown into the same interview due to a time crunch. One such stable seems to have taken a big hit after a bad loss.
While it is not the most serious stable in the world, the Robert Stone Brand has been a rather entertaining group over the last few weeks. Stone has been a wonderfully goofy manager and has a few women to fight his battles for him. This includes Aliyah and Mercedes Martinez, the latter of whom has been helping Stone fighting off Rhea Ripley. That may not be the case any longer.
It didn’t go well. Check out what happened after NXT:

This week on NXT, Ripley defeated Martinez inside a steel cage, during which Stone had been attacked by Ripley. WWE has released a video from aft..

That’s a relieving explanation. Back in 1991, Shawn Michaels sent Marty Jannetty through the Barber Shop window in the most famous tag team split in WWE history. Michaels went on to become the top star in the company a few years later and became a legend. On the other hand, Jannetty became a running punchline in wrestling, with the accomplishments he has had over the years being completely forgotten. Now something else has been forgotten, which might be for the best.
Back in August, Jannetty made a post to Facebook claiming that he killed a man in self defense back when he was a teenager and threw his body in a river. This got a lot of people’s attention, as you might have expected, including the local police department who mentioned that they would be looking into Jannetty’s claims. Somewhere along the lines it went a bit too far though and Jannetty has changed his tune.
In a new post to Facebook, Jannetty said that he made the whole thing up as it was the start of a wrestling story..

So that’s where he is now. Vince McMahon has changed the way the wrestling world works and that might not be for the best in everyone’s eyes. The WWE has become the dominant superpower in wrestling and has been the case for decades now. As a result, McMahon has become one of the wealthiest people in the world, but where does he rank exactly? It might not be as high as you would expect.
While McMahon is the most successful person ever in wrestling, he has not had the most success outside of the industry. He has had notable failures such as the World Bodybuilding Federation, ICO-PRO and the XFL among various others, all of which have cost him quite a bit of money. Those losses add up, and now we know just how much damage they have done to McMahon’s bank accounts.
According to Forbes.com, McMahon has dropped off the list of the Top 400 Americans, mainly due to the losses from WWE’s lack of live events and the XFL, including its launch and bankruptcy. McMahon’s net worth is estimated to ..

It needed the work. This has certainly been a strange year for WWE, along with everyone else for that matter, as the Coronavirus pandemic has changed a lot of things about everyday life. One of the biggest changes to WWE was the moving of their major television shows to the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. The building served as a makeshift home for WWE, but it was unable to serve as the company’s training facility. Those days may be over.
The Performance Center is a world class training facility but there is only so much that can be done there when it is being used as a television studio as well. As a result, the trainees have moved over to a warehouse to train in the meantime, even as WWE TV has moved over to the Amway Center. Now we know a bit more about why the students have yet to move back.
According to Fightful Select, the Performance Center is currently being renovated and remodeled. It is not clear when the students will be allowed to return to the facility or when th..

History has been made! The NXT Title has gone from a championship that was really just around for the sake of having something to fight for on an internet show. Over the years though, the title became a big deal as a who’s who of wrestlers became champion. After that much time, the NXT Title is a prestigious championship and that made this Tuesday all the sweeter.
Back in August, NXT Champion Karrion Kross was forced to vacate the title a mere four days after winning it due to a shoulder injury. As a result, Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Ciampa, Adam Cole and Finn Balor competed in a four way sixty minute Iron Man match for the vacant NXT Title. The match ended in a draw though as Balor and Cole had two falls apiece. A tiebreaker was needed and that took place this week.
During this week’s NXT, Balor defeated Cole in a singles match to become the new NXT Champion. As a result, Balor becomes the third man to hold the NXT Title twice, along with Samoa Joe and Shinsuke Nakamura. The match end..

There’s the change. Sometimes in wrestling, including WWE, you need to change someone up. That could come in a variety of forms and some of them are better than others. One of the best ways might be to just change the wrestler’s name. The old name might not be one with the best reputation so just starting from scratch can help. If it is someone you don’t even recognize, it might be even better.
While there is a good chance that you don’t regularly watch the show, 205 Live has been doing some nice things in recent weeks. The show basically started from scratch and is building things back up, which means that there are some spots available for fresh talent. One of them has been getting a little somewhere, and now he has appeared on NXT under a new name.
During this week’s NXT, 205 Live wrestler Tehuti Miles appeared under the name Ashante “The” Adonis in a loss to Velveteen Dream. Adonis has been wrestling as Miles on 205 Live and occasionally NXT for most of the year, though he has on..

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Dark
Date: September 8, 2020
Location: Daily’s Place, Jacksonville, Florida
Commentators: Excalibur, Taz
For reasons I don’t quite fathom, this is the third episode of Dark in eight days because we needed a special one before All Out and then the regular shows as well. At least tonight’s show along with Friday’s were a little shorter than usual, but we’ve got squashification waiting for us so let’s get to it.
Taz and Excalibur give us the rapid fire intro.
Sean Legacy vs. Will Hobbs Hobbs starts fast with a running shoulder before lifting Legacy up by the wrist for some arm cranking. Legacy’s crossbody is knocked out of the air with ease and a release gordbuster knocks him silly again. An Oklahoma Stampede finishes Legacy at 2:59.
Result: Will Hobbs b. Sean Legacy – Oklahoma Stampede (2:59)
Tony Donati vs. Brian Cage Non-title. Cage hits a release German suplex in the first five seconds and then do..

NXT
Date: September 8, 2020
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Vic Joseph, Wade Barrett, Beth Phoenix
It’s time for the sequel to last week’s four way Iron Man match with Finn Balor vs. Adam Cole for the NXT Title. This could be a classic, but it could also be a way to set up a title match at Clash Of Champions as well. Call it a hunch, but one more Sorry, But Your Champion Is On The Next Show wouldn’t surprise me. Let’s get to it.
Quick recap of last week’s Iron Man match.
NXT Title: Finn Balor vs. Adam Cole The title is vacant coming in and they’re not wasting time tonight. After the Big Match Intros, it’s a battle over a headlock to get things going. Cole takes him down into an armbar but Balor reverses into one of his own and slaps on a headscissors on the mat. That’s broken up and Cole hits a basement dropkick, followed by some chops against the ropes. The fireman’s carry backbreaker gets two on Balor and we take a break.
Back with Balor working..