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You don’t hear this very often. Wrestling is a very unique industry, but at the same time it does have a lot of similarities to more traditional ones. Something you get in a lot of jobs is the desire to be praised by your peers. These are the people who do the same thing you do so hearing them say you’ve done something well is a nice feeling. When it is from one of the best of all time, it is even better.
WrestleMania 36 featured two matches (kind of) which were not your traditional wrestling matches. This included the Boneyard Match, which was your much more traditional match and then the Firefly Fun House Match, which one of the most bizarre things that you will ever see in all of wrestling. Someone involved in one of the matches certainly liked what he saw and that is some high praise.
Undertaker appeared in an interview with Nine Line Apparel and answered a question about the Firefly Fun House Match. Undertaker praised the match, talking about how different and unique it was. He ..

There’s a plan there. Over the last few years, the Women’s Revolution has changed almost everything about women’s wrestling for the better. The days of the division being little more than an afterthought and the women mainly serving as eye candy are long gone and that is a positive step forward. Ronda Rousey was a big cause of this even before she came to WWE and now she might be ready for another run.
Earlier this week, Rousey gave an interview saying that she left WWE partially due to the “ungrateful” fans. Rousey did praise the rest of the women’s division but did not make her seem happy with the rest of her time with the company. She mentioned a potential return though, and that has been a topic of discussion for over a year now. With that being said, of course there seem to be plans for such a return.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, Rousey is indeed coming back to WWE for another match, though details on the situation are not clear at the moment. There is no word on who s..

You had to know this was coming one day. There is nothing bigger going on in the world at the moment than the spread of the Coronavirus. Countries have basically gone on lockdown because of it and all kinds of industries, including wrestling, have almost been stopped cold as a result. For most people, it has become a question of when someone you know will get sick and that is no longer the case in WWE.
One of the biggest issues that a lot of people have had with WWE and AEW moving forward with their events is the possibility of spreading the virus should someone involved get sick. It is a case of one person contracting the virus and spreading it around, which is a fair criticism. So far the wrestlers have stayed safe, but that is no longer the case for the WWE as a whole.
According to Fightful.com, WWE has sent its wrestlers a memo stating that a WWE employee has tested positive for Coronavirus. The unnamed employee is not an in-ring performer and has not had any contact with anyone ..

Does that make it better? The world is pretty much in chaos at the moment and it is not clear how much worse things are going to get before they start getting better. The spread of the Coronavirus has turned so many things upside down and it almost makes anything traditionally normal sound insane at the moment. That is the case in wrestling as well, but that has never stopped WWE. Now we might know why.
On Friday, news broke that WWE was planning on running live television again every week with Monday Night Raw, NXT and SmackDown all taking place from the Performance Center. This would be practically the only major sporting event running in the country at the moment and the news was not exactly well received. We now may know some of WWE’s rationale.
According to F4WOnline.com, Vince McMahon made the change on Friday, though it had been his plan all along. One of the biggest reasons for the change is to avoid running too many taped shows on the USA and FOX networks due to WWE’s agreem..

They haven’t done something like this before. There are a lot of ways to crown champions in wrestling but one of the most popular is through a tournament. This is a really simple way to go about doing things: put everyone in a field and have the last person standing take the prize. It’s a very simple concept, but there are other ways to try it, one of which WWE will be trying.
Earlier this week, WWE announced that they will be crowning an interim Cruiserweight Champion due to Jordan Devlin not being able to defend the title. Devlin will still be the official champion, but WWE needs to crown a champion to defend the title in his absence. However, WWE is going to be doing something else this time around and it could be an interesting change.
WWE.com has announced the format for the upcoming tournament, which will feature a round robin format rather than the traditional single elimination. The tournament will include eight entrants in two blocks. Each of the four entrants per block will..

She’s earned the praise. We are over a year into the Becky Lynch Raw Women’s Title reign and Lynch is showing few signs of slowing down. She has become one of the biggest stars in wrestling and the biggest star in the history of women’s wrestling. After a year as champion, Lynch has become a top star in all of WWE. Now, WWE is taking a closer look at the Man.
Lynch has been in WWE since 2013 and during that time, she has gone from just another wrestler to someone who has reached heights that almost no one in all of wrestling ever has. Her time before the WWE was fascinating in its own right and that is something that is worth looking at again. That’s what WWE is doing here, in a rather cool mini biography on Lynch.
WWE has released a video looking at Lynch’s life and career, showing a look at thirty different Lynch facts. These include entries about her personal life, NXT career and time on the main roster, including various specific moments and milestones in her career. Lynch has cu..

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, starting today. 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?
Takeover: Chicago II
Date: June 16, 2018
Location: Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois
Commentators: Vic Joseph, Nigel McGuinness, Percy Watson
It’s time for a sequel and that means things might not be quite as good as it was before. However, the card looks very strong here with all five matches having the potential to steal the show. The main event will likely be Tommaso Ciampa vs. Johnny Gargano II in a street fight, which is completely different than an unsanctioned match. Let’s get to it.
The open..

With WrestleMania 36 out of the way, we are now into the new season of the wrestling world. That can make for some interesting changes, but it also means looking back at what was just finished to see what was working and what wasn’t. That includes WrestleMania itself, and that’s what we are going to be looking at today. Not the entire show (Or is it shows?) but rather one thing from the first night. I think you know what that thing is going to be.
As you might have guessed, WrestleMania is built around wrestling. By definition, wrestling is a physical sport and therefore you can only do so much before father time catches up with you. At some point you just can’t do it anymore, but in wrestling there are little ways around those physical limitations. Those ways were on display over the weekend, but that doesn’t mean they were the best methods available. Or then again they might have been, which is what we’re going to get into here.
The match which is receiving the most attention from ..

NXT
Date: April 8, 2020
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentator: Mauro Ranallo
We’re in the marathon taping session now and this time around we have a big double main event. This week’s show will feature the six woman ladder match to crown a new #1 contender, but the real big match is the final showdown between Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano in a battle years in the making. Let’s get to it.
The opening video is all about Gargano vs. Ciampa.
Tegan Nox vs. Dakota Kai vs. Io Shirai vs. Chelsea Green vs. Mia Yim vs. Candice LeRae Ladder match for the #1 contendership and Robert Stone and Raquel Gonzalez are here too. It’s a brawl to start with Kai being left alone in the ring. Gonzalez throws in a ladder but a bunch of the women take her out and triple team Kai in the corner. Green gets caught on the apron for a series of forearms to knock her down as well. It’s time for the first ladder as Stone tries to set up a table on the floor.
LeRae and Shirai fight o..

It’s the logical way to go. There were a lot of stories at WrestleMania 36 and some of them took some rather big turns. A lot of these changes are the kind of things that can reshape both WWE TV as well as the wrestlers’ futures for a long time to come. That can set up matches for the future, and one of the more interesting stories on Sunday could be doing just that.
One of the biggest stories from WrestleMania was the romance between Mandy Rose and Otis. The two have been teasing getting together for a long time now and finally did so on Sunday, despite the efforts of Dolph Ziggler and Sonya Deville. Otis and Rose had their first kiss at WrestleMania but the story does not seem likely to end there, at least not if Otis gets his way.
Otis appeared on Rose’s Instagram live stream on Wednesday and suggested a match for Money in the Bank. During the stream, Otis brought up the suggestion of himself and Rose teaming up to face Deville and Ziggler in a mixed tag at the pay per view. Rose ..

It makes a bit of sense. The end of this year’s WrestleMania saw Drew McIntyre slay the beast and become the new WWE Champion. The win was a changing of the guard as McIntyre’s road to the title took a long time to make it all the way to the main event. Being the champion is a lot different than trying to be the champion, and McIntyre found that out on Monday for a good reason.
At the end of Monday Night Raw, a video aired showing a clip from after WrestleMania. The Big Show came to the ring to challenge McIntyre to an impromptu title match. McIntyre survived the challenge and retained the title in his first defense, though it was a bit of a strange moment. It turns out that WWE had a specific reason in mind for doing things as they did.
According to PW Insider Elite by way of Wrestlinginc.com, the thinking behind having McIntyre face Big Show as soon as WrestleMania went off the air was to make McIntyre look like a giant slayer. WWE made it clear that the matches were taking place l..

It had to end sometime. There are certain rivalries in wrestling that you just remember. For one reason or another, something about a certain feud just grabs your attention and never lets go. That is something you can count on and when you get a feud like that going, it can be one of the most entertaining things you can see. One of the best of modern times wrapped up on Wednesday.
Over the last few years, no one has been more linked in NXT than Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano. With so many matches, moments, twists and turns under their belts, they have put together one of the biggest and best stories in the history of NXT. While it has been delayed due to a variety of injuries, it had to come to an end at some point, and that was this week.
This week on NXT, Gargano defeated Ciampa to officially end their feud. The ending game when Gargano’s wife Candice LeRae pretended to turn on him, only to attack Ciampa instead. The match was designated as the final match between the two of the..