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Good to see you again. This week on Monday Night Raw, Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode won a Tag Team Turmoil match to become the new #1 contenders for the Raw Tag Team Titles. Their title shot will come at Clash Of Champions against new champions Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman, who won the titles in their first match as a team. It is clear that WWE is paying attention to tag teams, which makes another development more understandable.
According to Wrestlinginc.com, Heath Slater and Titus O’Neil wrestled in a match during this week’s Main Event tapings, defeating Eric Young and Mojo Rawley before Monday Night Raw went on the air. Slater and O’Neil teamed together as Slater Gator from late 2014 until early 2015 with little success. There is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a one off match instead of a full time reunion.
They were kind of legendary. Check out one of their rather amusing promos, complete with a mascot:
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Just in case it didn’t go long enough. Monday Night Raw and WWE in general are in a weird place at the moment. The fans are not interested in most of what they are being presented and that has been the case for a long time now. It would seem to be a good idea to change things up a little bit, but that has never changed WWE’s mind before. After this week’s Monday Night Raw, they were right back at it again.
According to Ringsidenews.com, there were two post show dark matches after Monday Night Raw. First up, Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch successfully defended the title against Lacey Evans. The second match saw Baron Corbin lose a street fight to Universal Champion Seth Rollins after getting in an argument with the referee. The two teams will face off on Sunday at Extreme Rules in a Winners Take All match.
The winners were in action on Monday Night Raw as well. Check out their efforts in a warmup match:
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Opinion: I don’t know how many fans..

Main Event
Date: July 4, 2019
Location: American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas
Commentators: Byron Saxton, Renee Young
It’s a holiday edition of the show and that isn’t likely to matter as this is mainly an international show. Things got a lot more interesting this week on Raw and hopefully that carries over to here as well. Smackdown was its usual slog of a two hour show but it’s not like Smackdown means anything around here. Let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
Dana Brooke vs. Sarah Logan It’s trilogy time and we even get a recap of their previous matches. Logan kicks her in the face to start and hits a few slams, setting up some howling. We’re already in the chinlock, drawing a rare DANA chant. Dana sends her outside for a cartwheel elbow to the face, followed by the Wade Barrett middle rope suplex into a suplex. A headscissors sets up a rollup for two on Logan, who is right back with the standing Texas Cloverleaf. That’s broken up as well so it’s the cartwheel splash for two on L..

It’s time to hang it up. A wrestling retirement is a strange thing. No matter who you are, at some point you have to finish your career and wrestle your last match. Sometimes you don’t know when it’s coming and other times you get to plan it out in advance, but it’s going to happen someday. For a former WWE wrestler, it was the latter of the two choices and that came earlier this week.
Adam Rose wrestled his retirement match on Friday night at a the Star Spangled Slammer Atomic Wrestling event in Cocoa, Florida. Rose was defeated by Bull Dempsey in the match when Dempsey made him tap out. Counting his time in developmental, Rose wrestled in WWE from 2010-2016 with his most well known run being his time as the life of the party character, which debuted on the main roster in 2014.
@lordsofpain #AdamRose tapped out to @RealBullJames in his retirement match at @WrestlingAtomic tonight. Great match by both guys. #thankyouadam pic.twitter.com/6X84uoe3Tp
— Pete Lynch (@ucfpete8) June 15, 2..

Well, he did answer. Ever since the announcement of AEW, the one major name on a lot of fans’ minds has been CM Punk. While Punk has not wrestled since 2014, fans have talked about the possibility of him returning to the ring for AEW as one of their top stars. Punk has responded so some of the fans’ comments on Twitter and that is the case again this time, in a more amusing way.
Earlier this week, Punk was asked on Twitter about whether he would appear at All Out on August 31. The event will be held in Punk’s hometown of Chicago and a fan got in on the sarcasm by asking if Punk would disappoint his fans by not showing up. Punk replied with a simple “yes”, followed by responding to some more tweets about returning to the ring and his attitude towards wrestling now that he is retired.
Yes. https://t.co/GQxNG2YqlO
— CM Puck? (@CMPunk) June 13, 2019
Wrong. Not resentful at all. Appreciative of everything that’s happened on my journey. We are all fleeting things. Enjoy it.
— CM Puck? (..

I’m almost worried about the actual number. The wrestling landscape has changed dramatically in the last few months, with the emergence of AEW offering a legitimate alternative for several wrestlers. That has caused WWE to be faced with competition for the first time in a long time. With that comes some choices for the WWE roster and as it turns out, some of them are interested.
According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, a high amount of people on the WWE roster have contacted AEW, to the point where it would “blow your mind”. WWE is offering quite a bit of money to keep the talent but some of them are turning it down. Names such as Dustin Rhodes and Shawn Spears have left, though others have re-signed, such as the Usos and Mike and Maria Kanellis.
This is the kind of thing they seem to want to do. Check out Cody’s symbolic attack on WWE from Double Or Nothing:
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Opinion: I can’t say I’m entirely surprised by this as there are so..

That’s quite the turnaround. Batista is certainly a big name in WWE, but he’s becoming a bigger name in Hollywood as well. After playing Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he is moving on to some different kinds of roles going forward. Earlier this year he got back in the ring for one more match, but would he get in the ring again for one more one more match?
Batista was recently interviewed by Chris Van Vliet and discussed his retirement from wrestling. He made it very clear that he was done with having matches, though he would be open to returning to the company in another role, such as being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Batista also made it clear that he would not go and work for another wrestling company, including AEW.
He has more to say about it than just that. Check out the full interview here:
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Opinion: I can’t say I blame Batista for not wanting to wrestle again. Factoring in his age (50) and the way the match ..

You have to draw the line somewhere. Whether you’re a fan of AEW or not, it is hard to argue that Double Or Nothing worked quite well. The show seemed to draw a nice audience and the show received a fair bit of praise from most critics. However, there is more to AEW than one pay per view, which means things that worked there might not work out as well in the future. That is something that one of their stars has addressed.
According to Fightful.com by way of Ringsidenews.com, Jimmy Havoc has said that AEW will have less blood and swearing going forward. This comes after Dustin Rhodes’ heavy amount of blood loss at Double Or Nothing. There is no word on whether or not bleeding will be banned, or if this will be the case on both pay per views or the upcoming television show on TNT.
Havoc loves to fight. Check him out in Monster’s Ball in Impact Wrestling:
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Opinion: You had to know something like this was coming. The Rhodes blade job at Double ..