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That would explain a few things. AEW has a large roster with a lot of talented wrestlers, but ultimately it has a core of wrestlers who have carried the company for its entire run so far. Several of these names have been working behind the scenes as well, but one of them is in a unique situation compared to the others. However, it might not be as complicated as it seems.
Earlier this week, a report came out that TNT Champion Cody Rhodes was working in AEW without a contract. This was made even more complicated by the fact that Rhodes is also an executive vice president with the company. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, the possible reason Rhodes has not signed a new deal with the company is that he has been self-quarantining due to contact with someone with the Coronavirus. Rhodes is expected to be at this week’s edition of Dynamite.
Rhodes has been part of AEW since the beginning and is the only three time TNT Champion. His executive vice president status has been regularly me..

NXT
Date: January 18, 2022
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Vic Joseph, Wade Barrett
It’s a new era in NXT as we have a new monster around here. Walter is making his full time debut this week, as he is scheduled to face Roderick Strong. Other than that we have the fallout of the return of LA Knight to deal with Grayson Waller. Now if only they can avoid doing some dumb things. Let’s get to it.
LA Knight arrives and tells some people to watch what he does in the ring. That brings Knight to the arena and he wants to talk to us. He also wants Grayson Waller out here right now so they can finish what they started last week. With Waller not showing up, Knight recaps everything that got us here, including a few weeks ago when a good looking woman picked Knight over Waller.
Cue Waller, and he has a restraining order. Waller: “If you come within fifty feet of me, you get arrested, YEAH!”. Knight thinks this is pitiful even for Waller, but he knows someone w..

They have someone in mind. WWE has gutted its roster in the last year and a half and unfortunately there might be even more cuts coming in the future. There are going to have to be some new signings brought in to fill in some gaps and that could take some serious searching. This time though, one name has caught some eyes and there is move to get her signed.
According to Fightful Select, there is a strong push in WWE to sign former Ring of Honor Women’s Champion Rok-C to a contract. Rok-C participated in a recent WWE tryout camp and some in the company had been wanting her signed even before then. This comes less than a week after Rok-C lost the Ring of Honor Women’s Title to Deonna Purrazzo on Impact Wrestling.
Rok-C is twenty years old and was trained by Booker T. She began wrestling in 2018, main in Texas. Due to Ring of Honor going on hiatus, Rok-C has no contract with the promotion, meaning that she should be able to sign anywhere else she likes. There is no word on if Rok-C is i..

That’s what he does. There are a lot of wrestlers on the WWE roster and some of them are not exactly presented as well as others. Sometimes you see a star who just can’t get their feet under them for one reason or another and it can be rather frustrating. That seems to be the case again with a popular star, and now it seems that we know what is going on with them.
This week on Monday Night Raw, the returning Finn Balor lost to Austin Theory in a short match. According to Wrestlingnews.co, Balor is now seen as the new Jeff Hardy, meaning the new star designated to help get younger talent over. Vince McMahon is said to have only seen Balor as a midcarder while Theory is in for a major push. There is a chance that he will be in the final four or five in the men’s Royal Rumble and a main event player in the next year.
Opinion: I’m glad to hear that Theory is going to be getting a strong push as he is the young star that WWE could use. At the same time though, it is sad to see Balor’s car..

Mark your calendars. WWE has a lot of television content to film and that can make things a bit hectic at times. Some of their shows are the biggest in wrestling and it makes sense that they will take priority over others. Sometimes though there are bigger forces at work that have to be catered to, and that is going to be the case with WWE’s biggest show for a little while.
According to PWInsider.com, two weeks of Monday Night Raw and NXT will be moved from the USA Network to SyFy. The February 7 and February 14 Monday Night Raw and February 8 and February 15 NXT will be moved due to USA’s coverage of the Winter Olympics. The moves will only be for those two weeks, with both shows being back on USA starting on February 21.
Opinion: This is the kind of thing that is going to happen at some point and that is not a bad thing. WWE gets a lot of benefits out of their relationship with NBC and sometimes they have to give something up in exchange. Just advertise things as much as you can so..

He’s back! Earlier today, it was announced that Jon Moxley will be making his return to AEW television on this week’s edition of Dynamite.
You can see the announcement via Bleacher Report below:
Jon Moxley is BACK.
Mox makes his return tomorrow night on #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/f40NqriZqp
— B/R Wrestling (@BRWrestling) January 18, 2022
It is unclear what Moxley’s role will be this week, whether it is to compete, or simply make an appearance.
Moxley has been off of television since November of last year when he checked himself into a rehabilitation facility to deal with an alcoholism issue that he has been having. It had been previously reported that he would be making his return to the wrestling ring on January 23 of this year, to defend the GCW (Game Changer Wrestling) World Title against Homicide.
Editor’s Opinion:
Yes! This is awesome news! As I said before, no matter what you think about the character that he portrays on television, you never wish this upon anybody. I’m..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on Wrestlingrumors.net. 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?
Royal Rumble 2004
Date: January 25, 2004
Location: Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Attendance: 17,289
Commentators: Jim Ross, Michael Cole, Tazz, Jerry Lawler, Jonathan Coachman
It’s a big night and one of the most important shows of the year as we officially start the Road to Wrestlemania. The Royal Rumble is more wide open than in recent years and that’s often the best thing that can happen for the match. Other than that we have a pair of World Title matches, with Raw’s likely being too long and Smac..

He doesn’t sound pleased. There are a lot of wrestlers under the WWE umbrella and several of them do not get to appear as often as others. That can create some issues for those wrestlers, which has seemed to be on display in the number of wrestlers who have walked away from the company in recent years. Now another wrestler does not seem thrilled with how he is being used and has let fans know about it.
Over the weekend, SmackDown’s Ricochet sent out a tweet saying that a wrestler’s nickname is how most people refer to them. Ricochet said that his name should be “Best Match On The Show”. This comes as Ricochet has not been used frequently on television, appearing in only three televised matches since November. He has also not won a televised match since the September 9, 2021 edition of WWE Main Event.
So your nickname is what most people call you by?? So my nickname should be “best match on the show” Ricochet!
— Ricochet (@KingRicochet) January 16, 2022
Opinion: I’m not sure if Rico..

His opinion matters. Vince McMahon is the biggest force in the wrestling world and that has been the case for a very long time now. His opinions and ideas can shape the way the wrestling world works and that can lead to some rather confusing moments. Sometimes McMahon makes some decisions that feel out of left field, which was the case again when it comes to giving the fans something to cheer about.
During a recent edition of his The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, Matt Hardy explained McMahon’s thoughts on giving babyface wrestlers major wins. Hardy told a story about how, at an unspecified time, the Hardy Boyz were scheduled to win the World Tag Team Titles in a Tables Ladders and Chairs match. However, McMahon changed the outcome because he felt the ending was too predictable, deciding instead that the title change would happen on the next show. Hardy summed up McMahon’s philosophy as “If you’re over as a babyface, there are times where you don’t need to win, it doesn’t make a ..

It was a thing for them. You will hear all kinds of strange stories about WWE, and some of those stories involve WWE making up some rules that seem a little strange from the outside. WWE must have some kind of a reason for them, but that does not mean they make any sense to everyone involved. That was the case again back in the day and now a wrestler is explaining one of WWE’s bizarre decisions.
Former WWE star Colin Delaney appeared on the Wrestlinginc Daily podcast and spoke about a time when WWE would not allow anyone to throw chops in a match except for Shawn Michaels. The announcement was made during a meeting but was removed about a month later, when Delaney had left the company. There is no word on why WWE put the rule in place or why they dropped it so soon. Delaney appeared for the company from December 2007 until August 15, 2008, when he was released from his contract. He has appeared on WWE television a few times since, often as an enhancement talent.
Opinion: This is the ..

The show is still growing. In less than two weeks, WWE will be presenting one of its biggest shows of the year with the Royal Rumble. The show will go a long way to setting the stage for WrestleMania 38, as you will likely find out who will be involved in the show’s main event matches. Those matches will be set up by the Royal Rumble matches, and now some more names have been added.
Some more names were announced for the men’s and women’s Royal Rumble matches this week on WWE Monday Night Raw. First up, Kevin Owens announced that he will be taking part in the men’s Royal Rumble match. The announcement came during an edition of the Kevin Owens Show, as he said that he would win the match to face his guest, Seth Rollins, who would win the Universal Title at the Royal Rumble. Owens is the fifteenth entrant out of thirty in the match.
Also during the show, Liv Morgan and Bianca Belair announced that they would be entering the women’s Royal Rumble match. The announcements came before the ..

That would be a change of pace. AEW has shaken up the wrestling world by allowing a lot more wrestlers a chance to appear on mainstream television. That is the kind of thing that fans have been wanting to see for a long time now and AEW has provided that platform. Now though, a wrestler seems to be wanting to perform elsewhere, despite being an AEW regular.
AEW’s Pretty Peter Avalon has announced that he is now available for all independent dates and appearances going forward. This announcement leaves his AEW status unclear, though Avalon wrestled at the most recent set of AEW Dark television tapings, teaming with JD Drake in a loss to Orange Cassidy and Wheeler Yuta. Nothing in his announcement says or suggests that he has left AEW or will be anytime soon. Avalon has not wrestled on Dynamite in nearly a year, but has wrestled on the company’s streaming events. He has also been wrestling on the independent circuits on occasion in recent months.
ANNOUNCEMENT
My career status: #LFG
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