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I hope it’s erasable ink. WWE has all kinds of television shows and you could quite easily say that there are too many of them. With so much television, it can be easy to see the lack of focus, but sometimes WWE will run a show that has a specific purpose. Now though, one of WWE’s most focused shows is ready for a replacement and it seems to be one that is long overdue.
According to Wrestling Observer Live, WWE will be likely to change the name of 205 Live. The show is no longer live and now WWE officials do not want their champions to be under 205lbs. The show has featured non-cruiserweight matches for several weeks now, as it has focused on lower level NXT stars. There is no word on when the change would take place or what the new name would be. This change was referenced this week on NXT by Joe Gacy, though the show was not specifically named.
205 Live has had its moments. Check out some of the better moments:
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They have a focus. WWE has a lot of different divisions to their company and a lot of them are involved in producing content. That means they can do all kinds of things at once and showcase all of their rather impressive footage. You don’t get to see that from many promotions, and now we might be getting to see something different even by their standards.
According to PWInsider.com, WWE is hoping to ramp up their documentary division in 2022 with new leadership. This comes after WWE stopped production and work on several of their documentaries this year, including not releasing some that were completed. There is no word on what caused WWE to stop producing them in 2021or what new projects they may be developing.
WWE has done some great things with its history. Check out some of its better efforts:
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Opinion: This is nice to hear, as the whole dropping the..

That’s quite the honor. To say that a wrestling show is an ensemble piece is an understatement. There is so much going on during any given show that it is almost impossible to keep track of everyone at once. Sometimes it would be nice to have some wrestlers get more focus, and now that is going to be the case in a big way. It just won’t be in a wrestling ring.
According to Wrestlinginc.com, Rey Mysterio has announced that he will be starring in a new animated series for Cartoon Network Latin America, beginning in 2022. The series will be called Rey Mysterio vs. La Obscuridad and will star Mysterio and a wrestling fan named Oscar as they fight a villain named Uroboros. There is no word on any other wrestlers potentially appearing on the show.
Mysterio is already pretty close to a superhero. Check out some of his better moments:
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Opinion: This is the kind ..

You could go one way or the other. This week’s edition of Monday Night Raw was bookended by a pair of huge matches. The show opened with a steel cage match between WWE Champion Big E. and Kevin Owens, while the main event featured Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch defending her title against Liv Morgan. That is quite the lineup, but it almost went a bit differently.
According to PWInsider.com, WWE originally planned for the cage match to main event this week’s Monday Night Raw. The change was made due in part to the show taking place on the anniversary of the first women’s main event between Lita and Trish Stratus on December 6, 2004. Originally, the cage match was to have been a segment between Owens and Big E. talking about their upcoming match.
It was a busy night. Check out the two matches, plus the main event’s inspiration:
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Opinion: That’s not exact..

It never ends easily. One of the wrestling stories that has flown a bit under the radar this year has been the huge changes to Ring of Honor. The company has gone from one of the bigger promotions in the country to mostly non-existent after this weekend’s Final Battle pay per view. Now though, it seems that we might not be getting to see the final show as planned.
Ring of Honor has announced that World Champion Bandido has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus, meaning that he will not be able to defend the title against Jonathan Gresham at Final Battle. There is no word on any potential replacement for the match, as Final Battle is scheduled to be the final Ring of Honor event until the second quarter of 2022. Bandido has held the title since Best In The World in July.
#FinalBattle update. Get well soon @bandidowrestler! Match updates will be released as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/3qlSUTn0vY
— ROH Wrestling (@ringofhonor) December 9, 2021
Bandido has been a strong champion. C..

Johnny Wrestling won’t be doing so in WWE anymore. According to a report from Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select, Johnny Gargano will become a free agent tonight at midnight, as he and WWE could not come to terms on a new contract.
Johnny Gargano will leave WWE and is set to become a free agent at midnight, as he and WWE did not extend his contract, Fightful Select has learned
Fightful Select has the full story, and a lot more details.https://t.co/jM7CQKzSuH pic.twitter.com/71ySbaZedc
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) December 10, 2021
According to the report, Gargano will be free to work anywhere he wants to since there is no non-compete attached to it. Furthermore, WWE attempted to sign him multiple times, including over the past few weeks. Gargano didn’t sign a new deal when other top NXT names did in 2019, and several people within the company said there was not sufficient incentive for those stars to make a deal.
Sources say that the split between Gargano and WW..

That will work. According to reports from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Pat McAfee has signed a new deal with sports betting site FanDuel for them to remain the exclusive sportsbook of his show, “The Pat McAfee Show.” The deal is reportedly worth around $30 million per year.
Sources: The Pat McAfee Show and FanDuel have agreed to terms on a new deal, ensuring that FanDuel continues to be the exclusive sportsbook of the show. It’s a 4-year, massive deal that includes an opt-out after three years.
Sources: The Pat McAfee Show and FanDuel have agreed to terms on a new deal, ensuring that FanDuel continues to be the exclusive sports book of the show. It’s a 4-year, massive deal that includes an opt-out after three years. ???
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 9, 2021
It’s a roughly $30 million per year deal, industry sources say.
It’s a roughly $30 million per year deal, industry sources say. ? https://t.co/dd9ZbPlqmv
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania..

They have guest stars. There are so many wrestlers on the WWE roster that the company has been able to split them into multiple groups. Both Monday Night Raw and SmackDown have stand alone rosters and you do not often get to see the two of them getting together very often. It is certainly a big different to see it happen and that will be the case this week again.
WWE has announced that Raw Tag Team Champions RKBro will be appearing on this week’s edition of SmackDown. The team will be taking part in a non-title triple threat match against the New Day and the SmackDown Tag Team Champions the Usos. There is no word on why RKBro will be making the appearance and nothing to suggest that this will be anything more than a one off match.
These teams could be awesome together. Check out all three of them in action:
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Opinion: It wouldn’t surprise me if this is a ..

Absolutely Glorious! WWE has posted a new video to its YouTube channel in which they show the full debut of Bobby Roode on the main roster in 2017. He debuted on the August 22 episode of Smackdown Live.
You can see the video in its entirety below:
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From our own Thomas Hall:
The fans go INSANE for the entrance and Roode seems to be a face, at least for the night. They take turns posing at each other with Roode clotheslining English to the floor and sending us to a break. Back with English in control but Roode drives him into the corner for some chops. A forearm sets up the Blockbuster as JBL says Roode needs to win to get some beer money. English hits a Director’s Cut for two but walks into a spinebuster. The Glorious DDT ends English at 6:28.
Result: Bobby Roode b. Aiden English – Glorious DDT (6:28)
Post-match, Roode says everything he does is big box office and in a New York minute Smackdown has gone from great to GLORIOUS.
Editor’s Op..

Get well soon. There are all kinds of reasons for a wrestler to miss a show and some of them are a lot more serious than others. You never know what might be taking place to cause someone to be gone and sometimes it can be rather scary to hear what is wrong with them. That is the case again now, even if it is with a wrestler who is not in the ring at the moment.
Swansea Sin City has announced via Facebook that Friday’s Fozzy concert has been canceled due to lead singer Chris Jericho has been hospitalized with a treatable medical issue. Details were not revealed, other than that the issue was not Coronavirus related. There is no word on what this will mean for Jericho’s AEW work, though he was written off of television with an injury to allow him to go on the concert tour.
Jericho can do a lot of things when he is healthy. Check out what he can do in the ring:
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History has been made! Titles are the main storytelling device in all of wrestling because they are a simple concept. Give someone a shiny championship belt and have other wrestlers try to take it. That is one of those ideas that any fan can understand in a hurry and it makes title changes mean that much more. That was on display this week as some titles changed hands.
This week on NXT UK, Moustache Mountain defeated Pretty Deadly to become the new NXT UK Tag Team Champions. The win marks the first title reign for Moustache Mountain and makes them the only team to win both the NXT Tag Team Titles and NXT UK Tag Team Titles. Pretty Deadly had held the titles for 288 days, winning them on the February 25 edition of NXT UK.
This is a big deal. Check out the title match, the post win comments and some of the champs’ time stateside:
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Opinion: This is a title ..

According to a tweet from WrestleVotes, via Fightful, WWE has come to terms on the release of Jeff Hardy. This release occurs just days after he was sent home from the company’s most recent tour.
Per @Fightful, WWE has released Jeff Hardy.
— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) December 9, 2021
It is unknown at this point if the two incidents are related.
Hardy was most recently seen on this past week’s episode of Smackdown, alongside Drew McIntyre, as the pair took out Happy Corbin and Madcap Moss. You can see a clip of that below:
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We will continue to monitor this story and provide updates as they become available to us.
Editor’s Opinion:
I have many thoughts about this. My first is that I hope that this has nothing to do with a substance relapse, as it is well documented that Hardy has had issues with this in the past. However, he seems to have cleaned up his act and is doing a lot better, so I hope that isn’t the case. My second thought is ..