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This week is a mixture of two fairly opposite things. First of all, I was out for my walk tonight with my music on and the theme from Friday Night Lights came on (excellent show if you’ve never seen it). That got me thinking about last Friday, when AEW and WWE went head to head (or at least close enough to it), giving us a bit of the old Monday Night Wars (on Friday, minus the war) vibe.
At the same time, my wife’s *CENSORED*th birthday is this coming Saturday, which had me thinking about the things that have happened over the course of her life. Since I can’t go that long without thinking about wrestling, I started to combine the two ideas and started wondering something: how many fans have never seen WWE with anything close to wrestling competition before?
I’m thirty three years old and the Monday Night Wars began when I was seven. Now given that I have yet to miss an episode of Monday Night Raw and never missed an episode of Monday Nitro, I remember the Monday Night Wars fairly we..

I’d call it a dream match. The WWE Women’s Revolution has changed the way women’s wrestling works in a very good way. After so many years of having nothing to do, women were suddenly involved in long matches which were being treated as big deals. That was unthinkable not too long before but it has since become a reality. Now someone is planting the seeds for another huge match.
Sasha Banks appeared on this week’s edition of the Bump and called out WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus. The two faced off in the 2018 Royal Rumble, with Stratus mocking Belair’s signature dance before Banks eliminated her. While Stratus has announced her retirement from wrestling, she has said that she and Banks have unfinished business. There is currently no word on Stratus returning for a potential match.
This could be quite the showdown. Check out the challenge, their faceoff in the Royal Rumble plus some of their bests:
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We are on the way to Crown Jewel and this time around that means we are going to be seeing quite the stacked card. There are some rather big matches set for the show and this time around, something might actually happen. For once it feels like a major show that just happens to be taking place in Saudi Arabia, which has certainly not been the case for most of the shows over there. Let’s get to it.
Kickoff Show: Usos vs. Cedric Alexander/Shelton Benjamin Are they still the Hurt Business? Anyway, this was added the day before the show as a way to give us something to get the crowd going. That should be enough to warm up the crowd, though you never know what this kind of crowd is going to be at these things. If nothing else, this is a way to have the Usos around for the main event, as Roman Reigns might need some bodies to throw at Brock Lesnar.
These guys are good:
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I’ll go with the Usos winning here, as they are one of the best WWE teams in a ..

That would be a surprise. WWE is currently in Saudi Arabia for this year’s Crown Jewel event. The show will be one of the biggest on WWE’s calendar and features one heck of a card. That should make for something very interesting and we could be in for quite the day. It can be fun to see who is going to show up and now we know someone else who will be around at the same time.
Photos and videos have circulated online of Undertaker appearing in Saudi Arabia this week, as he introduced Pitbull for a concert. Undertaker wore his ring gear for the appearance, though there is nothing to suggest that he will be appearing WWE Crown Jewel. The concert is part of the opening of Riyadh Season, a months long collection of concerts and other events, including Crown Jewel.
HE OPENED THE SEASON AND INTRODUCED PITBULL. pic.twitter.com/csChgzgAXr
— RENAD (@kctypcrrry) October 20, 2021
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The more the better. WWE does a lot of things in a lot of areas but their biggest focus is on creating content. The company cranks out more material than any other wrestling promotion ever and it can be interesting to see what they come up with from time to time. That is the case again, as WWE has released a new series with a pair of episodes to kick things off.
WWE has released a new series on its YouTube channel called Build To, which will look at how the company reached certain events. The first two episodes will look at how the King of the Ring and Queen’s Crown tournament finals were set. Both tournament began in early October and will conclude this Thursday at Crown Jewel. There is no word on when any other episodes will air.
This should be good. Check out the two episodes and what one is leading towards:
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That does not sound good. Wrestlers are a unique group of people as they are regularly on television, where they portray larger than life characters. This can make for some unique situations as it can occasionally be hard to determine where the characters end and where the real people begin. Unfortunately those people have their own share of problems as well, which was the case again this week.
Debra Duggan, the wife of wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Hacksaw Jim Duggan has posted a message to Facebook showing Jim in a hospital bed. The post reveals that Jim is undergoing emergency surgery, though there is no word on what is wrong with him. Duggan has a history of health problems, including heart issues as well as beating kidney cancer in the 1990s.
Duggan is a legend. Check out what he has done throughout his career:
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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?
Monday Night Raw
Date: January 25, 1993
Location: Manhattan Center, New York City, New York
Attendance: 1,000
Commentators: Vince McMahon, Bobby Heenan, Rob Bartlett
We are done with the Royal Rumble and I wouldn’t expect to hear much about that, as this show was taped last week. As for what we will be seeing this week, we have the Repo Man vs. Randy Savage in a battle over a hat, plus Mr. Perfect vs. Ric Flair in a Loser Leaves the WWF match. One of these things is not like the other so let’s get to it.
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Get things started. We are coming up on WWE Crown Jewel and the card is mostly set. There are all kinds of matches on the show with a bunch of different things included. WWE has still been changing things even right before the show, with some matches being added this week on Monday Night Raw. Now we have one more match added to the card, or at least close to it. Now we have one more match added to the card, or at least close to it.
WWE has announced that the Usos will face Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander on the Crown Jewel Kickoff Show in a non-title match. This will be an interpromotional match as Benjamin and Alexander are on Monday Night Raw while the Usos are the reigning SmackDown Tag Team Champions. The Crown Jewel Kickoff Show begins at 11am EST on Peacock and the WWE Network.
This should be a good one. Check out what both teams can do in the ring:
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Not everyone can say that. There are a lot of different aspects to being a successful wrestler but one of the most important is being able to talk. At some point wrestlers need to find a way to communicate with fans and the best way is often through a microphone. If a wrestler can talk well, it is going to make ufp for a lot of their other problems, and one wrestler’s talking abilities have earned him a special privilege.
NXT North American Champion Carmelo Hayes was a guest on Busted Open Radio where he revealed that he is allowed some creative control in his promos. Hayes is given bullet points, but most of the words and phrases he uses are his own. This is partially as a way to reach a younger demographic, with NXT coach Shawn Michaels saying he trusted Hayes to help reach that group of fans.
Hayes does have quite the talent. Check out what he has done in NXT:
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That’s a nice thing to see. We are coming up on one of the biggest WWE events of the year, as Crown Jewel is taking place this Thursday. The show is going to be one of the highest profile on the WWE calendar and it could mean quite the payday for everyone involved. However, at least one wrestler is doing something a little different with his pay, and it won’t be the first time.
Mustafa Ali has announced that he will be donating his earnings from Crown Jewel to charity. Ali only refers to the show as the 10/21 event rather than Crown Jewel. This is not the first time that Ali has donated his pay from a Saudi Arabian show to charity, as he did the same thing with Super Showdown in 2019. Ali is currently scheduled to face Mansoor at the show.
Earnings from the 10/21 event will be donated to charity.
— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) October 19, 2021
Ali can do a lot of things in the ring. Check out some of his better matches:
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That did not look good. Wrestlers are very talented at what they do but there is always the chance of something going wrong. That is the kind of risk that every wrestler takes and it can be made even worse if they try to do something they are not quite ready to pull off. Sometimes that can lead to a bad ending, which was the case this week after a pretty bad mistake.
This week’s NXT featured a triple threat match between Io Shirai, Persia Piratto and Jacy Jayne. During the match, Jayne attempted a suicide dive to the floor but caught her feet on the ropes, sending her face first onto the floor. The show went to a commercial and Jayne was gone when it came back without returning later in the match. There is no word on Jayne’s condition after the injury, though according to a fan on Twitter, she walked out of the arena.
Let’s hope Jacy Jayne is ok ?? she walked out thank god! #wwenxt pic.twitter.com/tXA55jiVkc
— Niko Exxtra (@nikoexxtra) October 20, 2021
It could have been worse. Che..

Welcome to the family. With so many talented wrestlers in the world today, it can be hard for a lot of them to ever be able to get their big break. You do see it happen though and those moments can make for some of the best things in wrestling. Sometimes you see someone break through right before your eyes and that seems to be the case again with a very talented wrestler.
AEW President Tony Khan has announced that Daniel Garcia has officially been signed to a contract with the company. Garcia has been wrestling with the company for several months now, including teaming with 2Point0, and has wrestled against Sting, Jon Moxley and CM Punk. Garcia has commented on the signing, saying that he wanted to wrestle for a company where he could make a difference and saying that he planned to be a part of AEW for a long time to come.
This year @GarciaWrestling came into @AEW with a great reputation built through his hard work on the indies, & he’s continued to work hard here in #AEW + he’s show..