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Impact Wrestling
Date: September 2, 2021
Location: Skyway Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Commentators: D’Lo Brown, Matt Striker
We’re still on the road to Victory Road and that means more of Ace Austin, which is not a bad thing. Tonight we have Tommy Dreamer vs. Austin with Dreamer possibly being added to the World Title match if he wins. That’s the kind of threat that Impact might actually follow up on, which doesn’t give me much hope. Let’s get to it.
In Memory of Daffney. That was a really hard one.
Opening recap.
Opening sequence.
Madison Rayne/Kaleb With A K/Tenille Dashwood vs. Taylor Wilde/Rachael Ellering/Jordynne Grace Ellering and Kaleb With A K start things off with Rachael wrestling him into the corner without much effort. A release gutwrench suplex drops Kaleb With A K for two and it’s Grace coming in for some standing clotheslines. Rayne gets in a cheap shot though and Dashwood gets to come in and take over. Grace powers out of a chinlock by slamming Rayne backwards b..

That would have been different. Pay per view is usually the be all and end all in wrestling as the shows are often the most important parts of a wrestling calendar. You will see the biggest names in their most prominent matches and the whole thing feels that much bigger. That was the case this weekend, but you almost saw a different card than what was originally planned.
Sunday’s AEW All Out 2021 card featured Paul Wight defeating QT Marshall in a match that barely broke three minutes but was held just before the main event. According to Wrestling Observer Radio, the match was in that spot due to concerns that the show could run long. Had the previous matches run longer, Marshall vs. Wight could have been cut from the card entirely.
There was a road to the match. Check out how it was set up:
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Opinion: This could have been a bit embarrassing for AEW but t..

Ring of Honor
Date: September 1, 2021
Location: UMBC Event Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Commentators: Ian Riccaboni, Lenny Leonard
The rather long road to Death Before Dishonor continues and that means we are going to be seeing more of the Women’s Title tournament. The level of interest took a bit of a hit last week as Quinn McKay was eliminated, so I’m not sure what to expect going forward. We have some more things to cover on the way though and maybe that can pick up some of the slack. Let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
Ian Riccaboni welcomes us to the show and runs down the card, featuring the other two quarterfinals matches.
Angelina Love talks about how great she is and how she deserved her first round bye. Why shouldn’t she be the Women’s Champion?
Women’s Title Tournament Quarterfinals: Angelina Love vs. Max The Impaler Amy Rose is in Max’s corner. Before the match, Rose warns Angelina that this is going to hurt. Love goes after Max and gets scared by the glare she sees look..

Two for one. There are a lot of talented people on the AEW roster and a lot of that is due to the amount of places they draw their talent from. AEW has put together a very deep talent roster with several wrestlers from around the world and from different backgrounds. That was the case again this weekend, as AEW brought in two new wrestlers whose backgrounds could not be much difference.
Two special debuts took place at All Out. First, Japanese legend Minoru Suzuki debuted and confronted Jon Moxley after Moxley defeated Satoshi Kojima. The two then got into a fight, resulting in Suzuki leaving Moxley laying. The two are now set to face each other during this week’s AEW Dynamite. Moxley had been suggesting that he wanted to face Suzuki for several weeks.
Late r in the show, Ruby Soho, formerly known as Ruby Riott in WWE, debuted in the Casino Battle Royal, appearing as the match’s Joker. Soho would go on to win the match by last eliminating Thunder Rosa, thereby earning a future Women’..

That’s a positive negative. The Coronavirus pandemic has changed the way everything works and that has been the case in the wrestling world as well. There are only so many things that can be done normally with the virus hanging over everyone’s head and now the cases are piling up again. Sometimes you get some good news though and that seems to be the case again this time.
SmackDown broadcaster Pat McAfee has revealed that he is now testing negative for the Coronavirus. This comes over a week after a positive test took McAfee off of the August 27 and September 3 SmackDowns. It is not clear when McAfee will be back on the show. In his absence, Corey Graves has called SmackDown with Michael Cole, with Kevin Owens joining the two on August 27.
Be a friend, tell a friend
Uncle Covid’s punk ass is officially AHT of me pic.twitter.com/liiXBBoAKn
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) September 5, 2021
McAfee has been around WWE for a bit. Check out some of his time with the company:
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They went big. AEW All Out has come and gone for the year and the show was quite the hit. The entire card worked well with nothing really coming close to being bad. That’s what you want out of a pay per view, but it can help if there is a little more to it. In this case, the show could have benefited from having a big surprise. It turns out that we got even more than that.
AEW All Out featured a pair of debuts after the main event ended. After World Champion Kenny Omega retained his title, Omega spoke about how there was no one who could defeat him. The lights then went out and Adam Cole made his debut, only to superkick Jungle Boy and side with Omega and the Elite. This comes after Cole’s WWE contract expired late last month.
Cole and the Elite then celebrated, with Omega saying no one could stop then. Then Bryan Danielson, formerly Daniel Bryan in WWE, debuted and helped clear the ring along with Christian Cage and the Jurassic Express. Danielson has not appeared at any wrestling e..

It had to happen eventually. Titles are the easiest concept to understand in wrestling as anyone can understand the idea of a big shiny belt. Someone has the title and someone else wants it, meaning a title match can be held for the championship. Those are easy things to build and that was the case again this week, with some history being made once again.
The AEW Tag Team Titles changed hands at All Out 2021 on Sunday night, as the Lucha Bros defeated the Young Bucks in a steel cage match. The teams have feuded throughout AEW’s history, including trading the AAA Tag Team Titles in 2019. The loss ends the Bucks’ record long reign at 302 days and makes the Bros the fifth champions in the history of the titles.
The Bros are going to be awesome champions. Check out what they did without the belts:
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Opinion: This is a title change that had to happen and that ..

Get rid of even more. One of the biggest WWE stories of the year has been their rapid fire releases. There have been all kinds of wrestlers, personalities and employees let go over the course of the year and that seems likely to continue in the future. It can be a scary situation for a lot of employees and now the big moment has come for quite a few of them at once.
WWE has officially filed to end their United Kingdom branch, effective immediately. However, this does NOT include NXT UK, as confirmed by NXT UK creative team member Jim Smallman by way of 411mania.com. There is nothing to suggest that this will have any major impact on WWE’s current product. This comes the same week after WWE closed its Japanese office as part of the company’s streamlining of its various offices.
WWE has had some good times in the UK. Check out their time there:
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All Out 2021
Date: September 5, 2021
Location: Now Arena, Chicago, Illinois
Commentators: Jim Ross, Excalibur, Tony Schiavone
We’re back to the still fairly rare AEW pay per view schedule with an absolutely stacked show. There are three major matches this time around, including CM Punk vs. Darby Allin, Chris Jericho vs. MJF and Kenny Omega defending the World Title against Christian Cage. Let’s get to it.
Buy-In: Hardy Family Office vs. Orange Cassidy/Wheeler Yuta/Chuck Taylor/Jurassic Express Matt Hardy shoves Taylor into the corner because he wants Orange. He gets Luchasaurus instead so Jack Evans gets a rather fast tag. Luchasaurus sends Evans flying with a suplex and it’s off to Boy to send Evans into the corner. Quen and Yuta come in, with the former getting two off a running crossbody.
We get the big sequence of most of the people trying a hold at the same time to as much avail as you would expect. Luchasaurus comes back in to throw people around, including a knee to the face ..

He gets around. AEW has been a huge game changer to the wrestling world over the last few years as it has offered a new mainstream level wrestling promotion. You have not seem something like this in years, but AEW wrestlers are not exclusive to the company. They are able to go elsewhere and make appearances, which can offer some interesting situations. That was the case again this weekend.
AEW’s Jon Moxley appeared at Saturday’s Game Changer Wrestling event where he defeated Matt Cardona to win the promotion’s World Title. After the match, Nick Gage came to the ring to confront Moxley. Later that night, a match between Moxley and Gage was announced for October 9 in Atlantic City. The two have been teasing a match against each other for several months now.
MOX HAS THE BELT!
NICK GAGE WANTS IT BACK!#GCWWarGames pic.twitter.com/ZhsEd0og2d
— Fuck Tripping Balls (@IsThisWrestling) September 5, 2021
It was a moment. Check out what happened, plus the two in the ring:
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Sometimes you just need to leave. There have been a lot of departures from WWE over the last year and a half, with most of them not being voluntary. WWE has let all kinds of people go, from wrestles to trainers to coaches and more. The majority of these have been due to budget cuts, but there have been a few who left on their own accord. That does not seem to be the case again this week.
Evan T. Mack, co-host of WWE’s weekly series The Bump, has revealed that he is gone from WWE. Mack replied to a fan on Twitter, asking where he was and Mack said that he was gone, “unceremoniously”. There is no word on why Mack was let go or who will be replacing him on the show. This is the latest in a string of employees being let go from WWE and it is not clear if more are on the way.
Gone fam… unceremoniously… a shame
— Evan T. Mack (@evantmack) September 2, 2021
The Bump is a pretty cool show. Check out some of the better moments:
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Come back to us? There are certain wrestlers who just have that spark. There is something to them that makes you want to see what they are doing and any wrestling company that knows what they are doing will push the heck out of them. WWE is no exception and it certainly has a list of people who fit the description. Now one of them might be on her way back from a hiatus.
Despite being the #1 contender to the SmackDown Women’s Title, Sasha Banks did not appear at last month’s Summerslam. Banks was announced as not being cleared to wrestle and Becky Lynch took her place, with Banks not having appeared since. According to Fightful Select, Banks was backstage at this week’s SmackDown but was not used, as there are no creative plans for her at the moment. Her feud with Bianca Belair has been put on hold as Becky Lynch is now feuding with Belair instead.
There should be something for her to do. Check out what Banks can offer:
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