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Can’t we all just get along? Wrestlers are tasked with a rather difficult trick: pretend to fight each other and convince everyone else that what they are seeing is real. It is a hard trick to pull off but the right people doing it the right way can work well. At the same time, there are instances where the issues are a little more real backstage. That was the case again recently, but it could have been worse.
During an interview with Sony Sports India by way of SportsKeeda.com, WWE star Riddle spoke about his real life backstage altercations with Goldberg. The two have had issues before due to some comments that Riddle has made about Goldberg’s wrestling as well as calling him “bro”. Goldberg was back on Monday Night Raw in July and ran into Riddle before his segment. The two exchanged pleasantries with Goldberg congratulating Riddle on his success. Riddle described Goldberg as nice and the two spoke again briefly after Goldberg’s segment.
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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: August 9, 1999
Location: Allstate Arena, Chicago, Illinois
Attendance: 13,713
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
The date should look familiar to you because this show is a pretty famous one. Well at least it has a pretty famous moment, as the Countdown to the Millennium comes to a close. I know we are coming up on Summerslam, but there are some times where one moment overshadows everything and that’s what we are getting here. Let’s get to it.
The countdown is on.
Opening sequence.
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Call it a change. A wrestler has to do a lot of things, but one of the most important is their character. Not only do you have to find a good one, but you also have to find one that fits the wrestler as well as possible. That can be rather tricky a lot of the time and on occasion, an adjustment needs to be made. It seems that we have seen such an adjustment again, and it might surprise you.
A video on Elias aired during this week’s Monday Night Raw. The video featured Elias walking around a fire as clips of his matches with Jaxson Ryker aired. At the end, Elias eventually burned his guitar and walked away, saying that he once said that WWE stood for Walk With Elias. Now though, Elias knew that he was dead. It is not clear what kind of a new character this may lead to.
Elias has wrestled for WWE since 2014, appearing both in NXT and on the main roster. During his time with the company, the guitar has been Elias’ signature as he regularly sings about either his opponent or whatever cit..

Welcome home. Things are constantly moving in WWE and that was the case before everything went nuts in the last year and a half. Sometimes you will see a wrestler leave for no apparent reason, which opens up a variety of questions. In addition to finding out why they are gone, there is the matter of finding out what they are going to do once they get back. Now we know one of the two.
Randy Orton made his return to WWE television during this week’s Monday Night Raw. This week marked Orton’s first appearance in seven weeks, though he did not explain why he missed the time. Orton opened the show and got into an argument with AJ Styles, who he ultimately defeated in the show’s main event. After the match, Riddle, Orton’s unofficial tag partner, got in the ring to ask Orton for a hug. Orton eventually relented but then hit Riddle with an RKO to end the show, though commentary suggested that the team might not be done.
Orton and Riddle have been teaming together on and off for the last sev..

Keep it growing. Summerslam has some special potential this year and that is a great thing for WWE to see. The company could be in for an awesome night as there are so many things to put on the card. That could include anything from special feuds to gimmick matches to title matches or maybe all of the above. One of them was added to the card this week.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Damian Priest challenged Sheamus to a United States Title match at Summerslam. Sheamus accepted, making the match official. The match came about after Priest called out Sheamus after defeating John Morrison. Sheamus came back into the arena and accepted the challenge, after which Priest had to take out Morrison against.
Priest debuted on the main roster at the 2021 Royal Rumble after over a year in NXT. During his debut, he began a feud with the Miz and John Morrison, ultimately leading to a tag match where Priest and Bad Bunny defeated the two of them at WrestleMania 37. Following a brief hiatus due to a..

Monday Night Raw
Date: August 9, 2021
Location: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Jimmy Smith, Corey Graves, Byron Saxton
It’s a homecoming of sorts for Raw as they are back in the original Thunderdome about a year after they arrived in the first place. We are less than two weeks away from Summerslam and while most of the card is set, there are still a few adjustments that need to be made. Now just don’t have a horrible show. Let’s get to it.
Here is the returning Randy Orton to a heck of a face reaction. Orton grabs the mic but here’s Riddle to cut him off. Riddle is REALLY happy that Orton is back because now they can be a team again. Riddle wants to know where Orton has been because his stepdad left like that too and never came home. Orton asks why Riddle thinks Orton wants to be a team with someone as goofy as Riddle. He talks about how ridiculous Riddle is, prompting Riddle to ask if that means Orton doesn’t want to team with him.
Cue Omos and AJ Styles, with AJ talk..

Put it on the marquee. The state of NXT has been one of the biggest topics in wrestling in the last several months, as the amount of changes and moves made to the roster has been overwhelming. There have been all kinds of adjustments made, but there are still a few things that have stayed the same. This includes Takeover, and now we have another match added to the card.
WWE has announced that Raquel Gonzalez will defend the NXT Women’s Title against Dakota Kai at Takeover 36 on August 22. This comes after Kai turned on Gonzalez, her former partner, last month on NXT. Kai brought Gonzalez into NXT and the two were the inaugural NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions. Gonzalez won the Women’s Title at Takeover Stand & Deliver in April.
There is a history here. Check out how we got to the title match:
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Let it go? WWE is a big wrestling company and that means they are going to have a lot of things going on at the same time. This can be both a good and a bad situation, as sometimes one side does not quite know what the other side is doing. Hopefully that was the case with a recent situation, which has since been resolved with the most logical option possible.
Last week, news broke that WWE was attempting to trademark the name “Chelsea Green”, which is the real name of Chelsea Green, the wrestler released by WWE in June. According to Fightful Select, WWE contacted Green after she tweeted about it over the weekend and have dropped the claim. As a result, Green is free to use her name anywhere she likes. Green has appeared in both Ring of Honor and Impact Wrestling.
Green is a talented star. Check out what she can do under her own name:
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Ring of Honor
Date: August 4, 2021
Location: UMBC Event Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Commentators: Ian Riccaboni, Lenny Leonard
We’re on the way to Death Before Dishonor but since this promotion moves a bit slowly, we have some time before we get there. This week’s show is going to have a special theme as everything is going to be focusing on the Women’s Title tournament. It is about time as the thing has been talked about for months now, meaning it is going to have a hard time living up to the hype. Let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
We open with a look back at Chelsea Green making her Ring of Honor debut at Best in the World. Green is still injured but she will be around sooner than later.
Quinn McKay welcomes us to the show and shows us the tournament brackets. These brackets include…..Quinn McKay, who voted into the tournament by the fans.
Miranda Alize is the Lucha Baddie and Alex Gracia is the Pink Dream. They know each other but they both want the title.
Women’s Title Tourn..

WWE’s recent slate of talent releases once again took pro wrestling fandom by surprise. This time, a batch of 13 NXT workers are out and are undoubtedly receiving best wishes in their personal endeavors.
Of course, those endeavors will also likely include business. Speculation is already underway that many, if not all, of the former NXT stars are headed to other companies, possibly AEW, Impact Wrestling or New Japan Pro Wrestling. But as fans digest this latest bit of news, WWE is moving forward. They also happen to be moving forward with a new executive addition.
Trent Wilfinger is the new Senior Vice President of Talent ID and Development for WWE. Wilfinger shared his status on social media, leaving the WWE faithful wondering what all of this means for the company and the product itself.
Excited to share that I will be joining the WWE as their new SVP of Talent ID & Development. I look forward to working side by side @jamesrkimball under the leadership of @TripleH to help bring t..

I’d listen to him. There are a lot of people on the current WWE roster and pretty much none of them come close to the kind of star power that John Cena has. Cena is one of the biggest names in the history of wrestling and it is amazing to see just how much he can do for any show he is on. His opinion also means something in WWE, which is why someone was happy due after Cena offered them some praise.
WWE held a live event on Saturday night in Fort Myers, Florida. One of the matches on the card featured Finn Balor vs. Sami Zayn. After the show was over, Zayn sent out a tweet saying that Cena, who was in the show’s main event, watched the match and “was raving” about how great it was, which made Zayn happy. During the show, Balor defeated Zayn, followed by Cena teaming up with Rey and Dominik Mysterio to defeat Roman Reigns and the Usos.
Cena returned to WWE on July 18 at Money in the Bank, interrupting Reigns after the show’s main event. The following week, Cena challenged Reigns to a ..

That’s different. NXT Has been changing in a big way in recent months, mainly due to the amount of wrestlers who have been let go from the company. This comes after NXT did not fare so well overall in the Wednesday Night Wars against AEW Dynamite. That is not the kind of thing that is going to go well for WWE in the long run and now we know what might be coming.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, the main problems in NXT are the age and size of wrestlers, meaning that younger and larger wrestlers are likely to be brought in. The idea is that NXT wants to have wrestlers like Roman Reigns who could main event WrestleMania one day in the future. The new direction for NXT was said to be “no more midgets, no one starting in their 30s, they want people who can be box office attractions and main characters”. There is no word on when the changes will be implemented.
You might not be seeing these people much longer. Check out who might not be getting as much focus in NXT going forward:
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