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It isn’t the worst idea. There are all kinds of people in NXT but they are going to need something to set them apart. You can do this in a few different ways, but one of the best ways to do this is to give a wrestler a good gimmick. That is the kind of thing that can make all the difference in the world, but sometimes you need to make a change. NXT might be doing that all over again.
According to Fightful Select, NXT’s Kona Reeves is making an attempt to get back in the ring after fifteen months out of action due to surgery for a torn labrum. Reeves is also attempting to debut a new character and there is no word on what the new idea will be. While Reeves has not wrestled since February 2019, he is still well liked around the Performance Center and the coaches have enjoyed working with him.
Reeves certainly has some skills. Check out what he can do when he is given the chance:
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That is going to get people talking. The Coronavirus pandemic has been the most discussed news story in the world over the last year and a half and it is still a huge story to this day. Things are starting to change as of late though as the vaccine has spread around the United States, allowing things to get mostly back to normal. This includes in the wrestling world, but not everyone is getting on board.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, WWE wants everyone in the company to be vaccinated against the Coronavirus. However, there are some wrestlers and employees both on the main roster and in NXT who are refusing to get vaccinated and believe that WWE cannot force them to do so. The NXT wrestlers are in the minority as most of them have received their vaccination, but such a group does exist. There are also some who have not been vaccinated yet but plan to do so before WWE returns to the road in July. No specific names were given.
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See you later? The authority figure is a long term idea in wrestling and some of them are a lot better than other. It can be a little bit difficult to figure out the right balance to make the idea work but when it works out well, everything can be upgraded. Unfortunately it is fairly well to figure out that balance, and now one of the only great ones might be stepping away from the post.
The end of NXT Takeover: In Your House 2021 saw General Manager William Regal leaving the arena. As he left, he said that he had been running the show for seven years now but has never seen it as out of control as this. Regal said that it might be time for a change and then walked away without saying anything else. There is no word on what this means for Regal’s future in NXT.
This statement comes amid rising levels of chaos in NXT, including from Karrion Kross as the NXT Champion. Regal was forced to help break up another fight during the show, as Shotzi Blackheart returned and chased off Dakota Kai..

One more time? There have been a lot of changes in WWE over the last year, with some of those changes being based on things that have not been happening. WWE has not been able to do everything that they usually do because of the Coronavirus pandemic but that has begun to change a little bit in recent weeks. Now it might be changing even more later this year.
According to Wrestle Club, a Middle Eastern wrestling Twitter account (translated), WWE will be returning to Saudi Arabia in November, with no specific date specified. WWE has been running events in Saudi Arabian since 2018 with two of their events airing around the same time of the year (November 2, 2018 and October 31, 2019). Their most recent event in the country took place in February 2019 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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It’s a summer tradition. Tonight at the 2021 edition of NXT Takeover: In Your House, the company announced the date for its next big special event. Last summer, NXT ran The Great American Bash for two nights, on July 1 and 8, 2020, and this year, the company is doing it again.
The 2021 edition of the Great American Bash will take place on Tuesday, July 6, during the company’s regularly scheduled NXT program. No matches have been announced for the show as of now.
Check out what the company did last year, as well as the announcement of the show:
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Editor’s Opinion:
I love the concept of NXT taking special events from WCW’s past and utilizing them as special events in the present. The company has done that with Halloween Havoc, Starrcade and now the Great American Bash and it brings back a sense of nostalgia for the older fans. It also showcases and highlig..

That’s what titles are for. There are all kinds of titles in the wrestling world today and some of them are a good bit more famous than others. While some titles are going to be recognized for their name, there are a few which are going to be known because of how they look. One of the more famous looking titles in history was brought back this week and now it has a new holder.
LA Knight defeated Cameron Grimes at this weekend’s NXT Takeover: In Your House to become the new Million Dollar Champion. The two have been competing to earn Ted DiBiase’s Million Dollar Legacy. DiBiase had decided that the two of them needed to go for the gold, setting up the ladder match in the process. This is Knight’s first title of any kind in NXT.
The Million Dollar Title was introduced in 1989 by DiBiase himself when he could not win the WWF Title. DiBiase would hold it for around two years, save for a reign by Virgil, before deactiving it upon winning the Tag Team Titles. The title has been brought bac..

Takeover: In Your House 2021
Date: June 13, 2021
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Beth Phoenix, Wade Barrett, Vic Joseph
We’re back to this series but in this case, the card isn’t looking like the strongest in the world. That has been the case for some of the last few of these have not exactly had a great build. I’m not sure what to expect from this one, as the main event is a five way match for the NXT Title. Let’s get to it.
The opening video is a pretty standard look at every match on the card.
Naomi Fox performs the theme song live.
There seems to be a full capacity of fans here.
Here’s Todd Pettengill (now with a beard) to welcome us to the show.
Tag Team Titles/North American Title: MSK/Bronson Reed vs. Legado del Fantasma Legado is challenging and it’s winner take all. We get a shot of Legado putting their masks on the apron before Lee and Mendoza go with a fast pinfall reversal sequence to start. Lee flips out of a headscissors to land on..

It’s that time again as NXT is taking over….well Peacock again, but that might work out just as well. This time feels different though, as I have forgotten that the show is taking place more than once now. This has not felt like the kind of build you get for a Takeover and that is a shame, as the show has earned its amazing reputation. There are matches on the card that look good though so let’s get to it.
Mercedes Martinez vs. Xia Li We’ll start with the only non-title match on the show because NXT has become a promotion that is awash with titles, just like almost every other. Martinez is mostly a monster and Li is running through the entire division. You need to run over some people on the way there though and Li has marked Martinez as her next target. That might be easier said than done.
They had a good preview:
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Or maybe not as I’ll take LI to win here. There is little reason to think that Martinez is going to win as, simply put, she doe..

Subtle but sweet. WWE has released several wrestlers from their contracts this year and that is the kind of thing that is going to shake up the company in a hurry. With so many names leaving, it can leave a lot of people wondering what to think. Most of the time, people are going to be wondering how the released wrestlers are responding, but what about the ones who are still in the company? Now we saw a little tribute from a WWE wrestler to a released name.
Liv Morgan paid tribute to the recently released Ruby Riott during her match against Carmella on this week’s edition of SmackDown. Morgan wrestled the match with a band saying “RUE”, a nickname for Riott, on her leg. Riott was one of the wrestlers released on June 2, along with Braun Strowman, Aleister Black, Buddy Murphy, Lana and Santana Garrett. Morgan has also sent a tribute to Riott on her Instagram page.
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He can do that too. One of the more common criticisms that you will see about wrestling today is that there is too much content. It can be great to see how much wrestling there is today, but at the same time, it means that you can see some wrestlers a little more often than others. At some point you need to see someone get changed up a bit, just for the sake of having something fresh. That might be the case again in the near future.
According to Jon Alba on the Living The Gimmick podcast, Edge is expected to return to WWE as a babyface, including for his match at Summerslam in August. Edge is scheduled to return to WWE on the July 18 SmackDown in Houston, Texas, which will be the first WWE show featuring a full capacity of fans since March 2020. Edge turned heel earlier this year at Fastlane by attacking Daniel Bryan.
Reported on @theLTGpodcast Patreon this week Edge is currently penciled in for the SummerSlam card as a babyface on the Smackdown side. Seems to give credence to that. ..

A hope shot? It is very rare that you see a wrestler become one of the biggest stars in a promotion in the blink of an eye, but that was the case when Ronda Rousey debuted back in 2018. Rousey jumped from the UFC to WWE and was headlining WrestleMania about fifteen months later. She has since left the promotion, though she has seemed open to a return since. Now we might be seeing her doing something at least related to WWE.
According to PWInsider.com, Rousey has been filming content for the ESPN+ series Peyton’s Places with WWE’s Paul Heyman and D-Von Dudley. The three filmed content in the 2300 Arena, formerly known as the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of a discussion of professional wrestling in the city. The filming included a wrestling ring and a number of weapons. There is no word on when the episode will air.
The three of them have made their impact in wrestling. Check out what they have done in the industry:
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That’s just nice. Wrestlers are a weird breed as they are supposed to be able to maintain their characters on television as well as outside of the ring. That is in theory at least, as you do not see wrestlers keeping up the aura of kayfabe outside of the arena very often. While that might go against tradition, there are some instances where it can be rather nice, which was the case earlier this week.
Earlier this week, WWE star Seth Rollins was photographed buying lemonade from a girl’s lemonade stand. The girl’s father posted the image to Facebook, saying that Rollins appeared at random to buy some lemonade. The father lives in Davenport, Iowa, which is the same city where Rollins is billed from in WWE. Rollins has been feuding with Cesaro on SmackDown in recent week.
This was pretty cool. Check out what other cool things Rollins has done in WWE:
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