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NWA time. Wrestling fans are rather spoiled today when it comes to available content. There is so much wrestling available that it is impossible to see everything that is being aired and that is a nice problem to have. With so many things running around, you have to pick and choose what you want to see and that is going to get a little more complicated next week.
One of the biggest wrestling surprises of 2019 was the resurgence of the NWA. As NWA World Champion Nick Aldis said, the company went from a punchline to a powerhouse, nearly entirely based on the strength of the NWA Powerrr show. The weekly series was only around for a few months but it changed the way people looked at the company. The show has been gone for several months, but now we are going to be seeing a spiritual successor.
It’s kind of a big deal. Check out the NWA’s surprise:

The NWA has announced a new series called Shockwave debuting on Tuesday December 1 at 6pm EST. The show will be produced in conjunction with..

Impact Wrestling
Date: November 22, 2020
Location: Skyway Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Commentators: Madison Rayne, Josh Matthews
We’re done with Turning Point and now things are starting to get a little more interesting. There were two title changes on the show as the Good Brothers and Deonna Purrazzo won the Tag Team and Knockouts Titles (you can figure out which did which). Other than that, the hunt is still on for John E. Bravo’s shooter. Let’s get to it.
The opening video looks at Turning Point.
Opening sequence.
Moose vs. Willie Mack Non-title, No DQ and a rematch from Turning Point where Moose won but had the decision overturned for attacking after the bell. They charge at each other to start with Mack hammering away and hitting a dropkick into the corner. There’s the Cannonball to send Moose outside but he tosses Mack over the barricade. Moose whips him into the barricade for a bonus and says this is for Rich Swann. Back in and Moose misses a dropkick but nips right back u..

See you in a bit. We are finally done with Survivor Series and that means it is time to move forward towards some other things down the road. WWE is starting the build towards the Royal Rumble and ultimately the Road to WrestleMania, meaning we are about to reach the most important part of WWE’s calendar. However, one of the bigger stars in WWE will not be around for a bit.
This week’s Monday Night Raw served as a fallout show from Survivor Series as things started to get a bit more back to normal. There were no more qualifying matches for Survivor Series and it was time for Monday Night Raw to celebrate their great victory. The members of the men’s Monday Night Raw team was rather pleased, but that won’t be the case for one member soon after the show.
WWE has announced that Braun Strowman has been indefinitely suspended for attacking WWE official Adam Pearce on this week’s Monday Night Raw. During the show, Strowman attacked Pearce for saying that Strowman was “last but not least”. ..

Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over ten years now and have reviewed over 5,000 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?
Vengeance 2006
Date: June 25, 2006
Location: Charlotte Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina
Attendance: 6,800
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
It’s time for another Raw pay per view but this time around we have ECW invading as WWE continues to try to turn it into something again. This time around that means Edge challenging ECW/WWE Champion Rob Van Dam and John Cena vs. Sabu in an EXTREME Lumberjack match. I’m not sure how EXTREME you can make a lumberjack match but maybe Cena can make it work. Let’s get to i..

A slight delay. There are stars in WWE and then there are THE stars in WWE. The company’s biggest names are the people that you know by sight or even by nickname and those are the people that WWE is going to push the hardest. Those wrestlers have star power that can’t be manufactured but one of those big names is not going to be around for a little longer than expected.
Back in June, Charlotte took a hiatus from WWE, which really did shake things up a bit. The timing did not help things as Charlotte’s departure came only about a month after Becky Lynch went on maternity leave, meaning that the two biggest stars of the women’s division were both gone within a few weeks of each other. Neither are back yet and it might be a bit longer before we Charlotte again.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, there is no word on when Charlotte will be back. While Charlotte initially left to have a cosmetic procedure, she is also missing time due to work outside of WWE. Charlotte has signed with t..

Welcome home. There are a lot of wrestling promotions in the world other than WWE, even though it has a tendency to get a lot of the attention. That does not mean that there are not very talented wrestlers there doing some very interesting things and that is certainly the case with Ring Of Honor, which has picked up another star who could be quite the asset to them going forward.
Back in April, WWE released several dozen wrestlers at the same time. That is the kind of thing that can shake up the wrestling world in a heartbeat and that is exactly what happened, as a lot of those wrestlers were able to find work elsewhere. Some of these wrestlers went back to promotions where they had worked before, and that is the case with one in particular.
Glad to see you again. Check out a nice return:
https://media.wrestlingrumors.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/24044604/Mike-Bennett.mp4 Ring Of Honor has posted a clip from their most recent television show, which featured the return of Mike Benn..

Welcome back? The Women’s Revolution has changed the way the wrestling world works and those changes are not going to be reversed anytime soon. That is a very good thing, as the changes that have been made have been a very good thing for everyone involved. Women’s wrestling has come a long way but a lot of those things were set up many years before then. Now, one of those earlier names might be coming back.
While it might not be what it once was, Impact Wrestling is still around today and still doing rather well at what they do. They run national television every Tuesday night and have been doing so for some time now. The company has a history, and the Knockouts division has long since been an important part of that history. A member of that division might be making a return to the ring.
According to PWInsider.com, former Knockouts Champion Taylor Wilde is scheduled to return to the company after a nine year absence. There is no word on when she will be making her return. Wilde wrest..

That could mean something. One of the more interesting topics in recent weeks in WWE has been the company taking control of its wrestlers’ Twitch accounts. WWE has instituted a new policy saying that they will own the accounts, which the wrestlers will still use and receive most of the money that previously went to the wrestlers. This has not gone well and now we could be in for a very big next step.
On Friday, a major development in the situation took place as Zelina Vega was released from the company. Vega has been one of the most prominent voices against the policy and after learning that she was going to be released, sent out a tweet saying that she supports unionization. Forming a union has long been seen as a possible solution for the wrestlers, and now they might have someone new on their side.
After Vega was released, the President of SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), Gabrielle Carteris, responded to Vega’s tweet, telling V..

He’s off to a hot start. The WWE Network has changed the way the wrestling world works in a very positive way. With so much content out there, the Network allows wrestling fans to see all kinds of content in a very short amount of time. One of the surprise features has been the addition of other promotions outside of WWE appearing on the service, allowing fans to see what else is out there. A wrestler who got his exposure in another company has since come to WWE and is already doing rather well.
In July 2019, the WWE Network featured a special event from Evolve Wrestling as the company celebrated its tenth anniversary. There were several talented wrestlers on the show that night and now that Evolve has gone out of business, a lot of them have made their way to WWE. One of those wrestlers has hit the ground running and is now in line for a title shot.
This week on 205 Live, former Evolve star Curt Stallion won a fatal five way match to become the #1 contender to the Cruiserweight Titl..

That’s just rough. There are some wrestlers who have all the talent in the world but for one reason or another, they might not be able to stay healthy. Maybe it is just pure bad luck or maybe it is something that is going wrong, but for some reason they can’t stay in the ring. That is the case with a current WWE star and now we know a bit more about what she has to deal with next.
Chelsea Green made her full time main roster debut on this week’s SmackDown. Green took part in a fatal four way match for the right to earn a spot on the SmackDown women’s Survivor Series team. During the match, Green went down with a broken wrist, which sent her to the hospital after the show was over. It was a bad situation and now things are a little big worse than expected.
The morning following her injury, Green posted on Twitter that she was heading into surgery to fix her broken wrist. There is no word on how long she will be out of action, though her previous broken wrist kept her out of action for..

So that’s where he went. AEW has quite a few factions throughout their roster but the Dark Order has been one of the most prominent. They have been around since the beginning of the promotion and have come a long way in their time together. Things picked up quite a bit when Brodie Lee was revealed as the team’s Exalted One but now things have slowed down a bit and now we know why.
Lee has been the big change that the team was looking for as the Dark Order needed a major star. He would go on to win the TNT Title from Cody in a complete destruction, but Cody would be back in a few weeks. This set up a huge rematch with Cody winning the title in a Dog Collar match on October 7. However, Lee has not wrestled since then and there is a reason for that being the case.
Dave Meltzer posted on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Board that Lee has been missing due to an ankle injury. It is not clear when Lee was injured either before, during or after the Dog Collar match. There is also no word o..

Course correction. Impact Wrestling does not get a lot of attention from fans and that is kind of a shame. The company has a lot of talented wrestlers and several of them have found their niche in the promotion. That is the kind of thing that deserves some praise and as they are coming off of their biggest pay per view of the year, they have a little momentum at the moment. Their next big event saw some important changes of its own.
Impact Wrestling has a unique format to their major shows as they only have a handful of pay per views every year but they run a major show on Impact Plus every month or so. These are near the same levels of pay per views and some of them have some pretty nice cards included. That was the case this weekend and like a pay per view, some important things actually took place.
Impact Wrestling held its Turning Point event over the weekend and two titles changed hands. First, the Good Brothers defeated the North to win the Impact Wrestling Tag Team Titles for ..