NEWS

One more for the card. We are just over two weeks away from Clash Of Champions and a lot of the card has yet to be made official. WWE is starting to run out of time to set up a good number of matches as the company has a lot of titles that need to be defended in one night. Both roster will be having titles put on the line and now we have one more checked off the list.
Save for a five day reign by Charlotte, Bayley has held the SmackDown Women’s Title for about sixteen months straight. That has left quite the path of destruction throughout the SmackDown women’s division as there are not many people left for her to face. Last week on SmackDown, Bayley destroyed Sasha Banks to put their showdown on hold. This week though, she gained a new challenger for her title.
During this week’s SmackDown, Nikki Cross won a four way match to become the new #1 contender for the SmackDown Women’s Title and will face Bayley for the title at Clash Of Champions. The match also included Tamina, Lacey Evan..

Smackdown
Date: September 11, 2020
Location: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Michael Cole, Corey Graves
Things took a surprising turn last week as Jey Uso of all people became the new #1 contender to the Smackdown World Title. That could set up quite the one sided title defense for Roman Reigns but you never know. As for tonight, Jeff Hardy defends the Intercontinental Title against AJ Styles. Let’s get to it.
We open with a Never Forget graphic.
We get a long recap of Reigns’ comments last week, plus Uso becoming #1 contender.
Here are Reigns and Heyman for a chat. Heyman talks about letting the cat out of the bag two weeks ago. Then at Payback, they took the Universal title. That took us to last week when Jey Uso captured the #1 contendership in the biggest win of his career. Heyman invites Uso to the ring and we see some photos of the Usos and reigns growing up together. Uso thanks Heyman for getting him a spot last week but Heyman says it was Reigns’ idea, with Hey..

NXT UK
Date: September 10, 2020
Host: Andy Shepherd
It’s the final show before things are back to normal around here and that could make for some interesting changes. This time around we are getting some special announcements which will most likely start off next week. I’m not sure what to expect here but we should be in for a lot of recapping. Let’s get to it.
Andy takes us right to the point by sending us to Sid Scala for an announcement.
Sid announces the NXT Heritage Cup Tournament with eight men competing to crown the first cup winner.
And now, here’s William Regal with the rest of the story.
The tournament will take place under the British Rounds System, meaning six three minute rounds with twenty seconds in between rounds. Each match will be 2/3 falls and a pin, submission or countout ends a round. A DQ or Knockout ends the match immediately. If the rounds end, whomever is ahead advances.
We get three of the eight entrants, with each getting a quick highlight reel and soun..

It’s a family thing. We are coming up on Clash Of Champions, which will naturally feature a lot of title matches. That is the kind of show that can lead to some interesting kinds of matches as some of the challengers might not be the ones you would expect. It can create some ideas that are more well received than others but there is a reason for them taking place. One of the odder matches at this year’s show has a reason behind it.
Last week on SmackDown, Jey Uso won a fatal four way match to become the new #1 contender to the Universal Title. Uso was replacing Big E., who had been attacked earlier in the night. The win gave Uso a shot at Roman Reigns, his cousin, at Clash Of Champions. This came out of nowhere as Uso is a tag team wrestler but his brother Jimmy is currently injured. Now we know why the match was set up.
According to Tom Colohue on the Dropkick DiSKussions podcast, the match was set up in part due to Reigns requesting to face Uso. Part of the booking of Clash Of Cham..

It got the attention. The Women’s Revolution has been going for over five years on WWE television but it really started years before. Down in NXT, the Four Horsewomen became the cornerstones of the movement and they took those talents up to the main roster. The four of them have feuded with each other in various combinations for years and now one of them has gotten some serious attention.
Last week on SmackDown, Bayley and Sasha Banks lost their rematch for the Women’s Tag Team Titles. Banks was injured during the match which ultimately cost them their title shot. After the match was over, Bayley attacked Banks and went after her already injured knee, followed by Pillmanizing Banks’ neck. This was a long time in the making and the fans were rather interested.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, the 9:00 – 9:30 time slot from last week’s SmackDown, which featured the title match and the post match attack on Banks, drew 2.32 million viewers. That number is the highest rated segment ..

He’s starting fast. There are a lot of people on the main WWE roster at the moment and that is something that offers a variety of options. At the same time though, the top of the roster is rather heel heavy at the moment. For as much of the talent that they have, they do not have many good guys. That means the company needs some new stars, and one of the names the company sees as a top face on Monday Night Raw may surprise you.
Back in 2006, Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio had one of the most unique feuds in history as they fought over the custody of Rey’s son Dominick. The feud saw a ladder match for Dominick with Rey winning and Dominick mostly left WWE TV. He is now back though and a full time wrestler, which has included being put into a pretty big spot on Monday Night Raw. It turns out that he is a little bigger of a star than previously thought.
According to PWInsider Elite, Dominick is now considered one of the top faces on Monday Night Raw. Dominick is seen as one of the thre..

There they go too. Things have been changing in WWE in a big way this year and one of the biggest changes has been the releases that took place back in April. Several wrestlers were suddenly let go and sent into the free agent market, which shook things up throughout the wrestling world. There were other people affected by the changes than just the wrestlers though, as several backstage workers were furloughed. Things got even worse today.
There are so many people who are helpful to making a wrestling show work besides just the wrestlers themselves. It can help to have someone involved to serve as something like a coach for the match and to help lay things out for the wrestlers involved. That is where a veteran presence and mind can help, but some of the better backstage WWE minds are now gone.
Three backstage WWE names were released on Thursday, with two producers and a scout being released. Producers Mike Rotunda and Sarah Stock were both released, according to PWInsider and Fightf..

You don’t hear that every day. AEW has not been around all that long in the wrestling world but have still made quite an impact. They have mostly dominated the Wednesday Night Wars against NXT and that is the kind of thing that was quite the surprise in some ways. The company certainly has a lot of fans and their numbers have been going up, but one of them might have topped the rest.
Wrestling tends to exist in its own little world. The people involved in wrestling do not exactly seem like people who would exist outside of a wrestling show and it can be interesting to see what happens when they go outside of that bubble. Some of the best promos and segments involve the real world and the wrestling world clashing. That happened again, and it wasn’t in a wrestling angle.
This is just great. Check out something you don’t see very often:
https://media.wrestlingrumors.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/11012124/Dynamite-Wedding-Vows.mp4 A video posted to Twitter shows a couple getting marrie..

The rise of Cena continues. Every now and then, a wrestler will break through into the world of mainstream entertainment and get out of the professional wrestling bubble. Not too many of them are able to do this but you can certainly tell when things click. Some of the bigger names in wrestling history have pulled it off and now one of the top WWE names of all time is expanding his Hollywood footprint.
Some people might not like him as much as others but John Cena is one of the biggest stars that WWE has ever had. While he has since left the wrestling world for the most part, you will still see him pop up every now and then. Most of his time is spent in the mainstream entertainment world though and now he is going to be on television a lot more than he has been before.
TBS has announced, via Deadline.com, that Cena will be co-hosting and executive produce a revival of the obstacle course series Wipeout. Cena released a video of himself announcing the series and the show’s trailer on ..

Bring on the gold. Titles are one of the easiest methods of identifying the top stars in a promotion. Any fan can figure this concept out without much effort: whoever has a big title belt is one of the biggest stars around. That isn’t hard to figure out and has worked forever. Some might say that there are too many titles in WWE today though and that number is about to grow.
On Thursday September 17, NXT UK will return after more than five months away due to the Coronavirus. The show had been getting some traction going over the previous few months and that is the kind of thing that you need time to build. With the show coming back after such a long hiatus, they needed something to get them started in a hurry and now they have a new idea.
This week on NXT UK, the NXT UK Heritage Cup was announced, with the first matches taking place on next week’s return show. The eight man tournament will be held under the British rounds system, with each match being six three minute rounds and 2/3 ..

That’s bad to hear. Injuries can be some of the scariest things in all of wrestling and the neck is one of the worst places that can be damaged. That is the sort of injury that can end a career and they can seemingly come out of nowhere. Like any other injury, it can happen in a flash and that was the case this week on Monday Night Raw. Now we know a bit more about it and the results aren’t great.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Ivar of the Viking Raiders dove to the floor during an eight man tag. Upon landing, Ivar immediately made the X sign, signaling that he had been hurt. He was taken away on a stretcher after the match and was later diagnosed with a neck injury. The tentative diagnosis was a stinger but there was no timetable given on his return, though now we have some bad news.
According to Wrestling Observer Radio, Ivar’s injury is considered significant though it is currently unknown if he will need surgery. The initial thought of a stinger seems to be incorrect and the inju..