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When one goes down, the other is hurt as well. Tag teams are a weird case in wrestling as what happens to one can often affect the other. That can be a major problem when someone gets injured, as there might not be anything left for them to do. If you have a team where a replacement partner isn’t exactly an option, an injury is some horrible news. I think you know where this is going.
The SmackDown tag team scene has been reignited in recent weeks, with teams like the Forgotten Sons and the Lucha House Party being added to Miz and John Morrison, plus the constant of the New Day. You might notice a team missing from the ranks though and that is due to someone getting injured, which is going to cause a problem for both himself and his partner.
According to Ringsidenews.com and confirmed by F4WOnline.com, Jimmy Uso has suffered a knee injury and will be out of action for six to nine months. The injury is believed to have taken place at WrestleMania 36, when he took part in a three way l..

So it’s over? Back in April, WWE released an unprecedented number of wrestlers, shaking up their roster in a bigger way than they ever have before in a three day span. Some names were not the most surprising, but others blindsided the fans as they were not names you would have expected to be let go. That made people wonder what was next for them, and now we know what is not next for two such names.
Two of the names released from WWE were Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder. Those were somewhat surprising given that the two of them had won the Raw Tag Team Titles about a year earlier at WrestleMania 35. It was a huge fall for the two of them over the years year and ended a ten plus year run with the company for Ryder. The team was now gone from WWE and they may be gone for good.
On Saturday, Matt Cardona (Ryder) took part in a live Q&A on his Instagram page. One of the questions involved him teaming with Brian Myers (Hawkins), which Ryder said would not be happening. The two of them did want ..

The rise continues. Every few years, you will see a wrestling star who rises up to the top of the company and show almost no signs of slowing down. It can be fascinating to watch, but it can be equally interesting to see where things go once those stars get that high up. Some things are going to change, and that might be the case for one of the biggest stars in WWE today.
Over the last year and a half, no one has risen up the ranks faster or harder than Becky Lynch. She has gone from a star in the division to the biggest star in the history of women’s wrestling. Lynch is one of the top stars in WWE over a year into her Raw Women’s Title run and that might be the case for a very long time to come. People outside of WWE are noticing too and it could be a huge deal.
According to Variety’s Kris Tapley, Lynch is going to have a part in an upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. The specific movie or part is not mentioned, but Marvel has six films scheduled to be released in the next two..

Let the dream matches continue. WWE has posted a new video to its YouTube channel in which they show the full match between Roman Reigns and AJ Styles for the WWE Championship from Payback 2016.
You can see the match in its entirety below:

From WWE.com:
The Chicago crowd was electrified from the moment The Phenomenal One’s music blared throughout the Allstate Arena. Styles appeared to be at a disadvantage early, as the WWE World Heavyweight Champion powered out of his first attempts to gain the upper hand. The No. 1 contender adjusted his game plan on the fly, targeting the champion’s legs with precise kicks and forcing Reigns to regroup at ringside.
The tenacious Styles goaded the proud champion into chasing him around the ringside area, stomping Reigns into the canvas. However, The Phenomenal One, perhaps a bit too eager, started trading blows with the larger champion and ended up eating a huge shoulder tackle from Reigns. The champion saw an opening and took it, using his stren..

When amazing competitors compete, it’s a special thing. WWE has posted a new video to its YouTube channel in which they show the full Last Man Standing Match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura for the WWE Championship from Money in the Bank 2018.
You can see the match in its entirety below:

From WWE.com:
The weeks leading up to the bout had seen Nakamura take up rent-free residence in Styles’ head; each of his sinister eccentricities was enough to send The Phenomenal One flying into a fury. So, it was natural that Styles came out swinging, though he ended up expending so much energy that Nakamura was able to turn it around and notch some early counts from the ref. The King of Strong Style was also the first to lean into the more extreme elements of the match, taking the fight outside of the ring each opportunity he had.
Speculation had focused on how far Styles was willing to go to retain his title; for a while, it seemed like the more pertinent question might have been how m..

When amazing competitors compete, it’s a special thing. WWE has posted a new video to its YouTube channel in which they show the full Last Man Standing Match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura for the WWE Championship from Money in the Bank 2018.
You can see the match in its entirety below:

From WWE.com:
The weeks leading up to the bout had seen Nakamura take up rent-free residence in Styles’ head; each of his sinister eccentricities was enough to send The Phenomenal One flying into a fury. So, it was natural that Styles came out swinging, though he ended up expending so much energy that Nakamura was able to turn it around and notch some early counts from the ref. The King of Strong Style was also the first to lean into the more extreme elements of the match, taking the fight outside of the ring each opportunity he had.
Speculation had focused on how far Styles was willing to go to retain his title; for a while, it seemed like the more pertinent question might have been how m..

The card keeps growing. We are less than two weeks away from Money in the Bank and that means we are going to be seeing a lot of people in one match at the same time. With a rather insane twelve people involved in two matches at the same time, the match is going to be all over the place. It’s also not going to be the only match with a ton of people fighting at once.
Things have been picking up in the SmackDown tag team division as of late with some new teams getting in on the situation. There are suddenly a handful of teams coming for the titles and that makes things a bit more interesting. This includes some newcomers, and that means we are going to be seeing some fresh matchups. One of those will be taking place at Money in the Bank.
WWE.com has announced a fatal four way for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles for Money in the Bank. The match will see the New Day defending against the Forgotten Sons, Lucha House Party and the Miz and John Morrison. This comes the day after the Forgotten..

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, starting today. 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?
Double or Nothing
Date: May 25, 2019
Location: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada
Commentators: Jim Ross, Excalibur, Alex Marvez
It took long enough. This is the first show for All Elite Wrestling and the question is….egads there are a lot of them actually. The biggest of them all though is can they live up to the hype. All In certainly did, though that’s not exactly the same thing this time around. I don’t know if the show is going to be good (though it probably will be), but it’s going to be i..

That’s some serious dedication. AEW has not been around that long and need all of the big helps that they can get. Anything that they can do to get fans’ attention, while still being positive of course, is a good thing and that is what they had with some of their earlier hires. The spread of the Coronavirus kept one of those hires away from the company, though now things might be changing.
Aside from Chris Jericho, there is no bigger name in AEW than Jim Ross. While he is on the lower side of his career after all these years, Ross is still someone the fans are familiar with and he offers a certain feeling of nostalgia for a lot of fans. At the same time though, Ross is still a solid lead commentator today and a pretty good one at that. Now though, you are going to get to hear him more often.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Ross is moving to Jacksonville until at least May 27 for the sake of avoiding having to fly from his home in Oklahoma to Jacksonville for AEW telev..

There’s your explanation. I don’t remember the last time things were moving so fast in WWE. You have so many wrestlers moving on and off of the roster and that is the kind of thing that can cause some problems. There were several wrestlers released from the company in a large group, but another was let go later in the month. Now we might have an idea why.
Earlier this week, Curtis Axel was released from WWE. This came after the other large group of releases, though it seems to be the only release taking place at the moment. Axel has only wrestled on television once this year, appearing in a short loss to Daniel Bryan on the February 28 SmackDown. That wasn’t exactly the most promising sign for his future and it was more suggestive than we knew.
According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, part of the reason why Axel was released was due to his age. Axel is forty years old and has not done anything significant in WWE in years. With his lack of success in recent years and age, there..

Well of course he did. Vince McMahon is not like normal humans. The stories about his wild antics are legendary and they often leave people wondering what the heck is wrong with him. At the end of the day though, no one has ever had the kind of success in wrestling that he has achieved so it’s hard to argue with his methods. Someone might have needed to talk him out of something recently though.
One thing that you will hear about McMahon is that he would never ask someone to do something that he wouldn’t do himself. You will hear about McMahon get out there and doing whatever he is asking someone else to do, whatever that may be. That was fine twenty years ago, but now McMahon is getting up there in years and it might not be the best idea in the world. As you might have guessed though, it hasn’t stopped McMahon yet.
In an interview with TV Insider, Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch told a story about McMahon falling off of a tower to demonstrate how he wanted to see it done. McMahon t..

It was nice while it lasted. As you might have been able to tell, the situation in WWE have been changing on an almost daily basis. Things keep moving around because there is always something new happening, mainly due to forces outside of the company’s control. That can become tiring for fans, so maybe we should go back to WWE making a change to make things more complicated on their own.
If there is one thing that WWE is known for doing, it is changing things on the fly. A lot of fans have heard the stories of Vince McMahon changing the television scripts at the last possible time before going on the air. It is no secret that WWE has an issue with putting things together and then executing them as announced. That seems to be the case again this week.
Earlier this week on Monday Night Raw, the Viking Raiders challenged the Street Profits for a Raw Tag Team Title match on the May 4 edition of Monday Night Raw. The Street Profits accepted the challenge and the title match was confirmed…