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Can you define essential? The wrestling world is in a very strange place at the moment and it isn’t something that we have ever really seen before. As a result, it is not clear where things are going to go on a day to day basis, which presents a problem as WrestleMania 36 is only about two weeks away. With that show coming, everything needs to be as right as possible, but that might not be the case.
As you might have guessed, Brock Lesnar is going to be featured in a prominent role at this year’s WrestleMania. Lesnar is the reigning WWE Champion and will be defending his title against Royal Rumble winner Drew McIntyre. That is the kind of match that could easily headline the show, but it turns out that there might be something standing in the way of the match taking place as planned.
Earlier this week, the United States and Canada agreed to close the border between the countries to all non-essential traffic. This presents a potential problem for Lesnar, who lives in Canada and might ..

Don’t get ahead of yourselves in Japan. The outbreak of the Coronavirus has shake wrestling up in a way that no one has ever seen before. Things have gone from bad to horrible in a short amount of time in America but the problem started even earlier elsewhere. Some countries have been taking action against the virus for weeks now, but one country’s wrestling industry may be ready to start rebuilding.
There are very few countries whose wrestling industries are near that of Japan’s. The country has a deep, rich history of wrestling with some of the most talented performers in the world, both past and present, regularly performing there. However, the wrestling industry has been hit hard by the virus, with several promotions halting events. That might not be the case much longer.
According to 411mania.com, the DDT promotion ran a show in Japan with a live audience. Dragon Gate will be holding a show on March 22 and Stardom will hold a tournament on March 24. All fans will have their temp..

That might be best for everyone. Wresting has never seen a time like this and it’s not entirely clear where things are going to go until it gets better. What matters at the moment is making sure everyone is safe, and there are various ways to do that while keeping the companies going. AEW is one of the few companies attempting to do that, and now they have made a move that will change the course that they take.
While they are very popular at the moment and have been since their debut, AEW is still a very new company. There are a lot of things that they haven’t tried yet and that means they could be doing a lot of things for the first time. That makes for some interesting moments, and one of the things that they had announced sounded rather good. However, it won’t be happening as planned.
AEW CEO and President Tony Khan announced via Facebook that the previously announced Blood & Guts match will not take place on next week’s episode of Dynamite. The match had been announced and advert..

Impact Wrestling
Date: March 17, 2020
Location: Sam’s Town Live, Las Vegas, Nevada
Commentators: Don Callis, Josh Matthews
We’re almost to the last taping cycle from this company for a good while. Last week’s show ended with the announcement that Tessa Blanchard would defend the World Title against both Michael Elgin and Eddie Edwards at Rebellion. That’s kind of a problem now as there is likely no Rebellion, meaning this could be a rather interesting show if they didn’t edit things. Let’s get to it.
The opening recap looks at the end of last week’s show, with Blanchard agreeing to the triple threat match.
Opening sequence.
Tag Team Titles: The North vs. TJP/Fallah Bahh TJP and Bahh are challenging after winning some singles matches and a non-title match to set this up. The brawl is on before the referee can lower the titles, meaning the champions try to hit Bahh in the head for some reason. Alexander gets hit with Poetry In Motion and a belly to belly from Bahh. TJP gets caught in..

There’s still time to build it up. We are coming up on WrestleMania 36 and this is one of the most unique shows in WrestleMania’s history. This time around the show is being spread out over two nights and that means WWE has a lot more room to add in matches. With so many wrestlers on the roster, it makes sense to put a bunch of them together and that’s what is going to happen.
There are very few champions on the WWE roster as dominant as Bayley. Save for a five day Charlotte reign, she has held the title since May 2019 uninterrupted. As a result of her long reign, Bayley has cleaned out a lot of the SmackDown women’s division, leaving her with very few opponents to face. Therefore, a solution needed to be made and that was reached this week.
This week on SmackDown, Paige announced that Bayley will be defending her SmackDown Women’s Title in a six way match at WrestleMania 36. Her challengers will include Lacey Evans, Dana Brooke, Tamina, Naomi and Sasha Banks. There is no word on whi..

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?
Wrestlemania XIV
Date: March 29, 1998
Location: FleetCenter, Boston, Massachusetts
Attendance: 19,028
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
You might notice that things have picked up a lot since last year. This can mainly be attributed to the influence of Vince Russo, who isn’t remembered all that fondly. While his later efforts didn’t exactly work out very well (that’s putting it mildly), his early work with this kind of talent around him was a major part of the turnaround in the Monday Night Wars, w..

That puts him in a pretty elite group. There are a lot of common criticisms that you hear about WWE today but one of the biggest is the lack of freedom that so many of the wrestlers have. Their promos and matches are planned in advance, meaning that they have very few choices in what they want to do. However, there are a few wrestlers who get some special treatment and another is getting more powerful backstage.
There are very few wrestlers who reach the popularity of Daniel Bryan. After his rise to the top of the company in 2014, Bryan was a made man but then when he missed several years of his in-ring career due to a variety of injuries, there was no way around his incredible popularity. It helped that he could wrestle any style as a variety of characters so well, and now he is starting to get rewarded for all of his talents.
According to Tom Colohue on the Dropkick DISKussion podcast, Bryan’s backstage influence is growing and he has been more influential in some of the decisions ..

Are you really surprised? The wrestling world has been changed quite a bit in recent weeks and it’s all been due to the spread of the Coronavirus. The disease has shaken up all kinds of things around the world and wrestling is no different, with all of WWE’s shows being moved to the Performance Center. This has been a rather strange situation, and now we know the next changes.
WrestleMania weekend has a lot more going on than just WrestleMania itself. It really is a nearly week long series of events with all kinds of things going on at once. That can make things very interesting in a hurry and that was to be the case again this year. In addition to WrestleMania, WWE had announced Takeover: Tampa, the Hall of Fame ceremony, Monday Night Raw and SmackDown. Now, things are in for a big shakeup.
According to PWInsider.com, WWE has issued a statement saying that neither Takeover: Tampa nor the Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place as previously planned. At the moment, it is not ..

That’s a rather nice thing to do. You can’t look anywhere at this point without seeing some news about the Coronavirus. There are very few positive stories around and that is the case with professional wrestling as well. With so many bad things going on, it would be nice to see something good for the industry for a change and that is the case, albeit from a place you might not have thought of for awhile.
One of the biggest issues with having wrestling companies stop running shows is the lack of wrestlers being paid. There are a lot of wrestlers who are going to be out of work because there are no places for them to go while the Coronavirus is on the rampage. That is the kind of thing that can change the industry in a horrible way, but one company is doing something rather nice.
Current Impact Wrestling Tag Team Champion Ethan Page sent out a tweet thanking Impact Wrestling for paying the wrestlers for the shows that were canceled throughout the end of March. The wrestlers are paid on..

The card keeps growing. We are less than three weeks away from WrestleMania and on Monday afternoon, we received the news that we had been waiting to hear for a long time: the show will indeed be taking place, but it will not be taking place in a stadium as expected. Instead, the show will be taking place at the WWE Performance Center. That means the card still needs to be built though, and now we know something else that will be included.
There have been a lot of feuds and stories going on during the build to WrestleMania and one of the biggest has been the story of Seth Rollins and his army vs. the rest of the roster. Kevin Owens has been the top name fighting back against Rollins and that means things were coming to a head. The finish line was pretty clear and now it has been made official for good.
During this week’s Monday Night Raw, Owens accepted Rollins’ challenge for a match, with Owens getting to select the place and time. Owens picked WrestleMania at the Performance Center..

And there it is. With all of the changes taking place about the status of WrestleMania, one of the biggest things that has gone under the radar is WrestleMania itself. The show is still taking place and that means we have to get ready for the actual event. With less than three weeks to go before the show, they have a few things left to set up and that was the case with this week’s Monday Night Raw.
We are coming up on WrestleMania and a lot of the stories have already been set up. There are still some matches that need to be set in stone though and one of them is Undertaker vs. AJ Styles. Last week on Monday Night Raw, Styles made things a lot more personal by talking about Undertaker’s personal life, including Undertaker’s wife Michelle McCool. That was not going to go well and things are now official.
This week on Monday Night Raw, Styles and Undertaker officially signed the contract for their match at WrestleMania 36. The signing came after Undertaker stormed the ring but Styles n..

As reported, WWE has officially made a decision regarding the fate of WrestleMania. The show will not be held inside the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Instead, it will be at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. As of this writing, an announcement has not been made on the fate of NXT, Raw, SmackDown, and the WWE Hall of Fame, but it will be reported as the information comes in.
After speaking with a source close to WWE, the show could be having some major format changes.
The source stated that he does not expect to show to go by the normal seven-hour format, with two hours of the pre-show and five hours of the main card. In addition, he also stated many of the undercard matches could be snubbed from the card, in order to reduce the empty arena show. As shown by the past SmackDown and the “3:16 day” episode of Raw, both the Elimination Chamber and Royal Rumble matches were shown respectively to fill in network time. Since they control the WWE Network programming, ..