Photo of Actress Florence Pugh as Paige

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CM Punk & AJ Lee Appearances, WWE Backlash & NXT Takeover Pre-Shows, More

– There will be a thirty-minute pre-show for WWE NXT “Takeover: Chicago” will air at 7:30pm EST on Saturday.

– Speaking of pre-shows, Renee Young, Peter Rosenberg and Booker T will be on the WWE Backlash Kickoff pre-show next Sunday from Chicago.

– The RAW brand wrapped their part of the two-week European tour on Saturday with a WWE Live Event in The Netherlands. The SmackDown brand has a show today in Copenhagen but will be headed back afterwards.

– Former WWE Superstar AJ Lee will be making an appearance on NBC’s “Last Call with Carson Daly” this coming Tuesday at 1:35am EST to plug her “Crazy Is My Superpower” book.

– Former WWE Superstar CM Punk will be making his first appearance in the New York City area since leaving WWE on July 1st and July 2nd at the Eternal Con. This event talkes place at the Nassau Coliseum.

Premiere Date Revealed for WWE UK TV Show

The premiere date has been set for the WWE UK show that was taped last weekend in Norwich, England. The show will premiere on the WWE Network this upcoming Thursday and is scheduled to run for 1.5 hours starting at 8PM ET.

The synopsis for the show reads, “The Superstars of the WWE UK Championship Tournament and 205 Live descend upon Norwich, England for an unforgettable special event!”

As previously noted, WWE plans on having weekly shows of the UK. That means they are expected to head back overseas and film more material soon.

It’s also worth noting that the show will be going head-to-head with Impact Wrestling.

Indie Wrestler Suffers Heart Attack During A Match & Dies

Florida independent wrestler Wayne Van Dyke was hospitalized and died after suffering a heart attack during a match for Ronin Pro Wrestling. He was only 29 years old.

Van Dyke told his partner during the match that he was not feeling well. He suffered a heart attack when he tagged out. CPR was administered and he was rushed to the hospital, where he suffered two more heart attacks before being put into a medically induced coma.

While administering CPR, he suffered a punctured lung and broke a rib. The news of his passing was confirmed by his family on Facebook.

We send our condolences to his family and friends.

Brutal Footage of EC3 Lashing James Storm’s Back on Impact Wrestling

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Matt Hardy Continues to Take Shots Former Bosses

Matt Hardy continues to take shots at his former bosses at Impact Wrestling. He sent out the following tweet suggesting that TNA would have been better if they sold the company to Billy Corgan instead of Anthem Sports:

WWE Officials Extremely High on Aleister Black

As seen at the WWE NXT Takeover: Orlando event, Aleister Black made his debut for the company and has been featured on weekly NXT television.

It’s being said that his stay in NXT will not be a long one. Company officials are extremely high on his character and ring work. Unless he suffers an injury of sorts, he will probably be on the roster in no time.

The Taz Show Recap – UK Shows vs. USA Shows, Great Balls of Fire, Gallagher’s Headbutt, More!

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A listener calls into the show and tells Taz says that he considers him to be one of his favourite four wrestlers of all time. The caller says that ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, Undertaker, Ultimate Warrior and Taz are his top four. Taz genuinely thanks the caller, and says that those other three guys are unbelievable company to be in.

Taz comments on Steve Harvey’s recent email to his staff, where he told them to respect his privacy while filming the upcoming fifth season of his talk show. Taz thought this was terrific and jokes that he’s going to send a similar email to all of his staff. He doesn’t have a dressing room like Harvey, but he will find a way to seclude himself from the rest of his staff.

Another listener calls into the show and tells Taz that he gets a lot of heat from his friends and family for being an adult who still watches professional wrestling. Taz urges the callers to ask his friends and family if they enjoy watching television shows or films, because it’s all the same as professional wrestling. It’s simply a form of entertainment, and there are plenty of intelligent adults who watch wrestling on a weekly basis.

Vince Russo’s The Brand Recap – Dave Meltzer in the Guinness Book of World Records, Asuka Compared to Goldberg, How Much Did Russo Make Writing…

Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

Russo points out the Meltzer reported this past week that Alberto Del Rio and Paige had an argument somewhere in Florida. Russo says that this is not news, and it’s just another example of a wrestling ‘journalist’ who is making up a story when there’s no story to be told.

Lane points out that someone tweeted Dave Meltzer this past week, asking him for his opinion on Russo. Meltzer’s response was, “Life’s too short to worry about people desperate for attention”. Russo says that Meltzer’s responses to these fans are so lame. Russo adds that for someone who’s starving for attention, he’s doing a poor job because he just moved into a cabin in the woods.

Lane reads some comments from a recent Reddit thread, where fans discuss the differences between the attitude era and the today’s product.

One fan says that this era’s product is superior to the attitude era because there are better stories, promos, and matches. In addition, the attitude era was a racist, sexist product which was overly aggressive in an attempt to appeal to the ECW fanbase.

Russo says that he can’t even name one storyline that’s occurring on RAW at the moment. RAW was drawing a 6.0-7.0 rating back during the attitude era, and the notion that they were trying to copy ECW which was drawing a 0.8 rating doesn’t make any sense to him.