A week after their epic encounter at NXT Takeover Chicago we hosted a rematch of the classic, with a slight twist...
Taken from Press Start 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQJBiphD0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eQJBiphD0M
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Friday, August 23, 2019
Mat Memory- The Pitbulls vs. Ron & Don Harris ft. Nailz & The Headhunters (1999)
In July 1999 from Mark Lewin's High Risk Championship Wrestling (HRCW) promotion in Australia, Anthony Durante & Gary Wolf/Wolfe of ECW fame collide with The Bruise Brothers/Disciples Of Apocalypse/D.O.A./Creative Control from WCW and WWE. Nailz also cuts a promo about a minute and a half in in what was possibly his last public wrestling appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_gxGt1g-s8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_gxGt1g-s8
JON MOXLEY OFF AEW ALL OUT.. Kenny Omega Will Now Face...
Jon Moxley's elbow injury will prevent him from wrestling at All Out.
On Twitter today, Moxley announced that he'll have to miss his match against Kenny Omega at the pay-per-view because a serious case of MRSA has returned in his elbow: "I'm absolutely gutted to have to deliver this news but I'd rather it come directly from me. In a nightmare scenario, a serious case of MRSA has returned in my elbow. The timing couldn't be worse. In this circumstance I am forced to pull out of the fight 8/31 vs Omega at All Out."
Dave Meltzer notes that Moxley is expected to be out of action for four weeks. Moxley added that he expects to be ready to return in time for when AEW debuts on TNT on Wednesday, October 2: "I apologize to all involved, most importantly the fans. I am incredibly frustrated and pissed off. I'll have surgery this week to remove the bursa sac in my elbow and be done with it for good. Should be a quick recovery so I will be 100% for AEW Wednesday nights on TNT."
Moxley vs. Omega had been set up when Moxley made a surprise appearance at Double or Nothing and laid out Omega at the end of the show. Cody Rhodes tweeted that AEW will actively try to reschedule Moxley vs. Omega for down the road.
AEW has revealed Kenny Omega's new opponent for All Out.
With Jon Moxley off the pay-per-view, Omega is now facing PAC at All Out. Omega vs. Moxley had originally been set, but Moxley announced today that he won't be able to wrestle at All Out because a serious case of MRSA has returned in his elbow.
This will be PAC's debut for AEW. He was supposed to face Hangman Page at Double or Nothing, but PAC was removed from that match due to creative differences. PAC vs. Page instead took place for WrestleGate in Nottingham, England ahead of All Out.
PAC was also supposed to team with Pentagon Jr. & Fenix against Omega & The Young Bucks at Fyter Fest. Laredo Kid instead took his place in that match.
PAC lost Dragon Gate's Open the Dream Gate Championship to Ben-K last month.
All Out will also be the first time PAC has wrestled in the United States since leaving WWE. The PPV is taking place at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on Saturday, August 31. Here's the updated card:
- Chris Jericho vs. Hangman Page for the AEW World Championship
- Kenny Omega vs. PAC
- AAA Tag Team Champions The Lucha Bros (Pentagon Jr. & Fenix) defending against The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) in a ladder match
- Cody Rhodes vs. Shawn Spears
- Hikaru Shida vs. Riho
- Darby Allin vs. Joey Janela vs. Jimmy Havoc
- Best Friends (Trent Barreta & Chuck Taylor) vs. The Dark Order (Evil Uno & Stu Grayson) (winning team gets a first-round bye in AEW's Tag Team title tournament)
- Women's Casino Battle Royale (pre-show)
- Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) vs. Angelico & Jack Evans (pre-show)
All Out is taking place at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
PCW (California) Ultra MUTINY (Ep. 6)
This week on PCW Ultra MUTINY, we crown a new #1 contender to the PCW UltraLight Championship as Daga faces Puma King. We'll also reach back in our archives and show you Flip Gordon's PCW Ultra debut against former Ultra Champion, Penta el Zero M.
Brought to you by THAT MEXICAN GUY CATERING in San Pedro, CA and Sapporo.
Featured this week:
Penta el Zero M vs. Flip Gordon
#1 Contendership for the PCW ULTRALight Championship: Puma King vs. Daga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOKkfaWCmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOKkfaWCmM
ACW Florida- Proving Ground August 21, 2019
The Young & The Breathless vs Culture, Inc. ... 43:02
Victor Vences vs Sean Tyler ... 13:09
Anarchy vs Controversial, Inc. ... 20:57
Kilynn King vs Katalina Perez ... 32:47
The new WNC FL Champion, Romeo Quevedo, SPEAKS! ... 46:52
Steven Frick vs Snoop Strikes ... 1:10:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uyfuikFrNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uyfuikFrNs
Corey Graves On What It's Like Having Vince McMahon In His Ear During Live WWE TV
WWE announcer Corey Graves recently spoke with former WWE announcer Sean Mooney on his "Prime Time" podcast at this link.
Graves was asked what it's like to be live on RAW and SmackDown with Vince McMahon in his ear.
"The first time he reprimanded me for anything, I was on camera. It's different when you're not on camera, you can kinda play it naturally and acknowledge it," Graves said. "But when you're staring at the lights, and all of a sudden Vince is yelling at you in your ear, it's like really hard to keep your composure and keep your train of thought, and I'm pretty sure when it happened, I just locked up in the middle of a sentence, because it was like 'oh no, I'm dead! What's happening?' It just trumps everything that's going on in the world. I think I've been doing it long enough now with him that he's comfortable with me, and I think I have sorta earned his trust, and a lot of times he gives me plenty of rope to kind of work with, and do my own thing.
"I think he gets that I generally understand the story, even if I don't know where we're going with it, which I try not to know. So I think I've earned his trust to a point, but that doesn't mean there aren't still moments where I'll say something and he'll, you know, I can't necessarily repeat what he says to me all the time, but it's definitely an experience. It was definitely hard to get used to, but now I think I am as used to it as I will ever get."
Graves also recalled the early days of the WWE NXT Street Team in Florida, working with WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins and other up & comers.
"Seth Rollins and I, that's our common joke with each other, is Street Team," Graves said. "It was miserable. The worst was to be on the posters, and you're rolling through a small town in the middle of Florida, you know, like a one stoplight town, and you're out there with a staple gun, stapling posters of yourself to the phone poles, trying to avoid the police, because most of the towns had ordinances against that. All so you could have somebody to wrestle in front of. It's August in Florida, so it's 110 degrees outside, and you're sweating. Somebody was driving, and someone's in the back seat with the posters jumping out, it was like this guerrilla marketing thing. I always joke, I said 'I think that's the difference between our crew and anybody that comes out of the Performance Center now, they should have to do Street Team at least once in their life."
Graves talked more about the early days of NXT, and how the brand grew.
"We were still the best kept secret, and so the fans started kinda getting rumblings; 'You check out this NXT stuff? There's some pretty good guys!' and I thought 'Oh, the hardcores knew who Tyler Black was from Ring of Honor, and Jon Moxley and all those guys who were the big time independent names. FCW existed, but nobody had anywhere to watch it," Graves said. "And from our perspective, it was like 'this is our time to shine, across the board' It was maybe the most unified, united, I've ever seen a locker room, and sort of group of anybody in this business. We were all working toward a common goal, and it was like, we had Hunter and Dusty leading the charge, and everyone was behind it 1000%. It was like 'alright, you don't have to give us the ball anymore, we got our own ball, and we're going to show you how to play.' There was obviously, there's a lot of freedom to even NXT TV. We were still learning. We were learning about hitting time cues, and different things that we'd never really been exposed to.
"We had something that was ours, and at that point, I think the focus no longer even became 'Hey, we're gonna go to Raw and SmackDown', it was 'We're making NXT. This is ours!' All the way up through those first Takeover and Arrival and; when those first started happening, I think it was so organic, because it was real to us. The fans were excited because they had something different. It wasn't Raw and SmackDown. They weren't seeing the same faces week after week after week, and it was still good. It was good wrestling. It was good storylines. Interesting characters, new characters you've never seen before. So the fans sorta latched onto it, and we were working just as hard as they wanted to watch it, because this was our baby. It was truly like a grassroots kind of feeling, that we made this thing, and we're not gonna let it fail. I think the passion from the fans and the passion from the talent met in the middle, and created this perfect storm.
Capital Wrestling on Tubi TV
Capitol Wrestling announced that it will be launching on Tubi TV in the fall as part of its partnership with Deep C Digital. Below is the full announcement:
"In the first move of Capitol Wrestling's partnership with Deep C Digital, the East Coast based pro wrestling program will be bringing its weekly series to Tubi TV. The program, seen by over 1.6 million viewers in 2018, will bring an alternative brand of professional wrestling to Tubi's 25 million users beginning this fall, bringing some of pro wrestling's best talent to the platform. With matches including Sonny Kiss, current Capitol Wrestling champion Homicide, Bellator's Jake Hager, as well as Colby Corino, Jimmy Rave, Special K and more of the Capitol's genre-defining talent.
"An initial order of 30 episodes will highlight Capitol Wrestling's live event from the Skankfest comedy festival featuring Tony Hinchcliffe, as well as Capitol's New York City and Nashville Tennessee debuts. Capitol Wrestling counts former WWE and Impact Wrestling executive David Sahadi, as well as former WCCW, WCW, and ROH director/producer Dan Bynum among senior leadership, and has produced over 120 episodes of first-run content seen across the globe through digital and traditional syndication, bolstered by its partnership with Deep C Digital, which is ran by former Viacom and Walt Disney executive John Kim.
"Tubi, developed in 2014, is the largest independently-owned video service in the United States which has surpassed over 20 million active users, features content from Paramount Pictures, Shout Factory, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, as well as a deal with Comcast Owned NBC-Universal."
Dustin Rhodes Wants To Run The AEW Wrestling School, Talks His In-Ring Future, AEW's Future
Dustin Rhodes recently spoke with Vulture Hound's SteelChair Magazine while filming the upcoming "Cutter Bill" movie. While he's focused on expanding his acting career right now, the 50 year old Rhodes has no retirement date in mind for his in-ring wrestling career as he shows no signs of slowing down physically.
"I know what my body is capable of, so I do not have an end date to share with you," Rhodes said of his in-ring future.
Dustin has worked two matches for AEW, both with brother Cody Rhodes, who serves as one of the Executive Vice Presidents. He is also currently listed on the AEW roster. Dustin lost a brutal match to Cody at Double Or Nothing back in May, then teamed with Cody for a loss to The Young Bucks at Fight for the Fallen in July. Regarding the AEW TNT TV deal, Dustin said it's way overdue.
"AEW on TNT is exciting," he added. "Glad to be along for the ride and to pass on my knowledge to the ones that want help."
Rhodes has expressed interest in running a wrestling school for AEW as he wants to provide a place for young wrestlers to learn and develop the skills needed to make it in the business. Rhodes sees it as a way to give back and a way to be a part of pro wrestling after his in-ring career ends. He admitted he hasn't discussed the idea with AEW President Tony Khan yet. He said, "I have not spoken to him about it, but I will have one, one day."
Rhodes, also known to fans as three-time WWE Intercontinental Champion Goldust, did say big things are to come for AEW.
"From what I can see, AEW is going to be huge," he predicted. "They are already breaking sell-out records, and their fanbase is strong. Gonna be a fun ride if you're on the train. And as always, thank you, and #KeepSteppin #NeverLookBack."
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