On Raw tonight, it was mostly boring like usual. Toward the end of the program, Randy Orten and Lashley had a great match for the championship. Lashley retained the title, but hurt his knee. After that, Big E thought about using money in the bank, but it went to a very late commercial. After that match it was official, Big E cashes in Money in the Bank to win the WWE championship.

THE INDI-LUMIS WEDDING, BRON BREAKER DEBUTS & MORE: WWE NXT 2.0 DEBUT VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS | PWInsider.com

NXT actually had a wedding that was not interrupted by another wrestler. The wedding did have the minister taken out by a wrestling move.

WWE Draft returns Oct. 1 on SmackDown, Oct. 4 on Raw

The timing is just about right, with Extreme Rules taking place on Sept. 26 just five days before. That gives WWE the chance to use Monday Night Raw that week to wrap up whatever storylines they need to in preparation for changing the roster around.

It sounds like WWE banned the name ‘Rick Steiner’ during Bron Breakker’s debut (msn.com)

NXT 2.0 premiered this week (Sept. 14) with Rick Steiner’s son wrestling under his new ring name, Bron Breakker. He defeated LA Knight in the opening match of the night.

After that match was over, Brooks Jensen made his debut in a tag team match against Imperium. The commentary team noted that Jensen is a second generation wrestler, which was a nod to his father, former WWE wrestler Bull Buchanan.

No such reference was ever made to Rick Steiner during Breakker’s debut match.

Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez discussed this situation on Wrestling Observer Radio, where Meltzer indicated that Rick Steiner’s name was added to WWE’s list of banned words.

On Raw tonight, they moved Roman Reigns to RAW. Both champions on RAW will never work. Looks like Big E will be traveling to Smackdown this week. It was another snooze fest of an episode.

Anyone have a soft spot for the Ruthless Agression era? shit was wild

Vince McMahon Steps Down as WWE CEO and Chairman; Stephanie McMahon Named Interim CEO.

I have to give credit to the WWE for their very long-term storytelling here. Turns out the Alliance ended up winning the invasion storyline.

B-b-but it was supposed to be Cody's night. :(

I was there (both nights). Everyone lost their shit when Roman pinned him. I’ll give WWE credit that they put on exciting Wrestlemanias. Granted if they did that with the rest of their weekly programs and other shows, I’d still regularly watch.

You gonna show up for tonight's post-Wrestlemania Raw?

I have floorside seats across from the hard cam. I can’t wait for J. Jonah Jameson to come out and announce the sell of WWE, and demand pictures of Spider-Man.

For reference:

Much better (and still cheaper) than the wrestlemania seats over the weekend.

Alright, poll time:

As of this writing (August of 2023), which top champion are you more into: AEW's MJF or WWE's Roman Reigns? Give reasons if you can.

I would say AEW MJF, But I may be very biased.

I don't know why, but Roman Reigns stills feels a bit blank to me, I still see him just as someone who got pushed mostly because of his connexions and looks (even if it's strange to say that, because it's very common, even among wrestler that I love the most ) but It might be that I'm a bit frustrated because I consider some other wrestlers who does merit to become the face of the wwe. Like Cody Rhoades by pure hasard ah ah.

But Didn't seen a lot of AEW but MJF, everytime I saw him, oh boy does he deliver and manage to make laugh so much. I really like his character and how he manage to keep the role of the old bad guy who would never break character in every content I've saw him. That remind me of old wrestler, but I don't know how he manage to look natural in it.

And you which one is your favorite and why ?

R.I.P. Terry Funk.

He was one who made hardcore wrestling cool in ECW and in Japan along with quite a few others of course, and before that he was a champion in the National Wrestling Alliance in the 70's and 80's, going tie to toe with Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes and the Briscos.

WWE legend Bray Wyatt dies aged 36 | Metro News

WWE boss Triple H revealed the tragic news on Thursday and tweeted: ‘Just received a call from WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda who informed us of the tragic news that our WWE family member for life Windham Rotunda – also known as Bray Wyatt – unexpectedly passed earlier today.

I can't believe it.

Literally so sad, One of the best professional wrestlers to come about in some time. Super talented and incredibly unique. I'm really glad WWE did it right with the tribute show to him and Funk.

MJF. I prefer chickenshit heels who just barely scrape and need to cheat to win over monsters who just destroy everyone like Roman has become most of the time.

It's fun when you have to see what creative way MJF will come out on top in his next match as opposed to waiting for Reigns to hit another spear for another lukewarm win.

Yeah like Eddie Guerrero back in the day the crafty heel is always a banger

Just popping in to say that I've been watching Dark Side of Wrestling these past few days. Lots of stuff I never knew, as well as more details on some of the things I did know. Like I knew the name Bruiser Brody, but had never really seen anything about him.

Been a long time since I posted here. I haven't been keeping up with wrestling so I felt it would be disingenuous for me to hang around. Stopped watching around 2010 or so. No idea what has been going on in the world of pro wrestling anymore.

How has everyone been doing?

Anyone catch CM Punk’s 17th return to Chicago this year, this time for WWE?

Might actually buy wrestlemania tickets in Philly in April. Hopefully he isn’t as injury-prone as he was in the short time he was in AEW (granted everyone seems to be injury-prone there with all the dumb shit they’re pulling off each night).

CM Punk did try to go back a couple of years ago, and it sounded like Vince McMahon shot that down. Fox Network even pushed for it, which is why he was relegated to that silly show they had.

Yes it was a petty move. That seems like what drove Punk out of AEW too; pettiness. Granted pro wrestling in general has almost too much history of pettiness. I took his “I’m here to make money” line as 50% a wink and nod to the people in the know why he’s back after so many years (I guess they actually think there’s people out there who are unaware of the world outside WWE), and 49% of it is him referring to “making money” as more a reference to “I’ll put up with someone I personally had issues with (Triple H) to sell a story that people will watch and we’ll all profit from that”. And 1% was that was just an outright accurate statement.

I’m still betting he injures himself. 45 is 45 after all.

I’m in Providence tonight for WWE Smackdown Live Tribute For The Troops Sponsored By Ruffles and the Local Medical Facility. Thankfully I’m at a hotel right next to this town’s podunk amateur hockey arena; makes drinking until wrestling is exciting again easy.

Starting the day out at Trinity Brewhouse enjoying their 14% Belgian Strawberry ale. I’m sure CM Punk would enjoy it.

“You can’t go around punching people in the face, it’s 2023 guys!” -CM Punk

I got video of Charlotte Flair’s injury.

https://youtube.com/shorts/A8nm8N4yThI?si=Mm5sloOVcUrRlIQD

TNA landed the Nic Nemeth (FKA Dolph Ziggler).

Super happy for the guy and I want him to succeed, but I'm still a little baffled as to why AEW didn't scoop him up after WWE booted his butt to the curb. He's gonna do great work wherever he does if given a proper shot.

I have never been more jealous in my life man! Got to see him back when he was in AEW, but I certainly wasn't this close. So sick.

Who do you guys have winning for the Rumble this year? Gonna watch it with @PsychoGoldfish and a few other wrestling pals of mine. I'm rooting for Punk!

I wonder if maybe he didn't want to work in AEW? It kinda feels like he's doing an around-the-world indies run, similar to Matt Cardona. Which, speaking of which, I'm excited for their match against each other in GCW!

I’m wondering if part of Punk’s contract was to get a Wrestlemania main event? Granted that would make that promo he cut against MJF a bit null and void about main eventing the 4-for-1 PPV extravaganza.

They seem to have been heavily implying Punk v. Rollins since Survivor Series, although that is likely in flux given Rollins hurt his knee. Or the other way to get around that is Priest cashes in, “hurts” Rollins, and now Priest v. Royal Rumble winner, but of course there really isn’t any build to that.

Im guessing obviously Night 2 will be Rock v. Reigns, where Reigns wins via finger poke of doom, they hug each other in the middle of the ring at the end, and then Ari Emanuel hands them both large sacks with dollar signs on them and the belts are replaced with movie deals.

Also, glad to hear of the deal between WWE and Netflix starting next year (guess I actually will hold onto my account). Bummed that it is only for Raw, since they are moving Smackdown back to the USA network. Apparently all shows eventually will move to Netflix (I think they said by around 2029 based on the length of their other TV deals). That’s a win for me as I have no desire to subscribe to any semblance of a cable deal (traditional, YouTube, or Hulu) just to watch a handful of shows.