All Elite Wrestling has officially confirmed that Sting will team up with Darby Allin to take on Team Taz in a Street Fight at Revolution
In case you missed it, Team Taz laid down a challenge to “The Icon” and Darby on this week’s edition of Dynamite.
“You wanna take it to the streets? Balls in your court, bitches,” Taz said in a backstage promo aimed at Sting and the TNT Champion, who were in the ring.
“Be careful what you wish for,” Darby replied, before leaving with the ring alongside the WWE Hall of Famer.
The match was officially confirmed by AEW on social media on Thursday. It will be Darby Allin and Sting vs. Brian Cage and Ricky Starks in a Street Fight at Revolution February 27.
This will be Sting’s first match since retiring due to injury following a match with Seth Rollins in September of 2015.
This week’s WWE 205 Live episode will see the WWE NXT Men’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and the NXT Women’s Dusty Classic continue with first round matches.
The men’s tournament will continue this Friday night with the final first round match. Tony Nese and Ariya Daivari will face Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher. As noted, Thatcher and Ciampa are replacing Ashante “Thee” Adonis and Desmond Troy after Karrion Kross injured Adonis during their squash match on last night’s NXT show.
The second first round match in the women’s tournament will take place on 205 Live with The Way (Candice LeRae, Indi Hartwell) vs. Gigi Dolin (Priscilla Kelly) and Cora Jade (Elayna Black). This will be the first time a women’s match has been held on 205 Live.
Dolin and Jade will team up to take on Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell in the first round, while Zoey Stark will join forces with Marina Shafir to take on Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon.
Gigi Dolin will already be familiar to some WWE fans as she performed in the 2018 Mae Young Classic.
WWE is set to have actual fans in attendance at Raymond James Stadium for WrestleMania 37, which will take place across two nights on April 10 and April 11 in Tampa, FL.
As seen in the video above, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon spoke with TMZ Sports this week and said the current plan is to have fans in the crowd at WrestleMania 37.
“I’m thrilled and excited because, hopefully, this will be the first opportunity for us to have our fans back in attendance,” she said of WrestleMania 37. “You know, that’s the current plan. Of course ticket information is not available yet because we’re still trying to figure out all the different machinations.
“We’re really lucky though because the NFL Super Bowl is our lead-in this year, from Raymond James Stadium. So, we’re going to learn a lot from them, logistically, etc., and really best practices, what works, what doesn’t work. But man, we can’t wait to come in and for two nights, hopefully, really rock that pirate ship.”
Stephanie later reiterated that the current plan is to have fans at Raymond James Stadium. She was asked how they determine if they go forward with that plan, and how the COVID-19 pandemic affects things.
“I mean, pretty much it really is working with the local organizing committee and all of the health professionals,” she said. “Health & safety is first and foremost, of course. You know, for our fans, for our performers, for the employees, for the staff working the building.
“There’s a lot of different logistics that need to be determined, but hopefully it’ll all work out and this will be the first WWE event where we actually bring the WWE Universe back together, in person, and I cannot wait.”
Stephanie was later asked if WWE knows how many fans they want to try and bring to Raymond James Stadium for the big event. She said they do have a plan but she wouldn’t announce it yet.
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre also confirmed that there will be a limited crowd at WrestleMania 37 during a new interview with FOX 13 in Tampa.
McIntyre talked about why WrestleMania 36 was disappointing to him as he hoped to win the WWE Title from Brock Lesnar in front of 90,000 people before the coronavirus pandemic forced the event to move to the closed-set WWE Performance Center. He then confirmed that tickets for WrestleMania 37 will be announced soon.
•World Heavyweight Championship: Jacob Fatu (c) vs. ACH
•Grudge Match: Simon Gotch vs. Jordan Oliver
•Daivari vs. Zenshi
MLW returns TONIGHT at 7pm ET with Fusion, featuring an World Heavyweight title fight between two of the best in the world, and available on Fubo Sports, Roku Channel, DAZN and YouTube. Learn more about where to watch.
ACH attempts to do the impossible and take down the unstoppable Jacob Fatu as CONTRA unleashes its army on this edition of Fusion, presented by newlawoffice.com.
Tenacious, Texas powerhouse ACH steps into the ring with the 300 pound juggernaut Jacob Fatu as the top ranked, hybrid heavyweight from Austin attempts to make history and dethrone the undefeated and seemingly unstoppable CONTRA kingpin.
After being suspiciously attacked, ACH vows he will not be denied as he chases his lifelong dream. ACH now challenges for the World Heavyweight Championship!
The collision course nearly a year in the making finally reaches its boiling point as rising heavyweight Jordan Oliver steps into the ring with CONTRA’s grappling general Simon Gotch! Just weeks removed from CONTRA’s vicious and humiliating attack on Injustice, Jordan Oliver wants some justice as rumbles with Gotch in a grudge match.
Speaking of CONTRA, the global dealers in violence unleash their newest soldier on the league as Daivari takes on the high flying Zenshi in his debut!
Mads Krügger issues a challenge for National Openweight Champ Alexander Hammerstone!
Team Filthy will go on record regarding the allegations they attacked ACH. What will Tom Lawlor and his team have to say? Tune in to find out.
Who is the new owner of Promociones Dorado? Alicia Atout looks for answers as she speaks exclusively with the now former owner Salina de la Renta.
Self-proclaimed Caribbean Heavyweight Champion Richard Holliday and Savio Vega address rumors of an impending fight to decide once and for all who is the rightful owner of the Caribbean Championship.
Join Rich Bocchini, fight analyst Saint Laurent, and backstage correspondent Alicia Atout for a night of top ranked competition headlined by a highly anticipated MLW World Heavyweight title fight.
Fans can also watch nationwide on cable and dish via beIN SPORTS on Saturday nights at 10pm ET and on demand anytime, anywhere on DAZN. Learn more about where to watch.
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite episode airs on TNT at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida.
* Peter Avalon vs. Cody Rhodes
* Penelope Ford vs. Leyla Hirsch
* Chris Jericho and MJF vs. Santana and Ortiz vs. Sammy Guevara and Jake Hager (Winner is the official tag team of the Inner Circle)
* Hangman Page, Colt Cabana, John Silver, and Alex Reynolds vs. The Hybrid2 and Chaos Project (Page to give his answer on joining the group after the match)
* Top Flight and Matt Sydal vs. Matt Hardy and Private Party
* Miro to give an update on his new butler Chuck Taylor
* Jon Moxley in action
* Sting to congratulate AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin
* AEW World Champion Kenny Omega to reflect on his dominance
Tonight’s WWE NXT episode on the USA Network will see the return of the Fight Pit, plus the kick off to the first-ever NXT Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
AEW President & CEO Tony Khan appeared on tonight’s Impact Wrestling episode, along with several AEW wrestlers.
The opening segment on tonight’s show featured a clip of AEW World Champion Kenny Omega, Impact World Tag Team Champions The Good Brothers, and Don Callis hanging out and celebrating their main event win over Impact World Champion Rich Swann, Moose and Chris Sabin at last Saturday’s Hard To Kill pay-per-view. The clip was from backstage after Saturday’s win. Callis noted that he and Omega were headed back to Jacksonville for Dynamite and to “disappear for a while,” but he didn’t want anyone to forget what they’ve done while here at Impact. He also said that Omega and The Good Brothers were already planning what’s next and while they are taking a hiatus from Impact, they will be back.
Tonight’s show also featured an in-ring segment where The Good Brothers came to the ring to brag about last Saturday’s Hard To Kill main event. They were interrupted by Sabin, who said he wanted a rematch for the titles. The Good Brothers pointed out how Alex Shelley wasn’t here again tonight, but Sabin said he had another guy. That’s when James Storm made his return to the company. Storm and Sabin went to the ring to make a case for a title shot, but were interrupted by AEW’s Matt Hardy and Private Party. Matt praised Private Party and said they should be the ones getting a title shot. He also plugged the six-man match on this week’s Dynamite, which will see Hardy and Private Party take on Matt Sydal and Top Flight. Hardy also mentioned that he saved Impact from collapsing in 2016, and that he and brother Jeff Hardy technically never lost the Impact World Tag Team Titles.
It was then announced that the main event would feature Storm and Sabin vs. Private Party with the winners being named the new #1 contenders to The Good Brothers.
Khan and Tony Schiavone later released another “paid advertisement” segment on tonight’s Impact, but this time AEW producer Jerry Lynn was featured at Khan’s side. They plugged tomorrow’s AEW Dynamite and revealed that they were in Nashville for tonight’s show.
Shortly after the tag team main event began, Khan and Lynn brought two chairs out to get a closer look at the action. Hardy was also out as he accompanied Private Party to the ring. The finish saw Lynn interfere to help Private Party get the pin to win, and become the new #1 contenders to The Good Brothers’ World Tag Team Titles.
After the main event, The Good Brothers faced off with Private Party until Sabin and Storm attacked them. Impact went off the air after a big brawl broke out.
There is no word on when Private Party vs. The Good Brothers will take place for the titles, or if Sabin and Storm will be added to the match due to the interference.
On a related note, Swann appeared on tonight’s show and mentioned that he’s not sure if his feud with Omega is finished, but he did know that Omega was not in the building tonight. Swann then continued his feud with TNA World Heavyweight Champion Moose.
AEW has announced that Omega will be on tomorrow’s Dynamite show to “reflect on his dominance” as of late. Callis will be with him, but there’s no word yet on if any other Impact stars will be appearing.
Former two-time Knockouts Champion ODB confirmed to Chris Van Vliet that she’s returning to Impact Wrestling, and might even be able to tie in her food truck — ODB’s Meat & Greet Food Truck Co.
“I am actually getting back in the ring,” ODB said. So IMPACT obviously called me and that’s the cool thing about stuff, I’ve never burnt a bridge in wrestling. Yeah, we all have our bad moments and stuff and whatever you want to when you want to tell everyone to go F themselves. IMPACT was awesome, TNA was my home and they buzzed me and every time I’m like ‘Oh gosh. Oh boy, here we go.’
“But they were like ‘Hey, do you want to come back and see what happens? And possibly bring the food truck?’ So that’s my ultimate goal, to actually drive my ODB’s Meat and Greet into a stadium and kick some ass.
ODB wrestled for TNA from 2007 until 2014, then made some sporadic appearances for Impact in the following years.
When asked about who she’d like to face in the ring, ODB had plenty of Knockouts already on her list.
“I see that Jazz is there,” ODB responded. “No one’s ever seen me and Jazz go at it on TV. And Jordynne Grace is another good one and Taya. I love how the Knockouts are still going as the Knockouts, you know what I mean? They’re all so different and they’re keeping it good. I just love all those girls. They’re a lot younger than me but that will be fun.”
No word yet on exactly when fans will see the former champ on Impact. The promotion held its Hard to KillPPV over the weekend.
You can check out ODB’s full comments in the video below.
