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Impact Wrestling Executive & Internet Wrestling Pioneer Bob Ryder Passes Away

Impact Wrestling executive Bob Ryder has passed away, according to PWInsider.

Ryder, the founder of 1wrestling.com, fought a long battle with cancer for a number of years, living well beyond the 3-6 months he was initially told he had left. The cancer went into remission at one point, but it came back and Ryder had been undergoing weekly chemotherapy.

Ryder continued his work for Impact Wrestling from his home in Nashville, while doing chemotherapy. He worked as the Director of Travel Operations in recent years, but held other roles with the company. Ryder was found at home this morning, but had last been in contact with Impact last night, according to PWInsider.

Dave Meltzer of F4Wonline.com adds that Ryder was found at home by police this morning in Nashville. He noted that Impact officials were unable to reach Ryder after he fell at home on Tuesday.

“Bob Ryder was found dead at his home in Nashville by police today. We don’t know more but he had fallen yesterday and was on advanced chemo. Impact officials couldn’t get in touch with him and went to his home and he never answered, police were called and found him dead,” Meltzer tweeted.

Ryder was one of the longest-running employees for the company, if not the longest. He was also a pioneer of the Internet Wrestling Community, hosting the first-ever online WWE chat at WrestleMania 11, running Prodigy Wrestling for the internet service provider, and later founding 1wrestling.com with ECW Original Joey Styles. He would go on to work for WCW, helping with their website and hosting WCW Live with Jeremy Borash. Ryder and Borash were actually the last voices heard on any WCW broadcast on the show they hosted following the final WCW Nitro episode in March 2001.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

AEW Dynamite Preview 11/25/20

Tonight’s AEW Dynamite episode airs on TNT from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida.

* Chris Jericho and Jake Hager vs. Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian

* Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Anna Jay (AEW Women’s World Championship)

* PAC and Rey Fenix vs. The Butcher and The Blade with The Bunny

* Will Hobbs in action

* Hangman Page vs. John Silver

* The Hybrid 2 vs. Top Flight

Jazz Coming out Retirement To Compete In Impact Wrestling’s Knockouts Tag Team Title Tournament

Former WWE and NWA Women’s Champion JAZZ will participant in the Impact’s Knockouts Tag Team Title Tournament as Jordynne Grace’s partner.

Last week, Grace made a phone call to an unknown wrestler at the time to see if they would like to team with her during the Knockouts Tag Team Title Tournament. Tonight she informed backstage interviewer Gia Miller that Jazz will now be her partner in the tournament.

Jazz originally announced her in-ring retirement just last month on The Chris Van Vliet Show, citing that she wanted to focus on her health and personal issues, which caused her to vacate the NWA Women’s Championship just last year. She held that title for nearly 948 days.

You can see her return on last night’s show in the images below:

https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1331406246776279042
Jazz Joins Impact Knockouts Tag Team Title Tournament | 411MANIA

Impact Wrestling Preview 11/24/20

IMPACT! tonight at 8/7c on AXS TV and Twitch!

* Knockouts Tag Team Championship Tournament continues

* Impact World Championship: Rich Swann (c) vs. Ken Shamrock w/Sami Callihan

* Wrestlers Court: Who shot John E. Bravo?

Renee Young And Jon Moxley Expecting Their First Child

AEW World Champion Jon Moxley has confirmed that he and his wife Renee Young are expecting their first child together.

Moxley slipped the news into a promo during this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite on TNT.

Young — aka Renee Paquette — began dating Moxley in 2013 while the pair were working together at WWE. They married in 2017, and Renee parted ways with WWE in October of this year after an 8 year stint as a commentator/interviewer/jack of all broadcasting trades.

We here at The Sheet would like to congratulate Mox and Renee!

Check out Moxley’s AEW promo/pregnancy announcement below.

Source: Pro Wrestling Sheet

AEW Dynamite Preview 11/18/20

Tonight’s AEW Dynamite episode airs on TNT from Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida.

* Orange Cassidy vs. Kip Sabian

* The Inner Circle heads to Las Vegas

* AEW World Tag Team Champions Young Bucks vs. Top Flight (Non-Title Match)

* Cody and AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin vs. FTW Champion Brian Cage and Ricky Starks with Taz

* PAC vs. The Blade

* Serena Deeb (c) vs. Thunder Rosa (NWA Women’s World Championship)

* AEW World Champion Jon Moxley and Kenny Omega contract signing

AEW Signs Matt Sydal

AEW has announced tonight that Matt Sydal has officially signed with the promotion.

Sydal made his AEW debut at All Out where he was a surprise entrant in the Casino Battle Royale.

Last Wednesday on AEW Dynamite, he was in a match against FTW Champion Brian Cage.

Before his move to AEW, Matt Sydal had wrestled in several promotions like Impact Wrestling, ROH, NJPW, and in WWE as Evan Bourne.

During his career, he’s held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, ROH World Tag Team Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship, NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, and the Impact X Division Championship.

Sydal did comment about signing with AEW.

He tweeted, “I did not do this alone. My hard work only worked because of the support I get from my family, friends and fans! 20 years of people helping, teaching and believing in me, even when I didn’t believe in myself. Thank you all. Onegaishimasu!¡Hagamoslo para el bien de todos!!”

Below is AEW’s announcement and Sydal’s comment:

https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1328846673628557313
https://twitter.com/findevan/status/1328883652357451778

Source: Wrestling Inc.

Impact Wrestling Preview 11/17/20

IMPACT! tonight at 8/7c on AXS TV and Twitch!

* Fallout from Turning Point

* The Rascals last week on Impact after being evicted from the tree houise for not paying rent for two years.

* Dez and Wentz vs. Trey and Rich Swann

* Search continues for who shot John E. Bravo

* Knockouts Tag Team Championship Tournament begins

Impact Wrestling ‘Turning Point’ Results 11/14/20

Eddie Edwards vs. Daivari – Winner: Eddie Edwards

Tenille Dashwood and Jordynne Grace vs. Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie – Winners: Rosemary & Taya Valkyrie

Swoggle vs. Brian Myers – Winner: Brian Myers

James Storm and Chris Sabin vs. XXXL (Acey Romero and Larry D) – Winners: Chris Sabin & James Storm

“Defeat Rohit” Challenge for the X-Division Championship: Rohit Raju (c) vs. Cousin Jake (w/Cody Deaner) – Winner: Rohit Raju

Post-Match:Eric Young and new associate, former TNA star Joe Doering, come in and take out The Deaners.

Moose vs. Willie Mack – Winner By DQ: Willie Mack

Impact World Tag Team Championship: The North (Ethan Page & Josh Alexander) (c) vs. The Good Brothers (Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson) – Winners & New Tag Champions: The Good Brothers

Knockouts Championship: Su Yung (c) vs. Deonna Purrazzo – Winner & New Knockouts Champion: Deonna Purrazzo

Backstage: Jordynne Grace goes looking for Tenille Dashwood. She is furious that they lost their match. Alisha Edwards jumps in to call Jordynne “Disgrace” after them losing in a tag match, too. Dashwood asks Alisha if she would like to be her partner for the Knockouts Tag Team Tournament. She says, yes!

https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1327812083463958529

Impact World Championship: Rich Swann (c) vs. Sami Callihan – Winner & Still Impact World Champion: Rich Swann

The Rascalz Leaving Impact Wrestling

The Rascalz appear to be leaving Impact Wrestling. During tonight’s broadcast, it was revealed that the trio are being “evicted” from the Treehouse. A match was then set up for next week and it’s being hyped up as their “last hurrah”. Dez and Wentz will be facing Rich Swann and Trey Miguel.

According to Pwinsider, this appears to be a legitimate exit “barring a last second change.” The group signed with Impact in the fall of 2018 and Miguel had been receiving a push as of late and competed for the vacant Impact World Title at Slammiversary. He also worked an X-Division title match at Bound For Glory.