Tonight’s AEW Dynamite live on TBS from the EagleBank Arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
MJF vs. RUSH to kick off tonight’s show – commercial-free!
AEW World Tag Team Championship Eliminator Match: The Young Bucks vs. The Acclaimed
AEW Continental Championship Eliminator Match: Kazuchika Okada vs. TBA
All-Star Eight-Man Tag Team Match: Orange Cassidy, Dante Martin, Kyle O’Reilly and Mark Briscoe vs. Roderick Strong, Kyle Fletcher, Konosuke Takeshita and Zack Sabre Jr.
Toni Storm and Mina Shirakawa sign the contract for the AEW Women’s World Championship Match at Forbidden Door.
AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay have a face to face
The Men’s and Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament brackets will be revealed
Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament Quarterfinals: Nyla Rose vs. Kris Statlander
Owen Hart Foundation Cup Tournament Quarterfinals: Claudio Castagnoli vs. PAC
Say his name and he appears – TNA Wrestling’s Joe Hendry appeared on this week’s episode of WWE NXT.
On this week’s edition of WWE NXT, a 25-man battle royal to determine Trick Williams’ challenger for the NXT Championship at NXT Heatwave took place in the opening match.
Both Joe Hendry and Frankie Kazarian from TNA Wrestling competed in the battle royal. Hendry wound up being quickly eliminated by Kazarian, which the crowd at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, FL wasn’t happy with.
WWE main roster stars Dragon Lee, Angel, Berto, Apollo Crews, and Tyler Bate all participated in the match.
Kazarian wound up making it to the final four, with Je’Von Evans taking out Shawn Spears to win the match. We’ll now see Je’Von Evans vs. Trick Williams taking place at WWE NXT Heatwave.
This group includes the real-life versions of Ramblin’ Rabbit, Huskus The Pig, Mercy The Buzzard, and Abby The Witch, with Nikki Cross playing the role of Abby and Joe Gacy playing Huskus. Eric Rowan and Dexter Lumis are also part of the group.
Cross and Gacy took to social media to share their reactions.
While much of the audience in Corpus Christi and those watching along at home were likely anticipating an Uncle Howdy return, since the countdown clock that was propped up recently expired as “WWE Raw” hit the air, a different surprise kicked off the show as “Burn it down!” blared over the speakers. Seth “Freakin'” Rollins returned to WWE television for the first time since playing sacrificial lamb for Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania, quickly reminding the WWE Universe that this was still Monday Night Rollins.
After expressing his happiness to be back, Rollins quickly got down to business, stating his immediate intentions of reacquiring the WWE World Heavyweight Championship he lost to Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania, and eyeballing the Money In the Bank briefcase now hanging from high above the ring as the premium live event takes the “next up” place on WWE’s calendar. But before he could get into any briefcase aspirations, the current World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest hit the ring, showing respect for Rollins before stating that “Raw” is no longer Monday Night Rollins but rather All Rise for El Campeon.
The two men jawed back and forth, with Priest reminding Rollins that he was the first to challenge for his then-newly created World Heavyweight Championship, and admitting that he lost then because Rollins was better. That, however, is not the case now, according to Priest, and ultimately, he told “The Architect” that he didn’t need to worry about ladders or briefcases and instead, challenged him to a championship match at Money In the Bank.
The wait is over, and the stable paying homage to Bray Wyatt’s ideas and memory, which appears to be officially named “Wyatt Sick6,” arrived at the end of “WWE Raw” on Monday. The faction waited until the end of the night, though the countdown on the website which held the main clue to their debut date ended right as “Raw” began. The teases began right at the beginning of the broadcast, however, with glitches appearing during the “Then, Now, Forever, Together” opener and continued through various segments throughout the night.
Following Jey Uso’s victory over Finn Balor and Rey Mysterio in a Money in the Bank qualifier, the lights in the audience went dark, followed by the lights over the ring. Piano music began playing softly and a door appeared backlit on the stage. When the door opened, someone came slowly crawling out of it, down the dark ramp. The figure appeared to be Nikki Cross, and she crawled toward Wyatt’s signature lantern on the ramp. Cross pointed behind her, and the camera went through the door, and focused on various crew members and wrestlers laid out in the back, including Paul “Triple H” Levesque, “Raw” General Manager Adam Pearce, William Regal, Shane Helms, and TJ Wilson.
The first figure seen was presumably Erick Rowan, wearing a rabbit mask and holding a mallet that said “help.” The camera continued to gorilla position, where more people lay strewn all over the floor, with lights popping and smoke filling the area. The camera focused on a person in the corner in a buzzard mask, presumably Dexter Lumis, then someone else in a pig-like gas mask, potentially Joe Gacy. Previous clues on a Twitch stream from a QR code led many fans to the identities of the faction members, which had previously been reported by Pro Wrestling Insider.
Chad Gable was also seen taken out, with blood coming from his forehead. The camera then panned toward Uncle Howdy, who walked past Gable and the other figures followed him through the door onto the stage back to Cross. Howdy grabbed the lantern and the group posed as the copyright logo came up to end the broadcast. Howdy said “We’re here” and blew out the lantern to end the show.
WWE has announced a Sami Zayn comedy show as part of Money in the Bank weekend. WWE issued the following:
SAMI ZAYN & FRIENDS DO TORONTO COMEDY SHOW DEBUTS IN TORONTO AS PART OF MONEY IN THE BANK WEEKEND
Sami Zayn & Friends Do Toronto Takes Place Thursday, July 4 at The Danforth Music Hall
Tickets On Sale Starting Wednesday, June 19 at 10 a.m. ET
STAMFORD, Conn., June 17, 2024 – WWE®, part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO), today announced that Canadian-born WWE Superstar Sami Zayn will debut his comedy show Sami Zayn & Friends Do Toronto on Thursday, July 4 at 8 p.m. ET from The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto as part of WWE’s massive Money In The Bank weekend.
Sami Zayn & Friends Do Toronto is a comedy and variety show featuring guests from the worlds of comedy, television and WWE.
Tickets for Sami Zayn & Friends Do Toronto go on sale Wednesday, June 19 at 10 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster.ca. An exclusive presale opportunity will be available starting Tuesday, June 18 at 10 a.m. ET at https://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/100060CE78E2101D. A limited number of post-show meet-and-greet tickets with Zayn will also be available to purchase.
Money In The Bank will feature WWE’s biggest Superstars as they battle to earn a briefcase containing a contract for a championship match at a time and place of their choosing anytime within the next year.
Money In The Bank will stream live exclusively on Peacock in the U.S. and will be available in Canada on WWE Network through Sportsnet+.
Fightful Select has shared an update on the developments regarding The Hardy Boys.
Jeff Hardy returned to TNA Wrestling at Against Odds 2024 last Friday, reuniting with his brother Matt Hardy. Jeff’s AEW contract had reportedly expired at midnight on Friday, June 14, leading to his TNA return.
Matt and Jeff are currently free agents working in TNA without contracts. According to sources, there had been speculation about Jeff’s imminent appearance in TNA, although no official confirmation was provided before June 14.
Matt’s initial agreement with TNA was reportedly short-term; however, additional dates and plans have been included.
The report also mentions that there have been discussions about Reby Hardy potentially competing in a match, although this has not been confirmed. Reby last competed in a TNA match in 2016.
TNA sources expressed satisfaction with the post-show speech by The Hardys, Nic Nemeth, and Joe Hendry at Against All Odds 2024.
Goldberg is a crucial part of the second episode of VICE TV’s “Who Killed WCW,” where both his meteoric rise and his lack of formal training are touched upon. Bret Hart pulls no punches about Goldberg’s hazardous ring style due to the way an errant kick ended his career, but others are more forgiving. Former WCW women’s wrestler Madusa spoke on “Busted Open Radio” about why she thinks Goldberg is actually portrayed favorably in the documentary.
“Is it his fault?” Madusa asked. “Who pushed him like a motherf***? No, it’s not.”
A scene from the second episode shows a match between Goldberg and Scott Hall where the former blows a spot and immediately becomes confused. Hall asks Goldberg what he’s doing, and the latter responds that he doesn’t know. According to Madusa, that demonstrated a great deal of nerve.
“For a man to be humbled and to fin’ bring it out and say, ‘I don’t know.’ He didn’t know! You know what, I applaud him… And then I hear all these comments about… how he’s fin’ this and that. And I’m like, you know what? He’s a bigger man than you to admit he’s wrong, because I don’t know too many men that can f***in’ admit that they’re wrong or be humbled or accept something. He went on national TV and said that… I commend him.”
Scott Hall is one of several wrestlers that were rumored to have heat with Goldberg during the course of their career. But Madusa thinks he made the best with what he was given, and likened the situation to another WWE Superstar fans have seen more recently. “Look what happened to Ronda Rousey for Christ’s sake. They took her, they did the whole Brock [Lesnar] thing with her, and I feel that she did the best she could in what she had.”
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