AEW Collision & Battle Of The Belts Preview 10/21/2023

Tonight’s AEW Collision and Battle of the Belts VIII Live on TNT from the FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN.

AEW Collision:

  • Legendary Memphis Wrestling commentator Dave Brown to join the commentary team tonight.
  • Memphis Street Fight: Jeff Jarret vs. Eddie Kingston
  • AEW World Tag Team Championship: Ricky Starks & Big Bill (c) vs. BCC (Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta)
  • Andrade El Idolo vs. Bryan Danielson
  • Miro vs. Action Andretti
  • FTR in action

AEW Battle of the Belts VIII:

  • AEW International Championship: Orange Cassidy (c) vs. John Silver
  • AEW TBS Championship: Kris Statlander (c) vs. Willow Nightingale
  • AEW World Trios Championship: The Acclaimed & Billy Gunn (c) vs. Cool Hand Ang, Daddy Magic, & Daniel Garcia

Impact Wrestling Bound For Glory 10/21/2023 (Card)

IMPACT Wrestling presents its biggest pay-per-view of the year, Bound For Glory, LIVE THIS SATURDAY, October 21st 8pm ET from Cicero Stadium in Chicago.

The biggest event of the year kicks off with Countdown to Bound For Glory streaming LIVE and FREE THIS SATURDAY at 7:30pm ET on YouTube, IMPACT Plus (live player) and FITE.

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Countdown to Bound For Glory:

Traci Brooks, Mike Tenay and Don West to be inducted into the Impact Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Traci Brooks to be inducted by Hall of Famer Gail Kim.

Mike Tenay and Don West to be inducted by Scott D’Amore

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Bound For Glory

Impact World Championship:
Alex Shelley (c) vs. Josh Alexander

Impact Knockouts Championship:
Trinity (c) vs. Mickie James

Will Ospreay vs. Mike Bailey

Impact X Division Championship:
Chris Sabin (c) vs. KENTA

Monster’s Ball:
Moose vs. Rhino vs. PCO vs. Steve Maclin

Impact World Tag Team Championship:
The Rascalz (c) vs. ABC

Impact Knockouts Tag Team Championship:
MK Ultra (c) vs. Tasha Steelz & Deonna Purrazzo

Call Your Shot Gauntlet:
Jake Something, Dirty Dango, Champagne Singh, Eric Young, Jordynne Grace, Brian Myers, Shera, KiLynn King, Jody Threat, Bully Ray, Joe Hendry, Frankie Kazarian, Kenny King, Gisele Shaw, Eddie Edwards, 5 More TBA.
Jake Something is entrant #1, Dirty Dango is entrant #20.

AEW Rampage Preview 10/20/2023

Tonight’s AEW Rampage on TNT.

  • Mistico vs. Rocky Romero
  • Triple threat match for a shot at the International Championship at Battle of the Belts VIII: John Silver vs. Kip Sabian vs. Brother Zay
  • Skye Blue vs. Ruby Soho
  • Blackpool Combat Club’s Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta in tag team action

WWE SmackDown Preview 10/20/2023

Tonight’s WWE SmackDown Live on FOX from the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas.

  • WWE Women’s Championship: Iyo Sky (c) vs Charlotte Flair
  • Santos Escobar vs Montez Ford
  • Logan Paul to confront Rey Mysterio

Jerry Lawler Provides Health Update, Working To Regain His Speech Following Stroke

On a recent edition of the “WrestleBinge” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler shared an update on the progress of his recovery from the stroke he suffered this past February.

You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:

On his recovery: “I’ve had a bunch of different things and I’m still in rehab three times a week, and probably the main thing that’s drawing me back now, that you can probably tell as you hear me talk, my voice is not the same as it was beforehand. It’s slowly coming back, but it needed to come back a little more before I could make sense with my speech and vocabulary… I really don’t do a lot, just staying around the house and do three rehab sessions a week where I go into the hospital, and then I do some more at home here in Memphis, and that’s pretty much it.”

On working to regain his speech: “One [rehab session] is speech – that’s my main one. That’s three times a week. When I just started this, right after I had the stroke, I could barely talk. Now I go in and I sit down with this rehab lady and we just talk about different things. She has me read stuff, and all of this stuff has just helped me day in and day out getting my vocabulary better.”

On the stroke affecting his ability to sign autographs: “My right arm and my right leg and everything on my right side of the body, it’s not hurt me where I can’t walk around. I can still walk around, but I don’t have really good control of writing my autograph. I can write my autograph pretty good, but I’ve been so proud of my autograph and artistic ability to it, but that’s all sort of taken a while to come back.”

On thanking those who sent him messages of support: “I would like to say thank you for being concerned and worried about my upkeeping and what I’ve had going on. It’s just awesome to know that there are fans out there wondering what am I doing during my time off. It’s nice to talk to them.”

Source: eWn

MLW Fusion Preview 10/19/2023

Streaming 8pm ET tonight on YouTube & FITE+ worldwide

MLW FUSION featuring Matt Cardona vs Manders, streaming 8pm tonight on MLW’s YouTube channel and FITE+, Friday on beIN XTRA and Saturday on Cable TV’s beIN SPORTS (find a provider). 

  • Matt Cardona (with Saint Laurent) vs. 1 Called Manders
  • Bomaye Fight Club vs. The Mane Event
  • Ichiban vs. Love, Doug

2 title changes! Big returns! Shocking debuts! Slaughterhouse forever changed MLW. What’s next? Find out on Fusion!

MLW has TRIPLED its security tonight following a wild Slaughterhouse post match brawl between World Titan Federation Superstars and the Bomaye Fight Club… as well as a second dust-up after the show with Mance Warner and these self-proclaimed “Superstars.”

With security maxed out, the World Titan Federation’s “Crown Jewel” Matt Cardona steps in the ring in the main event as he looks to put World Champion Alex Kane on notice and keep the eyes of the league on him. But is Cardona alwayz ready for one of the toughest brawlers in MLW? He’ll have to be as Cardona battles the 1 Called Manders. 

Meanwhile, Mance Warner has put it out on social media he has been doing some drinking and thinking and he has plans to confront Cardona, following their after show dust-up as well tonight! Is there enough security to keep MLW fighters from the Superstars of the World Titan Federation tonight?!

For the first time in 2 years “Filthy” Tom Lawlor is back on FUSION… and he has a shocking change in store for his filthy fans. What is it? Watch to find out.

Journey to the Atlanta fight camp of World Heavyweight Champion Alex Kane. The fight captain speaks out on the World Titan Federation and the Slaughterhouse brawl.

Following the extraordinary events at Slaughterhouse, Salina de la Renta promises BIG NEWS on Fusion! What’s next for the “Empresaria of Lucha” as her conquest of MLW continues?

Tony Deppen and TJ Crawford’s continuous smear campaign against the injury sidelined Kevin Blackwood forces the league to take further action against the dangerous duo.

Will security be able to keep the World Titan Federation Superstars® and Bomaye Fight Club apart? They’ll be tested as Mr. Thomas tags up with The Bomaye Fight Club’s newest middleweight recruit J Boujii as they fight The Mane Event! 

In a middleweight eliminator, Ichiban represents the NumberOneDojo against wrestling’s cupid: Love, Doug.

Impact Wrestling Preview 10/19/2023

Tonight’s episode of Impact Wrestling on AXS TV.

  • Final hype before this Saturday’s Bound For Glory pay-per-view
  • Kenny King (w/Sheldon Jean) vs. Heath
  • Samuray del Sol vs. Mike Bailey
  • No Disqualification Match: Crazzy Steve vs. Black Taurus
  • PCO & Rhino vs. The Most Professional Wrestling Gods (Brian Myers & Moose)
  • Mickie James & Trinity vs. Gisele Shaw & Savannah Evans (w/Jai Vidal)

ROH TV Preview 10/19/2023

ROH will air a new episode of its weekly television show tonight at 7 pm ET on HonorClub. 

You can sign up for the streaming service here. Below is the lineup for the show: 

  • Peter Avalon vs. Shawn Dean
  • Gravity vs. Angelico
  • Tony Nese (w/Mark Sterling) vs. Ethan Page
  • Pure Rules Match: Pat Buck vs. Josh Woods
  • Diamante vs. Billie Starkz
  • Myron Reed & Ren Jones vs. Cole Karter & Griff Garrison
  • Allysin Kay vs. Kiera Hogan
  • Kevin Matthews & Rod Lee vs. The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent)
  • Zoey Lynn vs. Lady Frost
  • Metalik vs. Komander
  • Action Andretti & Darius Martin vs. The WorkHorsemen (Anthony Henry & JD Drake) vs. Gates Of Agony (Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona) (w/Prince Nana)

Report – Billy Corgan’s NWA Signs TV Deal With The CW Network

NWA owner Billy Corgan announced last week that the National Wrestling Alliance has signed a television deal with a Top 20 network.

Haus of Wrestling is reporting that the National Wrestling Alliance has signed a television deal with the CW Network. While the logistics are being worked out, an announcement could be happening “relatively soon.”

The TV deal would reportedly entail two different NWA shows airing on the network, one of which would be NWA Powerrr, while the other would be a reality show about the day-to-day, behind-the-scenes element of the promotion.

Corgan has reportedly wanted to form a reality show about the process of running a wrestling promotion for a while. His plans nearly took off when he was running Resistance Pro Wrestling in Chicago about a decade ago when he signed a deal with A&E to produce the series.

Some content had already been filmed for the Resistance reality TV project, but A&E dropped the ball when all of the network’s unscripted content was scrapped. As a result, the show never aired.

While the content for the planned reality show is expected to be filmed and concluded before any new in-ring content starts filming, NWA Powerrr will likely make its debut on the CW Network before the reality series.

Additionally, NWA Powerrr recently underwent some production enhancements for its latest season and those upgrades were reportedly made in anticipation of the upcoming CW switch.

It’s unclear if NWA Powerrr will be a one or two-hour broadcast, however, the show is not expected to be a live broadcast.

The idea would be to pre-tape multiple episodes of NWA Powerrr similar to Impact Wrestling on AXS TV.

In terms of NWA’s YouTube channel, it is speculated that the returning NWA territories could serve as new programming.

Exodus Pro Wrestling was recently named as the first territory of the NWA, and two others are reportedly in the works.

WOW – Women of Wrestling also airs on the CW Network in syndication and recently kicked off its second season. The show outdraws IMPACT! on AXS TV regularly, drawing between 250,000-450,000 viewers per episode. The success of WOW has reportedly made NWA officials optimistic about building a decent audience on the CW Network.

Source: eWn

The Garcia Twins – ‘We Want One Last Run’

On a recent edition of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, WWE Hall of Famers The Garcia Twins (Nikki and Brie Garcia) stated that they’re hoping for an in-ring return for one last run in pro wrestling.

However, their return completely depends on Nikki getting cleared by her surgeon.

Brie said, “Especially because my husband’s at AEW, but I’m still surrounded a lot by wrestling because he and I, we talk about it all the time. He’s fully in it, and he just had an incredible match this Sunday at their big pay-per-view, All Out. I watch everything, and when I see the women wrestle and all that, I always am like, ‘Ah!’”

Nikki, who suffered a broken neck in 2015, said, “We want one last run. Especially when our sons are a little older and they could sit and watch their mommies kick ass and if my surgeon allows me to.”

Source: eWn