Tonight’s AEW Rampage: Black Friday episode will air on TNT from the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois.
* Black Friday Deal Match: AEW Women’s World Champion Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. vs. Riho (If Riho wins, she’ll receive a future title shot.)
* Orange Cassidy & Wheeler Yuta vs. Adam Cole & Bobby Fish
* Eddie Kingston vs. Daniel Garcia
Legendary AEW broadcaster Jim Ross has confirmed that he will miss around a month of work while he undergoes radiation therapy for skin cancer.
Jim Ross has confirmed that he will be absent from AEW programming until December 29 while he undergoes radiation therapy.
JR was recently diagnosed with skin cancer after discovering a strange growth on his leg. On a recent edition of his Grilling JR podcast, the legendary pro-wrestling announcer opened up about the treatment plan of action and revealed that he would be undergoing 22 rounds of radiation therapy.
Ross took to Twitter on Thursday, November 25 to announce his (hopefully) brief leave of absence.
“Due to my skin cancer care totaling 22 radiation treatments starting Monday, I will hopefully return to the announce desk on December 29 in Jacksonville,” Tweeted Ross.
Later, AEW president Tony Khan shared a message of support to his lead announcer.
“JR, everyone here at [AEW] wishes you the best. I think it’s a great gameplan you’ve got, we look forward to your return to commentary, hopefully in your new hometown Jacksonville FL [Daily’s Place] at New Year’s Smash at the end of December!” Khan tweeted. “We want you to kick the cancer’s ass, JR!”
Source: TheSportster
Tonight’s AEW Dynamite episode airs on TNT at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois.
* Thunder Rosa vs. Jamie Hayter (AEW TBS Title Tournament Quarterfinals Match)
* CM Punk vs. QT Marshall
* Bryan Danielson vs. Colt Cabana
* Cody Rhodes, PAC, and Lucha Brothers vs. Andrade El Idolo, Malakai Black, and FTR
AEW star Kenny Omega will reportedly undergo several surgeries and has vacated his last remaining championship — the AAA Mega Championship.
AEW star Kenny Omega just relinquished the AAA Mega Championship, which means “The Belt Collector” no longer has any belts!
AAA’s Dorian Roldan took to social media on Monday, November 22 to announce that Omega was vacating the AAA Mega Championship in order to undergo multiple surgeries on various injuries and ailments.
As we reported, Omega has been wrestling for some time with a shoulder injury and recently revealed that he has been suffering regular bouts of vertigo during his matches since 2018.
Omega’s sabbatical means he will no longer be defending the title against El Hijo del Vikingo at AAA TripleMania Regia on December 4. Instead, a replacement will be announced on Tuesday, November 23. Vikingo and Omega’s replacement will compete for the vacant championship.
Source: TheSportster
Tonight’s AEW Rampage will air on TNT from the Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Virginia.
* Adam Cole & Bobby Fish vs. Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus
* TBS Women’s Championship Tournament Quarterfinals Match: Jade Cargill vs. Red Velvet
* Darby Allin vs. Billy Gunn
Chris Jericho has officially announced his fourth “Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea” cruise.
Chris Jericho’s “Rock ‘n’ Wrestling Rager at Sea: Four Leaf Clover” will sail next year from Miami, Florida to Nassau, The Bahamas from Monday, March 14 through Friday, March 18. The cruise will take place aboard the Norwegian Pearl.
AEW is once again partnering with Jericho to provide the in-ring action on the cruise. There will also be music, comedy, live podcasts, and more. Bookings are being accepted now via ChrisJerichoCruise.com, and various price points are offered, with payment options.
The cruise promises “the most epic St. Patrick’s Day party of all time”, three Fozzy shows, four days of AEW wrestling matches in the ring on the Pool Deck, autograph sessions, the “Are You Smarter Than Le Champion?” game show, plus more performances and activities with wrestlers & comedians.
The following cruise details were announced today:
* Master of Ceremonies: Chris Jericho
* Guest of Honor: Mark Henry
* Guest Cruise Director: Mickie James
* Guest Hosts: Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson
* Director of Laughs: Brad Williams
* Official Bartender: Red Cup Geoff
* Goodwill Ambassador: Ted Irvine
* Special Guests: Mick Foley, Nick Aldis, Moose, Brutus Beefcake, King Haku, Mike Rotunda, Dan Lambert, Jordynne Grace, Swoggle, Matt Cardona, Brian Myers, Jonathan Gresham, Rocky Romero, Yuya Uemura, Ariane Andrew, The Boogeyman, ODB, World Famous
* Comedians: Jeff Dye, Kate Quigley, Raj Sharma
* Music By: Fozzy, Quiet Riot, Royal Bliss, Raven, Priss, Mickie James, Kuarantine, Guardians of the Jukebox, Gutter Candy featuring Frankie Kazarian, Dave Spivak Project, The Vaudettes featuring Shaul Guerrero, We Are Wasted
* Live Podcasts: Talk Is Jericho, The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast, Dave Schrader of Darkness Radio, Dan Lambert’s World Title Time Machine
Jericho will be announcing more names and happenings in the coming weeks or months.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
On the most recent episode of AEW Dynamite, Kenny Omega revealed that he is taking some time away from the company. He also teased some tension with Adam Cole in the segment.
The former AEW World Champion has had a lot of issues lately. On the latest episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that Omega has suffered problems with his knee, shoulder, abdominal, and hernia, as well as others, and has worked through them all. Omega recently revealed that he has been suffering from vertigo since 2018, stating that the room would start spinning for him while he was wrestling.
Meltzer noted that Kenny Omega is most likely set for multiple surgeries. The dates of those surgeries are still to be determined. He is taking time away from the ring in order to get healthy, for the first time in a while. But Meltzer stated that there is a lot of rehabilitation involved if he does multiple surgeries at once.
When it comes to a return date, there is nothing set in stone, but February was mentioned. However, Meltzer noted that it could be premature as he hasn’t even had any surgeries yet. It was also mentioned that Omega’s status for the upcoming AAA show is unclear at this time.
Kenny Omega had a 346 day run as AEW World Champion, which is the longest in company history to this point. He dropped the title to Hangman Page at Full Gear on Saturday.
Source: Wrestling Inc.
Veteran Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Ishii made his AEW debut during this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite, on which he teamed up with Orange Cassidy.
Veteran Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Ishii walked away from his AEW debut with a victory under his belt when he and Orange Cassidy defeated The Butcher and The Blade on the latest episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT.
It all went down in Norfolk, Virginia on the first episode of AEW Dynamite to air since Saturday’s Full Gear pay-per-view. Ishii and OC were accompanied to the ring by their CHAOS stablemates Rocky Romero, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler YUTA, and Kris Statlander, while The Butcher and The Blade had The Bunny, Matt Hardy, and a few other Hardy Family Office members in their corner … needless to say, chaos ensued.
Hardy and The Bunny did their best to sabotage Ishii’s AEW debut, but ultimately the experience and brute strength of New Japan’s NEVER Openweight Champion was too much for the HFO to overcome. The finish came when Orange Cassidy took out the HFO with a dive outside, allowing Ishii to land a massive lariat on The Blade followed by a brainbuster. Ishii then covered Blade for the 1-2-3, delivering a huge win to CHAOS and adding a W next to his name in the AEW record books.
In case you missed it, Ishii’s New Japan colleague Rocky Romero made his in-ring AEW debut against Bryan Danielson on last week’s Dynamite. Before the show kicked off, Romero approached The Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Kris Statlander, Chuck Taylor, and Wheeler YUTA) with a tantalizing proposition. Romero informed the group that Kazuchika Okada had invited them to join his stable CHAOS. Taylor, who was a member of CHAOS from 20017-2019 accepted Romero and Okada’s offer on behalf of his teammates. The best friends then accompanied Romero to the ring for his match with Danielson on Dynamite as official CHAOS members.
Not much has come of the partnership between AEW and NJPW, but with several members of CHAOS infiltrating the AEW roster, it seems inevitable that CHAOS leader Okada will soon join them.
Source: TheSportster
Bryan Danielson got the AEW audience to turn on him in a matter of minutes and will play the heel role while he feuds with Adam Page.
Only a few days after “Hangman” Adam Page was crowned the new AEW World Champion and shortly after Bryan Danielson won the right to be the No.1 contender, Danielson came out on the post-PPV episode of Dynamite and played the heel role while challenging Page.
It was National Cowboy Sh-t Day in Virginia and Page opened the show with the Dark Order to celebrate his win. It didn’t take long for Danielson to interrupt. While The American Dragon congratulated the new champion, he also said he was a bit surprised and disappointed that Kenny Omega wasn’t standing across from him as the titleholder. Page responded that he’s right, Omega isn’t the champion, and that if he wasn’t mistaken, Page was able to beat Omega in under 30 minutes. This of course, was in reference to Danielson and Omega fighting to a time-limit draw a few weeks back.
Danielson suggested Page be careful and said he wasn’t the kind of competitor to just talk about his wins, he actually wrestles every week. He mentioned that he wrestled one night after WrestleMania and that obviously earned him a chorus of boos from the crowd. Danielson said, “of course Virginia boos hard work.” Danielson said that Page had a reputation for having a long list of excuses and said he wanted to fight Page with no excuses. He had a match with Evil Uno after the commercial break and essentially destroyed him, playing the heel role throughout the match. He even posed while applying his submission sleeper.
After his win over Uno, Danielson addressed the crowd and said he was going to kick the heads in of every member of Dark Order and challenged Colt Cabana for next week in Cabana’s hometown of Chicago.
If there was any question about how AEW was going to sell Danielson and Page as a babyface versus babyface feud, those questions were answered on Wednesday. Danielson will play the heel role and he’s incredibly good at it. Within a matter of 25 minutes, he turned an entire audience against him and cemented himself as the brand’s biggest bad guy with Omega announcing he was taking some time off.
Source: TheSportster
AEW Dynamite episode airs on TNT at the Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Virginia. Fallout from Full Gear.
* Bryan Danielson vs. Evil Uno
* Jay Lethal debuts vs. AEW TNT Champion Sammy Guevara with the title on the line
* Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose in a quarterfinals match for the AEW TBS Title Tournament
* The Butcher and The Blade vs. Orange Cassidy and Tomohiro Ishii in his AEW debut
* The Acclaimed vs. Lio Rush and Dante Martin
* AEW World Champion Hangman Page to celebrate on “National Cowboy S*** Day”
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