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This week's AEW Dynamite was recorded on the Rock and Rager cruise that left from Miami, Florida. The show seems to have quite a few of exciting moments with a potential heel turn, number one contender determined, and the first AEW title change in company history. Below are the ...read more
So far AEW has been aces in 2020, with viewership consistency just under 1 million viewers and last week becoming a top 5 show on cable. It isn't a mystery as to why TNT would extend them when looking at these metrics, they come off the Bash at the Beach special with a taped show ...read more
AEW is currently taping tomorrow night's (1/22/20) episode of Dynamite while on the Chris Jericho cruise. During this taping Page and Omega defeated SoCal Uncensored to win the tag team titles.This is the first title change in the company and now the Elite have finally won gold. ...read more
Who is the King of Knockouts in MLW? PHILADELPHIA — MLW today announced Low Ki vs. King Mo (cornered by Dan Lambert) for MLW: FIGHTLAND at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia on Saturday February 1. The event will be a MLW FUSION TV taping for beIN SPORTS. Tickets start at $15 at: ...read more
Welcome everyone back to Wrestling News World! Check down below for quick results of last night’s Friday Night Smackdown! -Daniel Bryan and Kane take out The Fiend -John Morrison defeated Big E -The Uso’s defeated The Revival -Lacey Evans defeated Bayley -Braun Strowman ...read more
Growing up in South Carolina I watched a lot of WCW as a kid. I can still hear the “tune in at 6:05 on superstation TBS.” One of the most underrated wrestlers of all time, in my opinion, is Brian Pillman. Whether in WCW with Steve Austin or Tom Zenk as a tag team or as a singles ...read more
AEW has started off 2020 hitting home run, after home run, after home run. The show has dipped below 900k since returning from a one week hiatus to close 2019. The end of 2019 was seeing a massive decline in viewership from launch date and the show losing each week to NXT in ...read more
It has been reported that Wrestling Legend Rocky Johnson has passed away at the age of 75. He is the father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and his accolades and mark left on this business will never be forgotten. All of us at Wrestling News World send prayers and the best wishes to ...read more
All Elite Wrestling announced Wednesday afternoon that the company will be sticking to TNT through the year 2023. AEW issued out a press release on the situation that you can take a look at down below! ...read more
MAJOR LEAGUE WRESTLING SIGNS WITH ICM PARTNERS Agency Will Sell Television and Streaming Rights For The Burgeoning Wrestling League As Well As Help Create A Slate Of Original Scripted and Non-Scripted Programming ICM Partners has signed Major League Wresting, the fastest ...read more
The beginning of 2020 has been good thus far to AEW, with the promotion almost seeing one million viewers each week. For NXT it has been a bit of a backslide, after beginning the year with an awards show. This week however both shows intend on delivering a high quality show, ...read more
Marty Scurll has resigned with Ring of Honor and is the new head booker. As first reported by Mike Johnson of PWInsider and independently confirmed by Thomas Fenton and other. Marty had been in negotiations with ROH for some time now and they were willing to do whatever it took ...read more
As reported by Luchablog on Twitter, Lucha Libre wrestling legend LA Parka passed away at 56 years of age. LA Parka was one of the biggest recent Mexican wrestling stars. (This is not the same LA Parka that wrestled in WCW and became LA Park) LA Parka was considered the symbol ...read more
Ring of Honor is preparing for their Honor Reigns Supreme show tomorrow and made a big splash tonight at ROH Center Stage! Nick Aldis appeared on tonight’s event and the National Treasure made his presence well known. As you may remember, the NWA-ROH relationship seemingly ...read more
Chapter 2: Owen Hart There are some moments in WWF/E history that you remember exactly where you were. When the streak was broken I was in my home on the end of my couch next to my buddy Graham. When Hogan dropped the leg on Randy Savage and turned heel I was nine years old in my ...read more
So far 2020 has delivered great wrestling shows in aces and tonight should be no different. We saw AEW once again take the viewership lead against an awards show for NXT and tonight both wrestling shows should have the attention of television viewers. The basketball schedule ...read more
WWE Monday Night Raw from last night (1/6/20) drew a 1.69 key demo rating. This is an increase of last week as well as year over year. Since Paul Heyman has taken over the Monday Night Raw show, there have been many week's that have outproduced year over year viewership numbers, ...read more
Monday Night Raw for years has been the land of 50/50 booking, angles that lead to nothing with no substance and the reliance on a handful of superstars. That was until Paul Heyman took over the show in 2019 and he has kicked off 2020 with possibly the easiest non night after ...read more
It's clear WWE/NXT and Evolve have an excellent working relationship. This relationship continues to grow as Evolve is hosting a meet and greet for many of the NXT superstars this month. Names like Rhea Ripley, Undisputed Era, Dominic Dijakovic, Johnny Gargano, Candice LeRae and ...read more
Sheamus made his in ring return to Smackdown on the first show of 2020. He would go on to Brogue Kick Chad Gable. Vignette's have run over the last month for the return of Sheamus who had been sidelined with a pretty serious injury for the better half of 2019. Below is the video ...read more
For nearly a month it has been known that John Morrison signed a new deal with WWE. On the January 3rd Smackdown show John Morrison was shown walking into the Miz's locker room. On the same show The Miz faced off with Kofi Kingston. Here is the segment posted by WWE Twitter ...read more
Generally every Thursday around 4pm Twitter starts a buzz regarding the prior night's viewership numbers for professional wrestling. This week we had to wait an extra day to receive those and AEW should be extremely happy. After seeing a decline for about a month AEW posted ...read more
Welcome everyone back to Wrestling News World and Happy New Year! This week’s edition of Dynamite was hosted in Jacksonville, Florida, for the first episode of the new year. Check down below for quick results of the show! -Cody Rhodes defeated Darby Allin -Riho defeated Britt ...read more
2019 delivered to the wrestling world some of best stories and in ring action we have ever seen, as well as a year that changed the wrestling world. I provided my top 5 shows of the year, while every list is always subjective each show below has a strong argument. In effort to ...read more
After a week off for the holidays, All Elite Wrestling is back tonight as they will be residing in Jacksonville, Florida, for tonight’s episode of Dynamite. Before we get into the preview for tonight’s Homecoming edition, let’s take a look down below at a sneak preview of the ...read more
Welcome everyone back to Wrestling News World! Before we gather into any news for the day, from our family to yours, we wish everyone a Happy New Year! Ever since the release of WWE 2K20 in October, the game has received backlash as an “unfinished” game with glitches and hiccups ...read more
Welcome everyone back to Wrestling News World! Last night on Monday Night Raw, we saw Lana and Bobby Lashley’s wedding turn into chaos as the returning Liv Morgan Ana Rusev ended up crashing it. Check down below for the rest of Raw results down below! -Aleister Black defeated ...read more
Wrestling News World Exclusive Thomas Fenton Reports: Wrestling News World has learned that a top management official within Impact wrestling was under internal investigation, stemming from a myriad of claims including sexual harassment within the workplace. The Impact ...read more
Sunday night at a live event show in Pennsylvania, Randy Orton seemed to have an apparent leg injury during his match with AJ Styles, causing the match to come to a stoppage. WWE has announced that Orton will be at tonight’s Raw to address the WWE Universe about his medical ...read more
Monday afternoon, Cody Rhodes and All Elite Wrestling have announced that Arn Anderson will be joining the company at the beginning of 2020 as Cody’s personal advisor and head coach for the company. You can check out the press release down below! ...read more
Randy Orton appears to have suffered a knee injury during a match with AJ Styles last night in Hershey, PA. After only a few minutes into the match Orton went for an RKO and landed awkwardly. Randy was unable to finish the match, which is a very bad sign, and was helped to the ...read more
New Japan Pro Wrestling will be in the Tokyo Dome on January 5th for their annual Wrestle Kingdom event. AEW World Champion, Chris Jericho, will face off against Hiroshi Tanahashi at the event. It was then announced by Jericho himself that if Tanahashi happens to defeat the Pain ...read more
Welcome everyone back to Wrestling News World. As the year winds to a close, this next article entry is going to focus on the stars of the professional wrestling business and their phenomenal work. So join me as I go through the year and look at the 10 best professional wrestlers ...read more
Last night’s episode of Smackdown, which featured a main event triple threat match to determine the number one contender for the Universal Champion at the Royal Rumble, drew in an average of 2.44 million viewers. Check down below for quick results of last night’s show! -The New ...read more
This past week’s edition of NXT, which aired on the USA Network on Christmas Day, drew in an average of 831,000 viewers. Usually, the Wednesday Night Wars are occurring each week, but due to the holidays, AEW chose not to air a Dynamite show this week. ...read more
This is quite possibly the most newsworthy year for wrestling in this decade. We had debuts, returns and massive moments that changed the paradigm of the business. I'm going to take an attempt at looking at the year as a whole and breakdown some of the biggest moments of the ...read more
Breaking: Tick tock... time has run out and the hottest free agent in the sport is looking for a fight.. On February 1 at Philadelphia's historic 2300 Arena Killer Kross will find one at MLW: FIGHTLAND. MLW today announced newly minted free agent Killer Kross will compete at MLW: ...read more
Come gather round take a seat adjust your lighting on your IPad, Phone or Computer and grab a cold glass of milk while I rewrite the past for you. In this series I’ll be taking a look back into past storylines or “what if” moments and writing them differently from how they ...read more
The party didn't stop after AEW went off the air last night and in true AEW fashion they made it something to talk about. On Steve Austin's birthday AEW decided after the show to have Shawn Spears eat some Stunners. This has been a topic of discussion on Twitter wondering, why ...read more
In a bit of really cool news for New Japan Pro Wrestling's top star, SI Wrestling shared that Kazuchika Okada will be one of the torch relay runners for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He will run on April 7, 2020. ...read more
If you've followed WWE for the past several years, you know that Corpus Christi, Texas is notorious for being one of the absolute worst crowds for wrestling. Typically, the crowd is dead silent, even for some of really great matches or segments. When AEW announced that they would ...read more
As we have discussed on the RawViews podcast over the last few weeks, ROH will be seeing talents contracts expire and go elsewhere. It appears on tonight's AEW Dark that Colt Cabana, whose date was at Ring Of Honor Final Battle, worked as a color commentator tonight for AEW. Colt ...read more
Earlier this year Jimmy Uso was arrested and charged with DUI over the summer. He was said to be swerving recklessly and the officer had a belief of alcohol. Today he appeared in court regarding the charges and he was found not guilty. The Usos have been kept off TV for several ...read more
The WWE have done a fantastic job of keeping their talents regardless of the amount of competition that keeps popping up. With NWA, MLW, ROH and AEW all looking to sign talent the WWE have managed to keep the majority of their roster and continue to grow it. Numerous deals have ...read more
The first stage of the AAA x MLW collaboration will kick off January 11 in Dallas, Texas. Major League Wrestling today announced that AAA Lucha Libre will send four of their premier luchadores: Aerostar, Drago, Puma King and Taurus to compete at MLW: Zero Hour at the NYTEX ...read more
This week’s episode of Monday Night Raw, which featured Seth Rollins and the AOP attacking Rey Mysterio, drew in an average of 2.05 million viewers. This was down from last week’s 2.15 million viewers. ...read more
Here we are, to steal from Luke Harper, it's Wednesday you know what that means. It means exceptional wrestling on two channels. The NXT faithful will be tuned into the USA Network, the AEW faithful will be tuned onto TNT and a handful will stream both shows simultaneously. All ...read more
Welcome everyone to the debut article of a new series that I will be calling "Stephen's Two Cents". In these pieces I will be giving my two cents on a specific part of the wrestling business past, present or future. Today we will be looking at the very near future and looking at ...read more
The recently released Ascension have already been book for March 8th, 2020 at WrestleFest in Albany, NC. This event will take place at the Colonie Center Mall and is the first indie booking that has been announced for the former NXT tag champions.It doesn't appear the team will ...read more
