Author: Mark Blake

On last night’s RAW, it was announced that the King Of The Ring tournament will return. And it begins at next Monday’s RAW which emanates from the Xcel Energy Arena in St Paul, MN. The sixteen-man tournament begins next week and will continue over the next few weeks. It has been four years since the tournament was last held. The last superstar to hold the King Of The Ring title was Bad News Barrett. The following WWE Superstars have been confirmed as entrants for this year’s King Of The Ring. Eight from RAW and eight from SmackDown Live – RAW…

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the week’s hottest stories in pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 8/11/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories. Enough of me lets get into this week’s Week In Review! – WWE & Converse Limited Edition Sneakers This that really know me, know that I adore sneakers. Almost as my love of wrestling. This is good as Converse announced this week that they have teamed up with…

Hello, one and all! Grab a chair and settle down while I talk you through this past weeks 205 Live including this week’s main event. And what a main event this was….a six-way match for the #1 contendership for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. The six most featured stars of the show over the past four weeks taking on each other for a shot at Drew Gulak. Yup, it was good alright. But to get there I gotta start the review, so here we peeps, this weeks 205 Live Landscape….. The show begins with a video of 205 Live General manager…

WWE Hall Of Famer Kurt Angle has given permission to UFC star Colby Covington to use his famous “You Suck” theme song this weekend. Colby will be facing off against former UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler in the main event of this weekend’s UFC Fight Night, emanating from Newark, NJ. And the man who aided as the intermediary in this deal? None other than Bobby Lashley. Covington made a few appearances for Impact Wrestling in 2017, with other America Top Team members. Bobby Lashley was in the company at the time and was part of the angle that Colby was…

Hello, one and all! Grab a chair and settle down while I talk you through this past weeks 205 Live including this week’s main event. And this main event has been building for a few weeks. The now-former 24/7 Champion Mike Kanellis will take on the former 24/7 Champion (and 205 Live GM) Drake Maverick. In an UNSANCTIONED MATCH folks! Hopefully, your mouth is watering as much as mine, so without further ado, let’s see how the landscape fairs on 205 Live!…. The Singh Brothers vs Akira Tozawa & The Brian Kendrick Akira and Samir start the match off. It…

Joey Ryan was recently a guest on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast where he spoke about his time in TNA and Pro Wrestling Guerilla, and whether promotions like PWG can exist with the recent WWE and AEW signings. With former PWG alumni like Chris Hero (Kassius Ohno), Johnny Gargano and Keith Lee currently in the WWE system, is there a possibility that the lack of big star names could harm PWG and independent promotions going forward? – “It could affect PWG in theory. The Young Bucks were able to get ROH to ‘okay’ them to do PWG so other…

News! News! Get your news! Read all about it right here! Welcome one and all to your weekly irrelevant round-up of the week’s hottest stories in pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling Post Week In Review 7/28/19. As always, I, “Smart” Mark Blake, have scoured the internet to find the biggest and most interesting stories. Enough of me lets get into this week’s Week In Review! – Dragon Gate & Stardom Officials Met With Triple H During WWE’s tour of Japan last month, Triple H met with officials from Dragon Gate & Stardom, according to Wrestling Observer. Dave Meltzer of the Observer reported…

Hello, one and all! Grab a chair and settle down while I talk you through this past weeks 205 Live including this week’s main event. The current reigning and defending WWE Cruiserweight Champion, Drew Gulak versus a man making his main roster debut. A man that Gulak actually trained. That man is none other than Isiah Scott fka Shane Strickland! I can’t wait for that! Hopefully, your mouth is watering as much as mine, so without further ado, let’s see how the landscape fairs on 205 Live!…. The show begins with 205 Live General Manager Drake Maverick commenting on his…

All Elite Wrestling and TNT will make an announcement today. It was revealed through the @AEWonTNT Twitter page. It’s expected that the announcement will be the details about their upcoming TV show. Details like the show name, when it will air, time slot, etc. As I wrote two days ago, the rumors are that the show will debut on Wednesday, October 2. https://twitter.com/AEWonTNT/status/1153666075491368968 Industry experts are estimating that All Elite Wrestling’s first episode on the TNT network will draw something between 400k-500′ viewers. Bare in mind that when Impact Wrestling was on POP, they were regularly drawing viewers of over…

It seems that Will Ospreay’s Twitter is where the WWE boys and girls hang out and this time Randy Orton is responding to Will Ospreay! After Will posted an inspirational tweet earlier today, Randy Orton jumped in on the conversation. At the end of their chat, both men teased a possible future match up. Here’s the complete timeline of events: https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/status/1153181071783055360 https://twitter.com/RandyOrton/status/1153194172725284866 https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/status/1153195991085879296 https://twitter.com/RandyOrton/status/1153200449501179904 https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/status/1153212453896908800 https://twitter.com/RandyOrton/status/1153218891193171971 Those of you with long memories will remember that this isn’t the first time these two have had a tete-a-tete over Twitter. Two years ago, both men had words over a Rip Rodgers retweet…