Author: Mark Blake

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 7/21/19. 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/FOX Network  ~UPDATE~ Earlier this week FOX TV execs spoke to their affiliates to discuss their upcoming Fall schedule. A major topic of conversation was the impending WWE SmackDown debut. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter broke down…

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 is a mouthwatering re-match between my boy Jack Gallagher, who looks to avenge his count-out loss to 205 Live newcomer, Chad Gable. That warmed you up? Good! Let’s crack on with today’s review….. Akira Tozawa vs Samir Singh Sunil Singh is at ringside supporting (interfering on his brother’s behalf) while The Brian Kendrick is on hand for Akira. The match begins with Samir launching fists of fury at Tozawa, but Akira shrugs it off and…

The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Will Ospreay was missing from today’s G1 action from Hokkaido. He’s suffering from an injury. He spoke about the injury via his Twitter – https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/status/1150613676266704897 Will was supposed to team up with Yuya Uemura and Yota Tsuji to face off against Shota Umino, Jushin Thunder Liger and Kota Ibushi in a six-man tag. With Ospreay pulling out, the match became Liger and Ibushi vs Umino and Tsuji. It’s still up in the air as to whether Ospreay will participate in this Thursday’s G1 event. He’s scheduled to face off against Kota Ibushi at Korakuen Hall.…

WWE earlier announced that next week’s Raw in Tampa, FL, (July 22) will be a Raw Reunion episode. This, according to the WWE, will be the biggest Raw Reunion in their history. There have been two Reunion episodes before. October 9, 2006, from Columbus, SC and January 19, 2015, in Dallas, TX. https://twitter.com/WWE/status/1150551491364577280 As you can see from the promo in the tweet above, quite a few Hall Of Famer’s and Legends will be on the show. Shawn Micheals, Steve Austin, Kurt Angle, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash. Christian, Shane Helms, Ted DiBiase, Sgt Slaughter, Santino Marella.…

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 7/14/19. 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! – LAX Finished With Impact Wrestling It seems that the four times Impact Tag Team Champions LAX are done with the company. After coming up short in their match at Slammiversary XVII against The North, Dave…

It was announced by All Elite Wrestling officials that at this Saturday’s Fight For The Fallen event, Chris Jericho will be given a live mic and will address the AEW roster and the fans. He posted a promo video, seen below, where he comments that he’ll tell everyone what they need to hear, and he’s still waiting for his thank you from AEW. “Saturday, July 13, Fight for the Fallen, one of the greatest nights in pro wrestling history. A great night for the people of Jacksonville, a great night for the wrestling world, not a great night for the…

At last night’s ESPN ESPY’s award show in Los Angeles, Roman Reigns won the first-ever Best WWE Award for his “triumphant return” to Monday Night Raw after his battle with leukemia. This is the first year that WWE has had an awards category at ESPN’s big awards evening He held off Becky Lynch (headlining WrestleMania and winning both the Raw & SmackDown Women’s Championship), Kofi Kingston (capturing the WWE Championship at WrestleMania) and Ronda Rousey  (winning the Raw Women’s Championship at SummerSlam) to win the award. https://twitter.com/espn/status/1149096616625868801 Reigns spoke to WWE.com and gave this quote after walking away victorious -…

Hello, one and all! Grab a chair and settle down while I talk you through this past weeks 205 Live! Following on from the end of last weeks show, this week’s main event will feature Oney Lorcan vs Ariya Daivari in an Anything Goes Match*. Let’s see what this week holds for the 205 Live roster. *Add this type of match to the Hardcore, No Holds Barred, “insert town name” Street Fight pile. The show begins with a backstage promo from Oney Lorcan. He basically describes what he’s going to use on Daivari and how much pain he’s going to…

Matt and Nick Jackson aka The Young Bucks spoke to Chris Van Vliet recently about all things All Out and All Elite Wrestling in general. With the PPV being held back at the Sears Centre in Chicago, the conversation eventually got round to one of the Second City’s favorite sons, CM Punk. Nick spoke to Chris and said: “We’ll be honest, of course, we would love Punk to come to our company. At this time, I just don’t think he wants to. Matt talks to him all the time about it but the timing is not right, I guess.” Matt…

At last night’s Blink-182 concert at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ, former WWE star Enzo Amore aka nZo and Joey Janela were reported to be involved in a scuffle. Details are sketchy at the time of writing but it seems that Janela went to nZo to introduce himself and it all went south after that. Read the entire Twitter exchange between the two here – https://twitter.com/real1/status/1148798213459259392 https://twitter.com/real1/status/1148799480747233281 The video in question has been released by nZo and can be seen below, along with a reply from Janela – https://twitter.com/real1/status/1148974293210021888 https://twitter.com/JANELABABY/status/1148976802167185408 This isn’t the first altercation between…