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 7/28/19. 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…

A few hours ago TNT launched a brand new Twitter and Instagram page for All Elite Wrestling (AEW), teasing a big announcement soon. The handle is @AEWonTNT https://twitter.com/AEWonTNT/status/1153303684161425409 Both accounts are teasing that a big announcement soon. The rumors are that the announcement will be finalized details on the weekly AEW/TNT show that’s due to air this October on Wednesday nights. The Young Bucks, via the official All Elite Wrestling Twitter page, posted a quick promo video hyping up the big announcement. https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1153303801681588227 Speculation will likely run rampant as to what will come about from this annoucement. All Elite Wrestling…

In news that will have many of the world watching, PROGRESS Wrestling announced today that the dual championship reign of WALTER (current World and Atlas Champion) will come to an end. The PROGRESS Wrestling Atlas Championship has been retired. In its place is one of the most unique championships in all of professional wrestling today…..The Proteus Championship. This championship is unique as the titleholder will be able to set the stipulation of the title match every time they defend said championship. In the tweet that announced this earth-shaking news, PROGRESS Wrestling co-owner Jim Smallman explained that the champion could turn…

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.…