Author: Mark Blake

ECW, WWE, TNA…now add AEW to Taz’s list of employers. Taz was once again a guest announcer at last night’s AEW Dark taping at the Watsco Center in Miami. And as soon as he had finished announcing, he went backstage and signed on the dotted line with All Elite Wrestling as the tweet below shows – https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1217838923050881027 In the video, Taz is seen signing his multi-year contract with Executive Vice President Cody Rhodes and the company’s Vice President of Business Strategy Chris Harrington. It’s just a few weeks removed from Taz leaving his radio talk show on CBS Radio, Taz…

I don’t know about yourselves, but I adore the Royal Rumble! It is so different from any other WWE PPV, or any wrestling PPV actually. It is the start of the Road To WrestleMania and the 8-10 week build to the Grandest Stage Of Them All. We’re just a few weeks away from this year’s Royal Rumble folks! And I cannot wait. Why I hear you ask?… Well, I’m glad you did. The biggest thing for me, the absolute number one thing that gets me each and every year…are the surprise entrants for the Rumble match itself. Whether it’s AJ…

On last night’s edition of RAW, Erick Rowan once again faced off against a local competitor, as he has now for the past few weeks. It was revealed on the Twitter account of The Local Competitor, that Rowan’s victim last night was Joey O’Riley. As you can see in the video below, Erick’s storyline involving the creature kept in his cage, moved up a gear. Rowan was bitten by whatever is inside the cage – https://youtu.be/6wKxbfrud2g For those eagle-eyed readers of ours, yes O’Riley has appeared in the WWE before. He was on 3/13/18 edition of 205 Live where he…

Big news coming out of the Major League Wrestling (MLW) camp today. A few days ago word was passed around that the company was going to announce a new partnership. The rumors started to fly around as to who or what this partnership could be. Well today, it seems we may finally have an answer. WrestlingInc has been talking to their sources that are close to the promotion and found out that Showtime have shown a very strong interest in Major League Wrestling. They, as well as ourselves, currently don’t have any more specific information about the situation. It should…

Yes folks, you’ve read that right! The Timesplitters aka Alex Shelley and KUSHIDA are reuniting for this year’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. It was announced by Mauro Ranallo during last night’s NXT broadcast that Alex Shelley of NJPW/TNA will tag with KUSHIDA, bringing back one of the most exciting tag teams of last decade. They will face off against former (possibly current after this weekend’s Takeover: Blackpool II) NXT UK Tag Team Champions, Grizzled Young Veterans. My man Eddie Dennis says what I’m feeling folks! https://twitter.com/EddieDennis1986/status/1215213956333297664 Time Splitters wrestled exclusively in New Japan Pro Wrestling from 2012-2015, where they…

Howdy partners!…. Yeah, that didn’t go as well as I thought it would in my head 🙂 Anyway, welcome one and all to my preview of NXT UK’s Takeover: Blackpool II. Before I start I’d like to begin by saying that this preview was written before the go-home edition of the TV show. So if there are any matches added, or card changes, I apologize. But enough of that, let’s look at the positives. A five-match card, a two (ish) hour show, and action galore. Let’s kick off the new year as we mean to go on, shall we?! NXT…

I hate January. All the cheer from Xmas and New Year has passed. It’s all back to normal now, nose to the grindstone time. So thank Uncle Vince (and Trips obviously) for this slice of sunshine in my dark days. A no DQ match between Alexander Wolfe and Ilja Dragunov? Yes bloody please! More matches announced for Takeover: Blackpool II? Sign me up! https://youtu.be/PtK5snWugAQ Dave Mastiff vs Kona Reeves My first hot take of 2020…I quite like Kona Reeves. He reminds me of a young Rocky Maivia, before the turn. Reeves just needs to find that one thing that will…

When 2019 drew to a close, we decided to think outside the box a little. This is a special piece from myself.  Some you may know, some you may not. Without further ado, we give to you  Top 5 UK Break Out Stars of 2020. Top 5 UK Break Out Stars Of 2020 Dan Moloney Many hardcore BritWres fans may know Dan Moloney. Working for promotions such as Rev Pro, ATTACK (he’s one-half of their tag team champions), and Fight Club Pro (where he is the promotion’s main champion), Dan has benefitted from this apparent “lull” in the UK wrestling…

This week’s guests on Corey Grave’s After The Bell podcast were D-Generation X originals, Triple H and Shawn Michaels. During their chat, a few nuggets of information were dropped. These bits of info were about NXT and NXT UK. And as seen below, it’s pretty huge news – Triple H on NXT UK: “The one thing that Shawn isn’t even mentioning on his end, everybody has so much going on, but as NXT was evolving to USA (Network) and picking up that pace it made me have to back out of some things. Shawn picked up the ball on the…

In just a few short weeks Hiroshi Tanahashi will face off against Chris Jericho on night two of Wrestle Kingdom 14. A Legend vs Legend match. In a recent press interview to hype the show, Tanahashi commented that if he defeated Jericho, he will “open the forbidden door”. The line “open the forbidden door”? He means he will ask All Elite Wrestling officials for a shot at Jericho’s AEW Heavyweight Championship. https://youtu.be/f7ALO46XM18 Hiroshi’s comments to Tokyo Sports can be found here. Tanahashi also speculates in the above interview that by beating Jericho at Wrestle Kingdom 14, could lead to a…