WWE Evolve November 11th 2026

Welcome back to Evolve where I would like to wish everybody a happy Veteran’s Day (checks time of posting) uh happy day after Veteran’s Day! We have some exciting happenstances on Evolve today as Harlem Lewis is returning from his mauling via 500 pound steel steps that led to an unfortunate incident where he coughed up some delicious cherry pie, and also a Sloane Jacobs vs. Anya Rune match. Stay strong folks, we’ll get through this together. But before that, check out what’s happening in the wild world of the greater WWE ecosystem!

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We got a walk and talk with Harley Riggins outside (in the parking lot! Oh no!) and he runs across Jax Pressley and smirks as he moves by him. Harley addresses Harlem Lewis and mocks the champ after the beatdown Riggins gave him. Harley demands the title be stripped from Lewis and go to Riggins who deserves it all, and he’s getting it all…tonight.

SCIENCE! GLARING! SLOW MOTION! SMOKE! VIOLENCE! It’s Evolve!

Sloane Jacobs vs. Anya Rune

But before that, we have Sloane cutting a promo during her entrance. Saying she’ll crush Anya’s Anime dreams but also that Nikkita Lyons will be in the VIP section to watch her do it. And she does the ridiculous, overwrought introduction for Nikkita.

Background: Sloane Jacobs is Nikkita Lyons, the Evolve women’s champion, stooge and suckup. And Lyons has sorta been disrespecting her even though Jacobs is a total sycophant. Anya Rune is a hapless babyface who is a massive weeb, like that’s actually her gimmick, she now knows how to throw fireballs at least. Jacobs is a redhead in blue gear while Anya has green hair and green gear. If Anya wins she’ll get a title shot against Lyons down the line.

The Match: Lockup into a takedown by Sloane who cranks in a headlock. Anya reverses but Jacobs pulls the hair to break though Rune goes back to a headlock and stuffs an international and gets her own takedown before Jacobs runs her over with a shoulderblock and then Sloane adds a cartwheel for no real reason. More standing grappling (of a sort) until Rune gets a takedown and then gets a running uppercut to the back of Sloane’s neck more evasion from Anya as she gets a swinging strike to take Jacobs down but Anya struggles going to the top rope and Sloane gets an electric chair facebuster off the buckle and then drops some elbows and gets really slow ground and pound while Nikkita is signing…4x6s? Anyway she’s not paying attention to the match and I don’t blame her. Hard whip to the corner by Sloane and then a slap across Anya’s face who powers up but gets caught in a hanging headscissors by Jacobs who slams Rune into the buckle a few times (like the Devil’s Kiss but into the buckle?) and then a clothesline gets 2 on Anya. More grounded shots and then a double-arm crank. Anya gets to her feet but Sloane gets a hairpull takedown but Anya gets a double-kick from the ground and then fires up for some forearms that Sloane takes a snap back bump off of. A dragon suplex (that sorta goes to the side instead of over the head) by Anya and then a high kick in the corner before a really horrible sliding D forearm has Jacobs in trouble but Sloane gets a high roundhouse and then sets up a Gory Bomb but they absolutely whiff a sunset flip spot and Rune gets 2 and then another big Rune strike gets 2 and then an energy blast gets 3 as Nikkita is shocked.

½*

So I guess…uh…Sloane Jacobs might be an okay manager who can take some bumps. Anya…bless her heart. Very rough outing from both ladies, this is legitimately the level of output that even the doldrums of the Diva’s era wouldn’t tolerate. I wish them all the best but I dunno if their future is in the ring.

Apparently the title match against Lyons will happen December 2nd, so circle the date and put your mentions as out of office buddy!

Now we have Kale Dixon and Alix Brooks bragging about being in the main event in the first mixed-tag in Evolve history. They talk about how attractive they are and how Alix is chasing her first win tonight.

Now we get some backstage drama with Cutler James and Sam Holloway who had beef back in…wait this is beef from September and now they’re getting to it? Anyway, they’re two powerhouse dudes, they butted heads, Cutler cost Sam in the ID vs. ID 2.0 match.

Cutler James vs. Sam Holloway

Background: We just got the little rundown of their beef. Both are big guys. Sam does some flips, Cutler is an amateur guy who is in Dark State of course. Both are big dudes and commentary hypes this as a hoss match.

The Match: Big monster lockup is a stalemate and then we get a headlock sequence into dueling shoulderblocks that goes Sam’s way…and the sequel goes to Cutler. James gets a takedown and then Sam gouges the eye and James goes to the ref who checks on James and Holloway seems apologetic. Cutler shoves Sam and the ID talent throws an elbow. Both guys slug it out and James seems to be feeling the eye as Sam keeps throwing shots to the damaged orbital. James can’t get a double-leg and Holloway just brutalizes James with strikes and some throws with a low boot to the eye to keep it up. Cutler finally double-legs Sam into the buckles but Sam slips out to land a Mafia kick to the face but James just shrugs it off and gets a German and then spears Sam through the ropes to the outside. The ref counts down as Cutler suplexes Sam on the mats and then spears Holloway over the announce table and it’s a double countout.

**

Well, the hossiness at least had them trying hard before it became about a weird inadvertent eye gouge from the babyface Sam Holloway and then he kept brutalizing it. Cutler I guess went to fired up babyface which he doesn’t excel at but they kept it physical and short and it had a pretty heated setup to the non-finish.

Post-match Cutler jumps off the table at Sam and they continue to brawl as everybody tries to separate them.

Now we have Vanta the Unknown menacing Wendy Choo by mocking her underdog title win. Wendy was at the top for a moment, and then it vanished. Vanta knows that Wendy is wondering if that’s as far as she’ll go. The Unknown feels Wendy’s fear, knowing that she might have already peaked, and even if she does make it back to the top all she’ll find is…the Unknown.

Kinda inadvertently mean after Wendy got released! But spooky Vanta was fine here.

Now we have The Mog Squad trashing Charles Dempsey’s challenge and saying that what’s really difficult is random internet slang I am too old to get. Anyway, they’re attractive, they get women and don’t treat them well, and Max Abrams is still doing the face bandage gimmick so he can’t talk clearly. It’s hi-larious. They don’t care about Charles’ reputation because he doesn’t Mog. Next week it could be any of them facing Dempsey. Who is apparently dadmaxxing. Anyway there’s somebody with a beard and a top-knot eyeballing them in the background and I think it might be Drake Morreaux but maybe it’s Jax Pressley? At some point the Mog Squad’s promo ends.

I do not like the Mog Squad.

We get a throwback to Succession where Harlem Lewis beat Harley Riggins and then Harley beat down Lewis with a chair and the steps.

Now we got THE FOREMAN Timothy Thatcher talking about how Harlem Lewis got attacked and has missed a month. But while Thatcher is sympathetic to Lewis he wants to clear the air about the title…and here we have our first interruption from Elijah Holyfield who says that while Thatcher is busy, Holyfield cleared his past situations by beating Braxton Cole and AEW legend Marcus Mathers and when the Lewis situation is figured out, Elijah wants his shot. Thatcher says that while he appreciates the moxie, this isn’t the time or place and Elijah should have met in Thatcher’s office. Holyfield says this is exactly the time and Timothy tells him he’s been heard…but it’s time to leave and Elijah reluctantly does. Now we got Harlem Lewis limping out to the ring and Elijah stares him down. Thatcher says that he’s talked to medical…and Harlem says he knows the score and that even worse than the physical pain is the inability to defend the title. Harlem loves fighting, and he loves the hunt, but he wasn’t ready for the target on his back and the tactics people would use to get a shot (really Harlem? Braxton Cole broke your arm with a chair!) Harley Riggins tried to end his career and Lewis admits that it’s been hard having his little brother text him about Harley Riggins bragging about Harlem being weak and frail. Harlem is fired up about having to give up something that he worked so hard for and knowing there’s nothing he can do about it. Thatcher is sympathetic but he can’t have the title be undefended and Harlem needs to hand the title over. Lewis is about to do it before we have Harley Riggins come out and calls Harlem a crybaby and he needs to give the title up and Thatcher needs to hand it over to the rightful owner…Riggins. Harley says that if Harlem won’t give it up, he’ll take it and jumps the champ who drops Riggins and clotheslines him over the ropes. Harlem says he doesn’t care, Thatcher needs to make the match and he’ll defend against Riggins. Harley gloats from the outside that he got what he wanted.

Harlem as a scrappy babyface has always been a better spot for him than a butt whooping tweener and Harley is a pretty dang good heel jerk bully. Probably went on too long but you want the pathos to build here.

Next week we’ll get Harlem Lewis vs. Harley Riggins for the title.

Next is Cappuccino Jones talking to Chazz “Starboy” Hall in the locker room after Hall’s loss to Shido Ash last week. Jones calls them jive turkeys! Chazz knew he had Ash last week but Viktor interfered, and he not only lost the match, he lost his zen! Cap says we don’t need an angry Starboy and Hall can find his zen…when Dark Roast Jones gets his hands on Viktor Zanov next week. Can you dig it?

Cappuccino getting released while he was finding out ways to be a totally ridiculous 1970s cop show character breaks my heart. Keep on grinding Jones…keep on grinding.

Kale Dixon and Alix Brooks vs. Aaron Rourke and Laynie Luck

Background: Kale and Alix are two arrogant jerk heels that have been messing with Rourke and Luck, a pair of indie vets, for a while. Both groups have interfered in each others matches and now this is the payoff of sorts. Kale has half-trunks half-tights, and Alix is dressed like Tiffany Stratton’s body double with her pink gear. Rourke and Luck are in blue-toned gear. This of course is the first mixed-tag in Evolve history.

The Match: We get Niko Vance (he’s still alive?!) in the VIP Section looking on. Rourke and Kale start and Kale dodges a lockup for a knee to the gut and then some pounding in the corner as Rourke is out of sorts. Rourke dodges a whip, gets a strike and then a neckbreaker and Kale tags in Alix who gets in Aaron’s face and eventually slaps Aaron, so Laynie comes in to the do the same, drops Brooks and drops an elbow and goes for a boot but Alix slips away and tags in Kale who menaces Luck…but doesn’t notice Rourke who runs in for an apron punt and then Laynie boots down Brooks as we go to break. Back in and Kale has a headscissors on Rourke as we see that Kale got control off of an Alix distraction. Chinlock now from Dixon as Niko Vance looks on, blankly. Rourke finally slugs out of the hold and gets a victory roll for a cover and then some kicks that Kale repays in kind, but a caught kick sets up a backflip reversal from Rourke who gets a codebreaker for a breather…but he can’t make the tag as Alix rips Laynie off the apron. Dixon brings Rourke back to his corner and stomps away before a falling second-rope splash gets 2. More stomping from Kale and then a release backdrop suplex as Dixon continues to peacock and hot dog and gets a running chop to the back and a low thrust kick for 2.5. More slugging from Kale but Rourke flips out of another suplex and lands his own to set up the double-tag and Laynie first off some clotheslines before Brooks gets a slap that just irks Luck who kicks Alix to the apron for a stomp and an outside-in senton bomb that Kale breaks the pin on. Kale gets in Laynie’s face and gyrates a bit…only for Rourke to run in for a backstabber and then an assist for a springboard tornado flying headscissors by Laynie on Kale…but Alix gets a tilt-a-whirl DDT on Rourke. Brooks misses a pump kick on Laynie who gets Brooks up for a firewoman’s carry but Alix rakes the eyes and a tight schoolgirl pin gets 2.8. Laynie with a step-up enzuigiri, a kip-up, and the Death Valley Party (DVD) gets 3 on Alix.

**½

Rourke was very clearly quarterbacking this and literally holding some of these wrestlers hands, but they actually managed some real heat sequences in the mixed-tag format. Alix is brutally green but at least seems to get how to be a heel. Kale has some athleticism but he doesn’t really know what character he is. Laynie is uh…well she tries hard.

Post-match the babyfaces celebrate and we get Laynie leaping into Rourke’s arms. Hands off you Jezebel! And then they’re confused as Niko Vance has vanished…DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN!

Next week we get Harlem defending the Evolve title against Harley Riggins, Charlie Dempsey against a Mog Squad member, and Cappuccino, sorry, Dark Roast Jones against Viktor Zanov.

The ghosts make this show hard to watch at times but there still are developing pieces. That said, the sure confusion of them reviving a feud that aired in September between a released guy and a guy who uh…dont buy Cutler James rookie cards folks, with a nonsense finish to set up a further match in what will probably be December is absolutely ridiculous.

As always, thanks for reading, thanks for commenting, and keep on Evolving my Evolvemaniacs!