Update On Ric Flair’s Opponent For His Final Match
https://itrwrestling.com/news/update-ric-flairs-opponent-for-final-match/
Paul Wight Recalls Impersonating Kevin Nash In His Early Years
https://itrwrestling.com/news/paul-wight-recalls-impersonating-kevin-nash/
Eric Bischoff On AEW’s “Flatter Than Piss On A Plate” Ratings
https://tjrwrestling.net/news/eric-bischoff-aew-piss-on-a-plate-ratings/
Ava Raine (Simone Johnson) Delivers First WWE Promo
https://itrwrestling.com/news/ava-raine-first-wwe-promo/
Joshi Star Earns Future AEW Women’s World Title Match
https://itrwrestling.com/news/joshi-star-aew-womens-world-title-match/
Jim Cornette Calls WWE Gimmick Overhaul “Worse Than The Red Rooster”
https://tjrwrestling.net/news/jim-cornette-wwe-gimmick-worse-red-rooster/
“It’s an incredible environment” – Paul Wight on AEW’s locker room atmosphere compared to other companies
https://www.sportskeeda.com/aew/paul-wight-comments-aew-s-locker-room-atmosphere
The Barbarian was a big, strong, legit-tough dude, but a WORLD TITLE CONTENDER? On PPV? No wonder WCW lost so much money.
Welcome back to more Dream Matches! This week I have a sequel to last weeks’ Jake/Koloff match, as it’s Jake & Barbarian vs. Nikita & Ron Simmons, the WCW World Champion! Then, it’s one of the stranger “two guys you didn’t think ever met” contests, thanks to Erik Watts’ run in late ’90s WCW, where he takes on Disco Inferno on TWO separate occasions! Then it’s a giant Hoss Match as The Giant takes on Roadblock on WCW Nitro, in a match with a remarkable ending that’s stuck in my mind for 25 years! More Essa Rios content, as he & Funaki take on the Hardy Boyz back when Rios was “Papi Chulo”! Then it’s a shockingly very good Wrath match, as he & the underrated Mike Enos fight like hell on a filler WCW Thunder bout! With some commentary you really have to hear.
JAKE “THE SNAKE” ROBERTS & THE BARBARIAN (w/ Cactus Jack) vs. RON SIMMONS & NIKITA KOLOFF:
(WCW Power Hour, Oct. 17th 1992)
* By recommendations, here’s Jake & Barbarian as WCW heels vs. Ron Simmons (the WCW World Champion!) and Koloff. Jake’s in blue, Barbarian’s in black, Ron’s in green and slapping hands with the fans, and a very bored-looking Koloff is in a black singlet. Nobody seems nearly as over as they should be considering this has the World Champ and the guy he’s wrestling at Halloween Havoc in a week.
All Out 2021
Date: September 5, 2021
Location: Now Arena, Chicago, Illinois
Commentators: Jim Ross, Excalibur, Tony Schiavone
We’re back to the still fairly rare AEW pay per view schedule with an absolutely stacked show. There are three major matches this time around, including CM Punk vs. Darby Allin, Chris Jericho vs. MJF and Kenny Omega defending the World Title against Christian Cage. Let’s get to it.
Dynamite
Date: September 1, 2021
Location: Now Arena, Chicago, Illinois
Commentators: Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, Excalibur
It’s the go home show for All Out and that means it’s time for the big push to the show. As you might have guessed, CM Punk is back in the house and the ovation should crazy all over again. It’s also the 100th edition of Dynamite and that means we might be seeing something of a look back. AEW has always done those well so let’s get to it.
Dynamite
Date: May 28, 2021
Location: Daily’s Place, Jacksonville, Florida
Commentators: Excalibur, Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone
We have a special Friday show this week due to the NBA Playoffs, which is some bad timing as this is also the go home show for Double Or Nothing. That means it is time for the final push towards the show, with the celebration of the Inner Circle, plus the weigh-in for Anthony Ogogo vs. Cody Rhodes. Let’s get to it.
https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2021/02/big-show-leaves-wwe-and-joins-aew/
There’s your shocking headline of the day.
Lance Russell and Dave Brown are in the booth and they are broadcasting from WMC-TV5 studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
Brown interviews Scott Studd, who argues that USWA Southern Heavyweight Champion Brian Lee will not give him a title shot. Lee walks out and says Studd does not deserve one.
–Gene Okerlund interviews WCW Champion Hulk Hogan in a dark room. Hogan says he misses Andre the Giant and how it was unfair the Pontiac Silverdome did not chant Andre’s name. He does his best to act dramatic, sniffing Andre’s old shirt, as he says he felt Andre’s presence when the Giant threw the shirt at him at Bash at the Beach and that rumors of Andre having a son were true. Hogan concludes by saying that the time has come to rise and face the challenge of the Giant again and to do so he will have to fight through the Dungeon of Doom. That journey will start on next week’s Main Event.
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary and they are taped from Atlanta, Georgia. The matches on this broadcast took place on July 11.
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary and they are taped from Atlanta, Georgia. The tapings took place on June 21, something to remember in relation to the scheduled main event. Tonight’s episode is one hour in length.
–There were no new matches on WCW Prime so we go right to WCW Pro where Chris Cruise, Dusty Rhodes, and Larry Zbyszko. They are kicking off a new set of tapings in Macon, Georgia that took place on June 26.
–A video package recaps the events of Bash at the Beach.
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary as WCW Saturday Night returns to two hours in the lead up to Bash at the Beach. The matches here were taped in Atlanta on June 21.
–A video package recaps the feud over the tag team titles between Harlem Heat, the Nasty Boys, and the Blue Bloods.
–Gene Okerlund and Bobby Heenan do their usual studio duties. They hype Bash at the Beach, namely the Hulk Hogan-Vader main event.
–Okerlund says that Diamond Dallas Page was recently looking for a house in Malibu. Heenan refutes the rumor floating around WCW that the Diamond Doll won the money that Page is spending as his own.
–Heenan openly wonders why the Nasty Boys are so popular when they do a move like the Pit Stop.
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are in the booth and they are live from Dayton, Ohio as The Great American Bash returns to pay-per-view for the first time in three years.
–Tonight’s show is a hybrid broadcast as some matches were taped at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia on May 10 and 11 and others were shown live from Speed Street in Charlotte, North Carolina as part of the Charlotte Speed Street Festival. Eric Bischoff and Dusty Rhodes are doing commentary in Charlotte, while Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing it in Atlanta.
–Gene Okerlund and Bobby Heenan are in charge of the studio portion of the show. Okerlund spoils the result of the feature match by calling it a “warm up” match for Ric Flair for Slamboree.
–Heenan picks up a Butcher trading card and says it will soon be a collector’s item because the Butcher has no name anymore.
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are in the booth and they are taped from Atlanta, Georgia.
–A replay of Commissioner Nick Bockwinkel appearing on WCW Saturday Night and suspending WCW Champion Hulk Hogan from WCW events until Uncensored is shown.
–Gene Okerlund and Bobby Heenan are doing the studio portion of the broadcast. Today’s feature match comes from the Gainesville, Georgia taping on February 21.
–Footage of Dustin Rhodes and Hacksaw Jim Duggan struggling to beat up the Stud Stable on WCW Pro is shown.
–Gene Okerlund and Bobby Heenan are the studio hosts. They discuss Ric Flair wanting to confront Nick Bockwinkel on the next episode of WCW Saturday Night.
