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MONTREAL, CANADA - FEBRUARY 18: WWE Elimination Chamber at Centre Bell on February 18, 2023 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis)

MONTREAL, CANADA - FEBRUARY 18: WWE Elimination Chamber at Centre Bell on February 18, 2023 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis)


Wednesday, November 19th, 2024

On the last two episodes of NWA POWERRR, there have been a couple of wrestling music videos released by Daisy Kill and Talos, as well as The Cazanas.  Check them out if you haven’t had the chance.

 

“In 1985, a Portland wrestling promoter recruits Bigfoot to save his family’s struggling promotion.” Friday Night Bigfoot, a new comic book project co-created by Headlocked Comics’ Michael Kingston and Dave “Gangrel” Heath, just launched on Kickstarter.

Word is that even though Adam Copeland came up with the name Edge, the WWE is moving to copyright it.

In an interview with NJPW, Kenny Omega confirmed he will battle Gabe Kidd at Wrestling Dynasty. “Well, I’d like to address recent circumstances, and things that have happened with Gabe Kidd. I’ve had time to reflect after Power Struggle, and I feel I would regret not being able to make things right. I would hate for this situation to cause a rift between AEW and New Japan Pro-Wrestling. So after conversations I’ve had with President Tanahashi and other executives in NJPW, I’ve decided that if New Japan requests it, if Gabe requests it, and if the fans want it, then I will wrestle Gabe Kidd, as a professional at Wrestle Dynasty January 5.”

Here is what you will see on Dynamite tonight:

Will Ospreay, Ricochet, Powerhouse Hobbs and Mark Davis vs.  Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher, Lance Archer and Brian Cage.

Orange Cassidy vs. Wheeler Yuta

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Darby Allin.

ROH Champion Chris Jericho vs. Tomohiro Ishii in a contract signing.

US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Linda McMahon as his nominee for education secretary. It was also confirmed yesterday that Linda and Vince are separated.

The WWE is interested in staging Logan Paul versus Mike Tyson at WrestleMania.

Raw ratings:

This week: 1,516,000 overnight viewers and 0.49 in the key demos.

Last week: 1,564,000 overnight viewers and 0.49 in the key demos.

For those of you who follow Survivor, Slam’s John Powell has this for you before tonight’s big episode:

Survivor 47 Mid-Season Report Card

NJPW has announced the following for Wrestling Dynasty: The International Women’s Cup will see the best of STARDOM, AEW, CMLL and ROH compete in a four way match, with the winner receiving a championship opportunity in any promotion they choose. To advance to the Tokyo Dome each promotion will stage their own qualifying four way matches in the weeks to come.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2024

Collision ratings:

This week: 356,000 overnight viewers and 0.11 in the key demos.

Last week: 332,000 overnight viewers and 0.10 in the key demos.

All Elite Wrestling today announced additional live events for December as well as the first events for 2025. The schedule will include AEW’s debut at New York City’s iconic Hammerstein Ballroom for three straight nights from December 20-22, a very special AEW Dynamite: Fight For The Fallen on January 1 in Asheville, NC for AEW’s debut on Max that will benefit victims of Hurricane Helene, and culminate with AEW’s first-ever event at Crypto.com Arena for the AEW Revolution pay-per-view on March 9.

The schedule includes:

Additional live event dates for January, February and March will be announced in the near future.  Tickets for all three Hammerstein Ballroom events go on sale Monday, November 25 at 10 AM ET and AEW Fight For The Fallen in Asheville, AEW Dynamite in Clarksville and AEW Collision in Athens go on sale Tuesday, December 3 at 10 AM local time via AEWTix.com and Ticketmaster.com. On sale information for the remainder of the AEW winter schedule will be announced soon.  Fans interested in exclusive pre-sale opportunities can register to become an AEW Insider by visiting allelitewrestling.com/aew-insider.

Gabe Steveson had this to say about his recent run in WWE: “The WWE just wasn’t the right time. I had a lot of competitive edge in me, and they knew that, and it was not the time for it. So maybe one day if the stars align it’ll be a great opportunity to do it again. I have no bad feelings with it. I have no bad blood with it and I would like to keep moving forward with everything I have going on.”

Kofi Kingston chatted to The New York Times and had this to say about why The New Day has been so successful: “Actually, like to be friends. You know, a lot of tag teams get thrown together where they’re like one person from this background and that background, and you guys look like you might be interested in the same thing, and now we’re gonna put you together, and you don’t have real chemistry.  All of us, we really strive to push our brothers, to lift our brothers up. That’s what The New Day is all about. It’s all about brotherhood. And we really believe that to our core.  If Big E succeeds and I succeed, if Woods succeeds and that means I succeed, if I succeed, that means Woods and E succeed. I think that’s what’s been able to set us apart from a lot of different people, because I think different teams at a certain point they might have ulterior motives where they’re like, “Oh, I want to be a singles star, or I want to have this title and I want to do this.” And it’s I, I, me, me, me. We never have that mentality amongst us.”

Alex Bliss had this interesting response to a fan’s inquiry:

Jinder Mahal had this little secret to share recently about the WWE: “Underneath the ring it is called a ‘bed’. There is a little mat there and there is a gentleman by the name of Nick Daw who is under there with a monitor. They have got water bottles down there. They’ve got Diet Cokes, Red Bulls. So you have your bed. You’ve got your monitor and Nick actually has a headset to the producers.”

Here is what has been announced for next week’s Raw:

WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion Bianca Belair vs. WWE Women’s Champion Nia Jax – WarGames Advantage Match.

The New Day vs. Alpha Academy.

Here is what’s on NXT tonight:

Iron Survivor Qualifying Matches:

-Nathan Frazier vs. Eddy Thorpe.

-Zaria vs.Wren Sinclair.

-Stephanie Vaquer vs. Jaida Parker.

WWE NXT North American Champion Tony D’Angelo vs. Brooks Jensen (non-title)

Andre Chase vs. Ridge Holland with Chase U on the line.

Rampage ratings:

This week: 186,000 overnight viewers and 0.06 in the key demos.

Last week: 237,000 overnight viewers and 0.07 in the key demos.

Smackdown ratings against the Paul/Tyson fight:

This week: 1,234,000 overnight viewers and 0.32 in the key demos.

Last week: 1,536,000 overnight viewers and 0.47 in the key demos.

Monday, November 18th, 2024

Dwayne “the Rock’ Johnson’s  new Christmas movie Red One made $34 Million domestically on its opening weekend, and an additional $50 Million globally. Though it wasn’t a huge box office take – particularly against a budget of $250 Million – it was still the number one movie of the weekend, despite middling reviews.

While the number isn’t particularly good, as Deadline reports, as the movie was made for the Prime Video streaming site, it’s likely to make some more money once it hits the platform, thanks to revenue it will generate in ads and merch.

On NXT tomorrow you will see:

Just a reminder that your Raw spoilers for tonight are here. We assume they will be using last week’s tapings this week:

Raw Spoilers

On Smackdown you will see:

WWE Champion Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens face off.

Chelsea Green vs. Bianca Belair vs. Blair Davenport to advance to WWE United States Women’s Championship bout.

Some news from the WWE about their Netflix debut:

“Netflix and WWE announced that the brand-new Intuit Dome in Los Angeles will be the home of Monday Night RAW’s debut on Netflix, LIVE at 5pm PT/8pm ET on January 6, 2025. Travis Scott revealed his new music will serve as the theme song for RAW. The premiere episode of Monday Night RAW on Netflix will feature some of the biggest names in WWE such as John Cena, Undisputed WWE Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Bianca Belair, in addition to many other Superstars and surprise guests. In addition to Monday Night RAW, Netflix will bring WWE’s electrifying content to audiences outside the United States, including SmackDown, NXT, and Premium Live Events (PLEs) such as WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam. These events can be seen on Netflix starting January 6, 2025 in most international markets around the world. Many of WWE’s top RAW moments will be available to watch on Netflix, plus select programming and historic PLEs also available outside the United States, from January 1, 2025.

Tickets for the premiere episode of Monday Night RAW on Netflix will go on sale this Friday, November 22 at 10am PT/1pm ET via Ticketmaster.com.

The official presale will begin Wednesday, November 20 at 10am PT/1pm ET. Fans can register now to receive an exclusive presale offer by visiting https://www.wwe.com/rawonnetflix-presale-registration.

RAW Priority Passes are now available from On Location giving fans the chance to be ringside for every exhilarating moment including premium seating, pre-show hospitality with WWE Superstar appearances ringside photo opportunities and much more. To buy now, please visithttps://onlocationexp.com/raw.

What could it all mean?

Here’s what’s new to stream this week courtesy of Slam’s John Powell:

What’s New To Stream This Week November 18 to 22

Another match has been added to Wrestle Kingdom. Mayu Iwatani will defend the IWGP Women’s Title against AZM on January 4.

In case you missed it on the main page, the first Canadian WWE ID signee was announced on Sunday, and it’s Zoë Sager, from Alberta. Here’s the story on the show where the announcement was made, and here’s a profile we did on her in 2022: Zoë Sager bringing the ‘zed factor’

The National Wrestling Alliance announced that Dogg Pound Championship Wresting Paradox in San Antonio, Texas, is now a part of the NWA’s territorial system. NWA COO Joe Galli was in attendance as the announcement was made. Dogg Pound is run by Rodney Mack and Jazz.

Sunday, November 17th, 2024

If you watched AEW Collision last Saturday, you saw at the end of the show the debut of their November Rain music video montage to hype up for the Full Gear 2024 PPV:

Of course, faster than you can say “November to Remember,” we at Slamwrestling.net decided to go down the YouTube rabbit hole and pick a few choice ECW montages in honor.  Please to enjoy!

HHH and his friends in high places:

Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Yoshiki Inamura teamed with Josh Briggs against NXT Tag Team Champions Axiom and Nathan Frazer at a NXT house show in Florida last night.

Saturday, November 16th, 2024

If you’re in the Greater Toronto Area tomorrow, Slam’s own Bob Kapur will be selling off some of his wrestling figures and other goodies at the Awesome Toy Show, taking place at the Courtyard Marriott at 290 Derry Road West in Mississauga. The show runs from 12pm-4pm (VIPs can enter at 11am).

Braun Strowman returned to action last night after Smackdown went off the air. He joined Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee to help them defeat JD McDonagh, Finn Balor and Carlito.

Also at last night’s Smackdown taping Dragon Lee beat Andrade to become the new WWE Speed Champion.

The finals of the Women’s United States Championship tournament will take place at Saturday Night’s Main Event.

There is a lot of trepidation amongst wrestling fans after last night’s Jake Paul and Mike Tyson live boxing event on Netflix last night. There were massive and intermittent streaming, buffering issues for those wanting to watch it live due to the overall demand. Now wrestling fans are wondering what will happen when Raw and other events start streaming on Netflix. Will wrestling fans encounter the same issues? There is no easy answer in the sense that there will be fewer viewers but will that matter? If fans cannot watch Raw or WWE events live it defeats the purpose of WWE moving their content to Netflix to begin with. Let’s hope Netflix gets their shit together before January.

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