In a battle between Jinny and Piper Niven, Jinny came out as the winner. This win makes her the number one contender for Kay Lee Ray’s beloved NXT UK Women’s Championship. Her win didn’t happen without interference however as Joseph Conners was the catalyst that helped Jinny clinch her all-important victory. Conners made his presence … Read more
Catalina Garcia made her singles-debut in NXT last night with a loss when she faced a returning and repackaged Xia Li at New Year’s Evil. Garcia is now going by the name of Katrina Cortez. She was part of the Sept. 23 number one contender Battle Royal in NXT that Candice LeRae won. Some may … Read more
Tay Conti gets a huge opportunity next week as she is going for the NWA World Women’s Title. This will be on AEW’s New Year’s Smash Night 2 on Dynamite. The prestigious title that has been shuffled in as another women’s title on AEW programming thanks to Serena Deeb will be on the line. Deeb … Read more
In a fantastic announcement, we will soon witness the first-ever NXT Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic! For the past five years, the men’s locker room has been paying tribute to the late Dusty Rhodes by competing in a tag team tournament. The sixth annual tournament for the men starts next week. Finally, the women … Read more
The first NXT of the year is here and it is named New Year’s Evil. There is one women’s match scheduled for tonight and it should be a good one. Raquel Gonzalez takes on her rival Rhea Ripley in a Last Woman Standing match. These two last went at it one-on-one at Halloween Havoc in … Read more
With the COVID-19 pandemic still having the globe in its clutches, the world of pro wrestling continues to adapt to the circumstances. After a several months long absence, NWA returned to YouTube last month with a new show. NWA Shockwave is a much different show versus Powerrr in both visual and presentation terms. While Powerrr … Read more
WWE Hall of Famer Teddy Long spoke recently alongside Richard Borger on what led up to the signing of Jade Cargill with AEW. Long and Borger talked with Wrestling Inc. about the training that Cargill endured at their Face2Face Wrestling Academy. Her original preparation to step foot in the ring was attributed to a road … Read more
Amanda Huber took to Instagram to post a wonderful video of her eldest son, Brodie Lee Jr and Liv Morgan training in the ring at Natalya and Tyson Kidd’s gym. Along with the video, Huber wrote; Tonight was pretty cool. We got to go visit @tjwilson711 & @natbynature and let Brodie work in the ring. … Read more
Its Wednesday and you know what that means. The first AEW Dark of the year aired last night and offered up a tonne of action and great matches. The show featured a fledging rivalry, a new tag team, an impressive return and a brilliant debut. Let’s get to the action. First match of the night … Read more
Havok & Nevaeh are moving forward to the final match in the Knockouts Tag Team Title Tournament. Either Havok & Nevaeh or Kiera Hogan & Tasha Steelz will become the new Knockouts Tag Team Champions at Hard to Kill on Jan. 16.
The Killer Death Machines advance to the final round by beating the perhaps favored team of Jordynne Grace and Jazz. In the final moments of the match, Jazz is left isolated in the ring as Grace falls to the outside. This allows Havok to deliver a Tombstone Piledriver to pick up the pin on the legend.
After the match, the losing team is seen backstage as Jazz finds Grace. Grace feels remorseful that they weren’t able to advance to the finals and puts blame on herself. She explains she is frustrated and winning the tag titles meant everything to her. Grace apologizes although Jazz an apology isn’t necessary. She was grateful to get into the ring with the younger generation.
Grace then propositions Jazz to a match. She was grateful to have a match alongside Jazz and now she wants to go one-on-one with her. Jazz seems to have accepted the challenge and the two will face each other at Genesis which takes place this Saturday on IMPACT Plus.
Former SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley posted earlier today on her Instagram that her brother was missing. Moments after she posted on social media about her missing sibling with all the necessary details, she states he was found within 90-seconds. She took her original posting down and replaced it with a post saying that he was … Read more
It’s time for the first IMPACT! of the new year and we have the last semi-finals round to get to. The Knockouts Tag Team Tournament is getting closer and closer to the end and for the company to crown their Knockouts Tag Team Champions. We already know that Tasha Steelz & Kiera Hogan will be … Read more
STARDOM made history once again at Japan’s biggest wrestling event of the year. For the second year running members of the STARDOM roster participated in matches at NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 15. Two STARDOM tag team matches opened the show in front of a sold-out crowd in the legendary Tokyo Dome on Jan 5. The first … Read more
The first RAW of the new year was definitely…just that. It was RAW Legends Night and ironically the results of the two matches were the highlight of the night compared to the theme of the show. Let’s go ahead and get to the portion of the Legends Night first to get it out of the … Read more
We can all agree that 2020 was not the year we wanted it to be. Throughout the pandemic, independent wrestling could not continue leaving the majority wrestlers without a stage to perform. Some promotions reopened in the summer and allowed wrestlers to back in the ring and finish off the year as strong as they … Read more
The first RAW is here for 2021 and it is RAW Legends Night. Time to boost the ratings. Officially scheduled to appear on tonight’s show is: Beth Phoenix, Torrie Wilson, Mickie James, Ivory, Jacqueline, Alicia Fox, and Melina. This is based on who was shown in the video from WWE directly promoting the event. Since … Read more
It should come as no surprise that Charlotte Flair will be participating in the upcoming Royal Rumble match. She made this announcement in an interview with Sarah Schreiber in a WWE Network Exclusive. Flair is the winner of the 2020 Royal Rumble match and she went on to face Rhea Ripley for the NXT Women’s … Read more
WWE has released a List This! video on their YouTube channel which lists the five Superstars who’ll be champions in 2021. Out of that list, two women were included – Bianca Belair and Peyton Royce. Bianca Belair has been a rising star ever since her time in NXT. After WrestleMania in 2020, Belair was placed … Read more
Three-time Divas Champion, Eve Torres, has been added to the list of legends for RAW Legends Night. This will take place tonight on RAW and she has been added to the prior list that includes, Alicia Fox, Torrie Wilson, Ivory, Jacqueline, Beth Phoenix, Melina, and Mickie James. Former Women’s Champion Candice Michelle is also on … Read more
Its Saturday and you know what that means. The first AEW Dark of 2021 takes place next week and offers up four women’s matches, several returns and one big debut. Tesha Price, Alex Gracia and Vipress all return to the show while one half of Team Sea Stars, Ashely Vox appears on AEW for the … Read more
IMPACT Wrestling has released Killer Kelly’s theme song/entrance video graphics on its YouTube account. She is still listed as a free agent and has had two recent matches for the company. The first was a debut loss against Kimber Lee followed up by a tag team match alongside Rene Michelle in the first round of … Read more
The first SmackDown of 2021 certainly had a few surprises. We were treated to two matches, one being the advertised match between Carmella & Bayley vs. Bianca Belair & SmackDown Women’s Champion Sasha Banks. Before we get to that match result, the first match of the night involved The Riott Squad taking on Tamina & Natalya.
The Riott Squad defeated Tamina & Natalya (w/Billie Kay?)
For the past several weeks Billie Kay has been trying to find a tag team partner that will help her against The Riott Squad. She has lost two weeks in a row – first with Natalya as her partner and second with Tamina. This week she was supposed to bring in another partner to face Liv Morgan & Ruby Riott.
Tamina’s music hits making it seem like she would be Kay’s partner once again. Directly after comes Natalya’s music and it will actually be Tamina and Natalya to face The Riott Squad. This led to Billie Kay being the “manager” of this pairing…at least at first.
Midway through the match, Kay would jump to The Riott Squad’s corner and start cheering them on. This apparent switch happens when Morgan and Riott deliver a double Russian leg sweep to Tamina with Riott getting a near fall. This obviously confuses all the competitors in the match.
The end result is Kay distracting Tamina who had Morgan up on her shoulders. Morgan countered and stacked up Tamina to get the pin. Kay would then celebrate the win for The Riott Squad with everyone still confused in her actions.
In perhaps a surprise victory, Carmella & Bayley defeated Bianca Belair & Sasha Banks when Carmella pinned the SmackDown Women’s Champion. The match wound up having Belair and Bayley which had Banks distracted. Carmella rolled up Banks but got a near fall. This led to Carmella delivering a super kick to the face of The Boss. Carmella then misses in the corner and finds herself dragged into the center of the ring with the Bank Statment locked in.
Reginald quickly pulled out Carmella to avoid her from having to submit. He would then enter the ring and step up to Banks allowing Carmella to enter from the opposite side of the ring. Reginald would then exit the ring and with a smile on his face jumped on the apron to further distract Banks.
Carmella would then get caught from her superkick and Banks delivered a knee into a jackknife for a near fall. Reginald gets involved one last time as he hops back on the apron and Banks delivered a punch to knock him off. She turns around into a facebuster for Carmella to pick up the three count and the win. Carmella has pinned the SmackDown Women’s Champion.
Other than Carmella picking up the win, the other surprise of the night was the return of Sonya Deville. Although her return was just her strolling through the backstage area, it was enough to show that Daddy is back. I expect a good showing in the upcoming rumble match by Miss. Deville.
Let’s get into the first Winners & Losers of 2021!
WINNER: Billie Kay
Personally, Billie Kay is slaying in this role. It is comedy, it is fun, it is at this point more unpredictable then most things. Having her root for the team she has been feuding against is hilarious. I still won’t get over the break up of her and Peyton, however, at least with Billie they are letting her character shine.
Of course, it wasn’t without help for her victory but Carmella did pin the champion. Her working with Sasha has really made her work the best it has been, maybe ever. I am sure most people are going to complain about her getting the pin. In my opinion, it furthers the feud and does exactly what it should do. It feeds into Carmella’s character and has her look like a worthy opponent. I am all here for them getting another one-on-one at Royal Rumble.
WINNER: Sonya Deville
I know she didn’t really do anything, but she is BACK! So WIN! I really was hoping for her to be a surprise for the rumble itself. I hope to bring her back before it will mean there are some bigger surprises for the rumble. Her returning at the event would have been predictable anyway.
LOSER: Sasha Banks
Unfortunately for this week, The Boss, The Blueprint, The Standard winds up on the losing end of things. As I said with Carmella it is a good thing storyline-wise and in the long run, I don’t see it hurting her. If they have her drop the title before WrestleMania I would be kind of surprised at this point.
What did you think about this week’s SmackDown? Who were your Winners & Losers? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below!!
The new year is starting off perfectly for Sonya Deville as she is back on SmackDown. Deville was last seen in August as she battled Mandy Rose in a No Disqualification/Loser Leaves WWE match at SummerSlam. Rose picked up the all-important win in order for Deville to take her much needed time away. Deville was … Read more
Former WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion, Kairi Sane has reportedly asked WWE for permission to appear for STARDOM. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Sane held talks with WWE Japan to make an appearance for STARDOM at their tenth-anniversary show. However, the report states that the negotiations were unsuccessful and as of now Sane is unable … Read more
Happy New Year!! The first SmackDown of the year is here and a tag team match that will surely entertain is planned. SmackDown Women’s Champion Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair will take on their rivals – Carmella and Bayley. Last week these two makeshift teams came up short in defeating the tag champs. Without the … Read more
IMPACT has announced that they will be showcasing the Knockouts for the month of January on the IMPACT Plus app. In the Twitter post shown below, it announces that they will have a new episode of IMPACT Connected featuring Jordynne Grace. A new Fave Five will feature seven-time Knockouts Champion Gail Kim. Plus they will … Read more
