Before I get into wrestling, I’d like to send my condolences to the family and friends of Blackjack Lanza who passed away on December 8th was 86
Blackjack Lanza was a 2006 WWE Hall Of Fame inductee and a 2016 inductee to the Professional Wrestling Hall Of Fame
He was a champion during the glory days of the territories in promotions like the AWA, WWA, NWA, GCW and the WWWF
RIP Blackjack
NWA – HARD TIMES 2
NWA World Women’s Tag Team Championship: The Hex (c) vs. Kylie Rae & Tootie Lynn vs. Missa Kate & Natalia Markova vs. Jennacide & Paola Blaze w/Taryn Terrell – The Hex plants Lynn with Hex Marks The Spot to pick up the pinfall victory and retain their titles
Homicide won the Battle Royal to qualify for the upcoming NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament
NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship Tournament Qualifying Match: Austin Aries vs Rhett Titus – Aries sends Titus into the ropes then hits a Rolling Elbow, followed by a Corner Dropkick. Finally Aries connects with The BrainBuster to get the 1-2-3
ROH World Tag Team Championship: The OGK (Mike Bennett & Matt Taven) (c) vs. Aron Stevens & JR Kratos – Bennett rocks Stevens with a forearm smash followed by Taven rolling Stevens for the pinfall.
Colby Corino w/The Fixers vs. Douglas Williams – Corino sends Williams shoulder first into the steel ring post then he plants Williams with The Sonsetter for the win
IMPACT Knockouts Championship: Mickie James (c) vs. Kiera Hogan – Hogan climbs to the top turnbuckle and attempts a flying crossbody block, but Mickie rolls her over to pick up the victory
NWA Worlds Television Championship: Tyrus (c) w/Austin Idol, BLK Jeez and Jordan Clearwater vs. Cyon (No DQ w/The Pope as Special Guest Referee) – Tyrus lands the Heart Punch and gets the 1-2-3
NWA National Championship: Chris Adonis (c) vs. Judais w/Father James Mitchell – Adonis applies the The Master Lock submission but Judias passes out and the ref calls for the bell
NWA World Tag Team Championship: La Rebellion (c) vs. The End – Wolf connects with a 450 splash on Parrow for the win
Nick Aldis vs. Thomas Latimer (If Either Man Is Disqualified, They Will Be Suspended For 2 Months) – Aldis connects with The Jackknife Hold to get the victory.
NWA World Women’s Championship: Kamille (c) vs. Melina – Kamille connects with The Spear to get the pinfall.
NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship: Trevor Murdoch (c) vs. Mike Knox – In the corner Murdoch hits Knox with clubbing headbutts then connects with The Flying Bulldog to get the 1-2-3.
After the match, Matt Cardona appears. Knox then delivers a low blow to Murdoch. The Popes comes out and Knox starts to brawl with The Pope. Cardona attacks Pope from behind. Cardona throws the Pope into the steel ring steps. Finally, Knox kicks Murdoch in the face. Cardona poses with Ten Pounds Of Gold to end the show.
NXT – WAR GAMES
This is Beth Phoenix’s last night on commentary for NXT
WOMEN’S WARGAMES MATCH: Raquel Gonzalez, Io Shirai, Cora Jade & Kay Lee Ray vs. Dakota Kai, Mandy Rose, Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jayne – Early on Cora took a nasty landing off the top onto the tables with Jacy on them and I believed she legit damaged her arm, but she the rest of the team never gave up and hurt arm and all, Cora Jade got the pinfall on Jacy Jayne
NXT Tag-Team Championships: Imperium vs Kyle O’Reilly & Von Wagner – Aichner and Barthel connect with a double-team Imperium bomb for the pinfall on O’Reilly to retain their NXT tag-team titles
After the match Wagner turns on O’Reilly by trying to attack him, but O’Reilly got over on him then said, “This is a brotherhood” while he did the classic Undisputed Era taunt.
Hair vs. Hair Match: Cameron Grimes vs Duke Hudson – In the end Hudson gets Grimes up in the Razor’s Edge position but Grimes escapes and gets a roll up victory for the 1-2-3
Hudson tried to turn the tables on Grimes and shave his head, but Hudson finally gets his head shaved.
NXT Cruiserweight Championship: Roderick Strong (C) vs Joe Gacy – Strong connects with his double knee back breaker for the pinfall victory
Backstage Kyle O’Reilly Challenges Von Wagner To Steel Cage Match on the next episode of NXT
Men’s WarGames Match: Team Black & Gold (Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Pete Dunne & LA Knight) vs. Team 2.0 (Bron Breakker, Carmelo Hayes, Grayson Waller & Tony D’Angelo) – Bron Breakker Spears Ciampa through a table for the win.
This is going to set up a definite rematch between Ciampa and Breakker for the NXT Championship in the near future I believe
WWE – RAW
Steel Cage Match: Big E vs. Kevin Owens – Big E nails a Big Ending from the top rope and then crawls out of the ring for the victory.
After the match, while E is celebrating, he gets attacked from behind by Seth Rollins, who then turns his attention to Kevin Owens. As Rollins is leaving Big E connects with a Belly to Belly Suplex on Rollins, then a Big Ending for Kevin Owens. Bobby Lashley then makes his way down to the ring and attacked all three men on his own.
Queen Zelina (w/ Carmella) vs. Nikki A.S.H (w/ Rhea Ripley) – Nikki A.S.H. lands a neckbreaker but misses a flying crossbody. Zelina then counters as she hits Code Red for the three count.
WWE Raw Tag Team Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament Semifinal Match: AJ Styles & Omos vs. Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) – Omos attacks Ford on the outside, but gets counted out as Ford gets back to the ring in time.
After the match AJ tells Omos he has to listen better and pay attention. Omos just walks away. Will we see one turn on the other in the near future?
United States Championship: Damian Priest vs. Robert Roode (w/ Dolph Ziggler) – Priest attempts a springboard onto Roode who quickly counters with a spinebuster. Priest is the 1st one up, grabs Roode for The Reckoning and the 1-2-3
Bianca Belair vs. Doudrop – Belair gets Doudrop up for the KOD, but Doudrop escapes and leaves the ring. She just keeps going and the ref counts her out
MizTV with Edge. These two verbally go back and forth and Edge brings up how Miz was treated and acted as a rookie in 2006. This will eventually lead to a match as the Day 1 ppv
RK-Bro-Nament: The Mysterios vs. Alpha Academy – The finish saw Chad Gable go up top and attempt a moonsault but Dominik moves and gets the pinfall
With that win, the Street Profits will face The Mysterios next week in the finals of the RK-Bro-Nament and who will become the #1 contenders.
Backstage, Austin Theory is warming-up inside Vince’s office as Mr. McMahon is on the phone. Vince tells him to sit and tells him thatunfortunately he won’t have a match tonight because he wasn’t ready on time. Vince tells him he’ll need to figure out some way to impress him. Vince tells Theory to use his brains to impress him and Theory leaves with a smile on his face.
Finn Balor vs. T-BAR – Balor goes up to the top and lands his Coup de Grace
After the match, Austin Theory jumps him from behind and starts taking a selfie with Finn
RAW Women’s Championship: Becky Lynch vs. Liv Morgan – after a great back and forth match, Becky gets the 1-2-3 with assist from the rope that the ref doesn’t see
NXT
Steel Cage Match: Von Wagner vs. Kyle O’Reilly – Wagner nails Kyle with a low blow then follows that up with a powerbomb for the pinfall
After the match Von continues to attack Kyle and hangs him in the tree of woah facing the cage door and then Von smashes his face with the door. This is probably the last time we see Kyle in NXT / WWE. Will he be AEW or Impact bound?
We are informed that Harland will make his in-ring debut next week
Breakker comes out and talks about the respect he has for the black and gold of NXT but he has one fall apiece against Ciampa and will anything to get to him again. This brings out Malcolm Bivens and lets him know that Roderick Strong is “THE” champion of NXT. He says he has his sights set on him. And will face Strong next week
Brooks Jensen & Josh Briggs vs. The Creed Brothers – while distracted, Briggs rolls up Creed and gets the pin fall victory.
Duke Hudson and Cameron Grimes go back and forth about their hair vs hair match in which Hudson is wearing a wig. Grimes challenges Hudson to a no holds barred match
Carmelo Hayes vs. Dexter Lumis – Trick Williams interferes from the outside to break up the potential pinfall giving Lumis the win via DQ
MSK (Nash Carter & Wes Lee) continue looking the Shaman, who has been confirmed to be revealed tonight. We see them knock on a door and when it opens, it turns out the Shaman is actually Matt Riddle
Valentina Feroz & Yulisa Leon vs. Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jane – Jane connects with clothesline to Feroz and then a big kick right under the jaw for the 1-2-3.
Tiffany Stratton coming soon promo
Tony D’Angelo is challenged By Andre Chase for a match next week
Xyon Quinn vs. Santos Escobar – Lopez sneaks a pair of brass knuckles onto his hand of Quinn while he’s down, but both men eventually get up and Quinn realizes he has the knucks. As Quinn prepares to finish the match members of Legado Del Fantasma provides a distraction. Quinn heads over and knocks them off the apron with the knucks but then turns to Escobar, who hits his finisher and scores the pin fall victory.
Johnny Gargano addresses the audience. He’s not sure what the future holds, but right now he’s stepping away to be a father. As he’s finishing up he is attacked by Grayson Waller and put threw a table. Will this be the last time we see Gargano? His baby is due in February, so is anything, he’ll return to the ring hopefully by June or July at the latest. Time will tell
AEW – DYNAMITE
CM Punk starts things off in Long Island cutting a promo on MJF. There were loud boos in the building I’m guessing because MJF is from Long Island and came off as Long Islanders being superior and he’s returning as a hero of sorts. Punk insults the NY Islanders hockey team and puts of the Blackhawks. I’m guessing things will return to mainly cheers once out of Long Island.
Dynamite Diamond Battle Royal – Some of the participants were MJF, Shawn Spears, Wardlow, Lee Moriarty, Jay Lethal, Matt Hardy, Dante Martin, Lio Rush, Ricky Starks, Powerhouse Hobbs, and Frankie Kazarian. During the match MJF eliminates Wardlow, who did not look happy and Dante Martin eliminated Ricky Starks. When Dante eliminated Starks that left MJF and Dante Martin as the final two participants in the battle royal and will face each other next week.
After the match Starks attacks Dante, who is also a member of Team Taz and is joined in by MJF which leads to Punk coming down to get involved
Jurassic Express & Varsity Blonds vs. The Acclaimed & Team 2point0 – During the match Eddie Kingston run down to the ring to attack Daniel Garcia and Team 2point0 who attacked him last week. After Eddie leaves Jungle Boy applies his snare trap submission finisher for the submission.
The Young Bucks vs. Rocky Romero & Chuck Taylor – The Bucks connect with a Meltzer Driver on Romero for the 1-2-3
We are informed that next week we will see Ruby Soho, Tay Conti and Anna Jay vs Penelope Ford, The Bunny and Nyla Rose.
We also find out that next week Sammy Guevara’s Next TNT Title Open Challenge will be against Cody Rhodes, but Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky have something to say about it. Will they get involved?
Jamie Hayter vs. Riho – Riho picks up the pinfall
We go to Taz who announces that Fuego Del Sol will wrestle next week on the Winter is Coming special against Taz’s son, the “secret weapon” of Team Taz, his son, Hook
Main Event: Bryan Danielson vs. John Silver – Danielson wins via submission
After the match Bryan won’t release the hold which prompts Adam Page to come down and runs of Danielson. Page promises to defeat him next week and retain his AEW World Title.
IMPACT
Chris Sabin & Mickie James vs. Matthew Rehwoldt & Deonna Purrazzo – Coming off the top-rope, Mickie hits her double knees splash onto Deonna, but Deonna reverses the pin and uses help from both Rehwoldt and the ropes for leverage behind the referees back for the 1-2-3
Backstage, Gia Miller is with Matt Cardona. She talks to him about being added to the Impact World Championship match at Hard to Kill, which makes now makes it a triple-threat match against W. Morrissey and Moose.
Matt talks about that the only thing he has wanted since coming to IMPACT is a world title shot. W. Morrissey comes over and says that it’s typical of Mid card -Cardona taking something he didn’t earn. He says that’s why he’s at the spot he’s always been in his career. He says he deserves a one-on-one match at Hard to Kill. Matt has had enough and tells Morrissey that they can go to the ring and have a match, and if Morrissey wins, Cardona is out of the match.
Rohit Raju vs. Lawrence D – No Contest since Josh Alexander comes to the ring and takes out both men.
After Josh takes out Raju and D, he calls out Jonah. Scott D’Amore comes out and tells him Jonah isn’t here tonight, but they will have a match at Hard to Kill. Josh says it isn’t enough and needs to take out Jonah before refocusing on Moose and the title. D’Amore tries to get through to Alexander, calling him family and saying he needs to get his emotions in check. Alexander heads out of the ring and he grabs Raj Singh and brings him in the ring. He nails Raju with a Falcon Arrow and gets back on the mic and tells D’Amore that this is an example of him keeping his emotions in check
The Learning Tree vs. FinJuice – Finnjuice get the pinfall
Moose offers to help Morrissey take out Cardona and make their match one on one, but he doesn’t trust Moose and will do it himself
Street Fight: Eric Young vs. Rhino – Heath, Swann, Willie Mack, Doering and Deaner all come down and get involved. This distraction allows Eric to his a low blow on Rhino, then a piledriver to the 1-2-3
The IInspiration & The Influence vs. Decay – Spear on Madison Rayne for the victory
Lady Frost is introduced as the newest member of the Impact roster
After that Gail Kim informs everybody that Lady Frost, Rachael Ellering, Jordynne Grace, Chelsea Green and Rosemary will all be in the 1st ever Knockouts Ultimate-X match
Main Event: (Hard To Kill Title Shot On-The-Line For Cardona) W. Morrissey vs. Matt Cardona – This was a real hard fought match but in the end Morrissey takes out the ref causing Matt Cardona to get the DQ win and will stay in the triple threat match.
WWE – SMACKDOWN
The show starts off with Sami Zayn in the ring recapping what happened to him last week. Paul Heyman comes in and talks to Sami, which leads to Brock Lesnar coming out as well. By the end, Lesnar hits another F5 on Sami before he leaves the ring
Los Lotharios (Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo) vs. Rick Boogs & Shinsuke Nakamura – Nakamura connects with a Kinshasa on Humberto for the pinfall
Sheamus vs. Drew McIntyre – McIntyre nails Sheamus with a Claymore kick for the 1-2-3
Naomi vs. Sonya Deville (w/ special guest ring announcer Natalya and special guest ref Shayna Baszler) – Before the match starts Naomi goes after Natalya and Shayna before she gets back in the ring. Sonya Deville takes off and runs away. Natalya, Shayna & Sonya surround Naomi when Xia Li debuts and helps out Naomi.
Championship Contender’s Match: SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Toni Storm (If Toni wins, she gets a future shot at the champion) – In the end, Flair slams Storm’s head into the ring post. Storm isn’t moving. Flair stomps Storm against the ring post. The referee counts to five but Flair won’t stop. Which leads to Charlotte being DQed and Toni gets the win and future shot at the title
AEW – RAMPAGE
AEW World Tag-Team Championships: The Lucha Bros (C) vs. FTR – Fenix dives into a rolling cutter onto Harwood, then tries the same on Wheeler, but Wheeler counters with a Gory Bomb. Wheeler heads over to Penta, who hits him with a back-body drop. Penta looks for Fear Factor after that, but Wheeler avoids it. Penta and Fenix hit a double foot stomp off the top into a big finish for the pinfall. Was Cash’s foot under the rope?
Ruby Soho, Anna Jay & Tay Conti vs. Penelope Ford, The Bunny & Nyla Rose – Nyla connects with a powerbomb for the 1-2-3
backstage Darby Allin & Sting are attacked by FTR and Tully BlanchardHook vs. Fuego Del Sol – Hook is making his in ring debut and is the son of Taz. The crowd is fully behind Hook, since this is in Long Island and Taz is an ECW original and from Brooklyn – Hook looked really good and I was very surprised and happy for him. Hook locks in the Kata ha jime aka the Tazmission
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