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Author: Jordan Huie
I’m a hardcore wrestling fan, by which I mean I’m a hardcore fan of wrestling... but I also have nothing against hardcore wrestling! I’ve been watching since 2006, back when I was 12 years old. In that time I’ve fervently followed WWE, TNA, ROH, Lucha Underground and others. Today I’m most passionate about NXT, New Japan and especially AEW! You could call me a modern wrestling savant but I know my old school stuff as well... I’ll be your huckleberry all night long.
Jordan Huie of the Overtimer here once again for the play-by-play of AEW Dark. Let’s not waste any time! Tony Schiavone as always introduces us. Welcomes one of the members of the Spanish broadcast team on Dynamite, Dasha Gonzalez, she’ll be a co-host on AEW Dark going forward. Runs down the card for tonight. As Shawn Spears get his usual dramatic entrance, we hear from Excalibur and guest commentator MJF! And MJF unsurprisingly still despises Spears. Shawn Spears (w/ Tully Blanchard) vs. Michael Nakazawa Nakazawa getting a chant of his own as the bell rings. Tie-up, Spears takes him into…
Jordan Huie of the Overtimer here for a recap of this week’s NWA Powerrr! We see clips of the last few weeks, including Ricky Starks confronting Aron Stevens, and Eli Drake’s inciting of the situation with James Storm, Nick Aldis and Colt Cabana. This resulted in Cabana winning his way to a shot at James Storms’ NWA National title. That title match is going down tonight! David Marquez introduces Colt himself! Cabana notes his victory last week, repping Team Aldis vs. Team Storm. Says he’s been doing this a long time and thinking of himself as a main eventer is…
Jordan Huie of the Overtimer here with your usual play-by-play recap of WWE Raw! First shot on Raw is a ton of SUVs driving in. Triple H gets out of one! Goes over to the window of another… the tease is apparent. Cut to the intro! And now Brock Lesnar is the first one out. Paul Heyman introduces himself and his client, you know how it goes. This time though he calls Lesnar the Velasquez Vanquisher. Says Lesnar quit Friday Night SmackDown and has come to Monday Night Raw to hunt down Rey Mysterio. Mentions a few weeks ago, Alexa…
Jordan Huie of the Overtimer here to give a quick preview of tonight’s edition of Monday Night Raw! It’s been a hellaciously stressful week for WWE and it’s roster, which I’ve covered to the best of my ability. They’re still weary and discontented coming out of Saudi Arabia, but trying to return to normalcy here. We’re coming off a pretty great edition of SmackDown so let’s see what the follow up is here on WWE Raw. Interestingly, like last Friday, we have precious little advertised… and we all know how that turned out! Should be a fascinating situation to see…
It was a very newsworthy trip out of Saudi Arabia last week, which I’ve already gotten four articles out of. (The WWE crew was stuck in a lengthy flight delay, they had to be pulled from SmackDown as a result, there’s a lot of weird happenings surrounding this that we still don’t have the whole story on and also it seems Cain Velasquez wasn’t actually cleared to wrestle.) Well on the heels of all that, guess what WWE just did? Yep, they announced an expansion of their partnership with the Saudi Arabian government. While initially they cited a 10-year contract…
Something very weird went down this past week, there’s no question about that. Considering the ridiculously short time frame between WWE Crown Jewel in Riyadh, and the next night’s SmackDown in Buffalo, with a 14-hour flight between the two, they pretty much should’ve been on a plane within a couple of hours of the show going off the air. Instead, they found themselves stuck there, waiting and hoping that they would be able to make their leave. Not for hours, as I’m sure they’re accustomed to, but well over 24 hours. Again, keep in mind, that’s waiting for a 14 hour…
The header image for this article depicts part of a very thought provoking and personal video which aired during last week’s AEW Dynamite, and funnily ended with one it’s sillier moments. I probably should’ve discussed it in depth earlier. Having followed Kenny Omega through New Japan, knowing of the unique relationship of the Golden Lovers, and also actually being big into Undertale as well, I guess I have a unique vantage point on what it all means. So you’ve probably heard that it’s inspired by a video game called Undertale. The aesthetic is inspired by it, it takes some music…
This is a fascination situation, folks. The script for WWE SmackDown has, impressively, been in even more disarray than a usual WWE show, because basically the whole damn roster is missing, save for the women and a few folks who opted not to make the trip to Saudi Arabia! With tons of people still either in the air or waiting to lift off as I write this, this is not gonna be your average episode of SmackDown to say the very least… You can see my preview of SmackDown here and the coverage of what’s gone on in Saudi Arabia…
To say we have a unique SmackDown ahead of us tonight would probably be an understatement… After last week’s record low viewership with FS1, this week we should have had the coronation of the Fiend after his Universal title win yesterday. Except, well… we don’t even know if he’s among the few that made it back in time. Doing a preview of this is gonna be a little difficult but I’ll do my best. Bayley will be defending the SmackDown Women’s Championship against Nikki Cross. Nikki earned her No. 1 contender’s status a couple of weeks back after winning a…
So at the moment this is somewhat speculative, and I say that because frankly it’s a pretty big accusation. It is known that Cain Velasquez was banged up ahead of his match with Brock Lesnar. He’s been going through issues with his knee and it seems it’s more of a serious problem than anticipated. It was evidently always the plan for his bout with Lesnar to be a short one, just your usual short Lesnar match. However it ended up being even faster than intended, due to the health of Velasquez. Many are now indicating that Cain Velasquez technically wasn’t…
