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NXT TV status update following Peacock announcement January 25, 2021 By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet) A line in in the WWE press release regarding its new streaming agreement with Peacock seemed to point to the NXT television series moving to the streaming service. When listing network content, the press release read: “In-ring shows like NXT, NXT UK and WWE 205 Live, as well as replays of Raw and SmackDown.” However, ProWrestling.net has learned that NXT will...

WWE executive Nick Khan discusses the Peacock streaming deal January 25, 2021 By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet) WWE WWE President and Chief Revenue Officer Nick Khan spoke with The Wrap regarding WWE Network’s move to NBCU’s Peacock. The following are highlights of the interview, which can be read in full at TheWrap.com. Khan on how the deal benefits WWE and whether it’s a cost-cutting move to not host WWE Network: “No, so here’s what it is. Vince McMaho...

WWE 205 Live (Episode 215) Orlando, Florida at Capitol Wrestling Center (WWE PC) Streamed January 22, 2021 on WWE Network The show started with a recap of some of the matches in the men’s and women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournaments, including Lucha House Party’s victory and the victory of Kacy Catanzaro and Kayden Carter. We also saw a recap of Karrion Cross’s attack on Ashante ‘Thee’ Adonis and Desmond Troy, which led to Tommaso Ciampa and Tim Thatcher taking the injured ...

WWE Friday Night Smackdown overnight viewership January 23, 2021 By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet) WWE Friday Night Smackdown delivered 2.282 million viewers for Fox, according to the overnight numbers listed by Showbuzzdaily.com. The viewership count was up from the 2.262 million viewers drawn by last week’s show (the overnight number last week was 2.153 million viewers). Friday’s first hour delivered 2.284 million viewers, and the second hour produced 2.280 ...

AEW Dynamite Hits Chris Jericho and MJF vs. Santana and Ortiz vs. Sammy Guevara and Jake Hager in a Triple Threat tag match: Even this devout fan of the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen got big a kick out of Sammy Hagar making a brief appearance in support of the “Sammy Hager” tag team. AEW usually crams so much into each episode that they don’t always do a good job of pushing the main event throughout the course of each show, but that wasn’t the case on this episode. It’s interesting ...

The following matches and segments are advertised for tonight’s Major League Wrestling Fusion television show. -Jacob Fatu vs. ACH for the MLW World Championship. -Simon Gotch vs. Jordan Oliver in a grudge match. -New Contra member (Shawn) Daivari vs. Zenshi. -Tom Lawlor addresses the Team Filthy attack on ACH. Powell’s POV: MLW Fusion streams Wednesdays on Fubo Sports, Pluto TV, and the MLW YouTube page at 6CT/7ET and again at 9CT/10ET. The show is replayed Saturdays on beIN Sports at 9CT/...

Interview available at Tmptow.podomatic.com Being the first to beat Bill Goldberg: Goldberg and I would work on a bunch of different things together in the (WCW) Power Plant. So we wrestled in a dark match and the booker was Arn Anderson. He said to me ‘Chad you’re going over tonight’. Arn knew that we were pretty good friends at that time. We had a pretty decent match he and I, I hit him with my finish, pinned him and we got the hell out of there. I didn’t think much of it until Bill s...

AEW Dynamite (Episode 68) Aired January 13, 2021 on TNT [Hour One] It’s Wednesday Night, and you know what that means. The announce team of Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, and Excalibur called up a video package that summarized the feud between Eddie Kingston and Pac. Eddie Kingston was then shown in a backstage promo while he made his entrance. He said he would send Pac home, and he was never coming back. Pac then made his entrance with urgency and quickly attacked Kingston.  1. Eddie Kingston (w...

NXT TV  Aired January 13, 2021 on USA Network [Hour One]Highlights from last week’s New Years Evil themed show aired followed by a teaser for this week’s beginning of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic… Vic Joseph, Wade Barrett, and Beth Phoenix were on commentary… 1. Shotzi Blackheart vs. Candice LeRae (w/Indi Hartwell). Blackheart had the initial momentum with a bunch of strikes, avoiding all of LeRae’s offense. Blackheart got at two count after a diving crossbody. Blackheart locke...

Excalibur welcomed us to Dark. He was joined by Taz and Anthony Ogogo on commentary… 1. Mike Verna vs. Ricky Starks. Excalibur noted that Starks is ranked No. 5 in the AEW rankings for the AEW Championship. Starks threw some knee and elbow strikes while Verna did the same maneuver. Starks then hit a running dropkick to the side of the jaw to Verna. After the dropkick, Starks fired away with more strikes to Verna in the corner. Starks would plant Verna down on the mat with the suplex. Verna go...