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WWE will soon start building toward the 2021 Royal Rumble pay-per-view. We know the  Men’s and Women’s Royal Rumble matches will take place, and we also know Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Universal Championship is being worked toward. In addition, Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting The Hurt Business’ Bobby Lashley will be defending his United States Championship against Riddle. Riddle and Lashley have been feuding recently on Mondays WWE Raw. Source: Wrestling ...

NXTs Kyle OReilly Wins Chance to Challenge Finn Balor at New Years Evil ✖ Tonight Kyle OReilly and Pete Dunne followed up their crazy battle at TakeOver WarGames between Undisputed ERA and Team McAfee with a one on one affair to decide who got the chance to challenge Finn Balor for the NXT Championship at New Years Evil, and if you were expecting a technical showcase, you got it. Both stars dished out a myriad of counters, transitions, submissions, and brutal offense throughout the match, and...

NXT’s New Year’s Evil card takes shape Share this story In addition to setting up the main event, the Dec. 16 edition of NXT officially announced a host and one other match for their next themed episode, Jan. 6, 2021’s New Year’s Evil. The last match on tonight’s show certainly seemed to pave the way for a third match, too. The host will be Dexter Lumis, a character that hasn’t spoken in WWE, so that should be interesting. Even the reveal of his role for the first show of next year ...

WWE has made a few announcements for next weeks episode of NXT. During the main event of tonights NXT, it was announced on commentary that "A Very Gargano Christmas" will take place on NXT next Wednesday (December 23). It will feature The Way (NXT North American Champion Johnny Gargano, Candice LeRae, Indi Hartwell, and Austin Theory). Gargano & Theory teamed together to defeat Leon Ruff & Kushida on NXT tonight. Later in the show, Shotzi Blackheart defeated Hartwell by disqualification when Ha...

NXT recap & reactions (Dec. 16, 2020): Let’s Do It Again Share this story Rematch Set New Year’s Evil NXT title match. This was achieved by pitting Pete Dunne and Kyle O’Reilly against each other. Another match between these was bound to be good. And what would you know? It was! NXT decided to get all of the overbooking that’s normally reserved for the end of the match over with before the bell even rang. Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch, who accompanied Dunne to the ring, were ganged up on ...

– PWInsider reports that Leon Ruff is doing OK after he took a rough bump off the top rope on last night’s NXT. During the tag team match with KUSHIDA against Johnny Gargano and Austin Theory, Ruff appeared to lose his footing when attempting a high risk move off the top rope to the floor. It Ruff then flipped off the top and hit the ring floor back first and appeared to have a rough landing. You can see a clip of the spot in question below. It happens about 54 seconds in.

NXTs Dexter Lumis Hosting New Years Evil ✖ Tonights NXT revealed two of the big matches set for New Years Evil and set some of the other events in motion to fill out the card. That said, tonight also revealed who would be the host of the upcoming event, and whoever it was would have to follow Shotzi Blackhearts fantastic work as host of Halloween Havoc. That shouldnt be a problem though, as it was revealed that Dexter Lumis that would be host of the upcoming 2021 kickoff event, and he even cr...

NXT Champion Finn Balors challenger for New Years Evil will be decided tonight. A number one contenders match between Kyle OReilly and Pete Dunne will take place on tonights episode of NXT. The winner will challenge Balor at NXT New Years Evil on Wednesday, January 6. WWE has announced that tonights OReilly vs. Dunne match will have uninterrupted bell-to-bell action. OReilly, Dunne, Damian Priest, and Scarlett all confronted Balor last week. Balor told Scarlett to tell Karrion Kross that whenev...

NXT Hits Kyle O’Reilly vs. Pete Dunne for an NXT Title shot: An excellent match. This was the best match on Wednesday night and should compete for best of the week even with ROH Final Battle and WWE TLC this weekend. O’Reilly going over to get the rematch with Finn Balor on January 6 was logical given that Balor hasn’t had a match since O’Reilly broke his jaw. Tommaso Ciampa vs. Tyler Rust: Another hot match and the second best match of the night. In this case, Ciampa helped put Rust on...

As announced on last nights AEW Dynamite, Cody and Brandi Rhodes are expecting their first child. The announcement was made to the viewers during a vignette on the show, which you can check out here: Congratulations to @CodyRhodes & @TheBrandiRhodes as they welcome a new baby in the new year! pic.twitter.com/8UgUtWDs9L — All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 17, 2020