The Young Bucks weighed in on their match with FTR at AEW Full Gear and criticism of the build being rushed in a new interview. Nick and Matt Jackson won the AEW World Tag Team Championships from FTR at the PPV and they weighed in on whether there was discussion of delaying the match and more during an appearance on The Walkway to Fight Club. You can check out highlights and the full audio below:
Matt on whether they considered waiting for after the pandemic for the match: “We talked about it. But he truth is, nobody knows when the world is gonna open up again. And you know, we suggested in the very beginning, ‘We’ve gotta save this for the fans.’ And then this thing keeps getting longer, and worse and worse. And it’s just, finally it gets to the point where it’s like, ‘What are we waiting for? We can’t just keep waiting and we can’t hold back, because who knows? This can go another year. And by the time we finally do it a year later, do people even care at that
WWE TLC 2020 Betting Odds Released
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WWE presents their yearly TLC event this Sunday night on the WWE Network. The final show of 2020 features two big WWE Universal Championship and WWE Championship matches that are sure to excel in the ring, as well as a decent (albeit brief) under card. While the eventual results of the two big matches on the card seem somewhat predictable, the undercard is harder to predict.
The updated betting lines for the show have been released by the folks over at BetOnline, who kindly sent them in to ComicBook. These odds are sometimes indicative of the likely results at the shows.
World Champion Kenny Omega will be in action in a no DQ match against Joey Janela on tonight s AEW Dynamite.
Omega and Janela were originally scheduled to face off in the first round of the AEW World title eliminator tournament in October. Janela ended up being pulled from the tournament due to contact tracing. Omega went on to win the tournament, beating Hangman Page at Full Gear in the finals.
Should Janela win, he will be granted a future title shot against Omega.
A 12-man tag is also scheduled for tonight s show. Last week s battle between MJF and Orange Cassidy for the Dynamite Diamond Ring saw involvement in, or interference from, all fourteen competitors. The match will be Chris Jericho, MJF, Santana, Ortiz, Sammy Guevara & Jake Hager vs. Best Friends, Top Flight & Varsity Blondes.
WWE TLC s Randy Orton vs. Bray Wyatt Match Gets a Wild Stipulation
The Randy Orton vs. The Fiend Bray Wyatt has been on the card for WWE s
TLC pay-per-view for a couple of weeks, but WWE decided to add an extra wrinkle to the match on Thursday morning. The two will compete in the first-ever Firefly Inferno Match, which traces back to Orton s decision to burn down Sister Abigail s compound back in 2017. The Viper attempted to set Wyatt on fire during this week s Raw by trapping him inside of a wooden box, but The Fiend popped out of the box and locked the Mandible Claw onto Orton s jaw.
Report: WWE s Backstage Reaction to WWE Raw s Record-Low Ratings
Raw s ratings hit record lows this week, and it sounds like WWE will be taking action in the immediate future. The Dec. 14 episode drew in an average audience of 1.526 million viewers across three hours, its lowest in the show s history. On top of that it brought in a 0.41 rating in the 18-49 target demographic, which many were quick to point out was smaller than last week s edition of
AEW Dynamite (marking the first time an AEW program has beaten out the Red Brand in that demo).
Hours after the ratings dropped online, @WrestleVotes popped up on Twitter with a new backstage report regarding the reaction backstage.