The match that will be headlining tonight’s All Out pay-per-view has now been revealed.
Dave Meltzer reported this afternoon that Kenny Omega and Christian Cage’s AEW World Championship match will close All Out tonight. The PPV is taking place at the NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
On the premiere episode of AEW Rampage last month, Christian defeated Omega to win the Impact World Championship.
Omega has been AEW World Champion since defeating Jon Moxley for the title last December.
Tonight’s The Buy-In pre-show will begin at 7 p.m. Eastern time. The PPV main card will then start at 8 p.m. Eastern. Here’s what’s been announced for the show:
AEW World Champion Kenny Omega defends against Christian Cage
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks defend against The Lucha Brothers in a steel cage match
AEW Women’s Champion Britt Baker defends against Kris Statlander
TNT Champion Miro defends against Eddie Kingston
Chris Jericho vs. MJF (if Jericho loses, he can never wrestle in AEW again)
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima
Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall
Women’s Casino Battle Royale
Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta & Jurassic Express vs. Matt Hardy, Private Party, Jack Evans & Angelico (The Buy-In)
AEW Women’s World Champion Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. is not going anywhere anytime soon, according to a report.
Citing AEW sources, Fightful Select is reporting that Baker and AEW recently agreed on a contract extension. The report does not state the length of the original deal or the new agreement.
Baker announced during this week’s AEW Dynamite that she had an announcement regarding a free agent signing for AEW. During a backstage interview with Tony Schiavone, Baker said that she was the signing.
Baker is set to defend her AEW Women’s title against Kris Statlander at Sunday’s All Out PPV.
Here is the card for All Out:
AEW All Out, Sunday, September 5, 7 p.m. Eastern time pre-show, 8 p.m. Eastern time main card —
AEW World Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
AEW Women’s World Championship: Britt Baker (c) vs. Kris Statlander
AEW World Tag Team Championship steel cage match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Lucha Brothers
TNT Championship: Miro (c) vs. Eddie Kingston
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima
Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall
21-woman Women’s Casino Battle Royale: Thunder Rosa, Nyla Rose, Penelope Ford, Jade Cargill, Anna Jay, Riho, The Bunny, Big Swole, Tay Conti, Hikaru Shida, Red Velvet, Julia Hart, Diamante, Emi Sakura, Kiera Hogan, Abadon, Leyla Hirsch, KiLynn King, Jamie Hayter, Rebel, a mystery participant
The Buy-In pre-show match: Matt Hardy, Private Party & TH2 vs. Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta & Jurassic Express
AEW founder, president and head of creative Tony Khan conducted a media call today ahead of this Sunday’s All Out where he discussed relationships, collaborating with CM Punk, the future of AEW Dark, and the possibility of adding trios titles.
You can hear the audio by scrolling down and clicking the red button.
On CM Punk:
Khan talked about how talks with Punk went back 18 months and how in that regard, All Out has been building for that long. He said that he is enjoying both collaborating with Punk and building a relationship. He said that some of the things that Punk was asked to do before he left wrestling in 2014 didn’t make any sense to Khan, and that he has told Punk to let him know if he ever asks him to do something he’s uncomfortable with or that would be bad for his career.
On booking All Out:
Khan said that the card is the strongest that AEW has presented. He said that for the past week, he has been working close to 24 hour days between Fulham, the Jacksonville Jaguars and AEW. Khan said that figuring out the match order for All Out was actually easy and that when he’s shared that information with other people, they seem to agree on the match order. He said that he got the match order right on his first pass.
On AEW Dark’s future:
Khan said that Dark will be taped at Universal Studios in Orlando most weeks as he wants it to have the feel of the old WCW Worldwide show. He said that by moving Dark to its own taping rather than the same night as Rampage, he and the other AEW coaches will have the opportunity to devote more energy and time to the characters and talent on that show. He said that AEW Dark: Elevation will still be taped before Dynamite.
On the possibility of adding a trios championship to AEW:
Khan said that he was open to the idea and that it would make sense, but that they already fit a lot of stories into Dynamite and Rampage and nothing is imminent. He said that he used to book more trios matches for a variety of reasons, especially when Dynamite was running out of Daily’s Place every week.
On Jon Moxley:
Khan said that Jon Moxley’s forthcoming book is one of the best wrestling books in many years. He said that when Moxley first came to AEW, “…some people really tried to do a number on him personally,” and painted Moxley as difficult to work with or a malcontent, but he has found the opposite to be true. He said Moxley is an easygoing guy and they have built a great relationship.
On touring internationally:
Khan said that they have plans to do a few things in 2022 and that he wants Craven Cottage, the home of Fulham FC to be the England home base for AEW, but that they are at the mercy of circumstances as the last couple of years have shown and that he didn’t want to give a timetable.
On the roster size:
Khan said that there is no such thing as a full roster and that one of the things he enjoys about AEW compared to Fulham or the Jaguars is that there is no salary cap to deal with and no limit on the size of the roster. He said that there are many different philosophies when it comes to building a roster. He said that he didn’t expect that he would have the chance to sign 2point0 when the year began, but he jumped on them after they were released from NXT. He said he was familiar with their work both from the independents and NXT.
On AEW’s financial success:
Khan was asked if AEW was successful earlier than he had expected, and he said yes. He said that they were not making much money from Dynamite when they started out, but TNT has since put up $175 million over four years to keep them. He said that he has put eight figures of his own money into developing the AEW video game so that they don’t have to share in the profits with a developer when the time comes.
On the women’s division:
Khan said that the division is a work in progress and that things continue to get more cohesive as they have added talent and the talent that they already had has gained more experience. He put over Kenny Omega’s eye for talent and put Britt Baker over as one of the great World Champions in wrestling. He said that he will be the agent for Sunday’s Casino Battle Royale.
On the TNT Championship:
Khan balked at the idea that the TNT Championship is a midcard title. He said that the only wrestlers that have held the title are main eventers and protected stars.
On the Jericho cruise:
Khan said that some AEW talent advertised for the Jericho cruise will obviously not be on AEW television that week. He said the the Jericho cruise is Chris Jericho’s personal project, but that Chris is a big part of AEW and he wants to help out if he can. He said if he needs someone for TV that week and they’re advertised for the Jericho cruise, AEW is the first priority.
On the “forbidden door”
Khan said that he has different relationships with all the various promotions he works with, from the folks at Impact, to Billy Corgan with NWA, to Gedo and Rocky Romero with NJPW. He said that he thinks he has a good reputation for being fair and honest with them, that he has done a lot of favors for a lot of different places over the last year, but that he isn’t doing that to get something out of it, he just thinks it’s good karma for AEW.
Here is the card for Sunday’s show, starting at 7 PM Eastern with the pre-show:
AEW World Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
AEW Women’s World Championship: Britt Baker (c) vs. Kris Statlander
AEW World Tag Team Championship steel cage match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Lucha Brothers
TNT Championship: Miro (c) vs. Eddie Kingston
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima
Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall
21-woman Women’s Casino Battle Royale: Thunder Rosa, Nyla Rose, Penelope Ford, Jade Cargill, Anna Jay, Riho, The Bunny, Big Swole, Tay Conti, Hikaru Shida, Red Velvet, Julia Hart, Diamante, Emi Sakura, Kiera Hogan, Abadon, Leyla Hirsch, KiLynn King, Jamie Hayter, Rebel, a mystery participant
The Buy-In pre-show match: Matt Hardy, Private Party & TH2 vs. Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta & Jurassic Express
A former AEW Women’s World Champion has been added to Sunday’s Casino Battle Royale.
The returning Riho has been announced as a participant for the Battle Royale. AEW GM Tony Khan made the announcement on today’s All Out media call. Riho returned to AEW in-ring action at Wednesday’s AEW Dark tapings after nearly two months away from the company.
20 participants are now official for the 21-woman Battle Royale.
Here is the updated card for All Out:
AEW All Out, Sunday, September 5, 7 p.m. Eastern time pre-show, 8 p.m. Eastern time main card —
AEW World Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
AEW Women’s World Championship: Britt Baker (c) vs. Kris Statlander
AEW World Tag Team Championship steel cage match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Lucha Brothers
TNT Championship: Miro (c) vs. Eddie Kingston
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima
Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall
21-woman Women’s Casino Battle Royale: Thunder Rosa, Nyla Rose, Penelope Ford, Jade Cargill, Anna Jay, Riho, The Bunny, Big Swole, Tay Conti, Hikaru Shida, Red Velvet, Julia Hart, Diamante, Emi Sakura, Kiera Hogan, Abadon, Leyla Hirsch, KiLynn King, Jamie Hayter, Rebel, a mystery participant
The Buy-In pre-show match: Matt Hardy, Private Party & TH2 vs. Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta & Jurassic Express
A new match has been added to Sunday’s AEW All Out The Buy-In pre-show.
Matt Hardy, Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) and TH2 (Jack Evans & Angelico) will take on Orange Cassidy, Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus), Chuck Taylor and Wheeler Yuta. The match was made official on Wednesday’s 100th episode of AEW Dynamite.
It was also announced that PAC vs. Andrade El Idolo has been postponed from All Out. As a result, the Women’s Casino Battle Royale has been moved from The Buy-In to the main card. The 10-man tag will take the Battle Royale’s spot on the pre-show.
Here is the updated All Out card:
AEW All Out, Sunday, 7 p.m. Eastern time pre-show, 8 p.m. Eastern time main card —
AEW World Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
AEW Women’s World Championship: Britt Baker (c) vs. Kris Statlander
AEW World Tag Team Championship steel cage match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Lucha Brothers
TNT Championship: Miro (c) vs. Eddie Kingston
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima
Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall
21-woman Women’s Casino Battle Royale
The Buy-In pre-show match: Matt Hardy, Private Party & TH2 vs. Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta & Jurassic Express
One of the matches scheduled for Sunday’s All Out pay-per-view will no longer be taking place.
Ahead of tonight’s Dynamite, AEW president and CEO Tony Khan sent out a tweet announcing that PAC vs. Andrade El Idolo is off All Out due to travel issues. The women’s Casino Battle Royale has been moved up from Sunday’s pre-show to the All Out main card.
PAC vs. Andrade will take place on a future episode of Rampage.
“Thank you to you fans supporting #AEWDynamite LIVE next on TNT! The Women’s Casino Battle Royale, which was booked on the Buy In, will now be featured on the ALL OUT ppv card,” Khan wrote. “Due to travel issues, the @BASTARDPAC vs. @AndradeElIdolo bout is postponed until a future #AEWRampage”
Andrade tweeted: “I just wasted my time! It’s like in boxing, when they don’t make weight, the fighter has to be fined a sum of money Or is he just not ready to face me and he wants more time! @AEW #AEWAllOut” #TranquilaRaza
Jade Cargill, Hikaru Shida, Emi Sakura, Thunder Rosa, Tay Conti, Julia Hart, Big Swole, The Bunny, Red Velvet, Penelope Ford, Nyla Rose, Diamante, Kiera Hogan, Abadon, KiLynn King, Leyla Hirsch, Rebel, Jamie Hayter, and Anna Jay have been announced for the women’s Casino Battle Royale. It will feature 21 entrants in total, with the winner getting a future shot at the AEW Women’s Championship.
All Out is taking place at the NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on Sunday. Here’s the updated card for the PPV:
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
AEW World Champion Kenny Omega defends against Christian Cage
AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks defend against The Lucha Brothers in a steel cage match
AEW Women’s Champion Britt Baker defends against Kris Statlander
TNT Champion Miro defends against Eddie Kingston
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima
Chris Jericho vs. MJF (if Jericho loses, he can never wrestle in AEW again)
Miro will defend the TNT Championship against Eddie Kingston at AEW All Out on September 5.
Miro vs. Kingston was made official during this week’s Rampage show. Miro was attacking Fuego Del Sol when Kingston ran out to make the save. Miro and Kingston had a brief pull-apart to set up the bout for All Out.
Miro won the TNT title from Darby Allin on AEW Dynamite on May 28. He has since made successful defenses against Dante Martin, Lance Archer, Evil Uno, Brian Pillman Jr., Lee Johnson and Fuego Del Sol.
Ten matches are now official for All Out. Here is the lineup:
AEW All Out, Sunday, September 5 —
AEW World Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage
AEW World Tag Team Championship steel cage match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. Lucha Bros
AEW Women’s World Championship: Britt Baker (c) vs. Kris Statlander
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
TNT Championship: Miro (c) vs. Eddie Kingston
Chris Jericho vs. MJF, if Jericho loses he must retire
CM Punk has been the talk of the town the last few weeks and more so since making him AEW debut on Friday’s Rampage. Well, Punk officially made him AEW Dynamite debut. Join on-air personality Denise Salcedo as she recaps the show from top to bottom~!
Rundown
Overall Thoughts on AEW Dynamite
Match of the night: Orange Cassidy vs. Matt Hardy
Malakai AEW promos
Is the END of Chris Jericho’s AEW in-ring career coming?
Lucha Bros advance in the AEW Tag Team Championship Eliminator
Jamie Hayter vs. Red Velvet
Tension with the Dark Order…new leadership TEASE
CM PUNK Dynamite debut, teases Bryan Danielson in AEW
Don Callis, Christian Cage, Kenny Omega story continues in promo battle
Jon Moxley’s AEW All Out opponent is named
AEW All Out lineup
Dan Lambert’s promo
Matches announced for AEW Dynamite and AEW Rampage
Main Event: Malakai Black vs Brock Anderson
Denise will be back later this week on Friday to recap WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage.
An AEW Women’s World Championship match has been added to the All Out PPV.
Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. will defend the title against top-ranked contender Kris Statlander in Chicago on Sunday, September 5. The match was announced during tonight’s AEW Dynamite episode.
Baker has held the AEW Women’s Championship since the Double or Nothing PPV on May 30, where she ended Hikaru Shida’s title reign of over a year.
Statlander returned to action in April of this year after missing nearly ten months with a knee injury. She is on a sixteen-match winning streak in AEW in singles matches.
Here is the lineup for All Out:
AEW All Out, Sunday, September 5 on PPV —
AEW World Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin
AEW Women’s World Championship: Britt Baker (c) vs. Kris Statlander
AEW World Tag Team Championship steel cage match: The Young Bucks (c) vs. Jurassic Express or Lucha Bros
Andrade El Idolo will face PAC at the AEW All Out PPV on Sunday, September 5.
The announcement was made on tonight’s Dynamite.
PAC addressed Andrade in a backstage promo. He stated that Andrade is obsessed with Death Triangle and that he is willing to face Andrade anytime, anywhere.
Later in the show, Andrade and Chavo Guerrero addressed PAC’s statements. Andrade called PAC ungrateful, then Chavo parroted him. Chavo said that Andrade can show PAC who’s boss at All Out.
Over the last several weeks, Andrade has made overtures to PAC’s Death Triangle teammates, Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix. On tonight’s show, Penta told PAC that he wanted a shot at Andrade first. PAC told Penta and Fenix to focus their efforts on the tag team division, then issued the challenge.
Andrade vs. PAC is the third match made official for All Out. Here is the announced lineup so far:
AEW World Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage
Andrade El Idolo vs. PAC
Casino Battle Royale for a future AEW Women’s World Championship shot
Former AEW World Champion Jon Moxley may face a top New Japan wrestler at AEW All Out.
The identity of that wrestler is still unknown, but Hiroshi Tanahashi appears to be the leading candidate based on a Moxley promo on AEW Dynamite and some information from Dave Meltzer.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer said that Moxley had talked with Tony Khan recently at 4 AM about an idea for a match with a “top New Japan wrestler”. Khan liked the idea which Meltzer said he believes is for All Out.
Meltzer speculated it could be either Tanahashi or Minoru Suzuki and since Tanahashi is coming to the U.S. to face IWGP U.S. Champion Lance Archer on August 14th in Los Angeles, that would work. Based on Wrestle Grand Slam, Meltzer thought it would be difficult for someone like Okada or Shingo Takagi to make the trip.
Adding to that, Moxley mentioned Tanahashi during the aforementioned promo, saying that after he lost the title, Tanahashi showed up and has been avoiding and dodging him for months. He closed with saying that while the “forbidden door” may be open, there’s nothing good waiting for him on the other side.
We have a lot of different news stories headlining the new issue of the Observer. Our lead story looks at the condition of Terry Funk, his legacy and his generation of wrestlers.
Also in this issue:
Ticket sales for WWE and AEW shows including the four shows that will top 10,000 tickets sold, hottest wrestling tickets on the secondary market as well as this week’s UFC show, ticket sales for all AEW events on sale, every major WWE show including Madison Square Garden and every event this month, details on all shows and capacity of the buildings.
Schedule and some early details on the 2021 G1 Climax tournament.
The arrest of Jonathan Fatu (Jimmy Uso), his track record of arrests from the past and more reaction.
Grappl’s list of the best matches of 2021 so far as well as sleeper matches from small promotions worth checking out.
The biggest lawsuit settlement in WWE history, update on John Cena, Linda McMahon with Donald Trump, Daniel Bryan mentions on Smackdown, Thea Trinidad return to WWE, how often each company does rematches, Smackdown doing a split site show, changes to a WWE streaming product, huge match coming, wrestlers recently cut were to be put in a new group, notes on Breakout tournament competitors, International TV ratings for WWE and AEW, WWE exec honored as one of the best in the world except they fired him, new WWE marketing deal, the most viewed segments on YouTube of WWE programming this past week as well as the current WWE market value.
Update Dwayne Johnson’s planned launch of the XFL and explain the latest delays.
A story on the death of Cyanide Sid Cooper, a top U.K. heel who was both a major inspiration of the Lord Steven Regal character in WCW and Regal’s favorite wrestler as a young child, his matches, what he was known for, life after wrestling and more.
Coverage of AAA’s Verano de Escandalo.
A story on Chris Romero aka Chris Youngblood, from the famous Romero wrestling family, his family, including relatives few know about, his breaking into the business, how he became a big star in Puerto Rico, the heyday of The Youngbloods there, the death of Bruiser Brody, and the glory days of All Japan Pro Wrestling.
More detail on the ratings than any other source, we have how every segment on NXT and AEW did with different age groups, genders and more, plus a look at all other wrestling shows of the past week, how many different viewers the shows had, DVR numbers and how long the average fan watches.
Results of the major pro wrestling events of the past week.
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FRIDAY NEWS UPDATE
No show with Garrett Gonzales tonight as he’s on the road. Bryan and I will be doing shows tomorrow after UFC and Sunday after ROH. You can send questions to the show to [email protected]
Bryan and I will be doing our first show and meet and greet in more than a year on 9/5 in Hoffman Estates, IL at The Hyatt Place at 10 a.m. Tickets went on sale yesterday and the first two categories sold out instantly. There are still a few seats left, more information can be found here.
All Out tickets sold out instantly this morning as was noted that they would since almost all the tickets were sold in yesterday’s presale, which also went instantly. The current issue runs down ticket sales for the rest of the month as well as the biggest shows in September. The Wednesday Dynamite show that week at the NOW Arena has 4,200 tickets out while the Friday Rampage show is at 4,400.
WWE tickets officially went on sale to the public today for the 9/10 Smackdown show in Madison Square Garden. There were 6,400 tickets out as of a few hours ago, although for business reasons when WWE runs MSG there are usually a few thousand business trades and comps.
The injury to Pam Martinez (Bayley) is believed to be a torn ACL which was suffered while training at the Performance Center. WWE had mandatory training sessions for almost ,but not all, talent with the idea of getting them in better shape now that the schedule is going back to more live events. It looks like she’ll be out around nine months. On tonight’s Smackdown show, they’ll announce the replacement for Bayley in the match with Bianca Belair for Money in the Bank next week. One would think Sasha Banks would be the leading candidate to do a big match in a week.
Smackdown tonight has announced Cesaro vs. Seth Rollins and Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Baron Corbin as Money in the Bank qualifiers. The only other news we know is that Vince McMahon today was changing the scripts around and that as of this morning Jimmy Uso was scheduled to be on tonight’s show. He is there. 205 Live taped Tuesday has Asher Hale vs. Josh Briggs and Odyssey Jones vs. Grayson Waller.
New Japan Word has shows from Sapporo at 5 a.m. tomorrow morning and 1 a.m. late Saturday night. The second show has Zack Sabre Jr. & Taichi defending the IWGP tag titles against Tetsuya Naito & Sanada.
UFC 264 is tomorrow. ESPN coverage runs from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern:
Hu Yaozong (185.5) vs. Alen Amedovski (186)
Zhalgas Zhumagulov (125.5) vs. Jerome Rivera (125.5)
Omari Akhmedov (185.5) vs. Brad Tavares (184.5)
Jennifer Maia (125.5) vs. Jessica Eye (125.5)
Trevin Giles (185.5) vs. Dricus Du Plessis (185.5)
Ryan Hall (145) vs. Ilia Topuria (145.5)
Niko Price (169.5) vs. Michel Pereira (170.5)
Carlos Condit (171) vs. Max Griffin (170.5)
PPV at 10 p.m.
Sean O’Malley (135.5) vs. Kris Moutinho (135)
Irene Aldana (139.5) vs. Yana Kunitskaya (134.5) – Aldana forfeited 30 percent of her purse for missing weight that badly
Tai Tuivasa (263) vs. Greg Hardy (264.5)
Gilbert Burns (170.5) vs. Stephen Thompson (170.5)
Dustin Poirier (156) vs. Conor McGregor (156)
Dana White claims the PPV advanced orders are at an all-time record pace. Of course, promoters claim a lot of things. But the show is a lock to do very well. White also said that Donald Trump will be sitting in the front row and it will be the first time Trump will have attended a sports event since he lost the election. By the way, he did lose the election.
A press conference to announce the Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley boxing match takes place on Tuesday at noon Pacific at the Novo at LA Live in Los Angeles. Showtime is promoting the show. Mike Coppinger reported the date of the show as 8/29.
New Japan Strong tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern on New Japan World has Josh Alexander vs. Rocky Romero, PJ Black vs. Alex Coughlin and The DKC vs. Barrett Brown
MLW’s Battle Riot which takes place tomorrow at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia will be airing on Bein Sport later in the month. The show is said to be sold out with full capacity
UFC
There are actually odds from SportsBetting.ag for the Espy awards. For Best MMA fighter the odds are:
Francis Ngannou +135
Khabib Nurmagomedov +155
Amanda Nunes +300
Rose Namajunas +325
For Best WWE moment:
Edge’s winning Rumble -200
Bianca Belair winning Rumble +180
Belair over Sasha Banks to win title at WrestleMania +500
Bad Bunny does a Canadian Destroyer +750
UFC has made a sponsorship deal with Jose Cuervo as the first-ever official Tequila of the UFC.
Khazmat Chimaev vs. Li Jingliang is earmarked for a 10/30 PPV show from Abu Dhabi.
ESPN reported UFC is looking at Mackenzie Dern vs. Marina Rodriguez to main event a show on 10/9.
Pro Wrestling Phoenix on 8/19 at the Waiting Room Lounge in Omaha.
Combate Global runs tonight on Paramount + at 10:30 p.m. with Marcos Lopez (5-3) vs. Henrich Wassmer (6-5) as the main event.
AAW tonight at 115 Bourbon Street in Merrionette Park, IL with Mance Warner vs. Fred Yehi for the AAW title, Kris Statlander vs. Allysin Kay for the women’s title,Deonn Rusman & Joeasa vs Ace Austin & Madman Fulton for the tag titles, Myron Reed vs. Hakim Zane for the Heritage title and Skye Blue vs. Hyan in an I Quit match, plus Manders vs.Robin Steele, Josh Alexander vs. Jake Something, Travis Titan vs. Isaiah Moore and more.
MCW on 7/24 at the MCW Arena in Joppa, MD has a meet and greet with Lio Rush, Brian Pillman Jr. and Griff Garrison, plus Sam Adonis vs. King McBride, Brian Johnson vs. Dante Caballero and Shane Taylor Promotions from ROH and Varsity Blonds from AEW will be wrestling on the show.
A Memorial Service for 80s pro wrestler Doug Anderson (best known as the father of Cheerleader Melissa Anderson) is tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Hillside Church at 635 Holbook Lane in Creswell, OR 97426. Donations in honor of Doug Anderson can be made to the Greenhill Humane Society at 88530 Green Hill Rd., Eugene, OR 97402.
Bill Apter will be doing a one man show at the Desmond Hotel in Albany, NY on 8/27. Tickets are available at www.prowrestlinghall.org The Apter show will be part of the International Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame induction weekend that takes place 8/27 to 8/29 in Albany.
Cage Fury Fighting Championships, the promotion C.M. Punk does the announcing, has an 8/14 show on UFC Fight Pass from Tunica, MS with Christian Rodriguez (5-0) against someone to be named for the vacant bantamweight title.
Mike Bennett and Maria Kanellis-Bennett threw out the first pitch last night at the Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field.
On this day 92 years ago, Gus Sonnenberg beat Ed Strangler Lewis before 25,000 fans at Fenway Park in a two of three fall match in a rematch of the two setting a record gate a few months earlier. The Boston Globe had this story start on the front page of the newspaper and jumped to the sports section. (thanks to Paul Sosnowski)
With Ariel Helwani gone from ESPN, ESPN + has added two new talk shows with Helwani’s former co-hosts. Chael Sonnen will be doing a show with Jorge Sedano while Daniel Cormier will be doing a show with former NFL star Ryan Clark, a show that will talk both MMA and other sports.
There is a show Sunday at Jose Sulaiman Arena in Monterrey, Mexico with El Hijo del Santo & LA Park vs. Dr. Wagner Jr. & Fuerza Guerrera, with Vampiro scheduled to make an appearance at the event.
Pale Pro Wrestling on 7/24 in Arlington, TX with Josh Alexander, Richard Holliday, Calvin Tankman Gino Medina, Chandler Hopkins and an appearance by Ricardo Rodriguez at 360 Elite Avenue.
AEW has announced ticket information for their three shows in a five-day stretch in the Chicago area in September.
The NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois will host AEW Dynamite on Wednesday, September 1, AEW Rampage on Friday, September 3, then the All Out PPV on Sunday, September 5.
Tickets for all three events will go on sale Friday, July 9 at 11 a.m. Eastern time at AEWtix.com.
NOW Arena was formerly known as Sears Centre and hosted the 2019 edition of All Out, as well as the 2018 All In PPV event.
The main event of All In was Kota Ibushi and The Young Bucks defeating Bandido, Rey Fenix and Rey Mysterio in a trios match.
All Out 2019 was headlined by Chris Jericho defeating Hangman Page in the inaugural AEW World Championship match.
The 2020 All Out PPV was held in Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main event of the show saw Jon Moxley defeat MJF to retain the AEW World title.
AEW’s All Out show on 9/5 at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, was a show that ended up with a lot of attention, which largely overshadowed the quality of the matches.
While the response was more positive than negative, it was still by far the most negatively received major AEW show to date, even with the key matches all delivering at a good-to-great standard.
The biggest item concerned Matt Hardy, a few weeks shy of 46 and with wear and tear of about three decades inside a pro wrestling ring. Hardy was having a Broken match with Sammy Guevara, basically a Last Man Standing match, with his career on the line if he lost.
The match started with Hardy screaming for Guevara to come out while next to the football field at the adjacent TIAA Stadium. Guevara came out driving a cart, the same cart where Guevara was twice chased down in segments earlier this year.
