Wrestling fans may recall that Garza and Lozano became engaged shortly after Garza won the NXT Cruiserweight Championship. After Garza defeated Lio Rush at the December 11, 2019 taping at Full Sail University, he proposed to Lozano in the middle of the ring as fans cheered them on. Lozano also appeared on a 2020 episode of Raw, portraying a ringside photographer who received a kiss from Garza during his entrance. The couple married in June 2020.
Garza revealed last summer that he had signed a new three-year contract with WWE. He initially joined the company in 2019 and made his main roster debut in 2020. Garza last wrestled on the February 14 edition of WWE SmackDown, teaming with Humberto in a losing effort against The Motor City Machine Guns.
In a message on Facebook, Garza explained that he recently underwent surgery to remove ganglion cysts in his wrist and will soon undergo physical therapy. On Friday, he posted a picture of himself in the hospital with the caption “surgery day.”
Garza, along with cousin Humberto Carrillo, last wrestled on the October 18 edition of SmackDown where they and A-Town Down Under lost a match to the Motor City Machine Guns in their WWE debut. They had been featured in a segment the previous week where General Manager Adam Pearce said that they would earn a future title match if they defeated one of SmackDown’s newest teams.
After a stint in NXT, Angel and Berto made their re-debut on SmackDown earlier in the year as the newest incarnation of Legado del Fantasma along with Santos Escobar and Elektra Lopez.
Garza had previously noted that his and Humberto Carrillo’s WWE deals expired this summer. However, he revealed on a recent Facebook livestream that the company offered him a three-year deal that he couldn’t turn down.
Angel Garza confirms he will stay with WWE. Says that they gave him a “very very very good deal” that he couldn’t turn down. pic.twitter.com/CXF8O3BFGJ
Angel Garza sounds pretty unbothered by his booking in WWE. He said he is there to do a job and whatever they need him to do, he'll do. He mentioned that he is not going to beg on his knees like some coworkers because he is still getting paid and doing his job. 🤭🫣
It is unclear if WWE has also re-signed Carrillo to a new deal.
Carrillo previously mentioned that Los Lotharios are not booked for WWE’s upcoming shows in Mexico on July 13 & 14. He wrote, “But it’s understandable, card is tight and the Mexican crowd wants to see other superstars as well! It’s just a little sad that so far we’re not contemplated for it. But we’ll see.”
Garza first signed with WWE in 2019 and debuted on the main roster in early 2020. He’s currently a member of the revamped Legado Del Fantasma faction along with Santos Escobar, Elektra Lopez, and Carrillo. Garza is a one-time NXT Cruiserweight Champion and once held the WWE 24/7 title as well.
Humberto Carrillo and Angel Garza are back on the main roster.
Carrillo and Garza appeared in masks at the end of a match between Santos Escobar and Bobby Lashley on Friday’s SmackDown, attacking The Street Profits who were at ringside. The distraction allowed Escobar to roll up Lashley for the win, advancing to the finals of the United States title tournament that will determine the next challenger for champion Logan Paul.
After the match, Garza and Carrillo removed their masks, revealing their identities as they posed with Escobar.
Although they were drafted to Raw earlier this year as part of the 2023 WWE Draft, Garza and Carrillo instead started to make appearances in NXT this summer. They did a series of vignettes where they dropped their Lothario gimmick and instead wished to honor their grandfather’s legacy. Their most recent match was on the November 28 edition of NXT, losing to Tony D’Angelo and Stacks in a match that had been for the NXT Tag Team titles.
A stipulation match is set to kick off night two of WWE NXT Halloween Havoc.
The two-week Halloween Havoc special concludes on USA Network this Tuesday night. WWE announced today that a Tables, Ladders & Scares match with The Creed Brothers facing Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo will open the episode.
Last week, the Tables, Ladders & Scares stipulation was chosen via Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal.
Both teams were part of a number one contender’s battle royal on the October 17 episode of NXT. The Creed Brothers eliminated Garza & Carrillo, but the referees didn’t see it. With their elimination going unnoticed, Garza & Carrillo returned and eliminated Julius & Brutus Creed. The Creed Brothers then got their revenge by costing Garza & Carrillo the match as well.
Humberto Carrillo and Angel Garza made their presence felt on this week’s NXT.
Tuesday’s show saw Carrillo and Garza attack Scrypts and Axiom after they successfully defeated Dabba Kato in a two-on-one handicap match. Later in the show, they appeared at the perch inside the WWE Performance Center, watching Edris Enofe & Malik Blade, Tank Ledger & Hank Walker, and Josh Briggs & Brooks Jensen go after one another. They both cut a promo saying they came to NXT to be part of the tag team division.
Both Carrillo and Garza have previously appeared in NXT. In 2021, they started to team together on the main roster and were later given the tag team name Los Lotharios. Over the last year, however, they have only appeared sporadically on WWE television. Two of their three appearances in 2023 were in battle royals, and their most recent appearance was on the May 15 edition of Raw where they were eliminated in a match to determine the next challenger for the Intercontinental title.
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Vince McMahon, the non-disclosures, the economic effect, reaction from talent, the investigation, keys as to whether he stays or goes, keys to the current investigation, the settlements, details of the most recent settlement story and key points in it, comments from women over the years, the 2006 tanning bed story, Rita Chatterton talks, and follow-ups of other investigations.
WrestleMania, SummerSlam and ROH Death Before Dishonor
Stardom Midsummer Champions and the next major Stardom events
UFC notes from this past week
Ratings from all wrestling shows
2022 World Grand Prix tournament
AAA major summer show
What will be Triplemania’s major title match
Dragon Gate’s biggest show of the year
Triple Crown title change
Pro Wrestling NOAH co-promoting this year’s tournament that led to the formation of ROH in 2001
Keiji Muto has one of his final matches this week
Update on Kota Ibushi
First week of G1
Two legendary tag teams have singles matches against each other
Three AEW stars on Japanese women’s show
Bill Goldberg talks Bret Hart
Ric Flair documentary series
Japanese stars coming to base in North America
Legendary promoter cutting back after 52 years
Full breakdown on ticket sales to All Out
Lots of injury updates involving the biggest stars
Goal of the three-way tag title match on Dynamite and original plans
Upcoming ticket sales for WWE and AEW
Chris Jericho talks his illness from last year
AEW star in Bare Knuckle fight in England
Streaming numbers for WWE & AEW
UFC lobbying for a bill that could have great effect on pro wrestlers
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Tuesday News Update
WWE
In an interview with Metro UK, Alexa Bliss discussed Liv Morgan winning the Money in the Bank briefcase. “If it was anyone else, I don’t think the match would have perceived as well,” she said. “We wanted to see Liv win, and the crowd wanted to see Liv win. She’s the choice. She’s worked so hard and she deserves that win. She picked her moment, she capitalised, she pushed Becky off the ladder, there you go! Very happy for her!’
Xavier Woods will be at the San Diego Comic Con on July 21 as part of the Attack of the Show: Who Let Us In? panel.
The latest WWE 2K22 DLC, the ‘Whole Dam Pack’, released today. This pack include Rob Van Dam, Logan Paul, Machine Gun Kelly, LA Knight, Xia Li, and Commander Azeez as playable characters. This is the final announced DLC pack for the game.
New WWE developmental signee Valerie Loureda was on HOT 97 to talk about transitioning from MMA to WWE and the importance of representing her culture.
The company recently filed trademarks for Gunther, Kayla Braxton, Michael Cole, Byron Saxton, and Maxxine Dupri. Dupri has been billed as the sister of Max Dupri and will debut this Friday on SmackDown.
A SummerSlam car will be featured at this weekend’s NASCAR Pocono event.
AEW/ROH
This week’s AEW Road to, which focuses on the barbed wire everywhere match between Chris Jericho and Eddie Kingston.
Britt Baker spoke to Sportskeeda about Adam Cole, winning the Owen Hart tournament, and more.
The presale code for Grand Slam 2, which takes place at Arthur Ashe Stadium on September 21, is SUNNYBLISS46. The presale starts on Thursday from 10 am to 10 pm PST at ticketmaster.com. The official sale starts on Friday morning.
Effy trended on social media today after a spot at a Underground Wrestling Alliance event drew comparisons to Joey Ryan. The spot involved Effy thrusting his pelvis into the face of Sandra Moon. Moon wrote on Twitter: “I thought the spot was funny when two god tier sports entertainers put it together, thought it was funny while it was happening, thought it was funny enough after to qt with a goofy caption. the PAYING fans had an amazing time, I had my dream match, @EFFYlives is my hero. I love professional wrestling and the people I surround myself with; for y’all to compare anyone as amazing as EFFY to the diabolical POS that y’all are is so weird to me. If you didn’t laugh or think it was funny than it wasn’t for y’all.”
At a recent K&S WrestleFest virtual signing, Hacksaw Jim Duggan said that he has completed 27 out of 39 radiation treatments. He is hopeful the treatments will cure his cancer.
Shingo Takagi talked to NJPW’s website about working with Sting at Forbidden Door when asked what catches his eye in AEW. “Well, I think the guys that I have wrestled before, or had near misses with. So Bryan (Danielson) (Samoa) Joe, Claudio (Castagnoli), PAC. But then Sting… Sting just entirely carried that match we had (laughs). From the entrance on, it was all Sting. That’s a legend for you. He was a real model for me going forward, that’s the kind of wrestler I need to be.”
CZW will be holding a free show in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on August 20.
A new WWE 24/7 Champion was crowned on New Year’s Eve.
On TikTok’s New Year’s Eve party livestream, video aired of Angel Garza rolling up R-Truth to win the 24/7 title. Video of the title change is available to watch below:
This is the second straight year that the 24/7 title has changed hands on New Year’s Eve. There were two 24/7 title changes that took place in Times Square on Fox’s New Year’s Eve with Steve Harvey in 2019. Mojo Rawley pinned R-Truth to win the 24/7 title, but R-Truth then won the championship back from Rawley.
“GOLD BABY,” Garza tweeted on Thursday night. “Por segundo año consecutivo terminó el año con ORO. For second year in a row I end with GOLD. @RonKillings I’ll show you how to treat a BABY.”
This is the first time that Garza has held the 24/7 title. R-Truth’s most recent reign with the championship lasted from November’s Survivor Series pay-per-view until now.
Tucker debuted as a heel singles competitor, losing to Humberto Carrillo in a perfectly acceptable opener before Ricochet took care of business against Angel Garza in a really strong featured contest.
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Humberto Carrillo defeated Tucker (6:02)
Tucker and Otis had matches on Main Event a few times over the last year, but Tucker’s defeat here marked both his singles show debut and just his second ever WWE singles match.
Carrillo doesn’t miss many weeks on this show. He’s had 18 matches this year on Main Event winning nine of them and apart from still being guilty of overselling at times, he’s pretty damn good.
The result was a little strange, but they worked the usual WWE methodical style, pulling off the smoldering heel vs. the plucky, high-flying babyface dynamic pretty well in the time that they had.
In the end, it was a top rope battle as Tucker crotched Carrillo and looked for a superplex, but Carrillo maintained his footing and grabbed a sunset flip, rolling Tucker up for the surprise win.
Ricochet defeated Angel Garza (8:35)
Ricochet hasn’t lost on Main Event since June and has been somewhat of a regular since March. An affable and grateful guy at the best of times, he’s perhaps starting to show that he feels its time they did something with him.
WWE tweeted that this past week marked one year since he took on Drew McIntyre on Raw. Ricochet took the bait and bit with a ‘maybe it’s time for a rematch??’ response. The double question mark says it all and it doesn’t take much of an imagination to envisage the kinds of comments it drew.
He and Garza was a lot of fun as you might expect. Although this would easily sit alongside anything on Raw right now, their match went quite long for a Main Event bout and just started to get pretty good as they went home.
It felt as though this could go either way as the story of the match was about them going toe-to-toe. After a close near fall, Garza went for the Wing Clipper and hit him with a pop-up knee strike, but Ricochet had enough left to hit a clothesline and connect with the Kick Back for the win.
More of this each week would be fine by me, but, like a lot of these matches, if they let them off the leash and gave them time, they would likely produce something stellar.
Final Thoughts:
The cynics may think that Tucker’s reward for turning heel on Otis was to work Main Event this week, but with no house shows right now, wrestlers trialling new characters or tag teams splitting and working as singles have nowhere else to go.
On a show that he rarely loses on, Ricochet defeated Gran Metalik before Angel Garza dispensed with Humberto Carrillo in a strong match to close out the show.
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Ricochet defeated Gran Metalik (w/ Lince Dorado) (5:50)
Lucha House Party become two when Kalisto was drafted to SmackDown two weeks ago. The stable had had mixed success over the last two years, but were probably due a refresh and reset.
Ricochet’s plight continues as he is regularly relegated to this show despite being one of the most interesting in-ring workers on the active roster. Time will tell whether he is content to wait for his chance.
This was all action as you might expect. There was, however, quite a slow pace by the end as both men looked tired and labored.
In the end, Ricochet looked slightly heelish as he hit a modified suplex, growling and posturing to the crowd. He then hoisted Metalik up and nailed him with the Kick Back for the win.
Angel Garza defeated Humberto Carrillo (8:06)
Since making the move from 205 Live to the Raw roster back in February, Garza has had quite a bit of success. This being only his second appearance on Main Event, it was yet another win for the impressive 28-year-old from Mexico.
In comparison, the wins have really dried up for Carrillo who now finds himself somewhat of a Main Event regular and rather directionless.
They worked beautifully together at times, both generous with each other until they culminated in a nice creative finish where Garza was arguing with the ref over holding the tights.
Carrillo hit a missile dropkick and a crossbody for two near falls, but when Garza rolled him up and held the tights, the referee took issue with it. Garza dodged Carrillo’s attempts to take advantage, nailed him with a superkick, and hit the Wing Clipper for the win.
Final Thoughts:
These were two good matches, but there wasn’t much to go out of your way to find here. Ricochet and Garza should be used better elsewhere, but for now, they are by far the most entertaining thing on Main Event for some time.
A Tag Team title match is the latest addition to the card for Clash of Champions.
Andrade & Angel Garza will challenge for The Street Profits’ Raw Tag Team titles at Sunday’s Clash of Champions pay-per-view. That was confirmed when Andrade & Garza defeated Seth Rollins & Murphy and Dominik Mysterio & Humberto Carrillo in a triple threat number one contender’s match on Raw tonight.
Andrade & Garza won tonight’s match after Rollins walked out on Murphy. Andrade hit a back elbow on Murphy and then Garza gave Murphy the Wing Clipper to get the win.
Zelina Vega wasn’t with Andrade & Garza on tonight’s Raw after seemingly splitting up with them last week. After weeks of dissension between Andrade & Garza, there was a backstage segment last Monday where Vega yelled at Garza for flirting with Lana. Garza blamed Andrade for losing their non-title match against The Street Profits the previous week. When Garza and Andrade argued, Vega told them she can’t do this anymore and walked out on them. Andrade & Garza then brawled but were back teaming together tonight.
Vega is facing Mickie James on Raw tonight. The winner will challenge for Asuka’s Raw Women’s Championship at Clash of Champions.
Here’s the updated card for Sunday’s PPV:
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre defends against Randy Orton in an ambulance match
Universal Champion Roman Reigns defends against Jey Uso
SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley defends against Nikki Cross
Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy defends against AJ Styles and Sami Zayn in a triple threat ladder match
Women’s Tag Team Champions Shayna Baszler & Nia Jax defend against Ruby Riott & Liv Morgan
SmackDown Tag Team Champions Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro defend against The Lucha House Party
Raw Tag Team Champions The Street Profits defend against Andrade & Angel Garza
The team of Andrade and Angel Garza will be facing Raw Tag Team champions The Street Profits at SummerSlam.
The duo defeated Cedric Alexander & Ricochet and The Viking Raiders in a triple threat tag team match where the winners would become number one contenders for the titles. The finish came when Ivar did a dive that took out most of the competitors in the match. Garza, however, avoided the dive and pinned Alexander with the wing clipper.
After the match, Andrade & Garza confronted The Street Profits, who were at ringside doing commentary. After some back and forth, the two jumped Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford, bolting before either could retaliate.
This is not the first time the two teams have faced one another. They had a match on the July 20 edition of Raw. where The Street Profits defeated Andrade and Garza.
SummerSlam is scheduled to take place on August 23. A location has not been announced.
The build to the WWE Championship match at SummerSlam may begin on Monday’s episode of Raw.
WWE announced tonight that Randy Orton will kick off Monday’s Raw by “announcing his next target.” Orton defeated Big Show in an unsanctioned match in the main event of Raw this past Monday.
Dave Meltzer has reported that Drew McIntyre defending his WWE Championship against Orton is scheduled for SummerSlam. The pay-per-view is taking place on Sunday, August 23.
In a rematch from Extreme Rules, McIntyre is facing Dolph Ziggler in a non-title match on Monday’s Raw. McIntyre will pick the stipulation for the match this time.
WWE has also announced that Ricochet & Cedric Alexander, The Viking Raiders, and Andrade & Angel Garza will face off in a number one contender’s triple threat tag match on Monday’s Raw. The winning team will challenge The Street Profits for the Raw Tag Team titles at SummerSlam.
The Street Profits defeated Andrade & Garza in a non-title match on Raw this week. Later in the episode, Andrade & Garza attacked Big Show during his unsanctioned match against Orton. The Viking Raiders then came out to make the save and brawled with Andrade & Garza.
Ricochet & Alexander teamed with the returning Mustafa Ali to defeat MVP, Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin in a six-man tag match on this week’s Raw.
Also set for Monday’s Raw is Asuka vs. Sasha Banks for the Raw Women’s Championship. The title can change hands via pinfall, submission, countout, disqualification, or if anyone interferes.
WWE is promoting that Monday’s Raw will feature a “night of grudge matches.”
That was hyped during a commercial that aired during tonight’s episode of SmackDown. In addition to the already announced Women’s Tag Team title match with Sasha Banks & Bayley defending against Asuka & Kairi Sane, Monday’s Raw will feature Randy Orton vs. R-Truth, Seth Rollins vs. Kevin Owens, and The Viking Raiders vs. Andrade & Angel Garza in an elimination tag team match.
Orton, Andrade & Garza defeated Big Show & The Viking Raiders on Raw this past Monday. There was also a backstage segment on Monday’s show where 24/7 Champion R-Truth ran into Orton as he was trying to avoid Akira Tozawa. Truth questioned if Flair was Tozawa in disguise. Truth ran off as Tozawa and his ninjas approached. Orton asked if they were looking for Truth and then pointed them in the wrong direction.
There’s recently been dissension between Andrade & Garza. Their feud with The Viking Raiders began when The Viking Raiders saved The Street Profits from an attack by Andrade & Garza last month.
Rollins vs. Owens is a rematch from WrestleMania 36. Owens defeated Rollins in that match. On this week’s Raw, Owens teamed up with Rey Mysterio and defeated Rollins & Murphy. The match decided whether Mysterio or Rollins would pick the stipulation for their match at Extreme Rules. Mysterio pinned Murphy and then revealed that he’ll face Rollins in an eye for an eye match at the pay-per-view.
Monday’s Raw is the brand’s go-home show for Extreme Rules.
This will be the first time Mysterio has wrestled since the angle where his eye was attacked by Rollins in May.
Dave Meltzer has reported that — after his deal expired — Mysterio is currently working without a WWE contract. Meltzer noted that there was a plan for Mysterio to face Rollins in an “eye for an eye” match at Extreme Rules, though that has yet to be announced.
