Does Anyone Watch Wrestling? (WWE, AEW, TNA, NWA, etc)

[GTvsForza]

A good RAW last night IMO.

• Street Profits and Hendry won against The Vision with help from Rollins.
• Evans beat Rusev after an altercation between them, Ethan Page and Penta.
• Raquel and Perez interrupted Brie and Paige. Morgan attacked from behind and Judgement Day stand tall over the champs.
• Logan and Theory leave the building in a car with Maxxine.
• Oba obliterated Los Garza after Pearce announced that nobody wanted to fight him.
• IYO and Asuka have an emotional goodbye moment. Asuka leaves as IYO prepares for her match against Sol Ruca. That match was my favorite (I love both stars, especially Sol).
• The AAA Championship was defended with Dom retaining against OG Americano after interference with El Grande Americano.
• Jacob refused to acknowledge Reigns and applied the Tongan grip on him and slamming him through the announce table.

Confirmed matches for SNME:

• World Tag Team Championship (The Vision vs Street Profits)
• Intercontinental Championship (Penta vs Ethan Page)

 

[GTvsForza]

I'm most likely not going to watch SmackDown live tonight due to a certain "beep-beep-vroom-vroom" game, but I'll catch the highlights on YouTube.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Cody Rhodes v Gunther for the WWE title has been made for Clash In Italy in two weeks, a six women tag match between Ripley/Flair/Bliss and Cargill/B-Fab/Michin has been made for SNME which is next Saturday.

Smackdown was pretty good with a couple of fresh matches, Carmelo Hayes beat Ricky Saints and Gunther beat Royce Keys in a number contenders main event, Trick Williams got a hot reception in front of his home town crowd and he looks more like a star every week.

WWE has been okay the past few weeks but nothing amazing, it seems like there is a bit of a hangover from WrestleMania where everything just feels a little meh.

 

[Darla Starch]

🤡 legal decision

 

[Darla Starch]

Iyo is EVIL

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Yes I just saw that on X, congrats to them both.

 

[GTvsForza]

There are rumors that Baron Corbin may be returning to WWE.

 

[Darla Starch]

j/k may as well

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Brock Lesnar's 'retirement' lasted for 29 days.

 

[GTvsForza]

What I'm predicting:

• Lesnar wins at Clash, then the tiebreaker at SummerSlam
• Oba wins again, then they set up Gunther/Lesnar at SummerSlam.

 

[EngieDiesel]

Brock Lesnar's 'retirement' lasted for 29 days.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with TKO suddenly finding a bunch of extra money laying around due to people leaving or getting lowballed on their contracts. Nothing at all, nosiree...

 

[Darla Starch]

So, it's not too far from one the biggest matches in your career. You're pushing public decency in an elevator (😏) and the dude who got in the elevator asked you to stop. Do you:

• stop
• complain and stop
• physically assault the man and stop

If you chose the third option, congratulations you're copying Ludwig Kaiser's current legal drama

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Saturday Night's Main Event is tonight, the card looks okay with three title matches, its almost an entirely Raw show with the only Smackdown match being the women's six person tag match. the three title matches are the world tag titles with The Vision defending against Street Profits, Penta defending his IC title against Ethan Page, Paige and Brie Bella defending their women's tag titles against Irresistible Forces, Becky Lynch faces Sol Ruca in a non title match.

Like i have mentioned before SNME is not really for overseas viewers what with it being only on YouTube and with as breaks that you cant skip, Its far better to watch it later or on delay so you can skip the ads, I will watch tomorrow afternoon.

Clash In Italy is next Saturday, Rhea Ripley v Jade Cargill for the women's title has been made and its three matches for the show so far.

 

[Darla Starch]

tony's got a new talking head to play with

Spoiler: Double or Nothing edit

Cope and Christian are tag champs together 25 years since their last run 🧓

 

[MUSC4EVER]

WWE has started their Summer European tour, its started in Liverpool tonight with a live event show and Smackdown will be in Barcelona tomorrow ahead of Clash In Italy which is on Sunday and not Saturday.

Raw on Monday will be from the same venue as Clash with Smackdown next week coming from Bologna, Italy. Raw next Monday will be in Paris. Then after that it will be back to the States for a little bit before another European trip which starts in Cardiff on the 20th.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Here is the card for WWE Clash In Italy which takes place today/tonight.

Oba Femi v Brock Lesnar

Women's Intercontinental Championship.
Becky Lynch (c) v Sol Ruca

WWE Women's Championship.
Rhea Ripley (c) v Jade Cargill

Undisputed WWE Championship.
Cody Rhodes (c) v Gunther

World Heavyweight Championship-Tribal Combat Match.
Roman Reigns (c) v Jacob Fatu

Its a good card, I'm unsure of the match order as they are doing the first hour on ESPN2 again, its the first time ever that WWE has staged a PLE in Italy. its on at 7pm UK time.

Last night the OG El Grande Americano was unmasked in the mask v mask match against the other El Grande, it was of course Chad Gable.

 

[GTvsForza]

Last night the OG El Grande Americano was unmasked in the mask v mask match against the other El Grande, it was of course Chad Gable.

What a shock surprise! Who ever thought it was Gable all this time?

Obviously joking...

Related to that, it's just amazing how over Keizer is in AAA. I bet if Dom drops the title to him, the crowd will go wild.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Clash In Italy was really good with a hot crowd, the only title change was Sol Ruca beating Becky Lynch to become new women's Intercontinental champion. Brock Lesnar perhaps surprisingly beat Oba Femi but it took seven F5's including one through the announce table to pin the Ruler.

Roman Reigns beat Jacob Fatu to retain his title in the tribal combat main event and Fatu now has to acknowledge Roman and fall in line on Raw tonight. Cody beat Gunther in the opening match but Gunther had his foot on the bottom rope during the pin but the ref didn't see it, technically its still a rare pinfall loss for Gunther. Rhea Ripley beat Jade Cargill to retain her women's title but she had help from Charlotte Flair.

Raw tonight is at the same venue in Italy as Clash was. The King and Queen's of the ring tournament starts fatal four way first round matches on both sides. Its Oba Femi v Penta v Solo Sikoa v Carmelo Hayes for the men's tonight with Liv Morgan v Becky Lynch v Alexa Bliss v Chelsea Green for the women. The winners of the tournaments get a future title shot so I don't know why current women's champ Liv Morgan is there.

 

[GTvsForza]

Clash In Italy was really good with a hot crowd, the only title change was Sol Ruca beating Becky Lynch to become new women's Intercontinental champion. Brock Lesnar perhaps surprisingly beat Oba Femi but it took seven F5's including one through the announce table to pin the Ruler.

Roman Reigns beat Jacob Fatu to retain his title in the tribal combat main event and Fatu now has to acknowledge Roman and fall in line on Raw tonight. Cody beat Gunther in the opening match but Gunther had his foot on the bottom rope during the pin but the ref didn't see it, technically its still a rare pinfall loss for Gunther. Rhea Ripley beat Jade Cargill to retain her women's title but she had help from Charlotte Flair.

Raw tonight is at the same venue in Italy as Clash was. The King and Queen's of the ring tournament starts fatal four way first round matches on both sides. Its Oba Femi v Penta v Solo Sikoa v Carmelo Hayes for the men's tonight with Liv Morgan v Becky Lynch v Alexa Bliss v Chelsea Green for the women. The winners of the tournaments get a future title shot so I don't know why current women's champ Liv Morgan is there.

I feel that Vaquer was supposed to be in Liv's spot, but she couldn't travel with her injury.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I forgot about Vaquer! But i did read last week that she is close to a return, maybe she could return tonight to attack Liv and cost her the match.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Oba Femi and IYO Sky both advanced in the King/Queen of the ring, Femi pinned Solo Sikoa plus beat Carmelo Hayes and Penta in a fun match which included him beating people up during his entrance and then he did his in ring pose. Sky pinned Giulia in a match which also featured Roxanne Perez and Lash Legend.

Jacob Fatu acknowledged Roman Reigns and is now part of the Bloodline, I didn't like this as it feels we have seen it before and its not fresh or new, we saw all this like three years ago, the hot Italian crowd loved it though and Roman had to wait a few minutes in ring before he could speak because of the crowd noise and chants.

Seth Rollins beat Bron Breakker in a good main event, they also showed the entire mask v mask match between the Grande's at the end of Raw and I highly recommend you see it as it was brilliant!

It was also announced that Finn Balor has been moved to Smackdown, this is a great move as it moves him away from the Judgement Day stuff and it means fresh matches on the blue brand.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Smackdown has happened as it was in Bologna, Italy.

Gunther is getting his rematch v Cody Rhodes for the title in two weeks, Gunther gets to pick the stipulation for the match and will announce it next week.

Raquel Rodriguez is through to the QOTR semi finals, she pinned Kiana James in the the first round match which also had Jacy Jayne and Bayley. Rodriguez will face IYO Sky in the semi finals.

Dominik Mysterio is through through to the KOTR semi finals, he pinned Damien Priest in the first round match which also had Trick Williams and Bron Breakker. Dom of course had help from Liv Morgan and McDonagh and will face Oba Femi in the semi final, good luck with that!

Chad Gable is seemingly on Smackdown now after a couple of backstage appearances tonight, he got a huge pop during the first one.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Raw is in Paris tonight as WWE's European tour continues, here is what's advertised.

Sol Ruca v Lyra Valkryia (women's IC title match)
Penta v Rey Mysterio (men's IC title match)
Talla Tonga v Seth Rollins v Je'von Evans v Ricky Saints (KOTR first round match)
Becky Lynch v Chelsea Green v Alexa Bliss v Liv Morgan (QOTR first round match)
Oba Femi to open the show.

 

[Darla Starch]

In TNA news:

• Bold move to take a chance on Tessa Blanchard considering her track record. All for second chances if someone's learned from their mistakes and grown (e.x Jay Briscoe's anti-LGBTQ statements from the early 2010s and how he worked to change between then and his passing)
• Just in time for the likely departure of Jordynne Grace to WWE once her contract's up

lol Tessa's gone after basically accomplishing as much as Bea Priestly did during her WWE run

Now I'm gonna be manifesting Lady C finally winning a belt

🥹

 

[Darla Starch]

It's that time of the year y'all:
RED STARS A

Spoiler

• Sayaka Kurara (Cosmic Angels)
  ½ New Blood Tag Team Champion
  2nd appearance
  Scored 4 points last year

• Tomoka Inaba (God's Eye/Pro Wrestling JTO)
  3rd appearance, both prior appearances scoring the same at 8 points, losing a three-way tiebreaker in 2024 to AZM

• AZM (NEO GENESIS)
  ½ Goddesses of Stardom Champion
  8th appearance, scored 9 points last year
  Best points-wise was 2022 @ 14, position-wise was losing last year's finals to Momo Watanabe)

• Itsuki Aoki (Mi Vida Loca)
  tournament debut

• Maika (unaffiliated)
  2024 5Star GP winner
  6th appearance
  Best showing points-wise was 2022 @ 15, only woman to go undefeated during a 5Star GP

• Natsuko Tora (H.A.T.E)
  5th appearance, scored 8 points last year
  Best showing was 2023 @ 12 points but losing the head-to-head tiebreaker to determine Red Stars winner to Suzu Suzuki

• Rina (H.A.T.E)
  2nd appearance
  Scored 9 points last year and lost in the semifinals to AZM

• TBD

RED STARS B aka the block GTPlanet's swear filter hates this year

Spoiler

• Saya Iida (STARS)
  5th appearance
  Best showing was last year @ 8 points

• Lady C (God's Eye)
  ⅓ Artist of Stardom Champions
  2nd appearance, scored 4 points last year

• Mei Seira (NEO GENESIS)
  3rd appearance, scored 7 points last year
  Best showing was 2024 @ 8 points and losing the three-way tiebreaker to AZM

• Rina Y(one of the last names that'll trip the filter) (Mi Vida Loca)
  tournament debut

• Maki Itoh (unaffiliated officially, Itoh Respect Gundan unofficially)
  tournament debut

• Konami (H.A.T.E)
  7th appearance, scored 6 points last year
  Best showing was 2019 @ 11 points and losing the finals to Hana Kimura 😭

• Azusa Inaba (H.A.T.E/Pro Wrestling JTO)
  2nd appearance
  Scored 6 points

• Utami H(another name that'll trip the filter) (unaffiliated)
  2020 5Star GP winner
  7th appearance, best showing in points was 2022 @ 14

BLUE STARS A

Spoiler

• Aya Sakura (Cosmic Angels)
  ½ New Blood Tag Team Champion
  2nd appearance, scored 4 points last year

• Hina (God's Eye)
  ⅓ Artist of Stardom Champions
  2nd appearance, scored 6 points last year

• Miyu Amasaki (NEO GENESIS)
  ½ Goddesses of Stardom Champion
  3rd appearance
  Best showing was last year @ 6 points

• Suzu Suzuki (Mi Vida Loca)
  5th appearance
  World of Stardom Champion, 2023 5Star GP winner
  Best showing points-wise was 2022 @ 15, scored 10 points last year and lost in the quarterfinals to Saori Anou

• HANAKO (unafiiliated)
  2nd appearance, scored 7 points and missed the play-offs by a single point owing to potential tiebreaker over Momo Watanabe

• Rian (unaffiliated officially, tagging along with Itoh Respect Gundan)
  2nd showing
  No points won last year for the little foot-stomping gremlin

• Ruaka (H.A.T.E)
  4th appearance
  Best showing was last year @ 7 points

• Bea Priestley (H.A.T.E)
  3rd appearance
  Both prior appearances (2019, 2025) scored the same at 10 points
  Last year was better positionwise, made playoff bracket but lost play-in round to Rina

BLUE STARS B

Spoiler

• Hanan (STARS)
  Wonder of Stardom Champion, 2026 Cinderella Tournament winner
  5th appearance
  Best showing was last year at 9 points, made playoffs but lost play-in to AZM

• Yuna Mizumori (Cosmic Angels)
  High Speed Champion
  3rd appearance, best showing was last year @ 4 points

• Ami Sohrei (God's Eye)
  ⅓ Artist of Stardom Champions
  4th appearance, scored 10 points last year
  Best showing pointswise was 2022 @ 12, best position-wise was last year in losing the play-off play-in to Momo Watanabe

• Starlight Kid (NEO GENESIS)
  7th appearance, scored 8 points last year
  Best points-wise was 2022 @ 14, position-wise was 2024 and losing the quarterfinals to Saya Kamitani.

• Koguma (unaffiliated)
  5th appearance
  Best showing was, say it with me class, 2022 @ 14
  (trivia but she's the furthest back we can go right now with 5Star participants on the current Stardom roster as she participated in the 2014 edition, which was won by current WWE talent Iyo Sky. Missed everything between 2015 and 2021 due to being fired/retired. Momo Watanabe is next closest, having made her first appearance in 2016.)

• Momo Watanabe (H.A.T.E)
  2025 5Star GP winner
  10th appearance, scored 8 points last year
  Best showing points-wise was 2021/2022 @ 12 points

• Saya Kamitani (H.A.T.E)
  7th appearance, scored 12 points last year
  Best points-wise was 2022 @ 14, best position was losing the 2024 finals to Maika

• TBD

 

[MUSC4EVER]

So WWE Night Of Champions is this Saturday in Saudi, it has the KOTR and QOTR finals on the card, and its a little bit strange.

Firstly, I think the men's is pretty straight forward, its Oba Femi v Jey Uso and it seems pretty obvious that Brock Lesnar will show up and cost Oba in some way which will set up Oba v Brock III at SummerSlam, its leaves Jey winning and he should challenge Cody for the title.

The women's one is the weird one, its current women's world champ Liv Morgan taking on IYO Sky and I don't get it, considering the winner gets a women's title shot it should be IYO winning, and why shouldn't she challenge Liv?! And if she does then why didn't they have a title match at NOC in the first place?! It could be something where Raquel and Roxanne turn on Liv and cost her the match which would lead to Judgement Day breaking up but this one has me scratching my head.

Also the show will be a triple threat for the WWE title with Cody defending against Gunther and Sami Zayn, a steel cage match between Seth Rollins and Bron Breakker, and a women's US title match between Tiffany Stratton and Jade Cargill.

 

[Darla Starch]

 

[Darla Starch]

 

[JoeDaSnow]

Joe Doering, who had been battling brain tumor intermittently since 2016, has died at the age of 44. In AJPW, he won the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship twice, World Tag Team Championship four times and World Strongest Tag Determination League three times. He also won the TNA World Tag Team Championship twice. May Doering rest in peace.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Its WWE Night Of Champions a bit later today, here is the card for it.

United States Championship.
Trick Williams (c) v Ricky Saints

Women's United States Championship.
Tiffany Stratton (c) v Jade Cargill

Steel Cage Match.
Seth Rollins v Bron Breakker

Queen Of The Ring Final.
IYO Sky v Liv Morgan

King Of The Ring Final.
Oba Femi v Jey Uso

Undisputed WWE Championship-Triple Threat Match.
Cody Rhodes (c) v Gunther v Sami Zayn

Its a pretty stacked card with the KOTR and QOTR finals, I have voiced my opinions on them previously. Rollins v Breakker match really should be the end of that feud as its has gone on for a while and its time to move on.

Smackdown last night was a taped show which was recorded in London on Tuesday evening so they could get to Saudi for NOC, Solo's MFTs look like they are done after Tama and Talla Tonga both left Solo, it might lead to Solo rejoining the Bloodline unfortunately. Blake Monroe finally made an appearance when she attacked Giulia, more fun stuff with Danhausen who is having a great 2026.

Trick Williams and Lash Legend got married last weekend so congrats to them.