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WWEDave Meltzer drops crazy details about Ric Flair's Last Match

Though Ric Flair’s Last Match isn’t even one week old, the match continues to garner headlines for just how bizarre the entire ordeal was and how, in a weird twist of fate, the pre-show’s Bunkhouse Battle Royal secured its winner, Mance Warner, a shot at the AEW Interim Championship versus Jon Moxley on Rampage (read […]

WWEWWE's The Undertaker improbably shows up Ric Flair's Last Match

If you spent your Sunday night watching Ric Flair’s Last Match, you certainly heard the term “celebrities” thrown around by Tony Schiavone, David Crockett, and company about a dozen times, and for good reason – people really love Ric Flair. The show, booked by Conrad Thompson and assisted by seemingly every major indie promotor in […]

WWEWilliam Regal lets it slip why WWE wouldn't sign Rush

When WWE made the decision to release William Regal from his contract due to “budget cuts,” it felt like a mistake. While he hadn’t been an in-ring performer in, oh, almost a decade, being “retired” by his former pupal, Claudio “Don’t-call-him-Cesaro” Castagnoli, Regal was a fixture of NXT as an in-universe authority figure and a […]

WWEA fun fact about every wrestler in Ric Flair's final wrestling match

After being rumored to wrestle everyone from A.J. Styles to Chris Jericho, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, and even Ricky Morton – which actually almost happened – Ric Flair‘s final opponents, plural, have officially been announced for his Final Match: Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal. That’s… a choice. Now granted, Flair won’t be alone in his […]

WWERic Flair landed a WWE guy for his final match after all

For much of the afternoon of Monday, July 18th, 2022, WWE fans were abuzz with a rumor that maybe, just maybe, A.J. Styles would be announced as the final opponent of Ric Flair at his end-of-the-month event being advertised as his “Final Match.” Would it actually happen? Would Vince McMahon actually allow one of his […]

AEWTony Khan provides a major update on an AEW star's status

Though he wasn’t allowed to wrestle on Forbidden Door due to inter-promotional disagreements between CMLL, AAA, and NJPW, Andrade El Idolo made his presence known in AEW during the month of June, going 2-0 in singles competition in addition to re-forming La Faccion Ingobernable alongside former Ring of Honor Champion Rush. And yet, after securing […]

AEW3 wrestlers who could join Andrade's La Faccion Ingobernable in AEW

In case you haven’t heard, AEW‘s newest stable, La Faccion Ingobernable is on a bit of a roll. Since the arrival of Rush in the promotion, the duo are undefeated in singles action, with Andrade picking up a fantastic win over Rey Fenix and the man formerly known as “Toro Blanco” going 1-0 with a […]

AEWAndrade El Idolo and Rush reunite La Faccion Ingobernable in AEW

As you may or may not know, Andrade El Idolo and Rush – plus the Lucha Brothers – are not allowed to wrestle at AEW’s Forbidden Door due to the relationship between CMLL and New Japan Pro Wrestling. That’s the bad news, especially since Andrade already disclosed what could have been a very interesting angle […]

AEWAndrade El Idolo details dashed Will Ospreay match at AEW's Forbidden Door

When news broke that Andrade El Idolo, Rush, and the Lucha Brothers were unable to perform at AEW‘s Forbidden Door due to tensions between AAA and NJPW, it put a minor damper on what is expected to be one of the most entertaining cross-promotional events, nay, Pay-Per-Views of the year. Gone were the Los Ingobernables […]

AEWAndrade El Idolo, Lucha Brothers are out for AEW's Forbidden Door

While AEW and NJPW’s joint event Forbidden Door has already announced and teased a multitude of dream matches, it would appear that fans will have to take at least a couple of names off of their fantasy bookings. After an early morning tweet from Andrade El Idolo, seemingly sarcastically thanking Lucha promotions CMLL and AAA […]

AEWAEW: Don't sleep on Andrade El Idolo's new partner Rush

If you’re mostly just a fan of mainstream American professional wrestling, you probably haven’t heard of AEW‘s newest addition, Rush. When Andrade El Idolo and his assistant Jose sat around a table waiting for another member to join their meeting in a pre-taped segment on Double or Nothing, and a large man in a white […]

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