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At the Halfway Point - We Rank the Top 10 WWE Matches of the Year So Far

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 11:56 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/at-the-halfway-point-we-rank-the-top-10-wwe-matches-of-the-year-so-far/

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Asuka vs. Becky Lynch (WWE Royal Rumble) Its almost strange looking back
six months on this one, seeing where things were and how they turned out.
Becky may have won the Royal Rumble later in the night and continued her
run as the hottest thing in the game, but she lost to Asuka here on this
night, clean in the middle of the ring, tapping out on her back. They tore
the house down though, so its worth checking out.
Velveteen Dream vs. Tyler Breeze (NXT Takeover XXV) This one flew under
the radar a bit because it was surrounded by incredible matches well come
to later in our list, but on a personal level, I absolutely loved this
match. Breeze worked his ass off to prove he can still hang at the NXT
level and Dream showed a slightly different side of his personality working against him than some of his other recent offerings.
Andrade vs. Rey Mysterio (Smackdown Live, 1/15/2019) These two had a few
great matches on television earlier in the year, but for whatever reason it never fully materialized into the full-blown program with a major
pay-per-view match that fans were hoping for. Based on what they were able
to accomplish on TV though, its safe to say given a real spot on an
important card, they could tear the house down.
Grizzled Young Vets vs. Mustache Mountain (NXT Takeover UK) An honorable mention for the NXT UK division, which has been a really fun watch this
year, even if theyve had less opportunities to steal as many shows as their U.S. brethren. NXT UK made its highly anticipated Takeover debut to kick
off the year, and the boys from Mustache Mountain mixed it up with the
Grizzled Young Vets in what was easily the moust outstanding match of the evening.
War Raiders vs. The Undisputed Era (NXT Takeover: Phoenix) The War Raiders have controlled the tag team division for the majority of 2019 down in NXT,
and that reign of terror began in January with an awesome victory over Kyle OReilly and Bobby Fish of the Undisputed Era.


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SPOILERS: Complete Results for Tonights Episode of WWE NXT

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 09:27 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/spoilers-complete-results-for-tonights-episode-of-wwe-nxt-2/


WARNING: The following report contains major SPOILERS for tonights episode
of WWE NXT, including the results of an NXT Womens Championship match and a major angle taking place afterwards.

— Angel Garza def. Joaquin Wilde (Tournament Match)

— The Street Profits def. The Forgotten Sons via DQ

— Keith Lee def. Nykos Rikos

— Shayna Baszler (c) def. Io Shirai to retain the NXT Women’s Championship in a Steel Cage match. Candice LeRae attempted to help Io during the match
but it backfired. Io turned heel after the match and beat her down.

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Tonights WWE NXT Preview: Shayna Baszler vs Io Shirai in a Steel Cage
Match, NXT Breakout Tournament Begins!

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 09:20 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/tonights-wwe-nxt-preview-shayna-baszler-vs-io-shirai-in-a-steel-cage-match-nxt-breakout-tournament-begins/


Tonights episode of WWE NXT is set to be a big one!

For the first time in the black-and-gold brands history, two women will be locked inside of a steel cage as the Queen of Spades Shayna Baszler once
again defends her NXT Womens Championship against the Queen of the Sky Io Shirai!

Tonights show will also showcase the start of the NXT Breakout tournament,
as Jaoquin Wilde (formerly DJZ) battles Angel Garza (formerly Garza Jr.) in
the first of four opening round matches featuring up-and-coming stars.

Thats not all, as the brand new NXT Tag Team Champions will be in action
for the first time since winning the gold back at NXT Takeover XXV, when
the Street Profits face The Forgotten Sons in a non-title match. Finally,
Keith Lee will be in action and is sure to put on an impressive showing, although his opponent has yet to be named.

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New Title Matches Added to Saturdays NJPW Southern Showdown Event

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:40 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/new-title-matches-added-to-saturdays-njpw-southern-showdown-event/


New Japan Pro-Wrestling will air its first of two Southern Showdown events
this Saturday, June 29th and the match card just got a whole lot more interesting.

Following the conclussion of Tuesdays Kizuna Road finale, the promotion has confirmed that El Phantasmo will defend the RPW British Cruiserweight Championship against Rocky Romero, just days after successfully defending against Ryusuke Taguchi.

Additionally, the Guerrillas of Destiny will put the IWGP Heavyweight Tag
Team Championships on the line against Juice Robinson and Mad Mikey
Nicholls. Prior to the G1 Climax, Will Ospreay will defend the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Championship one last time against Robbie Eagles, while
Tanahashi and Okada team up in the main event.

For whatever reason, they have decided not to stream the show live on NJPW World, but rather it will be uploaded to VOD at a later date. However, if
you want to watch the show live, FITE TV will be broadcasting it for $24.99 starting at 5AM ET on Saturday morning in the U.S.

Ren Narita, Shota Umino & Toa Henare vs. Michael Richards, Andrew
Villalobos & Mark Tui
Aaron Solow vs. Slex
Toru Yano & Roppongi 3K vs. Gedo, Taiji Ishimori & Gino Gambino
Tomohiro Ishii & Yoshi-Hashi vs. Chase Owens & Yujiro Takahashi
British Cruiserweight Title: El Phantasmo (c) vs. Rocky Romero
IWGP Tag Team Title: Guerrillas of Destiny (c) vs. Juice Robinson & Mikey Nicholls
IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Will Ospreay (c) vs. Robbie Eagles
Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White & Bad Luck Fale


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ROH Best in the World Live on PPV This Friday: Matt Taven vs Jeff Cobb,
Bandido Defends, Dragon Lee, Team NWA & More

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 07:20 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/roh-best-in-the-world-live-on-ppv-this-friday-matt-taven-vs-jeff-cobb-bandido-defends-dragon-lee-team-nwa-more/


Ring of Honor returns to pay-per-view this Friday night with their annual
Best in the World event, live from the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

The show will be headlined with a pair of world title matches, as Matt
Taven defends his ROH World Championship against Jeff Cobb, the impressive Hawaiian Suplex Machine who is about to wow crowds internationally as a
part of this years NJPW G1 Climax tournament.

Bandido will have a monstrous challenge ahead of him, as he attempts to
defend the ROH World Television Championship against the imposing Shane
Taylor. Former IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Champion Dragon Lee will also be in
singles action against Dalton Castle, while his big brother Rush takes on
Flip Gordon.

One major question that remains to be answered is who will replace NWA
National Champion Colt Cabana, who is currently out of action with an
injury. Cabana was scheduled to team with NWA Worlds Champion Nick Aldis against 10-time ROH World Tag Team Champions Mark and Jay Briscoe.

ROH Best in the World will air live this Friday night on FITE TV kicking
off at 9PM ET. The cost of the show will be $34.99.

ROH World Championship Match

Matt Taven (c) vs. Jeff Cobb

ROH World TV Championship Match

Bandido (c) vs. Shane Taylor

Dalton Castle vs. Dragon Lee

Rush vs. Flip Gordon

The Briscoes vs. Nick Aldis & ???

Pure Rules Match

Silas Young vs. Jonathan Gresham

The Allure vs. Jenny Rose & Kelly Klein

ROH World 6-Man Championship Match

Villain Enterprises (c) vs. Lifeblood

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NXT Superstar Replacing Injured Kyle OReilly at This Weekends EVOLVE Shows

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:40 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/nxt-superstar-replacing-injured-kyle-oreilly-at-this-weekends-evolve-shows/


EVOLVE Wrestling has announced that NXT Superstar Tyler Breeze will replace
the injured Kyle OReilly at this weekends events in New York. The
Undisputed Era star is currently out of action dealing with a minor staph infection, and should be back to the ring within a couple of weeks.

Prince Pretty will be in action on Saturday at EVOLVE 129 where he will
face AR Fox in singles competition. He will then take on EVOLVE Champion
Austin Theory in a title match at EVOLVE 130 on Sunday evening.

Both shows will be streaming live through the Club WWN service. For more information or for tickets, check out WWNLive.com.
EVOLVE 129

EVOLVE Championship: Austin Theory (c) vs. Leon Ruff
Roderick Strong vs. Anthony Henry
Tyler Breeze vs. AR Fox
EVOLVE Tag Team Championship: Eddie Kingston & Joe Gacy (c) vs. Anthony
Greene & Curt Stallion
Josh Briggs vs. Arturo Ruas
Shotzi Blackheart vs. Brandi Lauren
JD Drake vs. Stephen Wolf vs. Sean Mulata vs. John Silver
Harlem Bravado vs. Babatunde
Adrian Alanis & Liam Grey vs. Brandon Watts & Randy Summers

EVOLVE 130

Austin Theory vs. Roderick Strong
WWN Championship: JD Drake (c) vs. Babatunde
Tyler Breeze vs. Anthony Greene
Anthony Henry vs. Arturo Ruas
Eddie Kingston & Joe Gacy vs. AR Fox & Leon Ruff vs. John Silver & Alex Reynolds
Josh Briggs vs. Brandon Taggart
Curt Stallion vs. Sean Maluta
Brandi Lauren vs. Natalia Markova


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All Elite Wrestling Returns This Saturday; 9 Matches Confirmed for Fyter
Fest

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:20 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/all-elite-wrestling-returns-this-saturday-9-matches-confirmed-for-fyter-fest/


All Elite Wrestling returns to the ring this Saturday night with the first
ever Fyter Fest event in Daytona Beach, FL and the card is shaping up to be pretty great!

The fledgling promotion will be teaming up with the CEO Fighting Game Championships, and will be broadcast live and free within the U.S. on the
B/R Live streaming service. For those outside of the U.S., the show will be available on FITE TV for a small fee.

The shows main event will see the original Elite team up for the first time
in a very long time, as Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks take on the Lucha Brothers, Pentagon Jr. and Rey Fenix, and the tragically underrated rising star, Laredo Kid.

Cody Rhodes will also be in action taking on one of AEWs younger stars in
Darby Allin, while Jon Moxley returns to the ring to take on the Bad Boy
Joey Janela, in something of an indie darling dream match.

Heres the full match card:

Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks vs. Lucha Brothers & Laredo Kid

Cody Rhodes vs. Darby Allin

Jon Moxley vs. Joey Janela

Hangman Page vs. MJF vs. Jimmy Havoc vs. Jungle Boy

Christopher Daniels vs. CIMA

Nyla Rose vs. Yuka Sakazaki vs. Riho

Best Friends vs. SoCal Uncensored vs. Private Party

Kylie Rae vs. Leva Bates

Michael Nakazawa vs. Alex Jebailey

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Kyle OReilly Pulled From This Weekends EVOLVE Shows in New York

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 06:00 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/kyle-oreilly-pulled-from-this-weekends-evolve-shows-in-new-york/


Kyle OReilly has been pulled from this weekends EVOLVE shows.

Pro Wrestling Sheet is reporting that the former NXT tag team champion is actually dealing with a staph infection, stemming from the stitches that he received following the wild Fatal 4-Way tag team ladder match back at NXT Takeover XXV.

The good news is that OReilly is only expected to be out of action for a
week or two, so he wont miss any television tapings. The bad news is, he definitely wont be ready to go in time for this weekends EVOLVE events in
New York.

WWE will be announcing a replacement shortly, and OReilly will still be available all weekend for meet-and-greet sessions along with Bobby Fish, Roderick Strong and Tommaso Ciampa, for those planning on attending the
shows live.

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Kacy Catanzaro Reacts to Her Boyfriends Big Win at WWE Stomping Grounds

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:40 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/kacy-catanzaro-reacts-to-her-boyfriends-big-win-at-wwe-stomping-grounds/


The official WWE Performance Center channel has uploaded a great video from this past weekend, featuring NXT Superstar Kacy Catanzaro reacting to her boyfriend, Ricochet, winning his very first championship on the main roster.

Kacy watched Sunday nights Stomping Grounds pay-per-view with fellow
wrestlers Chelsea Green (formerly Hot Mess Laurel Van Ness) and Deonna Purrazzo. Cameras were focussed on the American Ninja Warrior sensation during the last few minutes of Ricochets excellent bout with Samoa Joe,
leading to him capturing the United States Championship for the first time.

Catanzaro was understandably emotional and teared up watching her boyfriend celebrate his championship victory, and even more so when Ricochet received
a standing ovation backstage from Universal Champion Seth Rollins and
several of his peers, as well as his NXT dad Triple H. It was also a cool moment for Ms. Green, as she is currently engaged to Zack Ryder, who was
shown backstage during the segment.



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Updated Lineups for This Weeks WWE Live Tour in Japan; Triple H Returns to
the Ring

Posted: 26 Jun 2019 05:20 AM PDT https://www.prowrestling.com/updated-lineups-for-this-weeks-wwe-live-tour-in-japan-triple-h-returns-to-the-ring/


Several dozen WWE Superstars left on Tuesday for this weekends live tour in Asia which will see three events in Singapore and Japan.

The first two nights will be largely the same, with Seth Rollins defending
the Universal Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura, and Becky Lynch vs.
Alexa Bliss for the Raw Womens Championship. The major difference is that Triple H will return to the ring on night two at Ryogoku Sumo Hall, teaming with AJ Styles and The Club.

Night three will see some variations, as it is taking place at the same
arena just one night later. Rollins will instead team with Braun Strowman
and AJ Styles, Nakamura will face Robert Roode, and there will be a triple threat match for the Raw Tag Team Championships.

June 27th in Singapore

Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Becky Lynch vs. Alexa Bliss
The IIconics vs. The Kabuki Warriors
Ryder & Hawkins vs. The Revival


June 28th in Tokyo, Japan

Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Becky Lynch vs. Alexa Bliss
Triple H, AJ Styles, Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows vs. Drew McIntyre, Bobby Lashley, Baron Corbin & Samoa Joe
Ricochet vs. Cesaro
Braun Strowman vs. Robert Roode
The IIconics vs. The Kabuki Warriors
Ryder & Hawkins vs. The Revival


June 29th in Tokyo, Japan: 

Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman & AJ Styles vs. Drew McIntyre, Baron Corbin & Bobby Lashley
Becky Lynch vs. Asuka vs. Alexa Bliss
Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Robert Roode
Ryder & Hawkins vs. The Revival vs. The Club
Ricochet vs. Cesaro


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