{"id":11196,"date":"2019-02-10T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2019-02-10T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T19:45:58","slug":"my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-10th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/my-week-in-wrestling-week-ending-10th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"My Week in Wrestling (week ending 10th February)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

@LauraNMauro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week’s wrestling experience has been about one thing: Velveteen Dream. The Dream continues to go from strength to strength. Watching the NXT prodigy win the Worlds Collide tournament, then follow up with a stylish challenge to Johnny Gargano on NXT reaffirms my belief that the Dream has it in him to be a megastar. He’s shed most of the lingering in-ring greenness and revealed a slick, confident wrestling style with a brilliant self awareness which harks back to the best of the Attitude era. Mark my words: the sky is the limit for Velveteen Dream, and it won’t be long before he earns his first title.
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@BrettSG91<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raw – getting better each week, Seth\nRollins is a standout performer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smackdown – Becky Lynch, obviously.\nThe Chamber build up has been great; it features Jeff Hardy in a potential\nchampionship winning position. Now, where’s his old “No More Words”\ntheme at? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NXT – Ricochet? Kairi Sane? Undisputed\nEra? Velveteen Dream? Alestair (might have to check spelling) Black? Need I say\nmore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omega vs Okada (My own personal\nintroduction to the new wave of Japanese wrestling). What’s not to love? 2\nhours of solid wrestling, fantastic storytelling and close calls. Gripping\nstuff, a must see for anyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Royal Rumble – 1990 – 2002. One of my\nfavourite match types of the year is the Rumble match, a fun hour or so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WCW Monday Nitro – the night NWO ran\nroughshod through WCW and laid wrestlers out backstage (Rey Mysterio thrown\ninto the side of the building..) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WrestleMania 15 – a solid event, which\nwas the first event I watched as a kid. Anyone else left heartbroken when\nTriple H hit X-Pac with the Pedigree? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucha Underground – Killshot vs Dante\nFox. Very reminiscent of the old ECW with a modern twist; blood ad violence\ngalore with a brilliant backstory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There you go, my whole week in\nwrestling viewing dude!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@BiekoDaniel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things I\u2019ve seen this week: Undertaker\nfees for bookings are $25K a time. I don’t know what I think about that, it\u2019s\ngreat if you are looking to sell tickets, but you\u2019re not booking him to\ncompete, so maybe not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s happened to SANITY? They\u2019ve\ngone from a dominant force in NXT to tumbleweeds on SmackDown. Surely, they are\nworth more than that? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what seems to be an everyday thing\nrecently, AEW are signing so and so. Will he go? Will she go? Will they go?\nDon’t get me wrong I think it’s awesome that wrestlers want to set up this shop\nand have got great backing by the sounds of it, but will they be a threat to\nWWE? Only time will tell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And let’s address the elephant in the\nroom, KENNY OMEGA. As much as I am a fan of his and have no doubt about the\namount of quality matches he could have with the guys in WWE, I don’t see it\nhappening. Kenny doesn\u2019t need the WWE, WWE needs Kenny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@RoxBlackburn<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s theme is flu, horrendous\nflu and more flu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a vague recollection of WWE\nRaw. Highlights include Becky Lynch punching Stephanie McMahon and Dean Ambrose\nhilarious bit with EC3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smackdown Live had an interesting end\nwith all Elimination Chamber participants coming down to the ring. Who will\nemerge victorious at the Chamber? My head says Daniel Bryan will retain but my\nheart wants Jeff Hardy to come out on top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NXT UK review is up. As I said in my\nreview, there is some great talent in this brand, guys like Ligero and Mark\nAndrews are killing it. But some of these guys are not ready for the WWE\nspotlight. Thanks Liam for the match recommendations. I’m still on the fence\nabout Walter but I’m definitely more open minded then before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watched last year\u2019s Women’s\nElimination Chamber match, which I forgot how much I enjoyed. I also didn’t\nrealise how much the Raw women’s division has missed Alexa Bliss. The Twisted\nBliss off the top of one of the chamber pods looked amazing and slick. I can’t\nwait to see her back to a full time schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read an interesting bit about Vince\nMcMahon and his comments about the current injury ridden locker room. He comes\nacross as a genuinely warm hearted guys, acknowledging that the wrestlers are\nnot cartoon characters or super heroes and injuries happen and they must make\nsure they heal and that the storylines can twist a little when required. The\nquote, published by wrestling inc can be found here https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/news\/2019\/02\/vince-mcmahon-on-injuries-hurting-wwe-business-650696\/ \u2026<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally, in the ‘late to the\nparty’ category, I understand WWE are advertising an intergender match between\nDean Ambrose and Nia Jax at upcoming live events. There are some great ones out\nthere in other promotions. What are your favourites? Do you think WWE is ready\nfor this and what outcome would you expect? We’d love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@WynterStorm24<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SuperBowl was awful, but Halftime\nHeat was amazing. It made for much better halftime entertainment than Maroon 5,\nTravis Scott, and Big Boi. NXT is amazing and everyone should be checking it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Monday marked 15 weeks since\nRoman Reigns\u2019 departure from WWE to battle leukemia. He seems to be doing well,\nwhich makes me happy. I actually want to see the Hobbs and Shaw movie, mostly\nbecause I like The Rock and the Fast and Furious franchise, but let\u2019s see what\nMr. Reigns can do in his cinematic debut. Seth Rollins is also possibly dealing\nwith an injury. Hopefully it\u2019s a minor one as I would love to see my beloved\nKingslayer become Universal Champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I caught up on NXT UK. I still really\nlike Rhea Ripley and Jordan Devlin. Also, I bought Travis Banks a birthday\npresent. It\u2019s been a while since I had write a non-US address so I stared at it\nlike it was wrong for a good five minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dolph Ziggler is coming to my area to\nperform stand-up so a couple of my friends and I are going to go. Even if his\nset isn\u2019t the greatest, the bar serves great food and drinks so we\u2019re bound to\nhave a good time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenny Omega officially signed with All\nElite Wrestling, along with a few other indie names. Your girl is definitely\nbreaking out the Team Kenny shirt for Double or Nothing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mostly this week, I\u2019ve been really\nconnecting with other wrestling fans of color. It\u2019s been a lot of fun hanging\nout in this niche of the fandom, especially because being a non-white wrestling\nfan can be an isolating experience at times. Black History Month seems to\nproduce some of the most awful racism too so we\u2019ve been leaning on each other\nand some of our favorite wrestlers of color as we weather the storm of racial\nvitriol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@codytweetsstuff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My week in wrestling was kicked off\nwith RAW where we saw… not much happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smackdown Live was more eventful as\nusual. Randy Orton and Mustafa Ali had a top tier match which left Mustafa Ali\nwith a gnarly black eye, ouch! Daniel Bryan and Jeff Hardy had a very solid no\ncontest match and left me wanting more at Elimination Chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 205 Live was great as always and we found out\nthat it will be Akira Tozawa taking on Buddy Murphy at Elimination Chamber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NXT was excellent. We had the debut of\nEric Bugenhagen who in the couple of minutes during his entrance has already\nprovided some brilliant air guitar moves and heavy metal screams. We also saw\nMatt Riddle vs Drew Gulak. What a match. Gulak\u2019s technical genius and Riddle\u2019s\noverness with the crowd led to an absolutely incredible match. Drew Gulak may\nbe my favourite cruiserweight in the company at the moment, the man is\nabsolutely killing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My week ended with the AEW Double or\nNothing pool party. Some huge announcements were made and quite a few matches\nfor Double or Nothing are coming into fruition. The \u2018party\u2019 was kicked off with\nSonny Kiss and ended with Kenny Omega. Finally, Kenny Omega has arrived and as\nthe fourth Executive Vice President so I expect to see a lot more of him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent\nBaretta) arrived in their best Scott Hall cosplay and the Lucha Brothers\nanswered the Young Bucks\u2019 challenge from Being The Elite. Well, they more than\nanswered the challenge. The Lucha Brothers proceeded to attack the Young Bucks\nin what I assume is a setup for a match that will be announced for Double or\nNothing sometime in the near future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Jericho attacked Kenny Omega…\nAlpha vs Omega II? Other notable moments included the announcements of talent\nsuch as Sammy Guevara, Aja Kong, Yuka Sakasaki & Kylie Rae as well as a\npartnership with lucha promotion, AAA. A very good week in wrestling\nindeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

@RyanArmstorm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raw and Smackdown started the week. The pace is slowly\ngetting there but I am yet to feel the Mania build. Hopefully this will start\nin the coming weeks! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing the news of Jimmy Havoc signing for AEW. This is\nfantastic and I imagine we will find out a lot on what people can and can\u2019t do\nonce he performs with them especially in this country. No more progress? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attended Reach Wrestling\u2019s Thursday Night Reach. A fantastic\ncompany based in Plymouth that are in their first year of operating and this\nwas the 4th event they have held and I think things are only going to get\nbetter. The guys in charge know what they are doing and are bringing in a lot\nof known talent from around the UK. Main event headlined by British wrestling\nlegend Jody Fleisch against Charlie Sterling which was a phenomenal match and\nshowing that Charlie Sterling will be a big hit around the UK soon enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ending the week catching up with more AEW news which again\nis fantastic for these guys and I look forward to seeing how things go for them\nthis year  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

@Iwanmack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this week, I travelled up to Fight Club Pro for my first\naway trip of 2019.
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\nAlthough it was cold outside, the action was red hot inside with great matches\nlike Team FCP consisting of Jordan Devlin, Travis Banks and Dan Moloney losing\nto the Schudenfreude team of Chris Brookes, Timothy Thatcher and Lucky Kid in\nan all action 6-man tag team match which Devlin was the highlight of; Will\nOspreay def. Kyle Fletcher in an absolute stormer of a contest which should\nserve as evidence to why Kyle Fletcher can be a major singles star all up and\ndown the country; Shigehiro Irie initiated into Beast Mode to defeat Mike\nBailey, Shane Strickland and El Phantasmo in a crazy 4 way dance and Mark Davis\ndef. WALTER in absolute war of a main event that served as the farewell to\nWALTER in FCP it seemed like. A really good show overall and a good start to\nthe year for Fight Club Pro.
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\nUnfortunately, the same can not be said for the next days event as I dragged my\nlifeless carcass of a body to Coventry along with my friends Chris and Kyle to\nhead to Kamikaze Pro’s first show of the year. Like I mentioned, I was tired as\nanything after going to the Giffard the night before. It was also so bloody\ncold and I couldn’t wait to warm up which I unfortunately wasn’t able to do\nthroughout the show. Whilst the show was very good and excellent in some\nplaces, especially a fantastic Anti-Fun Police vs CCBlaaahhh match which I\nhighly recommend, what ruined the show was the drunken idiots of fans behind me\nand around the venue who made sure the show was about them and deciding to bust\nout some truly dodgy stuff, bad chanting and acting like idiots.
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\nOverall though, it was a fun weekender but very draining at the same time\nthrough the amount of travel and lack of sleep. Maybe I’m not as young as I\nused be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@twf87<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of big news came out this week,\nstarting with AEW holding a press conference in Las Vegas, where they announced\na number of new signings ahead of Double Or Nothing. The biggest announcement\nof the night was Kenny Omega making it official that he would be joining his\nfriends from The Elite in AEW. Honestly I would have been more surprised if he\nhadn\u2019t gone to AEW, but at least this puts to bed the rumours about Kenny\npossibly turning up in WWE. AEW also announced the signing of Kylie Rae and\nNyla Rose for their women\u2019s division, as well as the appearances of Aja Kong\nand Yuka Sakazaki at Double Or Nothing. Rae and Rose both look like good\nsignings based on who\u2019s available right now – I saw Rae in Stardom last year\nand Rose in Marvelous, and they both looked good. It seems like AEW will\nprobably end up with a partnership with DDT, based on some comments from\nSanshiro Takagi and their bringing Yuka over for the show, so Kota Ibushi may\nalso be coming onboard at some point. I think AEW working with Japanese\npromotions rather than trying to poach talent from them makes much more sense.\nIt seems like Kenny still has the ability to work New Japan dates going\nforward, but what it means for the relationship between AEW and NJPW remains to\nbe seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week also saw Kris Wolf announced\nher retirement from wrestling at the end of her current tour, citing past\nconcussions and a desire to protect her health now that she has just married\nher partner. The first foreigner to come through the Stardom dojo, Kris was one\nof the people who first got me into Stardom, and joshi wrestling as a whole,\nand I\u2019m going to miss her a lot. I haven\u2019t seen too much of her stuff\npost-Stardom, but from all accounts she had a good run in wXw and Eve. Her\npromos in Stardom are a real highlight, and anyone who has Stardom World should\ngo back and rewatch some of her classic stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile in Stardom it was announced\nthat a new member would be joining Oedo Tai, which might be a traitor from\nanother unit. This set off a lot of speculation as to who the traitor might be,\nuntil this new X made their first appearance at a show on February 9th, wearing\na mask. It\u2019s still unclear exactly who X might be, but all signs now seem to point\ntoward Cassandra Miyagi, formerly of Sendai Girls\u2019, who became a free agent at\nthe end of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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