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>Watch WWE NXT with /wooo/ in /wooo/2 - http://taima.tv/r/wooo2 and /wooo/alt2 - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt2 at 8pm Eastern//1am London. On tonight's show:

• WWE NXT Tag Team Championship bout: Breezango (c) vs. Bobby Fish & Roderick Strong.
  
• Triple Threat Match: KUSHIDA vs. The Velveteen Dream vs. Tommaso Ciampa
  
• Isaiah “Swerve” Scott & Jakes Atlas & Ashante “Thee” Adonis vs Legado del Fantasma ("El Fantasma" Santos Escobar, Raul Mendoza & Joaquin Wilde)
  

>Breezango defend the NXT Tag Team Titles against The Undisputed ERA
> Is the second coming of The Undisputed ERA’s Golden Prophecy imminent? Roderick Strong & Bobby Fish will look to usher it in tonight when they challenge Breezango for the NXT Tag Team Titles. The most dominant faction in NXT history has been without any gold for some time, but Strong & Fish earned a chance to change that when they defeated Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan last week. They will try to claim The Undisputed ERA’s fourth NXT Tag Team Championship. Meanwhile, Tyler Breeze & Fandango have been up to the challenge of warding off the competition since seizing their first championship in WWE or NXT. Will The Undisputed ERA be golden, or will Breezango send them back to the drawing board?

>Tommaso Ciampa, Kushida and Velveteen Dream to battle in Triple Threat Match
> After having their fates intertwined in recent weeks, Tommaso Ciampa, Kushida and Velveteen Dream will battle in a massive Triple Threat Match tonight on NXT. The bad blood between Kushida and Dream stems all the way back to Dream’s surprising return to the black-and-gold brand two months ago. Dream came up short in a Triple Threat Qualifying Match for NXT TakeOver XXX, and he took his frustrations out afterward on fellow competitor Kushida. The two traded strikes for weeks until NXT’s resident Time Splitter claimed a monumental victory in a one-on-one bout at NXT TakeOver 31 earlier this month. But Dream wasn’t finished with Kushida. He interfered in Kushida’s match against Ciampa two weeks ago and errantly hit Ciampa instead of his intended target. If last week’s footage of The Blackheart is any indication, Dream may have made an even bigger new enemy with that mistake. What’s in store when these three lock horns? Find out on NXT tonight

>Isaiah “Swerve” Scott teams with Jake Atlas & Ashante “Thee” Adonis against Legado del Fantasma
>Legado del Fantasma’s war with Isaiah “Swerve” Scott rages on, but Scott isn’t short on allies willing to take up arms against them. “Swerve” teams with Jake Atlas and Ashante “Thee” Adonis against Legado del Fantasma in Six-Man Tag Team action tonight on NXT. When Raul Mendoza & Joaquin Wilde got involved in Santos Escobar’s NXT Cruiserweight Title defense against Scott at NXT TakeOver 31, Adonis was there to neutralize them. They sought payback following Adonis’ narrow loss to Atlas last week, but Atlas joined the fight, and Swerve later arrived with more equalizers in the form of steel chairs, much to Escobar’s chagrin. Will the new alliance be enough to take down Legado del Fantasma, or will Escobar, Wilde & Mendoza have the last laugh?

>Watch AEW Dynamite with /wooo/ in /wooo/tube - http://taima.tv/r/wooo and /wooo/alt - http://taima.tv/r/woooalt at 8pm Eastern//1am London. Dynamite will be preceded by a replay of AEW Dark. On tonight show:

• World Title Eliminator Quarter-finals: Rey Fenix vs. Penta.
  
• World Title Eliminator Quarter-finals: Kenny Omega vs. Joey Janela Sonny Kiss _{Janela has been pulled due to COVID related issues}
  
• World Title Eliminator Quarter-finals: Hangman Page vs. Colt Cabana
  
• World Title Eliminator Quarter-finals: Wardlow vs. Jungle Boy
  
• The Butcher & The Blade vs. Alex Reynolds & John Silver vs. Private Party vs. The Young Bucks - Winners Challenge FTR for AEW Tag Team Championship at Full Gear PPV
  
• Dr. Britt Baker will be in action
  
• Le Dinner Debonair: Chris Jericho and MJF enjoy a succulent steak dinner in each other's cultured company.
  

>World Title Eliminator tournament kicks off

>Le Dinner Debonair

>4-Way Tag-Team match to determine who will challenge FTR

>Dr. Britt Baker will be in action on AEW Dynamite

>Nominations 7:00pm EST
>Bloodbath 8:00pm EST

> The WWE draft, held on the 10/9 Smackdown and 10/12 Raw shows, with a few lower picks at other times, saw most of the talent stay with their brand, with a few switches. The champions all stayed with their brand aside from a trade of tag team champions, with Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods (who beat Shinsuke Nakamura & Cesaro for the Smackdown tag titles on 10/9) going to Raw and The Street Profits going to Smackdown. They had both on television on 10/12 and they simply switched belts. There was an unmistakable series of trades of people of similar level, but the key take is that of what appeared to be the company’s three hottest acts, Roman Reigns & Paul Heyman; The Mysterio family vs. Seth Rollins & Murphy, and Bayley vs. Sasha Banks, Smackdown got all three. Perhaps one could argue that Raw did get The Fiend & Alexa Bliss combination.

> Perhaps the most talked about aspect was the split up of The New Day, with Kingston & Woods moving to Raw as tag team champions and Big E staying a single. The idea is to get Big E away from the act and make him more serious for a singles push. Historically, WWE has broken up tag team acts in the draft before and while there are exceptions, most of the time they find out the combination of parts was more effective than the parts individually. One would suspect E getting a major singles push, which was talked about weeks ago and somewhat started. The idea is to get him out of the comedic mode. There is a logic to it even though, because the New Day has been established together for so many years and have been popular, there was going to be a negative reaction breaking them up without a storyline leading to it.

> Trying to use logic to explain the draft is a waste of time. Such as, if acts can be drafted together, why did Raw pick Woods & Kingston and not Big E when it was specifically stated acts will be drafted together and in the WWE’s own listings of who can be picked, The New Day was listed as all three together. But that wasn’t the only act broken up. Lucha House Party was a similar situation, with Lince Dorado & Gran Metalik moved to Raw while Kalisto stayed on Smackdown. So in this case, they had spent weeks building up the split and feud with Dorado and Kalisto with Metalik in the middle, and dropped it cold without so much as one match. Heavy Machinery was also broken up even though they were supposed to be grouped together. Tucker is a very good athlete and talented, but he’s going to have a very difficult time as a single. Plus, with his size, it looks silly to put him in a jobber role because he’ll make the heels look small. There was no reason to break them up, also because even if the idea is of Otis as a single, they actually had good believability as best friends, and Otis is far better playing off Tucker as the straight guy than on his own.

> A few acts, Elias on Raw and Lars Sullivan on Smackdown, returned after lengthy absences. Elias had surgery for a torn pec and they did an accident angle where Hardy was accused of running him over, but it was later said to be a guy with red hair and a red beard (Sheamus). But Elias returned as a heel and blamed Hardy nonetheless. Sullivan had major knee surgery, and it got infected at one point keeping him out even longer. But he has been ready for some time and they waited until this week to bring him back.

> There was controversy on Sullivan because of tweets he made before he was in WWE on a bodybuilding forum. Even though they happened before he was with WWE, and WWE was aware of them long before and had said all was okay, when they resurfaced when he was on the main roster, WWE fined him $100,000, which was a real umber. He also apologized toa number of wrestlers as well before suffering the knee injury. Riddle was still being used and pushed after the lawsuit was filed against him, but that was also a situation the company had investigated and known about for more than one year. Plus, the company itself was being sued. But they did stop cold the mentio…

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