Professional Wrestling Discussion

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>A Block

>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.

• AEW World Champion Jon Moxley vs ????? (A mystery opponent to be chosen by "The Last of a Dying Breed" Eddie Kingston)
  
• AEW Tag Team Championship bout: FTR (c) vs. SCU's Scorpio Sky & Frankie Kazarian.
  
• Cody responds to Mr Brodie Lee's challenge for a Dog Collar Match.
  
• Private Party's Isaiah Kassidy vs. "Le Demo God" Chris "The Million Viewer Man" Jericho.
  
• Ricky Starks _{with Taz} vs. the man who previously gashed his back open with a thumbtack tipped Skateboard, Darby Allin.
  
• "Freshly Squeezed" Orange Cassidy vs. 10 of the Dark Order
  
• Dr. Britt Baker to appear.
  

>Jon Moxley faces an opponent of Eddie Kingston's choosing on AEW Dynamite

>Cody responds to Mr. Brodie Lee's challenge

>FTR defend the AEW Tag-Team Championships against SCU

>Britt Baker returns

>Ricky Starks faces Darby Allin

>Chris Jericho will be in action against Isiah Kassidy

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

> COVID has now spread into a number of promotions this past week with a major outbreak in WWE, some in AEW and four of the biggest stars, if not more, in CMLL. All three promotions had to change aspects of their television shows this week. AEW’s television main event was changed. NXT had changes as well as noted by those in the company but were not specific as to what the changes were past there was a significant outbreak. The outbreak was said to affect plans for the Raw brand for 9/28, but there has been no indication it affects the scheduled matches on the 9/27 Clash of Champions a far as participants in the bouts themselves.

> However, those who have been training at the Performance Center of late have been taken off Raw or Smackdown tapings until further notice. There is also fear that the large number of Performance Center athletes who were under masks at Retribution may lead to issues due to interacting with the Raw roster on the 9/21 show.

> Lance Archer tested positive for COVID this past week which caused the company to change the 9/23 TV show. Archer said that when he got home from the last set of shows two weeks ago, a member of his family was sick. He said that person had been driven to the vet by a friend who turned out to test positive. Archer said that he ended up sick and then tested positive.

> Archer was the exception to the rule in the sense that his positive was not wrestling related. Most of the positives in AEW and NXT were related to talent that is in Orlando (not necessarily all, as there is thought some is also related to independent wrestling as some AEW talent and extras have worked some indie dates of late, Ben Carter being the name that has come out although he is not AEW contracted talent). Carter said that he contracted the disease after 9/10, when his recent AEW matches were taped.

> Serena Deeb, who just signed an AEW contract and worked the last set of tapings, said that earlier this week she was in contact with someone who tested positive and would be quarantining herself for two weeks. She seemed to target the date as around 9/20 as on 9/24 she said she would be quarantining for another ten days. She was scheduled on the 9/29 UWN PPV show against Allysin Kay. That match has been changed to Kay vs. Nicole Savoy.

> With the Orlando area being a hotbed as far as wrestlers go, talent from WWE and AEW socialize, go to the gym together, and some are even in relationships together, as well as socialize with some of the same fans and insiders. One person very familiar with the testing results and spread said that was the key reason why it happened at the same time with both companies. There is also the issue with independent promotions opening up, some with fans in attendance. While some are testing, not all are doing so. WWE talent never works independent shows but the non-contracted AEW talent work as many indies as they can, and some AEW contracted talent still works indies as well.

> AEW has acknowledged that the story itself is accurate but due to privacy would not say anything more about it other than Archer has tested positive since he went public with it. AEW has gone a step farther of late in its testing. They are now requiring people to test before coming to Jacksonville and then they get tested a second time on arrival and are not allowed in until the results of the second test come in. With Tony Khan’s NFL connections, he is working with the NFL Covid response team for stricter protocol.

> The idea was that since Eddie Kingston actually didn’t go over the top rope in the Battle Royal (which was likely going to be used down the line) that he would get the 9/23 title match. Right now Moxley vs. Archer is scheduled for the 10/14 Anniversary show. The was talk that they hope the planned six-man tag with Archer & Ricky Starks & Brian Cage vs. Moxley & Darby Allin & Will Hobbs would take place on 10/7 based on the idea they are still planning the match and that would be the only date possible to have it sinc…

>Thomas Shire – A brilliant mat wrestling mind in the body of a pound for pound hoss. Shire has been wrestling for the last 13 years and was trained by Dory Funk Jr, on top of a stint in the AJPW dojo early on in his career. Primarily wrestles in the midwest/Texas scene for promotions like St. Louis Anarchy and Inspired. Also recently appeared in Eddie Kingston's Grindhouse against. This cat truly brings the best of both worlds. A grappler who can trap his opponents in interesting holds one minute and then the next have them be spinning around on his shoulders before tossing the poor saps to the floor. He'd be a perfect addition to ROH, specially now that they're trying to establish a Pure division

>The Gym Nasty Boys: White Mike & Timmy Lou Retton – A couple of charismatic Casanovas who can go in the ring as well as they can entertain outside of it. There's no such thing as a boring Gym Nasty Boys match because they'll find a way to grab your attention, whether it be through fun in-ring actions or some truly outrageous attics. Hell this guys could probably win you over with their promos alone. If GCW had a tag division these guys should be one of the teams at the forefront of it. Also White Mike's spinning final cut deal is one of the best finishers going today.

>Tarik: I've personally seen this guy wrestle on multiple occasions, all up and down the card, and he's constantly one of, if not, thee best part of the show. A wrestlers that can deliver a great match against any sort of opponent. On the same accord he also can't be pigeon hold into any specific type of style, he brings a little bit of everything to the table and does it all pretty damn well.

>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:

• Tonight is an NXT Takeover go-home show.
  
• Shawn Michaels moderates as WWE NXT Champion Finn Balor and Kyle O'Reilly go face to face.
  
• WWE NXT North American Champion Damian Priest & WWE NXT Women's Champion Io Shirai vs. Johnny Gargano & Candice LaRae.
  
• Danny Burch vs. Roderick Strong for a shot at the WWE NXT Tag Team Championship
  
• "The Ballsy Badass" Shotzi Blackheart vs. "My NXT Women's top heel can't possibly be this cute?!?!" Dakota Kai.
  

>Finn Bálor and Kyle O’Reilly set for face-to-face hosted by Shawn Michaels
>Finn Bálor and Kyle O’Reilly will go face to face just four days before their NXT Title showdown, and they’ll be joined by a WWE Hall of Famer. Shawn Michaels will host a face-to-face meeting between the NXT Champion and his next challenger tonight ahead of their match on Sunday, Oct. 4, at NXT TakeOver 31. O’Reilly earned the right to take on Bálor after a gutsy performance in the first-ever Gauntlet Eliminator Match, going wire-to-wire and eliminating three competitors en route to the biggest victory of his career. What will unfold during the face-to-face between The Prince and O’Reilly with HBK on hand?

>NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai joins North American Champion Damian Priest against Candice LeRae & Johnny Gargano
> Can NXT’s “First Couple” carve out an early advantage ahead of their championship matches at NXT TakeOver 31? Find out Wednesday night on NXT as NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai teams with NXT North American Champion Damian Priest to face TakeOver opponents Candice LeRae & Johnny Gargano. LeRae won last week’s No. 1 Contender’s Battle Royal to clinch her long-awaited NXT Women’s Title opportunity, while NXT General Manager William Regal announced Gargano earlier this month as Priest’s latest challenger. Gargano fired the first shot at Priest last week when he ambushed The Archer of Infamy, blasting him with a superkick and mocking his signature pose following Priest’s victory over Austin Theory. LeRae, meanwhile, has had her eyes set on Shirai’s championship for quite some time. Which duo will seize a crucial victory before NXT TakeOver 31?

>Shotzi Blackheart to square off with Dakota Kai after Battle Royal dust-up
> Dakota Kai had her sights set on another opportunity at the NXT Women’s Title, but Shotzi Blackheart had other plans. The two will go one-on-one after crossing paths in last week’s No. 1 Contender’s Battle Royal. As two of the final three Superstars remaining, Kai targeted Blackheart with a running facewash kick, but she found herself hung up on the rope as Shotzi dodged her attack before dumping her over the top rope. Blackheart, who impressed earlier this month in a singles bout with NXT Women’s Champion Io Shirai, fought valiantly before being the final competitor eliminated by winner Candice LeRae. LeRae may have vaulted to the front of the line with her victory, but this matchup figures to have serious ramifications for the NXT Women’s Title picture going forward. Who will claim victory?

>World Wrestling Entertainment referee/talent liaison Drake Wuertz and Matt Morgan, WWE wrestler-turned-mayor of Longwood, Florida, have been coordinating to raise money for a QAnon-adjacent anti-child trafficking charity on company and city time, emails obtained by Motherboard show.

>While Operation Underground Railroad says it has no connection to QAnon and vaguely disavows conspiracy theories on its website, the organization has embraced followers of that particular baseless conspiracy theory, rather than condemning it the way that other anti-trafficking charities have.

>“Some of these theories have allowed people to open their eyes,” OUR founder/CEO Tim Ballard, a former Department of Homeland Security agent, told the New York Times in August. “So now it’s our job to flood the space with real information so the facts can be shared.” A few weeks earlier, Ballard treated the false and QAnon-supported conspiracy theory that furniture retailer/marketplace Wayfair was a child trafficking hub as a legitimate concern in posts on his Twitter and Instagram accounts. “With or without Wayfair, child trafficking is real and happening!!!” he wrote, adding in the attached video that “law enforcement’s gonna flush that out and we’ll get our answers sooner than later, but I want to tell you this: Children ARE sold that way!”

>(The organization also makes a habit of posting videos of the “operations” it claims to help smaller law enforcement agencies with. One recent video profiled the vaguely defined “ops training” that OUR agents must undergo to participate in such “operations.”)

>Emails released via public records requests under Florida’s Sunshine Act show Wuertz, the WWE referee, coordinating his activities as a volunteer for Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) via his WWE corporate email, even pledging to solicit WWE performers to appear at an OUR fundraiser. The same emails also appear to show Morgan making an effort to keep his behind-the-scenes discussions of OUR out of the public record, limiting his conversations to non-recorded phone calls and email threads using his personal Gmail account, which isn’t subject to Sunshine Act requests.

>The emails were released to Motherboard as part of a cache of 40 pages from the Longwood city government that were responsive to requests about QAnon, Operation Underground Railroad and an August 24 meeting that both Wuertz and Morgan posted about on social media.

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