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A doomed festival, a birthday title shot for an ECW legend, and a mystery partner reveal were highlights of this week's Impact Wrestling.

In 2021, Ric Flair is still the best thing on Monday Night Raw. Woooooo! Plus: Randy Orton engages in intergender wrestling, and more!

In a bait and switch, WWE promised Paul Heyman vs. Adam Pearce but delivered Roman Reigns and Kevin Owens instead on Smackdown tonight.

On with the show! The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] Impact Wrestling Recap for January 19th, 2020 In a video from after the main event last Saturday, Don Callis congratulates Kenny Omega and the Good Brothers on their victory at Hard to Kill[...]

I'm Jude Terror, and I'll tell you everything that happened, so you don't have to invest three hours of your life into this nonsense. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Raw Recap – January 18th, 2020 Promo: Randy Orton Raw begins with an MLK[...]

Welcome to The Shovel I'm Jude Terror, feeling refreshed after El Presidente and The Chadster took over recapping the shows on Wednesday Phew, what a relief! Now I'll be in top form to make fun of Smackdown, so let's get right to it! The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling,[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's Impact Wrestling recap, otherwise known as The Shovel I'm Jude Terror, and I watch wrestling so you don't have to Impact Wrestling has a few loose ends to tie up ahead of this Saturday's Hard to Kill PPV Let's recap this son of a bitch! The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of[...]

With WWE Champion Drew McIntyre out of action with COVID-19 and the Royal Rumble less than three weeks away, Triple H returns to Monday Night Raw to save WWE in its hour of need. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Raw Recap[...]

But alas, duty calls, and Smackdown must be recapped. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Smackdown Recap for Friday, January 8th, 2021 Promo: Roman Reigns Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, and Paul Heyman head to the ring…very… slowly… to kick off Smackdown[...]

I'm already done with AEW Dynamite so that puts me at the halfway point with just WWE NXT to go. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE NXT Recap for January 6th, 2020 Dexter Lumis welcomes us to WWE NXT New Years Evil in[...]

With nothing else going on in the world Wednesday night, we might as well watch and recap AEW Dynamite. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] AEW Dynamite Recap for Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 Chris Jericho is on commentary with Jim Ross, Excalibur, and Tony[...]

Let's recap this son of a bitch. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] Impact Wrestling Recap for January 5th, 2020 After a Kenny Omega centric recap of the end of 2020, Ace Austin heads to the ring, accompanied by Madman Fulton Then Blake Christian,[...]

This is The Shovel Let's find out. The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Raw Recap for January 4th, 2021 Raw opens with than advertisement for something called the H-Phone, which appears to be an iPhone with a beat-up Hulkamania case on it that[...]

Oh… crap! The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE Smackdown Recap for Friday, January 1st, 2021 After an "In Memory of Jon Huber" graphic, the first WWE Smackdown of 2021 begins Then we get a recap of last week's steel cage match and Roman[...]

Not necessarily the best frame of mind to now watch another two hours of wrestling to recap WWE NXT, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do… The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock] WWE NXT Recap for December 30th, 2020 Before NXT,[...]