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AEW Unveils Boundless Ad By Director X: History of a Revolution
Featuring AEW stars and talking about the company's ethos of being by wrestlers for wrestling fans, the documentary-style ad was teased earlier this week and announced today with an official press release: Today, TNT announced a new ad campaign to promote its popular All Elite Wrestling program, "AEW Dynamite," which is currently the number one wrestling[...]
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On Impact Wrestling this week, The Rascalz have their final match in Impact Plus: the Knockout Tag Team title tournament begins! And: Hernandez seeks revenge on Fallah Bahh! I'm Jude Terror, and this is the Shovel: Impact Wrestling Edition, covering the titular Impact Wrestling, the real rain that comes to wash the scum off the television[...]
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On Impact Wrestling this week, Tommy Dreamer finds the smoking gun in the shooting of John E Bravo in Johnny Swinger's fanny pack Plus: Moose vs Willie Mack and Brian Myers vs Crazzy Steve. I'm Jude Terror, and this is the Shovel: Impact Wrestling Edition, covering the titular Impact Wrestling, the real rain that comes to[...]
WWE's Renee Young (Renee Paquette) doing commentary for Monday Night Raw (Image: WWE)
Whether you're hosting over the holidays, planning an anniversary dinner, or just feel like throwing back some cocktails and lining your belly with carbs, Renée's got you covered. But though Young's cooking has captured the hearts, minds, and stomachs of the wrestling world on social media, it's her gift of gab that fans truly crave, so[...]
Barack Obama's A Promised Land takes on The Young Bucks' Killing the Business in a publishing showdown for the ages!
The book is described thusly: A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of[...]
The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw. Credit: WWE.
Oh, who am I kidding? The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock][MULTINAV] WWE Raw Recap for November 16th, 2020 Part 3 The Miz faces Bray Wyatt in a match because he talked trash about him earlier in the night, and someone decided that having Miz[...]
The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw. Credit: WWE.
Oh, who am I kidding? The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock][MULTINAV] WWE Raw Recap for November 16th, 2020 Part 2 It's 9 PM, and I'm fighting to stay awake And I'm losing For a go-home show, this has been a real dud so far[...]
The official logo for WWE Monday Night Raw. Credit: WWE.
Oh, who am I kidding? The Shovel – Weekly TV Recaps of WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Impact Wrestling, AEW Dynamite, and WWE NXT [Photo: Shutterstock][MULTINAV] WWE Raw Recap for November 16th, 2020 Part 1 Drew McIntyre comes out to start the show He talks about Survivor Series and how it's a Thanksgiving tradition He wants to tell us[...]
Nia Jax stands triumphant over Kairi Sane on WWE Monday Night Raw. [Broadcast/WWE]
Captured by WrestlingNews.co, in the Instagram post, Jax wrote, "The Covid Vaccine is 90% effective after 8 months of development when the flu vaccine is 40% effective after 70 years of development I'll go with my immune system, as it's 99.9% effective God made my immune system, and I trust him the most." Nia Jax stands[...]
Randy Orton disrespects WWE official Adam Pearce
Compounding matters, wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer has implied that tonight's match will end in some kind of interference from either Roman Reigns or Jey Uso, as he tweeted, "Anyway, per the discussion on last night's show regarding McIntyre's appearance on Smackdown, it all does make sense at the end of the show tonight At least[...]
Xanta Claus attacks Savio Vega: In Your House, Dec, 17, 1995
Savio Vega could be the next pro wrestler to leave behind the wrestling ring and join the more violent and cutthroat world of politics! Following in the footsteps of successful wrestlers-turned-politicians like Kane, Jesse Ventura, and Donald Trump, Savio Vega has his sights set on political power Vega is planning to run in 2020 for[...]
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The biggest story in wrestling last week, and one with the potential to become the biggest story in wrestling in decades, was WWE firing Zelina Vega after Vega refused to give up her Twitch account Ten minutes before WWE announced her release, Vega tweeted in support of unionization Doing so perfectly positioned the event to[...]
These are the brackets for Impact Wrestling's Knockouts Tag Team Championship Tournament
On Saturday, Impact Wrestling held an Impact Plus special, Turning Point, which you can read all about in our live recap from last night The show saw several title changes take place, as well as a major development in the mystery of who shot John E Bravo Impact also revealed the brackets for the Knockouts Tag[...]
GLOW Cast Reunites After Cancellation, Hopes For Movie Finale
8 months later now, the city has still outlawed dining inside restaurants, being in public without a face covering, movie theaters, and most importantly to my point, gyms. So what does this mean for our gorgeous ladies of wrestling? Being shot in Los Angeles, they are still subject to the same laws, albeit there are exceptions[...]
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Was Swann able to retain the title? We'll tell you here. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week and tell you what happened so you can do something more productive with your[...]
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Who walked out with the belt? Find out here. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week and tell you what happened so you can do something more productive with your life. The Shovel[...]
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Were the Good Brothers able to defeat The North and win the Impact Tag Team Championships at Impact's Turning Point special? Find out here! I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week and[...]
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Willie Mack challenged Moose at Impact Wrestling's Turning Point special How did that turn out? We'll tell you all about it. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week and tell you what[...]
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Cousin Jake came out for the Defeat Rohit challenge at Impact Wrestling's Turning Point special Did he win the X-Division championship? Find out here! I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week and[...]
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James Storm teamed with his old rival Chris Sabin to take on XXXL at Impact Wrestling's Turning Point special Did the dream team win? Find out! I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given[...]
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Swoggle looked for respect in a match against Brian Myers at Impact Wrestling's Turning Point special Did he get it? We'll tell you. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week and tell[...]
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Tenille Dashwood teamed up with Jordynne Grace to take on Taya Valkyrie and Rosemary at Impact Wrestling's Turning Point special Here's what happened. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week and tell[...]
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Eddie Edwards takes on a returning Daivari in the first match of Impact Wrestling's Turning Point special Who came out on top? Find out here. I'm Jude Terror, and this is The Shovel, the recap column (or perhaps a manifestation of severe mental illness) where I watch all the wrestling on TV in a given week[...]
A scene from WWE Monday Night Raw 6/22/20
Vega emerged Friday as the symbol of a growing conflict in the wrestling business between labor and management after refusing to hand over control over her Twitch account to the company. Zelina Vega appears on WWE Raw with Charly Caruso, Angel Garza, and Andrade. Vega was released by WWE last night about an hour before Smackdown went[...]
The official logo for WWE Friday Night Smackdown.
But the fact of the matter is, these are crazy times and sometimes the greatest wrestling company in the world is gonna inexplicably lose in the ratings even though anyone who doesn't watch WWE SmackDown is basically a terrible person So it's no big deal There's always next week, right? Please, God, let WWE SmackDown[...]