Opinion: Match & Show Ratings for November 6 to November 12, 2022

Editor’s note: Next week’s match and show ratings report will not be released next Sunday and instead on the following Monday due to a special reason to be revealed later.

Welcome to TPWW’s Emperor Smeat’s Match and Show Ratings for the week of November 6 to November 12th, 2022.

Match and show star ratings (out of 5):

WWE

WWE RAW (Nov. 7)
* Bloodline (Solo Sikoa & The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso)) vs. Matt Riddle & New Day (Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston) – 3.5
* Baron Corbin vs. Cedric Alexander – 2.5
* United States Championship Open Challenge match – Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins (c) – NA
* Otis vs. Elias – 2.0
* Austin Theory vs. Shelton Benjamin – 2.5
* The Miz vs. Johnny Gargano -2.5
* 24/7 Championship – Nikki Cross vs. Dana Brooke (c) – 1.5
* United States Championship Open Challenge match – Bobby Lashley vs. Seth Rollins (c) – N/A
* United States Championship – Austin Theory vs. Seth Rollins (c) – 2.0
Overall – 2.5
Best – The opening promo segment between Usos & New Day minus Riddle’s involvement.
Worst – The booking of RAW’s third hour in general for this week’s show.
Show Notes – Opening Usos & Sikoa’s promo boasting about the Bloodline’s wins at Crown Jewel 2022 & upcoming all-time tag title reign record. New Day’s interruption, insults banter, & Woods’ dig at Usos getting handed things over their family name’s legacy. Heated banter over who had to deal with more pressure to have successful careers, Jey’s dig at Kofimania only happened due to them, & Kofi’s heated retort. Riddle’s interruption asking Woods to join his band with Elias and “bong” offer to everyone, Jey being the only one to reject the bong tapping, & match setup was mostly splendid overall despite Riddle’s antics derailing it but Sami Zayn’s absence was interesting. Bloodline vs. Riddle & New Day 6-Man Tag moments: Riddle’s moves fest to Bloodline & Exploder Suplexes and Brotons to Usos. Jey’s dodge, superkick, & pop-up backdrop slam counter of Riddle’s moonsault. Sikoa chucking Woods over the announcer’s table & punch counter of Kingston’s suicide dive into Riddle’s apron kick & moonsault to Sikoa. Riddle’s RKO to Jimmy into Sikoa’s Spinning Solo finisher to Riddle. Match itself was a very good back-and-forth action bout, especially the latter half. JBL’s promo bashing the Phillies for being World Series losers, “woke ass” Philly folk, & modern day wrestling god intro for Corbin was whatever. Corbin vs. Alexander was a solid bout. Rollins’ promo about his US title open challenge, Judgement Day coming out and Balor taking up the offer, The OC’s interruption denying Balor’s chance and Mia Yim surprise reveal as their equalizer for Ripley, & brawl was all right but Yim’s return was cool. Otis vs. Elias was a mostly solid bout despite the ending shenanigans by Chad Gable. Judgement Day’s angry backstage interview about their issues with the OC and Yim & Ripley’s staredown with Belair was all right. Belair, & Pals promo about their still unfinished business with Damage CTRL, Kai & IYO’s retort mocking Belair & Pals, Asuka and IYO’s trash talk Japanese talk banter, brawl, War Games match setup, & brawl part deux with Nikki Cross was decent. Theory vs. Benjamin was a solid back-and-forth bout. Miz’s pre-match promo bashing Gargano for lying about the accusations of him & Lumis working together, him being in a meeting with an agent for a new project, and lawsuit threat. Gargano’s interruption revealing the person Miz hanged out with was actually a P.I. hired by him & video evidence proving his accusations was both corny & dragged too long overall. Miz vs. Gargano was a mostly solid back-and-forth bout despite dragging too long & shenanigans ending. Post-match ambush chair attack by Lumis to Miz was okay. 24/7 title match was a somewhat dull bout topped with a flat ending. Cross tossing the 24/7 title in a garbage bin backstage afterwards was a bit funny though. OC & Yim’s backstage interview about Yim joining their group & party was decent. Rollins’ promo boasting about his title reign & Lashley beating up Ali backstage before he could accept it since he wanted it instead was a bit funny. Lashley’s non-US match destruction of Rollins at ringside was interesting but Theory teasing a cash-in was a buzzkill. Lashley’s destruction of Theory was the best part about an overbooked U.S. title match part trios topped with a very baffling cash-in booking decision.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was average at best overall despite dragging at times & some very puzzling booking decisions.

WWE NXT (Nov. 8)
* Joe Gacy vs. Cameron Grimes – 2.4
* Sol Ruca vs. Electra Lopez – 2.0 (Squash)
* Charlie Dempsey vs. Andre Chase – 2.5
* Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo vs. Hank Walker – 2.5
* JD McDonagh vs. Axiom – 3.5
* Five Minute Time Limit match – Brutus Creed vs. Damon Kemp – 2.5)
* NXT Women’s Tag Team Championship – Nikkita Lyons & Zoey Strk vs. Katana Chance & Kayden Carter (c) – 3.0
Overall – 2.5
Best – JD McDonagh vs. Axiom match.
Worst – Scrypts’ dull poem reading show hacking segment and the flat towel toss ending to the Charlie Dempsey vs. Andre Chase match.
Show Notes – Gacy vs. Grimes was a solid back-and-forth bout despite the ending shenanigans by Ava Raine. Carmelo Hayes & Trick Williams’ barber shop segment about Hayes’ bragging about him making the N.A. title the most prestigious title in NXT and never got pinned to lose it, Williams’ dig at Lee being just a “transitional champ”, & Hayes wanting his title belt back was all right. Scrypts’ feed hacking poem reading interruption of the show was lame. Ruca vs. Lopez was a decent extended squash style bout. Post-match ambush attack by Indi Hartwell & brawl was decent. Chase U’s backstage locker room segment about Thea Hail and Duke Hudson’s screaming rants about Charlie Dempsey’s attack last week & pep talk to Chase for his upcoming match was all right. Toxic Attraction phone call segment about Jacy Jayne complaining about her recent shopping trip, their issues with Alba Fyre’s attack on Gigi Dolin last week, Jayne being pulled over by a fake cop who was Fyre instead, Fyre’s ambush attack to Jayne, & Fyre’s threatening words to Mandy Rose was decent at best. Dempsey vs. Chase was going on decently until the goofy towel throwing ending by Hudson. Hartwell’s backstage interview about her attack earlier to Lopez, new understanding of NXT, & taking matters under her own hands from now on was decent. Fallon Henley & Pals bar segment with Kiana James about Henley’s rejection of James’ offer to buy out her bar, Jensen’s horny responses to James, & James’ angry retort was decent. Stacks vs. Walker was a mostly solid back-and-forth bout. Grayson Waller Effect segment with Bron Breakker & Von Wagner about Waller mocking R-Truth, Wagner’s dig at a tweet from some fan complaining over him and not Hayes getting a NXT title shot and claiming he will win the title next week, & Breakker’s heated retort. Waller’s read of another fan tweet about how they can’t wait for Breakker to lose the title & Waller teasing he will do it if Wagner can’t, Breakker’s Steiner style response, & heated banter with Wagner was all right overall but Breakker boinking Mr. Stone on the table was a bit funny. Lee’s backstage interview about Hayes’ recent comments about the N.A. title & their upcoming title match was all right. McDonagh vs. Axiom moments: Ouch at Axiom’s knee after his rough landing from his moonsault to McDonagh on the outside. McDonah’s kicks & chop block to Axiom’s leg. Axiom’s grapevine sleeper catch counter of McDonagh’s running attack. Axiom’s catch & Triangle Choke counter of McDonagh’s moonsault into McDonagh’s powerbomb lift counter into Axiom’s rana counter. Axiom’s sleeper counter of McDonagh’s Devil Inside into McDonagh’s escape & Deathlock style finisher counter. Match itself was a very good back-and-forth action filled bout.McDonagh’s post-match promo mocking Axiom & Dragunov being injured by his hands & calling out Apollo Crews next was all right. Creed vs. Kemp was going on pretty well until the DQ ending. Post-match Creed Bros and Sanga & Veer staredown was interesting. Dijak’s promo video about wiping the slate clean & bringing his form of justice to NXT was all right. NXT Women’s Tag titles match was a good back-and-forth bout. Stark’s post-match ambush attack & heel turn on Lyons was decent.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was average overall.

WWE Friday Night SmackDown (Nov. 11)
* Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship – New Day (Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston) vs. The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) (c) – 4.0
* SmackDown World Cup tournament First Round match – Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Santos Escobar – 3.0
* #1 Contender’s for SmackDown Women’s Championship Six-Pack Challenge match – Liv Morgan vs. Xia Li vs. Lacey Evans vs. Sonya Deville vs. Shotzi vs. Raquel Rodriguez – 1.5
* SmackDown World Cup tournament First Round match – Jinder Mahal vs. Braun Strowman – 2.0
* Zelina Vega vs. B-Fab – N/A
Overall – 3.0
Best – Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match.
Worst – Women’s Six-Pack Challenge match.
Show Notes – Undisputed WWE Tag titles match opener moments: Jimmy’s yank to Woods off the apron denying Kingston’s tag out into Jey’s pop-up neckbreaker to Kingston. New Day’s moves fest to Jimmy into Woods’ extra high top rope leg drop. Usos’ double Uso splashes to Woods. Kingtson’s leg yank & toss into the steel steps to Jey counter of Usos 1D to Woods. Woods’ Tornado DDT & New Day’s Midnight Hour to Jimmy into Jey’s title saving pin breakup to Woods. New Day & Usos’ slugfest exchange into Jey’s superkicks to Woods sending him over the timekeeper’s barricade. Kingston’s punches counter of Usos’ superkick into Usos’ 1D finisher counter of Kingston’s Flying Nothing. Match itself was a great action packed bout. Mixed feelings on Usos breaking the New Day’s tag titles reign length record though due to Bloodline’s titles reigns in general have gone on way too long & been stale for most of it. Bloodline’s backstage lounge segment about Usos celebrating their successful tag titles defense & Reigns being happy for them but he has some unfinished business to deal with tonight was interesting. Nakamura vs. Escobar moments: Escobar’s mid-rope Phantom Driver finisher to Nakamura. Match itself was a good back-and-forth bout despite the ending shenanigans by Legado. LA Knight’s backstage interview rant about not being in the SmackDown World Cup, Wyatt’s video feed interruptions and surprise appearance rambling about being sick of having to pretend he’s not proud of being evil towards others, Knight’s retort, & Wyatt’s headbutt attack response was all right. Six-Pack Challenge match moments: Rodriguez’s superplex hold to Li into Shotzi’s running crossbody counter of Evans’ mini-Tower of Doom into Rodriguez’s superplex to Li. Ouch at Morgan’s face after her botched crossbody off the announcer’s table onto Rodriguez & Li that didn’t break the table. Match itself was mostly rough due to it falling apart at times & flat ending. Shotzi & Emma’s backstage segment about Emma being happy over Shotzi’s win earlier and asking where Madcap Moss is hanging around, interruption by Shayna Baszler bashing Shotzi and claiming Rousey will break her, Shozti’s retort, & Rousey retort and ambush choke out by Baszler was decent. Ricochet’s backstage interview about his upcoming match against Mustafa Ali for the SmackDown World Cup & interruption by Gunther taking offense over Ricochet wanting his IC belt back was decent. Mahal vs. Strowman was a somewhat solid bout. Viking Raiders & Sarah Logan’s ambush attack to Legado & Hit Row did the crowd a big favor from saving them from witnessing a potential all-time tier awful match between B-Fab and Vega. Bloodline’s Reigns Special Moment segment about Paul Heyman bashing Indianapolis, the crowd not acting Ucey in response, & trashing New Day for not being on Usos level. Reigns’ speech about being ready to honor the Usos, Brawling Brutes’ interruption about wanting a fight and Sheamus proclaiming the start of the end of the Bloodline, Reigns retort mocking Sheamus’ mic problem issues, & mass brawl with McIntyre was all right overall despite the audio issues with Sheamus’ promo.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was mostly enjoyable overall.

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AEW

AEW Dark Elevation (Nov. 7)
* Abadon vs. Amy Rose – 2.0 (Squash)
* ROH World Six-Man Tag Team Championship – Trustbusters (Ari Daivari, Slim J, & Jeeves Kay) vs. Dalton Castle & The Boys (Brandon & Brent Tate) (c) – 2.5
* Athena vs. Abby Jane – 2.5
* Tay Melo vs. Trish Adora – 2.0 (Squash)
* Dante Martin vs. Eli Isom – 3.0
* Cheeseburger, Logan Easton Laroux, & Rhett Titus vs. The Factory (QT Marshall, Lee Johnson, & Cole Karter) – 2.5
* Eddie Kingston & Ortiz vs. Myles Hawkins & Joe Keys – 2.0 (Squash)
* Kip Sabian vs. John Reynolds – 2.5
* Angelico, The Butcher, & The Blade vs. Rocky Romero & Best Friends (Chuck Taylor & Trent Beretta) – 3.0
Overall – 3.0
Best – Dante Martin vs. Eli Isom match.
Worst – AEW’s weird production editing of the ending sequence to the Angelico, The Butcher, & The Blade vs. Rocky Romero & Best Friends match.
Show Notes – Abadon vs. Rose opener was a decent mostly squash bout. ROH 6-Man Tag title match was a solid back-and-forth action bout. Reynolds’ backstage interview about his upcoming match with Sabian & differences between the two as wrestlers was all right. Athena vs. Jane was a mostly solid bout. Post-match Athena’s bending crossface attack to Jane looked brutal & Athena’s growing heel slide has been interesting. Melo vs. Adora was a decent mostly squash style brief bout. Martin vs. Isom moments: Isom’s block, shove into the corner, running spear, & pop-up neckbreaker counter of Martin’s flip over attack. Martin’s dodge, apron leaping kick, & springboard crossbody counter of Isom’s spear in the corner. Isom’s pop-up Air Raid Crash counter of Martin’s running attack. Martin’s flip over dodge & Half & Half Uranage counter of Isom’s running attack. Martin’s corkscrew plancha to Isom in the outside into Martin’s toss back into the ring & Nosedive finisher. Match itself was an entertaining back-and-forth action filled bout. Cheeseburger, Laroux, & Titus vs. The Factory 6-Man tag was a solid back-and-forth bout despite the botched ending sequence. The mystery video interrupting Marshall’s post-match promo was interesting. Kingston & Ortiz vs. Hawkins & Keys was a decent mostly squash style bout. Kingston pretending to listen to Ortiz to stop attacking their opponents after their matches only to run away and grab a chair to try to whack his fallen opponent was a bit funny. Sabian vs. Reynolds moments: Sabian’s apron PK to Reynolds into Sabian’s split legged moonsault to Reynolds & John Silver on the outside. Sabian & Reynolds’ moves exchange into Reynolds’ clothesline spinning Sabian onto the mat. Sabian’s leg sweep & running cannonball to Reynolds in the corner into Reynolds’s discus punch to Sabian afterwards. Sabian’s Tornado DDT via ropes assist & Anarchist Suplex combo to Reynolds. Reynolds’ dodge & roll-up counter of Sabian’s top rope double foot stomp into Sabian’s roll-up finisher counter. Match itself was a solid back-and-forth bout despite the flat ending & dragging a bit too long. Angelico, The Butcher, & The Blade vs. Rocky Romero & Best Friends 6-Man Tag moments: Trent’s suplex on the ropes, Romero’s springboard foot stomp, & Trent’s sliding leg lariat combo to Blade. Blade’s shoulder tackle to Romero sending him crashing out of the ring via The Bunny’s distraction assist. Angelico’s modified reverse leg lock to Romero. Taylor’s Soul Food & Trent’s Half & Half suplex combo to Angelico. Bunny’s ref distracted low blow & Blade’s roll-up to Trent. Danhausen’s ref distracted nut punch & Trent’s Chrunchy finisher to Blade. Match itself was pretty good despite AEW’s weird production editing of the ending sequence.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was mostly enjoyable overall.

AEW Dark (Nov. 8)
* Zack Clayton vs. Blake Li – 2.0 (Squash)
* Kayla Rossi vs. Ashley D’Amboise – 2.0 (Squash)
* The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) vs. BK Klein & Jarett Diaz – 2.0 (Squash)
* “Pretty” Peter Avalon vs. Brandon Cutler – 3.0
* The Factory (Cole Karter & QT Marshall) vs. The Blonds (Griff Garrison & Brian Pillman Jr.) – 3.0
* Anna Jay A.S. vs. Sio Nieves – 2.0 (Squash)
* Kip Sabian vs. Marcus Kross – 2.0 (Squash)
* Diamante vs. Athena – 3.0
* Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Rico Gonzalez – 2.5 (Squash)
* Dark Order (John Silver, Alex Reynolds, & Evil Uno) vs. Troy Hollywood, Fulton, & Ativalu – 2.0 (Squash)
* Eddie Kingston & Ortiz vs. AR Fox & Caleb Konley – 2.5
* Emi Sakura & Mei Suruga vs. Toni Storm & Hikaru Shida – 3.5
* The Wingmen (Cezar Bononi & Ryan Nemeth) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Wheeler Yuta & Claudio Castagnoli) – 3.0
Overall – 3.0
Best – Emi Sakura & Mei Suruga vs. Toni Storm & Hikaru Shida match.
Worst – Eddie Kingston & Ortiz vs. AR Fox & Caleb Konley match feeling very rushed.
Show Notes – Clayton vs. Li opener was a decent mostly squash style bout. Rossi vs. D’Amboise was a decent jobber destruction bout. Gunns vs. Klein & Diaz moments: Gunn’s FTR cosplay parody entrance complete with FTR theme music was funny. Match itself was a decent mostly squash bout. Post-match W. Morrissey’s attack to Klein & promo mocking FTR’s “top guys out” catchphrase was all right. Avalon vs. Cutler moments: Cutler’s Airplane Spin to Avalon leaving both guys wobbling around the ring & missed haymaker punches sending both tumbling out of the ring. Cutler unzipping his vest to take Avalon’s chop into him zipping it right back up after Avalon’s stiff chop. Cutler’s ref distracted cold spray attacks to the Avalon & Wingmen. Leva Bates walk-in save & chair grab counter of Avalon’s chair attack attempt to Cutler. Avalon’s top rope rana to Cutler into Cutler’s roll-up counter into Avalon’s roll-up finisher counter. Match itself was an entertaining comedic heavy bout. Factory vs. Blonds tag was a pretty good back-and-forth bout. Jay vs. Nieves was a decent mostly squash bout. Sabian vs. Kross was also a decent squash bout. Diamante vs. Athena moments: Ouch at Athena’s head after getting spiked hard from her botched handstand counter of Diamante’s headscissors. Diamante’s block & suplex onto the stage counter of Athena’s top rope attack. Athena ragdolling Diamante into the guard rails into Athena’s shotgun dropkick onto the guard rail. Diamante’s forearm strike to Athena into Athena’s snapping moment & swift forearm flooring Diamante in exchange. Athena’s spinning Lungblower finisher to Diamante. Match itself was a pretty good hard hitting bout. Post-match Athena’s superkick sneak attack to Diamante was fine. Hobbs vs. Gonzalez was a fine brutal jobber destruction brief bout. Dark Order vs. Hollywood, Fulton, & Ativalu Trios tag was a decent mostly squash bout. Kingston & Ortiz vs. Fox & Konley was a solid back-and-forth bout despite feeling very rushed. Kingston’s post-match attack to Konley & chair toss in frustration was all right. Sakura & Suruga vs. Storm & Shida moments: Storm’s shotgun dropkick to Sakura & hip attack to Suruga launching her off the apron. Suruga’s hand chomp to Storm. Shida’s block counter of Sakura & Suruga’s double team suplex into Sakura & Suruga’s back rakes & double team suplex counter of Storm & Shida’s double team suplex. Ouch at Sakura after getting splatted by Shida from the spot though. Sakura & Suruga’s steamroller senton onto Storm & Shida. Shida’s catch & brainbuster counter of Suruga’s running attack. Shida’s dodge counter of Sakura’s moonsault, Storm’s catch & backbreakers fest counter of Suruga’s running crossbody into Shida’s suplex to Sakura into Suruga in the corner into Storm’s hip attack to Sakura & Suruga in the corner. Shida’s Katana finisher to Suruga. Match itself was a very good hard fought action filled bout. Wingmen vs. BCC tag was a pretty good back-and-forth bout.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was enjoyable overall and one of the better AEW Dark shows this year.

AEW Dynamite (Nov. 9)
* The Gunns (Austin & Colten Gunn) & Swerve In Our Glory (Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee) vs. FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) & The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) – 3.5
* AEW World Championship Eliminator tournament First Round match – Ethan Page vs. Eddie Kingston – 3.0
* TNT Championship Open Challenge match – Ari Daivari vs. Wardlow (c) – 2.0 (Squash)
* Trent Beretta vs. Jay Lethal – 2.5
* Jamie Hayter vs. Skye Blue – 3.0
* Best 2-out-of-3 match – Sammy Guevara vs. Bryan Danielson – 4.0
Overall – 3.5
Best – MJF’s promo segment and the Sammy Guevara vs. Bryan Danielson match.
Worst – AEW’s production botching the camera shot timing of Samoa Joe’s heel turn moment and the first half of the Saraya & Britt Baker promo segment being rough in quality.
Show Notes – 8-Man Tag match opener was a very entertaining action filled bout. MJF’s podcast interview about The Firm’s recent attack on him, importance of his upcoming AEW title match being the potential dawn of a new era in wrestling, & digs at others taking his deserved AEW spotlight away was great. Stokely’s outdoor promo video about his digs at MJF tossing away their friendship over MJF being a very selfish person was splendid. Page vs. Kingston moments: Kingston’s head chomp to Page on the top rope into Page’s escape, legs shove, & Avalanche Ego’s Edge finisher counter. Match itself was a good back-and-forth hard hitting bout. TBS title match moments: Daviari’s pre-match promo offering the services of his butler in exchange for Wardlow handing over the TNT title & Wardlow’s beating up the butler response. Match was a decent jobber destruction bout. Post-match promo by Wardlow calling out Hobbs, claims he will never lose his TNT title, and wants to take all of the titles in the company, & Joe’s ambush attack in response was interesting but AEW production missing Joe’s heel turn attack moment was a bit funny. Britt Baker & Saraya face-to-face promo about Saraya revealing she’s medically cleared for in-ring return & Baker’s insults retort at fickle AEW fans and dig at “superstars” trying to barge into the house she built in AEW. Baker claiming Saraya is jealous of her success and dig at her leaving her “house” (WWE), Saraya’s heated retort about Baker being handed everything in AEW unlike her own hard road to success, match setup reveal, & brawl was pretty entertaining despite its rough first half. Beretta vs. Lethal was a solid good back-and-forth bout despite the ending ringside shenanigans with Danhausen, Dutt, & Singh. Post-match rambling promos by Dutt & Jeff Jarrett was decent despite dragging long but also a bit funny in regards to Jarrett’s dig at Braun Strowman being a “make believe monster who wears red skinny jeans”. Jon Moxley’s promo about Regal’s strong words of advice to him earlier in his career, past history with MJF in AEW, dig at MJF needing his mom to pick out his fashion, and knowing what it is like to see the devil in life and claim that MJF is not that guy, & upcoming AEW title match was splendid. The Elite vignette rewinding their time in AEW & Full Gear return tease was cool. Hayter vs. Blue moments: Blue’s cazadora counter of Hayter’s Electric Chair setup into Hayter’s block & ripcord lariat finisher counter. Match itself was mostly good despite being a bit sloppy at times. Guevara vs. Danielson moments: Ouch at Danielson’s head after Guevara’s chair chuck for the DQ fall loss. Guevara’s running knee strike in the corner & brutal looking GTH combo to Danielson for the second fall. Danielson’s Tree of Woe style suplex to Guevara in the corner into Danielson’s YES Kicks & sliding dropkick. Guevara’s block & running apron knee strike counter of Danielson’s top rope elbow strikes sending Danielson crashing to the outside. Yikes at Guevara after almost completely whiffing his top rope Shooting Star to Danielson on the outside. Danielson’s block & Poison Rana counter of Guevara’s GTH. Guevara’s catch & Liontamer counter of Danielson’s Buisaku Knee. Guevara’s backflip DDT to Danielson into Danielson’s knee counter, strikes, & LeBell Lock finisher counter of Guevara’s senton. Match itself was a mostly great hard fought action filled bout.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was very enjoyable overall.

AEW Rampage (Nov. 11)
* AEW World Championship Eliminator tournament First Round match – Brian Cage vs. Dante Martin – 3.0
* AEW World Championship Eliminator tournament First Round match – RUSH vs. Bandido – 3.5
* Nayla Rose vs. Kayla Sparks – 2.0 (Squash)
* AEW All-Atlantic Championship – Lee Johnson vs. Orange Cassidy (c) – 3.0
Overall – 3.0
Best – RUSH vs. Bandido match and the House of Black vignette segment.
Worst – The ending shenanigans to the RUSH vs. Bandido match.
Show Notes – Opening Christian Cage’s promo with Luchasaurus calling out & bashing Jack Perry & Perry’s response about his issues with the duo and steel cage match challenge to Luchasaurus. Cage’s retort mocking Perry for being a failure as an AEW pillar, Luchasaurus being more deserving of that status, & insult at Perry’s parents, & brawl was all right overall. Death Triangle’s backstage interview about PAC’s issues with Lucha Bros recent failures, them needing to be on the same page, & willing to defend their AEW Trios gold by any means necessary was all right. Cage vs. Martin moments: Cage’s catch & suplex counter of Martin’s dive to the outside. Cage’s block counter of Martin’s Nosedive into Martin’s escape counter of Cage’s suplex. Martin got some awesome hangtime with his springboard splash to Cage on the outside. Cage’s block & suplex from apron to inside ring counter of Martin’s apron enziguri into Martin’s escape & enziguri counter into Cage’s dodge & brutal discus lariat counter of Martin’s 450. Cage’s Weapon X finisher to Martin. Match itself was a good back-and-forth action bout. Lee Moriarty & Stokely Hathaway’s backstage interview about Moriarty’s loss to Moxley this week showed he could hang with the best in AEW and AEW gold plans & HOOK’s surprise appearance teasing wanting him next for the FTW title was pretty cool. House of Black vinaigrette about their cleansing & rebirth as a group tease was great. RUSH vs. Bandido moments: RUSH’s sunset dive to Bandido during Bandio’s entrance. RUSH’s hard chucks into the barricades, stiff chops, & vicious sounding cable whip to Bandido. Bandido’s suicide dive & Sky Twister Press combo to Bandido on the outside. Bandido’s Frog Splash to RUSH & Eddie shoulders taunt tribute afterwards. Bandido’s catch & delayed Press Slam counter of RUSH’s running attack. Bandido & RUSH’s German suplexes exchange into Bandido’s Crucifix Bomb. Jose The Assistant’s ref distracted mask yank attack to Bandido into John Silver’s walk-in save attack to Jose. Match itself was a really good back-and-forth action filled bout despite the abrupt finish & ending shenanigans by Silver. Hager & Castagnoli’s backstage segment about Hager’s offer for Claudio to bail on the BCC and embrace his sports entertainer past by joining JAS was decent. Rose vs. Sparks was a decent jobber destruction bout but Rose mocking all of Jade Cargill’s mannerisms & moves during it was a bit funny. Post-match brawl with Marina Shafir & The Baddies was decent. The Factory & Best Friends pre-match split-screen backstage interview about Johnson’s “cosplay wrestler” insult dig to Danhausen, Danhausen’s violent threat retort, & Mark Henry putting an end to Cassidy trying to steal his lines again was a bit funny. All-Atlantic title match moments: Comoroto’s ref distracted toss to Orange over the barricade into Danhausen’s curse to Comoroto into Marshall’s piledriver to Danhausen onto the steel steps. Orange’s springboard sunset splash to Factory on the outside. Johnson’s block & powerbomb counter of Orange’s Orange Punch into Orange’s Beach Break finisher counter. Match itself was an entertaining back-and-forth action bout, especially the latter half.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was enjoyable overall.

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NJPW, Impact, & Other Wrestling

Impact Wrestling Impact! (Nov. 10)
* Impact Digital Media Championship – Joe Hendry vs. Brian Myers (c) – 3.0
* Impact X-Division Championship tournament Semifinals Round match – Trey Miguel vs. “Speedball” Mike Bailey – 3.0
* Bhupinder Gujjar vs. G Sharpe – 2.5
* Chelsea Green vs. Mickie James – 3.0
* Zicky Dice vs. Bully Ray – 1.5 (Squash)
* Impact Knockouts World Championship – Gisele Shaw vs. Jordynne Grace (c) – 3.5
Overall – 3.0
Best – Impact Knockouts World Championship match.
Worst – The buzzkill DQ ending to the Trey Miguel vs. Mike Bailey match.
Show Notes – Digital Media title match opener moments: Hendry’s pre-match promo about Myers not being an inspiration for others as champ unlike himself when he wins the title. Match itself was a pretty good back-and-forth bout. Shaw & Jai Vidal backstage segment about Shaw’s heavily edited out of context quotes video package hyping up Shaw’s career in Impact was a bit funny. VBD video promo about Young boasting about the revival of violence, new members intro, Alan Angels’ Dark Order reference, & Young saying Callihan didn’t understand that the violence belongs to them was superb. Miguel vs. Bailey moments: Miguel & Bailey’s counters fest exchange into Miguel’s Poison Rana over the ropes to Bailey. Bailey’s block & standing double knee moonsault counter of Miguel’s sunset bomb was cool. Match itself was going on really well until the buzzkill DQ ending by Kenny King. Death Dollz’s backstage segment about Jessicka being depressed over her loss last week, Rosemary’s “hatred” fueled pep talk to Jessicka to get revenge next week, & Jessicka’s depressed reaction was all right. King’s backstage promo about his plans to win the X-Division title tournament going up, reasons for costing Bailey his match earlier, & lessons learned from Honor No More was all right. Gujjar vs. Sharpe was a solid back-and-forth bout. Alisha, Jessicka, & Eddie Edwards backstage segment about Jessicka’s self-help book telling her to keep drinking and partying & Alisha confronting Edwards afterwards about her not believing him saying HNM & his issues with PCO are over was decent. Green vs. James was a pretty good back-and-forth bout despite the anti-climatic ending. Dice vs. Ray was a mostly nothing match with some nice comedic moments though. Post-match Moose’s low blow ambush attack & spear through the table to Ray was all right. Callihan’s hidden room video promo about his issues with Young, kidnapping one of Young’s VBD’s minions as revenge, & Double Jeopardy match setup was all right VXT’s backstage segment about a depressed Green leaving to “go home” over not beating James was interesting. Kazarian’s Impact career retrospective hype vignette was splendid. Impact Knockouts title match moments: Grace’s hanging baseball slide to Vidal into Shaw’s legs yank toss to Grace onto the floor. Shaw & Grace’s forearms fest exchange into Grace’s bodyslams, swift forearm, running knees, & Vader Bomb combo. Graces’ lariats fest to Shaw into Shaw’s kicks fest in return. Shaw’s leg catch & spiked hanging DDT counter of Grace’s kick in the corner. Grace’s leaping chop & stalling superplex to Shaw off the top rope. Grace’s knee strike & Vertibreaker to Shaw. Shaw’s block & chokebreaker counter of Grace’s Grace Driver. Grace’s brutal looking powerbomb & Grace Driver finisher combo to Shaw. Match itself was a very good back-and-forth hard hitting action bout. Post-match ambush chair attack by Masha Slamovich to Grace was sweet. Show closing PCO’s hand popping out of his grave in the Las Vegas desert was cool.
Final Thoughts – This week’s show was enjoyable overall.

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Weekly Awards:

• Best match of the week – Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship – New Day (Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston) vs. The Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) (c) (WWE Friday Night SmackDown)
• Best match of the week runner-up – Best 2-out-of-3 match – Sammy Guevara vs. Bryan Danielson (AEW Dynamite)
• Worst match of the week – #1 Contender’s for SmackDown Women’s Championship Six-Pack Challenge match – Liv Morgan vs. Xia Li vs. Lacey Evans vs. Sonya Deville vs. Shotzi vs. Raquel Rodriguez (WWE Friday Night SmackDown)
• Worst match of the week runner-up – 24/7 Championship – Nikki Cross vs. Dana Brooke (c) (WWE RAW)
• Best show of the week – AEW Dynamite
• Worst show of the week – WWE RAW