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WWE Elimination Chamber usually takes place in February or early March. However, in 2015 the event took place on May 31st from American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. The event was supposed to happen in February like it usually does. However, due to the size of the chamber structure many arenas couldn’t handle the massive match-type. WWE pivoted from Elimination Chamber to Fastlane. It looked like we wouldn’t get the infamous Elimination Chamber in 2015.  However in May, WWE decided to cancel a live event that was supposed to be held in Greenville, South Carolina in order to bring the whole roster together for a super show on May 31st . The super show being Elimination Chamber. This was a weird show. WWE was in a transition period with the company trying to build the stars of the future while the main event talent of the past fades out. Wrestlers like Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose and Kevin Owens were on the rise while wrestlers like John Cena, Randy Orton, ...

Penta debuted for WWE last month and immediately entered into a program with Chad Gable. Who in WWE do you want to see Penta face the most? We’ve seen him wrestle for AEW, ROH, TNA, the indies and in Mexico but this is his first run in WWE and there’s a whole crop of wrestlers he’s yet to face. Today, I’ll go over some of the top guys I’d like to him face. I’m not going to include wrestlers he’s already faced in other places like CM Punk, LA Knight and Rey Mysterio.   First off, I want to see Penta face Dominik Mysterio. I understand that Dominik’s dad Rey is a legend and that people may want to see that but as I’ve mentioned, we’ve seen it before. Albeit, in front of a smaller audience in Lucha Underground but enough people have seen them tango before. That’s why I want to see Penta face Dominik. Dominik is arguably the top heel in all of wrestling and would get a lot of heat on a match between them. Penta could talk about how he had to actually learn the art of Lucha while Domi...

We're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kevin Owens' first Championship reign in WWE. On February 11th, 2015 Kevin Owens defeated Sami Zayn for the NXT Championship at NXT Takeover: Rival. It was exactly two months to the day since Kevin Owens debuted for the company. Owens defeated his often-friend often-rivalry in the main event of the show via referee stoppage.  Owens became the sixth wrestler to win the Championship and held it for a recognized 142 days. He lost it to Finn Balor at the Beast in the East super show. Kevin Owens quickly ascended the ranks in WWE, winning the Universal Championship less than 2 years after debuting in NXT.  What are your thoughts on Kevin Owens' time in NXT? Crazy that this was ten years ago. 

There’s a pretty stacked episode of WWE NXT tonight. It’s the go-home show for Vengeance Day on Saturday. We have two Championship matches and two veterans from NXT past return to their original stomping grounds. Tony D’Angelo’s feud with Ridge Holland will come to a massive head tonight in a steel cage match.   Match Card NXT Heritage Cup Championship Match: Lexis King (c) vs. JDC (Fandango)  NXT North American Championship: Tony D’Angelo (c) vs. Ridge Holland in a steel cage match Bayley vs. Cora Jade Triple-Threat Tag Team Match: Josh Briggs and Yoshiki Inamura vs. No Quarter Catch Crew’s Tavion Heights and Myles Bourne vs. Hank and Tank  Not a bad card, especially going into Vengeance Day. I’m surprised they’re putting the North American Championship match on television rather than premium live event. Bayley takes on Roxanne Perez at Vengeance Day and here she gets another NXT talent with a ton of potential, Cora Jade. The top three matches have the chance to ...

Malakai Black is reportedly done with All Elite Wrestling. PWInsider reports that his contract with AEW expired yesterday and today he was removed from AEW’s website’s roster page. Why wasn’t his run in AEW more successful?   He debuted with AEW on July 7th, 2021’s Dynamite and attacked Cody Rhodes and Arn Anderson. Black was released by WWE the previous month and instantly became one of the hottest names on the market. Black experienced the most success of his career in WWE NXT as Aleister Black. Holding the NXT Championship in 2018. Upon his AEW debut, Black had a months long feud with Cody Rhodes. This feud didn’t help Black as much as it should have. AEW’s audience had Cody Rhodes fatigue at the time and while Cody was a big name, this shouldn’t have been Malakai’s first AEW feud. Black formed the group House of Black with Julia Hart, Brody King and Buddy Matthews. The group had potential but never lived up to it. Being plagued by injuries, off-air issues and questionable book...

WWE 2K25’s launch on March 14th is fast approaching and there’s tons of speculation as to who’s going to be part of the playable roster. We live in an era where they can release the game and then make you pay to download more of the roster. Would it be worth it to buy if the DLC included TNA wrestlers? Joe Hendry appeared on the Ariel Helwani Show and talked the upcoming game.  He said “can you imagine if we had TNA DLC?” to Ariel. Hendry said it wouldn’t have to include current wrestlers like himself but classic ones like TNA AJ Styles. You know what Joe? That’s a tremendous idea. TNA has an extensive history of legends and has a good, young current roster.   As far as current wrestlers, I’d like to see Eddie Edwards, The Hardy Boyz (Just so we can get them back in a WWE game), Xia Brookside, Masha Slamovich and Joe Hendry himself of course. With the exception of the Hardy Boyz, none of these wrestlers have ever been in a WWE game.  Here’s where it gets fun. Which TNA le...