WWE Backlash 2026 - Fatu vs. Reigns

 

For a B show, this has a fairly loaded lineup with the very real possibility of Reigns losing the title to Fatu right away and setting him up as THE GUY long-term.  Seth vs. Bron starts off and Seth botches a few things and eats a torpedo spear after eating a falcon arrow off his own superplex. So yeah I wouldn't be picking up my phone if I was him. Sami vs. Trick is up after a gingerbread man recap. Helluva to the neck and the twisting kick and Trick shot win it. Miz/Kit vs. Danhausen and his mystery partner is up and it's a Minihausen and this just gets under. Like "got over like a fart in church" has a new visual.

The Minihausen soars around and does cool shit, but this gimmick is death. Danhausen gets a small flying kneelift and a brogue kick wins. Thank Christ for Iyo and Asuka having to try and save this show. Asuka has her butt hanging out and does some cool Kawada kicks over the apron. Back and forth and Iyo gets the Asuka lock AND THE MOONSAULT WINS! Then they hug and is Asuka retiring!?

They show Keirn and Spivey in the crowd but don't show Keirn until later. Cena comes out and gets a ONE MORE MATCH chant. MASSIVE Oba chant with Cena hyping up SNME. Cena announces THE CENA CLASSIC - a past vs. future tournament. We get a Krusty-level ad with Wade and Cole hyping up Mug Root Beer and then Cole burps and Wade says it's going to make him piss himself. WELL THAT WAS MONEY WELL-SPENT IF YOU'RE THE MUG FOLKS!

Roman eats a suicide dive and the superman punch gets 1! Corner mounted headbutts by Fatu! ASSALANCHE! Another superman punch gets 2.5! Roman gets the spear after the death grip and then another deathgrip after the Roman win. 

AEW Dynamite and Collision 5-6-26 - Ted Turner Tribute

 

Tony Schiavone delivers a beautiful tribute to Ted Turner and Sting pays tribute to him with him being willing to put his money behind pro wrestling and Tony ties Sting and Darby into tonight's main event with Darby facing TNT Champion Kevin Knight. Tony talks about Techwood Drive being replicated on the TBS and TNT Titles to honor the history of Turner wrestling. Mox is out to face Juice and Mox does some joint manipulation to dominate. Back and forth forearms and the bulldog choke wins it!

Death Riders and Ospreay training video with Danny burying Will and taking the lead on the promo - and hey, that's how you get better. Mox tells Will that this is death ground - you cannot escape. Dax vs OC is up with double jeopardy for title shots with the Dogs and RPG Vice out for the heels and the Bucks and Cope/Cage out too. 

OC avoids a superplex but a slingshot Ligerbomb gets 2 and OC wins it before mayhem unfolds. Jericho is out in a cool black and silver jacket and the Demand is out and Ricochet wants STADIUM STAMPEDE FOR DOUBLE OR NOTHING and he buries NC in SC and the Syndicate saves Jericho. Okada is out to defend the title against Bryan Keith. GO KEITH! Okada wins a far too long match before we get an OPPS promo writing Hook off for a movie. 

Shida and Stat face Harley and Mina! Harley eats a boot after a GTR attempt and the falcon arrow hits to win. Knight vs. Darby is up and they announce an hour time limit at 9:45 - so hey they could do that! Darby starts off with a lot of matwork before Knight gets the flying rana off the top!  Springboard crazy lariat by Knight to the announce table! UFO HITS FOR 2! Death drop and coffin drops win it! Collision time! Sting is out and puts them both over before MJF IS HERE!

MJF offers the scarf, THE RING, and a million bucks! YOUR MONEY'S NO GOOD HERE! Darby WANTS HIS HAIR! And MJF refuses for now before the contract signing next week. Okada faces Darby for the title and Speedball faces AR Fox after Doc Samson gives Will a clean bill of health after an MRI. Speedball wins after a fun match. Willow hype video. PAC CALLS OUT DARBY TOO! Hayter vs. Skye is up and Skye dominates on the floor with chops. German by Jamie before a corner lariat and exploder gets 2 for Hayter. AVALANCHE HAYTERADE WINS IT!

Davis vs. Perry is hyped for Fairway and Okada vs. Darby is hyped but he wants it at the PPV and Okada faces Takeshita instead. Rush is here to destroy Manny Lo. Chops. Horns. Win. Cool Jack Perry hype vid and it's 10 man tag main event time. SUICIDE SPEAR BY CONNORS TO ACE THROUGH THE ROPE! POUNCE TO COLTEN BY CONNORS! 

Total party match AND IT'S A SATURDAY ON A WEDNESDAY according to Mox. THE FOLD WINS IT!

AEW Collision 5-1-26

 

Death Riders and the Dogs team up in a 10 man tag against the Rascalz and Top Flight. Total party match with Pac winning with the Brutalizer. Perry calls folks out AND BUCKLES THE BELT UP! Jack's out and WE GET A LIGER FAN DANCING! Perry vs. Dorada is up. 

BARRICADE DESTROYER BY DORADA! Perry wins with the knee. Shida gets threatened by Stat and MXM and Johnny face the Conglomeration in a hilarious match. Willow beats Anna and Shida gives Stat a shot against Harley and Mina! 

AEW Dynamite 4-22-26 - Darby vs. Ciampa

Gonna do what I can for this show as I'm under the weather and dealing with a nasty sinus infection. Luckily, I got to leave work early today alongside everyone else since no stores had decent traffic - so I got a visit in, prescription in and picked up by the time Dynamite started when I'd have still been in traffic at 7PM. Darby-MJF recap video leads to MJF out and Nigel is with Excalibur! MJF talks shit and wants Darby and GETS KEVIN KNIGHT!? MJF wants the title to make Knight miserable.  AND IT'S NOW!

Or not - MJF announces it for the Fairfax show. Demand calls out Jericho and Jericho gets a trios match with them. Brody King vs. Lio Rush is up and it's a fun David vs. Goliath match and Brody wins and wants the World champ soon. Ciampa cuts a pretty riveting promo about glass ceilings being imaginary. Cope wants a tag title shot in a street fight at Double or Nothing and if FTR wins, they retire as a team. Shida vs. Shirakawa is up! 

Good joshi action here and Mina gets a double stomp before a break as Nigel talks up Shida as a shit-stirrer. Mina gets a la mistica and a basement dropkick. Slicing knee and the falcon arrow win it for Shida when Mina goes for the kendo stick. Ospreay vs. Davis is up and should be awesome. Run up rana by Will off the steps. P1 Forearm gets 2 for Will. Superkick off the ramp by Will and the flip dive off the stage. Davis pounces out of a hidden blade Chop/lariat on the rope and an ALPAMARE WATERSLIDE GETS 2.5! DOOMSDAY SAITO BY DAVIS! HIDDEN BLADE MEETS A LARIAT! DAVIS LANDS A DELAYED PILEDRIVER ON THE APRON! MARK DAVIS WINS IT WITH DOCTOR STOPPAGE!

Davis goes for another driver but the DEATH RIDERS SAVE OSPREAY! Windsah will team with Persephone against 2/3 of the Triangle as fans won't shut up. Joe vs. Cody Chun is up and Joe snaps off a fireman's carry. Muscle buster wins it. Jericho chats with the Hurt Syndicate to face The Demand. Darby is out and talks about his history with Portland. MJF wants his belt back and a rematch and gets a stern NO both times. AIR RAID CRASH OFF THE TOP TO THE FLOOR BY CIAMPA! AND HE'S ALREADY GOT A BAD HIP! 2.9 WHEN DARBY GETS HIS FOOT ON THE ROPE! CODE RED GETS 2.9 FOR DARBY! Coffin drop into an RNC but the Bret cradle gets 2.9! RUNNING KNEE HITS FOR CIAMPA AND GETS 2.9! 

PROJECT CIAMPA AND ANOTHER KNEE AND DARBY ROLLS THROUGH! Ciampa goes for a scorpion deathlock but DARBY GETS IT ON AND DARBY GETS THE WIN after turning it into a kneebar and using the ropes! They embrace and BRODY IS OUT! Brody vs. Darby next week live in Fairfax...If I can make it work, i'm there!

WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 2 - 4-19-26 - BROCK VS OBA!

 

OBA! OBA! OBA! TIE-UP TO START! Oba eats 2 lariats without budging and OBA DOWNS HIM WITH ONE! Brock pulls him out and throws him into the LED posts - which do sound better than the steel ones. RELEASE GERMANS TO OBA!  Back elbow counters a fourth German and TWO CORNER UPPERCUTS! F5 HITS OBA! CHOKESLAM BY FEMI! FALL FROM GRACE WINS IT! The meat division is safe!

And Brock sells the powerbomb for minutes and leaves his gear in the ring - so wow, it looks like he's done. Holy shit - not doing Gunther!? He hugs Heyman and that is it. Wow - well that was the perfect final program for him.

Ads aplenty and we get JOBBER ENTRANCES FOR MANIA IN THE LADDER MATCH! Cole says that Havoc '97 was a ladder match. Penta gets an MK Shao Khan entrance! Not really much to the match until Rey hangs off the ladder by his legs which is like...not smart. Rey puts Rusev through a ladder bridge with a seated senton to the floor. JD hits a Spanish fly off the ladder to Lee. Penta hits a destroyer to JD to a ladder bridge! Rusev takes JeVon off the belt and he wants the belt. OG CUTTER TO RUSEV! Penta destroyer off the ladder to Je'Von! Penta retains.

Sami is out in green and black and Trick has a gigantic coat/robe train. Sami gets some shit ground and pound and beats up Yachty. Twirly kick hits thanks to Yachty and gets 2! Trick Shot is avoided and Sami gets a schoolboy for 2 and a corner exploder for the Helluva! TRICK SHOT HITS AND TRICK WINS IT! Dom vs. Balor is up in a street fight with pin/submission rules. Dom comes out on the cheapest-looking sedan in WWE history. Dom gets an entrance that um...resembles a Klan rally and Demon gets a weird stick with spikes on it. 619 with a chair by Dom and Dom chairs him a ton to the back. Balor wins it.

Rhea vs. Jade is up and Jade having her WWE presentation be the TNA Version of her AEW presentation is still hilarious. Rhea goes for the edge, but Jade's goons attack to set up Iyo saving I'm sure. ONE WINGED ANGEL HITS FOR 2! Iyo saves in Mania gear! Rhea gets a headbutt and Riptide misses AND THE PUMP KICK HITS. Rhea avoids Jaded and wins with Riptide! She celebrates with Iyo and Cena announces 55K for night two and THE MIZ INTERRUPTS! Danhausen and "THE MIDGETS!" as Cole calls them when Dwarfhausen is right there and they attack Kit's balls and smoke goes off and the lighting is still on so he just kinda has to hop under the apron so...oh well.

Roman gets ROMAN COLUMNS! Roman is fucking ripped. Jesus. Punk's out to his first ROH theme and then nothing. Side headlock city, bitch! Walk and brawl. Punk avoids the corner charge with a knee and a series of shortarm lariats. They walk and brawl and walk and walk and brawl. Roman beats him up in a tree of woe outside and powerbombs him through an announce table. Desperation GTS gets 2. 

Flash spear and quick cover gets 2 for Roman. Punk avoids a Roman GTS and Cro Cop kicks him for 2. Punk does a Superman punch about as quickly as Liddell would have before the final Tito fight for 2. SPEAR but Punk meets the front choke! Vise but Roman turns it into another front choke! Roman upkick sends Punk down into another front choke! Punk gets a headbutt and sends them both down! 

Punk with a ballshot an GTS for 2.9! Flying elbow through the other announce table for Punk. Punk falls into a GTS position and Punk collapses. They both sell death via exhaustion and Roman gets a DESPERATION SPEAR and wins the World Title - so he's headed to Raw! 

WWE WrestleMania 42 Night 1 4-18-26

 

Gonna do quick hits for a lot of this just due to work being tiring. Opening multi-tag was fine - Logan Paul turning on iShow was predictable but smart. Fatu vs. Drew was maybe the best WWE brawl since Drew-Punk and they each took some big bumps. Drew is all marked up. Paige returns to replace Nikki and won with the Rampaige after Nikki hits Charlotte with her crutch. AJ Lee and Becky had their best match yet and Becky won after sending AJ into JESSICA KARR THE CROOKED REF and the manhandle wins it.

Gunther vs. Seth is up with a strong brawl to start before Seth goes for a discus forearm and eats a lariat. Seth avoids a diving splash and gets an RNC! Running stomp on the announce table by Stomp! Bron's back and destroys Seth! Gunther RNC wins it! HOF runthrough and Steph main events of course. 

Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv is up and Liv gets 2 off a sunset bomb. SVB gets 2 and Liv wins after goons interfere and the flatliner wins it. Cena announces fake attendance and BIANCA RETURNS! And she looks pregnant and hey she is and Cena undercuts it with his fake stuff. Main event time. 

Orton vs. Cody is up after 200 years and Orton is SO SLOW. Cody beats up Pat and Jelly Roll elbows him through the announce table. THEY SLOW IT DOWN WITH HOLDS! RKO TO RANDY GETS 2! RKO TO Cody gets 2. RKO TO ROBINSON AFTER he gets his eye poked. Cody punts him in the balls! RKO done shittily off a shitty Cody Cutter. Pat counts 2! RKO TO PAT AND CODY WINS WITH THE CROSS RHODES!? What!?

Orton holds the belt and PUNTS HIM and holds it again. Aight that was sure a match.

AEW Collision 4-16-26 - Spring Breakthru

 

Cope comes out all beat to shit and he says Christian's getting MRIs to see if his wrist is busted and they're full of piss and vinegar and they will end FTR! FTR is out and the Bucks save Cope and take out RPG Vice. Perry cuts a promo on DCF and he'll take on anyone in the goon squad in Portland. Bucks come out again to face Wentz and the Rascalz and it's a fun party match that the Bucks win with the Meltzer driver. Finlay and Connors attack the Bucks!

Cool Divine Dominion video airs before the Congoloration faces the Lethal Swirl in an eliminator. Ankle lock from KOR wins it! Shida and Kris win a squash. Mox faces Nick Wayne in a Continental Eliminator and Wayne is a great babyface for him in Everett and Tony runs downs ROH TV Champs before Mox ties him up. MOONSAULT TO THE FLOOR BY WAYNE! Wayne's world into an RNC INTO A JACKKNIFE PIN FOR 2.5 FOR WAYNE! Flying mare into the bulldog choke! 15 MINUTE CALL AND WAYNE FOREARM STRIKES HIM but eats a Death Rider - this ruled!

Pac vs. Lio Rush is up and Nigel says that Lio wasn't getting success and now he's been turned into this - which is well, accurate. Germans, big lariat and the Brutalizer win it with a smile on Lio's face. Rush is shining in defeat here. Brody, Dorada and Mistico win a quick trios match after a Bandido video in a bar. 

Mina tells Shida that she doesn't trust her and the kendo stick was there with Toni! Thekla vs WINDSAH is the main event. DARBY RECAP VIDEO! Tony hypes up the Darby win as the most exciting moment in company history. Nice physical brawl here with a big headbutt setting up a Windsor sharpshooter, but Thekla gets the rope before the Iron Octopus!  Thekla gets a knuck shot and the stomp wins it!