WWE Raw 2-17-25

 

Cole hypes up Charlotte, NC tonight and Sami is out and hypes up KO and him as doing it TOGETHER no matter what. Sami is out and Pearce says he can't clear him to wrestle and they're given an unsanctioned match at Chamber. The Brazzers-level acting of Naomi and Bianca is replayed in full and they're coming to Raw. AJ vs. Dom is up and Dom dominates thanks to Carly until a Styles clash wins it. Bron goes to spear him afterwards, but he avoids it and Dom eats it and Bron eats a Pele! 

Dakota vs. Ivy is up and Dakota does a bunchy of goofy shit that involves spinning Ivy randomly before the KAIROPRACTOR! Ivy gets a long GRAPEVINE ANKLE LOCK and that's now just a transitional spot. Dakota wins after the GTK/Detonation Kick and so many goofy bullshit moves. Jey recap from last week. MAIN EVENT GUNTHER mocks Yeeting and the fans. He bullies Pat and Cole and Pat says Jey can win it. 

Dunne vs. PENTA is up and Penta has new black, red and white gear. Dunne ducks and eats a boot. Dunne works on the hands and snaps a finger and Penta chops! Leapfrog by Dunne is caught into a spinning AA for 2. Basically whatever Keith Lee's finish was there. MEXICAN DESTROYER and Kaiser hops up and Penta tosses Dunne into him and wins with the Penta Driver! Raquel vs. Roxanne and we get some nothing action until a fallaway slam and Bianca and Naomi come out dressed as cheerleaders and Poprox is a fluke win. Okay well that sucks. 

New Day recaps their beating of Rey and get Dom-level heat. Kofi is dressed like such a douchebag. LWO cuts a promo on them to prepare for losing a match one day. Balor jumps Seth to start and this is just a high workrate affair. Sharpshooter by Seth and the pedigree gets 2.99999 with no kickout until really what would have been 3. Coup de gras hits for 2 with a crucifix and then a Finn crossface, but he rolls out and the stomp wins it!

AEW Grand Slam Australia 2-15-25

 Grand Slam begins with the Dream Team versus Takeshita and Kyle Fletcher! Heels are out first followed by OSPREAY OSPREAY! Fletcher is in PEAK HATER MODE here. Omega has his epic theme here - and it feels like a big show. Callis fucks around with Ospreay and finds out with a boot to the head after a dual Terminator dive! DOOMSDAY CUTTER ON THE TOP BY OSPREAY TO TAKEISHTA! Fletcher charges into Kenny in the corner but eats a Hidden Blade! Babyface finishes are turned into STEREO TOMBSTONES FOR 2.5! 

BACK AND FORTH FOREARMS! RISING KNEE TO KENNY and another is blocked! V TRIGGER BY KENNY! OSPREAY FLIPS OVER THE TOP RINGPOST HOLY SHIT! HIDDEN BLADE AND OWA COMBO ENDS IT. Tag team of the year! Harley is shown WEARING A GIANT HEART for her match.

Harley is adorable and Mercedes is HER! Harley takes her down with a Russian legsweep! HARLEY MOTORBOATS HER! HARLEY BEATS HER UP WITH THE PUPPET AND THEN MINI MONE GETS PUNTED BY MERCEDES! THREE AMIGOS BY MERCEDES! Pumphandle back suplex gets 2 for Harley before a Mone' backstabber sends Harley out. Meteora hits for 2! CRUCIFIX GETS 2 FOR HARLEY! AREA CODE KICK BY HARLEY! SOMERSAULT SENTON MISSES FOR HARLEY! MONE MAKER ENDS IT - this was exactly what it needed to be. Harley beating Mone next year at Grand Slam will be even bigger in the main event. Momo Watanabe gets insulted by Mone' so that will be good.

Omega and Ospreay cut a promo backstage about how Omega wants the International Title at Revolution - he's tired of hearing Takeshita beat him twice in a week! Brisbane Brawl time! Cope is out in classic black and red the fans are just singing his whole theme after he's out! He's marking out here and Jay is in white. Mox and Claudio in a mask are out to wage war! Powerbomb through a table by Mox! Cope hits a double lariat on the Death Riders off the top! Paradigm Shift to Cope! 

BLADERUNNER TO CLAUDIO! YUTA ATTACKS JAY! HE WHIPS HIM AND THEN EATS A BEATING! Mox gets crotched by Cope! COPE CORNER SPEAR THROUGH A TABLE BY COPE TO CLAUDIO! BARB WIRE CONCHAIRTO! BUT NO YUTES! Case to the head and the Neutralizer gets 2.9! BULLDOG CHOKE BY MOX! Yuta chokes out Jay White! Wow what a nutty finish there - I don't see Cope beating Mox for the title.

Okada vs. Buddy Matthews is up! Buddy stares him down when he goes out to cower for a bit. Okada lures him in and forearms his jaw! GODDAMN DROPKICK UP TOP and Buddy takes a hell of a bump off the top! Meteora gets 2 for Matthews. Okada bird flip into boots! GTS BY BUDDY! CURB STOMP MISSES! Rainmaker gets 2! CURB STOMP AND MURPHY'S LAW GETS 2.9! Rising knee by Buddy and a superplex and jackhammer get 2! PRISM TRAP! Okada low blow and rainmaker end it! International Title series is announced for Revolution and HOBBS VS. BILL is up for Dynamite.

Mariah May vs. Toni is up with a big video package. Mariah's out in cool blue and pink gear and she goes WHAT THE FUCK at Luther. We go from ROCK STAR TONI to TIMELESS! She's in Aussie flag gear! Back and forth corner stomps! Toni locks on a headlock and a series of Germans hits for 2. MASSIVE assalanche hits and then a Storm Zero gets 2! MAYDAY CHAIN GETS 2! Mariah slaps her a ton in the corner before and a kiss of death from Mariah sets up a powerbomb and storm zero! BUT SHE ROLLS OUT! STORM ZERO BY MARIAH! Mayday but NO IT'S A SMALL PACKAGE WIN FOR TONI!

This was a show of the year contender and easily the best TV episode we'll likely get of any show across any company. 

AEW Dynamite 2-12-25

 

The Gunns are backstage amped up and we see Dustin and Megan Bayne backstage too. Caster is out for the open challenge.  BABYFACE GOD AMONG MEN HANGMAN ADAM PAGE comes out to murk him. Caster hides in the crowd and Hanger chases him. 

WWE Raw 2-10-25

 AJ, Bayley, Lyra are shown and now Jey is out YEETing. He's on the table and gets beaten up by GUNTHER and Jey picks him for Mania. Liv and hyped up for the chamber and Dakota and Iyo face Raquel and Liv. Vengeance Day is hyped up for DC on Saturday and the Creeds get a tag title shot tonight. Good heel work by Raquel and Liv tagging in and out a ton to beat up Iyo. Liv SWIMMING for tags was fantastic. Liv gets busted up and the crowd is going crazy and the Iyo moonsault ends it! Bayley is out to face Lyra Valkria in a chamber qualifier with Roxanne in the crowd. Lyra catches an uppercut with a backslide for 2. Flying elbow misses and a Lyra tornado DDT is turned into a belly to Bayley for 2. Tornado DDT on the floor into a floor fisherman and then a mid-ring one for 2.5. Bayley cradles her for the win. 

Penta swears revenge on Kaiser who claps sarcastically and AJ walks by. Lyra is going to feud with Ivy Nile. AJ is out and says he had a career-ending injury, but he's back. Dom talks smack and gets nuclear heat for doing nothing. Speaking of which, Carlito is out cutting a promo as well. Pele to Carlito and Dom jumps AJ. P1 forearm to Carlito! Tag title match is up and the viking express hits for 2.5. Creeds use the belts for a DQ to make a statement. Punk cuts a promo on the chamber until Logan Paul interrupts. Paul and Rey have a pretty good match but Paul as a dickhead heel somehow works worse than him as a dickhead babyface.Loaded punch and a silly hanging spinning DDT hit to win.

AEW Dynamite 2-5-25 - Ricochet vs. Swerve

 

Renee chats with Jay White about Cope and he hasn't always gotten along with FTR and the Death Riders jump him before Rated FTR come in to brawl too. Giant brawl to ringside too and Claudio swings Dax into the railing. Spear to Claudio and Cope wants Mox for the PPV and Mox says no and White challenges Mox to Grand Slam Australia. 

Ospreay is out to face the Callis Family's MARK DAVIS! Sliding D in the corner hits snug! Callis talks about how Davis is in kind of under duress - so we'll see how that works in the future. Slingshot forearm and Ospreay bounces off Davis. OSCUTTER HITS FOR 2.5! Hidden Blade meets a lariat and a giant piledriver gets 2 for Davis. Hidden Blade wins it! 

Killer, epic video with Ricochet and Swerve. Hurt Syndicate is out with fans chanting WE HURT PEOPLE and MVP says they're coming for any titles they want - when they want. GUNNS UP TIME FOR THE SYNDICATE! The Gunns challenge and we get Harley with the Mone' puppet again. Mercedes bullies her and Harley flips her off behind her back while Renee tries to be a good friend and prevent her. Hangman talks to Renee about ending Daniels' career and he accepted a Texas deathmatch with him and he told him he'd hurt him. Max Caster interrupts and Hangman says hey you've got an open challenge...

Hounds of Hell are out to face Fletcher and Takeshita. Brody hits the seated crossbody to BOTH GUYS ON THE FLOOR. DOUBLE DOWN LARIAT WITH BRODY AND TAKESHITA! Buddy curb stomp turned into a Fletcher half and half! Okada's theme hits and Fletcher heads up for the brainbuster! But Fletcher eats a superkick and a rising knee! CERBERUS dropkick/cannonball get 2. Brody eats a draping DDT and they hurk Brody up for a brainbuster and that ends it.

Joe in a floral shirt and Hook are backstage and Hook tells him he's too emotional and beat up the Patriarchy and Christian is in the next room with Mama Wayne. MJF is out and I love that Max Caster is SO ANNOYING that even MJF is tired of his shit. Now Dustin is out annoying MJF and he says MJF isn't the devil - he met him and he beat him because he's been sober! He's a survivor and the last of his kind. MJF talks shit about Dusty and Cody and Dustin clubs him. 

Mariah May is out to do commentary for Toni vs. Amanita with TONI STORM AS MARIAH MAY! Toni hits the spiral sideslam. HIP ATTACK ON THE APRON! Release German by Amanita and a hip attack and Mayday ends it. We get a nice staredown and Dustin says he lives for blood, sweat and tears! He wants MJF on Tuesday and we get a Bill vs. Hobbs hype video. 

New York Minute is ringside and Bill cuts a promo on Hobbs who comes out and gets outnumbered before the OUTRUNNERS SAVE! MEAT CHANT! Swerve has JIMMY RAVE'S ROBE - it's a big fight feel! Ricochet jumps him with a chair and a barricade brawl leads to a rana INTO A POWERBOMB ON THE BARRICADE BY SWERVE! I get a Sega CD-looking version of Max for an ad break.

SWERVE STOMP! APRON GERMAN BY TREV! Springboard 450 gets 2! SSP TO THE SPINE GETS 2! SWERVE STOMP BUT RICOCHET CROSSES THE ARMS INTO THE BALLS! SPIRIT GUN ENDS IT! Ricochet steals Jimmy Rave's robe! Dustin vs. MJF is set for Dynamite, which is taping Tuesday and airing Wednesday. 

WWE Raw 2-3-25

 Rumble recap video starts things off. Jey starts things off with the fans and does it again. And again. Jey is like legit shook with all this too - wow. This is a moment. He is crying at how much this run means to him. Damn - dude has that natural conneciton with the fans. Gunther talks shit and tells him to explore his options because he'll massacre him again. Kaiser's quick elimination is shown and he's out to face PENTA. Corner gamenguri and headstand hardyac kick by Penta! Sacrifice and the Penta driver wins it. Dude is OVER! 

Dunne walks out and Kaiser jumps Penta. Charlotte's out and bombs on her promo with all the boos until Rhea talks shit and tells her to scamper to other brands. She'll be on NXT. New Day is out to face Rey and Lee and Logan Paul comes out and leads to an ad break with the heels using the distraction. Logan right hands Rey with the loaded fist and the trouble in paradise ends it. Rey vs. Logan is set for next week to go into the chamber.  Liv vs. Iyo is up and Liv gets 2 off a rana. Codebreaker counter off a crossbody gets 2 for Liv. Release German by Iyo and Rhea jumps Raquel AND HITS LIV AND LIV WINS BY DQ! Iyo is pissed and Seth's out.

Seth talks shit and Sami comes out and Seth stirs the pot between them and Punk's out. Lots of glitches throughout the show here. Headlock elbows and the corner bulldog is turned into the blue thunder for 2.5. Helluva misses and Punk wants the GTS and Sami cradles him for 2.9! CORNER EXPLODER! THE CROWD IS MOLTEN! HELLUVA MISSES AND THE GTS WINS IT. This was a fantastic TV match - one of Punk's best since returning. Punk and Sami hug and KO ATTACKS SAMI! PACKAGE PILEDRIVER TO KO! Wow - that would be a natural match for either the Chamber in Canada or Mania. 

WWE Royal Rumble 2025

 

Well thanks to a flu bug this week, I wasn't able to go out to see this live - but I can at least watch it on TV. America the Beautiful is sung and it's Rumble time! KO arrives in a KO golf cart and we see Punk arrive with coffee. BUT FIRST STEPH! WWE GROWS BECAUSE OF THE FANS! THANK YOU! Women's Rumble starts off as is tradition and Iyo is the first entrant alongside Liv at 2. Liv is a legit top 10 star in WWE and that is massive for her. They brawl for a bit before Roxanne comes out and works with Iyo for a bit until Lyra comes out and has issues with her hair or top or something. Chelsea is out at 5. She goes to throw everyone out, fails and they beat her up.

B-Fab is out and then Nile hits a double German. Zoey is out and she hits some knees and kicks. Lash Legend is out and slugs Iyo with a bull hammer. Lash gets Ivy into a powerbomb giant swing and swingers her into folks. Chelsea chucks out B-Fab and Bianca is 10 and hits a ton of corner punches on half the folks at one time back to back to back. Shayna is out and Zoey slips off a springboard lariat and thankfully saves it and hits it well on Lyra. Ivy tosses Lyra out and wants the belt. Bayley is out in some cool blue and orange gear. 

Sonya is out for PFC and now Maxine is out and the capture is getting really wonky. Maxine is chucked out and Ivy's gonna take her out. GLOW time at 15. PFC is now gone and Bayley took out Shayna. Jaida Parker is out and needs better music. Lordy - Generic Superstar 15 theme here. Not much until Jordynne comes out with her full TNA presentation  - excellent. Big pop for her DVDing Piper. Alexa is back and looks fantastic - has the little doll with her. Vaquer makes her Rumble debut and TRISH IS HERE. Okay that would've been cool to see in person. 

Trish double-sorta bulldogs Jordynne and Candice. Piper bowls Trish over. Raquel is out and an apron codebreaker ends Nattie's run. ANOTHER ONE ENDS ALEXA'S RUN! Charlotte is out at 27 and they just put her over as God herself on commentary. Wow. Charlotte and Jordynne go at it and she superkicks Michin out. Vaquer and JG go for a double suplex and she counters with a DDT to them. Charlotte sends Piper out. Giulia is here with her NXT title. Shockingly, no TNA involvement yet at all and it's late in the match. Giulia takes out JG and that seemingly sets up an NXT program. Nis is 29 and works with Trish. NIA TAKES OUT TRISH THANKS TO CANDICE! Nikki's the last one out. Everyone gangs up on Nia AND NIA ROAR SPOT! Nikki does pushupand Roxanne does her one better. Nia chucks out like six folks including the tag champs. No Jade in this. Roxanne works on Charlotte's bad knee. Charlotte chucks Nia and it's down to Charlotte and Roxanne and a big boot ends it for Roxanne. 

Big E asks fans questions segment. Godfather and Mickie are shouted out with Mickie as a WWE Legend - so she's in the fold and Kurt is here WITH HIS SHOOT GOLD MEDAL and his daughter is an amateur star. We see the Guns backstage and Shelley is in a zebra print jacket! Sabin plancha on DIY through Shelley. I love Johnny hammer throwing Sabin into a Ciampa lariat for 2. Ciampa hits a knee for the first fall. Shelley gets a cover for 2. APRON PKS BY SABIN and a double-jump crossbody! Skull and Bones get the second fall. Fairytale ending and project Ciampa get 2. Johnny accidentally superkicks Ciampa in the corner and they hit the facial! The Profits use a crutch and DIY retains with meet in the middle. Wow that was a weird one. Okay so the Profits attack DIY too - so they gave them the win to get the belts...well still weird.

Long recap of KO-Cody before their match which starts off with some crowd brawling. Stepladder usage and a ladder bridge. Backdrop to KO on the opened ladder! Cody eats a powerbomb into a corner ladder! Avalanche fisherman buster by KO through a ladder! Aldis comes out to ensure they're okay with EMTs and Sami is out! They're up - so that was a nice way to get Sami out there in-canon. Cody turns an announce table package piledriver into a ladder bridge-snapping Alabama slam! And that's it. Wow weird finish. 

Rey is no 1 for the men's Rumble. and then it's PENTA! Penta is the man with no fear and Cole is going to be the man with no voice by the end of this. They do a taunt-off for this lucha exchange and REY ELIMINATES PENTA MAYBE OH GOD WOW. Chad is 3 and the LUCHADOR EXPERT is here! Rey does a nestea plunge onto chad off of Penta's shoulders - okay that ruled. Melo is 4 and Santos hits a 619 on Rey PENTA GOES AT IT WITH KING CUERNO! Destroyer and 619! EVERYONE ATTACKS GABLE just like Chelsea in the women's Rumble. Otis is out and eats an ankle lock but gets Gable in a torture rack. 

Bron is out and spears and tosses out Melo. BREAKENSTEINER TO GABLE! BACKDROP TO OTIS! Tozawa is out and Melo beats him up first. Melo established as...maybe above the level of Tozawa. BOY HOWDY WHAT A GREAT MAIN ROSTER CALLUP! Tozawa is replaced by iShowSpeed. Ugh. Breaker and Speed take out Otis and he eats a spear and gets pressed into Otis who fallaways him onto the announce table to eliminate him. 

Sheamus is out and brogue knees Bron and Andrade is out. FATU IS HERE TO KILL DUDES! PENTA AND FATU CLUBBERING! Double stack Samoan drop to Penta and Rey! Rey and Gable are out at his hand. Ditto Andrade! BRAN VS FATU! Kaiser keeps the ROH Nude DVD cover tradition alive before Penta eliminates him. lucha Miz with Penta before Fatu gets him! Hendry is out and he hits the STANDING OVATION TO MIZ before Fatu takes him out in the corner. REIGNS IS HERE! Fatu rocks Jimmy and it's ROMAN AND FATU TIME!

Brawl and Drew is out. Balor is out and Nak knees Roman a few times. PENTA DESTROYER TO FATU! Penta is chucked out by Balor before MAIN EVENT JEY is here. He tosses out Nak - so maybe he's heading to SD. AJ IS BACK! It has now been NINE YEARS that he's been in WWE. Unreal. Bullet elbow by AJ to Drew! AJ gets a MASSIVE AJ chant. Wow. Braun is out and he's going right for Fatu. BRAUN ELMINATES HIM! Cena is out and he low-bridges Braun to take him out. AA TO FINN OFF THE APRON ONTO...amost Braun to take him out.

BRON SPEAR! Roman and Cena staredown before Punk. And they just do NOTHING until Seth. Dom hits a frog splash to CENA AND THREE AMIGOS TO ROMAN but nah. SAMOAN DROP TO DOM! Sami is out and now Priest. Priest chokeslam to Dom and he's out! LA Knight is 29 and hits the double jump elbow to Cena. Yeah/Yeet off and SAMI IS GONE. Well that was a waste of him across the board tonight. Logan Paul is 30 - okay, had it been Rock, I'd have regretted not being there live. Priest eliminates Drew and Paul eliminates AJ. Logan takes out Punk after he takes out Roman and Seth! Seth turns heel by stomping Punk on the floor and Roman on the steps!

It's down to Cena, Paul, and Jey and maybe Cena will win this one. Double AA teased but Jey hops off and Cena lariats Paul over the top! FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE BY CENA! Cena thinks he's won it and it's low-bridge time on the apron! AA OFF THE APRON BUT JEY THROWS HIM DOWN AND JEY USO WINS THE RUMBLE! Okay didn't see that one coming - I guess he's winning the World Title at Mania.  Cena hugs him and Cole says GODDAMN RIGHT HE DID!