The 5 News Week: Angelico Signs With AEW, WWE Signs Two Talents From The Greatest Royal Rumble Segment?

Mauro Ranallo Signs A New Deal With WWE.

This piece of news gets a “no shit Sherlock” award. Anyways, the best play by play commentator in WWE Mauro Ranallo has signed a new deal with WWE.

From PWinsider and Mike Johnson, the deal was quote “agreed to a month or so back” and he will continue to do more combat sports commentary outside of WWE.

Angelico Signs With AEW.

Continuing the trend of “which talent signs with which company?”, Angelico has signed with AEW according to Pro Wrestling Sheet and Ryan Satin.

Interestingly enough, WWE had an interest in picking up the South African pro wrestler and had planned on putting him in NXT but WWE didn't want to get into a “bidding war with AEW”. I've been a fan of his ever since he was on Lucha Underground so this is a great pick up for AEW.

By the way, shout out to Wrestling Inc for bringing up an interview Angelico did with German Wrestling Foundation that was conducted a month ago about how likes to signs with fresh/new promotions:

"Anything that’s new in wrestling—much like Lucha Underground—has a bit of a boom around it because the same companies and the same wrestlers have been around for decades now. So, whenever a new company comes in and they offer something new I think that always has something interesting to it. You kind of don’t know where it’s going to go, you sort of have to play it by year and I’ve always kind of been like that in life. I work as hard as I can day-to-day, but don’t have an end goal. It’s just every day, just a process of trying to be a better person, trying to be a better wrestler and eventually I trust that will lead me to wherever I’m going to be, eventually. Definitely new projects are interesting to me. … The same as Lucha [Underground], I didn’t know what the concept was until I filmed an episode, but that’s part of the allure to it, it’s new. AEW definitely has that going for it, for sure.”

Angelico will be part of the AEW roster along with Lucha Underground alumni, Jack Evans.

WWE Signs Two Talents From The Greatest Royal Rumble Segment?

The question I gotta ask myself is, what took WWE so long to sign those guys? Couldn't find the answer to that question but Square Circle Siren and Casey Michaels reports that WWE has signed Hussain Aldagal and Faisal Kurdi.

They were part of the WWE tryouts in Saudi Arabia last year and was part of that controversial segment in the Greatest Royal Rumble show. I say controversial because the Davari Brothers got death threats after the segment had aired so there you go.

Matches and Segments for Both RAW and Smackdown Live This Week Have Been Announced.

Excited for the go home shows for both RAW and Smackdown Live? Whether you are or not, the fact is that WWE has announced some matches and segments for both shows that are set to be taped shows because they're on a European tour. In the RAW side of things:

Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair (because of the wildcard rule) and Lacey Evans will be part of a double contract signing.
A women's fatal four-way match has been made that features all of the competitors in the Money In The Bank ladder match.

Singles matches made between Ricochet vs Baron Corbin and Braun Strowman vs Drew McIntyre.

Roman Reigns will be the guest on Miz’s Miz TV segment.

On SmackDown Live, they announced:

A tag match between Kairi Sane and Asuka vs Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville.

A fatal four-way match that features all of the men's competitors in the Money In The Bank ladder match.

Kofi Kingston will be the invited guest on The Kevin Owens show.

Why's SmackDown Live’s announcement sounds so oddly familiar?

Percy Watson Reportedly Quits NXT.

Percy Watson who's actually alright in the commentary team has quit NXT according to the previous mentioned Square Circle Siren’s Casey Michael.

Michael stated in a tweet that the reason why Percy Watson has quit NXT is simply because he wants to focus on acting and doesn't want to be quote “a commentator/personality/wrestler apparently”. Beth Phoenix has replaced Percy Watson’s position in the commentary team in the recent NXT tapings.

What do you think about the news I just reported and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy. Anyways, stay safe smarks.

My Coherent Wrestling Wednesdays: Chris Jericho Offers Moxley To Join Inner Circle, The Go-Home Show Before Dec 18th.

I thought the middle act of AEW Dynamite suffered some pacing issues even though it was overall a much stronger show than last week's episode. The latest episode of NXT, however, has built a solid foundation on what's to come on December 18th. The main question is, which show do I like better? The answer is AEW. NXT Highlights. Angel Garza vs Lio Rush For The NXT Cruiserweight Championship. Was this match better than their first encounter? Like Snoop Dogg's verse in Sasha Banks' theme song, "Hell yea". Garza slams Rush hard on the ring apron by pushing the champ. Moments later, Garza delivers the Spanish Fly and Rush kicked out of that. As Rush hits the frog splash, the champ wanted to pull him back in the middle of the ring but instead, he ripped off Garza's pants (nice attention to detail). Angel then hits the wind clipper but Lio kicked out which led to a wind clipper submission and the man of the hour tapped out which m...

The 5 News Week: An Interview With ROH's Eli Isom, Fans Singing Petitions For Charlotte Flair Not Winning Titles Anymore!?

Hello, my fellow wrestling fans and welcome to the 5 news week. The post where I report 5 major or minor news of the week that I don't have time to do it separately. Without further ado, here are the 5 news week. An Interview With ROH's Eli Isom. Yes. After several and several and several of The 5 News Week articles that I've been putting out since late 2018, I finally got an interview for you guys. The person in question is Ring Of Honour's Eli Isom. Since graduating from the ROH Dojo, Isom has worked and learned from the absolute best in the industry: "I’m lucky that I got a chance to train from scratch with ROH, without that kind of training who knows where I’d be right now." So, without further ado, here is the conversation I had with Eli. Omar: My first question is, how would you describe the persona of "Eli Isom" to resident WWE shills like myself? Eli Isom: For me, my wrestling persona isn’t too far off from who I real...

A Brief Guide To Pro Wrestling Websites.

So. You just become a fan of pro wrestling and have dabbled into the fandom for a bit (it's a mess ain't it?) You've just followed some news sites' social media platforms but aren't sure whether the articles they put out are accurate or not. Well, you got the right guy to solve that problem if it's from a blog that barely gets any traction (that would be me in case you were confused). The news we get from the medium that is pro wrestling is an integral part of the online space. The reason being is that it's not only a great conversation starter but you could also learn something new today about the industry you love. That doesn't mean that all of the news you see on the timeline is reliable. I'm here to hopefully give you a guide to wrestling sites. There are many wrestling websites out there but I wanna highlight some of the notable ones. Okay? Here we go. #1: Wrestling Observer Newsletter aka F4WOnline. I can't talk about a guide t...

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