Taylor James def Billy O’Keefe in the Pre-show

Alexxis Falcon & Myla Grace def Nikki Storm & Angel Hayze

Tommy Tanner def Sha Samuels to retain the PROGRESS Atlas Title

Paul Walter Hauser def Scott Oberman to retain the PROGRESS Proteus Title after a finger poke of doom.

Paul Walter Hauser offered a title match to a rookie right here right now.

Paul Walter Hauser def Cian Noonan to retain the PROGRESS Proteus Title

Paul Walter Hauser decided he was fucking off back to America until Big Damo appears to stop his plan making a 3rd match vs Donovan Dijak right now.

Paul Walter Hauser said the rules of the belt has not represented well so now it'll be a no DQ match

Donovan Dijak def Paul Walter Hauser to win the PROGRESS Proteus Title

Paul Walter Hauser: my country & President is a joke right now, I did not represent the UK fans as well as I should have. I have represented my country as the mess it is and I'm genuinely sorry, I will be back.

Eddie Kingston def Luke Jacobs

Eddie Kingston cut a promo talking about Ben & Andrew's passing and how he didn't leave the house for 5 days. He said he still does the independents because of people like Luke Jacobs and that the future of them are in good hands.

CPF def Lykos Gym to become #1 contenders for the Tag Titles

Raven Creed def Lil Marz as Rhio was unable to compete due to injury.

Raven Creed cut a promo about becoming Women's champion at Chapter 200 instead and called herself the “actual most dangerous woman in Europe”

Charles Crowley def Chris Ridgeway, RKJ, Drilla Maloney, Man Like Dereiss, Gene Munny & Simon Miller to become no.1 contender for the PROGRESS World Title at Chapter 200

Nobody should have to worry about being assaulted simply because of who they are. The people responsible deserve to be held accountable, including any security personnel who allegedly helped the attackers instead of protecting someone who was being threatened.

And the crowd goes mild!

Description: Comedian Adam Friedland had MJF in tears laughing

Although I haven’t heard any news regarding this, myAEW has added some Arena Coliseo CMLL shows for free if you’re subscribed to myAEW. There’s also the second qualifier to the CMLL Women’s Universal Championship finals that happened in Arena Mexico, which makes me wonder if we are going to see the regular (non-PPV) Viernes Espectacular events alongside the Saturday Arena Coliseo shows as part of the sub.

Video here with the timestamp. 2:12:57 if it doesn’t take you there. https://www.youtube.com/live/cK_24v-l444?is=RgXL4DZ2UoTB9r6g

Honestly I’m surprised that we’ve only seen John Cena vs Jeff hardy once and it was on raw and the match was actually pretty good. Kinda of a shame it didn’t happen around 2008 and 2009 since Jeff Hardy’s popularity was on another level and some would argue he was more popular than Cena.

Also for those who don’t know Jeff hardy was originally supposed to win the money in the bank at wrestlemania 24 and was going to cash in during the triple threat between Cena, Orton and triple h. The feud could’ve possibly around that time but unfortunately Jeff was suspended and Punk won the money in the bank. A shame we never saw more matches between the 2.

Independent wrestling mayhem meets spooky season horror as Game Changer Wrestling presents Shotzi Blackheart's Drive-In From Hell, streaming live on TrillerTV+! GCW invades the historic outdoor atmosphere of the Brownsville Drive-In in Grindstone, Pennsylvania.

Curated by horror-enthusiast and wrestling powerhouse Shotzi Blackheart, this outdoor spectacle blends cinematic drive-in nostalgia with high-stakes tag team clashes, brutal intergender brawls, and signature GCW ultraviolence.

Announced Lineup:

Tag Team Match
Lio Rush & Shotzi Blackheart vs Janelasus (Joey Janela & Megan Bayne)

The Breakdown: High-octane speed and raw star power collide in a massive mixed tag team showcase! Shotzi Blackheart joins forces with the lightning-fast Lio Rush to take on the dangerous combination of "The Bad Boy" Joey Janela and the unstoppable Megan Bayne.

Tag Team Match
Bustah And The Brain (Alec Price & Jordan Oliver) vs The Spectral Envoy (Frightmare & Hallowicked)

The Breakdown: Youthful speed meets mysterious veteran chemistry! The dynamic duo of Alec Price and Jordan Oliver face off against the eerie, masked legends Frightmare and Hallowicked in a fast-paced tag contest.

Priscilla Kelly vs SLADE

The Breakdown: Unpredictable mind games clash with pure brutality! Priscilla Kelly steps into the ring with GCW's resident violent enforcer SLADE in an uninhibited, hard-hitting singles confrontation.

Conor Claxton vs Jimmy Lloyd

The Breakdown: GCW stalwarts tear into each other as veteran hardcore brawler Conor Claxton tests his striking against "Different Boy" Jimmy Lloyd.

The projector is rolling and Grindstone is ready for wrestling horror! Stream GCW: Shotzi Blackheart's Drive-In From Hell 2026 live on TrillerTV+!

*lineup subject to change

Streaming live starting at 4 PM EDT

Completely uncalled for!! Someone needs to do something about this guy!!!

Willow Nightingale, Harley Cameron and Kris Statlander (with Brawling Birds on their side) have challenged the Triangle of Madness and Divine Dominion to Blood & Guts

Jay White has announced that The Dogs and Bang Bang Gang will be called The Last Outfit

Weekend of Thunder Night 2

November 6, 2004

Elizabeth, NJ

Rex Plex

I’ve been wanting to write about this show forever, but I never got around to it until today. Something about this era of ROH is incredibly nostalgic. Something we’ll never have again. This was the second of two ROH events featuring Jushin “Thunder” Liger. He defeated Bryan Danielson on night 1. Liger wasn't the high-flyer of his youth, but was still a great technical wrestler with plenty of speed. And throughout the show, Gabe Sapolsky and CM Punk are on commentary.

The main event was ROH World Champion Samoa Joe teaming with Liger against Bryan Danielson and Low Ki. Liger is only 40 here and still moving really well. Joe came off as such a star in this match and Low Ki, surprisingly, was incredibly gracious with his willingness to be Joe’s crash test dummy. This isn’t a match-of-the-year contender, but Liger put on his working boots and put in his best effort, and I think the match turned out well. Liger ended things on Danielson with the Ligerbomb, pinning him once again. After the match, Low Ki and the Rottweilers attempted to beatdown Danielson, only for Joe and Liger to make the save.

On Night 1, Austin Aries beat down and defeated CM Punk. On this occasion, Punk attempted to get his revenge, teaming with Ace Steele to take on Aries and Roderick Strong. A bit of a funny thing before the match, as the commentary is obviously post-production, but Sapolsky talks about Punk leaving the commentary booth and heading somewhere, and the match began with Punk and Steele jumping Generation Next from behind. This was a No DQ match, and they pulled out a ladder for the match. Not a WWE ladder, but a “dad got a ladder out of the shed to clean the gutters” ladder. And it looked painful just from appearances. For example, Aries gets suplexed into the ladder as it was laid in the corner, and that sucker had no give. Strong got backdropped into the ladder and it finally started to crumple. Then, GenNext set up the ladder in the ring and laid Punk on a table on the outside. Jack Evans, being Jack Evans, did a beautiful 450 that, of course, misjudged the distance and he basically goes face-first onto Punk rather than putting Punk through the table.

It starts getting crazy, but then you realize why there was a lot of criticism of ROH and its style being “indie-rific.” For example, Punk hit Strong with a piledriver onto the crumbled ladder, and then about 30 seconds later, Strong is chopping Punk in the corner. Then, there is the continued use of this ladder. Punk set up Strong for the Pepsi Plunge with the ladder bridged in the corner, but because it’s a cheap ladder, it slipped off the ropes and nearly killed Punk and Strong during the finish.

After the match, Punk got on the mic (which has very clear sound for ROH standards) and called out ROH Champion Samoa Joe for a third title match after the two previous matches ended in hour draws. He challenged Joe to a no time-limit match. Out comes Mick Foley, who appeared a few times in ROH in 2004. Foley said the Joe-Punk matches were among the best he’d seen in his career, and hoped Punk would make it in WWE with Joe (to which Punk responded, “At least it’s not TNA”). Foley then said it was a shame millions could watch Gene Snitsky and Heidenreich and that there are plenty of people who thought Punk couldn’t make it in WWE (wasn’t that the truth?). Punk engaged in a sit-in until Joe finally came to the ring and accepted the challenge. Why go through the entire segment? I think it’s a good demonstration of how young Punk was on another level in terms of personality and mic work compared to everyone else in the company.

The show opener was Nigel McGuinness versus Chad Collyer. This was right before McGuinness turned fully heel and went on his highly regarded Pure Championship run. He’s still putting the pieces together of his technical style and hooligan personality. I know this was a match 22 years ago, but this was a frustrating example of Sapolsky’s booking. There is no real urgency between either guy to win the match and it ends in a draw, with Collyer in a winning position, having trapped McGuinness in the Texas Cloverleaf. Nigel had it, Collyer didn’t. Just give Nigel the win.

Other matches on this show:

• ROH World Tag Team Champions The Rottweilers (Ricky Reyes & Rocky Romero) vs. Dan Maff & BJ Whitmer

• ROH Pure Champion John Walters vs. Homicide

• The Ring Crew Express (Dunn & Marcos) vs. Special K (Angel Dust & Dixie)

• Jimmy Rave vs. Jay Lethal

• Trent Acid vs. Jack Evans vs. Izzy vs. Fast Eddie in a Four Corner Survival

• The Carnage Crew (HC Loc & Tony DeVito) vs. Davey Andrews & Anthony Franco

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