Daikaiju Pro on Twitter Plus free matches from AAW, GCW, & Limitless! Welcome back to the Sermon on the Mat, your weekly one-stop shop for news from the wider world of wrestling beyond the big cable TV monoliths that get all the coverage, with a special focus on shows that air on IWTV and TrillerTV. Coming soon... On IWTV Wrestling Open Episode 121 (Apr. 25, 8 pm ET) NTPW Texas Contenders Series 34 (Apr. 25, 7:30 pm CT) PWF Wrestlebowl 2K24 (Apr. 26, 7 pm ET) ACTION Forever (Apr. 26, 7:30 pm ET) Buff and Fluff Connection vs. Slime SZN Darian Bengston vs. Dex Royal Ella Envy & Out of t ..read more

Getty Images via WWE.com Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill. Important reminder: Rumors are just that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as fact, it’s just circulating around the pro wrestling rumor mill. We track rumor accuracy in a weekly feature called Rumor Look Back you can find here. Remember, take it all with a grain of salt. Rumors for the Day: Jimmy Uso’s name wasn ..read more

AEW’s X Yesterday (April 23), the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg promoting a Kenny Omega appearance at the AEW Dynamite & Rampage show there next Wednesday. WINNIPEG... we have a secret We will be seeing Kenny Omega at AEW in Winnipeg on May 1! ️ Get your tickets now at https://t.co/z5nQPtaklJ pic.twitter.com/XoWUHDV5sM — Canada Life Centre (@CanadaLifeCtr) April 23, 2024 Tonight on Dynamite, AEW confirmed that Omega will be making his first appearance on May 1 since being hospitalized with diverticulitis after the Dec. 13 Dynamite. It would be a noteworthy announcement under any circum ..read more

AEW’s X The Dynasty fallout edition of Dynamite featured Chuck Taylor picking a side in the battle between his Best Friends Orange Cassidy and Trent Beretta, and Stardom’s Mina Shirakawa making her AEW in-ring debut. Those segments, and others, will continue when on the company’s three hours of television on TNT this weekend. Chuck listened to Trent’s pitch, but Beretta maybe shouldn’t have beaten Cassidy pillar-to-past before delivering it. Taylor told his tag partner to shove it, and now the two will meet in a place and match they’re familiar with on Rampage this Saturday — a Parking Lot Fig ..read more

AEW’s X The first episode of Dynamite after AEW’s Dynasty PPV opened with The Elite arriving at Jacksonville’s Daily’s Place. After the new AEW World Tag champions The Young Bucks & Continental titleholder Kazuchika Okada exited one SUV, another pulled up. That carried the man who ensured EVPs Matthew & Nicholas Jackson became the company’s first three-time Tag champs — Scapegoat Jack Perry. Security attempted to stop Perry from entering the building, which made sense seeing as as far as we know he’s been suspended since his backstage scuffle with CM Punk at All In: London last August ..read more

AEW’s X Chris Jericho won the FTW title at AEW Dynasty. Blasting HOOK with a baseball to rob him of his father’s title was designed to be part of Jericho’s latest heel turn, and it might have been a little too successful if the “Please Retire” chants he got were any indication. To follow-up on those events during the April 24 fallout episode of Dynamite, Jericho essentially trolled AEW fans at Daily’s Place and around the world by coming out to a new Fozzy song (“Spotlight”) rather than his band’s big hit “Judas”. In the ring, he no sold the backlash, thanking the wrestling world for celebrati ..read more

AEW on TV’s X After AEW International champion Roderick Strong put down a challenge from his old friend Kyle O’Reilly at Dynasty on Sun., April 21, he needed a new challenger. To determine who that would be, a Casino Gauntlet match was booked for the April 24 Dynamite. A Casino Gauntlet match is a staggered entry affair a la WWE’s Royal Rumble. The key difference is instead of the winner being the last person standing after everyone else has been eliminated, here it’s the first wrestler to score a pinfall or submission — and that can happen at any point in the match regardless of how many comp ..read more

WWE They claim the memorandum from McMahon’s team was filed with ‘inflammatory lies’ meant to intimidate Grant. Yesterday (April 23), Vince McMahon’s legal team filed a response to Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit with the U.S. District Court in Connecticut. That included a motion to have the case handled in private arbitration hearings, and a preliminary statement denying the allegations against the former WWE & TKO Executive Chairman. McMahon’s latest denial specifically sought to refute some of the abuse claims in Grant’s suit with his accounting of their relationship. Grant’s atto ..read more

Getty Images - WWE.com “Main Event” Jey explains why he & his brother feel they ‘let the people down’ in Philadelphia. The brotherly battle between Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso in the City of Brotherly Love was one of the most anticipated matches heading into WrestleMania XL. Unfortunately, it failed to live up to the hype for many. Talking to the Gorilla Position podcast, Jey admitted that he wasn’t pleased with how the match played out in Philadelphia on wrestling’s grand stage. “I kind of felt like we did let the people down,” said Jey. “I wanted to go out there and have a straight-up banger t ..read more

AEW Dynasty 2024 Welcome to Cageside Community Star Ratings for AEW Dynasty! For some wrestling fans, star ratings are a way of life. It’s one thing to say that a match is good or bad, but can you actually put a number on it? The star rating system is a scale ranging from 0 to 5 with increments of 0.25. A five star match is as close to perfect as it gets while a zero star match is a complete dud. Determining the star rating for a given match is a highly subjective process. In general the goal is to wrap up all the important elements of a match into one simple number. Some factors to consider m ..read more