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**Rewind-A-SmackDown is live at eleven p.chiliad. ET tonight for Mail Wrestling Café members. Kate from Montreal will bring together me to review SmackDown, AEW Rampage, and take your calls and feedback on the shows. Café members will accept admission to the alive video stream and tin can download the show late tonight.

**On Dominicus night, we will be doing a free G1 Climax show at eight p.m. ET on the Postal service YouTube channel. Karen Peterson and I will review both cards over the weekend and go through the latest standings and potential outcomes as we tee up the concluding three nights at Nippon Budokan.

**Pat Laprade was a guest on Thursday chatting with me nigh the massive changes at WWE, the futurity of Vince McMahon, WWE's render to Canada in a few weeks, AEW's debut in Toronto, and Paul Levesque's recent comment about Vince taking wrestling out of bars and into a global space.

**Our ain Andrew Thompson spoke with Kerry Morton at The Gathering last weekend and discussed his match with Homicide after this month, wrestling at Ric Flair's Final Match, his MLW debut & more.

**I'll be dropping some other interview this Monday at eleven a.m. ET.

WRESTLING NEWS

**The general on-sale for WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium began on Friday following pre-sales over the past few days. The company hosted a launch political party on Thursday at the stadium to promote the on-auction and included several matches with Raquel Rodriguez over Nikki A.S.H, Theory over Ricochet, The Street Profits over Los Lotharios, and MizTV featuring Liv Morgan and JoJo Siwa as guests. Other celebrities in attendance included Snoop Dogg, who appeared with Bianca Belair and Becky Lynch; and Gabriel Iglesias who took the spot of Valerie Loureda as Los Lotharios did the Osculation Cam segment and kissed Iglesias on the cheek, instead of Loureda.

**Chris Dickinson (Christopher Torre) filed a lawsuit on July 22^nd confronting former girlfriends Christina Kardooni a.k.a. Christina Von Eerie and McKalia Coulter. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in New Bailiwick of jersey. Torre is accusing the ii of committing "blatant acts of defamation that wrongfully charge Mr. Torre of abusive comport." Earlier this year, Kardooni wrote about alleged actions by Torre during their human relationship that included physical and exact abuse. Torre denies the accusations in the adjust, which states, "Mr. Torre never engaged in any forms of abuse, whether physical, exact, or mental, either against any person. Mr. Torre too displays full respect for other women wrestlers, which is well acknowledged in the industry." The conform states that Torre has lost bookings including his New Japan deal, which is a paid per advent contract and only worked once for the grouping this by May at the TV tapings in Washington. Torre claimed that he was making an boilerplate of $20,000 per month with fifteen-20 events per calendar month prior to these allegations.

Kardooni and Coulter issued a articulation statement noting that none of the parties live in New Jersey and the state doesn't have an anti-SLAPP constabulary statute with the 2 also beingness sent cease-and-desist orders:

Information technology has been made public that Christopher Torre (Chris Dickinson) has filed a federal defamation lawsuit in the district of New Jersey, against McKaila Coulter (ex-girlfriend) and myself (ex-girlfriend). None of the 3 parties live in NJ. Even his attorneys office is based out of Brooklyn, NY. New Jersey has no anti-SLAPP Constabulary statue. That has made information technology very difficult and plush for us to find representation. Especially because neither of alive anywhere near there.

We fear that if we don't respond to the lawsuit with proper legal representation not only will it damage us, but it will only reinforce that women should be afraid to speak out against their abusers unless they have the resource to also fight them in court.

Defamation can just be claimed if in that location is fake data. Everything we take spoke out against is true.

That being said, we did not back downward subsequently beingness sent C&Ds to our jobs and homes. We will continue to stand our footing in the court of police.

If anyone has any lawyer recommendations or groups they would recommend to help us fight this please reach out.

Thank you lot for your support.

**Brandon Thurston did a lot of research into past donations made past Vince & Linda McMahon to The Donald J. Trump Foundation in 2007 and 2009. Before this week, WWE issued some other statement noting the findings of an additional $v one thousand thousand in unreported payments related to Vince McMahon from those same years and totaling the aforementioned corporeality. It is not clear if they are in fact the same unreported expenses, just the connections of the time and corporeality led to Thurston earthworks farther. The source of the donations to the foundation has been debated over the years as the Trump Foundation listed "WWE" as the donor in divide filings to the IRS in 2007 and 2009 with the company'due south headquarters included. The filings note a $iv million donation in 2007 (the yr that coincides with Trump's involvement at WrestleMania 23), and $ane million in 2009 (the twelvemonth Trump purchased the Monday Night Raw in storyline and sold it back to Vince). In 2012, a spokesperson with WWE stated that the donations came directly from Vince McMahon rather than the company or a articulation donation with Linda and was around the time of Linda'due south second run for a Senate seat in Connecticut where she was being heavily covered. That was semi-contradicted in 2016 when WWE told The Huffington Post that the donations to the Trump Foundation covered Trump'south appearance fees in 2007 and 2009, adding that "Vince and Linda made personal donations" and linking Linda with the donations. WWE did not annotate on Thurston'southward story when he reached out to them several times and therefore, information technology is not clear if these donations are the source of the latest findings by WWE of unreported expenses or a separate $5 million with the coincidence of equaling the same amount and occurring the same year equally the Trump donations. It isn't as though the donations were a mystery because they take been covered over the years by various outlets.

**Friday Night SmackDown takes place at the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina tonight and arrogance at viii p.k. ET on Fox. It was reported past Mike Johnson at PWinsider.com that former Hitting Row members Peak Dolla (A.J. Francis) and Ashante "Thee" Adonis (Tehuti Miles) are scheduled to be in Raleigh this night. Along with Isaiah "Swerve" Scott/Swerve Strickland and B-Fab, Hit Row was an instant hit in NXT and they were chosen upwardly to SmackDown concluding October. B-Fab was cut nearly immediately and was followed by the other iii being released two weeks afterwards. Swerve signed with AEW before this year.

SmackDown will feature the follow-up to final week's bending where Karrion Kross attacked Drew McIntyre with Scarlett leaving the hourglass on the apron for Roman Reigns.

The following matches and segments are listed for tonight's SmackDown:
*Intercontinental Championship: Gunther (champion) vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
*Women's Tag Title Tournament: Raquel Rodriguez & Aliyah vs. Shotzi & Xia Li
*Contract signing between Liv Morgan and Shayna Baszler

**AEW Rampage arrogance at 10 p.m. ET on TNT with a taped card from Minneapolis and a lot of matches and segments announced:
*AAA Mixed Tag Squad Championship: Sammy Guevara & Tay Melo (champions) vs. Dante Martin & Skye Blue
*Orange Cassidy vs. Ari Daivari
*Parker Boudreaux vs. Sonny Osculation
*The Gunn Lodge vs. Erick Redbeard & Danhausen
*Bryan Danielson speaks
*Interviews with Claw and Swerve in our Glory

**Touch on Wrestling averaged 131,000 viewers and 0.03 in the 18-49 demographic on AXS Boob tube. It ranked #131 among cablevision originals on Thursday night. Last week's numbers were 115,000 and 0.03 respectively.

**IMPACT Wrestling has its Emergence card from Cicero Stadium in Illinois this night. The special arrogance on Fite TV, Bear on Plus, and for Ultimate Insiders on YouTube get-go at 7:xxx p.thou. ET with the following line-upwardly:
*IMPACT Championship: Josh Alexander (champion) vs. Alex Shelley
*Knockouts Championship: Jordynne Grace (champion) vs. Mia Yim
*The Expert Brothers, Ace Austin, Chris Bey & Hikuleo vs. Eddie Edwards, Matt Taven, Mike Bennett, Kenny Male monarch & PCO
*Sami Callihan vs. Steve Maclin
*Bandido vs. Rey Horus
*Violent by Design vs. KUSHIDA & Chris Sabin
*Speedball Mike Bailey vs. Jack Evans
*Knockouts Tag Team Championship: Rosemary & Taya Valkyrie vs. Deonna Purrazzo & Chelsea Light-green (Countdown to Emergence at 7:thirty p.m. ET on YouTube)
*Digital Media Championship: Brian Myers (champion) vs. Bhupinder Gujjar (Countdown to Emergence at 7:30 p.m. ET on YouTube)

**IMPACT returns to Cicero Stadium on Sat for 2d City Slamm to tape upcoming episodes of Affect.

**WWE has a alive result on Saturday in Salisbury, Maryland at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center featuring Ronda Rousey vs. Raquel Rodriguez, Riddle vs. Seth Rollins, Bobby Lashley vs. The Miz, and Bianca Belair vs. Asuka among the matches advertised locally by the arena (although, on the WWE effect page, they don't list Rousey, Lashley or Rollins). Dominicus they are in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and WWE does list Rousey, Rollins, Belair, The Usos, and Drew McIntyre for that testify.

**The MLW event in El Paso, Texas on Baronial 27^th has been changed from a television set taping to a firm show, first reported by PWinsider.com. The site reports that an email was issued to talent noting that the local Lucha promoter they were working with was non bringing in every bit many talents every bit originally promised. The electronic mail was sent to inform talent not existence brought to El Paso that they could secure other bookings and will be paid one-half their pay for the canceled booking. The MLW event page includes the explanation "See a alive house evidence!" and is advertisement Alex Hammerstone, Jacob Fatu and the Samoan SWAT Team, Mads Krugger, and Microman for the bear witness at Austin High School. MLW'south next bear witness later El Paso is scheduled for September eighteen^th in Norcross, Georgia at Espacio Discotheque.

**The G1 Climax enters its final week with two shows this weekend and then iii nights at Japan Budokan kickoff on Tuesday. Sat's carte du jour streams live on New Nippon World at 5 a.k. ET with the following line-upwards:
*B BLOCK: Jay White (four-0) vs. Taichi (2-two) – White is coming back afterward missing ii shows due to estrus stroke symptoms. He is the just one undefeated in whatsoever of the blocks and has two matches remaining. Taichi must win to stay alive.
*D Cake: Volition Ospreay (2-2) vs. YOSHI-HASHI (2-two)
*D Block: Shingo Takagi (two-2) vs. Yujiro (iii-ii)
*A BLOCK: Toru Yano (ane-4) vs. Jeff Cobb (2-2)
*C BLOCK: Aaron Henare (one-4) vs. KENTA (1-iii)
*Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto & Tomohiro Ishii vs. EVIL, SHO & Dick Togo
*Tetsuya Naito, SANADA & BUSHI vs. Lance Archer, Zack Sabre Jr. & Taka Michinoku
*Tom Lawlor & Royce Isaacs vs. JONAH & Bad Dude Tito
*Hiroshi Tanahashi, Tama Tonga, David Finlay & Jado vs. Juice Robinson, Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens & El Phantasmo

**Dominicus's card in Nagano at 2 a.thousand. ET (late Saturday) has tournament matches with Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. KENTA (rematch from Wrestle Kingdom where KENTA suffered his injuries and probably plays spoiler to Tanahashi), Tom Lawlor vs. Jeff Cobb, Taichi vs. Neat O-Khan, and David Finlay vs. YOSHI-HASHI.

The A Block is downwardly to Okada, Archer, JONAH, and Cobb past a thread. Okada has eight points while the other have six. Okada and Archer face off on Tuesday and that will likely determine the winner. If JONAH beats Fale and Archer beats Okada, in that location would be a iii-style tie at 8 points where JONAH has a win against Okada but a loss to Archer. Cobb has two matches left and theoretically, could end up with eight points besides and has a win over Archer but losses to Okada and JONAH. Lawlor, Fale & Yano are mathematically eliminated.

The B Block has Jay White and Tama Tonga tied with eight points. White has two matches left with Taichi and Tama Tonga. Taichi could win his last two matches and end with viii points but in that location is almost no way White and Tonga have a double DQ, so he'southward essentially out of it and the block will be determined by the winner of White and Tama Tonga on Tuesday.

The C Block is led by Zack Sabre Jr. with eight points. Hirooki Goto, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Tetsuya Naito have six points. EVIL, Henare & KENTA are eliminated. Naito'due south last match is with Zack on Tuesday and would win the cake if he beats Zack AND Tanahashi & Goto lose their last match as both have wins confronting Naito. It's likely that Tanahashi loses to KENTA and Goto is beaten by EVIL and clears the way for Naito to gain revenge on Zack from last year's tournament and win the block on Tuesday.

D Cake is the parity 1 where everyone is all the same live and could result in a playoff match(es) on Wed to decide the block winner. The favorites are Shingo Takagi and Volition Ospreay and I assumed it would be Naito vs. Takagi in the semi-terminal from the beginning. Ospreay and Takagi each take 2 matches remaining while the others have one. Takagi has the tiebreaker over Ospreay but both lost to David Finlay. I can see Juice Robinson beating Ospreay to ready a U.S. title lucifer afterward Robinson never lost the title and that gives Ospreay 2 opponents this fall along with Finlay. Ospreay can shell YOSHI-HASHI and lose to Juice Robinson on Tuesday. This is the most complex block to intermission down with the most scenarios but I can only see 2 viable candidates to win information technology.

**Dave Meltzer reported in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the adjacent two NXT U.1000. tapings were canceled as BT Sports Studios are unavailable. The reason given was that the studios are occupied for football coverage and it doesn't announced NXT U.K. are seeking an alternative location for the tapings. Meltzer added that there is "uneasiness" among those he'due south spoken with in the NXT U.K. crew and talent has non been told anything.

**Karrion Kross and Scarlett Bourdeaux volition still be appearing at DEFY Wrestling'due south upshot next Saturday night at Washington Hall in Seattle (Kross was originally advertised for a match against Yuya Uemura). The two will be role of a see-and-greet. The card will include Christopher Daniels, Swerve Strickland, Bobby Fish, The Bollywood Boyz, Alex Shelley, Killer Kelly, Yuya Uemura, and Dragon Gate'southward La Estrella among those advertised.

**The WWE on A&East block this Sun features a two-hour documentary on DX at 8 p.m. ET. There has been a fair amount of AEW talent appearing on these A&E specials with Billy Gunn featured in the DX slice and other interviews conducted with Jim Ross, Marking Henry, and Paul Wight. The Rivals episode on Sunday at ten p.m. ET focuses on Triple H and Mick Foley and their programs from 1997 and 2000. Side by side week's documentary is on Edge and the Rivals episode covers Border vs. John Cena.

**The latest update from WrestleTix is that WWE's Disharmonism at the Castle has now moved nearly 63,000 tickets for the September 3^rd carte at Principality Stadium and will make this a virtual lock that the bear witness will surpass the real attendance figures from WrestleMania 38 this past April.

**Ontario contained wrestler Holden Albright (Brendone Caulfield) sadly lost his father unexpectedly this past Sunday. Caulfield has put together a GoFundMe campaign to assist with costs associated with his passing. Nosotros desire to send our condolences to Brendone and his family.

**Game Changer Wrestling has its annual Homecoming shows this weekend at The Showboat in Atlantic City. Saturday night'south card at vii p.m. ET on Fite TV has Jon Moxley vs. Effy for the GCW title, Alex Colon defending the Ultraviolent title against Rina Yamashita, Nick Wayne against Starboy Charlie, John Wayne Murdoch vs. Matt Tremont, Tony Deppen vs. Blake Christian, Cole Radrick against Charli Evans, and The Briscoes face Ciclope & Miedo Extremo. The Dominicus card at 4 p.thousand. ET features Matt Cardona and Chelsea Light-green renewing their wedding vows and has Ciclope & Miedo Extremo defending the GCW tag titles confronting Alex Colon & John Wayne Murdoch, Nighttime Sheik vs. Maki Itoh, Cole Radrick vs. Charli Evans, Blake Christian teams with Hashemite kingdom of jordan Oliver & Nick Wayne against The 2d Gear Coiffure, Speedball Mike Bailey against Joe Lando, Allie Katch & Effy vs. Charli Evans & Everett Connors, Rina Yamashita vs. Sawyer Wreck, Kevin Blackwood faces Ninja Mack and a 7-Way Scramble match for the GCW Extreme title with Cole Radrick defending confronting Gringo Loco, Masha Slamovich, Jimmy Lloyd, Axton Ray, Starboy Charlie & Alec Price.

**Pro Wrestling NOAH's N-i Victory tournament began on Th and will have place over the course of nine events through September 3^rd. The first night at Yokohama Budokan drew 940 fans with block matches featuring Katsuhiko Nakajima over Masa Kitamiya, Masato Tanaka over Anthony Greene, Masakatsu Funaki over Kinya Okada (replacement for Timothy Thatcher in the North-1), Hideki Suzuki over Masaaki Mochizuki, Jack Morris over Kaito Kiyomiya (big upset for the day), Kenoh over El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr, Takashi Sugiura over Satoshi Kojima, and Kazuyuki Fujita over Get Shiozaki.

**Saturday's N-1 card will stream on Wrestle Universe from Osaka with Go Shiozaki vs. Anthony Greene, Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Masaaki Mochizuki vs. Kenoh, Masato Tanaka vs. Hideki Suzuki, Katsuhiko Nakajima vs. Masakatsu Funaki, Kaito Kiyomiya vs. Masa Kitamiya, and Satoshi Kojima vs. Kinya Okada. They volition as well run Hiroshima Sunday Plaza on Sunday, which just hosted dorsum-to-dorsum nights of the G1 over the by calendar week.

**All Japan Pro Wrestling'south Oudou tournament connected on Th with the remaining opening circular matches. Shotaro Ashino advanced past beating Dan Tamura, Takao Omori beat Ryuki Honda, Cyrus beat Shuji Ishikawa, and Yuji Nagata defeated Yoshitatsu. The winners movement to the 2d round joining Jake Lee, Takuya Nomura, Naoya Nomura, and Kento Miyahara. The second-round matches will take place on Dominicus and Tuesday with Miyahara vs. Cyrus, Ashino vs. Nagata, Lee vs. Takuya Nomura, and Omori vs. Naoya Nomura. The tournament wraps up on Baronial 20^thursday with the semi-finals and terminal at Korakuen Hall.

**The WWE stock closed at $72.54 on Fri.

MMA NEWS

**Bellator 284 takes place tonight from Sioux Falls, Southward Dakota with a primary effect welterweight fight betwixt Neiman Gracie and Goiti Yamauchi. The big news on Thursday was former flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane missing weight by three pounds for her fight against Bruna Ellen and giving up a pct of her purse for the weight miss. It is another setback for the former champion, who lost her title to Juliana Velasquez at the end of 2020 and followed that loss with another determination defeat at the hands of Justine Kish in her home market of Honolulu, Hawaii. Speaking of Kish, she besides missed weight for tonight's card and was off past ii.iv pounds and volition likewise requite upward a pct of her purse when she fights DeAnna Bennett on the prelims.

The chief card airs at 9 p.m. ET on Get-go with Gracie vs. Yamauchi, Valentin Moldavsky vs. Steve Mowry, Macfarlane vs. Ellen, Gokhan Saricam vs. Said Sowma, and Aaron Jeffrey against Austin Vanderford (Vanderford is looking to rebound afterwards his first-round TKO loss to Gegard Mousasi for the 185-pound title this past Feb).

**Saturday's UFC Fight Nighttime carte du jour is headlined by a bantamweight bout betwixt former champion Dominick Cruz and Marlon Vera. Cruz is coming off a pair of determination wins against Casey Kenney and Pedro Munhoz and Vera would exist a significant win for the 36-year-onetime. Vera, 29, is on the strongest streak of his career with 3 straight wins and the last 2 coming against Frankie Edgar and Rob Font. In that location is non a lot of depth to this card from the perspective of well-known commodities simply it is a strong main event at the UFC Apex.

All the fighters made weight on Friday.

Primary CARD (vii p.m. ET on ESPN & ESPN+)
*Dominick Cruz (24-3) vs. Marlon Vera (21-7-i)
*David Onama (10-1) vs. Nate Landwehr (15-iv)
*Iasmin Lucindo (thirteen-4) vs. Yazmin Jauregui (8-0)
*Devin Clark (13-6) vs. Azamat Murzakanov (11-0)
*Priscila Cachoeira (xi-4) vs. Ariane Lipski (fourteen-7)
*Gerald Meerschaert (34-fifteen) vs. Bruno Silva (22-7)

PRELIMINARY CARD (4 p.m. ET on ESPN & ESPN+)
*Angela Colina (13-12) vs. Lupita Godinez (8-two)
*Lukasz Brzeski (8-1-1) vs. Martin Buday (ten-i)
*Cynthia Calvillo (9-4-1) vs. Nina Nunes (ten-seven)
*Gabriel Benitez (22-10) vs. Charlie Ontiveros (11-8)
*Ode Osbourne (eleven-4) vs. Tyson Nam (20-12-ane)
*Josh Quinlan (5-0) vs. Jason Witt (19-8)
*Youssef Zalal (10-5) vs. Da'Mon Blackshear (12-iv)

**The PFL continues its playoffs in Cardiff, Wales on Sabbatum with an afternoon event from the Motorpoint Loonshit. The semi-finals of the welterweight tournament will include Rory MacDonald fighting Dilano Taylor and Sadibou Sy against Carlos Leal. In the heavyweight tournament, Juan Adams faces Matheus Scheffel (both are replacements subsequently Bruno Cappelozza and Denis Goltsov could not go on in the tournament) and Ante Delija faces Renan Ferreira in the other semi-last fight. The rest of the semi-final fights this flavour have place adjacent Sabbatum in London, England and the finals are set for Nov.

ON THIS DATE

An all-time corking moment in 2017 when Katsuyori Shibata made his get-go public advent after a nearly fatal head injury sustained earlier this yr in a match with Kazuchika Okada:

five years ago todaypic.twitter.com/jrvHtVLakt

— Ashutosh (@AshLovesPuro) August 12, 2022

Bruno Sammartino announces his retirement in 1981 and finished upward with a lucifer against George Steele that yr and several matches with All Nippon before the cease of the yr. Sammartino staged a return to team upward with his son David in 1985 and wrestled until August 1987 with his last match taking identify in Baltimore teaming with Hulk Hogan against King Kong Bundy & One Man Gang.

Hiroshi Tanahashi wins his 3rd G-1 Climax by beating Kota Ibushi in the finals in 2018:

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Mail service INTERVIEW: Pat Laprade, Author & Historian
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REWIND-A-DYNAMITE: Quake by the Lake
John Pollock is joined by Davie Portman & Braden Herrington to review AEW's Quake by the Lake featuring Jon Moxley vs. Chris Jericho.
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SHOT IN THE DARK
John Siino reviews this week's editions of AEW Dark, AEW Dark: Elevation, NXT U.k., Bear upon Wrestling, NXT Level Up, NJPW Strong, NWA Usa, NWA Powerrr, and WWE Chief Event in nether 15 minutes on Shot In The Dark.
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