The Elite enter Chicago, MJF teases UFC appearance

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**Rewind-A-Dynamite is reside at 10 p.m. ET tonight with Wai Ting being joined by visitor co-host Bruce Lord to overview the present from Chicago coming off Full Gear. The 2 shall be discussing all the most recent information and take your suggestions. They are going to be streaming reside at YouTube.com/POSTwrestling.

**For POST Wrestling Café members, the latest Rewind-A-Wai covers NWA TNA #25 from December 11, 2002. Wai Ting and I dive into yr one of many firm as they ran Wednesday night time pay-per-views from Nashville. We decide issues up after the on-screen debut of Vince Russo with the promotion and the formation of S.E.X. and whether or not Jeff Jarrett is aligned with Russo, response to an especially controversial promo by Roddy Piper from the week prior, the paranoia creating amongst performers, Jarrett defending the NWA World Championship towards Curt Hennig, an awesome match between AJ Kinds and Wonderful Pink, and a not so nice Chair & Chain match. Plus, we undergo the information from that week in 2002 together with Hiroshi Tanahashi recovering from a stabbing, a mainstream newspaper getting access to the WWE author’s room, the WWA staging a tour in Europe, and Paul Heyman showing on TSN’s Off the Report with Michael Landsberg. This present is offered now for all POST Wrestling Café members together with your complete archives going again to 2017.

**POST Wrestling’s “Scarborough Dad” Mike Murray is elevating cash for Movember and you’ll help him reach his goal of $500. For affirmation of his very good mustache-growing skill, Mike might be discovered most weekdays at BMV Books at 471 Bloor Avenue West in Toronto.

**upNXT is outside of The BDE this week with Braden Herrington & Davie Portman recording from their new location and masking Tuesday’s episode.

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Tonight: Rewind-A-Dynamite with Wai Ting & Bruce Lord (10 p.m. ET)
Friday: Rewind-A-SmackDown with John Pollock & Wai Ting (Patreon)
Saturday: WWE Survivor Collection POST Present with John & Wai
Sunday: Wrestlenomics Radio

WRESTLING NEWS

**AEW Dynamite returns to Chicago on the Wintrust Enviornment tonight for the annual Thanksgiving Eve version of the present. Annually, Dynamite has been damage on this night time of the yr as a result of vacation, though that is the primary yr that the vacation present is airing proper after a pay-per-view and the distinctive draw of The Elite wrestling on TV for the primary time since September.

From a reside perspective, WrestleTix reported approximately 5,450 tickets distributed as of Tuesday. The final time they ran the Wintrust Enviornment was on February 2^nd for Dynamite however that present had CM Punk vs. MJF and AEW has run Chicago a number of instances since that card with Forbidden Door on the United Heart and All Out on the NOW Enviornment. Clearly, the response to The Elite shall be an fascinating factor of the present. I extremely doubt there shall be anti-CM Punk chants given town, and it’s definitely potential that The Elite are booed, and that shall be nice as they’ll work the match as heels and really makes the match utterly totally different than Saturday’s model. Based mostly on Being the Elite, they remoted the “F—ok CM Punk” chant from the Prudential Heart and shall be taken by some as a not-so-subtle method of encouraging the mantra to proceed in different arenas by The Bucks endorsing it on their present.

The present additionally has William Regal addressing his alliance with MJF after Saturday’s ending, which was the most important angle on the present. MJF famous on the press convention that he was going to be on a film set on Monday morning, so he’s balancing “The Iron Claw” filming. His subsequent title protection is scheduled for 12/14 at Winter is Coming towards the winner of tonight’s match between Ricky Starks and Ethan Web page.

Right here is the introduced record of matches and segments for tonight’s present at 8 p.m. ET on TBS and it’s listed for TSN 3 (not TSN 2 like regular) in Canada:
*Match #2 within the Greatest-of-Seven: Demise Triangle vs. Kenny Omega & The Younger Bucks
*World Title Eliminator Remaining: Ethan Web page vs. Ricky Starks
*ROH Championship Match: Chris Jericho (champion) vs. Tomohiro Ishii
*All-Atlantic Championship Match: Orange Cassidy (champion) vs. Jake Hager
*William Regal to talk
*Footage of Jade Cargill’s run-in with Bow Wow

**MJF is teasing that he might show up at UFC 282 subsequent month in Las Vegas. The brand new AEW champion exchanged in a back-and-forth with light-weight fighter Paddy Pimblett after Pimblett responded to an Instagram put up calling MJF a “clown” and the wrestler responding about how harmful professional wrestling is and never being revered. Pimblett is combating Jared Gordon on the pay-per-view card on December 10^th, which is an fascinating date with ROH Remaining Battle operating within the afternoon and NXT Deadline within the night. If this MJF story beneficial properties traction, it will look like a chance for AEW to steer individuals towards the UFC card with the concept of the 2 taking pictures an angle on the occasion. Pimblett is sponsored by Barstool Sports, which is an outlet that has closely featured MJF on its numerous retailers through the years.

**Resulting from Thanksgiving within the U.S., viewership information over the following week shall be delayed. Tonight’s Dynamite figures shall be launched on Monday afternoon, SmackDown & Rampage shall be launched on Tuesday afternoon, and Uncooked numbers shall be out subsequent Wednesday at the start is again on schedule. We may have the NXT information posted tonight, as normal.

**Mia Yim was interviewed by Cageside Seats and spoke in regards to the “Michin” nickname that has been launched on tv over the previous two weeks:

Michin is Korean for loopy, and I’m half Korean, half African American. I at all times do what I can to symbolize each my heritage and Michin is one thing that my mother has referred to as me since I used to be a child. It holds one thing particular to me as a result of it’s one thing that I’m used to rising up.

It’s Korean factor, so in case you’re not part of the tradition, in case you don’t perceive the tradition, it’s not gonna make sense. So I get why lots of people had been confused or didn’t prefer it, however for me and my household, it’s one thing particular.

**NJPW’s Tremendous Jr. Tag League continued in Tokyo on Wednesday on the Enviornment Tachikawa Tachihi with an introduced attendance of 849. In the primary occasion, junior tag champions TJP & Francesco Akira beat El Lindaman & Alex Zayne in 18:56, Chris Bey & Ace Austin beat DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru in 11:10, YOH & Lio Rush beat Robbie Eagles & Tiger Masks in 10:13, BUSHI & Titan of LIJ over Ryusuke Taguchi & Clark Connors in 10:02, and KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight picked up their first win of the event towards SHO & Dick Togo in 9:34. (Courtesy: Purolove.com)

**TJP & Akira and Ace Austin & Chris Bey are each 2-0 with 4 factors and tied for first after the primary two round-robin matches. There is no such thing as a present on Thursday and Friday’s card in Gunma has Akira & TJP vs. Titan & Bushi in the primary occasion, Ace Austin & Chris Bey vs. SHO & Dick Togo, Robbie Eagles & Tiger Masks vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & DOUKI, Alex Zayne & El Lindman vs. Ryusuke Taguchi & Clark Connors, and KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight vs. Lio Rush & YOH within the tag league matches.

**Dante Leon will defend the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship towards Amakusa on 12/23 at Shinjuku Face. It is going to be Leon’s first protection of the championship since beating Ninja Mack on 11/10.

**BetOnline has launched the next odds for the Survivor Collection:
*The Bloodline (-160) vs. The Brawling Brutes, Drew McIntyre & Kevin Owens (+120)
*Crew Bayley (-350) vs. Crew Belair (+225)
*Seth Rollins (-150) vs. Austin Concept (+150) vs. Bobby Lashley (+400)
*Ronda Rousey (-4000) vs. Shotzi (+850)
*AJ Kinds (-400) vs. Finn Balor (+250)

**AEW and Yuke’s have released a teaser for his or her online game that includes recreation footage of Jon Moxley.

**The newest episode of MLW Insider options an interview with its featherweight champion Taya Valkyrie.

MMA NEWS

**Former teammates Artem Lobov and Conor McGregor are in a authorized dispute relating to Lobov’s perception that he’s owed cash from the success of McGregor’s Correct No. 12 whiskey. In response to the Irish Independent, Lobov has launched a lawsuit towards McGregor stating he performed a considerable function within the growth of the model and steering McGregor in the direction of creating whiskey, as an alternative of vodka.

Lobov is being represented by lawyer Dermot McNamara, who issued the next:

My shopper is a retired skilled fighter with a grasp’s diploma from DCU in Finance and Capital Markets. We have now issued Excessive Courtroom proceedings on his behalf to implement an settlement with Mr McGregor relating to the Correct No. 12 whiskey model. My shopper was the preliminary creator and co-founder of the idea to launch an Irish whiskey model related to Mr. McGregor. As these issues at the moment are earlier than the court docket, we won’t be making any additional remark.

McGregor’s consultant Karen J. Kessler responded:

Correct No. 12 Irish Whiskey was created, developed, branded and tirelessly promoted by Conor McGregor.

In 2021, McGregor bought the bulk stake within the whiskey model for a reported figure of $600 million. Lobov claims that he developed a plan for the whiskey and took a number of conferences earlier than presenting a plan to McGregor with Lobov turning down the $1 million that was provided by McGregor on the time for his work.

**This Friday, PFL makes an attempt its first pay-per-view occasion with the finals of the 2022 season on the Hulu Theatre in New York Metropolis. The pay-per-view is driving on the again of Kayla Harrison, the corporate’s greatest star and whose contract they matched to retain her rights earlier this yr. From each account, this pay-per-view is anticipated to do very poorly and isn’t a pay-per-view stage promotion but with an asking worth of $49.99. The principle card is scheduled to carry seven fights together with six event finals:
*Girls’s Light-weight Remaining: Kayla Harrison vs. Larissa Pacheco
*Featherweight Remaining: Brendan Loughnane vs. Bubba Jenkins
*Heavyweight Remaining: Ante Delija vs. Matheus Scheffel
*Non-Event Battle: Julia Budd vs. Aspen Ladd
*Light-weight Remaining: Stevie Ray vs. Olivier Aubin-Mercier
*Welterweight Remaining: Sadibou Sy vs. Dilano Taylor
*Gentle Heavyweight Remaining: Rob Wilkinson vs. Omari Akhmedov

**Kayla Harrison was on The MMA Hour on Wednesday and bought emotional when being requested about what she has gone via this yr. She famous there have been well being points however didn’t wish to go into the main points but. She stated she has felt each “scared” and “at peace” this yr with what she has been coping with. Harrison stated she is nice to compete on Friday when requested for a follow-up by host Ariel Helwani.

Harrison acknowledged that her contract with the PFL ends in 2023 and there’s no matching interval that follows the expiration of the deal. She reiterated that she won’t be competing in any extra tournaments for PFL and reducing weight that many instances in a single yr. She was additionally open in regards to the reality she was “aggravated” about the best way PFL’s first pay-per-view was promoted with an absence of lead time and he or she would have appreciated to advertise higher. Harrison doesn’t obtain a minimize of the pay-per-view and is paid the identical no matter the way it performs. There are few topics in MMA which can be extra open and sincere than Harrison in all these settings.

**The UFC is off this weekend after which runs three extra occasions earlier than the tip of the yr. On December 3^rd, Battle Evening shall be on the highway with a card on the Amway Enviornment in Orlando with Stephen Thompson vs. Kevin Holland in the primary occasion, the next weekend is UFC 282, and the ultimate card of the yr is December 17^th on the UFC Apex with Sean Strickland vs. Jared Cannonier.

**ESPN stories that Derek Brunson is off subsequent weekend’s UFC Battle Evening card in Orlando. Brunson shall be changed by Roman Dolidze (11-1) towards Jack Hermansson (23-7) on the primary card of the present. Dolidze is coming off three straight wins together with two knockout victories this yr towards Kyle Daukaus and Phil Hawes. Hermansson is coming off a choice win towards Chris Curtis this previous July.

**Brett Okamoto at ESPN can also be reporting {that a} welterweight struggle between Gilbert Burns (20-5) and Neil Magny (27-9) is anticipated to be added to UFC 283 on January 21^st in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Burns fought for the UFC welterweight championship in February 2021 the place he was stopped by Kamaru Usman and got here again with a win towards Stephen Thompson by resolution and is coming off a choice loss to Khamzat Chimaev this previous April. Magny has been combating for the UFC since 2013 and simply defeated Daniel Rodriguez by submission earlier this month.

ON THIS DATE

WWF offered its third version of the Survivor Collection in 1989 as they took the cardboard to the Rosemont Horizon in Illinois. WWF champion Hulk Hogan teamed with Demolition & Jake Roberts to beat The Million Greenback Crew of Ted DiBiase, Zeus, The Barbarian & The Warlord after a profitable SummerSlam construct incorporating Zeus. Nevertheless, it was Final Warrior that closed the present with Jim Neidhart & The Rockers beating Andre the Big, Haku, Arn Anderson & Bobby Heenan with Warrior being poised because the successor to Hogan, which might be the headline attraction for the next WrestleMania in 1990.

Bob Backlund regained the WWF championship on the Survivor Collection in 1994 when he defeated Bret Hart in a Submission Match. The star of the match was Owen Hart, pleading together with his mom Helen to throw within the towel as Bret was trapped within the hen wing submission and it was a ploy to value his brother the title. For Backlund, it occurred practically eleven years after shedding the title in January 1984 to finish his practically four-year title reign.

At 55 years of age, Sting (Steve Borden) made his first on-screen look for WWE on this date in 2014 on the conclusion of the Survivor Collection after Crew Cena defeated Crew Authority. The arrival of Borden adopted his involvement with the 2K online game and was a precursor to Sting’s match with Triple H the next March at WrestleMania 31. Borden was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2016 and ultimately left the corporate, becoming a member of AEW in December 2020.

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