From Cageside Seats

  • Cageside Community Star Ratings: FTR vs. Young Bucks

    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...

  • Ospreay says he’s retiring the move that led to Danielson injury scare

    Will Ospreay and Bryan Danielson delivered a thrilling match at AEW Dynasty on Sun., April 21. It ended on a bit of kayfabe controversy, however. Referee Bryce Remsburg was calling for doctors to check on Danielson as he sold an injury from Ospreay’s version of the Tiger Driver ‘91, but the British wrestler didn’t notice and hit a spasming Bryan with his Hidden Blade finisher. The camerawork and commentary made it clear Danielson’s injury was storyline, but the way they’ve continued the angle...

  • AEW Dynasty recap & reactions: Swerve Strickland wins world title

    AEW Dynasty (Apr. 21, 2024) emanated from Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, MO. The PPV event featured Swerve Strickland dethroning Samoa Joe for the world championship, Jack Perry with a surprise return to help the Young Bucks win tag team gold, Will Ospreay delivering on dream match hype with Bryan Danielson, and much more. Get caught up on all the Dynasty details with the excellent play-by-play from Claire Elizabeth. Let’s run down the card from top to bottom. AEW World Championship: Swerve...

  • WWE Raw results, live blog (April 22, 2024): Two title matches

    WWE Monday Night Raw comes waltzing back into our lives tonight (April 22, 2024) from the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio, featuring all the latest build to the upcoming Backlash premium live event scheduled for early next month in France. Advertised for tonight: A new women’s world champion will be crowned in a battle royal featuring some of the top stars in the division, GUNTHER makes his return after taking a few weeks away post WrestleMania 40, Awesome Truth defend the world tag team...

  • Okada heels it up in a terrific PPV clash with PAC

    AEW likes to say it’s where the best wrestle, and they didn’t waste any time making their case at April 21’s Dynasty PPV — opening with Kazuchika Okada defending his Continental championship against PAC. Continental title rules meant that there was no outside interference, which may have influenced the champion and challenger to start this one at a slower pace before a crowd that was excited to see both men. PAC eventually headed to the floor after Okada got the better of an exchange on the mat,...

  • AEW Dynasty 2024 preview: Big surprises are planned, and Jack Perry’s return might be one of them

    All Elite Wrestling returns to pay-per-view tonight (Sun., Apr. 21, 2024) with their new Dynasty event. The show comes our way from the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis at 8 pm ET. A Zero Hour pre-show will stream live and free starting at 6:30 pm ET on All Elite’s YouTube channel, Bleacher Report, and right here at Cageside Seats. The main card can be purchased on Bleacher Report, Triller TV, and other streaming outlets as well as on traditional PPV. The Young Bucks are scheduled to face FTR tonight...

  • Broken Matt Hardy is TNA's big mystery reveal after Nic Nemeth fails to win world title

    All signs pointed to Nic Nemeth walking out of Rebellion (Apr. 20, 2024) with the TNA World Championship, however, it wasn’t meant to be for the Wanted Man. Moose took the best Nemeth had to offer and still conquered his foe. There was little time to celebrate though. Moose was swatted down by Matt Hardy as the surprise mystery Lights Out reveal. TNA laid it on the thick for the illusion that Nemeth’s victory was a foregone conclusion. His family was seated in the front row to savor the...

  • Here is Ruby Soho telling Angelo Parker that she’s pregnant

    On Wednesday, AEW taped a segment for tonight’s (April 20) episode of Rampage where Ruby Soho revealed to “Cool Hand” Angelo Parker that she’s pregnant. This is the real deal, and not just another pro wrestling kayfabe angle. AEW tried to remove a lot of the clips of the big reveal from the internet, presumably because they wanted fans to tune into Saturday Rampage to see how it went down. The segment began with Parker entering the ring by himself, where he said the main reason he got into pro...

  • Mike Santana returns to TNA and beats former world champion

    Mike Santana is one of those wrestlers with untapped potential. Most of his career was in a tag team with Ortiz. Santana decided it was time to spread his wings as a solo act, but he didn’t receive much opportunity in AEW. After parting ways with that company, Santana now has a new home. It’s a familiar one in that. Santana made a surprise return to TNA at Rebellion (Apr. 20, 2024), and he is already starting strong with a win over a former world champion. Steve Maclin interrupted the show with...

  • WWE releases multiple wrestlers

    During this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, two wrestlers for WWE took to Twitter to make clear they are no longer with the company. First, Jinder Mahal posted the following: PW Insider has since confirmed he was released and is currently under a 90-day no compete clause. After rubbing shoulders with The Rock and parlaying that into a championship match, Mahal wasn’t used much after. A short time after, Xia Li posted a far longer, much more heartfelt farewell message: Li had been with...

  • AEW Dynamite results, live blog (April 17, 2024): Dynasty go home show

    Here’s a place to check results and comment along with a new episode of AEW Dynamite, airing tonight (April 10) at 8 pm ET on TBS. This week’s episode comes our way from Indianapolis’ Indiana Farmers Coliseum. New IWGP World Heavyweight champion Jon Moxley makes his return to AEW tonight, and he’ll be on hand to see his Blackpool Combat Club teammate Claudio Castagnoli take on Will Ospreay in a first time showdown and just days before Ospreay faces the BCC’s Bryan Danielson at Dynasty this...

  • WWE unveils new world tag team titles

    Although he wasn’t promoted for the show in any official capacity, Triple H’s music hit a half hour into this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw and the campaign to christen this the “Paul Levesque era” has been a rousing success. This man was treated like a god. In Montreal, of all places! So what was he doing there? That became clear when he got into the ring and Raw General Manager Adam Pearce was there with a black cloth draped over what looked like two titles. Sure enough, they brought up...