Ben Allison of Wrestling Republic

Career highlight! Reinstate Becky Lynch as Intercontinental Champion ASAP @ScrapDaddyAP

Bret Hart and Stone Cold in a Wrestling Republic video before GTA 6… An all time Wrestling Republic clip😂

5 AEW main event wrestlers who I predict will make the jump to WWE in the next 5 years👀 Bookmark this so you can come back in 5 years😂

Every wrestling fan should want the AEW Dynamite ratings to be high in 2026, even if you don’t watch their product. The AEW / Skydance negotiations next year are going to be a critical point for the company, especially as TKO has (potentially exclusive) relationships with almost every other major network. This means that if AEW does lose their deal, it’ll almost certainly lead to a drastic decline in views for AEW unless they go to YouTube (in which case they’d take a major financial loss). So it would be a terrible situation for the company. The existence of AEW helps wrestlers, fans, and anyone who works in Professional Wrestling. The more jobs available the better. That’s why I don’t get why people want AEW to fail. Even if you dislike their product, them doing well helps the entire industry. Despite the rumours across the industry, I’m still confident Skydance will renew. Considering how much they currently pay for AEW programming, they get a significant return on their investment. I simply don’t understand how they could justify a cancellation to investors.

The Team USA vs Mexico Survivor Series match will begin the build for the WrestleMania 43 main event. It’ll continue to build tension between CM Punk and Cody Rhodes, while also continuing Punk’s recent losing streak. I predict the result will lead to a CM Punk heel turn on Penta in early 2027. Hopefully AFTER his cash-in, not during it. In order to ensure fans boo Punk, the heel turn will need to be on someone who’s a fan favourite, and Penta is the best bet for that. Punk will head into WrestleMania as WWE Champion, with Cody Rhodes walking in as the babyface challenger.

SHAD TAWKS FACTS.

A lot of people are hating on the John Cena Classic format, but truthfully I like it a lot. They’ve explained it terribly, but it’s basically WWE vs NXT Supercard with fans voting for the MVP on both the men’s and women’s side, with those being crowned the winners. My only complaints are: 1. The voting is on Club WWE. If it was available to everyone the interest around the event would be SIGNIFICANTLY higher. They should have just given Club WWE users a 4x vote. 2. The fact the trophy is a Championship belt. Every time a company does this it confuses fans (and our IG comments have proved that😂)

The Randy Orton hate is so unjustified. The dude easily has another couple of WWE Championship reigns left in him if utilised correctly🤷‍♂️

Absolutely incredible match between the two, and I expected nothing less! Part of me did hope Sami Zayn would get the win with an assist from 946, but truthfully the way they went about it was as good if not better. Definitely think Sami will be turning babyface again in the near future. In the unlikely event Cody actually does turn heel, I could see a babyface Sami vs heel Cody at WrestleMania👀

While I truly believe this turn did NOT need the Money In The Bank briefcase, and Roxanne could have benefited from it a lot more, that cash-in was executed brilliantly! The match and post match promo were built around getting the crowd behind Chelsea Green, just for Tiffy to ruin the moment and return to her much needed heel gimmick! Simple booking, but effective and a good (but safe) use of Money In The Bank.

I don’t agree with the people who are complaining that this should have been Rey Fenix with Penta. Their time will 100% come, but this reign will help elevate Je’Von on his path to becoming the youngest ever World Champion. Really fun tag match, but I’m not sure how I feel about the Vision vs Oba Femi feud continuing🤔 #WWECrownJewel

I’m a big Cody and Randy guy, but this feud from the second Pat McAfee got involved has done nothing for me, and this match unfortunately followed the same trend. Had a few fun moments, but for the most part was slow and dragged out. Cody’s punt looked weak (not helped by the camera angle) and the crowd clearly weren’t happy. If the plan is for Cody to turn heel, that’s fine, but I still don’t think it is. They just want him to be a flawed character as a babyface so fans continue to get behind him.

The Creed Brothers have officially left the WWE, so where should they go next? For me, I’d love to see them in NJPW for a year or two before deciding their next move. I’d love to see them vs Knockout Brothers! There’s several dream matches for them in AEW, but with how stacked the tag team division currently is there, I’d prefer they waited and build their stock back up elsewhere first. With how thin the WWE tag division is, I could also see a world where after a year in Japan WWE would offer them a bigger deal to come back.

In the history of me being wrong, this is the most wrong I’ve ever been😂 I’m thrilled about it though. I love WWE & AEW equally, but right now ahead of the TV deal negotiations with Skydance next year, AEW’s ratings are a lot more important so this is a win for wrestling!

The fumble of the Creed Brothers is yet another piece of evidence to prove WWE still does not care about tag team wrestling. They had all the skills and potential to be the next Usos / New Day heading into the next generation, yet for whatever reason creative never gave them much of anything. I feared the writing was on on the wall from them the second American Made ended, but the fact WWE didn’t find something else for them was disappointing. I’d LOVE to see them have a run in NJPW for a year before opening the doors to AEW / a WWE return, as if they go straight to AEW I’d fear they’d get lost in that stacked tag division.

I absolutely love the idea of bringing back the traditional Survivor Series 5 vs 5 matches, but truthfully I’d have had it be in place of the Women’s War Games match this year. If the idea is to get AAA involved, I’d have done Raw & SmackDown Women vs NXT & AAA Women, as right now there is no story strong enough to justify a War Games match in the womens division. Ideally one year the men would get War Games while the women would get a traditional 5vs5, while the next year it would rotate. Having two War Games (or Blood & Guts) matches on one show has always felt overkill to me.

Pete Dunne is currently in the prime of his career, and a decade after being the most promising young star in Professional Wrestling, he is now being wasted. Don’t get me wrong, the producer work he is doing is setting him up for life, but that doesn’t justify not having him on TV. His in-ring work is undeniably his greatest asset, but he’s also a great promo, and in NXT UK he developed a character which if booked well could undoubtedly work on WWE TV. Considering at one point Triple H was hailing him as the future of this industry, I don’t understand how he’s been fumbled this badly.