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WWE NXT results (10/14): Apollo Crews, 21-man Battle Royal, Bayley, Nia Jax debut
The champ is here to start the show. Well a different champ. The winner of the first women’s Iron Man Match in WWE history. The winner of the first time a women’s match main evented a WWE special. Bayley is here, much to the delight of all 300 people. The fans gave her a standing ovation and chanted both her name and “Match of the Year” before she had a chance to talk.
She thanked Dusty Rhodes for being a big part in her career, also stating that being in the main event is something she dreamed about since she was a little girl. She did say “we have started a whole new level in the Diva’s Revolution”, which was the only time she said something that sounded forced. The fans chanted “women’s wrestling”, which she encouraged.
This brought out Alexa Bliss, Blake & Murphy. Alexa said what happened last week was incredible and she was in awe watching the match, stating that no one deserved to be champion more than her. Alexa said she truly was an incredible champion and that the future for the women in NXT has no limit. She almost broke down into fake tears as she raised Bayley’s hand and stole her championship.
Blake and Murphy stood in Bayley’s way as Alexa cut a promo saying she is going to take her championship. Alexa did throw the belt back at Bayley before leaving.
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Last week, The Camera Man caught up with Finn Balor and Samoa Joe, but before they could say anything, William Regal ran up to congratulate them. Joe said it’s been a pleasure and an honor to be Finn’s partner. Joe said he has been undefeated since he got to NXT and wants a shot at the championship. Finn agreed to it, but Mr. Regal said no. Instead last week he announced that next week (tonight) there would be a battle royal for the #1 Contender status.
Joe was mad, but respectful, in saying he should be getting a title shot. Mr. Regal cut him off and said there will be a battle royal. Tye Dillinger, Apollo Crews and Rhyno all said they would win the battle royal in separate promos. Rhyno mentioned he was the last ECW Champion and Tye said he was the only Perfect 10.
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NXT Tag Team Champions The Vaudevillians defeated Sawyer Fulton and Angelo Dawkins
17 minutes (and 5 promos) into the show and we finally got our first match. The reigning tag team champions are here and they didn’t even get out of the second round of the Dusty Rhodes Classic. Tonight their foes are Sawyer Fulton and Angelo Dawkins. Sawyer has that cross Sheamus wears tattooed into his chest and Dawkins is dressed in similar gear to Jordan & Gable.
Fulton and Dawkins got more offense than they ever have on tv, but that really isn’t saying much. They got the heat on English and Gotch knocked one of Dawkins headbands off with a side suplex. The champs won in 3 minutes with the Whirling Dervish.
Dash and Dawson cut a promo backstage about how they defeated The Vaudevillians in the Dusty Rhodes Classic, so that makes them the #1 Contender’s. Hooray logic! Actually it turns out they have to face Enzo and Cass for some reason, so boo lack of logic! Devin Taylor was the interviewer and I guess this was her last taping. I’ll miss her and it’s too bad we never got the battle with her and Dana Brooke.
Speaking of Dana, last week she was being worked over after Asuka whooped her when Asuka came up and patted her on the head mockingly. Dana thought she had won the match and was bragging to that effect while Emma patted her on the arm.
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Nia Jax defeated Evie
It took her 8 weeks, but Nia Jax has finally arrived. Evie looks a lot like Tough Enough winner Sara Lee, but thankfully it wasn’t her. I did do a smidge of research on Evie and she actually wrestles under the name Evie in New Zealand and recently got a WWE tryout.
The fans began counting like they used to do for Baron Corbin, but they quit quickly. Nia’s first move was this bear hug where she jumped up and down while squeezing her foe. That should have been her finish. In case you have never seen her, Nia is a very large, very thick woman and could be WWE’s Awesome Kong if she stays healthy.
Evie got more offense than Nia, although that was mostly so Nia could no sell it. Nia won with a Spinebuster Slam. She really should have used that bear hug.
One guy in the crowd (and a few people on Twitter) shouted “Rock Bottom”, but it really wasn’t the same.
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A video package for the Sasha-Bayley match aired. They interviewed Becky, Charlotte, Stephanie and Hunter, who all put the match over big.
Tyler Breeze and Baron Corbin both said they would win the battle royal.
Eva Marie is in Paris, taking a personal vacation after her grueling (to watch) matches.
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Apollo Crews won a 21-man #1 Contender’s Battle Royal, last eliminating Baron Corbin
It is the third battle royal in NXT history! Bo Dallas won the first one in May 2013 and then in May 2014 they had this ridiculous finish where Tyler Breeze, Sami Zayn and Tyson Kidd all went over at the same time, which was mistimed and Breeze legit won, but was called a draw.
Rhyno, Baron Corbin and Samoa Joe were the only ones to get a televised entrance.
Order of elimination was Steve Cutler, Danny Birch, Elias Sampson, Johnny Gargano, Riddick Moss, Colin Cassady, Dash Wilder, Scott Dawson, Enzo Amore, Tye Dillinger, Bull Dempsey, Mojo Rawley, Zack Ryder, Rhyno, Tommaso Ciampa, Blake, Murphy, Tyler Breeze, Samoa Joe and Baron Corbin
I am so used to WWE battle royals which everyone unimportant is eliminated in 3 minutes that it was weird to see them go several minutes before anyone got eliminated. Apollo Crews eliminated the first four men, including heaving Gargano onto Cutler, Birch and Sampson. For what it’s worth the last time they did an NXT battle royal the first 5 guys eliminated were cut from their developmental deals. The fans popped when Enzo tossed Dash & Dawson by himself and quickly died when Tye immediately threw Enzo out. Baron and Rhyno continued their partnership for about 10 minutes…until Baron tossed Rhyno with 9 men left. Dummy. Why didn’t he wait until it came down to two? Maybe he realized that almost never works.
The final four were Crews, Corbin, Joe and Breeze. Ever notice in almost every Royal Rumble there is that one guy in the final four that appears to be horribly out of place? Like Billy Gunn in 2001 and Mr Perfect in 2002? I think Tyler Breeze won the “Billy Gunn Award” in this battle royal. Joe actually got booed for eliminating Breeze and Tyler didn’t want to leave.
Joe almost gave Corbin the Muscle Buster, but got thrown over the top onto the apron. Joe kicked Corbin’s head out of his head but Tyler Breeze tripped Joe up, yanking him off the apron and eliminating him! The fans actually cheered Breeze for doing that.
Corbin and Crews worked really good together and I can’t wait to see them have an actual match together. Corbin kept throwing Crews over the top, but Apollo would land on the apron. The fans chanted “Corbin sucks” to the tune of New Day Sucks. That gave Crews his second wind. He made his comeback, but Baron got the knees up on the standing moonsault. Crews came back with several kicks to the head and shockingly won by clotheslining Corbin out!
That does it for this week. Finn Balor, your future is here and his name is Apollo Crews. Until next week, remember to say your vitamins and take your prayers!
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Wednesday Daily Update: Gorgeous George movie, new WWE 2K16 video, UFC co-main event off, & more
TV rundown for tonight:
No UFC programming on Fox Sports 1 due to the MLB Playoffs.
NXT at 8:00 p.m. ET on WWE Network has a battle royal to determine the number one contender to Finn Balor’s NXT Championship.
Impact Wrestling at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Destination America returns with more of the TNA World Title Series.
ROH at 11:00 p.m. ET on Destination America has ACH vs. Matt Sydal match four of their best of five series, Silas Young & Beer City Bruiser vs. The Boys, and Jay Lethal vs. Watanabe for the ROH Television Championship
Evolve will have two shows this weekend on via WWN Live. Sami Zayn will be appearing on both shows live, but won’t be on either iPPV.
Evolve 49 – Saturday at 7 pm EST
- I Quit Match: Johnny Gargano vs. Ethan Page (if Gargano loses, he must leave WWN)
- Timothy Thatcher and TJ Perkins vs. Trent Baretta and Rocky Romero
- Drew Gulak vs. Trevor Lee (Winner gets Evolve title shot the next night)
- Anthony Nese vs. Andrew Everett vs. Matt Cage vs. Peter Kassa
- Tracy Williams vs. Willie Mack
- Matt Riddle vs. Jonathan Gresham
Evolve 50- Sunday at 8 pm EST
- Evolve Championship: Timothy Thatcher vs. Winner between Drew Gulak and Trevor Lee
- Trent Beretta and Rocky Romero vs. Anthony Nese and Caleb Konley
- Willie Mack vs. Gulak/Lee loser
- TJ Perkins vs. Tracy Williams
- Matt Riddle vs. Chris Dickinson
- Andrew Everett vs. Peter Kassa
- Ethan Page vs. Matt Cage
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Figure Four Weekly:
The newest issue of Figure Four Weekly is now up for subscribers (subscribe to the site here and get access to Figure Four, the Observer, tons of audio, and more) featuring details on all facets of Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker, including a better understanding of Gawker’s defense, what else the judge has sealed to protect Hogan, and more. On top of that, we have all the usual stuff like Vinny’s reviews and international news.
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Wrestling Observer Newsletter
An update on the status of Daniel Bryan is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter which is on the site right now and also can be subscribed to for home delivery. We update his situation and how the decision on his future will be made shortly. We also look at Daniel Cormier and the light heavyweight division and what the business notes say, the WWE’s Madison Square Garden event with Brock Lesnar, TNA’s Bound for Glory and world title tournament, Conor McGregor predicts the future once again, a pro wrestler is in the Japanese cabinet as well as our monthly look at the WWE and TNA’s business indicators.
We look at what Daniel Bryan said this past week regarding his future and how the decision will be made for him soon, and what he’d like to do if he wasn’t working for WWE.
We look at Daniel Cormier vs. Alexander Gustafsson and the shadow over the light heavyweight division, the news coming out of UFC 192, and full coverage of the event with business notes, early PPV indicators and poll results.
We look at the WWE Network special from Madison Square Garden, Brock Lesnar’s return, how the show was promoted, Chris Jericho’s 25th anniversary as a pro wrestler and match-by-match coverage with star ratings and poll results.
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Wednesday Daily Update
- Variety reported late last night that WWE Studios has signed Josh Gad and writing partner Ryan Dixon to do the screenplay for a Gorgeous George biopic. They had optioned John Capouya’s excellent George biography right after his Hall of Fame induction in 2010, but it morphed into a documentary before being shelved.
- With opponent Stipe Miocic injured, Ben Rothwell has officially been pulled from next week’s UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Duffy card in Dublin. Norman Parke vs. Reza Madadi has been bumped up to the semi-main event slot.
- 2K Sports sent out the official trailer for the WWE 2K16 creation suite. The game comes out on October 27th and is available for pre-order now.
- Hulk Hogan appeared on BBC Radio 5’s Sarah and Dan’s Extra Edition to push his latest UK speaking gig. Most of the interview ended up dealing with his racist comments, and this time he didn’t blame a childhood where the N-word was a term of endearment.
- WrestlingDVDNetwork posted a vague report that the upcoming Owen: Hart of Gold DVD and Blu-Ray sets may be changed in some form. The project was done entirely without approval or involvement from Owen’s widow Martha, who sued WWE in the past to try to stop them from ever using his image again. Those counts were all thrown out (she settled with WWE on the issue of unpaid royalties), but she’s made it clear that her position is that this is something she doesn’t want WWE doing.
- GFW Las Vegas TV taping lineup for 10/23: NEX*GEN Championship Finals: PJ Black vs. Virgil Flynn vs. Jigsaw vs. TJP, NEX*GEN Contenders match: Sonjay Dutt vs. Seiya Sanada, Bestia 666 vs. Cielo Escorpian, Women’s Championship Final: Christina Von Eerie vs. Amber Gallows, Tag Team Championship semifinal: Reno Scum vs. Teaze N Sleaze, Tag Team Championship semifinal: Bollywood Boyz vs. Whirlwind Gentlemen, Global Championship contenders match: Brian Myers vs. Kongo Kong (w/ Henry Maxwell) vs. Kevin Kross, plus new GFW Global Champion will be crowned. Also appearing: Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett, Nick Aldis, Bobby Roode, Chael Sonnen, Chris Mordetzky and The Masked Saint.
- World Series of Fighting announced WSOF 26 for Friday, December 18th in Las Vegas featuring 145-pound champion Lance Palmer against the winner of Alexandre Almeida vs. Saul Almeida at WSOF 24, and Tyrone Spong vs. the dreaded TBD. However, the image WSOF had in their email featured Jake Heun as Spong’s opponent, so there’s some quality control issues going on there.
- Just this week, Spong had, for at least the second time in recent months, offered to take a UFC fight as a late replacement (vs. Ben Rothwell) in spite of being under contract to WSOF.
- Speaking of Rothwell, the UFC will not book a replacement against him for the impending UFC Ireland Fight Pass show. Assume that Rothwell vs. the injured Stipe Miocic will be rescheduled as the next fight for both men.
- The post-Royal Rumble RAW will be at Miami’s American Airlines Arena for the first time in two years on January 25th. Presale started Wednesday with the password GOHEAT
- The code for the presale for tickets to the December 21st Raw at the Target Center in Minneapolis is RAWMINNY.
- Tickets for WWE’s December 27th house show in Chicago (WWE always does major market house shows Christmas week) have a pre-sale starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. local time (public on-sale Saturday) with the password WWECHI
- Here’s a video of Trina Michaels cutting a long promo on the AWS promotion.
- Robbie E is still desperately trying to get headlines for TNA in calling out New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski. Here’s Robbie’s appearance on the Chad Dukes Show this week.
- Here’s a local feature on SiriusXM Busted Open’s co-host Dave LaGreca.
- With no UFC or Bellator this coming weekend, here are some of the top regional shows upcoming and how you can view them:
Legacy FC 47 on AXS TV on Friday at 10 p.m. eastern has former UFC fighter Clay Harvison in the main event against TUF 15 competitor Jordan Rinaldi in the main event. Nothing much else of note on that undercard
Rumble on the Ridge 33 is available online for $9.95 on Friday night at 8 pm Pacific, 11 eastern, and features six fights, with the most notable fighter being former Bellator Heavyweight and regional veteran Tony Lopez in the main event against Jared Torgeson
Battlefield Fight League 39 airs on Saturday at 8 pm eastern on The Fight Network. No notables names on this card and the main event features Welterweights Dejan Kajic against Curtis Harriott
The biggest show of the weekend is WSOF 24 featuring former UFC Fighters Jon Fitch and Yushin Okami in the main event. The show airs on NBC Sports Network at 9 pm eastern on Saturday. The Fitch-Okami winner will face Jake Shields for the group’s welterweight title early next year. The title is currently vacant after WSOF stripped former champion Rousimar Palhares of the belt last month. Other notable fights on the card: Blagoi Ivanov vs Derrick Mehman for the WSOF Heavyweight title, Vinny Magalhaes vs UFC vet Matt Hamill and Nick Newell vs Tommy Marcellino. Newell is the fighter who was born with one arm that fought Justin Gaethje for the WSOF lightweight title last July.
The prelims of the WSOF show are available online for free starting at about 7 pm eastern. The biggest names on that portion of the show are former UFC fighters Pat Walsh and Colton Smith as well as former Featherweight title challenger Rick Glenn.
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Wrestling Observer Live 10/14: Record low Raw ratings, tons of listener questions, more!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk all the news in wrestling and MMA including tons of questions from listeners on WWE Raw ratings, the length of the show, why the stock is still rising, the Rusev angle and tons more! A fun show as always so check it out~!
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WWE Smackdown 10/15 spoilers: Dudleys & Dean Ambrose battle the New Day, Ziggler vs. Rusev again
Thanks to Andrew8798 on our Board:
Pre-Show —
There were lots of “New Day Sucks” chants and of course plenty of “Whoo!” yells. The hard camera area was tarped off, along with a few other rows and the entire upper bowl.
Dark Match —
– Tyler Breeze beat Damien Sandow. Damien is finally is just Damien. Breeze hit the Beauty Shot for the win in about four and a half minutes.
Smackdown —
Roman Reigns beat Bo Dallas
Before the match, Bo cut a promo about Roman’s match with Bray Wyatt at Hell in a Cell, and mentioned going to Suplex City. He told Roman the only way he would leave Hell in a Cell is on a stretcher. Bad move. After some initial offense by Bo, Roman ended up destroying him in five minutes… Big Pop for Reigns. Roman cut a promo about the Hell in a Cell Match. Several in Cincinnati gave him the “What?” treatment. Bray appeared on the Titantron, and said that next Monday he will make a promise of some sort. “Anyone but you.” That was it.
King Barrett and Sheamus beat Cesaro and Neville
After a couple great false finishes down the stretch, it ended when a ref distraction by Sheamus with the MITB briefcase, allowing Barrett to hit the Bull Hammer on Cesaro, then Sheamus pinned him…
Summer Rae was interviewed regarding being a special referee for Rusev vs Dolph Ziggler. She promised to be impartial.
WWE Intercontinental Champion Kevin Owens beat Zack Ryder
Ryback was out at ringside. This was the expected Owens squash in about three minutes. Afterward, Ryback rushed the ring and then Owens bailed quickly.
Dolph Ziggler beat Rusev with Summer Rae as special referee
Summer called it down the middle at first, but then gave Ziggler the faster count and either wouldn’t count pins or gave slow counts for Rusev. It ended with Summer slapping Rusev, leading to Dolph hitting Zigzag for the fast three count. Post match, Summer cut a promo, saying Lana and Rusev did them dirty. Summer ended up asking Ziggler if she could be with him…which led him to saying no because, as he said it, “When it comes to those kind of games, I’m not playing them.”
The Dudleys and Dean Ambrose did a backstage interview for the main event. The Dudleys put over Dean as combustible. They hyped the Hell in a Cell Tag Team Championship match, then Dean went for the cheap hometown pop and ended by saying New Day was going to get 3D’ed.
After a Susan Komen video, Prime Time Players came out for the next match.
Braun Strowman and Luke Harper beat The Prime Time Players
Hard hitting match, but I knew how it would end. Sure enough, Harper and Strowman won by submission in about five minutes…
WWE Divas Champion Charlotte (w/Becky Lynch) beat Alicia Fox (w/Nikki Bella, Brie Bella) in a non title match
Team BAD was shown backstage watching. Charlotte won with a Figure Eight in about four minutes. After the match, Team Bella started a beat down of Charlotte and Lynch until Paige ran out to make a save
A backstage segment showed Paige repeatedly saying she would make everything up to Becky and Charlotte. We soon saw why as Natalya was found laid out in another room.
The Dudley Boyz and Dean Ambrose beat WWE Tag Team Champions New Day by DQ
Before the match, New Day cut a promo talking about all of the people they’ve put down in the past. As usual, Cincy blew the roof off US Bank Arena for Dean Ambrose and the hometown boy soaked it in. The match was a normal six-man tag until New Day used the trombone to cause the DQ and laid waste to the Dudleys. No save by Ambrose. A replay followed and the New Day stood tall concluding the Smackdown taping.
Dark Main Event —
Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns beat Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper
Reigns took the punishment for much of the match until he could explode out of the corner with a clothesline and make the hot tag. Ambrose cleaned up from that point onward, except a brief comeback by the Wyatt Family. It ended with Reigns spearing Wyatt while Dean hit Dirty Deeds on Harper for a pin in about seven minutes.
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Wrestling Observer Live 10/13: Raw, Rusev angle, Seth Rollins loses again, more!
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive returns today to talk tons of news — Raw from Monday with the Rusev angle, Seth Rollins losing again, NXT Kids, and more, plus calls, text messages and assorted wackiness. A fun show as always so check it out~!
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NJPW announces next PPV, major junior heavyweight tag team tournament
On Tuesday, New Japan Pro Wrestling announced the lineup for its next major show, Power Struggle, which takes place on 11/7 at the Edion Arena in Osaka, formerly the Bodymaker Colosseum.
The show will be headlined by Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Karl Anderson for the Intercontinental title, which had already been announced in commentary during Monday’s King of Pro Wrestling show.
Power Struggle will also feature the finals of a junior heavyweight tag team tournament that runs throughout the next tour and begins on 10/23 with a show in Tokorozawa. The tournament will be a single elimination eight-team tournament with Tiger Mask & Jushin Liger, Mascara Dorada & Ryusuke Taguchi, Rocky Romero & Baretta, Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish, The Young Bucks, Alex Shelley & Kushida, Kenny Omega & Chase Owens and Matt Sydal & Ricochet.
The junior heavyweight tag team tournament first round will be on 10/24 at Korakuen Hall with Liger & Tiger Mask vs. Fish & O’Reilly, Romero & Baretta vs. Omega & Owens, Dorada & Taguchi vs. Young Bucks and Shelley & Kushida vs. Sydal & Ricochet.
The winners advance to an 11/1 show at Korakuen Hall, where the semifinals take place.
The lineup for the PPV thus far:
- Hirooki Goto vs. Evil (Takaaki Watanabe)
- A.J. Styles & Bad Luck Fale vs. Toru Yano & Yoshi-Hashi
- Tomohiro Ishii vs. Tomoaki Honma for the Never Open weight title
- Junior heavyweight tag team tournament finals
- Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi vs. Kazushi Sakuraba & Kazuchika Okada
- Nakamura vs. Anderson for IC title
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WWE News: Update on what Tuesday’s ESPN announcement is about, who won’t be at Smackdown
The Tuesday WWE announcement on ESPN will be in regards to WrestleMania in Dallas, TX — likely that ESPN will be heavily covering the event.
Jonathan Coachman, the former WWE announcer turned ESPN anchor, will be appearing with WWE Champion Seth Rollins at 9 p.m. Eastern time tonight during SportsCenter for the announcement. That would mean Rollins will not be appearing in Cincinnati, OH, Tuesday for the Smackdown tapings.
WWE sent out information today that travel packages for WrestleMania week, which includes the Hall of Fame on 4/2 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, WrestleMania on 4/3 at AT&T Stadium and Raw the next night at the American Airlines Center, are now available. Tickets go on sale on 11/6.
WWE’s ad listed John Cena front and center as the star of the show in addition to Kofi Kingston, Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Rollins, and Paige.
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Alberto el Patron cancels two German dates reportedly due to transportation disagreement
According to one of the promotions that booked him, former WWE Champion and current AAA Mega Champion Alberto El Patron has backed out of two European bookings this weekend due to a disagreement about the type of flight he was booked on.
El Patron and brother El Hijo de Dos Caras were scheduled to appear on Friday for Swiss Wrestling Entertainment (SWE) in Bern, Germany, and on Saturday for Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) in Mannheim, Germany. According to a post on wXW’s website (translated by reader Markus Gronemann), El Patron backed out with six days notice because the promotion had him booked in the Economy Plus class when he wanted to fly Business Class instead. wXw’s and SWE’s promoters said the cost would be $7000 USD to make the change on short notice and refused. This is the second time El Patron has backed out of an wXw booking on short notice, the last time in December 2014.
wXW stated in their post that they will no longer book El Patron.
