The advert said it's for the titles.

Ok..then its for the titles...

I just hope they dont win them. We do not need another repeat of HBK and Cenas tag title run.

F4WOnline.com reports that the legendary Ric Flair has parted ways with World Wrestling Entertainment.

According to the brief story, representatives of The Nature Boy contacted independent promotions with the information that Flair will be available for bookings due to a departure from WWE.

Inside details on the situation are scarce, but early reports indicate that the severance is being portrayed as amicable. Flair's WWE contract had apparently been preventing him from accepting offers of interest, so the two sides agreed to end their relationship.

Following his departure from the company earlier today, Ric Flair released the following statement:

"WWE and I parted on the best of terms. This gives me the chance to pursue new opportunities...corporate speaking engagements, product sponsorships, autograph shows for my loyal fans (who made me what I am today) and film and television roles. My agent and I are very excited about what the future holds!"

I didn't even bother watching SNME

Was it one big celebrity kiss fest with wrestling sprinkled in?

Mick Foley is said to be unhappy with his role as SmackDown! announcer and may be leaving WWE television shortly. Several sources indicate that Foley is fed up with getting yelled at in his headset by Vince McMahon and is disgruntled with the current arrangement.

Last Nights ChickFIGHT! Results and Thoughts,


Results;

Jetta & Wesna beat Team Blossom (10:10)
Jade beat Faith Lehaine (5:19)
4 Way Elimination - Blue Nikita beat Maya, Scarlet Venom and Becki James (5:35)

*Interval*

Jetta beat Faith Lehaine in a 28 second demolition.
Maya beat Becki James (4:34)
No DQ - Blue Nikita beat Wesna (20:28)

*Interval*

"Career Vs. Humiliation" - Eden Black beat Jetta (17:30)


Attendance was somewhere in the high double figures, I'd fathom a guess of around 75-80. And ChickFight returns to Ipswich on Sunday October 5th!



Thoughts



Black is back.

That’s the main thing coming out of last night’s ChickFight event which once again saw the girls step up their game and deliver a superb show despite the usual raft of withdrawals that have become a disappointingly regular part of all-women’s shows in the UK (With a roster of 11 women, injuries, dropouts and broken down vehicles littering the final 48 hours before the show, ChickFight still manages to send everyone home happy. I've no idea how many rabbits Dann can pull out of that hat of his, but he managed it again here). The two standouts were the two main events, notably the match that was billed as “One Last Round” between eternal rivals Eden Black and Jetta, but what may in retrospect just be the beginning of a whole new round of hostilities.



Nice of Dann to apologise for the doors opening just 2 minutes late, if even that! I hadn't even noticed, so to even acknowledge it and explain why was really classy. Even if his t-shirt did say "motherfucker" on the back



The undercard was a bit up and down, to be honest. The opening tag match with Jetta & Wesna Vs. Team Blossom - who really need to do something to make themselves look less jailbait - was much fun, because Blossom were so ridiculously overmatched. Regardless, they showed good fighting spirit to keep coming and fighting back. Team Blossom have something, though. They are oozing potential out of their pores and with experience will be everything the Norfolk Dolls were and better. The Blossom on the receiving end of the Wensa-buse was brilliant at her babyface in peril situation and was comparable to Ricky Morton in her desperation perseverance. Need to learn a bit more about working the apron but great stuff. Jetta was expectedly brilliant in her antagonistic way. Wesna was good but too stiff with them I felt.



Also impressing people was Becki James, who has the potential to be an Eden Black level star down the road, with a couple of spunky, battling performances, once in a four way and once in a singles with Maya. Becki James is going to be something special. This weekend, she DOUBLED the amount of matches she's ever had to 6, and she's already showing signs of being someone to keep an eye on. You hear of these people who like to harp on about how they heard about the latest big thing while they were still unknowns? In a couple of years time, anyone who is watching Becki James now will be doing that. She's got the sweetest flying headscissors too.

Plus, like the absent Bubbles, Becki is hugely over with the crowd. She's got this demeanour that makes you want to smile and support her, and it feels like she's one of the people. Plus, she takes an epic kicking and sells it like death.



Less impressive was Faith Lehaine, who looked fairly poor against Jade. She had Melina’s entrance (yes), a bad Chyna-esque handspring elbow (or back-splash, perhaps – which she used twice…) and not a lot else. Faith’s second match was much better, mostly because she had the gall to say “Shall I?” in front of Jetta, who promptly hit her with the Stranglehold Lungblower and made her submit in sub 30 second form, before reminding Faith not to steal her schtick.



The semi-main was a No DQ, No Countout, Falls Count Anywhere match that might have managed to break the Melissa/Wesna Orpington Brawl from ChickFight IX for sheer wanton violence, Melissa Vs. Wesna in Orpington was violent, but this went to the nth degree. Over twenty minutes of top class action from two women who have wrestled each other so many times that they almost certainly couldn’t have a bad match if they tried. Chairs and tables were abused like they were going out of fashion, to the point where I figured that they were never coming back to the venue and they’d decided to trash it. They kicked out of everything the other had, until Blue Nikita hit the Blu-Ray (a Death Valley Driver, but so-named because it’s better than a DVD) for the win, which given Wesna’s prominence to date in ChickFight, has to be considered an upset. In fact, the beating these two dished out to each other was possibly more heated than any Melissa Vs. Wesna or Eden Black match. Plus, with Blue Nikita getting the win, it means Wesna has a new top-end fued to sink her teeth into in ChickFight, considering how Melissa may or may not be able to return. Fucking TNA.



The main event was what pro-wrestling is all about. For seventeen and a half minutes, everybody in Ipswich’s Caribbean Centre was living and dying with every move, every desperate lunge for the ropes, every near fall. Unlike Ric Flair’s final match at WrestleMania, where everybody pretty much knew that Michaels was beating him, there was always a lingering doubt about Eden Black’s intentions. Was this going to be the final chapter? Were we witnessing the last match of her career or not? The shoulder injury which kept her on the shelf since the epic brawl in Dartford in October for RQW (coincidentally against Jetta) was very real, and Jetta attacked it with vicious aplomb. It reminded me vaguely of Shawn Michaels’ comeback at SummerSlam all those years ago against HHH – where as a viewer you weren’t quite sure whether they should be competing, and every shot to Shawn’s back (or Eden’s shoulder, in this case) was wince inducing for fear that they’d break down physically.

In the opening match, while Jetta was getting heat on Holly from Team Blossom she attacked the arm and constantly yelled out for Eden to watch and observe what she was going to do in the main event. And work the shoulder is exactly what she did against Black.

Eden was on the defensive for most of the match, only getting in bursts of retaliation - which makes total sense considering the ring rust and injury - which included a Garden of Eden triangle choke around the ringpost, and a sweet backbreaker variation that I've never seen before. But the main thing about the match was that it was SO FUCKING EMOTIVE.

Every time Jetta worked the arm, she was summoning the spirit of utter-uber-bitch and did away with the cocky, wisecracking cow which most of us have become so accustomed to. This was an all-business Jetta, who was becoming more and more frustrated and angry and not being able to put Black away. This was very evident when Jetta hit the stranglehold lungblower followed by the stranglehold camel clutch, and Eden managed to fight her way out of it. By this time, the crowd of 70-something was making so much noise, you could have sworn there was four times as many people in there.

So when Jetta ended up being trapped in the Garden of Eden in the middle of the ring without being able to get to the ropes, the building went nuclear as Jetta struggled, and eventually tapped out. And most of us thought it was over. Eden Black going out with a win in an absolute blinder against her biggest enemy and thorn in her side. But she had something to say.

Honestly, my heart ached as she thanked Jetta for talking her into one more match, and how she knew that she could still hang with the best. Then she told us she was going to put off that retirement for the forseeable future, and she was back. I could have cried. It's the most emotional thing I've seen in British wrestling, and it just shows how brilliant this profession can be, regardless of gender. And I say "regardless of gender" because I still maintain that Jetta is probably the most effective heel this country has.

So awesome, and it’s great when you think that had Jetta been able to keep her gob shut last time, her greatest nemesis would have retired and she’d be rid of her forever… but she couldn’t, and she’s inadvertently revived Eden Black’s career. That. That’s a great story right there.

Plus, having Eden Black back in the mix, Blue Nikita showing her stuff to the new fans in Ipswich and Wesna really falling into the aggressive bully schtick over here, ChickFight has a sweet set of top-liners.

Those two matches brought down the curtain of the show in such an epic manner that by the end of the show, I actually didn’t miss not having Melissa. Don’t get me wrong – Melissa would have made the show even better – but there wasn’t a huge unfillable Melissa-shaped hole in the show. I’m hoping that October 5th will see these two main events combined into a tag match – Jetta & Wesna Vs. Blue Nikita & Eden Black (under the obvious team name of Black & Blue, clearly).

Whether they'll be wrestling at the Ipswich Caribbean Centre is a good question, considering the Wensa/Nikita match was totally nuts, but wherever ChickFight holds a show next, I'll be there.



So, the stories of the night are the exhausting double header to finish the show, and some good undercard perfomances. Dann suggested post show that the two main events were the two best consecutive matches ever on one of his shows, and it’s up there alongside the Orpington double header of Wesna/Melissa and Kong/Black, to be sure. Fantastic stuff, and welcome back to Eden Black.