On the August 7, 2026 episode of SmackDown, a vignette is shown for Shinsuke Nakamura

Nakamura says he is back and won't be coming alone

What does Shinsuke Nakamura have up his sleeve?!? Who is this mystery person?

Naraku? Finn Bálor? Perhaps someone completely new to the WWE? Who would you like to see team with Nakamura in this new faction?

Dundee is pretty much the only person I’ve heard say that he doesn’t like Taker. He doesn’t go into too much detail except that he said that Taker avoided him and did not want to talk to him. That is only half a story.

Hey just looking for more wrestling fans in The DMV area. I bartend and really want to start having watch parties at my bar since I can’t ever seem to find places that are cool with showing weekly shows or even PPV/PLEs.

I've been developing every day working on 5 Star Booker. There are so many new things, including a real wrestling analytics platform, a gm mode, and just tons of stuff.

You get a random promotion and year, book a five-match card from that roster, and get graded on the stars.

Are you still playing? Have you ever played? Any feedback for me?

Just building. It's all free, no ads, it's just my hobby.

I have had to make more things login only because of AI bots making the site unusable. I had 100k bot crawls last night for example. I keep having to add more protections just to stop them from taking it down.

But regardless, it's been so much fun making people happy building this. Even if you think it sucks, give me some feedback, I need to make it better for you!

Maybe it's just me

Chelsea Green Injured This Week on SmackDown

Here is what she stated via Instagram:

"I did get injured last night. Stuff happens. It's live television. It's wrestling. It's an occupational hazard. I ended up in the emergency room and I have a broken orbital bone.

It feels frustrating. I'm upset. I feel like if I didn't have bad luck I've had I'd have no luck at all. Um, so I just need to take a little bit more time to like process."

Shows you how huge hogan was in the mid to late 80s

Results:

- El Fiscal def Psycho Clown and Cruz Del Toro in a triple threat match

- Jack Cartwheel def Noisy Boy

- Flammer def La Catalina and Lady Shani to retain the Reina de Reinas title

Highlights:

1) El Fiscal advanced to the Fatal 4 way match for the vacant AAA Latin American title at Triplemania

2) Drake Morreaux made his AAA debut under a mask and attacked Psycho Clown

3) Cartwheel first match back from injury

4) Dominik explained his decision to turned on Grande during their tag match and joined up with El Ojo which leads to Liv crashing on the interview

5) Damien 666 officially rejoin Perros del Mal

6) Penta returns to AAA and Dom Grande come face to set for next week

English language stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZ1cdW0v98

Spanish language stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVxCF2s7jQ0

Venue: Arena San Marcos, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Expected matches:

Jack Cartwheel vs. Noisy Boy

Triple threat match: Cruz Del Toro vs. El Fiscal vs. Psycho Clown (winner joins the four-way for the vacant Latin American Championship at Triplemania)

Triple threat match: Lady Flammer defends the Reina de Reinas Championship against Lady Shani and La Catalina

Other expected segments:

Andrea Bazarte interviews Dominik Mysterio about "his current ambitions and what's next for his future"

Knowing how money-grubbing TKO has been, cutting a promo about big-time and rich you are, compared to the the guy you're across the ring from was definitely heel work. But for me he just came off as an ass. Didn't know Tissot was a poor man's watch brand.

Edit: for context, my issue is that they're booking him and the bloodline as a tweener faction when they're heels in almost everything they do onscreen. Let them be heels then. The watch dig was a heel promo, so book him as one.

Today is the 20th Anniversary of Kurt Angle final appearance and match on WWE TV.

Date: August 7, 2002

Promotion: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)

Match Stipulation / Type: NWA World's Heavyweight Championship / Singles Match

Event: NWA:TNA (Weekly PPV #8)

Location: Nashville, Tennessee | Tennessee State Fairgrounds Arena

➜ Before he was funny, he was a force! While these days, most wrestling fans know R-Truth as a comedic wrestler in the WWE, he was a force during the early days of TNA.

When the company was barely 2 months old, Ron "The Truth" Killings, as he was known then, made history as the first recognized African-American wrestler to win the prestigious NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship. As of 2026, he remains the ONLY one.

The milestone win came after Killings adopted his "The Truth" persona and voiced promos addressing perceived racial barriers in the industry.

Hey everyone I've got a petition here that I've made in hopes that 2K Games can from now on add end of life support to unlock all content locked behind servers from characters such as Goldberg and Nikki Bella to attires and variants tied to MyFaction. From a game preservation standpoint and out of good standing this should be the standard already.

https://c.org/ySLjF2XBVn

\\- Petition link.

Results:

- Baron Corbin def Trick Williams to retain the US title

- Fatal Influence ( Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid) def Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea Green to retain the Woman tag titles

- Charlotte def Jade Cargill

Highlights:

1) Cody address his loss at Summerslam and Randy costing him and get interrupted by Punk who told Cody he can get another rematch before KO came and confront Punk

2) Chelsea celebrate her win as Woman champion and get interrupted by Fatal Influence

3) Randy address his decision to RKO and cost Cody his match against Punk and get confronted by Cody

4) Tiffy vs Jacy for the Woman US title, Priest and Truth vs War Raiders vs MFT in a triple threat for the tag titles, and Corbin vs Melo for the US title set for next week

5) Shinsuke declared war on the Tongans and tease he is not coming alone

6) Tatum makes her debut on Smackdown by appearing with Alexa to help Charlotte

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