Pro Wrestling News Report (August 20, 2025)

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Here is your Pro Wrestling News Report for August 20, 2025. Running Time: 53 Minutes. Topics covered in this report include: WWE ends PLE deal with Peacock EARLY and announces the move to ESPN effective 9/20/25 beginning with WWE Wrestlepalooza (full details) Peacock tries to prevent the imminent surge of unsubscribing WWE fans by announcing a new WWE multi-year deal. But will Saturday Night's Main Events, NXT PLE (until March 2026 for now) and 30 day old SmackDown episodes be enough? John Cena's retirement match now rumored to take place at Saturday Night's Main Event on December 13, 2025 DT breaks down everything you need to know about WWE/ESPN package pricing, new WWE/Peacock deal, FOX1, Paramount, HBO Max and the sobering amount more it will cost wrestling fans monthly Killer (Karrion) Kross' first match and opponent since leaving WWE revealed AEW Forbidden Door 2025 and NXT Heatwave 2025 Preview and Predictions PLE/PPV news involving NXT No Mercy and TNA Victory Road ESPN removes AEW from the category menu on their website Isla Dawn makes her AEW debut at 8/23/25 Collision taping Taz to miss current Dynamite and Forbidden Door PPV due to health reasons AEW Collision 8/16/25 and WWE RAW 8/11/25 TV ratings LA Knight officially moved to WWE RAW roster Tony Khan believes the Young Bucks are currently having the greatest run of their careers. Do you agree? Booker T says Chris Jericho will definitely return to WWE after his AEW contract expires. Do you agree? AEW files to trademark 'September To Remember' Sting reveals all remaining dates for his '2025 Or Never' Tour AEW adds injury time to Danhausen's contract which now extends into early 2026 And Much More! 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0:00.8	All right, we got some major news to get into.
0:04.4	What's up, everyone?
0:05.4	It is Wednesday night, August 20th, 2025.
0:09.4	Welcome to your latest wrestling news update.
0:11.6	I am Don Tony.
0:12.5	I hope everyone is having a good week.
0:14.7	You know, we have obviously wrestling news to get into some ratings.
0:18.8	NXT Heat Wave, For Wave, forbidden doors this weekend,
0:22.1	a couple other things as well,
0:23.7	but the major news that is broken
0:26.0	over the last bunch of hours
0:27.4	is kind of a piggyback of what we discussed on Monday
0:31.9	about the future of WWE on Peacock,
0:36.6	or as we called it, Peacock, or as we called it, PECOK, the early arrival of
0:41.5	WWE on ESPN's direct-to-consumer network, and what this means going forward as far as
0:48.7	premium live events go. Now, I don't want to recap a lot of what we talked about on Monday, but one thing was for certain.
0:58.1	We started hearing rumblings that WW was going to have a premium live event called
1:03.2	Russell-Palooza on September 20th on ESPN.
1:07.3	And if you heard my report on Monday, the one thing that did not make sense at all is
1:14.3	WW's deal with Peacock.
1:15.9	It runs until January of 2026.
1:20.5	You don't have these kumbaya, you know, friendly handshake agreements where
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