The week of Sep 7–13, 2026 logged 20 dispatches across professional wrestling. Championships moved: Stephanie Vaquer beats Liv Morgan for Women's World Title at live event in Chile; Sami Zayn stuns CM Punk to capture Undisputed WWE Championship in Mexico City; Swerve Strickland and New Level retain AEW World Trios titles on Rebel Heart Dynamite; Liv Morgan retains Women's World Title over Stephanie Vaquer with Judgment Day help. Off screen, the business desk tracked: WWE announces eight new Raw and SmackDown dates across the United States; NXT Heatwave fallout episode jumps to 768,000 viewers and 0.17 demo rating; Cody Rhodes misses advertised Mexico City SmackDown, sit-down interview set; CM Punk breaks silence on Instagram after losing WWE Title to Sami Zayn.
The September 1 NXT on The CW rose sharply from the prior week's 632,000 viewers and 0.09 demo, and topped the comparable 2025 episode's 654,000. ESPN Unlimited streaming figures are excluded from the counts.
Five nights after falling to Morgan on Raw, Vaquer captured the Women's World Championship at a WWE live event in her native Chile, a rare title change away from television.
Rhodes was advertised but did not appear following his Sunday Night's Main Event loss to Randy Orton. WWE announced a Michael Cole sit-down interview for the September 18 SmackDown in Corpus Christi.
Punk posted to Instagram Stories that winners lose way more than losers do and vowed I will get MY title back, signing off BITW.
Collision in Springfield opened with a 10-bell salute for The Butcher, dead at 48, with tributes from Brody King, Colt Cabana, Jeff Jarrett and a note from The Blade read by Tony Schiavone. Garcia last eliminated Josh Alexander to win the 12-man Butcher Battle Royale, earning 100,000 dollars for charity in Williams' memory and receiving his guitar.
Moxley hit the Death Rider near the 20-minute limit to win a Continental Title eliminator two weeks before challenging Ospreay at All Out. Women's world champion Mone sat in on commentary for Queen Aminata's win over Mina Shirakawa, PAC and The Dogs beat Bang Bang Gang, and AEW announced Blood and Guts for November 4 in Jacksonville.
Per Wrestlenomics figures cited by Pro Wrestling Dot Net, the show did a 0.03 rating in 18-49 against college football competition. The counts exclude AMC+ and TNA+ streaming viewership.
Eleven hours after upload, Rebel Heart Dynamite videos totaled 907k tracked views, with Ospreay-related clips at 252k, or 27.8 percent of all episode uploads. The top single video was Rebel handing Britt Baker her signature glove at 110k views.
Nemeth beat Hardy in a No Disqualification main event in Brampton after Ryan Nemeth pulled the referee from the ring and a wrench shot set up the pin. Xia Brookside retained the Knockouts World Title over Gabby Forza with a belt shot behind the referee's back.
Slater, who challenges Nemeth for the TNA World Title at Bound for Glory, was found laid out backstage before the main event, with the Nemeth brothers implicated. Frankie Kazarian accepted Moose's challenge for next week on the condition that Moose's entire TNA career is on the line.
On the Rebel Heart edition of Dynamite from Akins Ford Arena in Athens, Georgia, world champion Ospreay countered a Finlay powerbomb and pinned him to keep his All Out date with Moxley intact. Andrade El Idolo retained the National Championship over The Beast Mortos, and the show opened with an In Memory Of graphic for Andy Williams plus a farewell ovation for Rebel.
Strickland, Kofi and Austin Creed hit the Daybreak to put away Orange Cassidy, Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong of the Conglomeration. Britt Baker also tapped out Hyan with the Lockjaw in six-woman action alongside new TBS champion Persephone and Hikaru Shida.
Hirooki Goto and YOH downed IWGP Heavyweight Champion Yota Tsuji and Taiji Ishimori in 13:30 at Korakuen Hall ahead of Goto's title challenge at Destruction in Kobe on September 27. Claudio Castagnoli also appeared on screen and accepted Shingo Takagi's challenge for the Kobe card.
The fall and winter run adds stops including Greenville, Fort Lauderdale, Raleigh, Wichita and Toledo from November 9 through December 7, with presale opening September 10.
Jordan beat Jaida Parker and was attacked afterward by Wren Sinclair, who was suspended by Robert Stone; Jackson Drake also retained the North American Title over Tavion Heights. Tony D'Angelo, Mason Rook and Saquon Shugars won a six-man qualifier, setting next week's triple threat to name NXT Champion Grayson Waller's next challenger.
Real American Freestyle confirmed the full lineup for the Fox Nation card in Miami, topped by Colby Covington vs Belal Muhammad in a cruiserweight crossover bout. Khamzat Chimaev meets Gilbert Burns two weeks after beating Tyron Woodley at RAF Moscow, with Kennedy Blades vs Diana Avsaragova and Austin DeSanto vs Arsen Harutyunyan also set.
Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez ran interference and Becky Lynch tried to even the odds, but Morgan struck Vaquer with the belt and hit Oblivion to retain on Raw.
Bayley pulled the referee out of the ring to cost Lyra Valkyria, allowing Sol Ruca to hit the Sol Snatcher and qualify for the Money in the Bank ladder match.
Bron Breakker speared Rey Mysterio to win a triple threat qualifier. Royce Keys, Bronco Nima and Lucien Price set The Usos car ablaze in an ominous warning.
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