Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE NXT results for June 17. 2020. This week’s episode featured matches for the Women’s and NXT Tag Team Championships, the set-up for a major championship main event, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of NXT column.

NXT Results:

1. NXT Tag Team Championship Match: Imperium (c) defeated Breezango. Breezango dressed as Imperium for their entrance, and used a remix of Imperium’s theme. Indus Sher and Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch brawled at ringside, causing a distraction. Fandango rolled up Marcel Barthel, but Fabian Aicher was the legal man. Aicher hit Fandango with a DDT and pinned him.

– Dexter Lumis infiltrated a Velveteen Dream interview to plant a cartoon he’d drawn of the two of them. Dream found it, called it a misunderstanding, and asserted that he’s a solo act.

2. Damian Priest defeated Killian Dain with The Reckoning.

3. Aliyah defeated Xia Li. A drunk and depressed Robert Stone got up onto the ring apron and puked into the ring, causing a distraction that allowed Aliyah to roll up Li and pin her after two attempts.

– Timothy Thatcher stretched students with his “Thatch as Thatch can” style wrestling lessons.

– Bobby Fish and Adam Cole took Roderick Strong to a therapist (Kyle O’Reilly in a costume) to help him get over his fear of Dexter Lumis and being kidnapping in a trunk. Roddy ran away.

– Adam Cole was asked about Karrion Kross, but was interrupted by Keith Lee. Lee told Cole his time as champion is limited and broke the hourglass Scarlett gave Cole on behalf of Killer Kross last week.

– Cole came to the ring to talk about his NXT Championship reign and said he might want to take Lee’s North American Championship as well. This brought out Lee, and both men were interrupted by Johnny Gargano. Finn Bálor then interrupted, saying he’s coming for Lee’s North American Championship, and then Cole’s NXT Championship. William Regal (on the video screen) announced that next week Lee would defend against Bálor and Gargano in a triple threat match, with the winner moving on to face Cole in a “winner take all” match.

4. Dakota Kai defeated Kayden Carter by submission with a Koji Clutch.

– A hype video for Mercedes Martinez aired.

5. Bronson Reed squashed Leon Ruff, literally and figuratively, with a top rope splash. After the match, Reed called out Karrion Kross for next week.

– Cameron Grimes slashed Damien Priest’s car’s tires.

– Santos Escobar, along with Raul Mendoza and Joaquin Wilde, talked about why he took off his mask and changed his name on last week’s episode. Drake Maverick interrupted, said he had more guts than brains, and attacked. Maverick got beaten down 3-on-1, culminating in a brutal driver through a table to the floor that got him stretchered away to the Local Medical Facility.

– Damian Priest vs. Cameron Grimes, Bronson Reed vs. Karrion Kross, and the triple threat match for the North American Championship are all next week.

6. Women’s Tag Team Championship Match: Bayley and Sasha Banks (c) defeated Tegan Nox and Shotzi Blackheart. Blackheart had Banks in the Cattle Mutilation, so Bayley introduced a steel chair. Nox took away the chair, but that got the referee’s attention and allowed Bayley to help turn the submission into a Banks Statement to give a submission win to the champs. After the match, Io Shirai ran in and attacked Bayley and Banks.

Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free AEW Dynamite results for June 17, 2020. The show featured Ricky Starks challenging for the TNT Championship, Le Sex Gods versus the Best Friends, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Ins and Outs of AEW Dynamite column.

AEW Dynamite Results:

1. Hangman Adam Page and Kenny Omega defeated the Natural Nightmares to retain the AEW Tag Team Championship. Page and Omega hit the last Last Call on QT Marshall to get the pin.

— Anna Jay was introduced by a quick video package.

2. Abadon defeated Anna Jay by pinfall with a headscissors driver.

— After the match, the Dark Order came out, gave Colt Cabana a contract, and took Anna Jay with them when they left.

3. MJF defeated Billy Gunn. Wardlow tossed MJF the big diamond ring, and he used it to punch Gunn in the face and pin him.

— After the match, MJF and Wardlow got into a fight with Jurassic Express, which turned into a huge brawl.

— Backstage, Chris Jericho told Alex Marvez that Orange Cassidy had to be taken down last week because he kept interrupting the Inner Circle. Sammy backed him up, and Jericho added that they’ll do the same thing to the Best Friends this week.

— Tony Schiavone announced that Penelope Ford will challenge Hikaru Shida for the AEW Women’s Championship at Fyter Fest, which angered Britt Baker, who told him he’d just lost an interview with her and TNT would be mad. She ordered Rebel to drive her cart away, but it was revealed that Big Swole was in the driver’s seat. She drove away with a fearful Britt in the back.

— Cody Rhodes talked about being lonely, because neither the Elite nor the Nightmare Family seems to be around much for him anymore. Then he handed the mic off to Arn Anderson. Arn said that Cody should listen to the voice of reason in his head, and that the time isn’t right to face Jake Hager. Then Ricky Starks appeared on the titantron and introduced himself.

4. Cody Rhodes defeated Ricky Starks by pinfall with a Crossroads, while Jake Hager watched on a monitor from backstage.

5. The Young Bucks defeated the Superbad Squad (Kip Sabian and Jimmy Havoc with Penelope Ford). The Bucks hit a double northern lights suplex, then a double superkick, then tricked Sabian into hitting a Tombstone piledriver on Havoc.

— After the match, the Butcher and the Blade jumped in the ring and attacked the Young Bucks, and then FTR showed up to attack Butcher, Blade, and the Superbad Squad.

— Outside under a bridge, Taz said that Jon Moxley deserved the attack from Brian Cage after the way he was talking last week, and Cage yelled about how much he wants to beat Mox up.

— Jon Moxley cut a promo about how ready he is to face Brian Cage.

— Rebel found Britt Baker in a dumpster covered in trash, where she promised to get revenge on Big Swole.

6. The Best Friends defeated Le Sex Gods to retain their Number One Contendership for Fyter Fest. Trent got the pin with a Dudebuster on Sammy Guevara.

—After the match, one of the ringside cameramen revealed himself to be Orange Cassidy, who attacked Chris Jericho with a new level of intensity. The show ended with Orange Cassidy standing tall while commentary announced that he’ll face Jericho at Fyter Fest.

Dear media,

As a Black writer, I’m torn.

At this moment, I know you need me, and although I want to capitalize on that need, I need you to reflect, focus and institute significant and sustainable changes in your outlets. Georgle Floyd is the news cycle now, but black bodies have been a casualty to white supremacy for hundreds of years. Too many Black people have died at the hands of police officers. Is this finally the moment of change? Think for a minute, why now?

You need my voice, insight and ability to help you navigate and understand our exploding racial powder keg. But most of all, you need my stories, my insight and my perception to speak to the moment. My question is, where will you be when I need you after this moment has passed?

Today, you fill your pages and websites with our bylines and content, hoping to infuse perspective and color into predominantly white content. You mine our pain with op-eds explaining systemic racism and the unyielding murders of our fathers, brothers, lovers, sons and daughters.

Will you still love us when the news cycle shifts? Or will we hear what we’ve heard so many times before? Crickets.

Will you be there to offer us the coveted jobs, with full-time benefits and paychecks that pay the bills? Or are your mastheads so full of white faces that you can’t see us staring at you?

I’ve worked on staff in several television and radio newsrooms and gotten plum assignments as a freelance writer. I’ve even been fortunate enough to have stories published in prominent outlets and have been a journalist for eleven years. But I’ve seen firsthand the extreme racial disparities in the media. I’ve been the only person of color on a web team or in a newsroom. I’ve seen how few people of color are employed full-time at many organizations. I’ve rarely seen people who look like me inhabit the coveted seats of power.

You may ask: Why should we care?

These positions give writers like me the freedom to continue our craft, establish stable careers and support younger writers. It also provides us with the fantasy to explore our communities and the world at large—not just when one of us is struck down in cold blood.

Ebonye Gussine Wilkins‘ work focuses on media inclusion and better representation. She helps corporations, nonprofits and individuals assess their content and revise or create better work to reflect the communities they serve. Wilkins explains it like this: “Part of preventing this kind of scramble at the last minute would be to hire writers of color much earlier,” she says. “Hire them more regularly, pay them proper rates, not the bottom of the barrel rates, and give them an opportunity to write about things other than just ‘black issues.'”

In other words, editors, you’re the gatekeepers. It’s not enough for your outlets to hire the “one.” The token African American, Asian, Native American, or person of Latin origins to sit in your newsroom and write, edit and assign all the stories about people in underrepresented communities. One is not enough.

Solomon Jones recently wrote an op-ed for the Philadelphia Inquirer about being the only Black male news columnist. He described the issue as a problem that exists at most major outlets. “It is whiteness — the structures and social phenomena that produce white privilege — that causes outlets like The Inquirer to publish racially offensive material,” Jones wrote. Adding, “I truly believe it is not always intentional. However, when your editors are overwhelmingly white when you are self-congratulatory in your white liberalism, and when you routinely ignore the input of black people, you end up with headlines like “Buildings Matter, Too.”

This month, Hearst Magazines named its first Black editor-in-chief. Samira Nasr to helm Harper’s BAZAAR. She is the first black editor-in-chief in the history of the 153-year-old Hearst-owned publication. Let that sink in for a moment.

Condé Nast beat Hearst eight years ago when Keija Minor was appointed as the first African American editor-in-chief of a Conde Nast publication in 2012.

But let’s not get too excited about Condé Nast. Amid ongoing allegations of racism and unequal treatment at Bon Appétit, editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport resigned. Days later, Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988, artistic director for Condé Nast, and Vogue‘s publisher, since 2013, released a letter of apology for the lack of diversity at Vogue.

“We have made mistakes too, publishing images or stories that have been hurtful or intolerant. I take full responsibility for those mistakes,” Wintour wrote. “It can’t be easy to be a Black employee at Vogue, and there are too few of you. I know that it is not enough to say we will do better, but we will — and please know that I value your voices and responses as we move forward.”

Jonita Davis is an Indiana-based writer who covers social and cultural topics. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Sisters from AARP, and others. She explained that outlets that had previously ghosted her are now clamoring for her stories. She says that as much as she has “FOMO” aka “fear of missing out,” she’s too pissed to take the assignments.

“If you can’t go to your staff now to cover protests and all the issues happening now, then maybe that’s a problem,” Davis says. “If you have to go running and looking for Black writers, then you don’t have a diverse staff. Instead of publications looking to this moment as a call to action to change things, they’re patting themselves on the back for hiring Black freelancers.”

Just in case you don’t know the rates for freelance writers at major outlets – they range from the rare outlet that pays $1 or $2 a word to $100 for thousands of words – which is not enough to survive on.

So, here we are, and here are the facts. Real and lasting change comes from hiring people of color for full-time writing, editing and management positions that pay good salaries with benefits. The truth is, it’s great that Black voices are being heard now, but it should have happened long ago.

The question is simple. But, the answer is far more complicated. You need us now. But will you still want us tomorrow?

Rebekah Sager is an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience covering news, lifestyle, entertainment, and human-interest stories. She’s contributed to Playboy, Cosmopolitan, Vice, The Hollywood Reporter, GOOD, and more. She’s profiled Billy Porter, Ru Paul, Kathy Griffin, Amber Rose, Danny Trejo and the founder of Kind Bars, and the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, Patrisse Cullors to name a few. Sager is currently working on a book about her years working in media called “Clickable & Sharable,” a Black girl version of “Bridget Jones Diary,” meets “A Devil Wears Prada.”

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Writer, producer, and comedian Dan Harmon has struck gold in live-action and animation, giving the world both Community, which he created on his own, and Rick and Morty, which he co-created with Justin Roiland. The latter is the primary talent behind the mind-bending sci-fi comedy, doing both the titular voices, but don’t underestimate Harmon’s contributions to one of animation’s craziest programs. And that’s one reason why, even though there are no details about it, you should probably be stoked to hear Harmon’s working on a new animated comedy for Fox Entertainment.

This comes from Deadline, which reports that Harmon has been tapped to work on a show that will premiere on the network in spring of 2022. Fox, of course, is cartoon-crazy, having been home to The Simpsons for over 30 years, Family Guy for over 20 (minus a lengthy hiatus in the early aughts), and Bob’s Burgers for nearly 10. Will all three be around when Harmon’s mystery show rears its head? Oh, probably. Perhaps ditto Fox’s new shows, Bless the Hearts and Amy Poehler’s Duncanville, as well as the forthcoming Housebroken and The Great North.

Again, there is no details about what Harmon’s show will be, what genre or sub-genre it will infuse with jokes, nada, nothing. But Harmon has a great track record, so perhaps we’ll get six seasons and (maybe) a movie, à la Community, or a ludicrous number of promised episodes that will roll out slowly, à la Rick and Morty, even the wait times for the latter may start to get shorter.

(Via Deadline)

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Now to get tiny magician outfits custom-made for all these helpful products.

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Maybe I don’t have to buy a curling wand after all!

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She left behind a Teen Choice Award, her medical records, and a LOT more.

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