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Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free AEW Dynamite results for June 10, 2020. The show featured the in-ring debut of FTR, Cody Rhodes defending the TNT Championship against Marq Quen, a guest appearance from Tony Hawk, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Ins and Outs of AEW Dynamite column.

AEW Dynamite Results:

— Chris Jericho entered with Floyd the baseball bat to join commentary at the top of the show.

1. FTR defeated the Butcher and the Blade. Cash Wheeler pinned the Blade after a Mindbreaker assisted spiked piledriver.

— After the match, FTR were telling Tony Schiavone that this is the pinnacle of tag team wrestling, when they were interrupted by the Young Bucks. The Bucks said they haven’t properly introduce themselves to each other, and then said they’d been single-handedly carrying tag team wrestling for a decade and a half. The Butcher attacked the Bucks, and then Kenny Omega, Hangman Adam Page, Kip Sabian, and Jimmy Havoc all ran out and got involved in the brief brawl.

— Dasha Gonzales interviewed the Natural Nightmares, along with Brandi Rhodes and Allie. Brandi was annoyed that Allie was wearing a Nightmare Family jacket, but QT said he gave it to her because she’s part of the family now since she’s his girl. Dustin said he needs QT’s head in the game next week, because they have a title shot against Omega and Page.

2. Nyla Rose and Penelope Ford (with Kip Sabian) defeated Hikaru Shida and Kris Statlander. Ford hit Shida in the face with her own Championship Belt behind the ref’s back and then hit a bridging Fisherman Suplex to pin her.

— Tony Hawk appeared in a video where Darby Allin practiced until he could skate off of a ladder without falling.

— Britt Baker had a montage where she talked about being a role model, and how tired she is of Big Swole’s attitude.

3. The Best Friends and Orange Cassidy defeated Proud & Powerful and Jake Hager. Orange Cassidy managed to trap and pin Ortiz.

— After the match, Jericho got in the ring with his bat and hit Orange Cassidy in the head, busting him open, then attacked him with a bag of oranges.

— At ringside, MJF picked a fight with Billy Gunn and the Gunn Sons.

4. Sammy Guevara defeated Colt Cabana. Guevara hit the GTH on Cabana for the pinfall.

— After the match, the Dark Order, including a returning Evil Uno and Stu Grayson, entered. Brodie Lee offered a hand to Cabana and helped him up. Then they left, while Cabana looked confused. He left, and Sammy Guevara picked up a mic and declared himself the best wrestler in AEW. Matt Hardy came out and told Sammy that he should get away from Chris Jericho so he can live up to his potential. Sammy said that he’d never trust Hardy, who’s tried to kill him twice. Then Hardy turned into Damascus and threatened to delete Guevara, who ran away.

— Joey Janela was seen drinking in a bar, while talking in voice over about how directionless he feels. He left the bar, and happened to run into Sonny Kiss, who gave him a ride in his convertible.

— Colt Cabana entered Brodie Lee’s office backstage.

— In the parking lot, Jon Moxley told Alex Marvez that he’s in a bad mood not just because his whole body hurts, but because Taz keeps saying that Brian Cage is going to beat him at Fyter Fest. Moxley can’t wait for Fyter Fest, so he can shut everybody up by beating Cage. Taz showed up and got in Moxley’s face, distracting him while Cage ran up behind him and attacked, leading to a brawl that did serious damage to a car.

5. Cody Rhodes (with Arn Anderson) defeated Marq Quen to retain the TNT Championship. Quen tapped out to an ankle lock that Cody maintained with his legs.

— After the match, Jake Hager showed up and attacked Arn Anderson and then Cody. Private Party came out with Matt Hardy and attacked Hager with chairs. Then Sammy Guevara, Santana, and Ortiz came out and it turned into a full-on brawl. Cody grabbed a mic and told Hager he can have a TNT Championship match at Fyter Fest.

Here are your quick and dirty, editorial-free WWE NXT results for June 10, 2020. This week’s episode featured a rematch between Cameron Grimes and Finn Bálor, a mixed tag team match, a non-title match between Adam Cole and Dexter Lumis, and more. Make sure you’re here tomorrow for the complete Best and Worst of NXT column.

NXT Results:

– Undisputed Era opened the show to talk about Adam Cole’s win at TakeOver In Your House and his dominant NXT Championship run. He promised to send Dexter Lumis “back to the drawing board” tonight. Roderick Strong kept hallucinating Lumis at ringside. Backstage, UE ran into Keith Lee and Mia Yim, with Lee suggesting he might be coming for the NXT Championship.

1. Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae defeated North American Champion Keith Lee and Mia Yim. Lee got hit with the One Final Beat DDT, but landed on LeRae. While he was checking on her, Gargano rolled him up and pinned him.

– Cameron Grimes was interviewed about his match against Finn Bálor later and said that he’d win, unlike Damian Priest at TakeOver. Priest confronted him and forearmed him in the face about it. Grimes used this as an opportunity to say he had a broken jaw and wouldn’t be able to compete, but William Regal caught Grimes in the lie.

2. Indus Sher defeated local talent..

3. Finn Bálor defeated Cameron Grimes with a Coup de Grace, followed by 1916. After the match, Finn spoke directly to the camera and said he wants Keith Lee’s North American Championship.

– Breezango talked about how much like they making people laugh, but say they’re getting serious and will win the NXT Tag Team Championship from Imperium on next week’s episode.

– Footage aired of a sad Tommaso Ciampa leaving TakeOver In Your House.

– Robert Strong tried to get Rhea Ripley to join the Robert Stone Brand. In response, she punched him in the stomach and slammed him into the garbage.

4. Dakota Kai defeated Kacy Catanzaro with the GTK. After the match, Kai and Raquel Gonzalez attacked Catanzaro. Kayden Carter tried to make the save, but was also beaten down.

– Timothy Thatcher will teach people who to wrestle “his style” next week.

– El Hijo del Fantasma came to the ring and was interrupted by Drake Maverick. Maverick congratulated Fantasma and told him he thinks he can beat him. The two mysterious luchador kidnappers came to the ring, and teamed up with Fantasma to attack Maverick. Fantasma then unmasked, renaming himself “Santos Escobar.”

5. NXT Champion Adam Cole defeated Dexter Lumis. Undisputed Era interfered, allowing Cole to win with the Last Shot. After the match, UE attacked Lumis until Velveteen Dream made the save. Scarlett showed up as well, turning over an hourglass to send a message to Cole.

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America is at a watershed moment in the continuing fight against systemic oppression, as people around the country continue to protest the type of racial profiling and excessive force that led to the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last month.

Athletes from all major sports have added their voices to the cause, with many leveraging both their wealth and their considerable influence toward meaningful change. With the November presidential election fast approaching, much emphasis has been put toward galvanizing the Democratic base and mobilizing voters to oust Donald Trump from the White House.

LeBron James tweeted this week about what he sees as the structural racism in the American voting process, and on Wednesday, he took that a step further by announcing that he and other athletes are forming a group designed to protect the voting rights of African Americans.

Via Jonathan Martin of The New York Times:

The organization, called More Than a Vote, will partly be aimed at inspiring African-Americans to register and to cast a ballot in November. But as the name of the group suggests, Mr. James and other current and former basketball stars — including Trae Young, Skylar Diggins-Smith and Jalen Rose — will go well beyond traditional celebrity get-out-the-vote efforts.

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“Yes, we want you to go out and vote, but we’re also going to give you the tutorial,” Mr. James said. “We’re going to give you the background of how to vote and what they’re trying to do, the other side, to stop you from voting.”

Black Americans have historically been one of the most disenfranchised groups of voters in this country, often the target of legislation specifically designed to suppress their turnout. According to the ACLU, 16 states have introduced voter suppression laws since 2011, ones that, among other things, reduce or eliminate early voting, Election Day registration, voter registration drives, and mail-in ballots.

At least nine states have a so-called “use it or lose it” law that makes it legal to purge votes if those voters haven’t participated in recent elections. In Georgia in 2018, for instance, more than 50,000 voters were eliminated for that very reason, 70 percent of which were African Americans, according to the APM reports.

Voter suppression also takes place in subtler, more insidious ways. In the 2016 elections, researchers found that voters in predominately black neighborhoods were 74 percent more likely than whites to stand in line for more than a half hour to cast their ballot, and multiples research studies have shown that voter ID laws in more than a dozen states disproportionately affect minorities.

(The New York Times)

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On Tuesday, as he’s wont to do, rather than try to mollify a calamitous situation, he made things worse. Last week, among nationwide protests that erupted after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, video spread across social media clearly showing Buffalo police shoving a septuagenarian to the ground, causing blood to pour out of his head. The two police involved were suspended, which angered their colleagues. It also angered the president, who, on Tuesday morning, tweeted out a baseless conspiracy theory alleging that the victim, 75-year-old Martin Gugino, may have been a member of Antifa.

The backlash to Trump’s tweet was quick and passionate, and Tuesday night late night hosts roundly took him to task. Perhaps the most passionate was The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, newly back after a two-week break and ready to wonder aloud what on earth is wrong with a sitting president parroting nonsense while trying to smear the name of an old-timer who’s still in the hospital.

“Trump is so desperate to defend the police that instead of admitting that maybe they used excessive force and that none of them helped a person who was bleeding out on the ground, he turns around and blames the old man from that video for being an antifa provocateur who busted his head open on purpose,” Noah said. “And I mean, I can’t believe I have to say it, but that is some bats*it crazy theory. Let me tell you something—if someone came up to me with a plan that involved busting my head open on the sidewalk, I would ask them to come up with a better plan.”

He continued:

“I mean, how do you look at that video, see that old man, and think that he’s an antifa provocateur? You think that old man is causing chaos. Who sees that? Like, I feel like Trump is the kind of person who watched the movie Up and he thinks it’s a story about an elderly terrorist who hijacks a balloon house.”

You can watch Noah’s full statement in the video above.

(Via Vanity Fair)

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