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I’m Matt Carlins and this is JUST Pro Wrestling News for Tuesday, December 14, 2021.

People across the world of pro wrestling are mourning the death of Jimmy Rave.

He was a steady presence on the U.S. independent scene for nearly two decades…and had memorable runs in Ring Of Honor and TNA.

Rave struggled with drug addiction. His health took a dramatic downturn just over a year ago when an infection led to the amputation of his left arm…and in October, BOTH of his legs.

He leaves behind two children.

Jimmy Rave was 39.

(STINGER: WWE)

The WWE Championship match at the Day 1 pay-per-view is now a 4-Way: Big E defending against Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens…and Bobby Lashley.

Lashley earned his way into the match by beating all three of his Day 1 opponents in separate matches on last night’s Raw. There were plenty of shady circumstances involving all three wins, but hey…he got them.

Another match added to Day 1. Liv Morgan will get another shot at Becky Lynch and the Raw Women’s Championship. Lynch attacked Morgan last night, crushing her arm between the ring steps and ring post.

Also last night…Otis pinned one-half of the Raw Tag Champs Riddle.

One-half of the women’s tag champs Queen Zelina pinned Rhea Ripley with a rollup in less than a minute after Ripley got distracted by Nikki ASH getting superkicked by Carmella.

Bianca Belair pinned Doudrop with a 450 splash. But Doudrop laid out Belair after the match.

Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode beat United States Champion Damian Priest & Finn Balor. Ziggler pinned Balor with the ZigZag after Balor got distracted by Austin Theory taking a selfie on the ring apron.

The RK-Bro-nament final did NOT happen last night. That was to pit the Street Profits against Rey & Dominik Mysterio. But WWE announced there are injuries on BOTH teams…and the match is now pushed back until December 27th.

During a Twitch stream Monday night, Matt Hardy said WWE may have “jumped the gun” when it released Jeff Hardy after he walked out on a house show match in Texas earlier this month.

Matt Hardy confirmed Jeff was released after he refused to go to rehab. Matt openly speculated that the results of Jeff’s drug test following the incident will come back clean.

(STINGER: AEW)

Ring Of Honor Pure Champion Josh Woods is on tonight’s AEW Dark. He’ll face Shawn Spears.

We’ll finally see Mei Suruga in action inside an AEW ring. She and Emi Sakura take on Riho & Ryo Mizunami.

Marina Shafir makes her AEW debut against Kris Statlander.

Plus, Chuck Taylor vs. Ryan Nemeth…and Daniel Garcia and 2point vs. Dark Order’s Evil Uno, Colt Cabana & Alex Reynolds.

On last night’s Dark: Elevation…Tony Nese beat Alex Reynolds.

Tonight’s NWA Powerrr has…The Hex defending the NWA Women’s Tag Titles against Mickie James & Kiera Hogan.

Plus, Dirty Dango & JTG vs. Aron Stevens & Kratos..

(STINGER: ROH)

Ring Of Honor’s Final Battle got the bulk of the attention - but there was also an episode of ROH TV over the weekend.

Sledge beat PCO in a Falls Count Anywhere Match…EC3 beat Eli Isom…and Miranda Alize beat Chelsea Green after a distraction by The Allure.

(STINGER: New Japan)

New Japan holds its finals in the World Tag League and Best Of The Super Juniors tournaments on Wednesday.

But it’s all overshadowed by Katsuyori Shibata’s promise to make a major announcement on the show.

The Best Of The Super Juniors final has Hiromu Takahashi vs. YOH.

Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI face EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi in the World Tag League final.

IWGP World Heavyweight Champ Shingo Takagi…and Kazuchika Okada will be back in action Wednesday…on opposite sides of an undercard tag match.

That’s JUST Pro Wrestling News for Tuesday, December 14. Our next update comes your way tomorrow morning, so be sure to subscribe to this feed. We also thank you in advance for leaving a glowing rating or review..

I’m Matt Carlins. Thank YOU for listening.

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