Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News! I’m Oli Davis, and I’ll be replying to
as many comments on this video as I can. Matt and Jeff Hardy, Shinsuke Nakamura, The
Revival, Tye Dillinger, Emma, Finn Balor and, of course, Big Red Everything Erick Rowan
- with all these wrestlers either returning to or debuting on the main roster, a few current
talents are going to lose out. And ahead of next week’s Superstar Shake-Up, we have
our first. WWE have announced the release of former NXT tag team champion Simon Gotch,
with their usual copy and paste statement: “WWE has come to terms on a mutually agreed
upon release with Simon Gotch as of today, April 5, 2017. WWE wishes Gotch the best of
all of his future endeavors.” Gotch first signed with WWE in 2013, where
he formed The Vaudevillians tag team with Aiden English. The two would go onto become
one-time NXT tag team champions before their call-up in April last year. They were quickly
inserted into the WWE Tag Team championship picture, losing twice to The New Day’s longest
ever title reign, and then started to slide down the card.
Backstage at last July’s WWE Draft episode of Smackdown, Gotch reportedly had an altercation
with Sin Cara, which brought the latter’s undefeated backstage fight streak to a then
3-0. The former Hunico would later bring this to 4-0, overcoming the fearsome Chris Jericho
on a tour bus in November. There have been various rumours on why WWE
have released Gotch. Reddit user AdamRFox, who accurately leaked Shinsuke Nakamura and
Tye Dillinger debuts before this week’s Smackdown - actually posting footage of WWE
production staff testing Nakamura’s entrance lighting - claims that Gotch “was just ‘Bad’
as they put it. Simon put too many people at risk everytime he wrestled. As far as the
Vaudevillians go, there will be no new member. Aiden English will be getting a singles push
as time goes on.” Dave Meltzer has backed this up on Wrestling
Observer Radio, noting Gotch had his enemies and the company wants to give English a solo
run. There was another rumour that Gotch had a
fight with his tag team partner English backstage at Wrestlemania, but this has been heavily
debunked by the former Vaudevillian on Twitter: Literally not one part of this is true, though
props on possibly the worst fanfic I've ever read.
I'm in the process of lining up some interviews and such. I'll address everything soon.
The post-Wrestlemania episode of Smackdown drew an average of 2.89 million viewers, which
is way up from last week’s 2.7, and even more from last year’s post-Mania show, which
only pulled in 2.44. That was pre-taped and pre-brand split, though. 64% of you thought
it was a ⅘ show at SmackTastic, while 18% thought it even better, awarding the top rating
of SmackDamn. Wrestling News World are reporting a few interesting
details about the Hardy Boyz’ DELIGHTFUL WWE return, along with how the company are
handling the Broken gimmick ownership battle - where Impact Wrestling claim to hold the
character rights. The site claim that Matt’s wife Reby Sky
has been working with WWE lawyers in the lawsuit, and it was hoped to be cleared up before their
Wrestlemania return. Unfortunately, the case wasn’t resolved in time.
WWE reportedly don’t want to give Impact Wrestling any money for using the Broken gimmick,
and will likely stay away from the actual lawsuit. But this “does not mean they will
not give Reby and the Hardys all of their legal aid now that they are signed.”
Wrestling News World note the TNA used the ‘Charismatic Enigma’ name for Jeff - which
was used and developed in WWE - and that “may be used as a precedent in the suit”.
How should WWE have turned Sasha Banks heel at Wrestlemania? Hear me fantasy book that
in the brand new episode of The WrestleTalk Show. And a former tag team champion has been
released from WWE! Find out who by clicking the videos to the left and subscribe.
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