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Today we’ll be looking at a huge return that has been teased by Natalya and the big
news about Ali being revealed as Retribution’s leader
Let’s start things off with this teaser from Natalya
Natalya recently teased that she was training with someone that she couldn’t tell us about
Nattie had this to say on twitter:
“Finished a wrestling practice in our ring...
TJ Wilson ran our practice with “Dr Tom” man in the middle drills.
Forgot how much I love/hate those drills!
So much fun ... wish I could tell you who i trained with!!”
She ended that tweet with some winking emojis as well
So that’s a nice little tease there by Natalya.
Who was she training with and why can’t see tell us their name?
Is it because that individual is preparing for a WWE return?
I think that’s possibly the case here
So who’s our main suspects for who Nattie was training with?
I think there’s two names that have the highest possibility
These two names being Melina or Ronda Rousey
We’ve been hearing for weeks now that Melina has signed with WWE and they’re waiting
for a way to reintroduce her on TV
Melina has responded to the rumors, saying that it’s not true, but reports insist that
Melina was trying to cover up the leak and that she’s still returning in the very near
future
Another report came out last weekend claiming that Melina’s name is even being brought
up in the creative meetings.
They’re actively trying to find a way to work Melina into current storylines
So could Natalya have linked up with Melina to train?
It’s a possibility considering Melina is preparing for a WWE return
Natalya is one of the all time great performers, a future hall of famer, so it makes sense
that you would want to train and prepare with her
But what if it’s not Melina?
If it’s not Melina then my other guess would be Ronda Rousey
Obviously, Ronda Rousey and Natalya are extremely close friends behind the scenes
WWE even brought their friendship to television a few years ago and Ronda and Natalya would
even walk out to the ring together
That’s a real genuine friendship right there.
We’ve been hearing small rumors about Ronda Rousey’s return for several months now
We even talked about a story a few weeks ago how Ronda Rousey was spotted training with
Roddy Piper’s daughter
Ronda wasn’t hiding anything about that training.
She posted the pictures and even posted a caption about how much she missed it
So Natalya’s training partner being Ronda Rousey doesn’t seem like that much of a
reach either
Considering their close friendship and the fact that Ronda Rousey has been doing a lot
of actual training lately, it makes sense for Natalya to be talking about Ronda Rousey
in that tweet
She probably didn’t wanna mention her by name because they don’t want to spoil the
surprise that Ronda Rousey is real close to a return?
Just looking through some of the responses to that tweet from Natalya, it seems like
the the popular name that everyone kept guessing was Ronda Rousey
I saw some Melina guesses thrown in there as well, but for the post part, Ronda Rousey
was the most popular guess
I think it all lines up perfectly and make a lot of sense for it to be Ronda Rousey,
but we’ll have to see if Natalya will continue to tweet out teasers
But it does seem like someone big is returning real soon and they’re already training heavily
for their return
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So let’s talk about Retribution.
Retribution has really taken a full 180 over the last few weeks
With their unordinary masks and weird names, a lot of people seemed to look at Retribution
as a joke
But a lot has really changed over the last few weeks
The 5 main Retribution members are now all on twitter and they are extremely entertaining
to follow and see what they’re saying on twitter
T-Bar is probably the greatest one to follow right now.
Whoever is behind these accounts just doesn’t care, they’re call out anyone and rip them
apart no matter who they are
Eric Bischoff recently revealed on his podcast that he thought Retribution sucked
T-Bar was quick to respond on twitter with the perfect response for Bischoff
T-Bar has this to say:
“Thank you Eric Bischoff.
You are a huge inspiration for RETRIBUTION!
We too aspire to one day destroy a billion dollar wrestling company and bury it under
fiery wreckage”
T-Bar was obviously being sarcastic and funny there referencing how Eric Bischoff destroyed
WCW from way back in the day
So T-Bar is claiming that he’s a big inspiration to the group because they wanna do what he
did and destroy a wrestling company as well
T-Bar also responded to some of the things we were talking about on how it made no sense
for WWE to offer them contracts
T-Bar had his own explanation on why WWE hired them and had this to say:
“WWE offered us contracts because it was financially cheaper than all of the security
guards we kept injuring.
We signed the contracts to pay for others to do our dirty work.
Our goal is still to destroy our current employer, WWE”
Chris Jericho even responded to that tweet by simply saying “huh?”
T-Bar responded to Chris Jericho by saying “huh?”
right back to him and linking several articles that showed that a Chris Jericho Fozzy concert
was connected to nearly 250 thousand Covid cases
So T-Bar is constantly ready to fire back at anyone on twitter
But let’s finally get to the big news of the week and that’s the fact that Ali was
revealed to be the leader of retribution
We ran another poll on the Instagram page and 81 percent of you said that you liked
Ali as the Retribution leader, so that’s great to see, it looks like the large majority
of fans likes the idea of him being the leader
I’m on board with Ali being the leader as well and I was really happy it turned out
to be him
I think it really fits and make a lot of sense.
Before the last few months, Ali was never used at all on WWE television.
He would tweet out his frustration on how he was tired of wasting his prime by sitting
on the sidelines
Ali was finally brought back to TV, but hasn’t been doing much besides pointless 6 man tag
matches
Remember that Ali was originally supposed to be revealed as the Smackdown hacker
The Smackdown hacker was another character that didn’t seem to like WWE and wanted
to expose all of the WWE superstars for being liars and hiding secrets
Unfortunately, that storyline and character was cancelled for several reasons, but I feel
like they can still carry some of the ideas and concepts from the Smackdown hacker and
still give it to Ali as the leader of Retribution
I love Ali as the leader of Retribution because it feels like we’re at least going to see
a portion of what his character was going to be like as the Smackdown hacker
It’ll be even more cool if Ali would mention the fact that he was the hacker earlier this
year, but he felt like he needed to form a stronger operation and that’s how retribution
came into play
He was a frustrated talent that was looking for other frustrated talent to join him and
form this anti-WWE faction
It’s not a super detailed backstory, but I like it because it would finally tie up
those loose ends from the Smackdown hacker
The character that was shown to us as the biggest threat in WWE then just magically
disappeared overnight with no explanation at all.
So if Ali would own up to being the hacker and explained that he wanted to do something
bigger then that, it would really make sense and finally explain to us why the hacker vanished
Everyone assumed earlier on that Retribution could be related to the hacker because of
the exact same similar attire and now look, the original hacker is now the leader of Retribution
We haven’t seen much of Ali as the leader, but I love it already because the story is
already there
Everyone knew how frustrated Ali was with his usage in WWE, so him being a member of
the group makes perfect sense
Some even believed that the Ali reveal should’ve close the show and I agree with that as well
If that would’ve been the last thing we saw from Raw, it would’ve been even more
impactful
It’s a big deal though, it’s finally a big role for Ali and maybe we’ll get to
see some of the plans and elements that WWE had for his original hacker character
That’s the right move right there, retribution needed a main leader and I think Ali is going
to do an amazing job
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