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Headline: Jeff Cobb Signs With Ring Of Honor?
On a recent addition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer mentioned that all-round
great guy and suplexing machine Jeff Cobb would be “starting soon” with Ring of
Honor, reported to be at the Atlanta show on July 21st.
Well, a few news outlets reported this as Cobb signing with ROH, which isn’t the case.
Cobb took to Twitter to say, “For the life of Pete, I didn’t sign with them”.
When someone said to him that Meltzer reported he had, Cobb replied, “Ummm no he didn’t,
people need to read closely or perhaps go to the source?”
Headline: WWE Pulls Corey Graves T-Shirt
Someone who is officially signed to a company however is Raw and Smackdown Live commentator
Corey Graves.
Last week WWE Shop unveiled Graves’ first t-shirt in WWE - which bears his trademark
catchphrase “Shut Up Saxton”.
The shirt was expected to be a hit among fans - who took to Twitter to demand one - but
a quick search on WWE Shop today for the shirt will bring up zero results.
The “Shut Up Saxton” shirt was pulled from the store on Monday, and while there
is no official word on why, Graves revealed on Twitter: “Sorry guys, no #ShutUpSaxton
shirt.
Out of my hands.
We tried.”
While some might be quick to point the finger at Byron, WrestlingNews.co point out that
he and Graves are actually good friend behind the scenes.
Headline: Alpha Club vs. Bullet Club
And speaking of t-shirts, Chris Jericho debuted his Alpha Club t-shirt during his two-show
appearance for New Japan in January this year.
While it was originally a funny play on Jericho’s Alpha vs. Omega match at Wrestle Kingdom 12
and Kenny’s Bullet Club stable, it has since become an actual team.
On a recent episode of Being The Elite, The Young Bucks - or is it the Bucks of Jericho?
- joined forces with Y2J - or is that Y2Jackson?
- and their first match has now been officially announced.
On the latest episode of Being The Elite, the Bullet Club team of Omega, Marty Scurll
and Cody faced off with Alpha Club and revealed that a match between the two teams couldn’t
take place on land, or in the desert, or in space, or in a box, or even on a peninsula
- but it can take place at sea on Chris Jericho’s Rock N Wrestling Rager.
Ring of Honor’s Twitter account also posted a video of Jericho promoting
the match.
Once in a lifetime?
Yeah, heard that one before.
Jericho also shared a poster for the match on Instagram, which looks pretty rad.
There’s no word on which day the Alpha Club vs. Bullet Club match will take place, but
it will likely be a main event.
Headline: Extreme Rules Match Card Changed
And speaking of main events, the originally reported main event for this past Sunday’s
Extreme Rules was set to be Roman Reigns vs. Bobby Lashley.
However it has since been reported that on the day of the show, several of the wrestlers
in the back petitioned and lobbied for Seth Rollins and Dolph Ziggler’s 30-minute Iron
Man match to go on last as they could put on an excellent match and send the crowd home
happy.
That didn’t quite happen however, with the Pittsburgh crowd instead deciding to chant
along with the countdown clock during the match - booing the production team when it
was taken down - and cheering louder than any other point in the match when it came
back up.
Rollins himself slyly commented on the crowd on Twitter, and PWInsider are reporting that
it was nearly very different.
According to the site the Rollins vs. Ziggler Iron Man match was originally planned to open
the show rather than close it - with the card being changed on late Sunday afternoon to
The Deleters of Worlds vs. The B-Team opening instead.
But whoever made the call to make the change, it might not have been the head honcho himself.
Headline: Vince McMahon Missing From Extreme Rules
Vincent Kennedy McMahon has missed various WWE business occasions as of late such as
the negotiations for the Fox TV deals or even the conference calls about them - even being
absent from the WrestleMania 35 press conference.
In fact his only public appearances were the Saudi Arabia show and the announcement of
the Australia super-show later this year.
And when he was asked about it on PWInsider Elite, Mike Johnson revealed that Vince wasn’t
at Extreme Rules either - presumably leaving Triple H in charge.
“Vince was not at Extreme Rules last night.
He was in Florida, and was in regular communication with Triple H and the other officials, but
he was not physically there.”
Johnson speculates that Vince believes that “the machine is something that can run on
cruise control” and that he trusts people like Triple H, Road Dogg and Michael Hayes
will “right the ship from careening too far off the course.”
Adding: “At his age, he's probably taking a step back.
But when he is there he's very hands on and even when he's not there he's gonna put his
two cents in the PPV - he's just not going to have final say as he's not there to enforce
his will.”
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