Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk REGULAR News! Because it’s Christmas and there probably
isn’t that much news. I am Chopper Pete Quinnell, and I hope everyone had some nice
time off, a jolly Christmas and some time with family and friends. But enough of the
pleasantries, let’s get into some news shall we? And as I mentioned before, there almost
certainly can’t have been anything major that happened and -wait what’s that? Andrade
just won his first singles titles on the main roster? Alright. Cool.
Considering WWE bloody love to make MSG feel like their spiritual home, despite only doing
house shows there for years now, the easiest way for them to do so is to have a title change
hands at these “special” house shows. Predominantly the US title it seems, considering
AJ Styles also won the title at an MSG house show too. This time, Rey Mysterio has dropped
the US title, but to who?
Well, considering he main evented Raw defending the title against Seth Rollins, which ended
when AOP got involved in the match, with the show ending with Rollins delivering a Stomp
to Rey, it was probably him, right? No, it was...it was Andrade. His first main roster
title win, and it’s on a house show. Good job WWE.
The match itself was probably fantastic, as we’ve seen Andrade and Rey tear the house
down, but this time they probably tore the house show down. Where this positions Andrade
and Rey going forwards remains to be seen, however this does link in to a previous report
from Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer stating that WWE would be looking into making
the top of main roster cards feel more three dimensional by having their top stars feud
with multiple people at the same time.
So for example, Rey Mysterio is now feuding with both Andrade and Seth Rollins at the
same time, while Rollins retains his heat with Mysterio, but is also focusing on Kevin
Owens, and now Samoa Joe from the events on Raw. If this is another step in fleshing out
characters and their feuds with multiple people at once, I’m all for it. Andrade will likely
continue to feud with Mysterio and also Humberto Carrillo going forward as well.
Speaking of people getting pushes, sort of, a new report from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter
has stated that three Raw stars will be receiving big pushes moving forwards into 2020, with
Vince McMahon “heavily behind” one of them, and I don’t think it’s who you’d
expect. Did I just buzzfeed that? Number 3 will shock you!
Both Aleister Black and Drew McIntyre were mentioned in the report of being on the verge
of big pushes, with Buddy Murphy being elevated in his feud with Black. McIntyre cut a promo
on Raw stating that 2020 was his, while Black has been on a rampage in his feud with Murphy,
in which he beat the Aussie at TLC.
There’s no doubt some Paul Heyman influence here as McIntyre and Black, as well as Murphy,
are all projects of his, but there’s also a Vince McMahon project taking place too,
with the Wrestling Observer report also namedropping Rowan as someone in line for a big push, with
Vince heavily pushing for him backstage.
This is somewhat surprising, considering that earlier this year, Rowan was a top heel on
SmackDown coming out of the “who attacked Roman Reigns” story, going solo, splitting
from Daniel Bryan and terrorising both of them, while also temporarily reuniting with
Luke Harper. But then when Rowan was drafted to Raw in October, his entire character was
changed, and he now carries around an animal cage with unknown contents.
Actually, thinking about, it’s absolutely not shocking at all that Vince is behind the
guy going from a top dominant heel to carrying a pet around for a mystery that will either
never pay off or be revealed to an incredibly mild and anticlimactic response. Incredibly
mild and anticlimactic response, title of your sex tape.
Speaking of mild responses, the rumors that had been flying around regarding WrestleMania
36 had stated that Brock Lesnar would either face Cain Velasquez or Tyson Fury for the
WWE Championship, you know, for the mainstream appeal of Brock facing a boxer who struggled
to bounce against the ropes at Crown Jewel, or a former UFC fighter who Lesnar beat in
like 2 minutes..at the same show.
However, according to another report from the Wrestling Observer, neither of those are
currently the plan for Lesnar, however Lesnar himself is pencilled in for the show. Which
is good considering he’s the WWE Champion. What a shocker that one of the top titles
in the company is being defended at their biggest show.
With the common fan theory being that Roman Reigns will be winning the Royal Rumble in
January and going on to face The Fiend at WrestleMania 36, this opens things up on the
Raw side if this does come true. Could we be seeing one of the aforementioned pushed
talents go for a Lesnar match at WrestleMania? Lord knows everyone would love to see a Lesnar
vs McIntyre match or a Lesnar vs Aleister Black match. I’m not so sure about a Lesnar
vs Rowan match though, but hey, I’ve been wrong before.
Something that we missed over the Christmas period is this week’s episode of NXT, which
aired on Christmas Day. Keith Lee tagged with Lio Rush to take on Damian Priest and Tony
Nese, which just sounds like an incredibly fun match, while Roderick Strong defended
his North American Title against a debuting Austin Theory. Theory came up short, however
he wasn’t the only debut that night, with Shotzi Blackheart also joining the already
stacked NXT Women’s Division to face Bianca Belair in a losing effort.
It seems that last week’s episode of NXT was sort of a Takeover-level show, with both
men’s and women’s NXT Championships being defended, and now the roster is somewhat being
reset with a couple of new debuts and division shakeups. This should hopefully spruce up
the already amazing NXT roster leading into an exciting 2020.
Speaking of rosters being shaken up, there’s a free agent lurking around the wrestling
industry that may be on their way to WWE very, very shortly. And interestingly, they wouldn’t
be making a stop in NXT, as they would be heading straight to the main roster.
Killer Kross recently left Impact Wrestling, and according to WrestlingNews Co, WWE are
extremely interested in signing him, with the report stating that “he should get a
better offer than most have been offered and they are willing to have him start on Raw
or SmackDown and fast track him to the upper card.”
There’s no doubt Killer Kross is a bit of a killer act, pun intended, so it’s not
surprising WWE are interested in the former Impact star. Considering Kross had many issues
with Impact regarding his creative direction, it must be reassuring for him that WWE would
jump him straight to the main roster, and straight to the top of the card upon his debut
as well.
How this would affect other plans is uncertain right now, with the top heels on the Raw side
seemingly being Lesnar, Rollins and McIntyre, while SmackDown has The Fiend, King Corbin,
and whichever lackeys Corbin decides to partner with that particular week. There could be
a slot for Killer Kross on SmackDown, which might also prevent every single bloody SmackDown
starting and bloody ending with King bloody Corbin. Bloody.
Oli Davis interviewed John Cena about his new movie Playing With Fire for Cineworld,
and they played a game where John had to identify all the fire hazards from Oli’s prompts.
Trust me, it gets stupid. Also press the video below that to find out more about Vince McMahon
burying talent in one very special way moving forwards! A special thank you to our pledgehammers
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Quinnell, and that, was wrestling.