In this WrestleTalk News, major backstage heat on Braun Strowman, Nick Aldis publicly
quits the NWA, more WWE return news and more.
Saturday’s Crown Jewel gave us many mind blowing moments.
Our first tease that Bray Wyatt could be recruiting or targetting Alexa Bliss.
Wrestling’s slowest ever golf cart spot.
And Logan Paul having a better Buckshot Lariat than Hangman Page.
I’m so sorry, Hangman, I hate saying it but it’s true.
Don’t cut an impromptu promo on me and make CM Punk leave again.
But the biggest thing to happen at the show was Omos’ hands.
In the press conference for the Premium Live Event, the Internet was gifted with this new
meme.
I asked you all to come up with the best captions.
In third place we have: GullyZiss saying: "If I ever, hear you say
"IT'S BOSS TIME" again."
In second, it’s THEDestendGem’s When a double face-palm just isn't enough.
But our winner is this excellent pun from Josh Barnes: He's got the Cole world in his
hands.
Everyone give Josh Barnes some cheap pops in the comments.
Type clap emojis, I say.
CLAP EMOJIS.
We aren’t the only ones impressed with Omos.
Mike Johnson of PWInsider has reported that WWE management was “really happy” with
his performance at Crown Jewel, and have been very pleased with the progress he’s been
making as of late.
Which is apparently the opposite for how everyone’s feeling about his opponent on that show, Braun
Strowman.
Strowman celebrated his Crown Jewel victory and undeniably impressive running powerslam
on Omos by crapping on everyone who’s smaller than him.
Which is most people.
Posting on Twitter: “Holy hell @TheGiantOmos can you believe
we got 47 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and reminded the people that no one cares about
all these floppy floppers.
Giants and Monster > flippy flipper bag your grocery’s at @kroger #AirportTest #SizeIsThePrize
#SwoleIsTheGoal” Oh no he’s controlling his own narrative
again.
Replying to a Twitter user who said those floppy flipping flippy floppers could wrestle
circles around Strowman and Omos, Braun posted back.
“Haha.
Really.
Cause they’d be in the main card in Saudi but instead they are at a…” including
a photo of Braun pointing at a sign that says ‘s-word indie’
Presumably high on whey protein powder, Braun posted one last message before grabbing some
much needed shut-eye on the plane home from Saudi Arabia:
“Aight I’m going to sleep on the is flight.
Just let me remind you I am the greatest big man there ever has been there ever is and
there ever will be!!!!!!!!
If you at me you prove the point.
Good night to all my loyal fans and the rest welll GFYS 💋💋💋💋 monster out”
But kind of like that woman who made a white privilege joke on Twitter before getting on
the plane for her holiday, and by the time she’d landed she’d become the world’s
most hated person and had lost her job, Braun’s tweet got him significant heat from the wrestling
community, and his own fellow WWE stars…
One of the many issues with Braun’s flippy flopping flipper floppers tweet was that they
aren’t just wrestling at a s-word indie promotion.
They wrestle in major promotions like AEW, New Japan, and as Braun’s colleagues in
WWE.
While the Monster Amongst Clouds was sleeping, New Japan’s Will Ospready posted:
“Why you so mad about making money 😂 It’s dead funny that you actually done such
a great job and yet you’re mad at other people that do the same job as you.
Relax my guy, just say you really enjoyed showing super heavyweight wrestling”
AEW’s Chris Jericho replied to the flippy flipper bag your groceries line, tweeting:
“I used to bag groceries.”
And Braun’s WWE colleague Mustafa Ali posted: “can you teach me how to get fired?”
Which is likely a reference to Braun Strowman’s hypocrisy, as even though he’s a big big
monster man, WWE still released him last year.
But coming from Ali, someone who has publicly asked to get out of his WWE contract, it also
just reads like he’s asking for some friendly advice.
He does seem to be much happier in the Triple H regime, where he’s entered the US Championship
mix on Raw.
This prompted a back and forth between the two, with Braun replying to Ali:
“Don’t you work in catering now????”
Ali responding to that: “was definitely in the kitchen cooking you.”
Strowman then attempted navigated out of the controversy of his own causing, replying to
Ospreay: “Not mad at all brother.
Just love watching the iwc melt lol.
Mad respect to the high flyers.
I just love firing up the Internet.
Was on a ten hour flight made for good reading lol”
And then tweeting a statement to everyone: “Yo yo all my brothers and sisters in the
locker room no matter where you came from.
I have mad respect.
We have all worked very hard to be where we are.
And all are here for a reason.
Take a joke iwc.
Y’all come at me none stop and the second I fire back y’all melt.”
And then showing how good he is at the jokes, he replied to that tweet:
“Do I have to pay Elon 8$ for this now?????”
So topical, great satire.
One of the hardest parts to navigate about telling edgy jokes is the intention.
A lot of comedians get away with telling offensive jokes because they clearly don’t mean what
they’re saying.
It gets uncomfortable though when it starts to feel like that comedian really does believe
what they’re saying.
Which is the problem with Strowman’s ‘jokes’ here.
Because just one month into the pandemic, he criticised out-of-work wrestlers for trying
to support themselves with Patreon.
[IMAGE] During Strowman’s first WWE run, he reportedly
had heat backstage for being “his own worst enemy” [QUOTE] - annoying the locker room
for being late and leaving early.
What do you think about Strowman’s flippy flopping flipper comments?
Let me know in the comments down below.
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But Braun isn’t the only wrestler making controversial social media posts…
You remember Nick Aldis, don’t you?
He was Magnus in TNA, he’s husband to Mickie James, and in the late 2010s he made Billy
Corgan’s NWA Heavyweight Championship the most relevant it had been in years, carrying
the belt for 1,043 days, and defending it against Cody Rhodes at the AEW prequel show
All In.
For a time, before AEW filled in the indie wrestling sized hole in our lives, NWA and
Aldis’ reign was a big non-WWE deal.
The two were indistinguishable from each other.
But this year something seems to have soured between Aldis and the promotion’s owner
Billy Corgan.
Back in July, Corgan pulled Aldis from a world title match on pay-per-view, despite Nick
having won a #1 contenders tournament.
The report was that Corgan had grown tired of Aldis’ backstage politicking behind the
scenes - with Corgan himself saying: “No one stresses me out more in the NWA than Nick
Aldis, no one is more highly paid than Nick Aldis and no one is more unhappy than Nick
Aldis."
While Aldis came back for a match in August, and is still scheduled for their Hard Times
3 pay-per-view this weekend, Nick has ‘accidentally’ posted a message to everyone on Instagram,
rather than just his subscriber feed like he intended.
In the now-deleted video, Aldis has revealed how he and Corgan have creative differences,
and that the NWA has gotten so embarrassing, he can’t be a part of it any longer.
PWInsider have followed this up, revealing that his contract expires in January.
Even if the relationship hadn’t deteriorated, it’s probably best for Aldis to move on
from the NWA.
He’s been there for over five years and has accomplished everything the promotion
has to offer.
He already has a connection with AEW via All In, so that is a possibility, but there’s
also WWE, where his presentation would fit in very nicely with Triple H’s tastes.
Where do you think Aldis will go?
And what do you think about how he’s publicly buried the NWA?
Let me know in the comments.
In a quick round up of everyone else WWE and AEW are interested in, Bandido has reportedly
fully signed an AEW contract after being offered one last month, where he had also been in
talks with WWE.
Meanwhile, Fightful Select write that WWE are looking to bolster their women’s division
with “TV-ready, experienced women’s wrestlers” that has already seen the comeback of Emma
to SmackDown, and could next include former WWE star Chelsea Green.
Green finished up with IMPACT Wrestling on 22nd October, but has told Fightful “she
hadn't been contacted [by WWE] for a return, and noted she still has NWA, Wrestlecade and
other indie bookings scheduled well into March 2023."
But she would say that, wouldn’t she?
But the biggest current free-agent in wrestling might’ve just had their next move leaked.
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