Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News.
HEADLINE: Laurie Blake @El Fakidor I am El Fakidor Laurie Blake.
And on this episode of All I Want For Xmas Is News: Marty Scurll gets a new Ring of Honor
stable?!
Vince McMahon returning to WWE TV?!
He was there all along Austin.
And WWE release a raft of superstars!?
I’ll also be announcing the winner of the WrestleGate competition, so stick around for
that.
ROH Final Battle Results!
Now, you may be forgiven for thinking that WWE’s TLC was the only thing of note to
feature ladders and tables, and to a lesser degree chairs, this weekend.
But Ring of Honor actually beat them to it, hosting their Final Battle PPV which featured
the seventh ever Ladder War.
Which sounds like a competition between LadBible and UniLad over Facebook subs.
Who is Ladder than who.
Anyway, I’m quickly going to recap the Final Battle results, because it’s news, if you
don’t want to know skip ahead.
The show saw Jonathan Gresham and Zack Sabre Jr wrap their limbs around each other in a
technical showcase and Marty Scurll bring Christopher Daniels’ Ring of Honor career
to an end.
It also featured Jeff Cobb retain his TV title in an awesome match with Adam Page.
Meanwhile ROH World Champion Jay Lethal took on Cody who was dressed as Venom Snake from
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain for some reason.
Though not even the Fulton Recovery System could save Cody from losing out to Lethal
who managed to retain.
But not everyone had such a tight grip on their titles, Sumie Sakai lost the Women of
Honor World Championship to Kelly Klein in a four way elimination jobby.
And the Briscoe’s became ten time tag champs in an insane match with SoCal Uncensored and
The Young Bucks.
The Elite Leave ROH?
The worst of the spoilers stop here so you can come out from your soundproofed spoiler
bunkers and listen to this.
The brothers Jackson then got on the microphone with Cody, Marty and Page in the ring to say
what seemed like a farewell to ROH.
Matt said: “My brother and I started in this company
over ten years ago.
This past two year run has been the greatest time of my life.
I would have never become the person I’ve become, I would’ve never become the wrestler
I’ve become without the support of you guys, every guy in the back, my wife Mrs. Matt who’s
watching at home, our supportive families - everybody in this ring, all of you, we’re
all elite, right?
The timer is ticking!
Something is about to go down!
I don’t know what, I hope you watch our YouTube series Being The Elite.
I’ll tell you this.
New York City - WE WILL BE BACK and we’ll see you then!”
Sneaky little All Elite reference in there.
Cody Bids Farewell To ROH The following night The Bucks teamed with
Hangman Page and Cody to take on Best Friends, Flip Gordon and Jay Lethal in an 8 man tag
match, after which Cody tweeted out a heartfelt farewell to everyone at Ring of Honor.
“Thank you to all the fans.
Thank you to a wonderfully talented locker-room.
Thank you to an outstanding crew/production top-to-bottom.
Thank you Joe Koff & Greg Gilleland.
Thank you ROH, I needed “shelter from the storm” & you gave me a home the past 2 years.
Beautiful experience.”
Laying his true feelings out there for all to see, Emotionally Naked Snake.
A quick break now, but more on what Marty Scurll is doing after his mates leave ROH
next.
What’s Next For Marty Scurll Revealed So with the rest of the Elite off to do in
the words of Matt Jackson “I don’t know what” that leaves Marty Scurll as the sole
survivor in Ring of Honor.
Or is he?
Because there was a big reveal at the Final Battle Fallout Tapings on Saturday.
Which I am totally going to spoil so spoilers stations people in 3, 2, 1.
Marty Scurll Gets New ROH Stable During the show, The Kingdom confronted Scurll
during his in-ring segment and ran him down because he’s a billy no mates now the rest
of the Elite have left.
Except it turns out that Marty is billy-some-mates because Brody King and PCO came out to brawl
with The Kingdom.
] After they cleared house Marty welcomed the
two to his new stable, Villain Enterprises, which despite the company name doesn’t seem
as evil as say Amazon.
Guess it depends on who is shipping Marty’s new t-shirts.
ROH Sign Bandido Also in need of some new t-shirts is luchador
extraordinaire Bandido, who, according to lucha blog has just signed an exclusive deal
with Ring of Honor.
He could be in Villain Enterprises!
He’s got an outlaw mask.
According to PWInside Bandido agreed on terms with ROH after rightfully being pursued by
a whole slew of promotions including WWE.
Bandido will debut for the company in 2019 and in the meantime ROH are reportedly after
his tag partner Flamita too.
Mark Haskins To ROH?
Someone else that Ring of Honor are reportedly after is the really rather brilliant Mark
Haskins.
According to PWInsider the word backstage at Final Battle was that Haskins has signed
with ROH and will be joining the promotion soon.
WWE Want Dalton Castle But ROH aren’t the only ones on the hunt
for new talent, in fact they should be hiding some of their roster away as WWE is reportedly
on the prowl.
One man who needs fortifying is Dalton Castle who the Wrestling Observer Newsletter are
reporting WWE are very interested in.
It’s said Castle was offered a deal in 2017 but chose to stay with ROH where he became
World Champion before having to drop the belt and deal with a variety of injuries.
Dalton’s flamboyant character no doubt makes him naturally very attractive to WWE who can
no doubt see him as bit of knockabout fun for TV, and will use him terribly.
No word on whether they are after the boys too, though I assume they have limited choice
in the matter, the little subs they are.
Vince McMahon Returning To RAW TV Speaking of subs WWE’s have been dropping
as have their viewers, with last week’s RAW being an all-time low in terms with just
2.194 million watching.
That’s why WWE have drafted in the top dog to pretend like he’s not part of the problem
but the solution.
As Vince McMahon will return to RAW tonight to ‘shake things up’.
Everyone is going to cross dress.
Vince McMahon Announcing Draft?
Which is obviously a joke, but one thing that may be announced is another draft, although
PW Insider do say that no one has heard that’s definitely the plan.
It would make sense though as angles during TLC set up some cross brand friction, which
can only really be resolved with a bout of swapsies and maybe they could split Balor
and Corbin up so we never have to see that match ever again.
WrestleLeague Results We’re about to hit another break, but first
a very quick and important update regarding WrestleLeague with the TLC results taken into
account: I am winning.
I’m sitting pretty at 19 points, Oli is at 17 and Luke has closed the gap at 16, but
at this point will still be doing a punishment music video.... which we did on Friday for
fun… oooh, such punishment.
WWE Releases Announced Vince’s shakeup of WWE seems to already
be happening though.
Just not in the super awesome positive way you would imagine as a few releases have come
through over the weekend.
Front and centre is Nick Miller of NXT Tag Team The Mighty, whose release, at least according
to less tentacly Keeper of Secrets Dave Meltzer was ‘his decision’.
Meltzer said that Miller returned to Australia for the birth of his baby, but has reportedly
decided to stay, though the door is said to remain open if Miller does fancy returning
to the company in future.
Someone else who was revealed to have been released was Taishan Dong, don’t know the
name, that’s because he never actually appeared on WWE TV.
Dong is a 7-foot-tall boxer from China who had signed a developmental deal with WWE this
summer after trying out for the company in October 2017.
Meltzer did say that Dong was actually released some time ago and asked to leave.
Considering that a lot of the Chinese stars WWE signed when they had ideas of expanding
into China have been let go maybe that plan has been moved to the backburner.
Probably better to sort out those ratings in America first huh.
There are also rumours that NXT UK superstar Tucker has been released too.
Which initially I’m kind of relieved about because I misread and thought it was Tucker
Knight, Tucky from NXT, and then I thought Otis Dozovic would be sad and that made me
sad.
Aww Tucky.
But it’s not Tucker Knight, it’s plain flavour Tucker who the rumours are saying
has been released as his profile has been removed from the WWE website.
Though his departure has not been confirmed.
Tucker participated in both of the WWE UK Title tournaments, losing to Tyler Bate in
the first round in 2017 and then to Joe Coffey in the first round of the 2018 tournament.
WrestleGate Competition Winner Announcement Before we wrap up this episode of All I Want
For Christmas is News, I have the honour and privilege of announcing the winner of our
WrestleGate competition.
The prize is two tickets to new promotion WrestleGate’s debut show called Open Gate
in Nottingham on the 26th of January 2019.
And the winner is… drum roll please, I assume the editor is putting a drum roll in here,
awkward to know how long to leave it… the winner is Steven Brandham.
Congratulations Steven, expect an email from the bigwigs at WrestleGate soon telling you
how you’re going to get into the event I guess!
For anyone else who likes the sound of an evening out in Nottingham to watch some graps
you can buy tickets to the show by following the link in the description below.
WWE TLC is done and dusted and was actually a pretty darn good show, but if you want to
find out what we thought of the show in a bit more depth then click Luke’s review
which is on screen now.
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