Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I’m El Fakidor Laurie Blake.
Coming up on this edition of Faki Sang the News did you know that Paul Heyman and Eric
Bischoff are heading up Raw and Smackdown, WWE stars urged Jon Moxley to enter the G1
and WWE have another Undertaker match lined up with a big opponent.
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Nowie wowie, on with the news. And it kicks off with the best damn thing in WWE right
now, despite the fact he hasn’t wrestled yet: Bray Wyatt.
But even though he’s still trapped in the Firefly Funhouse he’s been making some fun
for himself outside of that: tweeting just about anyone for a laugh: Chris Jericho, Matt
Hardy, some idiot called Adam Pacitti.
And now the Rock.
"I wanted you to know I forgive you for exploiting my love for frozen pizza pockets in front
of the worlds largest wrestling crowd. Through therapy and and The Muscle Man Dance™?,
I'm all better now! P.S Jumanji was fire emoji’
This all harks back to WrestleMania 32 and The Wyatt Family attempting to jump The Rock
after the six second Erik Rowan beatdown only for John Cena to make the save.
Bray has been systemically tweeting stars he’s had in-ring beef with in the past and
forgiving them because he’s reformed...
Or is he.
Something else that has been reformed is the corporate structure of Raw and Smackdown.
Business segway. Suit and a segway.
Because as we were told, nigh on a thousand times while doing the NXT WrestleRamble yesterday
Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff have been made Executive Directors on Raw and Smackdown respectively.
You can picture the meeting where they decided this: “ratings are falling how do we save
Raw and Smackdown?”
“We’ve tried everything sir the fans are just ingrates. We gave them a Viking Experience,
wild cards, you sent your own son to sacrifice his body on a golf cart altar, my lord.”
“Get me the guys who nearly put us out of business in the 90s. I’m a genius.”
Admittedly it’s actually really exciting and great news because this is not just a
storyline role, the two will report directly to Vince, but hopefully act as a buffer between
him and the final product.
WWE described the roles as:
“In their executive roles, Heyman and Bischoff will oversee the creative development of WWE’s
flagship programming and ensure integration across all platforms and lines of business,
The creation of these roles further establishes WWE’s ability to continuously reinvent its
global brand while providing two distinct creative processes for its flagship shows.”
According to PWInsider Biscoff officially came to terms on the role at Smackdown two
weeks ago, while the roles were officially created this week.
Though according to King Snitch himself Dave Meltzer not everyone at WWE is happy, he said:
“You know there’s a lot of people who were in TNA that are in WWE — to say that
they’re baffled is the understatement of the year. I mean they’re just like rolling
their eyes,”
“They’re like, ‘How can someone be so out of touch’ and the thing was and I’ve
heard this from a lot of people: ‘Vince really doesn’t know anything about wrestling
outside of WWE — AT ALL!’”
“‘Wow, we know he doesn’t follow wrestling and he doesn’t watch wrestling, but he doesn’t
know anything about wrestling anymore outside of his walls.’”
Despite the reported backstage response to the Bischoff news, I remain hopeful that these
two new roles can give the two shows the revamp they need.
Like I said I remain hopeful, especially for RAW…
Maybe under the Heyman and Bischoff era WWE can get some of that best wrestling in the
world that Seth Rollins has been talking about on Twitter.
Now the Universal Champ was seemingly having a bit of fun and backing himself and his company,
which he has every right to do and very much should do as the top champion in the company
and therefore the figurative man…’s man.
But the beef that began with young William Ospreay over Twitter caused a bit of the old
wrestling tribalism to come out, with fans arguing which company man was the better performer
and which company was better WWE or NJPW.
I’ll give you Ichi guess which one Will Ospreay thinks it is.
Speaking with Sports Illustrated, Will put over his new home:
“Our company produces the best pro wrestlers in the world. I understand the alternative.
If you like WWE, that's fine ...you like the stories. If you like All Elite, you want something
different. But New Japan Pro Wrestling is the pinnacle of what pro wrestling should
be, and the pro wrestling fans should come and watch because this is the best. I'm not
saying that on Twitter to Seth Rollins, I'm literally saying that because I truly believe
it in my heart of heart.”
“Every person that is a star in WWE or All Elite Wrestling came from this company. This
is where they got good, this is where they applied their trade to make themselves the
stars that they are.”
“And right now, I feel like I'm untouchable in the ring. I feel like I can get in there
with anyone and bring out their best game. I'm more than ready.”
Someone must have caught wind of these good New Japan vibes that Ospreay has been putting
out into the universe, because that may be one reason why Jon Moxley ended up working
with the company.
That or a bunch of WWE guys told him to do it.
In an interview with NJPW Moxley revealed that some of the former NJPW stars in WWE
urged him to compete in the G1. Waittaminute, NJPW stars in WWE… Ospreay was right.
Anyway, Moxley said: “Well, Shinsuke Nakamura is in WWE and doing very well.” Is he Jon?
You did leave in April though so you wouldn’t know, neither do we tbh, it’s all dark matches.
He continued: “I never got to wrestle him sadly, but he heard that I was likely going
over to be in the G1, and he was very pleased. [He] said it was a great life experience.
Karl Anderson, who I’ve actually been friends with since I was 18, since we’re both from
Cincinnati, I asked him about the G1. A few others as well, and everybody was great and
said, ‘yeah, go for it’.”
While Moxley was eager to get out of WWE, not everyone is so keen on leaving… even
if we all kind of wanted them too.
I’m obviously talking about Brock Lesnar has been much talked about recently as most
people thought he would be done with the company at WrestleMania 35.
That wasn’t the case though and instead it was a different case that was the case,
the beefcase.
Because now Brock is Mr Beast In The Bank people have been wondering about how long
he would have re-signed with the company for.
Well, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter suggests that Brock has signed a one year deal with
the company, unlike the 5 year deals that WWE is locking most of its other talent into
at the minute.
His deal is expected to expire somewhere around May or June next year but no date has been
made public.
But you’ve got to imagine he’ll be holding on to that briefcase for a while longer, and
repeatedly teasing cash ins because that way WWE don’t need to figure out a storyline
for him just yet.
But when they do, hopefully the new Executive Directors are in place and Paul Heyman can
write his own pratfalls to distract Brock so much he forgets to cash in.
Gossip Shark Meltzer also scooped some backstage news on The Undertakers match at Extreme Rules,
which many thought was a way to wash the bad taste out of his mouth after the donk fest
at Supershowdown against Goldberg.
Which Booker T having said recently on his podcast:
Not so according the newsletter which says that Taker was booked in for Extreme Rules
before the match at Super ShowDown took place.
There has also been talk of WWE presenting Taker with a list of potential opponents to
face in his never ending post-retirement death throes.
Sports Illustrated said that Drew McIntyre was one of the requested opponents on that
list and that the tag match at Extreme Rules with Taker teaming with Roman Reigns against
Shane McMahon and Drew Mcintyre could lead to a singles bout at Summerslam.
Where hopefully McIntyre wins, is pushed to the moon finally and Taker is allowed to properly
retire.
However, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter refutes Sports Illustrated’s claims and
says that no such list has been presented to Taker.
Maybe he’ll pick his own opponent instead or finally be allowed to rest in peace and
see Post Malone at his leisure.
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