Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk News. I am El Fakidor Laurie Blake.
And we start with Becky Lynch who has been making like a granny on a Sunday and roasting,
roasting like her life depends on it. Lynch’s longtime frenemy Charlotte Flair
posted this glossy photo of her with all the titles she’s won in WWE that said: “Silver
spoon? Yup. Legacy? You’re damn right.
I had a head start. I’ve also ran with the weight of this legacy on my back.
Figure out how to make yourselves better, as opposed to talking about how I got here.
I’m not slowing down.” To which Becky responded with a picture of
Britney Spears and: “My god, she’s moved on to stealing other people’s bodies now.”
Laugh crying emoji. Oops, she did it again.
Someone call Chris Crocker, Charlotte needs him. Leave Charlotte alone!
From someone who is not a girl, not yet a woman’s champion, to the Lady of NXT.
Because Lacey Evans and EC3 made their in-ring main roster debuts at the Main Event tapings
before Monday’s RAW in Orlando. EC3 picked up a win over Curt Hawkins which
actually means the top one percenter joins 99% of other wrestlers and that gives us a
round 100. We did it people, maths. Meanwhile Lacey put in a good showing against
Natalya but was ultimately tapped out with the sharpshooter.
Wrestling Observer Online are reporting though that both of these were dark matches and will
not be airing on this week’s episode of Main Event.
No word yet when any of these call ups that keep getting teased will actually debut either,
it’s almost as if they were just rushed as an announcement to placate an audience
who were upset with how bad the product had gotten recently, but that’s crazy talk,
long term booking exists.
Speaking of long term booking, now that Kenny Omega’s is up with New Japan everyone is
wondering where he will head next. As I said in the news yesterday WWE have reportedly
put in a fantastic offer for him, and All Elite Wrestling is obviously after him too.
Well a few more hints may have come out since yesterday’s news.
First and foremost is the fact that Dave Meltzer said on the yesterday’s Wrestling Observer
Radio that New Japan intends to keep working with Ring of Honor in the short-term rather
than partnering up with AEW. Which makes sense considering AEW is a start-up and ROH have
a long established relationship with NJPW. Meltzer said though:
“I know that even as late as a couple days ago All Elite was thinking maybe Kenny Omega
would work for New Japan and All Elite both” “Elite wanted to keep their talent working
in New Japan and wanted to partner with New Japan on events, and that’s not going to
happen, at least for right now. Who knows what happens in the future but that’s the
thing right now. It may have cost them Kenny Omega.”
Which I guess could mean a couple of things: one obvious one is that if Omega does sign
with AEW he won’t be returning to NJPW anytime soon. But this could also swing the decision
to sign with AEW as it limits his ability to work all the big indie promotions, which
could make that WWE money seem more appealing. But Meltzer has also said on the latest Observer
Radio that NJPW may be keen on working with AEW after all because they want to keep Omega
on their books. “New Japan really wants Kenny Omega so they
may be working with All Elite. I don’t know how it’s all going to come down. But it
definitely went from the idea that they’re not going to be working with All Elite now
they may at some point, anything can happen at some point, but for now that wasn’t going
to happen, to I think it’s got a very good shot at happening.”
So it seems like things keep going round in circles, but we do have the end of the latest
Being The Elite where Kenny’s lost phone is spotted outside the Tokyo Dome with the
sound of a ticking timer. Which could be counting down to Kenny signing with his buddies in
Jacksonville tonight.
In less mysterious contract news though - the Young Bucks, who are the Executive Vice Presidents
of AEW, finally signed their own All Elite Wrestling contracts on this latest episode
of Being the Elite. Myself Mr Jackson and my colleague Mr Jackson
would like to welcome you Mr Jackson and you Mr Jackson to All Elite Wrestling.
Cody Rhodes, Brandi Rhodes and Hangman Page also all signed their contracts too, so there’s
some people finally, officially on the roster!
And that may not be the half of it, because Pro Wrestling Sheet are reporting that they
have learned that Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky of SoCal Uncensored
have signed up to be All Elite too. Pro Wrestling Sheet’s Sources are saying
that the signing will be announced at the Double or Nothing rally in Jacksonville.
Which, if true, is a huge get for AEW. And if you have just those three guys plus
Cody, The Bucks, Page, Brandi and Britt Baker and you use a bit of WWE’s booking magic,
you can get five years worth of show out of that.
Not good show, but show.
Was Braun Strowman face to face with Brock Lesnar the worst promo of 2019? It’s week
two of January so the answer is yes by default, but what made it so bad? Check out Oli’s
Raw review by clicking the link onscreen now. And give us a subscribe to stay up to date
on all the latest wrestling news. I’ve been El Fakidor and that was lucha.