In this WrestleTalk News, Bray Wyatt angry with WWE, Seth Rollins & Vince McMahon heat,
new AEW titles coming and more.
But I don’t want to dance for them.
I know, I know, you beat me last night Pete, which means I’m your manservant now.
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The main event of last night’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view saw The Demon Finn Balor rise
from the dead - by hooking up his entrance music via bluetooth or something and turning
the lights red - to take out the Usos, put Roman Reigns through a table, but then get
cruelly struck down by the might of God when the top rope broke and he fell into a spear.
Ah yes, the Demon’s biggest weaknesses… faulty rigging and corporate negligence.
Some people liked it, some people hated it.
Dave Meltzer even called it “creative”.
But what we can all be sure of, is that at least it wasn’t as bad as what they did
to the Fiend at Hell in a Cell 2019.
And now Seth Rollins’ appearance on the Stone Cold Podcast has revealed just how serious
the backstage fallout from that was.
Rollins revealed that his vision for the match - a Hell in the Cell match against the then
unstoppable Fiend for the Universal Championship - was “a lot different than what we had
to go out there and do.”
Where presumably he wanted a finish that would keep the two hottest characters in the company
going.
Instead, Seth was booked to hit the Fiend with a sledgehammer, and the referee called
for the DQ.
In a Hell in a Cell match.
Where anything goes.
The fans didn’t react that positively, and Seth went onto describe what happened when
he got backstage: “I came through that curtain and I was ready
to strangle Vince McMahon.
I’m not kidding you.
I’m not kidding you, TJ Willson was there to hold me back.
I stared right into Vince’s eyes.
I look at him, he looked at me, we didn’t say a single word to each other and he walked
out.”
Seth remembers it took him nearly an entire day to calm down, where he then went into
Vince’s office and said that can’t happen again.
And that was the end of Seth and the silly gimmick booking.
Following Hell in a Cell 2019, Rollins spoke with Paul Heyman about how they could turn
him heel because it was what the fans wanted - which he’s been ever since.
But that wasn’t Seth’s only run-in with creative.
He confessed to not enjoying his WrestleMania 33 feud with Triple H, who wasn’t around
a lot in the match’s build - calling it “just a mess”.
This led to a heated meeting with Vince afterwards, where he pitched winning the Intercontinental
title so he could just wrestle - which is presumably what led to his Monday Night Rollins
run the following year.
But don’t say ‘Seth to AEW confirmed’ just yet.
He also revealed he has “a couple of years left” on his WWE contract.
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Despite WWE releasing Bray Wyatt on the 31st July, which would put his 90 day non compete
clause at the end of October, several reports claim he could be turning up on this Wednesday’s
AEW Dynamite in Rochester, New York - the hometown of Bray’s late Wyatt Family brother,
Brodie Lee.
And now during WWE’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view - during the Usos vs Street Profits tag title
match - Wyatt tweeted out a picture of him, Brodie Lee and Erick Rowan vs Daniel Bryan
and The Usos in a steel cage.
It gets top marks for vagueness, as it could simply be Bray remembering a time he faced
the Usos while they were currently on TV; a sign he’s returning to WWE to feud with
Roman Reigns; or that he’s going to All Elite Wrestling to face Bryan Danielson.
The Usos also to AEW confirmed.
But Wyatt also replied to WrestlingNews.co’s tweet sharing Seth’s comments about wanting
to strangle McMahon after Hell in a Cell 2019, posting:
“Wait until you hear my reaction.”
Implying Wyatt was even angrier than wanting to just strange someone.
And, a bit more speculationamania, that a tell-all podcast is coming soon for us to
hear his side of the story.
Fire up the Blue Yeti, Talk is Jericho!
Since Bray’s release in July, there have been reports he clashed with McMahon and Kevin
Dunn backstage, with former creative team member and 90s teen movie heartthrob Freddie
Prinze Jr implying The Fiend was booked to lose in Saudi Arabia because was “not willing
to play ball” the way WWE officials wanted.
And PWInsider said Wyatt was very protective around the Fiend’s creative, and his relationship
with Vince ran very hot and cold.
But who needs a Fiend when you’ve got a Breakker with two Ks!
Bron Breakker has been positioned as a central star on the rebranded NXT 2.0 the last two
weeks, but given that the man’s father and uncle are Rick and Scott Steiner respectively,
he dresses like a Steiner, and the commentary reference him being a Steiner… why’s he
called Bron Breakker?
According to PWInsider, it’s simply because WWE can then own the name’s trademark for
merchandise purposes - putting to rest the theory it’s because there is heat between
WWE and the Steiner family.
In fact, according to WrestlingNews.co, “Vince McMahon has no issue with Scott Steiner”.
It’s actually the other way around.
WWE have tried to work with Steiner several times, offering him a Legends deal, but Scott
turned them down.
He’s also publicly shot on the Hall of Fame, saying he doesn't want to be inducted - making
the odds of a WWE return drastic go down.
Further increasing the McMahon/Khan vision for the company - which includes a move away
from professional wrestling towards IP exploitation - WrestleVotes and Ringside News is reporting
Nick Khan is becoming a regular feature backstage at shows, travelling with Vince so they can
have business meetings during their trips.
And why stop at repackaging NXT wrestlers?
You’ve got a whole main roster right there!
Riddick Moss returned to TV on Friday’s SmackDown as the henchperson for Happy Corbin,
after previously being the hench person for Mojo Rawley, a stint on Raw Underground, and
then suffering an ACL tear that kept him out for nearly a year.
According to Fightful Select, the reason WWE brought him back despite there being a Draft
literally this Friday was because there was “no harm” in it.
And just when you thought you couldn’t get a worse gimmick than Slapjack from Retribution,
Shane Thorne came out as a Crocodile Dundee style character on a dark match at SmackDown
- tweeting: “Suuuure Croc Dundee isn’t cool” with a gif of Croc Dundee most definitely
being cool.
Hopefully WWE repackages another member of the main roster as an overly English stereotype,
because then we can cheer them in September 2022 - where WhatCulture is reporting that
WWE is planning a major event in the UK, on the 30th anniversary of SummerSlam 1992 from
Wembley Stadium.
Once the pandemic is more contained, expect Britain to become another battleground in
the WWE vs AEW war - with Tony Khan also having plans to hold a show in the UK as soon as
he can.
Before then, though, is Long Island’s UBS Arena - with both promotions running the venue
10 days from each other later this year.
According to WrestleTix, November 29th’s Raw - which is a TV broadcast - has sold 2,700
tickets, whereas December 8th’s Dynamite and Rampage show has sold over double that
at 6,600.
By then we could have another set of AEW championships, with the Young Bucks changing their bio to
read: “Give us the Trios Titles #SuperKliq” following theirs and Adam Cole’s victory
over Christian Cage and Jurassic Express last Friday.
Kenny Omega first said he wanted six man belts in AEW in January 2020 on the Jericho cruise
shows.
It’s also been reported AEW are planning on adding a secondary women’s belt called
the TBS title.
Naming championships after the network that pays your contracts is a smart move.
Especially if AEW used to accidentally make TNT mad during their early days.
Talking to Stephanie Chase, Jericho said they even threatened to pull Dynamite if they did
this one thing again.
Not slicing open a head with a pizza cutter.
Not MJF fat shaming thousands of people at a time.
Not even throwing bad looking punches in a Dark Order segment.
But for smoking.
AEW was reprimanded for Jericho lighting up a cigar on TV after beating up Dustin Rhodes
backstage, which “they were super, super angry about.
No smoking allowed.”
Because remember 18-49 demographic, smoking is bad for you.
Now watch Jon Moxley get stabbed open by a fork!
Now please go watch my master’s review of Extreme Rules 2021.
Just let me get what he texted me to say this right.
He is my inspiration, my truth, and most importantly, then, now, forever… my Jampion.